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Stewart, Debbie. "Transition experiences of football players from amateur to professional leagues." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0025/MQ26970.pdf.
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Hummel, Michael John. "Three american artists at midlife negotiating the space between amateur and professional status /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6776.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Brakeley, August Kashiwa. "Better, Stronger, Faster Explaining the Variance Between Professional and Amateur Anti-Doping Policies." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Political Science and Communication, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1020.
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The world of sport has recently been inundated by stories of doping. These reports are not limited to a select few individuals or sports, but seemingly are spread across sports. At first, it was mostly members of the sports community voicing their discontent, but soon actors outside of the sports community, such as government committees, became interested. Anti-doping policies were created to reduce doping; however, these policies were created independently of government and vary in effectiveness. The most visible variances are between professional and amateur sports. Accordingly, this paper investigates why there is variation between professional and amateur anti-doping policies. This investigation is done in a qualitative fashion and employs the Most Similar System of Design (a comparative method) to identify that factors result in the differences. The paper also contributes to the field by creating and organizing the ethics of doping. Furthermore, it compares the various existing approaches to anti-doping policy by analysing the anti-doping policies of the PGA, IOC, WADA, and the MLB. Subsequently, the paper identifies seven obstacles facing anti-doping regulators and identifies new policy tools that could aid anti-doping policies. Finally, it closes with policy recommendations for the future. This paper is comprehensive: it introduces the topic of anti-doping, the subsequent definitions, explains the ethical considerations, answers why there is variation between professional and amateur anti-doping policies, and provides policy recommendations.
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Scott-Melton, Fiona. "Women, singing and songwriting : accounts of everyday music-making across the amateur/professional divide." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549641.
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Feminist literature on women's involvement in music has predominantly focused on western art music and the relationship women have with feelings versus a rational approach to writing music. Little consideration has been given to women's music practices in everyday settings, including early years education. This thesis explores women's accounts of writing songs or working with young children in terms of what factors are involved in them having a successful relationship with music. Findings are drawn from a qualitative study in which fifteen interviews were undertaken with women between the ages of 20 and 78 in which singing was an element of their musical practice. A horizontal and vertical analysis was used to explore the nature of the women's relationship with music. This study suggests that for the women engaged in writing songs for adult consumption, the development of a long-term commitment to participate involved four key ingredients, which were: finding the 'right' genre, music becoming an important means of expression, a sense of choice concerning the materials one works with, and developing a positive relationship with music. Although there was a strong emotional connection with music, for the women involved in music on a professional basis no linkage with well-being was made. In contrast, many of the women involved in music on an amateur basis or working with young children, were found to engage in music practices in which well-being was enhanced. This caused music to playa crucial role in their everyday lives. This was the case regardless of the level of skill already acquired.
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Mignault, Ariane. "Women writing manga: production of BL in the professional and amateur industries of Japan." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119710.
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This thesis explores manga in two kinds of production system in Japan. It examines similarities and differences between the professional manga industry and the amateur dōjinshi world in relation to the boys' love genre in three different perspectives: production, genre, and markets. First, I explore employment opportunities for women in the professional manga industry and develop a comparison with women in the amateur world. I then shift to the boys' love genre itself. The analysis of the emergence of this form of expression in the amateur world and its move into the professional manga industry allows a better understanding of basic characteristics of such narratives and exposes whether or not it may be considered a real genre based on Rick Altman's theory of genre. Finally, the readers and fans of boys' love manga, also referred to as fujoshi, are studied in relation to the economic systems associated with these two kinds of manga production. The goal of these three chapters is to understand the interactions between the two industries as well as with their readers as a coherent system where professional mangaka, amateurs and fans all play an important role in the production of manga in Japan.Cette thèse traite des manga dans deux systèmes de production au Japon. Elle présente des ressemblances et disparités entre l'industrie du manga professionnel et le secteur amateur, connu pour ces dōjinshi, en lien avec le genre boys' love dans trois différentes perspectives : la production, le genre et les marchés. Le premier aspect abordé concerne les possibilités d'emploi pour les femmes dans l'industrie du manga professionnel et les compare avec les femmes engagées dans le monde amateur. Le second aspect abordé dans cette thèse concerne le boys' love comme forme d'expression dont l'émergence au sein du secteur amateur suivi de son transfert dans l'industrie professionnelle permet une meilleure compréhension des caractéristiques fondamentales de ces récits. Il s'agira de démontrer si l'on peut considérer le genre boys' love comme étant un genre au sens où l'entend Rick Altman dans sa théorie des genres. Cette thèse abordera finalement le lectorat des manga, principalement du genre boys' love, les fujoshi, en relation avec les systèmes économiques ayant cours dans l'industrie professionnelle et dans le monde amateur. La visée de ces trois chapitres est de démontrer les liens entre ces deux différentes facettes du manga en plus du rôle du lectorat dans cette équation pour mettre en évidence la cohérence de ce système au sein duquel les mangaka professionnels, les amateurs et les fans jouent tous un rôle important dans la production de manga au Japon.
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Lennox, P. Solomon. "Narratives of performance : an interdisciplinary qualitative ethnography investigating the storied lives of amateur and professional boxers." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4060.
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This thesis identifies the shared pool of narrative resources, which constitute the public discourses and cultural meanings of the sport of boxing, in order to examine how individual boxers engage with them when performing their narrative identities. It is argued that the shared pool of narrative resources for boxing contain myths and legends that are taken for granted and yet heavily invested in by boxers and academics alike. This project explores how individual boxers engage with these resources in order to make sense of their own experiences and to formulate their narrative identity. The thesis asks how a thorough investigation of the shared narrative resources, and their use by boxers, provides new insights into what the sport of boxing means to boxers, and how shared resources are engaged with in order to perform idiosyncratic ontological narratives. This project makes a unique contribution, as it is the first project of its kind to fully consider the relationship between the individual accounts provided by boxers and the narrative resources available to them. It pays particular focus to the narrative resources as they relate to amateur and professional boxers alike. Through a performance ethnography, and qualitative inquiry approach, research data was collected and co- constructed over a period of three years. This data informed the reading of boxing texts in order to ascertain what the shared pool of narrative resources were for boxers, and how individuals used and engaged with them. This project found that the narrative resources of boxing were powerful, persuasive, and provided vocabularies of motives for individual boxers. The shared pool of resources, whilst constitutive of the cultural 2 meanings of boxing, were engaged with by individual boxers to tell stories about the desire for transformation, communion, respect and generativity.
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Fulton, John Anthony. "What is your value? : a qualitative study into the development of capital in amateur and professional boxing." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/695.
