Cultural capital and the place of sport

It is not unusual now to talk about the culture of the body, or to see routine and organized physical activity, as well as sport, as part and parcel of cultural life. In recent decades body management techniques have become a very conspicuous aspect of self-presentation and have been served by the expansion of the supply of commercial services to deal with diet and health, physical training and cosmetic improvement to appearances. The professionalization and commercialization of sport have also accelerated. Bourdieu interpreted measures for body management and maintenance in terms of the accumulation and display of cultural capital. He distinguished three types of cultural capital: institutionalized, objectified and embodied. This article considers some of the elements of the very complex and extensive property, embodied cultural capital. The Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion (CCSE) survey included questions on sporting activity, sports spectatorship and physical exercise routines, important elements in the mosaic of contemporary cultural activities. This article teases out the patterns of participation and taste in this area, examining differentiation by class, gender, education, ethnic and age groups in particular. While showing that all these factors matter, gender is the most important source of differentiation, though this is more the case for sport than for exercise per se. In addition, it is shown that educational qualification is particularly important in predicting participation in exercise, whereas occupational class makes more difference to the choice of sport, whether playing or watching.     

Predicting ground reaction forces in running using micro-sensors and neural networks

Measurement of ground reaction force (GRF) in running provides a direct indication of the loads to which the body is subjected at each foot-ground contact, and can provide an objective explanation for performance outcomes. Traditionally, the collection of three orthogonal component GRF data in running requires an athlete to complete a series of return loops along a laboratory based runway, within which a force platform is embedded, in order to collect data from a discrete footfall. The major disadvantages associated with this GRF data collection methodology include the inability to assess multiple consecutive foot contacts and the fact that measurements are typically confined to the laboratory. The objective of this research was to investigate the potential for wearable instrumentation to be employed, in conjunction with artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR) models, for the estimation of GRF in middle distance running. A modular wearable data acquisition system was developed to acquire in-shoe force (ISF) data. Matched data sets from wearable instrumentation (source data) and force plate (target data) records were collected from elite middle-distance runners under controlled laboratory conditions for the purposes of ANN and MLR model development (MD) and model validation (MV). In terms of statistical measures of prediction accuracy the MLR model was found to provide a superior level of accuracy for the prediction of the vertical and medio-lateral components of GRF and alternatively, the ANN model provided the most accurate predictions of the anterior-posterior component of GRF. The prediction accuracy of each component of GRF was found to be governed by the inherent signal variability, in which case the vertical and anterior-posterior components were more reliable and subsequently predicted significantly more accurately than the medio-lateral component. The emerging capability for obtaining continuous GRF records from wearable instrumentation has the potential to permit unprecedented quantification of training stress and competition demands in running.     

体育教育实习成绩评估方案的研究

目前关于体育教学实习成绩的评定，各院校做法不一，还没有定论。但就目前各校的评估量表看，普遍较复杂，计算量大，指标多，内容不具体，因而不适用。而且对体育教学大都只重视一次公开课或检查课，对平时课堂教学不大重视。因此，制定出客观、全面、简便易行的评估指标体系就具有很重要的意义。     

影响女大学生参与体育活动的因素分析

运用行为科学理论，通过对665名女大学生参与体育活动情况的调查，揭示了女大学生对待体育活动的认识和实践的状况，分析了影响女大学生参与体育活动的主、客观原因。     

知行哲学在足球运动对抗中的运用研究

足球对抗的实质是相互间知行能力的竞争较量，足球对抗的知行特征为对抗中的知彼知己和避实击虚。     

健美操运动在高校校园文化建设中的作用

健美操运动是一种新型体育运动项目，因其融体操、舞蹈、音乐为一体，以健身、健美和健心为目的，成为高校校园体育化的重要组成部分，同时也在丰富、完善校园化建设，促进大学生全面发展，完成高等教育培养目标方面发挥着重要作用。     

气候·人类·地球

随着工业化进程脚步的加快,现代化痕迹遍布生活的每个角落,同时人类也不得不面临现代化生产给自然气候带来的不容忽视的严重影响。我们在渐渐失去冬天……     

The exploration of space

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