Tennis Coaches’ Perceptions of Covid-19 Impact on Their Health and Professional Activity: A Multi-Cultural Approach

Tennis coaches are facing considerable challenges as the game is disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The long tradition of tennis in the Latin American region and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking European countries makes comparing these regions particularly interesting. The purpose of this research was to study the perceptions of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking tennis coaches working in Latin American and European countries regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their health, professional, and economic circumstances. The perceptions of 655 coaches from 19 Latin American and European countries were collected using an ad-hoc questionnaire. Coaches reported on the incidence of the virus in terms of infection and quarantine, the impact on their coaching programs, and on their professional development, training, and education. They were also asked about their perception of the overall situation as a threat. The results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on the health and the profession of tennis coaches. Although Latin American coaches reported a greater impact on their health, economic, and professional circumstances, they viewed the pandemic as an opportunity for professional improvement and training as compared to the perceptions of European coaches. In light of these results, implications, practical applications, and future research are proposed.

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Empirical Literature on Economic Growth, 1991–2020: Uncovering Extant Gaps and Avenues for Future Research

Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies ◽

10.1177/09749101211061626 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 097491012110616

Author(s):

Natalia I. Doré ◽

Aurora A. C. Teixeira

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Latin American ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Empirical Literature ◽

Future Research ◽

Long Run ◽

Scientific Attention ◽

The Impact ◽

Determinants Of Economic Growth ◽

Latin American And Caribbean

The factors required to achieve sustainable economic growth in a country are debated for decades, and empirical research in this regard continues to grow. Given the relevance of the topic and the absence of a comprehensive, systematic literature review, we used bibliometric techniques to examine and document several aspects in the empirical literature related to growth, from 1991 to 2020. Five main results are worth highlighting: (a) the share of empirical articles on economic growth show a clear upward trend; (b) among all the groups of countries considered, the emerging economies (EEs) have received the most scientific attention; (c) the economic growth processes of the Latin American and Caribbean EEs have observed negligible scientific attention; (d) the very long-run studies comprise a residual share among the empirical literature on growth; (e) the extant empirical studies on economic growth have addressed mainly the impact of “macroeconomic conditions.” Our findings suggest there is a need to redirect the empirical growth agenda, so as to encourage more scientific attention devoted to the analysis of key determinants of economic growth in the very long run. There should also be increased scrutiny of the processes of economic growth in Latin American and Caribbean EEs

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The Influence of YouTube Beauty Vloggers on Indonesian Consumers’ Purchase Intention of Local Cosmetic Products

International Journal of Business and Management ◽

10.5539/ijbm.v15n5p100 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (5) ◽

pp. 100

Author(s):

Jui-Lung Chen ◽

Apritika Dermawan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Purchase Intention ◽

Future Research ◽

Web Based ◽

Practical Applications ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Marketing Tool ◽

Willingness To Purchase ◽

The Impact

Social media are web-based technology and social platform that involve social, personal and technological factors, which have triggered the development and evolution of website-based communities. Moreover, relevant web-based applications have also become the mainstream media for value creation and information exchange. The proliferation, convenience, and immediacy of social media have attracted many enterprises to adopt social media as a marketing tool. Among them, Electronic Word-of-Mouth (E-WoM), used mostly by vloggers (video bloggers), enables its users to review products and express their opinions on social media. Therefore, E-WoM has gradually become an important source of information for consumers, which influences their purchasing decisions. YouTube, a video sharing platform affiliated with Google, is a popular social media with tons of users. One of its most appealing and popular communities is Beauty Blogger, where beauty vloggers create and upload videos about beauty products. This study explored the impact of YouTube beauty vlogger on the attitude of Indonesian women towards locally made cosmetics and their willingness to purchase them. Based on the research results, relevant conclusions and recommendations were proposed which can be used as a reference for future research and practical applications.

