The impact of the spread of COVID-19 on horseback riding and the development direction of the horseback riding industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-243
Author(s):  
Sungjoon Hong ◽  
Insun Hwang
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
SONG-SONG ZHAO

Contextual mobile advertising, which has the advantages of strong interactivity and immersive experience, will be the development direction of Internet advertising in the future. Although past research has explored the effects of contextual mobile advertising, little research has studied the effect on consumers’ behavior from the perspective of contextual advertising traits. Thus, this study combined the Scene Theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior to construct the model of advertising effectiveness mechanism. By analyzing survey data from a representative sample of 340 mobile consumers, the validity of the model was proved. The results showed that contextual stimulation, contextual interaction, and content accuracy, as contextual factors in mobile advertising, can positively influence consumers’ attitudes toward mobile advertising, which in turn stimulate purchasing intention. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings were also discussed.


Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Liao ◽  
Xiao-Min Huang ◽  
Alexandre Vidmer ◽  
Yi-Cheng Zhang ◽  
Ming-Yang Zhou

The Belt and Road initiative (BRI) was announced in 2013 by the Chinese government. Its goal is to promote the cooperation between European and Asian countries, as well as enhancing the trust between members and unifying the market. Since its creation, more and more developing countries are joining the initiative. Based on the geographical location characteristics of the countries in this initiative, we propose an improvement of a popular recommendation algorithm that includes geographic location information. This recommendation algorithm is able to make suitable recommendations of products for countries in the BRI. Then, Fitness and Complexity metrics are used to evaluate the impact of the recommendation results and measure the country’s competitiveness. The aim of this work is to provide countries’ insights on the ideal development direction. By following the recommendations, the countries can quickly increase their international competitiveness.


2013 ◽  
Vol 679 ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Jia Ying Wang ◽  
Yue Zhang ◽  
Guo Qing Zhang ◽  
Zhi Zhong Guo

All-electric ship is the development direction of ship in future. It’s necessary to do some further microminiature research on the optical current transformer used in all-electric ship. The microminiature research has to face the problem which is the influence of environment changes on mini-optical current transformer’s performance. Base on the theoretical model, the influence of environment changes on mini-optical current transformer’s performance has been studied in this paper. For the impact of environmental factors, temperature field and interference field of optical current transformer have been analyzed in detail. The model related temperature stabilization, anti-magnetic field interference feature, response feature with different magneto-optical material’s length. The optimal solution of the body-efficiency character model has been calculated for the design of mini-optical current transformer.


2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Elliott, PhD ◽  
Janet A. Funderburk, PhD, LRT/CTRS ◽  
James M. Holland

Therapeutic horseback riding is an intervention utilizing horses in the treatment of individuals with emotional, cognitive, and/or physical disabilities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived impact of a therapeutic riding program on children with mild to moderate physical and mental disabilities. Two groups of participants including five children (with a variety of physical and cognitive disabilities) and at least one parent of each of the five children were interviewed to investigate the impact of the Stirrup Some Fun Therapeutic Riding Program (SSF TRP). Qualitative data analysis procedures were used to explore participants’ views and opinions of the SSF TRP. Several themes emerged from the interviews with the participants and their parents, including (a) enjoyment, (b) the child/animal connection, (c) social relationships with volunteers, (d) perceived physical benefits, and (e) the social and mental benefits of the program.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
PREDRAG ILIC ◽  
ALEKSANDRA ALEKSIC-VELJKOVIC ◽  
MILJAN HADZOVIC

Introduction: This research aimed to determine the impact of horseback riding on the balance ability of first-grade students. Material and methods: Fifty-eight students were divided into two sub-groups: twenty-eight riders and thirty non-riders. The subtest of balance is composed of nine items which were grouped into five variables: Total balance, Static balance, Dynamic balance, and Open and Closed eyes balance. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to determine the significance of the difference between the groups, and the strength of the effect of intergroup differences was determined using the Cohen criteria. Results: The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between groups in Total balance, Static, and Balance with closed eyes. Cohen's criterion indicates that there was a strong effect of intergroup differences in performance demanding balance tasks of 7-year-old children. Conclusion: It can be observed that horseback riding has the effect of reducing the difference between the maximum and minimum balance points by enhancing competencies at the minimum level.


