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Arnold, Michael A., and W. Edgar Davis. "814 PB 225 ADAPTABILITY OF ELITE SYCAMORE AND SWEETGUM PROVENANCES TO FIELD NURSERY PRODUCTION AND ESTABLISHMENT FOLLOWING BARE-ROOT TRANSPLANTING." HortScience 29, no. 5 (May 1994): 550a—550. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.29.5.550a.
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Growth and post-transplant establishment of half-sib seedlings from two elite sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.) mother trees (Westvaco Corp.) and seedlings from a bulk seed lot from elite sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua L.) trees (Scott Paper Co.) were compared to that of seedlings from a native (Cookeville, TN) sycamore tree and a commercial source of sweetgum seeds. Seedlings were grown under standard field nursery conditions for two years, dug hare-root in autumn, and transplanted to another site to simulate landscape planting. Growth of elite seedlings during production was increased by 11 to 22% in height and 10 to 118 in caliper compared to that of conventional seed sources. Growth differences were maintained following transplanting. The primary lateral root number at transplanting was increased by 2 to 3 on elite sycamore seedlings compared to conventional seedlings. The number of pruning cuts required to eliminate multiple leaders tended to be less for elite seed sources. Survival did not differ among seed sources within a species.
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Casajus, José Antonio, Ángel Matute-LLorente, Alejandro Gómez-Bruton, Gabriel Lozano-Berges, Helena Herrero, Germán Vicente-Rodríguez, and Alejandro González-Agüero. "Agreement of body composition methods in elite male football referees." Revista Andaluza de Medicina del Deporte 12, no. 3 (March 18, 2019): 230–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.33155/j.ramd.2019.03.008.
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Objective: The current literature about the body composition of elite football referees is scarce and almost non-existent. Therefore, and in order to establish the level of agreement between bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in elite football referees, the aim of this study was to compare fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass (FFM) values measured with these two different methods.
Method: A total of 30 male referees belonging to 1st, 2nd and 2ndB categories, and 36 assistant referees from 1st and 2nd categories in the Spanish national league participated in this study. Total and regional FM and FFM were assessed using a portable BIA analyser TANITA BC 418-MA (Tanita Corp., Tokyo, Japan) and DXA (Hologic Corp. Software version 12.4, Bedford, MA 01730). Agreement between methods was assessed by plotting the results in Bland-Altman graphs and the presence of heteroscedasticity was also examined. Differences between methods were analysed by two-paired samples t-test.
Results: For the whole group, BIA underestimated body fat percentage in 3.87 points (CI 95%=3.22-4.52; p=<0.01) and overestimated kg of total FFM in 3.56 points (CI 95%=3.08-4.05; p=<0.01), however, no heteroscedasticity was shown in any case (all p>0.05).
Conclusions: The present study suggests that according to DXA, BIA values calculated with a non-specific equation are underestimating total FM and, consequently, overestimating total FFM in male elite football referees.
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Gulbrandsen, Trygve. "Elite Integration and Institutional Trust in Norway." Comparative Sociology 6, no. 1-2 (2007): 190–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156913307x187441.
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AbstractIn modern elite theory accommodation and compromise between national elite groups are seen as preconditions for the continuance and stability of a democratic society. It is claimed that elite accommodation is facilitated to the extent that the elites are integrated. In this article trust between the various elite groups and their respective institutions is investigated as a core aspect of elite integration. The analyses presented in the article demonstrate that in general there is a relatively high level of institutional trust among national elite groups in Norway. There is, however, some variation in how much trust the various elite groups accord the institutions to which other elite groups belong, and this is explained by (1) the extent to which one elite identifies with the functions of other elites, (2) has a similar ideological orientation, and (3) has social contact with members of other elites.
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Nunes, Alexandre Velí, Rudnei de Andrade, Cláudio R. E. Paiva, and Ulf Georg Klemt. "Lactato sanguíneo em atletas de judô: relato da experiência de coleta durante combates sucessivos em uma competição oficial." Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte 4, no. 1 (February 1998): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1517-86921998000100006.
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Este artigo é um relato de experiência que faz parte de uma investigação sobre a avaliação de atletas de judô de elite. Seu objetivo é comunicar à comunidade científica a metodologia utilizada, assim como descrever os procedimentos e as dificuldades encontradas na execução dessa metodologia. Nessa experiência, foram feitas 155 coletas de lactato sanguíneo em atletas de judô que participaram de uma competição internacional realizada em Porto Alegre, em julho de 1997. Os atletas da seleção gaúcha de judô, previamente selecionados (n = 21), submeteram-se à coleta de sangue do lóbulo da orelha antes e logo após os combates. Além desses, todos os atletas que participaram das lutas finais das respectivas categorias foram incentivados a submeter-se à coleta ao final do combate. Também foi verificada a FC dos atletas através de palpação radial em 15s, no momento da coleta de sangue. Utilizou-se o analisador de lactato portátil AccusportTM (Boehringer Mannheim Corp., Mannheim, Alemanha) com Test Strips BM Lactate e caneta com microlancetas descartáveis da mesma marca. Constatou-se que a utilização da metodologia e do equipamento acima descritos é apropriada para esse tipo de população e situação, e que os resultados encontrados podem contribuir para a avaliação da intensidade do esforço desses atletas.
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BOWEN, JAMES D. "Multicultural Market Democracy: Elites and Indigenous Movements in Contemporary Ecuador." Journal of Latin American Studies 43, no. 3 (August 2011): 451–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x11000769.
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AbstractThis paper bridges the gap between studies of subaltern social movements and elite politics by asking how political and economic elites respond to indigenous mobilisation in Ecuador. I argue that elites have developed a hegemonic project based around three core principles – multiculturalism, economic liberalism and democracy – that serves to incorporate indigenous peoples into the political system while simultaneously excluding indigenous movement demands that would undermine the political and economic sources of elite power. The paper develops this argument around a concept of what I call ‘multicultural market democracy’ based on historical analysis and in-depth interviews with 43 Ecuadorian elites.
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Higley, John, and Michael Burton. "Elite Settlements and the Taming of Politics." Government and Opposition 33, no. 1 (January 1998): 98–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1998.tb00785.x.
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A BASIC QUESTION IS HOW POLITICS ARE TAMED AND CEASE BEING A deadly, warlike affair. The most dramatic way is through sudden, deliberate and lasting compromises of core disputes among political elites – what we think of as ‘elite settlements’. Prior to settlements elites disagree about government institutions, engage in unchecked fights for dominance, and view politics as winner-take-all. After settlements, elite persons and groups continue to be affiliated with conflicting parties, movements, and beliefs, but they share a consensus about government institutions and the codes and rules of political competition. Settlements tame politics by generating tacitly accommodative and overtly restrained practices among competing political elites.
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Traag, Vincent A., Ridho Reinanda, and Gerry van Klinken. "Elite Co-Occurrence in the Media." Asian Journal of Social Science 43, no. 5 (2015): 588–612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04305005.
