Thesis (M.S.)--Boise State University, 2009. / Title from t.p. of PDF file (viewed May 14, 2010). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-49).

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Geography, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-102).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:35:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-10-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:47:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 peixer_j_dr_rcla.pdf: 686237 bytes, checksum: 680452c3a7b5167df75418cadeb30f0b (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / A Cachoeira de Emas no Rio Mogi-Guaçu, é reconhecida regionalmente como um local piscoso e turístico. Os primeiros registros da pesca profissional e esportiva no local datam da década de 30. A atividade de turismo também teve seu início nesta mesma época. Este trabalho faz a caracterização socioeconômica dos pescadores profissionais, esportivos, dos turistas e dos excursionistas que freqüentam este local, assim como a descrição das duas categorias de pesca. Foram realizadas entrevistas com estes quatro públicos no ano de 2006. Foram entrevistados 33 pescadores profissionais, 107 pescadores esportivos, 45 turistas e 103 excursionistas. Para a caracterização socioeconômica da pesca são apresentadas estatísticas descritivas. Para a valoração econômica deste local foi utilizada a Disposição a Pagar (DAP) para manter e para recuperar através da regressão logística e da ANCOVA, de acordo com cada caso. Os pescadores profissionais exercem esta atividade há 24, 2 (sd =14,10 ; n = 33) anos, em média. Têm renda média mensal de US$575.52 (sd = 470.31, n = 33; US$1= R$2,03, abril/2007) (R$1.170,20). A espécie mais capturada é a curimba (Prochilodus lineatus). O rendimento médio diário é de 19,9Kg (sd = 9,85; n = 33) por pescador. Os pescadores esportivos são oriundos principalmente da cidade de Pirassununga. O rendimento médio diário é de 2,8kg por pescador (sd = 1,75; n = 70) e a espécie mais capturada é também a curimba. A renda média mensal destes pescadores é de US$1,212.37 por pescador (sd =1,371.88, n = 106) (R$2.558,10) (US$1 = R$2,11, Julho/2007). Os turistas e excursionistas se diferenciam principalmente pelo tempo que passam na Cachoeira. O número anual estimado de excursionistas é de 289.064. O número de turistas não foi possível estimar. Praticamente todos os pescadores profissionais e esportivos... / The Cachoeira de Emas, located in the middle stretch of the Mogí-Guaçu river, is regionally recognized as rich in fish and an intense tourist place. The first documents concerning the professional, sporting fisheries and tourism activities date from the 30´s. This thesis characterizes the socio-economical traits of the professional and sporting fishers, the tourists and the excursionists that frequent the Cachoeira, as well as the description of the two fishing categories. In order to get information, interviews were accomplished with these four publics in 2006. They were interviewed 33 professional fishers, 107 sporting fishers, 45 tourists and 103 excursionists. Aiming to characterize the four public socio-economical profile and the two fishing types, descriptive statistics are presented. For calculating the Willingness to Pay (WTP) to maintain and to recover the place, we employed the logistic regression and the ANCOVA, according to each case. The professional fishers exercising this activity are 24, 2 years old (sd =14,10; n = 33), on average. Their monthly income average US$575,52 (sd=470.31; n= 33) (R$1.170,20, US$1=R$2,03, exchanging rate in April/2007). The more captured fish species is the curimba (Prochilodus lineatus). The daily mean catch is 19,9Kg/ fisher (sd = 9,85; n = 33). Most of the sporting fishers come from the city of Pirassununga. Their daily mean revenue is 2,8kg (sd = 1,75; n = 70) and the most captured fish species is also the curimba. Their mean income is US$1,212.37 (sd=1,371.88, n=106) (R$2.558,10, US$1 = R$2,11exchanging rate in July/2007). The tourists and excursionists differ mainly according to the time that they spent in the Cachoeira. The annual number of excursionists was estimated as 289.064. It was not possible to estimate the number of tourists. Most professional and sporting fishers would pay to recover... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Miguel Petrere Júnior / Banca: Alpina Begossi / Banca: Serguei Aily Franco de Camargo / Banca: Silvana Aparecida Ceregato / Banca: Walter Barrella / Resumo: A Cachoeira de Emas no Rio Mogi-Guaçu, é reconhecida regionalmente como um local piscoso e turístico. Os primeiros registros da pesca profissional e esportiva no local datam da década de 30. A atividade de turismo também teve seu início nesta mesma época. Este trabalho faz a caracterização socioeconômica dos pescadores profissionais, esportivos, dos turistas e dos excursionistas que freqüentam este local, assim como a descrição das duas categorias de pesca. Foram realizadas entrevistas com estes quatro públicos no ano de 2006. Foram entrevistados 33 pescadores profissionais, 107 pescadores esportivos, 45 turistas e 103 excursionistas. Para a caracterização socioeconômica da pesca são apresentadas estatísticas descritivas. Para a valoração econômica deste local foi utilizada a Disposição a Pagar (DAP) para manter e para recuperar através da regressão logística e da ANCOVA, de acordo com cada caso. Os pescadores profissionais exercem esta atividade há 24, 2 (sd =14,10 ; n = 33) anos, em média. Têm renda média mensal de US$575.52 (sd = 470.31, n = 33; US$1= R$2,03, abril/2007) (R$1.170,20). A espécie mais capturada é a curimba (Prochilodus lineatus). O rendimento médio diário é de 19,9Kg (sd = 9,85; n = 33) por pescador. Os pescadores esportivos são oriundos principalmente da cidade de Pirassununga. O rendimento médio diário é de 2,8kg por pescador (sd = 1,75; n = 70) e a espécie mais capturada é também a curimba. A renda média mensal destes pescadores é de US$1,212.37 por pescador (sd =1,371.88, n = 106) (R$2.558,10) (US$1 = R$2,11, Julho/2007). Os turistas e excursionistas se diferenciam principalmente pelo tempo que passam na Cachoeira. O número anual estimado de excursionistas é de 289.064. O número de turistas não foi possível estimar. Praticamente todos os pescadores profissionais e esportivos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The Cachoeira de Emas, located in the middle stretch of the Mogí-Guaçu river, is regionally recognized as rich in fish and an intense tourist place. The first documents concerning the professional, sporting fisheries and tourism activities date from the 30's. This thesis characterizes the socio-economical traits of the professional and sporting fishers, the tourists and the excursionists that frequent the Cachoeira, as well as the description of the two fishing categories. In order to get information, interviews were accomplished with these four publics in 2006. They were interviewed 33 professional fishers, 107 sporting fishers, 45 tourists and 103 excursionists. Aiming to characterize the four public socio-economical profile and the two fishing types, descriptive statistics are presented. For calculating the Willingness to Pay (WTP) to maintain and to recover the place, we employed the logistic regression and the ANCOVA, according to each case. The professional fishers exercising this activity are 24, 2 years old (sd =14,10; n = 33), on average. Their monthly income average US$575,52 (sd=470.31; n= 33) (R$1.170,20, US$1=R$2,03, exchanging rate in April/2007). The more captured fish species is the curimba (Prochilodus lineatus). The daily mean catch is 19,9Kg/ fisher (sd = 9,85; n = 33). Most of the sporting fishers come from the city of Pirassununga. Their daily mean revenue is 2,8kg (sd = 1,75; n = 70) and the most captured fish species is also the curimba. Their mean income is US$1,212.37 (sd=1,371.88, n=106) (R$2.558,10, US$1 = R$2,11exchanging rate in July/2007). The tourists and excursionists differ mainly according to the time that they spent in the Cachoeira. The annual number of excursionists was estimated as 289.064. It was not possible to estimate the number of tourists. Most professional and sporting fishers would pay to recover... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