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This study is an investigation into ways in which participating in and learning within the context of sport, and amateur and professional boxing in particular, impacts on the lives of the participants. More specifically, the aim of this study is to explore ways in which body capital can lead to the development of other types of capital. The study focused on the experience of professional and amateur boxers. 18 people involved in boxing were interviewed and these interviews were combined with approximately 1000 hours of participant observation in boxing settings. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and detailed field notes recorded the observations. The data was analysed and categories and themes emerged from this data analysis. The categories were organised in a structure, process and outcome framework. The categories around structure were the dispositions and attitudes of the informants and their class position, process was around the mechanics of learning the particular skills of boxing, and the outcomes was both the boxing match and more generally ways in which participation in the sport could affect the broader aspects of the participants' lives. The theoretical framework employed was drawn from Bourdieu's theories and in particular his concepts habitus, field and capital. The consideration of the findings against this unit of analysis facilitated the interpretation of the findings. The conclusions drawn from the analysis and consideration of the findings are: although there is an increase in middle class involvement, which is the growth of the so-called white collar boxing, for those working class participants, participation in boxing reinforces the individual's class position. An example of this was the finding that an acceptance of being exploited is almost a pre-requisite for professional boxing. Boxing is a skilled and challenging sport leading to the development of clear and focused skills, both physical and psychological. On one level many of these skills cannot be transferred from the boxing or fight situation. However there is much in boxing which is transferable and can enhance the individual's life: the capacity for commitment and control of emotions are some examples of this. Despite these positive features the skills did not seem to transfer to other areas and did not lead to participation in formal educational opportunities. Nevertheless participation in boxing did add to the social capital of the individuals which led to the development of a series of networks and contacts which could clearly add to and enhance the lives of the boxers.
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Andreasson, Erik. "Professional v. Amateur reviewers: What does their language actually tell us? : A Descriptive Text Analysis of Early Adopters." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-84801.
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The purpose of this thesis is to find and categorize differences in the language used inonline reviews by early adopters. By filling this gap in knowledge, marketers can betterunderstand the nature of an online review, be it derived from professional or amateurearly adopters. These categorizations aim to pinpoint differences between professionalsand amateur reviewers who are considered to be early adopters of technology. Publiclyavailable third-party data was analysed using a descriptive text analysis tool, LIWC(Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count). The results regarding the professionals are highly conclusive seeing the uniformity of thepopulation. They compose long format, highly analytic, unpartisan reviews which canbe perceived as inauthentic due to the formality of the text and lack of personal opinions.With these traits, professional online reviews are subjected to the risk of alienating theiraudience, thus losing their influence over the potential adopters. The amateurs were not as uniform as the professionals. However, there are cleartendencies of shorter formats, personal experience-based writing which comes off as moreauthentic compared to the professionals. Within the population of amateurs, one canclearly distinguish that satisfied amateur reviewers’ write shorter reviews but morefrequently, compared to dissatisfied amateur reviewers who write longer format, but notas frequently. Due to the clear and statistically supported differences between the two populations, theyare easily distinguishable from each other. This also shows in their motives to post onlinereviews. Where professionals are financially incentivised, amateurs find their motivationin intrinsic motivators such as altruistic, egotistic, and other self-fulfilling motivators. These distinct differences enable marketers to allocate their efforts towards eitherprofessionals or amateur reviewers in order to achieve the desired market effect. To reacha customer on an emotional level, they should promote amateur reviews. But in order todisplay unadulterated facts and figures, they should promote professional reviews.
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Stewart, Alex. "The boxer's point of view : an ethnography of cultural production and athletic development among amateur and professional boxers in England." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/336227.
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Since the late nineteenth century boxing in England has been socially organised into two ideologically distinctive versions - amateur and professional boxing – that to this day are practiced in spatially segregated social universes. Nonetheless, both amateur and professional boxing-practitioners understandings and lived experiences in and through boxing are necessarily grounded in the wider social and cultural contexts through which they interpret meaning and construct worldviews and identity. Thus despite the institutional, ideological and spatial boundaries demarcating either code, on a rather more subtle yet incredibly powerful cultural level, amateur and professional boxing are both symbolically and practically deeply intertwined. Over a five year period, I conducted ‘insider’ ethnographic research among distinct cohorts of amateur and professional boxers based in Luton and London to investigate the lived experiences and socially constructed worldviews, values and identities developed by practitioners immersed in either code. The overriding aim of this research was to critically evaluate the limits and possibilities of boxing-practitioners association with and development through ‘boxing’ henceforth. The findings of this ethnography reveal that it was common for the amateur and professional boxing-practitioners studied to cultivate empowering identities through intersubjective and socially validating instances of purposefulness, expressivity, creativity, fellowship and aspiration. These lived dimensions were grounded in sensuous, symbolic and emotional attachments respective to the social organization defining the social practice of either code of boxing. Equally, the research reveals that under the veneer of collective passion for and consequent fellowship experienced through boxing, an undercurrent yet ever-present sense of dubiety, tension and intra-personal conflict was in evidence among both the amateur and professional boxing-practitioners studied. It is suggested, therefore, that as a consequence of an array of both micro and macro post-industrial societal reconfigurations defining the structural principles of amateurism and professionalism in the practice of ‘boxing’, contemporary boxers are increasingly predisposed to developing athletic identities predisposed towards patterns of meaning production “…dominated by market-mediated consumer choice and the power of individualism” (Jarvie 2006 p. 327). Thus through complex, historically dynamic and seemingly paradoxical social processes of cultural (re)production and transformation - dialectically fusing individualistic aspirations geared towards self-interested gain, acts of group and subcultural fellowship and social resistance to measures of institutionalised control - it is argued that the role of boxing as an agent for humanistic personal and social development in the contemporary late-modern era of structural reconfiguration is progressively rendered impotent.
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Canet, Florence. "Veilleur 2.0 : d'un processus professionnel à une activité ordinaire." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20097/document.
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La pratique de veille est un objet d’étude dont la conceptualisation est encore instable en sciences de l’information : principalement étudié en sciences de gestion dans le cadre des pratiques professionnelles, les études relatives aux pratiques de veille dans des contextes ordinaires, autrement dit dans une démarche personnelle et non-professionnelle, ou de pratiques « amateur » restent à ce jour limitées. Notre recherche porte sur les pratiques actuelles de veille en ligne et vise à attester empiriquement de l’émergence de pratiques « amateur » et de pratiques « ordinaire ». Notre hypothèse centrale est que la pratique professionnelle qui consiste en la surveillance continue et itérative de l’environnement, a trouvé une place dans les pratiques informationnelles quotidiennes des internautes. Deux questions centrales nous préoccupent : qui sont les veilleurs actuels et quelles sont leurs motivations. De fait, nos travaux s’articulent autour de deux axes structurants : la veille comme une pratique informationnelle et la veille comme une pratique de veilleurs amateurs. Notre dispositif méthodologique repose sur un corpus d’entretiens semi-directifs menés auprès de dix-sept veilleurs professionnels et dix-sept veilleurs amateurs entre 2012 et 2014. Notre analyse du contenu thématique est structurée autour de deux axes majeurs : veilleurs professionnels versus veilleurs amateurs et veille professionnelle versus veille ordinaire. Nos résultats attestent d’une diversification des pratiques de veille en ligne, de caractéristiques du besoin d’informations spécifiques, de l’usage du critère de confiance pour la sélection de sources humaines, et d’une pratique propice aux découvertes sérendipiennes. En complément et de manière plus centrée sur les pratiques « ordinaire », nous relevons d’une part, trois motifs informationnels majeurs : une collecte d’information régulière et facilitée, un moyen pour capitaliser l’information et un moyen d’apprentissage, et d’autre part une dimension expressive de la veille à travers la mise en visibilité de ses centres d’intérêts et dans l’acte de partageMonitoring practice is a learning object whose conceptualization is still unstable in information science. Mainly studied in management science in the context of professional practices, studies on monitoring practices in everyday life seeking situations, (in a personal and non-professional approach), or « amateur » practices remains limited to date.Our research focuses on the current practice of online monitoring and seeks to empirically demonstrate the emergence of « amateur » practices and everyday life seeking practices. Our central hypothesis is that the professional practice in the iterative and continuous monitoring of the environment, has found a place in everyday information practices of Internet users. Two central issues concern us: who are the current watchmen and what are their motivations. Indeed, our work is based on two structural axes: monitoring as an informational practice and as an amateur watchmen practice. Our methodology is based on a corpus of semi-structured interviews with seventeen watchmen professionals and seventeen watchmen amateur between 2012 and 2014. Our analysis of thematic content is structured around two focal points : professional watchmen versus amateur watchmen, and professional monitoring versus everyday life monitoring.Our results show a diversification of online intelligence practices, information needs singular characteristics, the use of confidence criterion for the selection of human sources, and practice conducive to sérendipiennes discoveries. In addition and more focused on everyday life seeking practices, we note first, three major informational reasons : an easiest and constant collect of information, a way to capitalize information, and a way of learning, and secondly an expressive dimension, through the setting visibility of its interests and in the act of sharing
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Comans, Christine Anne Wilmington. "La Boite Theatre 1925 to 2003: an historical survey of its transformation from an amateur repertory society to an established professional company." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16306/1/Christine_Comans_Thesis.pdf.