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We present a new computational methodology to identify national political elites, and demonstrate it for Indonesia. On the basis that elites have an “organised capacity to make real and continuing political trouble”, we identify them as those individuals who occur most frequently in a large corpus of politically-oriented newspaper articles. Doing this requires mainly well-established named entity recognition techniques and appears to work well. More ambitiously, we also experiment with a new technique to map the relational networks among them. To establish these networks, we assume that individuals co-occurring in one sentence are related. The co-occurrence technique has rarely been applied to identify elite networks. The resulting network has a core-periphery structure. Although this in line with our sociological expectations of an elite network, we find that this structure does not differ significantly from that of a randomly generated co-occurrence network. We explain that this unexpected result arises as an artefact of the data. Finally, we assess the future potential of our elite network mapping technique. We conclude it remains promising, but only if we are able to add more sociological meaning to relations between elites.
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Rossier, Thierry, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, and Jacob Aagaard Lunding. "From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015." British Journal of Sociology 73, no. 2 (February 14, 2022): 315–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12929.
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Hopf, Ted. "Common-sense Constructivism and Hegemony in World Politics." International Organization 67, no. 2 (April 2013): 317–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818313000040.
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AbstractThe IR literature on hegemony rarely combines attention to material power and ideas. Cox's neo-Gramscian work is a rare exception, but it too narrowly construes Gramsci's conceptualization of common sense, reducing it to elite views on political economy. But Gramsci argued that hegemony had to reckon with mass quotidian common sense. If political elites do not take into account the taken-for-granted world of the masses, elite ideological projects would likely founder against daily practices of resistance. In this article, I show how mass common sense can be an obstacle to an elite hegemonic project aimed at moving a great power into the core of the world capitalist economy. In contemporary Russia, a ruling elite with a neoliberal project is being thwarted daily by a mass common sense that has little affinity with democratic market capitalism. Scholarly work on future Chinese, Brazilian, or Indian participation in constructing a new hegemonic order would do well to pay attention to the mass common senses prevailing in those societies
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Tan, Netina. "Minimal Factionalism in Singapore’s People’s Action Party." Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 39, no. 1 (April 2020): 124–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1868103420932684.
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Singapore’s People’s Action Party (PAP) is one of the longest ruling parties in the world. The PAP’s ability to avoid overt factionalism over the years is exceptional, especially compared to the region’s personalistic or cadre parties. In recent years, the defection of former PAP cadre Dr. Tan Cheng Bock and the formation of the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) and PM Lee Hsien Loong’s family rivalry, which involved PAP elites, have challenged the cohesion of the PAP. This study examines a set of incentives and constraints institutionalised at the party and national levels to foster elite cohesion. It is argued that the critical junctures in the PAP’s early years led to the adoption of a cadre party model and a centralised candidate selection process that co-opts like-minded elites into a core that promotes elite unity. Nationally, party switching and factional alignments based on ethnicity or ideology have been systematically banned. Given the lack of credible alternatives that seriously challenge the incumbent PAP, ambitious party cadres would do better toeing the party line and staying loyal.
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Buehler, Matt, and Mehdi Ayari. "The Autocrat’s Advisors: Opening the Black Box of Ruling Coalitions in Tunisia’s Authoritarian Regime." Political Research Quarterly 71, no. 2 (November 8, 2017): 330–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1065912917735400.
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Why do autocrats retain some elites as core, long-term members of their ruling coalitions for years, while others are dismissed in months? How and why might the type of elites retained within coalitions vary across time and different autocrats? Although what constitutes an authoritarian regime’s ruling coalition varies across countries, often including the military and dominant parties, this article focuses on one critical subcomponent of it—an autocrat’s cabinet and his elite advisors within it, his ministers. Because coalitions function opaquely to prevent coups, scholars consider their inner-workings a black box. We shed light through an original, exhaustive dataset from the Middle East of all 212 ministers who advised Tunisian autocrats from independence until regime collapse (1956–2011). Extracting data from Arabic sources in Tunisian national archives, we track variation in minister retention to identify which elites autocrats made core, long-term advisors within ruling coalitions. Whereas Tunisia’s first autocrat retained elites as ministers due to biographical similarities, capacity to represent influential social groups, and competence, its second autocrat did not. He became more likely to dismiss types of elites retained under the first autocrat, purging his coalition of ministers perceived to be potential insider-threats due to their favored status under his predecessor.
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López-Nieves, Lourdes E., Verónica M. Negrón-Pérez, Héctor L. Sánchez-Rodríguez, Joan M. Patiño-Chaparro, Guillermo Ortiz-Colón, and Melvin Pagán-Morales. "PSIII-6 Comparisons of high-density genomic data in Holsteins differing in coat type." Journal of Animal Science 98, Supplement_4 (November 3, 2020): 228–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaa278.420.
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Abstract Preliminary studies have reported that wild type-haired (WT) Holstein cattle have greater productive potential at a genomic level than their slick-haired (SL) counterpart. The objective of the present study was to evaluate, through a panel of commercial genetic markers (Igenity Elite, Neogen Corp), 49 Holsteins descendants SL [32 SL (n = 11 males and 21 females) and 17 WT (n = 2 males and 15 females)] from the Agricultural Experiment Station of Puerto Rico. These animals received a predictive genomic transmission capacity (PTA) based on DNA tests using more than 100,000 bovine genome markers, which contain information from their parents for a more accurate measure of genetic potential. Traits evaluated included measures of productivity, health, type and other indexes such as: net merit, milk yield, somatic cell score, among others. The data was analyzed using Proc GLIMMIX in SAS and the differences between means were determined by the Tukey test. Various subsets of animals were compared; however, no main differences were found between SL and WT (P >0.05), except for stature (-1.07±0.17 vs -0.39±0.26; P = 0.02, respectively). In a second subset, only lactating cows were evaluated (SL n = 7 and WT n = 7) and differences were found for: hypocalcemia (0.03±0.06 vs -0.21±0.06; P = 0.01), mastitis (-0.11±0.24 vs 0.90±0.24; P = 0.01), PTA type (-0.98±0.26 vs -0.11±0.26; P = 0.03), udder composite (-0.96±0.26 vs -0.07±0.26; P = 0.02), stature (-0.91±0.30 vs 0.04±0.30; P = 0.04), dairy form (-1.64±0.26 vs -0.65±0.26; P = 0.02), fore udder attachment (-0.77±0.30 vs 0.41±0.30; P = 0.02), rear udder height (-1.39±0.34 vs -0.18±0.34; P = 0.03) and width (-1.42±0.29 vs -0.17±0.29; P = 0.01), and udder depth (-0.73±0.27 vs 0.82±0.27; P = 0.002), respectively. These results suggest that SL males and females are genomically similar to WT for the most important economic traits when descending from a SL dam and when compared as a single group. However, differences in type and health traits may occur if the females are compared alone.
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Voropayeva, Tetiana. "UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ELITE OF THE POST-COLONIAL ERA: CIVIL DIMENSION." Almanac of Ukrainian Studies, no. 22 (2017): 86–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2520-2626/2017.22.15.