The present study is an interrogation of theories of culture and nation in the context of spectacular sports. It proposes a view of nationalism as discourses that articulate and produce nations through narrative acts. A wide array of concepts and tools are drawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and contrasted with methods and notions from discursive and semiotic analysis to interrogate a national-sports nexus in which sports are vehicles to embody nations, their matrices of thought and perception, and their dominant order of masculinity and heteronormativity in the national subject, so that this order appears natural and commonsensical. Particular attention is given to the case of South Africa’s participation in the 1998 World Cup, and the way the epic genre was employed to frame the event and produce a particular kind of national body. Spectacular sports events provide nations with opportunities to disseminate narratives that regulate desire and conjure a particular kind of national fantasy – what Bourdieu referred to as illusio – in subjects. This work makes a distinction between an epic body of nationalism, a body enmeshed in "the natural and authentic," and an excessive body. However, mediations of sports are never merely reflections of social events but themselves participate in producing these events as meaningful and anchor them as national. Furthermore, an actively interpreting subject is required for the production of meaning, and in this regard the thesis offers a critique of Bourdieu’s limited view on what it entails for a recipient of nationalist discourse to be active. The questions addressed by this study is twofold: how and what kind of national order of the body and desire is manufactured through spectacular sports events, and how are mediations of such events made meaningful in subjects? The open-ended character of signification means that beneath the level of nationalist anchorage of spectacular sports events other articulations are possible. Drawing on Bourdieu’s view of sports as forms of silent dressage, the thesis suggests that there is a potential excess of meaning that enables such events to become potential sites of subjective truth: as viewers realise the fantasmatic character of such mediations they may come to question the notion that spectacular sports are something more than just a game.