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This study addresses the central question of how Brisbane's La Boite Theatre negotiated its transformation from an amateur repertory society to an established professional company and, despite set-backs and crises, survived, changed and developed in an unbroken line of theatrical activity from its genesis in1925 to 2003. To answer the question, La Boite's history is surveyed within its three status modes of amateur, 'pro-am', and professional. Effective artistic and organizational leadership and a set of key manifestations of effective leadership are identified as crucial to the company's successful transformational journey. Such a transformation is a distinctive achievement in Australian repertory theatre history and, in exploring it, this study makes an original and important contribution to the history of Australian theatre organizations, very few of which have been the subject of scholarly research.
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Comans, Christine Anne Wilmington. "La Boite Theatre 1925 to 2003: an historical survey of its transformation from an amateur repertory society to an established professional company." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16306/.
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This study addresses the central question of how Brisbane's La Boite Theatre negotiated its transformation from an amateur repertory society to an established professional company and, despite set-backs and crises, survived, changed and developed in an unbroken line of theatrical activity from its genesis in1925 to 2003. To answer the question, La Boite's history is surveyed within its three status modes of amateur, 'pro-am', and professional. Effective artistic and organizational leadership and a set of key manifestations of effective leadership are identified as crucial to the company's successful transformational journey. Such a transformation is a distinctive achievement in Australian repertory theatre history and, in exploring it, this study makes an original and important contribution to the history of Australian theatre organizations, very few of which have been the subject of scholarly research.
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Gabnytė-Bizevičienė, Giedrė. "Fortepijono mokymo moduliai vaikų muzikos mokyklose kintant muostatoms į muzikinį ugdymą." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080924_181619-99820.
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Magistro darbe nagrinėjamos naujos pianistų ugdymo paradigmos galimybės. Nustatyta, kad iš visų šiandieninę vaikų muzikos mokyklą baigusių mokinių tik 5% renkasi tolesnį būsimo muziko profesionalo kelią – pratęsia mokslus formalaus muzikinio ugdymo įstaigose (konservatorijose, menų mokyklose, LMTA). Taigi 95% moksleivių, neketinančių muzikos mokslus pratęsti toliau, yra taikomi nedidelio procento ugdytinių poreikius atitinkantys ugdymo metodai –- aukšti, profesionaliam ugdymui reikalingi mokymosi standartai. Tokie kontrastingi šiuolaikinėse muzikinio, taip pat ir fortepijono mokymo procentiniai rodikliai įrodo akivaizdų nuostatų diferencijavimo stygių. Šiame darbe modeliuojamas skirtingo ugdymosi alternatyvų vaikų muzikos mokyklų fortepijono skyriuose radimasis – naujas, įvairius moksleivių ugdymosi tikslus ir galimybes atspindintis reiškinys. Empirinio tyrimo, atlikto vaikų muzikos mokyklose, tikslas – nustatyti mokymo/si skambinti fortepijonu muzikos mokyklose ypatumus. Tyrimo objektas – mokymas/is skambinti fortepijonu muzikos mokyklose. Tyrimo metu atlikti šie uždaviniai: mokytojų anketine apklausa išsiaiškinta, kaip vaikai mokomi skambinti fortepijonu, nustatytas mokytojų požiūris į diferencijuoto ugdymosi radimąsi ir galimus tokio mokymo kriterijus fortepijono skyriuje. Anketine apklausa ištirtas mokinių požiūris į fortepijono mokymą/si. Tyrimo metodas – anketinė apklausa, interviu. Apklausti 64 fortepijono specialybės mokytojai ir 90 fortepijono specialybės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]The Master thesis analyses new possibilities of pianist teaching paradigms. The conducted research has shown that only 5 % of all contemporary music school graduates choose to be professional musicians by studying at schools of formal music education (conservatoires, art schools, LAMT). Therefore, teaching methods (high teaching standards necessary for professional education) corresponding the needs to a small number of students are applied to 95 % of students who do not intend to continue their studies as professionals. A big contrast in percentage points to an evident lack of attitude differentiation in contemporary music and piano teaching issues. This work modulates different educational alternatives in children‘s music schools and piano departments; a new phenomenon, reflecting different students educational objectives and possibilities. The objective of empirical research conducted at children’s music schools was to identify the peculiarities of teaching/learning playing the piano at music schools. The object of the research is teaching and learning playing the piano at music schools. During the research the several tasks were accomplished; teachers‘ questionnaires pointed out how children are taught to play the piano, teachers‘ attitude towards differentiating education and possible criterion of such education at piano departments was determined. Questionnaires established students‘ attitude to teaching and learning the piano. The research method applied was a... [to full text]
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He, Man. "The Peacock on Stage and in Print: A Study of the 1920s New Drama Adaptations of Southeast Flies the Peacock." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250531758.
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Jane, Philip. "An Historical Survey of the Establishment of an Orchestral Tradition in Christchurch to 1939." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Music, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3407.
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This dissertation is the first study devoted solely to the history of an orchestral tradition in Christchurch. Within a timeframe stretching from the beginning of the local settlement to the establishment of the first “national” orchestra in 1939, it provides detailed portrayals of all facets of amateur and professional orchestral activity.
This includes the histories of all orchestral bodies, their membership, a chronology of concerts, repertoire, programme structure and critical reception. This dissertation explains the advance of orchestral tradition that is at times tentative and at times bold, until it is securely entrenched as a mainstream musical activity in Christchurch.
A preliminary narration, which begins in 1857, ends in 1906 with the International Exhibition. This is then discussed as a landmark event for orchestral music in Christchurch. A series of case studies for the period of 1908 to 1939, covers each of the five major orchestral groups that flourished in this period. The case studies also include the footprints of development, the “incidental” music performed by the cinema orchestras, and the “studio only” performances of many broadcasting groups. The role played by minor orchestral groups as an “alternative” music culture is included, along with the impact of orchestras associated with visiting opera companies. The final section is a detailed analysis of the repertoire and programme construction, and a discussion of the people who played an influential role in the development of an orchestral tradition.