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The article analyzes the Ukrainian national elite of the postcolonial era through the prism of citizenship. In recent years, the interest in elitist issues has been grown significantly. In modern socio-humanitarian field, the issues of the elites’ role in the modern world, the criteria for evaluating different elite’s activity, the measure of their citizenship, patriotism and professionalism are often discussed. Positive social transformations in many respects depend on the qualitative state of modern Ukrainian elites, on their socio-political maturity, on their willingness and ability to consolidate Ukrainian society, on the level of their responsibility for the fate of Ukraine. The author of the article follows to the concept of plurality of elites (based on the idea of distinguishing elite groups in the fields of their leading activities), which enables the allocation of political, ideological, publicadministrative, military, economic and engineering, scientific, spiritual, medical, educational (pedagogical), cultural-artistic, religious, informational, sporting, etc. In the post-colonial period, all these elite groups must become an integral elements of the Ukrainian national elite. In article the citizen is analyzed as a subject of qualitative social transformations in the post-colonial period, as well as civil practices of self-organization of society in the context of modern transformational processes in Ukraine by the article. The phenomenon of civic activity of an elitist person is analyzed in a theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The article deals with theoretical and methodological bases, structure and development peculiarities of the civil position of the personality. Civil society is seen as a cultural and historical type of society. The peculiarities of its formation and functioning in post-colonial Ukraine are analyzed. The author suggests his own periodization of the civil society development in Ukraine. So, the Ukrainian national elite would become the true subject of decolonization of Ukraine and positive social transformations only when all its representatives will begin to perform their core functions in a responsible way: culture-creating, state-building, nation-building, as well as consolidating, creative-transforming, forecasting, motivational, mobilizing, administrating, spiritual-ideological, identification, patriotic, humanistic, axiological, democratic, stabilizing, strategic, security, etc. The Ukrainian national elite must respond on time to the challenges posed by time (globalization, ecological, economic, technological, informational, etc.). The most important for modern Ukraine isn’t only the formation of an effective and responsible political elite that could consolidate other elite groups, directing their activities in a constructive way, but also ensuring its timely rotation, qualitative upgrading, de-oligarchy and overcoming its alienation from society. The national elite must carry out highquality legal, political, socio-economic, socio-cultural, technological, ecological and other transformations; to support the integrity and spiritual unity of society, the development of democracy and self-organization processes in Ukraine, the formation and approval of a civil-political and European civilization identity of Ukrainian citizens.
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Schneider, Aaron. "Response to Gerald M. Easter's review of State-Building and Tax Regimes in Central America." Perspectives on Politics 11, no. 4 (December 2013): 1146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592713002879.
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This valuable review of my book identifies core points and three potential areas of deepening: newly emerging elites, additional cases, and the challenge of fiscal sociology research in Central America. I address each in turn. As noted, contemporary elites share many characteristics with traditional elites, who are accurately described as incestuous, exclusive, and self-perpetuating. Some of the newly emerging elites are indeed drawn from the very families and networks that produced prior generations of elites. This evolution has been usefully described in ethnographic work by Central Americans such as Marta Casaús Arzú and North Americans such as Jeffrey Paige. They note that despite continuities, there are important differences in contemporary elites, perhaps because of the democratic regimes in which they operate, and especially because of their location atop transnationally integrated production processes. Still, while this structural position produces both conflicts and coincidences of interest with traditional elite actors, the precise pattern of intraelite relations is the outcome of contingent social processes captured by the dimensions of cohesion and dominance. Different combinations of cohesion and dominance in intraelite relations serve as a useful beginning to the analysis of tax-regime outcomes.
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Cukier-Syguła, Monika. "Circulation of the Silesian Political Elite - Case Study." Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 21, no. 1 (January 22, 2023): 143–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/21.1.143-159(2023).
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This paper is aimed to investigate the exchange index of the Silesian political elite in cities with county rights from the 2002 election through five elections until 2018. The author’s deliberations on the political elite exchange are based on the political elite circulation theory presented by Vilfredo Pareto. The key research question to be answered in this paper is: What is the exchange index of the local political elite’s representatives in cities with county rights in the Silesian province (PL “województwo” [voivodeship] – a local government administration unit in Poland).
A regression analysis was carried out to test the influence of the year of the term of office and city on the political elite’s exchange level. The list of councillors was transformed into a database using a Python algorithm. Further data operations (diagram plotting, model calculation) were performed in the R 4.0.5 statistical environment (R Core Team, 2020). The analyses proved that the observed values of the political elite exchange index were close to the mean or distributed homogenously around it. Chorzów was the only exception for which the political elite exchange index was significantly lower than the mean for each year. The mean index of “political elite exchange” was higher in 2002 than in other years, while the expected means of 2006, 2010, and 2014 differ insignificantly. The analyses revealed a relatively stable composition of the elites. The summary contains conclusions and recommendations.
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Sniderman, Paul M., Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russel, Philip E. Tetlock, and Markus Prior. "The Theory of Democratic Elitism Revisited: A Response to Vengroff and Morton." Canadian Journal of Political Science 33, no. 3 (September 2000): 569–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900000202.
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Two questions have dominated the modern study of politics. How do political systems become democratic? And how, supposing they have managed to become democratic, do they manage to remain so? As yet, there is no agreement on the answer to the first question. For a generation, however, there has been consensus on a core part of the answer to the second. In democratic polities, political elites have come to consensus in support of democratic rights, and in times of political stress this elite consensus has served as a bulwark protecting citizens' liberties.
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McKay, David. "Urban Development and Civic Community: A Comparative Analysis." British Journal of Political Science 26, no. 1 (January 1996): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400007390.
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This article attempts to explain why it is that in spite of being exposed to similar economic and social forces, cities in Europe and the United States have followed distinctive patterns of development. In continental Europe core urban areas have remained relatively resilient compared with equivalent areas in Britain and the United States. While economic and demographic factors are important explanatory factors, they cannot account for all of the important differences characteristic of the three urban systems, whether measured in quantitative or qualitative terms. It is argued that Continental cities are better protected because of a long-established elite commitment to specific urban areas which has its roots in the development of the modern state. This commitment is labelled ‘civic community’ which finds political expression through complex representational networks at the local, regional and national levels. In Britain no equivalent networks exist and civic community is low. As a result, elites have little commitment to core urban areas. In the United States, complex representational networks do exist, but they are not linked to a historically established elite commitment to core city areas. Instead, the economic market place determines the fortunes of central cities. It is concluded that these contrasting paths of development place considerable constraints on public policies designed to regenerate central city areas.
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Hetherington, Marc J. "Resurgent Mass Partisanship: The Role of Elite Polarization." American Political Science Review 95, no. 3 (September 2001): 619–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055401003045.
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For the most part, scholars who study American political parties in the electorate continue to characterize them as weak and in decline. Parties on the elite level, however, have experienced a resurgence over the last two decades. Such a divergence between elite behavior and mass opinion is curious, given that most models of public opinion place the behavior of elites at their core. In fact, I find that parties in the electorate have experienced a noteworthy resurgence over the last two decades. Greater partisan polarization in Congress has clarified the parties’ ideological positions for ordinary Americans, which in turn has increased party importance and salience on the mass level. Although parties in the 1990s are not as central to Americans as they were in the 1950s, they are far more important today than in the 1970s and 1980s. The party decline thesis is in need of revision.
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Isa, Daud, and Itai Himelboim. "A Social Networks Approach to Online Social Movement: Social Mediators and Mediated Content in #FreeAJStaff Twitter Network." Social Media + Society 4, no. 1 (January 2018): 205630511876080. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305118760807.