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Access to paediatric cardiac surgery in Colombia: a population-based study

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery ◽

10.1093/ejcts/ezab404 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marlena E Sabatino ◽

Rodolfo J Dennis ◽

Pablo Sandoval-Trujillo ◽

Sergio Valencia ◽

Karen Moreno-Medina ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cardiac Surgery ◽

Heart Disease ◽

Mortality Rate ◽

Health System ◽

Latin American ◽

Perioperative Mortality ◽

National Team ◽

Paediatric Cardiac Surgery ◽

Latin American Region ◽

The Impact

Abstract OBJECTIVES Globally congenital heart disease mortality is declining, yet the proportion of infant deaths attributable to heart disease rises in Colombia and other middle-sociodemographic countries. We aimed to assess the accessibility of paediatric cardiac surgery (PCS) to children <18 years of age in 2016 in the South American country of Colombia. METHODS In Bogotá, Colombia, a multi-national team used cross-sectional and retrospective cohort study designs to adapt and evaluate 4 health system indicators at the national level: first, the population with timely geographic access to an institution providing PCS; second, the number of paediatric cardiac surgeons; third, this specialized procedure volume and its national distribution; and fourth, the 30-day perioperative mortality rate after PCS in Colombia. RESULTS Geospatial mapping approximates 64% (n = 9 894 356) of the under-18 Colombian population lives within 2-h drivetime of an institution providing PCS. Twenty-eight cardiovascular surgeons report performing PCS, 82% (n = 23) with formal training. In 2016, 1281 PCS procedures were registered, 90% of whom were performed in 6 of the country’s 32 departments. National non-risk-adjusted all-cause 30-day perioperative mortality rate after PCS was 2.73% (n = 35). CONCLUSIONS Colombia’s paediatric population had variable access to cardiac surgery in 2016, largely dependent upon geography. While the country may have the capacity to provide timely, high-quality care to those who need it, our study enables future comparative analyses to measure the impact of health system interventions facilitating healthcare equity for the underserved populations across Colombia and the Latin American region.

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Industrial Modernization and Political Change: A Latin American Perspective

World Politics ◽

10.2307/2009988 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 593-614 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

David Collier

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Political Change ◽

Future Research ◽

Potential Contribution ◽

American Experience ◽

American Perspective ◽

Recent Emergence ◽

Political Differences ◽

The Impact

The recent emergence of harshly repressive military governments in several of the industrially most advanced nations of Latin America has called into question earlier hypotheses of modernization theory regarding the links between socioeconomic modernization and democracy. Guillermo O'Donnell has made an important contribution to explaining this new authoritarianism and to using the recent Latin American experience as a basis for proposing a major reformulation of the earlier hypotheses. Yet O'Donnell's analysis requires significant modification if its potential contribution is to be realized. Highly aggregated conceptual categories such as “bureaucratic-authoritarianism” should be abandoned, and his explanatory framework should be broadened to explicity incorporate the crucial political differences among Latin American countries, as well as the impact of the international economic and political system. A revised explanation for the rise of authoritarianism is presented to illustrate how some of these modifications could be applied in future research on political change in Latin America.

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The Sustainability Factor: How Much Do Pension Expenditures Improve in Spain?

Risks ◽

10.3390/risks8040134 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 134

Author(s):

Enrique Devesa ◽

Mar Devesa ◽

Inmaculada Dominguez-Fabián ◽

Borja Encinas ◽

Robert Meneu

Keyword(s):

Projection Method ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Pension System ◽