Numerous tables and illustrations are provided. A number of appendices are also attached: a chronology of orchestral concerts in Christchurch; some significant orchestra personnel lists; an extensive set of source readings discussing the formation of a permanent orchestra; a chronology of orchestral activity for a selection of Christchurch musicians; a timeline of visiting opera companies, and a selection of concert programmes.
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Sadeghi, Mehrdad. "Le journalisme citoyen à l'ère numérique : enjeux de la pratique journalistique de non-professionnels en ligne : étude de cas : les médias citoyens en persan." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR30065.
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Cette recherche académique s’intéresse à l’émergence des pratiques contemporaines du traitement de l'actualité en ligne, récemment mises à la portée de non professionnels grâce au développement des technologies de l'information et de la communications, et regroupées sous la notion de journalisme citoyen. Deux axes différents mais complémentaires constituent la base essentielle du programme de recherche : Le premier axe consiste à s’interroger sur la nature et l’identité de la profession de journaliste, ses poids et ses limites, ses évolutions après l’émergence du web, l’arrivée de nouveaux supports médiatiques et sa confrontation avec les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication. Il s’attache également à comprendre et analyser l'essence, les particularités, les dimensions et les défis de la pratique journalistique amateur mise à la portée de tous via la technologie numérique. Le second axe est constitué d’une étude de cas sur les médias citoyens en persan. Il comprend plusieurs pistes de recherche et d’analyse : la sphère journalistique et l'environnement médiatique en Iran. Les circonstances de l’usage d’Internet et le taux de confiance des internautes face aux sources d’information citoyennes. La réception par les journalistes professionnels iraniens du phénomène de journalisme citoyen et celui de l’intervention en ligne de citoyens ordinaires sur l’actualité. Les priorités des créateurs de médias citoyens, leurs propres méthodes dans la collecte, le traitement et la publication de l‘information en ligne. La thèse prend en compte également les limites, restrictions et enjeux identitaires de cette nouvelle pratique journalistique au regard de ses pratiquantsThis academic research focuses on the emergence of contemporary practices in the treatment of online news recently brought within the reach of non-professionals through the development of information and communication technologies, and grouped under the concept of citizen journalism. Two different but complementary approaches constitute the essential basis of this research study: The first approach is to examine the nature and identity of the profession of journalism, its weight and its limits, and its evolution after the emergence of the Web, as well as the arrival of new media technology and its confrontation with information and communication technologies. It also attempts to understand and analyze the essence, characteristics, dimensions and challenges of the uses of amateur journalism brought to the attention of everyone via digital technology. The second approach consists of a case study of citizen media in Persian. It includes several researches and analyses, such as: The sphere of journalism and the media environment in Iran; the way in which Internet is used and the rate of trust of internet-users vis-à-vis the source of online information from citizens; the manner in which Iranian professional journalism receives citizen journalism and ordinary people’s involvement in the current affairs; the priorities of the creators of citizen media, and their own methods of collecting, processing and publishing online information. This thesis also takes into account the limitations, restrictions and identified issues of this new journalism practice in relation to its practitioners
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Naulin, Sidonie. "Le journalisme gastronomique. Sociologie d'un dispositif de médiation marchande." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040229.
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La gastronomie peut être considérée comme une attention portée à la dimension esthétique de l’alimentation. Les biens gastronomiques sont donc des biens symboliques dont l’échange sur le marché passe par l’existence de dispositifs de valorisation particuliers. En tant qu’il contribue à orienter les consommateurs sur un marché opaque et à leur indiquer le « bon » produit ou la « bonne » manière de cuisiner, le journalisme gastronomique constitue un dispositif de médiation marchande. À partir notamment d’entretiens, d’observations, d’une enquête quantitative et de statistiques textuelles, cette thèse s’attache à rendre compte de la manière dont se construit un tel dispositif. Dans une perspective diachronique, les premiers chapitres sont consacrés à l’émergence du dispositif au XIXe siècle et à sa construction à l’articulation de différents espaces sociaux (gastronomique, amateur et journalistique). Il apparaît qu’à la fin du XXe siècle, un marché de la presse gastronomique se met en place qui rend le point de vue des titres dépendant de leur positionnement dans la concurrence et de leur modèle économique. Ce sont ensuite les acteurs individuels de la fabrication de l’information journalistique qui sont étudiés. L’analyse des parcours et des compétences des journalistes ainsi que de leurs concurrents potentiels que sont les blogueurs culinaires met en évidence différentes formes d’écriture gastronomique et les types de confiance qui en découlent. Enfin, l’étude du travail concret des journalistes permet de rendre compte de la similitude des contenus médiatiques et l’analyse du parcours de journalistes renommés autorise à saisir leurs modes de différenciation professionnelleGastronomy can be regarded as a particular attention paid to the aesthetic dimension of food. Gastronomic goods are thus symbolic goods and their market exchange needs the existence of specific valuation devices. As a tool that directs consumers in an opaque market and that indicates the “right” product, or the “right” way to cook, food journalism can be considered as a market device. This thesis is based upon a fieldwork including in-depth interviews, observations, statistics and text analysis. It focuses on the way such a device is built. In a diachronic approach, the first chapters deal with the emergence of this device during the 19th century and with its construction at the crossroads of different social spaces (food world, connoisseurs’ world and journalistic world). It appears that at the end of the 20th century, with the setting up of a food magazines’ market, the vision carried by magazines becomes dependent on their position in competition and on their business model. Then, the individual actors and the making of news are studied. The analysis of the trajectories and the skills of journalists and food bloggers who may compete with them put the light on different forms of food writing and different kinds of trust associated with them. Finally, the study of the actual work of food journalists allows to account for the similarity of media content. The analysis of the career paths of renowned food journalists helps to understand the way they manage to differentiate themselves from the others
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Chierici, Giulia. "Non-professional Subtitling in Italy: the Fansubbing Phenomenon and the Challenges of Translating Humour and Taboo Language." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/14218/.
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Fansubbing is one of the most common forms of non-professional audiovisual translation today, whose popularity is increasing thanks to digital technology advances. This happens especially in countries like Italy, where English is not the official language. The fansubbing phenomenon is at the same time a source of entertainment and knowledge, and it gives the possibility to fans to watch their favourite programme in their language. Despite being an illegal activity, the phenomenon has several benefits both for the programme itself and for the audience. Through the analysis of the amateur translation of the subtitles of an episode of Vicious, this dissertation will attempt to show the main translational differences between mainstream subtitling and fansubbing, focusing on the rendering of humour and taboo language.
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McDermott, Marie-Louise. "Wet, wild and convivial : past, present and future contributions of Australia’s ocean pools to surf, beach, pool and body cultures and recreational coasts." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/517.