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The movement to free Al Jazeera journalists (#FreeAJStaff), imprisoned by Egyptian authorities, utilized social media over almost 2 years, between 2013 and 2015. #FreeAJStaff movement emerged as a unique blend of social movement and news media, taking place primarily on Twitter. This study applied a social networks approach to examine patterns of information flow within the #FreeAJStaff movement on Twitter: the emergence of information siloes and social mediators, who bridge them. Twitter data of 22 months were collected, resulting in social networks created by 71,326 users who included the hashtag #FreeAJStaff in their tweets, and 149,650 social ties (mentions and replies) among them. Analysis found social mediators to be primarily core movement actors (e.g., Al Jazeera) or elites (e.g., politicians), rather than grassroots actors. Furthermore, core actors exhibited more reciprocal relationship with other users than elite actors. In contrast, elite actors evoked denser exchange of messages. Finally, this study identified the mechanism used to create a Spillover Effect between social movements (such as #FreeAJStaff and #FreeShawkan), finding that mediated content, which travels across clusters, was more likely to include non-FreeAJStaff movement hashtags, than siloed content, which remains within a cluster. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Tushnet, Mark. "Varieties of populism." German Law Journal 20, no. 3 (April 2019): 382–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/glj.2019.27.
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AbstractContemporary discussions of populism elide important distinctions between the ways in which populist leaders and movements respond to the failures of elites to follow through on the promises associated with international social welfare constitutionalism. After laying out the political economy of populisms’ origins, this Article describes the relation between populisms and varieties of liberalism, and specifically the relation between populisms and judicial independence understood as a “veto point” occupied by the elites that populists challenge. It then distinguishes left-wing populisms’ acceptance of the social welfare commitments of late twentieth century liberalism and its rejection of some settled constitutional arrangements that, in populists’ views, obstruct the accomplishment of those commitments. It concludes with a description of the core ethnonationalism of right-wing populism, which sometimes contingently appears in left-wing populisms but is not one the latter’s core components.
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Shalaby, Marwa, and Abdullah Aydogan. "Elite-Citizen Linkages and Issue Congruency under Competitive Authoritarianism." Parliamentary Affairs 73, no. 1 (October 5, 2018): 66–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsy036.
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AbstractTo what extent, if any, do the issue priorities of elites overlap with that of the public under competitive authoritarianism? While previous studies examined the overlap of the priorities of elites and ordinary citizens in democracies, our knowledge is still limited when we move beyond these contexts. This article aims to contribute to the democratisation and legislative politics literature by testing congruence of issue priorities under competitive authoritarianism. Analysing more than 10,000 legislative texts from the 2012 Moroccan parliament, we found high levels of congruence between the issue priorities of legislators and citizens, especially in non-legislative activities (i.e. parliamentary questions). Moreover, contrary to earlier studies on clientelism and citizen-elite linkage in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, our results demonstrate a higher correlation between the priorities of the two largest political parties and the mass public, when compared with those parties’ core supporters.
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Manzanilla, Linda R. "Cooperation and tensions in multiethnic corporate societies using Teotihuacan, Central Mexico, as a case study." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 30 (March 16, 2015): 9210–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419881112.
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In this paper, I address the case of a corporate society in Central Mexico. After volcanic eruptions triggered population displacements in the southern Basin of Mexico during the first and fourth centuries A.D., Teotihuacan became a multiethnic settlement. Groups from different backgrounds settled primarily on the periphery of the metropolis; nevertheless, around the core, intermediate elites actively fostered the movement of sumptuary goods and the arrival of workers from diverse homelands for a range of specialized tasks. Some of these skilled craftsmen acquired status and perhaps economic power as a result of the dynamic competition among neighborhoods to display the most lavish sumptuary goods, as well as to manufacture specific symbols of identity that distinguished one neighborhood from another, such as elaborate garments and headdresses. Cotton attire worn by the Teotihuacan elite may have been one of the goods that granted economic importance to neighborhood centers such as Teopancazco, a compound that displayed strong ties to the Gulf Coast where cotton cloth was made. The ruling elite controlled raw materials that came from afar whereas the intermediate elite may have been more active in providing other sumptuary goods: pigments, cosmetics, slate, greenstone, travertine, and foreign pottery. The contrast between the corporate organization at the base and top of Teotihuacan society and the exclusionary organization of the neighborhoods headed by the highly competitive intermediate elite introduced tensions that set the stage for Teotihuacan’s collapse.
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Bittersohl, Bernd, Chiara Benedikter, Alexander Franz, Tobias Hesper, Christoph Schleich, Gerald Antoch, Harish S. Hosalkar, Rüdiger Krauspe, and Christoph Zilkens. "Elite Rowers Demonstrate Consistent Patterns of Hip Cartilage Damage Compared With Matched Controls." Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 477, no. 5 (May 2019): 1007–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/corr.0000000000000576.
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Kitschelt, Herbert. "Linkages between Citizens and Politicians in Democratic Polities." Comparative Political Studies 33, no. 6-7 (September 2000): 845–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001041400003300607.
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Research on democratic party competition in the formal spatial tradition of Downs and the comparative-historical tradition of Lipset and Rokkan assumes that linkages of accountability and responsiveness between voters and political elites work through politicians’ programmatic appeals and policy achievements. This ignores, however, alternative voter-elite linkages through the personal charisma of political leaders and, more important, selective material incentives in networks of direct exchange (clientelism). In light of the diversity of linkage mechanisms appearing in new democracies and changing linkages in established democracies, this article explores theories of linkage choice. It first develops conceptual definitions of charismatic, clientelist, and programmatic linkages between politicians and electoral constituencies. It then asks whether politicians face a trade-off or mutual reinforcement in employing linkage mechanisms. The core section of the article details developmentalist, statist, institutional, political-economic, and cultural-ideological theories of citizen-elite linkage formation in democracies, showing that none of the theories is fully encompassing. The final section considers empirical measurement problems in comparative research on linkage.
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Stevens, Christopher John, Megan L. Ross, Julien D. Périard, Brent S. Vallance, and Louise M. Burke. "Core Temperature Responses to Elite Racewalking Competition." International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance 15, no. 6 (July 1, 2020): 892–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2019-0397.
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Purpose: The core temperature responses during exercise and effects of different cooling strategies on endurance performance under heat stress have been investigated in recreational athletes. This investigation aimed to determine peak rectal temperatures during elite racewalking competitions and to detail any cooling strategies used. Methods: Rectal temperature was measured in 14 heat-adapted elite/preelite race walkers (9 females) via a telemetric capsule across 4 outdoor events, including the 2018 Commonwealth Games (race 1: 20 km, 25°C, 74% relative humidity [RH], n = 2) and 3 International Association of Athletics Federations–sanctioned 10-km events (race 2: 19°C, 34% RH, n = 2; race 3: 29°C, 47% RH, n = 14; and race 4: 23°C, 72% RH, n = 11). All athletes completed race 3, and a subsample completed the other events. Their use of cooling strategies and symptoms of heat illness were determined. Results: Peak rectal temperatures >40°C were observed in all events. The highest rectal temperature observed during an event was 41.2°C. These high rectal temperatures were observed without concomitant heat illness, with the exception of cramping in one athlete during race 1. The rectal temperatures tended to reach a steady state in the second half of the 20-km event, but no steady state was observed in the 10-km events. The athletes used cooling strategies in race 1 only, implementing different combinations of cold-water immersion, ice-slurry ingestion, ice-towel application, ice-vest application, and facial water spraying. Conclusions: Elite/preelite race walkers experience rectal temperatures >40°C during competition despite only moderate-warm conditions, and even when precooling and midcooling strategies are applied.