Author(s):  
Hanming Li ◽  
Xingquan Chen ◽  
Yiwei Fang

In view of the increasing importance of sports to people and the impact of COVID-19 on people’s lives, home-based exercise has become a popular choice for people to keep fit due to its unique advantages and its popularity is expected to keep growing in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the development direction of home-based exercise and put in the corresponding efforts. However, there is currently a lack of research on all aspects of home-based exercise. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effective sustainable development strategy of home-based exercise in China through a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) hybrid model. Thirteen factors corresponding to the SWOT analysis were identified through a literature review and expert opinions. The results show that in China the advantages and potential outweigh the weaknesses and threats of home-based exercise. Home-based exercise should grasp the external development opportunities and choose the SO development strategic type that combines internal strengths and external opportunities. As the core for the development of home-based exercise, this strategy should be given priority. To sum up, home-based exercise is believed to have a bright future.


2014 ◽  
Vol 672-674 ◽  
pp. 1843-1846
Author(s):  
Li Xia He ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Tao Jiao

This paper expounds the relationship between architectural materials and human settlement and elaborates the importance of production, manufacturing, performance and quality of architectural materials in protecting the environment and improving human settlements proceeding from the impact of architectural material improvement on civil engineering projects and human settlements. In addition, this Paper expounds the development direction and importance of new architectural materials proceeding from resource and energy conservation, natural environment and ecological balance protection, sustainable development of civil engineering and human settlements improvement.


Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caihong Hu ◽  
Chengshuai Liu ◽  
Yichen Yao ◽  
Qiang Wu ◽  
Bingyan Ma ◽  
...  

Over the past several decades, urban flooding and other water-related disasters have become increasingly prominent and serious. Although the urban rain flood model’s benefits for urban flood simulation have been extensively documented, the impact of rainfall input to model simulation accuracy remains unclear. This systematic review aims to provide structured research on how rain inputs impact urban rain flood model’s simulation accuracy. The selected 48 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2015 and 2019 on the Web of Science™ database were analyzed by key factors, including rainfall input type, calibration times and verification times. The results from meta-analysis reveal that when a traditional rain measurement was used as the rainfall input, model simulation accuracy was higher, i.e., the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (NSE) of traditional technology for rain measurement was higher than the 0.18 for the new technology rain measurement with respect to flow simulation. In addition, the single-field sub-flood calibration model was better than the multi-field sub-flood calibration model. NSE was higher than 0.14. The precision was better for the verification period; NSE of the calibration value showed a 0.07 higher verification value on average in flow simulation. These findings have certain significance for the development of future urban rain flood models and propose the development direction of the future urban rain flood model. Finally, in view of the rainfall input problem of the urban storm flood model, we propose the future development direction of the urban storm flood model.


2012 ◽  
Vol 170-173 ◽  
pp. 3555-3559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Da Lu Dong ◽  
Chang Pu Zhao ◽  
Xiao Zhan Li ◽  
Yun Yao Zhu ◽  
Jun Zhang

With the increasing strictness of emission regulations, development direction of future diesel engines is toward the high thermal efficiency and low emissions. Supercharging technology is an important means for improving output power of diesel engines. This paper deals with the study of the two-stage turbocharging system of the non-road diesel engine. Based on GT-Power software code, a digital model of 6112 diesel engine was established. The supercharged model was calibrated by using the original experimental data. Then, four types of digital models with different two-stage turbocharging systems were constructed. The best two-stage turbocharging system was determined through investigating the impacts of different options on the performance of diesel engines. It was indicated through the study that two-stage turbocharging system can substantially increase the air flowing into the cylinder which increases the potential of power density. At the same time HC and NOx emissions can reduce. Through this study, a theoretical basis and an important reference for adopting the two-stage turbocharging system of the 6112 diesel engine were provided.


2014 ◽  
Vol 496-500 ◽  
pp. 481-484
Author(s):  
Cheng Quan Lin

The article focus on the metamorphic layer of punching die, punch matrix and die components in WEDM on the surface, the formation of metamorphic layer, the impact of metamorphic layers, line cutting the microscopic mechanism of the formation of cracks, and many were in-depth study and the corresponding preventive measures. These measures will speed up punching die design and manufacturing technology development. The die manufacturing technology here discussed can be the modern manufacturing technology research development direction.


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