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I investigated the past, present and possible futures of Australia’s ocean pools, over a hundred public seawater pools sited on rocky surfcoasts, so that waves wash over their walls. My interdisciplinary analysis informed by actor-‐network theory explored their contributions to surf, beach, pool and body cultures and recreational coasts. Ocean pools have since the nineteenth century been far more significant in the surf, beach, pool and body cultures of Australia and South Africa, than in those of Britain and the United States. Most of Australia’s ocean pools lie within state of New South Wales, and my work strengthens the case for recognising Australian and NSW ocean pools as having distinct collective identities and affinities with their South African counterparts. Ocean pools are sites of social and environmental learning that challenge efforts to establish human mastery over wild natures and depictions of coastal environments as mere stages for enacting human activities unconstrained by non-‐human nature. They also challenge the notion that people prefer to swim and bathe at patrolled beaches or in private or public pools far less wild than an ocean pool. They are evidence that supervision by suitably trained and equipped lifeguards or lifesavers is not the only or the most satisfactory way to adequately safeguard bathers and swimmers from the dangers of the sea. Australia’s ocean pools demonstrate that regardless of race, class, gender, age or ability, people can and do make themselves at home in pools shared convivially with wild nature and well-‐suited for sustained, unsupervised recreation and sport on rocky surfcoast. Ocean pools serve as places of refuge, therapeutic and restorative environments, adventure playgrounds, convivial public spaces, visually appealing cultural landscapes, brands, icons and symbols. Australia’s ocean pools are unified by their sites, their affordances and core actor-‐ networks linked to their fundamental and enduring identity as ‘wild but safe enough surfside pools’. Rocky shores and coastal waters characterised by surf, sharks and rips are among the most persistent macro-‐actors in these networks that include bathers, swimmers, tourism and transport networks, news media, local councils and progress associations. Australian ocean pools that gained a further identity as ‘public pools for competition and carnivals’ acquired additional actor-‐networks strongly linked since the late nineteenth century to amateur swimming clubs and schools, and since the twentieth century to surf lifesaving clubs and winter swimming clubs. Those ocean pools nevertheless, remained predominately recreational facilities. As other types of public pools became more affordable, Australia’s ocean pools remained popular despite gaining new identities as an ‘unusually hazardous type of public pool’ and ‘a type of facility no longer created’. The growing threats to ocean pools and their actor-‐networks are a further unifying factor. As sport and recreation venues cultivating healthy, convivial relationships with wild nature and possessing unrealised potential as centres for community engagement, learning and research, ocean pools are worth emulating on other rocky shores and in other public places. My work strengthens efforts to sustain and create ocean pools and supports further studies on seawater pools and their actor-‐networks.
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Garcia, Maria E. "Governing Gambling in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/3.
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The role risk taking has played in American history has helped shape current legislation concerning gambling. This thesis attempts to explain the discrepancies in legislation regarding distinct forms of gambling. While casinos are heavily regulated by state and federal laws, most statutes dealing with lotteries strive to regulate the activities of other parties instead of those of the lottery institutions. Incidentally, lotteries are the only form of gambling completely managed by the government. It can be inferred that the United States government is more concerned with people exploiting gambling than with the actual practice of wagering.
In an effort to more fully understand the gambling debate, whether it should be allowed or banned, I examined different types of sources. Historical sources demonstrate how ingrained in American culture risk taking, the core of gambling, has been since the formation of this nation. Sources dealing with the economic implications of gambling were also studied. Additionally, sources dealings with the political and legal aspects of gambling were essential for this thesis. Legislature has tried to reconcile distinct problems associated with gambling, including corruption. For this reason sports gambling scandals and Mafia connections to gambling have also been examined.
The American government has created much needed legislature to address different concerns relating to gambling. It is apparent that statutes will continue to be passed to help regulate the gambling industry. A possible consideration is the legalization of sports wagering to better regulate that sector of the industry.
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"The visual skills of professional and amateur rugby players." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1351.
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M.Phil.This study consists of three separate publications. The first article attempts to evaluate the difference in the visual skill level of professional versus non-professional rugby players. The software visual skills, involving skills such as eye-hand coordination, eye-body coordination, central-peripheral awareness, and reaction time, were examined. The results indicate that the professional players did out perform the non-professional players on all these skills except for visual concentration. Not all the results were however statistically significant. The importance of the above skills in the game of rugby is discussed and recommendations as to the implementation of vision enhancement programmes are made. The second study explores the importance of the ‘hardware’ factors of the visual system in the game of rugby. A group of professional and club rugby players were tested and the results compared. The results were also compared with the established norms for elite athletes. The findings indicate no significant difference in hardware skills between professional and club players. Compared with the norms for elite athletes, performance of most of the rugby players were average or even worse. This suggests that in the game of rugby the hardware skills may be of lesser importance and that visual enhancement programmes should focus more on improving the players’ software skills. The hardware visual skills should not be neglected though because these provide a base from where the software skills can develop. Thirdly we wanted to determine whether there are a statistically significantly difference between the visual skill levels of forward and back line players in rugby and whether they performed visually according to the norms established for elite athletes. The results indicates that there is much room for improvement for both forward and back line players in eye-hand coordination, visual concentration and central-peripheral awareness because these skills, play an important role in a sport like rugby and because the players under performed according to the established norms. Thus attention should be given to develop the hardware visual skills like accommodation and fusion to an average level of performance, to eliminate any potential limits on the software visual skills. Consistent, position specific visual training should be incorporated in the daily training routine of these players to develop the software visual skills to their full potential.
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Kwantae, Kim, and 金官泰. "Comparison between the Professional and Amateur Taiwan Golfers on Biomechanics." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y49f9z.
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The purposes of this study were to investigate the segments orientation and foot pressure variables during golf swing of professional and amateur golfers and create a new set of orthogonal variables that describe the majority of variance in the original dataset using principle component analysis (PCA) during the golf swing. Twenty professional and Twenty amateur right-handed golfers from Taiwan were participated. Participants were divided into professional and amateur group based on handicap. Fifteen successful swings of 7-iron and driver, respectively, were performed in an indoor screen golf system room. Kinematics and kinetics data were collected using inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors and wireless pressure insole system. Golf swing was divided into 10 events (① takeaway (TA), ② mid-backswing (MB), ③ late-backswing (LB), ④ top of backswing (TB), ⑤ early-downswing (ED), ⑥ mid-downswing (MD), ⑦ ball impact (BI), ⑧ mid-follow-through (MF), ⑨ late-follow-through (LF), ⑩ finish (FIN)). The resultant of orientation vector of 24 segments were calculated. Foot area was divided into 4 areas (fore-medial (FM), fore-lateral (FL), rear-medial (RM), rear-lateral (RL)). Peak pressure of each area was calculated at 10 events. PCA was using as statistical method to identify new sets of orthogonal variables that describe the majority of variance during the golf swing. Golfer’s every shot except the error data was set as individual data. 24 whole body segments were divided into the upper body (15 segments) and lower body (9 segments). 3 events (i.e. MD, BI, MF) in functional swing plane (FSP) was selected for PCA. Based on the result, the new set of orthogonal variables was as follows: ① Whole upper body segments orientation at BI, and right lower leg, right foot, right toe, left upper leg, and left lower leg orientation in FSP were the new sets of orthogonal variables for SUM’s 7iron. ② Whole upper body except golf club segments orientation at MF, and right lower leg, right foot, and right toe in FSP were the new sets of orthogonal variables for professional’s 7iron. ③ Whole upper body except left forearm, left hand, and golf club orientation at MF, and right lower leg, right foot, right toe, left upper leg, and left lower leg orientation in FSP were the new sets of orthogonal variables for amateur’s 7iron. ④ Whole upper body except golf club orientation at MF, and right lower leg, right foot, right toe, left upper leg, and left lower leg orientation in FSP were the new sets of orthogonal variables for SUM’s driver. ⑤ Whole upper body except golf club orientation at MF, and right lower leg, right foot, and right toe orientation in FSP were the new sets of orthogonal variables for professional’s driver. ⑥ Whole upper body orientation at MF, and right lower leg, right foot, right toe, left upper leg, and left lower leg orientation in FSP were the new sets of orthogonal variables for amateur’s driver. To sum up, based on the results, the present study could give suggestions to amateur golfers as follows: ① In terms of 7-iron, amateur golfers should pay attention to upper body orientation at MD and pelvis orientation in FSP ② Amateur golfers should concentrate COM on right toe at BI and don’t move COM too much to the left side (i.e. target side for right-handed golfer) artificially during 7-iron shot. ③ In terms of driver, amateur golfers should pay attention to upper body orientation at BI, and pelvis and left leg orientation at MF. ④ Amateur golfers should keep COM on the right toe after BI during driver shot. Moreover, PCA was demonstrated to be a useful tool to determine critical factors of golf swing. It might be used for offering useful segments orientation and foot pressure information to amateurs for improving performance.
