Best of both worlds or refusal to comply? The rich kids of Tehran on Instagram

ABSTRACT

This article offers a textual analysis and semiotic reading of the Rich Kids of Tehran's (RKOT’s) Instagram page. Contributing to scholarship on Iranian youth media practices, this article interrogates how the RKOT navigate urban and rural space to engage in everyday processes of resistance against global and local systemic oppression. Grounding their visual representations on Instagram in historical and cultural context, the author questions how and when quotidian actions are transformed into political transgressions when posted on social media. This article emphasizes the RKOT's agency in shaping their brand by analyzing representations of gender performance, intertextuality, and national identity on Instagram.     

Sex differences in elbow and wrist joint loading during the cartwheel and round off with different hand positions performed by young gymnasts

The aim of the study was to determine if sex differences exist in the key elbow and wrist joint injury risk factors during different cartwheel (CW) and round-off (RO) techniques performed by young male and female artistic gymnasts. Sixteen active young gymnasts (8 males and 8 females) performed 30 successful trials of CW and RO with three different hand positions (parallel (10), T-shape (10) and reverse (10)). Synchronised kinematic and kinetic data were collected for each trial. Two-way repeated measures ANOVA (3 × 2, technique × sex) and effect-sizes (ES) were used for statistical analysis. In conclusion, female gymnasts exhibited greater normalised peak vertical ground reaction forces (VGRF), elbow and wrist compression forces and elbow internal adduction moments during CW and RO skills compared with male gymnasts. In both sexes, the parallel and reverse techniques increased peak VGRF, elbow and wrist compression forces and the elbow internal adduction moment. Increased elbow flexion resulted in decreased peak VGRF, elbow compression forces and elbow internal adduction moment. Injury risk factors including elbow extension and internal adduction moment with axial compression force suggest that a CW and RO in reverse and parallel techniques can be hazardous especially for young female gymnasts.     

The effect of number of siblings and birth order on educational attainment: Empirical Evidence from Chinese General Social Survey

Data from China demonstrate that the effect of the number of siblings on education is restricted by many factors, such as children’s gender, urban or rural household registration, whether there is only one child, the birth order of children within the family, and parents’ status. Chinese families have significant preferences for the eldest son and the youngest son. Moreover, research based on the natural experiment and instrumental variable approach suggests that market-oriented reform of education has increased the cost of family education expenditures since China’s reform and opening up, which further aggravates the negative impact on education of having many siblings in an urban setting.     

陶渊明与苏东坡饮酒之异同

从文化、心理、个性的角度我们可以很好地把握陶渊明与苏东坡饮酒的异同。首先 ,他们都重视以酒为咀嚼生活的媒介 ;其次 ,他们都重视饮酒时的细微心理感受 ;再次 ,由于饮酒中历史感的表现不同 ,产生了不同的审美风貌 :一个显得异常深厚 ,一个显得逸气纵横 ;另外 ,由于渊明和东坡对出处尺度把握之参差 ,源于儒道在二人思想结构的比例的相异性 ,造成渊明与东坡在饮酒上的情感和意蕴的向度略有差异。     

我国不同性别大学生的媒介体育信息需要研究

通过采用定量与定性相结合的研究方法,对不同性别大学生大众传媒体育信息的需要进行比较系统的调查分析,证实了我国不同性别大学生有多种媒介接触动机,并且对每种媒介的动机有所不同.并充分证实了大学生媒介接触是一种主动的选择,为体育教育工作者进行媒介教育和传播工作者工作和决策提供参考.     

业余篮球运动员的篮球意识培养

业余篮球运动员的篮球意识培养过程中，加强队员的理论学习，掌握篮球运动规律，启发队中独立思考，并合理运用技能战术以及实践经验的积累是提高篮球意识的有效手段。     

论冥想训练对武术套路运动员运动性心理疲劳恢复的可行性

传统武术在向竞技化武术转型的过程中,长期性、高强度、大负荷单调的演练给武术形体技术上带来提高的同时,运动性心理疲劳亦日益突显。文章通过文献资料研究法,阐述武术套路运动员运动性心理疲劳出现的必然性,从传统文化角度出发,结合东西方实证研究,提出"禅悟"即冥想训练对恢复武术套路运动员运动性心理疲劳是可行的,是一种简单可操作的心理恢复训练。     

足球意识研究综述

以献资料为主要研究手段，通过对当前关于足球意识理论研究现状的分析和探讨，揭示了当前研究中存在的主要问题，进行了相应的讨论和分析，旨在为今后的理论研究和足球运动训练提供有益的理论参考。     

论"绿色奥运"与环境教育

再过三年，北京将迎来第29届奥林匹克运动会，随着“绿色奥运”的承诺，一步步从蓝图上隐现，环境教育逐渐进入了奥运筹备工作的议事日程。环境教育作为一门新兴的学科，它把“绿色奥运”理念视为一个进程，而不是一个“快速结果”，这不但有助于提高人们的环境意识，而且可以唤醒人们的生态论理良知。使人们树立正确的自然观、消费观、发展观、体育观，从而真正实现把北京奥运会办成历史上最出色的一届奥运会的目标。     

A Study of the Decision-Making Behaviours of Turkish Adolescents

The research reported in this paper aimed to examine the relationships between decision-making behaviours, self-esteem, and the perceived problem-solving skills of adolescents and to investigate the contributions of self-esteem and perceived problem-solving skills in predicting decision-making behaviours (decision response styles, decisional self-esteem, and decisional stress). Another aim of the study was to investigate whether there is a difference in the decision-making behaviours of adolescents considering gender and school type. For this purpose, Decision Behaviour Questionnaire, Self-Esteem Inventory, and Problem-Solving Inventory were administered to 511 adolescents (276 females and 235 males) in Turkish high schools. The findings revealed that decisional behaviours were positively correlated with self-esteem and problem solving. At the same time, self-esteem (general, social, academic, and home/family) and problem-solving were significant predictors of decisional behaviours. There were significant differences in decisional behaviours according to gender and type of school.