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Vinkler, Péter. "Core journals and elite subsets in scientometrics." Scientometrics 121, no. 1 (August 21, 2019): 241–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03199-5.
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Ibsen, Christian Lyhne, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, and Anton Grau Larsen. "Quiet Politics, Trade Unions, and the Political Elite Network: The Case of Denmark." Politics & Society 49, no. 1 (February 8, 2021): 43–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032329220985748.
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Pepper Culpepper’s seminal Quiet Politics and Business Power has revitalized the study of when business elites can shape policies away from public scrutiny. This article takes the concept of quiet politics to a new, and surprising, set of actors: trade union leaders. Focusing on the case of Denmark, it argues that quiet politics functions through political elite networks and that this way of doing politics favors a particular kind of corporatist coordination between the state, capital, and labor. Rather than showing macrocorporatist coordination between the two classes and governments, it identifies representatives of business and labor that hold privileged positions in political elite networks. Representatives of segments are found in industries important for the Danish economy, specifically, the exporting manufacturing sector. Being at the core of the network requires not only a key position in the Danish economy but also an understanding that politics is often done best without politicians and voters. The analysis shows that trade union and business association representatives work closely on a wide number of issues through quiet politics, using their extensive network to broker and foster agreement between different stakeholders.
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Michael, Amy R. "Histological Analysis of Dentition in Rockshelter Burials from Two Sites in Central Belize." Dental Anthropology Journal 29, no. 1 (August 25, 2018): 32–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26575/daj.v29i1.33.
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Objectives: Investigations of dental health in the Maya region have frequently focused on individualsburied at urban sites rather than in peripheral or intermediary zones. This study presents a dental analysisof a different type of mortuary sample, those persons buried in two non-elite peripheral rockshelters, in CentralBelize using a combined dental micro- and macrodefect approach to interpret health experience. Materials and Methods: A total of 22 teeth (permanent mandibular canines, and mandibular and maxillarythird molars) from the two sites were assessed for dental caries, enamel hypoplasias, and Wilson bands. Themaximum and minimum ages of microdefect formation for each tooth was calculated. Results: Carious lesions were infrequently represented in the sample, while linear enamel hypoplasias wereexpressed in less than half the sample. Wilson bands, conversely, were present in nearly every tooth indicatingthat the rockshelter populations experienced more acute stress. Individuals interred at Caves Branch Rockshelterwere affected earlier in life based on analysis of mandibular canines. Conclusion: Non-elites buried in rockshelters in Central Belize had similar dental health experiences whencompared with individuals buried at elite centers. At least in terms of oral health, peripheral communities in thisarea were not adversely affected by their distance from urban core sites
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Jewell, Evan. "(Re)moving the Masses: Colonisation as Domestic Displacement in the Roman Republic." Humanities 8, no. 2 (March 28, 2019): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8020066.
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Metaphors move—and displace—people. This paper starts from this premise, focusing on how elites have deployed metaphors of water and waste to form a rhetorical consensus around the displacement of non-elite citizens in ancient Roman contexts, with reference to similar discourses in the contemporary Global North and Brazil. The notion of ‘domestic displacement’—the forced movement of citizens within their own sovereign territory—elucidates how these metaphors were used by elite citizens, such as Cicero, to mark out non-elite citizens for removal from the city of Rome through colonisation programmes. In the elite discourse of the late Republican and early Augustan periods, physical proximity to and figurative equation with the refuse of the city repeatedly signals the low social and legal status of potential colonists, while a corresponding metaphor of ‘draining’ expresses the elite desire to displace these groups to colonial sites. The material outcome of these metaphors emerges in the non-elite demographic texture of Julius Caesar’s colonists, many of whom were drawn from the plebs urbana and freedmen. An elite rationale, detectable in the writings of Cicero, Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and others, underpins the notion of Roman colonisation as a mechanism of displacement. On this view, the colony served to alleviate the founding city—Rome—of its surplus population, politically volatile elements, and socially marginalised citizens, and in so doing, populate the margins of its empire too. Romulus’ asylum, read anew as an Alban colony, serves as one prototype for this model of colonisation and offers a contrast to recent readings that have deployed the asylum as an ethical example for contemporary immigration and asylum seeker policy. The invocation of Romulus’ asylum in 19th century debates about the Australian penal colonies further illustrates the dangers of appropriating the asylum towards an ethics of virtue. At its core, this paper drills down into the question of Roman colonists’ volition, considering the evidence for their voluntary and involuntary movement to a colonial site and challenging the current understanding of this movement as a straightforward, series of voluntary ‘mass migrations’. In recognising the agency wielded by non-elite citizens as prospective colonists, this paper contends that Roman colonisation, when understood as a form of domestic displacement, opens up another avenue for coming to grips with the dynamics of ‘popular’ politics in the Republican period.
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Hornung, Johanna, and Nils C. Bandelow. "The programmatic elite in German health policy: Collective action and sectoral history." Public Policy and Administration 35, no. 3 (September 13, 2018): 247–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076718798887.
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Do biographies of policy elites make a difference for the policy process and output? Leading theories of the policy process focus on other explanations that mostly have been derived from peculiarities of American politics. This article transfers a French approach to the study of policy processes in German health policy. It emphasizes how this French perspective presents an added value in the form of the programmatic action framework. At its core, the programmatic action framework proposes that programmatic elites in policy sectors form on the basis of shared biographical intersections and connect to a joint program. Applying the programmatic action framework to the German case of a programmatic elite in health policy that dominated the last quarter-century of major reforms, the analysis reveals the explanatory power of the programmatic action framework in other political contexts. A transfer of the programmatic action framework to other countries and policy issues, however, must respect the specificities of the political system and policy subsystem. In Germany, the specific role of self-governance enhances the analytical categories of the programmatic action framework, moving beyond the traditional conflict between custodians and austerians of state.
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KEELE, LUKE, and JENNIFER WOLAK. "Value Conflict and Volatility in Party Identification." British Journal of Political Science 36, no. 4 (August 25, 2006): 671–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123406000354.
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Are some people more prone to instabilities in partisanship due to the ways they rank and organize their core values? We investigate the mechanisms of partisan volatility, considering whether instabilities reflect value conflict and ambivalence. Our expectation is that when the basic values of the American ethos come into conflict in elite discourse, citizens have difficulty reconciling their own value arrangement with that of elites, resulting in greater partisan volatility. To this end, we use several heteroscedastic regression and ordered probit models to explore whether the conflict of competing values explains the response variance and instability of individual-level partisanship and ideology over time. To construct measures of value conflict, we rely on data from the 1992, 1994 and 1996 American National Election Studies. We find that, while instabilities in partisan identification reflect low information for some, the competition of core values generates volatility in partisan affiliations for others. In deliberating the value tradeoffs of politics, people may be of two minds even about central beliefs such as party identification.
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Kotnik, Vlado. "Fashion, Media and the Elite: Ethnography of the Exploitation of the Slovenian Transitional Media Promenade." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 8, no. 2 (February 27, 2016): 471. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v8i2.7.