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Coetzee, Cuan Wayne. "An injury profile of amateur and semi-professional KwaZulu-Natal triathletes." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/995.
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Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, 2013.Background: A triathlon comprises of a combination of swimming, cycling and running. Triathlons are usually classified as sprint distance, Olympic distance, and Ironman or ultra-distance. Triathlon was popularized in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and, despite this, there is insufficient data relating to injuries in the South African context. This study aimed to determine the injury profile of amateur and semi-professional Kwa-Zulu Natal triathletes. Methods: This Institutional Research Board approved, cross sectional study, included 80 active members of the Kwa-Zulu Natal Triathlon Association. All triathletes completed a questionnaire on training and injury profiles; with only those having had a musculoskeletal complaint additionally completing a clinical consultation. In order to assess associations between presence of injury and explanatory variables, binary logistic regression using backward selection based on likelihood ratios was used. Data was described using frequency tables for categorical data and summary statistics for continuous data. Odds ratios was reported and a p value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. For triathletes reporting injuries, linear regression was used for factors associated with injury severity. Results: Fifty seven triathletes responded giving a response rate of 71% (68% male, 32% female). The point and period (year) prevalence of triathlon-related musculoskeletal pain was 17.5% and 68.4% respectively. The ranking of the most common site of injury in the last 12 months included the knee (64%), low back (21%) and thigh (18%); with females having had a significantly higher risk of injury than males (p=.019). Additionally, injury risk also increased with weight (p=.055), number of triathlons undertaken in the previous year (p=.031), number of triathlons in the last 4 months (p=.009) and running distance during competition times (p=.011). Injury risk decreased with increasing distance of cycling (p=.061) and swimming (p=.030) in a competition, and length of training in- and off-season (p=.105 and p=.043 respectively). Strong trends were demonstrated between injury severity and long-slow training distance (p=.006) and weight (p=.006). By contrast to risk of injury, injury severity was negatively associated with weight, while a long-slow distance was positively associated with the severity of the injury. Of all the health professions, chiropractic was the most utilized health profession. Conclusion and recommendations: The results concur with previous research, but add insights into factors predisposing triathletes to injury. The most common injuries require investigation to develop preventative interventions to reduce injuries in triathletes. Health professionals require education about triathlon-related injuries to improve preventative and curative interventions.
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Badenhorst, Frans Hendrik. "The effect of creatine on the developing rat foetus." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1900.
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Faculty of Health Sciences
Master of Science in Medicine
0204267nCreatine is one of the most frequently or generally used ergogenic substances. It is used by professional and amateur athletes and the “man on the street”. Creatine is involved in energy production and protein synthesis in muscle. Although studies have been carried out on the effect of creatine on adults, no study has yet determined whether creatine would have an influence on the developing rat foetus if taken by a female during pregnancy. The aim of this study was thus to determine whether creatine had an effect on the developing foetus. Dams were divided into two groups, which we re injected between days 7-13 and on days 9 and 11 only of intra-uterine development respectively. Each group was subdivided into a control and two experimental groups. Experimental group one received a low dose of creatine (53.5mg/250g body weight); the other experimental group received a high dose of creatine (107mg/250g body weight). The control group received an equal volume (1ml) of the vehicle (saline) in which the creatine was constituted. Dams were sacrificed on day 20 of development. The foetuses were removed and their weight and length taken. Foetuses were examined for abnormalities. Two foetuses from each litter underwent skeletal staining. Tissue was excised from the remaining foetuses and processed for histology for histological investigation. Creatine positively affected the growth of the foetuses of dams injected between days 7-13, while foetuses of dams injected only on days 9 and 11 in the B-group showed reduced growth. Creatine also had a slightly negative effect on the histological structure of the liver, but enhanced skeletal muscle growth, endocrine cell formation (pancreas) and skeletal formation. From the results obtained it is hypothesized that creatine and insulin together may play a positive role from implantation to birth, while creatine given at certain stages of organogenesis delayed development of the foetus.
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Lagimodiere, Chris. "Similarities and differences between male professional versus high performance amateur athletes' retirement experiences." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/8762.
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The purpose of the current study was to investigate the similarities and differences of retirement experiences of professional versus high performance amateur athletes determined by participation statistics in Canada. Results were obtained through qualitative interviews with 5 retired professional hockey players, and 4 retired high performance amateur rugby players who retired from sport within the last 15 years. Interview questions were based on Wylleman and Lavallee’s theoretical model of transitions faced by athletes at athletic, individual, psychosocial, and academic/vocational levels. The research concluded that there are many similarities experienced by professional hockey and high performance amateur rugby athletes regarding their sport retirement. However, there are also some considerable differences experienced by these athletes. Additional research may lead to awareness of coping resources and supports available to athletes experiencing retirement from various sports to help improve preparation and the quality of retirement experiences.
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Ho, I.-Jui, and 何奕叡. "Genre and Metadiscourse: A study of Professional and Amateur Film Reviews in English." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d3muf8.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
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Film reviews in previous studies were rarely investigated through metadiscoursal markers functioning on rhetorical structure (Bhatia, 2004; Jong & Burgers, 2013; Martin & White, 2005; Taboada, 2011). Therefore, this study aims to identify the move-based rhetorical structure and to explore the metadiscoursal markers encoded in the film reviews written by professional and amateur reviewers. The social engagement of writer-reader relationship is further probed through the rhetorical structure and lexical cues in film reviews. 98 English film reviews from the professional and amateur were collected as a corpus. At the structural level, Swales’ (1981, 1990) move analysis was adopted to identify the moves. In addition, at the metadiscoursal level, Hyland’s (2005) model was adopted to analyze how reviewers used specific lexical cues to organize the contents, establish social engagement with readers, and express stance. The finding indicated that eight rhetorical moves were identified in the present study, including Move 1 Stage setting, Move 2 Film orientation, Move 3 Decomposing the cinematic elements, Move 4 Thematic provocation, Move 5 Evaluating cinematic elements, Move 6 Closing, Move 7 Providing film data, and Move 8 Film rating. Generic descriptive, informative, and evaluative features were found in rhetorical moves, which correlated with previous studies (Bhatia, 2004; Jong & Burgers, 2013; Skalicky, 2013). In rhetorical structure, professionals tended to give more practical information than amateurs who leaned to voice personal opinion. With regard to metadiscoursal markers, interactional resources were frequently used in both professional and amateur film reviews to establish the social engagement, whereas amateur reviewers adopted more interactional resources than professional reviewers. The results indicated that professional reviewers were informative and objective oriented, while amateur reviewers were persuasive and subjective oriented. This study attested that social engagement could be understood by lexical features which crucially correlate with the rhetorical structure.
