Coordinative Abilities of Soccer Players: A Comparative Analysis

Background: The environment and lifestyle of most children has led to the reduction of their motor activity, as they live in small spaces and lack the proper playing conditions. Coordination is about controlling all the body parts while doing different activities of children. It is about making and maintaining connections between the brain and the muscles that control movement of the children. Objective: To compare the coordinative abilities between rural and urban male soccer players. Methodology: A group of sixty (N=60) male soccer players aged between 13-18 years were randomly allowed for this study from different club of north 24 parganas district, West Bengal. They were further divided into two groups of 30 each (i.e., N1=30; rural players and N2=30; urban players). The purposive sampling technique was used to attain the objectives of the study. Orientation ability, Differentiation ability, Reaction ability, Balance ability and Rhythm ability were the Coordinative abilities selected for the study. The independent sample t- test statistical technique was used to analyzed the significant difference of coordinative abilities between rural and urban male soccer players and the level of significance was set at 0.05 levels. Results: The results showed that there was significant difference between rural and urban male soccer players, in respect to their Coordinative abilities on the sub variables i.e. reaction ability, orientation ability and differentiation ability. However insignificant difference was found for rhythm ability. Conclusions: It can be concluded that the rural male soccer players were better in Orientation ability, Differentiation ability, Reaction ability and Balance ability in comparison to urban male soccer players.

Diligence Versus Quality

This chapter delves into the ideals of character, which shows how diligence and quality form competing ideals in a hegemonic negotiation between rural and urban interests. It examines how the rural character ideal of diligence is gendered and ethnicized, reinforcing the dominance of an urban, male, Han elite. It also talks about the concept of diligence in China as a characteristically rural virtue, saying that people in the countryside that are accustomed to sweat and toil are better at “eating bitterness.” The chapter investigates the devotion to diligence that pervades Chinese society, prompting the anthropologist Stevan Harrell to suggest that the importance of the family to Chinese economic life is the reason why they work so hard. It talks about Chinese businesses that are family firms, where diligence and the associated values of thriftiness and entrepreneurship forms the moral foundation of economic success.

Sentidos de nación, reflexión pedagógica en el cambio de guion en el Museo Histórico Nacional de Chile

This article, accompanied by the video of the temporary exhibition of the Museo Histórico Nacional de Chile, MHC (National Historical Museum of Chile), called “Sinopsis, sentidos de nación” (Synopsis, senses of the nation), reflects upon the challenges that a national history museum faces in the 21st century. This museum, created in 1911, still exhibits a story almost exclusively focused on the feat of the Nation-state and groups of power; an urban, male and military history, which ignores the historical character of minorities. Today, this historical construction results in the difficulty that national history museums, such as the Chilean one, have in transforming themselves into spaces for public dialogue about the past. The temporary exhibition of the MHN “Sinopsis, sentidos de nación”, seeks to advance towards new museological proposals that incorporate this reflection. To achieve this, it proposes a temporary journey on the different senses of belonging in the history of Chile. While the video takes us on a tour of the exhibition, this article seeks to clarify the declaration of intention of its museological and museographic approach in educational, narrative and political terms, with the aim of answering pedagogical questions about the role of a museum with a national vocation and historical dedication, as well as to incorporate minorities in an inclusive and intersectional perspective.

Beliefs and Attitudes towards Mental Illness: Comparative Study between Rural and Urban Male Adolescents in Beni-Suef Governorate

Contents: Community mental health literacy is important in dealing with mental illness to improve related attitudes and correct false beliefs. Aim: To compare the beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness between rural and urban male adolescents in Beni­-Suef Governorate. Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was carried out in governmental secondary schools for males in urban and rural areas in the Beni-Suef governorate. It included 360 adolescents from urban areas and 180 from rural areas selected from a random sample of ten schools in urban areas and five schools in rural areas. A self-administered questionnaire, including a scale for the Beliefs about Mental Illness and a scale for Attitude toward Mental Illness, was used for data collection. The fieldwork lasted from February to May 2019. Results: The median age was 14.0 years in both groups, with more illiterate parents in the rural sample. Significantly adolescents from rural areas were aware of mental illness about two-thirds (66.1%) and had read about it (91.7%). Adolescents in both samples had low scores of stigma beliefs and negative attitudes towards mental illness. The adolescents in the urban sample had significantly higher total beliefs (p=0.006) and a negative attitude (p=0.005). A higher percentage of urban adolescents had a high stigma belief (18.3%) and negative attitude (39.2%) compared to those in rural areas, 8.9%, and 29.4%, respectively. The multivariate analysis identified rural residence as an independent significant negative predictor of adolescent's stigmatization belief score. Conclusion: Adolescents from urban or rural areas in Beni-Suef Governorate differ in their beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness, with more stigmatization among those from urban settings. School-based educational interventions are recommended to improve adolescents’ attitudes towards mental illness, with studies evaluating their effectiveness.

Relationship of Population Configuration with Enrollment of Children at Primary Level of District Bannu

The Problem under study was the relationship of population composition with enrollment of children at primary level. The study was significant because we can make forecasting of educational plans keeping in view the relationship. All the Primary School of the District Bannu was included in the population for the study. The sample was 05 Urban Male School, 05 Urban Female School, 05 Rural Male School, and 05 Rural Female School. The research instrument was a questionnaire. Through this questionnaire data was collected regarding schools from 2013 to 2019 in different classes. The null hypothesis that there is no relationship between the population composition and enrollment was tested. The result shows that the correlation between the enrollment and the population growth is 0.98. It is high correlation which indicates the strong relationship between the number of enrollments of student and population

Population of the Armenian Higlands in the age of Antiquity (according of anthropological materials of urban and rural settlements)

Article is devoted to studying of bone remains from antique burial grounds from the territory of the Armenian Highland. Anthropological materials of burials consist of 322 skeletons and dated I–III c. AD. The article analyzes the differences in anthropological characteristics of urban and rural population of Armenia of Antiquity period. The work is based on classical craniometric and statistical research methods. Artificial cranial deformationare and unintended deformation of a cradle-type found among urban and rural populations. As an intragroup analysis showed, the main differences between male urban and rural population across the size of the width of the frontal bone and face. If the villagers face orthognatic, angle of horizontal profiling at the top level enters the category of averages, in urban women face mezognatik, the angle of horizontal profiling is characterized by small values. Intergroup analysis showed, closest to urban male groups it turned out the tribes of Chernyakhov culture and the population of the Middle East. A male part of the villagers shows intimacy with Scythians of Crimea, Ukraine and Transnistria. The female part of the towns’ people is close with the Scythians of Ukraine and Crim; villagers are morphologically similar to the carriers of the Middle Sarmatian cultures of the Don region, with a population of the first centuries AD from Tanais, European and Asian Bosporus. Morphological analogies with the population of Northern Turkmenistan (Tumek-Kichidzhik), Western Ukraine (Chernyakhov culture), Middle Dnieper and Moldova (Scythians) were also revealed. This circumstance confirms the fact of sustainable, constant migration flow to the territory of the Armenian Highlands.