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The article is an attempt to represent a particular social practice, which has, due to its currency and ubiquity in the media as of late, gained a surprisingly naturalized legitimacy within the Slovenian mediascape. After Slovenia gained its independence in 1991, two parallel processes could be observed. On the one hand, the state itself was searching for a new identity which it could project both inward and outward, it was looking for a way to communicate the national tale of itself through numerous ruling discourses of politics, economy, tourism, sports and culture. On the other hand, the transitional ruling class and the emergent social force of postsocialist rich, chosen and owners needed new elements in the process of social differentiation. Fashion became one of the reinvented refuges or simply “discoveries” of the new Slovenian political, economic and media elite, which used the media to establish a visual order of transitional social differentiation. At the core of fashion as a mode of social distinction is a ceremonialized and spectacularized display of cultural differences within a society. Elites have been caught in the social obligation of constant invention of novelty, in order to create the necessary social difference from the non-elite or the masses. Namely, difference itself has no wider social value if there is no one to notice or desire it. This article methodologically authenticates the conclusions through the analysis of specific media perceptions and an ethnography conducted among actors on these levels: producers of fashion as social distinction (the elite) vs reproducers of fashion as social distinction (the media) vs consumers of fashion as social distinction (the audience).
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Jauregui, Carla, Anastacio Espejel, and Arturo Hernández. "Valuation and willingness to pay for corn on the cob consumers in Mexico." Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad del Zulia 38, no. 2 (March 13, 2021): 441–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.47280/revfacagron(luz).v38.n2.12.
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The corn is a traditional food in Mexico that has been influenced by the current dynamics of the markets, causing the replacement of creole varieties by improved varieties and hybrids. Foods are characterized by a set of attributes that can be associated with a subjective evaluation, from which it is possible to approximate a utility function and determine elements for its evaluation. The objective of this work was to evaluate the Mexican consumer's willingness to pay for various types of corn and to determine which of them have a higher valuation. The methodology was based on a contingent valuation study, with a total of 356 consumers selected by snowball sampling (95% reliability and 7% error) and answering a questionnaire designed in Google forms, addressing consumer sociodemographic information, characteristics corn and their willingness to pay. The willingness to pay extra for corn was significantly influenced when the consumer determined that it is important to know if the corn comes from Creole or modified seed and if it has any certification. Creole and imported corn obtained a greater willingness to pay, giving higher valuation to these products. In conclusion, the present work explores the economic valuation of corn, where significant factors can be used to induce an effect on consumers, particularly in the revaluation of creole corn.
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GÜRSOY, HILAL, and UMUT CANLI. "Identification of elite performance characteristics specific to anthropometric characteristics, athletic skills and motor competencies of combat athletes." Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity 13, no. 4 (December 31, 2021): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.29359/bjhpa.13.4.06.
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Background: Knowing all the features required for elite performance in sports disciplines under the name of combat sports is among the most important parameters for discipline-specific talent identification and selection. Material and methods: The research group consists of male and female athletes within the age range of 12–17 who are licensed in taekwondo, karate, judo, and wrestling. A total of 70 athletes, 21 elite and 49 non-elite athletes, participated in the study voluntarily. Anthropometric, athletic and motor competency tests were applied to determine the elite performance elements of the groups. Results: Comparing the elite and non-elite athletes, statistically significant differences were found in favor of the elite group (p<0.05) in terms of height, sitting height, body weight, speed, core endurance, grip strength, upper extremity strength, anaerobic power, KTK jumping sideways and hopping. There was no statistical difference between the groups in terms of fat percentage, BMI, agility, vertical jump, flexibility, KTK moving sideways and walking backwards values (p>0.05). Conclusions: There seem to be important distinctions between athletes who reach the national peak and those who do not, in terms of height, sitting height, body weight, speed, anaerobic power, grip strength, upper extremity and core strength, as well as motor competency related to anaerobic power.
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Tuminez, Astrid S. "Nationalism, Ethnic Pressures, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union." Journal of Cold War Studies 5, no. 4 (September 2003): 81–136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/152039703322483765.
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Nationalism and ethnic pressures contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union, but they were not the primary cause. A qualified exception to this argument is Russian elite separatist nationalism, led by Boris Yeltsin, which had a direct impact on Soviet disintegration. This article provides an overview of Soviet policy vis-à-vis nationalities, discusses the surge of nationalism and ethnic pressures in the Soviet Union in 1988–1991, and shows how ethnic unrest and separatist movements weakened the Soviet state. It also emphasizes that the demise of the Soviet Union resulted mainly from three other key factors: 1) Mikhail Gorbachev's failure to establish a viable compact between center and periphery in the early years of his rule; 2) Gorbachev's general unwillingness to use decisive force to quell ethnic and nationalist challenges; and 3) the defection of a core group of Russian elites from the Soviet regime.
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Fairbairn, Jessica R., and Kellie C. Huxel Bliven. "Incidence of Shoulder Injury in Elite Wheelchair Athletes Differ Between Sports: A Critically Appraised Topic." Journal of Sport Rehabilitation 28, no. 3 (March 1, 2019): 294–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsr.2017-0360.
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Clinical Scenario: Until recently, injury epidemiology data on elite Paralympic athletes were limited. Current data suggest high rates of shoulder injury in wheelchair athletes. Differences in shoulder injury rates between sports have not been reported in this population. Clinical Question: Is the incidence of shoulder injury in elite wheelchair athletes different between sports? Summary of Key Findings: Shoulder injury rates are high in elite wheelchair athletes, particularly in sports such as field events and fencing that require a stable base (eg, trunk, core control) from which to perform. Wheelchair racing requires repetitive motions that contribute to shoulder injuries, but rates are lower than field sports and fencing. Wheelchair curling and sledge hockey have low shoulder injury risk. Clinical Bottom Line: Shoulder injury rates vary based on sport in elite wheelchair athletes. In addition to incorporating shoulder complex specific rehabilitation for overuse shoulder injuries, clinicians should focus on core and trunk stabilization in elite wheelchair athletes competing in sports, such as field events and fencing. Strength of Recommendation: Grade C evidence exists that reports shoulder injury rates among elite wheelchair athletes differ based on sport participation.
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Prickett, Stacey, and Steriani Tsintziloni. "Dancing National Ideologies: The Athens Festival in the Cold War." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 2016 (2016): 306–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cor.2016.41.
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The international Athens Festival was prominent in shaping a cosmopolitan identity and openness within Greek society. During its first decade (1955–1966), the Festival also functioned as a significant form of cultural diplomacy. Audiences were exposed to elite dance companies from nations such as the U.S., which functioned ideologically and diplomatically. Our presentation interrogates the construction of a dance field in Greece and the shaping of aesthetic values, contextualized within socio-cultural tensions. Research exposes imperatives of a rising superpower consolidating its position, revealing multiple types of influence on Greece and other nations in a battle of political wills with the USSR.
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Leutert, Wendy. "The Political Mobility of China's Central State-Owned Enterprise Leaders." China Quarterly 233 (January 8, 2018): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741017001412.