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Ramos, Guilherme Alexandre dos Santos Espadanal. "EMG Signal Processing in Amateur and Professional Sports with Performance Evaluation and Injury Prevention." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/40257.
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Physical activity is a constant in life, prolonging since the primordial times until now as
an intrinsic element of human condition, though his character have suffered a transmutation, going from a need, by the predatory nature of the human being, for an option in escaping sedentary habits of contemporary society.
Despite the enormous benefits of sports practice, there are also some negative consequences associated, namely the emergence of muscular injuries provided by the installation of fatigue, due to an overload on time or in the intensity of training.
The consequences of an injury are drastic, conditioning the quotidian of the injured
and carrying high costs for the health system, establishing this problem as the starting
point of the present work.
Although investigations on this subject have recently appeared, yet is not common to
find commercial solutions for evaluating fatigue and with the capability of warning the
user about the risk of injury.
In order to avoid the fatigue consequences, is proposed the implementation of a computational system for physiological signal processing - Electromyographic (EMG) and Electrocardiographic (ECG) - extracting multiple indexes with informative potential at fatigue level.
There is provided an automatic evaluation of the state of fatigue assured by the
definition of a Global Fatigue Index that synthesises information from distinct individual
fatigue indexes and implementation of a Classification System, with the capability of
giving to the user the indication if the physical activity is originating the approximation
or deviation from fatigue state.
The computer system was built for a future integration as a plugin on a signal acquisition software. This framework is a specialized tool for acquiring and processing of the physiological signals collected in equipments such as bitalino and biosignalsplux, being directed to the practice of indoor cycling.
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Pangallo, Matteo A. "“The labor we delight in”: Amateur dramatists in the London professional theaters, 1590–1642." 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3518404.
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In the commercial theaters of early modern London there worked a group of dramatists who, though they wrote for the playmaking industry, were not members of it. Rather than outliers in a unified, closed field of playwriting, they were amateur dramatists, a distinct class of writers who took advantage of the radically open nature of the field of playwriting for professional theaters to supply their own plays to the actors. Their plays require a different set of critical and historical questions than that traditionally used in examining plays by professionals. The reason for this distinction is that amateur dramatists came to their work with primary experience of the theater as cultural consumers rather than producers: they were playgoers who, though from a diverse range of economic and social backgrounds, shared a passion for the public stage—a passion that they translated into efforts to pen plays for that same stage. As plays by playgoers, their texts provide evidence for better understanding how particular audience members saw and understood the professional stage. Their plays reveal directly what audience members wanted to see and how they thought actors might stage it. In their attempts to replicate specific practices, conventions, and techniques that they saw in professionals' plays, they reveal how certain playgoers understood, or thought they understood, the professional theater. In their deviations from what they saw in professionals' plays, they testify to a gap between what the profession produced and what the audience wanted—a gap unnoticed by studies of audience experience that rely on professionals' plays to recreate that experience. Playgoers writing their own plays demonstrate that the early modern audience was a participatory, engaged, and even autonomously active force of dramatic creation. In the early modern professional theater, playgoers could create the texts and, in some cases, the performances that they desired. Reading amateurs' plays with an awareness that they were written not just for audiences but also by audiences thus opens a new window onto the early modern playhouse, the diversity of dramatists who wrote for it, and the creative experiences of the spectators who attended it.
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Cheng, Nung-Cheng, and 鄭農正. "A Case Study on an Example of an Amateur Became a Professional Performer— Chen, Yuan-Zheng, The Role of Jin in Chinese Opera." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ja86fe.
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The purpose of this study was to research an example of an amateur to a professional, Mr. Chen, Yuan-Zheng, as the role of Jin in Beijing opera. There are four roles which are "Sheng","Dan","Jin",and "Chou" in the traditional Beijing opera. "Jin" is a painted face male role. Among them, "Sheng " and "Dan" perform the main characters, and "Jin" and "Chou" perform the supporting characters. The researcher wanted to analysis the main stream from "Jin" and traced the progress from Mr. Chen, Yuan-Zheng as an amateur to a professional performer. As the researcher myself, I studied Beijing opera in National Taiwan College of Performing Arts School when I was very young. I love the singing part of Jin. Mr. Chen plays the role of Jin in a popular performing way of "Qiu"style. I wanted to do the case study to dedicate my teacher, Mr. Chen, who plays a successful role of Jin in Taiwan. Mr. Chen, Yuan-Zheng performed the three plays, "Tong-chui", "Black-headed", and "White-faced" in different styles and specialties. Mr. Chen made studies of the plays on the music voices, gestures, actions and roles. In this research, the researcher did the analysis from one singing part and studied through the written words to let the traditional opera arts continue to the next generation. This study used "Literature Analysis" and "Interview Survey" to attain the study purpose, and the conclusions were as follows: 1. Performers learn from each other and form new groups of performing styles. 2. The main reasons why an amateur, the " Piao-you ," becomes successful are their talented voices and interests. 3. Mr. Chen, Yuan-Zheng's achievement in Beijing opera are based on his diligent attitude and enthusiasm.
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Raušová, Petra. "Profesionalizace v kontextu strategického plánování (Případová studie mateřského centra)." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-313255.
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Synopsis Professionalization of non-profit organizations means basically hiring of paid staff . Maternity centre is social space especially for mothers and their children, that rely mainly on mothers' voluntary work and is based on non-professional rather than professional principle. This case study reflects situation in which non-professional, amateur work is being replaced by hiring of paid staff and paid attention especially to an impact on internal organization's atmosphere and position of the main participants of maternity centre - mothers. The situational analysis is a partial goal of this thesis, served as a basic step not only for strategic planning but mostly for considering of accessing to professionalized organization.
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Whittaker, Robin Charles. "Un/Disciplined Performance: Nonprofessionalized Theatre in Canada's Professional Era." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32956.
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The discourse of Western theatre practice is founded on, and maintained as, a legitimizing struggle between the terms “professional” and “amateur.” This study moves beyond the traditional signifiers of Canadian amateur theatre—the Little Theatre Movement, the Dominion Drama Festival and connotations of “inferior” and “dilettantish”—to examine two nonprofessionalized companies that have witnessed the professionalization of Anglo-Canadian theatre in order to argue for the relevance and vitality of contemporary “nonprofessionalized” theatre practices. By drawing from Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and Michel Foucault’s discourse theory and theories of formations of disciplines, this study argues that theatre professions seek to discipline, delegitimize and exclude nonprofessionalizing practices in order to gain capital (economic, social and cultural) at the expense of the creative freedoms inherent in nonprofessionalized work. It also considers the ways in which theatre scholarship omits critical discussion of amateur practice and how the term “amateur” is co-opted as a clouded pejorative signifier and erased by the contested term “community” within theatre discourse (institutions, practices and the Canadian imaginary).
Following a case study approach based on archival documents, the study provides the foundation for a social history of Alumnae Theatre Company (1918- ), beginning with its early years as part of the University of Toronto’s University College Alumnae Association, by examining the relationship between amateur theatre practice and campus philanthropy, followed by Alumnae’s impact on Toronto’s professionalizing theatre scene in the context of alterity in Canadian theatre discourse. It then examines Walterdale Theatre Associates’ (1958- ) relationship to the emerging theatre profession before and after the opening of Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre in 1965 to argue that Walterdale benefits the profession and its professionalizing artists while negotiating complex concerns over institutionalization. Their longevity is explained, in part, by the fact that both companies operate “as if” professional, yet outside of professionalized disciplinary regimes.