Aggregate Data ◽

European Countries ◽

Working Lives ◽

Annual Expenditure ◽

To Come ◽

The Impact

The reform of 2013 represented a qualitative leap in the reform of the Spanish pension system. Unlike its predecessors, it introduced two automatic resetting mechanisms similar to those of other European countries. The first is the sustainability factor, scheduled to come into effect in 2019 but delayed until 2023, and its ultimate reversal cannot be ruled out. The objective of this study was to quantify the savings, or the lowest expenditure, that can be achieved in the Spanish public contributory pension system by applying it. These savings are measured in terms of cash—of annual expenditure—and in terms of accrual by calculating its present actuarial value. Combining these two methods is one of the contributions of this work. This work was only intended to analyze the impact of the Sustainability Factor, therefore, it did not take into account the impact of the Pension Revaluation Index, which is the second mechanism introduced in the reform of the pension to 2013. An ad hoc projection method was used, combining microdata from the Continuous Sample of Working Lives (MCVL), aggregate data from the pension system, the financial-actuarial projection method, and actuarial techniques. The diversity of the data used is the second contribution of this work. The application of the sustainability factor would improve the viability of the system, since the savings that could be achieved, measured in terms of GDP for each year, would be 1.029% by 2050; 1.094% in 2057, the maximum; and 1.026% in the last year of projection. In terms of the present actuarial value and as a function of annual GDP, in 2050, the savings would be 1.27%, 1.40% in 2044, the maximum, and in 2067 it would decrease to 0.98%.

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Economic Ideas and North-South Preferential Trade Agreements in the Americas

Latin American Journal of Trade Policy ◽

10.5354/0719-9368.2019.54586 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

Nicolás Pose

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Trade Agreements ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Preferential Trade Agreements ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Preferential Trade ◽

Latin American Region ◽

The Impact ◽

Latin American Countries ◽

Gain Access

North-South Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are an intensified version of the Uruguay round’s bargain, in which developing countries gain access to developed countries’ markets, expecting increase in inflows of foreign direct investment, but see their ‘policy space’ reduced (Shadlen, 2005). Focusing on United States’ PTAs in the Latin American region, this article seeks to answer why some Latin American countries found this bargain attractive while others did not. I argue that modern PTAs generate uncertainty over their costs and benefits, because there are not standardized tools to estimate the impact of the ‘trade-related’ provisions they include. As a result, policymakers turn to their general ideas about economic development, which assign different meanings to them, producing differing decisions. Empirically, it is shown that the argument complements previous explanations based on structural and societal variables.

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Influence of Energy Factor on International Relations System of Latin America in the 21st century

Vestnik RUDN International Relations ◽

10.22363/2313-0660-2019-19-3-354-367 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 354-367

Author(s):

Viktor Lazarevich Jeifets ◽

Daria Antonovna Pravdiuk

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

21St Century ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Energy Industry ◽

Foreign Companies ◽

Hydropower Potential ◽

Latin American Region ◽

Close Relationship ◽

The Impact

Relation between oil trade and political regimes, climate change and problems of managing natural resources, mining technologies and fighting corruption and many others constitute the phenomenon of a multicomponent energy policy, the study of which is located at the intersection of natural and social sciences. Latin American region has large hydrocarbon reserves, huge hydropower potential, as well as significant opportunities to generate wind and solar energy. Historically, Latin America has occupied a small share of world energy production - about 5 %, where Venezuela, Mexico and Brazil have long been the only players of a global level. However, in the 21st century, factors such as the discovery of pre-salt oil deposits in Brazil, promising forecasts for the development of alternative gas sources in Argentina and the opening of Mexican oil industry for foreign companies after more than seventy years of the monopoly of Pemex, gave an additional impetus to the development of oil and gas industries of the region. The close relationship between energy industry and political context of a number of Latin American countries makes the region’s energy market less predictable, as changes cannot be predicted using standard industry analysis tools. This article analyzes the most significant episodes of political intervention - external or internal - to the energy industry in the 21st century, as well as the impact that events and decisions in this industry had on the regional policy. The authors analyze distinctive examples of the interconnectedness of these areas, from the “resource diplomacy” of Venezuela to the decisive actions of A.M. Lopez Obrador in Mexican energy in the first months of his presidency, and draw parallels between the chains of events in politics and energy. As the cases of Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia, and Venezuela, cited in the article, show, the cost of error becomes extremely high when its consequences can destabilize both sectors due to their close interweaving.