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AbstractExtensive research on the political mobility of Chinese officials at central, provincial, municipal and county levels has yet to fully consider an important group of elites – the leaders of China's core central state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper presents the first systematic analysis of their political mobility between 2003 and 2012 using an original biographical dataset with 864 leader-year observations. Under the Hu Jintao administration, these leaders emerged as a distinctive group within China's top political elite: increasingly well-educated but lacking experience beyond state-owned industry, with both lengthening leadership tenures and years of previous work in their companies. Instead of a “revolving door” through which these individuals rotate routinely between state-owned business and the Party-state to positions of successively higher rank, a top executive posting was most often a “one-way exit” to retirement. Of those who advanced politically, virtually all were transferred laterally along three career pathways with little overlap: to other core central SOEs; provinces; and the centre. This paper underscores the theoretical importance of disaggregating types of lateral transfer to research on Chinese officials’ political mobility and the cadre management system.
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Zurek, Grzegorz, Agata Goraczko, Alina Żurek, Maciej Lachowicz, and Katarzyna Kujawa. "Restored Life of Elite Athletes after Spinal Cord Injury." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 14 (July 11, 2022): 8441. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148441.
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects every aspect of human life: medical, psychological, social, material. People with SCI face a variety of secondary conditions (e.g., chronic pain, urinary tract infections, cognitive impairment) that place a significant emotional burden, resulting in an increased risk of depression and reduced quality of life. The purpose of this study was to better understand the coping strategies and to identify factors that promote or hinder the successful adjustment of elite athletes after SCI. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight top athletes after spinal cord injury. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and then thematically analyzed using MAXQDA software. Thematic analysis identified the following categories: coping, athletic identity, and adjustment. The results of the study indicate that loss of functional ability does not cause loss of athlete identity. Elite athletes live a life consistent with this identity, attempting to maintain it despite the loss of physical fitness. Involvement in sports provides meaning and is a positive factor in the process of disability acceptance, which is essential in the process of adjustment to injury and also provides group belonging.
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Lupton, Robert N., Steven M. Smallpage, and Adam M. Enders. "Values and Political Predispositions in the Age of Polarization: Examining the Relationship between Partisanship and Ideology in the United States, 1988–2012." British Journal of Political Science 50, no. 1 (December 19, 2017): 241–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123417000370.
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The correlation between ideology and partisanship in the mass public has increased in recent decades amid a climate of persistent and growing elite polarization. Given that core values shape subsequent political predispositions, as well as the demonstrated asymmetry of elite polarization, this article hypothesizes that egalitarianism and moral traditionalism moderate the relationship between ideology and partisanship in that the latter relationship will have increased over time only among individuals who maintain conservative value orientations. An analysis of pooled American National Election Studies surveys from 1988 to 2012 supports this hypothesis. The results enhance scholarly understanding of the role of core values in shaping mass belief systems and testify to the asymmetric nature and mass public reception of elite cues among liberals and conservatives.
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Maroon, Joseph C., Hikmat El-Kadi, Adnan A. Abla, Daniel A. Wecht, Jeffrey Bost, John Norwig, and Tim Bream. "Cervical neurapraxia in elite athletes: evaluation and surgical treatment." Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 6, no. 4 (April 2007): 356–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/spi.2007.6.4.13.
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Object Neurapraxia, transient posttraumatic paralysis of the motor and/or sensory tracts in the spinal cord, may be a career-ending event in an athlete. Management, rehabilitation, and return-to-play decisions remain controversial. Methods Five elite football players were evaluated after experiencing episodes of neurapraxia. All patients experienced bilateral paresthesias—three in all four extremities and two in the upper extremities—lasting a few minutes to more than 24 hours. Transient motor deficits occurred in two individuals but caused no permanent sequelae. Neuroimaging confirmed the presence of herniated discs, focal cord compression, and no parenchymal changes in all cases. All patients underwent anterior cervical microdiscectomy and fusion, and cervical plates were placed in four. After aggressive rehabilitation and confirmation of fusion ranging from 9 weeks to 8 months postoperatively, the players were allowed to return to active play. Two of the players developed recurrent career-ending disc herniations, one above and the other below the fusion level. One player required repeated spinal cord decompression. Conclusions Neurologically intact athletes with focal cord compression due to a single-level herniated disc may safely return to football after undergoing decompressive surgery and confirmation of fusion. It appears, however, that there may be an increased chance of repeated herniation above or below a fused level.
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Robie, David, and Shailendra Singh. "EDITORIAL: Captive to a political elite." Pacific Journalism Review 19, no. 1 (May 31, 2013): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v19i1.235.
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This edition of Pacific Journalism Review is themed on the Media and Democracy in the South Pacific symposium held in Suva in September 2012. Hosted by the University of the South Pacific, the conference has provided most of the core papers for this issue, marking close to two decades of an independent research role in the region by this journal. The 2012 symposium followed two previous conferences held at AUT University in Auckland and USP in Suva in December 2010, covering topics ranging from investigative journalism and technology, peace journalism, democracy, social cohesion and various related themes.
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Goraczko, Agata, Grzegorz Zurek, Maciej Lachowicz, and Alina Zurek. "Purpose in Life of Elite Athletes after Spinal Cord Injury." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 11 (May 23, 2021): 5563. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115563.
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Background: Searching for the meaning of human existence is man’s fundamental orientation. People are free to find meaning in their lives, and while they are not always free to choose the conditions of life, they are free to choose their attitude toward the conditions in which they find themselves. When people experience an unchangeable situation, the most important thing is the attitude they take toward it. This study aimed to identify the sense of meaning in life among elite athletes after a spinal cord injury (SCI) and to analyze the different aspects contributing to this domain. Methods: The study involved five athletes with at least national-level achievements in sports prior to a SCI. The study consisted of an interview using a communicator and filling out two online questionnaires—a personal questionnaire and the Purpose in Life Scale. Results: Analyzing the quantitative results, four participants achieved results indicating a high sense of meaning in life, while one participant achieved a significantly lower result. Conclusions: What affects one’s purpose in life is not so much the objective physical limitation but how much physicality one perceives to have lost as a result of the injury. Elite athletes stay involved in the sporting environment, which prevents the loss of purpose and maintains a sense of meaning at a high level. Both telling the story of your own illness and listening to the stories of others help the process of self-healing.
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SOTCHENKO, V. S. "CHARACTERISTICS OF ELITE CORN LINES BY MAIN ECONOMICALLY VALUABLE CHARACTERISTICS." News of the Kabardin-Balkar Scientific Center of RAS 2, no. 100 (2021): 60–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.35330/1991-6639-2021-2-100-60-67.
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Taylor, Lee, Bryna CR Chrismas, Christopher J. Stevens, Aaron J. Coutts, and Mitchell J. Henderson. "Elite Female Rugby Sevens Tournament Match-Play - Core Temperature Changes." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 52, no. 7S (July 2020): 968. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000686088.63669.46.
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Öztan, Ramazan Hakkı. "POINT OF NO RETURN? PROSPECTS OF EMPIRE AFTER THE OTTOMAN DEFEAT IN THE BALKAN WARS (1912–13)." International Journal of Middle East Studies 50, no. 1 (January 31, 2018): 65–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743817000940.