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Kunc, Vít. "Motivace k výkonu v cyklistice." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-339833.
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Title: Achievement motivation in cycling Aims: Main aim of this thesis was find out what motivates cyclists in achieving. I have used questionnaire LMI (Achievement motivation questionnaire) for cyclist on different level. Next step was comparing the results between all cyclists groups and describing main differences in motivation. Methods: For gaining all the data I used a questionnaire method. Questionnaires were spread in written form as well as in electronic form. I cooperated with the directors of amateur competitons in the Czech Republic, Czech Cycling Federation and other cyclistic unions. Respondent's answers were elaborated descriptively and analyticly by standardized statistics methods in software SPSS 17. Results: In the research were compared three cycling groups: Amateurs, Professionals and Hobby cyclists. In four of ten dimensions was confirmed different results in motivational structure. Results interpretation has shown that profesionals tend to trust in their success and dispose by biggest competition and ambition. The only dimension where amateur cyclists achieved significantly higher values opposite to professionals was in internality. Interesting results brought correlation analysis, which showed what most affects these four dimensions. Interesting was the only statistical...
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Kučaba, Michael. "Analýza tréninkové jednotky u přípravkových hráčů fotbalu s ohledem na odlišnou výkonnostní úroveň." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-365524.
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Title of the thesis: Analysis of the training unit for football older prepare players with a different level of performance. Objective of the thesis: Identify the representation of didactic forms and types of training processes in the older football product categories, taking into account the different performance level of the club (professional vs. amateur). Solving methods: Solution Methods: An indirect observation method was used to analyze when we used two camcorders to shoot two training units per week for each team. (AC Sparta Prague, SK Slavia Praha, FK Motorlet and SK Aritma). The training records were subsequently evaluated. Results: Comparison of professional clubs and amateurs had the most significant difference in game exercises, which was 38.3% for AC Sparta and SK Slavia vs. 22.8% for FK Motorlet and SK Aritma. On the other hand, amateur clubs used more training play (39.7%) compared to 22% AC Sparta and SK Slavia. There was no significant difference in socio-interactive forms, just as professional clubs make more use of group form, especially because of the higher number of trainers per training unit. A more significant difference was also seen in the training process where professional clubs use more fitness training than amateur (28% to 10%). Of all the results we have not found...
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Мехдиева, К. Р., and K. R. Mekhdieva. "Технологии нагрузочного тестирования для контроля физической подготовленности в любительском и профессиональном спорте : магистерская диссертация." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/78054.
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Exercise testings are widely used to estimate current functional state of athletes and reveal their pros and cons in particular cases. The aim of the proposed research was to evaluate eligibility, validity and informativity of various methods of exercise testing for control of athletes’ physical performance. Thirty qualified athletes aged 14 to 35 years and their level of exercise performance were studied, effective method of functional testing for control of training process was developed. We justified use of exercise testing by means of RAMP-protocol cycle spiroergometry for evaluation of aerobic capacity and exercise performance in elite and amateur athletes. Practical outcome is development of effective protocols of exercise testing for adequate and reproductible estimation of aerobic capacity and exercise performance of athletes of all qualification level and specialization.Проведение проб с дозированной физической нагрузкой позволяет объективно оценивать текущее функциональное состояние организма, выявлять недостатки и преимущества атлетов в отдельных конкретных случаях. Цель – оценить целесообразность, валидность и информативность различных методов нагрузочного тестирования для контроля физической подготовленности спортсменов. В результате исследования были изучены методики нагрузочного тестирования 30 квалифицированных спортсменов от 14 до 35 лет, оценен уровень общей физической работоспособности, разработана эффективная методика функционального тестирования для управления тренировочным процессом. Научная новизна исследования состоит в обосновании использования нагрузочного тестирования методом велоэргоспирометрии по протоколу с непрерывно возрастающей нагрузкой для оценки аэробной производительности и функциональной готовности как элитных спортсменов, так и спортсменов-любителей. Практическая значимость работы заключается в разработке эффективных протоколов нагрузочного тестирования для адекватной и воспроизводимой оценки аэробной производительности и функциональной готовности спортсменов всех уровней квалификации и специализации.
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Rananga, Ntshengedzeni Collins. "Professionalising storytelling in African languages with special reference to Venda." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1329.
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Unlike in the days of yore where storytelling was primarily known for its entertainment value, storytelling should be harnessed to make people's livelihood.
Chapter 1 serves as prologue wherein the background of the study, problem statement, statement of aims, research methodology, research questions, hypotheses, definition of terms and organization of the study are presented. Storytelling began with the aim of transmitting the culture of people from one generation to another. There are different theories to account for the origin of stories. The identified problem is that storytelling is dying because it has not yet been professionalised in African languages. For storytelling to become viable in South Africa, storytellers have to be economically empowered. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were employed in this study. Various questions have been prepared for use when interviewing the respondents.
As a point of departure, the research hypotheses were laid down. Various concepts used in the study have been defined in order to clarify any misconceptions. For a study to follow a predetermined plan, it has to be organised in its initial stage. For that reason what has been discussed in each chapter has been summarised in the first chapter.
Chapter 2 presents views of scholars, researchers and authors in general on how storytelling could be professionalised. The factors which retard the professionalisation of storytelling were also provided. The furnished views are classified according to their similarity.
In Chapter 3, the methodology used in the gathering of research data is outlined. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used, but the qualitative method more extensively because this is an explorative study. Data was collected through interviewing, questionnaires, documents and observation methods. Two sampling methods were used to select the respondents: the snowball sampling method and the judgmental or purposeful sampling design. The setting of the study was determined by the accessibility and the willingness of the respondents to use the site.
Once the data was collected, it was analysed and interpreted. Chapter 4 focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the research data collected through interviews, questionnaires and systematic observations. During data analysis, similar themes from different respondents were combined in order to interpret the main findings. All such themes are discussed under major categories. In this chapter, themes were identified in relation to how storytelling might be professionalised.
The fifth chapter outlines the main findings arrived at during the analysis and the interpretation of the data. To make this study more pragmatic, the findings are accompanied by suggested recommendations.
The final chapter provides a general conclusion to the entire study. The success of professionalised storytelling and storytellers, the implications in terms of teaching and professionalisation, the implications for further study and the limitations of the study are also dealt with in this chapter.African Languages
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Vaňousová, Veronika. "Srovnání pracovních poměrů hráčů ledního hokeje v ČR a zahraničí." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-330083.
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Title: Comparison of the ice hockey players working relationship in Czech Republic and abroad Goals: Comparison of duties and rights of individual work-legal relations for ice hockey players in the first two best national competitions in different European countries. Method: For the treatment of this topic has been used secondary data analysis and desk research in economics, management, and professional sports. For qualitative research sample of hockey players and managers interview method was used. Results: They simulate application of individual abroad work-legal relations into the Czech conditions, even commentaries and comparison to nowadays conditions. They suggest more favorable conditions for the national competition. Key words: professional sport, ice - hockey, professional ice - hockey player, non- amateur ice - hockey player, self - employed - definition, right and duties, players contract, dependent activity - rights and duties, work contract, ice - hockey league.