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Influence of pore geometry on motility and trapping of metal reducing bacteria

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4226 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lazaro J. Perez ◽

Nicole L. Sund ◽

Rishi Parashar ◽

Andrew E. Plymale ◽

Dehong Hu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Porous Medium ◽

Porous Media ◽

Large Scale ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Pore Space ◽

Practical Applications ◽

Bacterial Migration ◽

Reducing Bacteria ◽

The Impact ◽

Metal Reducing Bacteria

Diverse processes such as bioremediation, biofertilization, and microbial drug delivery rely on bacterial migration in porous media. However, how pore-scale confinement alters bacterial motility is unknown due to the inherent heterogeneity in porous media. As a result, models of migration are limited and often employ ad hoc assumptions. We aim to determine the impact of pore confinement in the spreading dynamics of two populations of motile metal reducing bacteria by directly visualizing individual Acidovorax and Pelosinus in an unconfined liquid medium and in a microfluidic chip containing regular placed pillars. We observe that the length of runs of the two species differs from the unconfined and confined medium. Results show that bacteria in the confined medium display a systematic shorter jumps due to grain obstacles when compared to the open porous medium. Close inspection of the trajectories reveals that cells are intermittently and transiently trapped, which produces superdiffusive motion at early and subdiffusion behavior at late times, as they navigate through the confined pore space. While in the open medium, we observe a linearly increasing variance with respect to time for Acidovorax, and for Pelosinus the variance increases at a much faster rate showing super diffusive behavior at early times. At late times, the rate of growth in spreading increases for Acidovorax while it reduces for Pelosinus. We finally discuss that the paradigm of run-and-tumble motility is dramatically altered in the confined porous medium and its practical applications of these effects on large-scale transport.

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Social Media and Environmental Sustainability: An Overview of European Countries

International Journal of Business and Management ◽

10.5539/ijbm.v11n6p1 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Federica De Leo ◽

Ginevra Gravili ◽

Pier Paolo Miglietta

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Cultural Dimensions ◽

European Countries ◽

Future Research ◽

Linear Regression Models ◽

The Impact

The theme of the relationship between social media and sustainability has prompted many scholars to analyze the impact that “virtual information” has on the environment. This study empirically tests two models that examine the effects of cultural values and social media on environmental performance by considering different variables such as Social Media penetration, Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions and Environmental Performance Index. Two multiple linear regression models were employed to test the hypotheses on a sample of 30 European Countries.Empirical results, extensible to all of Europe, conclude that the cultural dimensions analyzed, as well as social media penetration, significantly influence environmental performance of European Countries when we execute a combined model.Social media are arguably an integral part of sustainability strategy and future research on IT and sustainability needs to take a more integrated approach. If we consider that social media have a positive effect on the environment it is easy to intuit that if governance implements effective policies to ensure social media access for everyone, real sustainable development could be achieved.

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Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Critical Review, Practical Applications, and Prospects for Future Research

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041919 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1919

Author(s):

Aries Purwanto ◽

Janez Sušnik ◽

Franciscus X. Suryadi ◽

Charlotte de Fraiture

Keyword(s):

International Organizations ◽

Future Research ◽

Practical Implementation ◽

World Economic Forum ◽

Resources Management ◽

Practical Applications ◽

World Economic ◽

Almost All ◽

Framework Development ◽

The Impact

This paper presents knowledge gaps and critiques on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus that have emerged since the concept of the WEF nexus was proposed by the World Economic Forum and the Bonn 2011 Conference. Furthermore, this study analyses current innovations on the WEF nexus concept, applications, and impacts during the period of 2012–2020. This begins by reviewing ten WEF nexus frameworks developed by international organizations and researchers. On this basis, several gaps and omissions in nexus frameworks are obvious in almost all developed frameworks. Studies that start to address some of these gaps are analysed, but they are relatively few and do not address all gaps. Several proposed improvements to nexus frameworks are identified to narrow the gaps and put the concept into practical implementation in WEF resources management and governance. Four principles and the perspective of “from local to global” for future WEF nexus framework development and analysis are suggested to ensure that the security of water, energy, and food resources can be achieved sustainably in local communities. This will improve the impact of national and global ambitions on WEF security.

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