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AbstractIn late 1912, the Ottoman imperial armies suffered a series of quick defeats at the hands of the Balkan League, comprising Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro, resulting in significant territorial losses. The Ottoman defeat in the Balkan Wars (1912–13) often stands at the center of teleological accounts of a neat and linear transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. These teleological readings see the Ottoman defeat as a historical turning point when Ottoman elites turned nationalist, discovered Anatolia, and embraced the Turkish core. This article contends that such approaches frame late Ottoman history in anticipation of the later reality of nation-states, and overlook the messy and historically complex nature of the collapse of empire and the emergence of the nation-state. Although the defeat was certainly shocking for the Ottoman ruling elite, I argue that it initiated an era of debate rather than one of broad consensus. Similarly, the defeat neither marked the end of the Ottoman Empire nor heralded the coming of the Turkish Republic, but rather reinvigorated the Ottoman imperialist project.
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Wang, Bo. "CORE STRENGTHENING IMPACT ON SOCCER TRAINING OF HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS." Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte 28, no. 6 (December 2022): 662–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1517-8692202228062022_0106.
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ABSTRACT Introduction The strengthening of the CORE is one of the essential methods for physical conditioning on elite soccer players, but there are no analyses on the impact of this method on young players. Objective Analyze the strength training impact on the CORE in high school soccer players. Methods This article uses mathematical statistics to study the application of strengthening of the CORE in soccer training for athletes. Based on these results, the role and influence of CORE strengthening training on skills in collegiate soccer training are analyzed. Results After implementing CORE strengthening, both athletes’ fitness indicators and soccer skills were significantly improved. Conclusion Strengthening the CORE can improve players’ stability and balance and contribute to greater effectiveness in physical training. Evidence Level II; Therapeutic Studies - Investigating the result.
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Saleem, M., Z. Sarwar, M. Saad, I. Zahoor, N. Ahmad, and A. Riaz. "193 Effect of clinical metritis on oocyte recovery, oocyte quality, and early invitro developmental competence of embryos in Bos indicus dairy cattle." Reproduction, Fertility and Development 32, no. 2 (2020): 225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rdv32n2ab193.
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Unhygienic practices at the time of parturition or AI lead to uterine infections. The uterine infections ultimately result in genetic drain by culling the elite animals. The invivo developmental competence of embryos is compromised in clinically metritic animals. The genetic potential of problematic females could be harvested by invitro embryo production (IVEP). Therefore, the objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of clinical metritis on oocyte recovery, oocyte quality, and early invitro developmental competence of embryos in Bos indicus dairy cattle. This experiment was carried out from December 2017 to April 2018. Ovaries were collected from a local abattoir (Bos indicus; 5- to 8-year-old dairy cattle, body condition score 2.75±0.25, mixed parity). These ovaries (n=982) were divided into two groups: (1) clinically metritic (n=184), and (2) healthy (n=798), based upon the presence or absence of pus in the uterine lumen. Oocytes were aspirated from follicles using an 18G needle attached to a 10-mL syringe. Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were categorized into A, B, C, and D grades based on the number of layers of cumulus cells and integrity of ooplasm. The oocytes of grades A and B were subsequently transferred in groups (10/group) in four-well plates containing 100-μL droplets. The droplets with oocytes were covered with prewarmed mineral oil and incubated for 24h at 38.5°C, 5% CO2, and 95% relative humidity. The oocytes were evaluated for IVM on the basis of cumulus expansion. Frozen semen was thawed and prepared using the sperm swim-up procedure for each group. Spermatozoa and oocytes were incubated together for a period of 18h. The presumptive zygotes were invitro cultured for 4 days in a CO2 incubator under similar culture conditions. The cleavage rate, 4-cell, and 8-cell stages were recorded on Days 2, 3, and 4 after the day of insemination, respectively. Data on oocyte recovery, oocyte quality, IVM, cleavage rate, and 4-cell and 8-cell stages were analysed by Chi-squared test using SPSS software (version 20; IBM Corp.) for Windows. Results demonstrated that recovery rate was lower (63.8% vs. 71.7%; P<0.05) in clinically metritic compared with healthy cattle. Similarly, oocytes of grade A and B quality were lower (41.0% vs. 51.1%; P<0.05), whereas those of C and D quality were higher (59.0% vs. 48.9%; P<0.05) in clinically metritic compared with the healthy group. Moreover, 4-cell (38.2% vs. 54.8%) and 8-cell stage embryos (11.3% vs. 29.1%), were lower (P<0.05) in the clinically metritic compared with the healthy group, respectively. However, maturation rate and cleavage rate did not differ (P>0.05) between groups. In conclusion, metritis in slaughterhouse ovaries negatively affects oocyte recovery rate, oocyte quality, and early invitro developmental competence of embryos in Bos indicus dairy cattle.
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Toolis, Tom, and Kerry McGawley. "The Effect of Compression Garments on Performance in Elite Winter Biathletes." International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 145–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2019-0790.
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Purpose: To evaluate the effects of wearing upper- and lower-body compression garments on cross-country skiing performance in elite winter biathletes. Methods: A total of 7 senior biathletes (4 men and 3 women) from the Swedish national team performed 2 exercise trials in a randomized and counterbalanced order, wearing either commercially available upper- and lower-body compression garments (COMP) or a standard winter-biathlon racing suit (CON). In each trial, the athletes roller-skied on a customized treadmill, completing a time trial simulating the skiing duration of a biathlon sprint race, followed by a time-to-exhaustion test designed to elicit exhaustion within ∼60 to 90 seconds. Heart rate, blood lactate concentration, rating of perceived exertion, thermal sensation, and thermal comfort were monitored throughout each trial, while muscle soreness was measured up to 48 hours after each trial. Results: Pressure exerted by the clothing was significantly higher at all anatomical sites for COMP compared with CON (P ≤ .002). Wearing COMP led to small positive effects on time-trial (d = 0.31) and time-to-exhaustion test (d = 0.31) performances compared with CON, but these differences were not statistically significant (P > .05). No significant differences were found for any physiological (heart rate or blood lactate concentration) or subjective (rating of perceived exertion, thermal sensation, thermal comfort, or muscle soreness) responses between COMP and CON (P > .05). Conclusion: Wearing COMP during maximal cross-country skiing may have small but worthwhile beneficial effects on performance for some individuals. Due to individual variation, athletes are advised to test COMP prior to competition.
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Ban, Cornel. "Organizing State Intervention in an Authoritarian State: From Fascist Import Substitution to French Developmentalism in Postwar Spain." Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia 66, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 5–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2021-0001.
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Abstract The economics of the authoritarian regime of Francisco Franco in Spain are often narrowed to a bespoke form of fascism. This paper suggests that this regime’s rather inchoate economic regimes were in fact a series of experiments that blended varieties of statism and liberalism. Thus, a form of import-substitution industrialization colored by Italian fascist features (1939-1959) lasted fifteen years longer in Spain than in the country of importation. In contrast, a local version of French developmentalism (1964-1975) was largely in sync with what was being tried in France at the time. However, this French developmentalist template imbued with fiscal Keynesianism was layered with liberal economic projects, particularly in the monetary policy arena. But while fascist import substitution (the so called “autarky”) collapsed mostly due to its internal problems, Spain’s translation of French developmentalism was associated with economic growth and was only extensively damaged by the crisis of the global capitalist core ushered by the 1973 oil shock. Critically, while in the symbolic terrain of Spanish politics the liberal economic projects that accompanied the local translation of French developmentalism were always associated with reformist and even “dissident” elite circles, the stigma of developmentalism’ association with the core elites of authoritarianism removed developmentalism as a source of alternatives to the liberal economic reforms ushered by Spain’s transition to liberal democracy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.