An electroencephalographic (EEG) protocol was used to examine cerebral activity in the moments proceeding self paced motor performance. Throughout the series of investigations, power in the alpha waveband (8-13 Hz) was used as the dependant variable. In the first investigation, subjects completed a variety of stereotyped 'left and right brain' tasks. These tasks induced a reliable and predictable pattern of lateralised activity. Furthermore, tasks categorised as 'right brain' were shown to induce a more consistent effect. In the second investigation, expert Karate athletes performed a number of Karate specific tasks together with a skill acquisition and cognitive task condition. Significant increases in alpha band power, mediated by task difficulty, were found to be associated with one category of task. In the third study, subjects completed a series of novel tasks, designed to systematically vary the effort and accuracy demands. A significant decrease in alpha band power was shown to be associated with preparation for the asymmetrical high effort task, namely a leg extension against resistance. Outcome of the high accuracy condition was found to significantly mediate alpha band power immediately prior to performance. In the final investigation, the alpha band powers of cricketers, non-cricketing sportsmen and non-sportsmen were compared as they performed a variety of Cricket related, throwing tasks. Significant differences were detected between the different groups and between the different tasks. Once again, success was found to mediate the pattern of alpha band power. It was concluded that the effects observed were probably due to changes in the Rolandic Wicket or Mu rhythm generated in the central and pre-central regions.

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Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research report examines stock market reactions to sudden changes in investor mood. The motivation for the study is the large volume of psychology and finance research showing that investor mood is affected by various non-economic or economically-neutral phenomena. Previous research has provided strong evidence of a link between the outcome of international sporting results, particularly soccer, and investor mood. This report examines the impact of South Africa's national soccer, rugby and cricket teams' performances in international matches on returns on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Match results constitute a mood proxy variable hypothesised to affect stock returns through its influence on investor mood. The unconditional mean return on the JSE All Share index for a 13 ½ year period from September 1995 to February 2009 was compared to the mean return after wins, draws and losses by the national sport teams. An event study approach was followed and four different statistical tests were conducted in order to test for a relationship. The results of the tests indicate the existence of a moderate win effect, with mean returns after wins being statistically significantly higher for all sports combined, cricket and soccer. The report concludes that there is some evidence of a relationship between sporting success and stock returns. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingsverslag ondersoek die reaksie van die aandelebeurs op skielike veranderings in beleggersentiment. Die motivering vir die studie is die aansienlike volume sielkundige en finansiële navorsing wat toon dat beleggersentiment beïnvloed word deur verskeie nie-ekonomiese of ekonomies-neutrale verskynsels. Vorige navorsing het sterk getuienis verskaf van 'n verband tussen die uitkoms van internasionale sportresultate, veral sokker, en beleggersentiment. Hierdie verslag ondersoek die impak van Suid Afrika se nasionale sokker-, rugby- en krieketspanne se prestasies in internasionale wedstryde op opbrengste op die Johannesburg Effektebeurs (JEB). Wedstryduitslae verteenwoordig 'n sentimentsveranderlike met die hipotese dat dit aandeeloprengste sal beïnvloed deur die uitslae se invloed op beleggersentiment. Die onvoorwaardelike gemiddelde oprengs op die JEB All Aandele-index vir 'n 13 ½ jaar periode van September 1995 to Februarie 2009 is vergelyk met die gemiddelde oprengs na oorwinings, nederlae en gelykopuitslae van die drie nasionale spanne. 'n Gebeurtenisstudie-benadering is gevolg en vier verskillende statistiese toetse is uitgevoer om te toets vir 'n verband. Die resultate van die toetse dui op die bestaan van 'n matige oorwiningseffek met gemiddelde oprengste na oorwinnings wat statisties wesenlik hoër is vir alle sportsoorte gekombineerd, krieket en sokker. Die verslag kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat daar wel getuienis is van 'n verband tussen sportsuksesse en aandeeloprengste.

Background The external requirements for the European top clubs within the UEFA football industry are changing. Due to mismanaged finances during a significant period of time derived from the clubs’ ruthless aim for short-term sporting success, UEFA (The Union of European Football Association) has decided to change the rules of the game. UEFA’s newly implemented financial fair play regulations, with the main requirement of breaking even, force clubs that aim to participate in future UEFA competitions to drastically improve their financial performance. Consequently, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in the European top club’s upcoming strategy. From now on, the club must go from pursuing a short-term strategy almost exclusively based on the quest for sporting success, to successfully implement a long-term strategy that besides being based on the main purpose of sporting success also is characterized by the quest for financial success. Purpose The purpose with this thesis is to provide guidance towards the European top club’s adjustment to UEFA financial fair play and its simultaneous achievement of competitive advantage within the changing UEFA football industry. Approach With the more decisive aim for profitability, the similarities between the European top club and a profit-seeking firm become evident. Consequently, the authors apply and adapt business strategic management theories to formulate a long-term strategy based on the simultaneous achievement of profitability and improved sporting performance.   Results Formulating a long-term strategy based on the simultaneous quest for financial and sporting success, the authors finally come to an understanding of how the European top club possibly could comply with financial fair play and simultaneously create conditions for competitive advantage within the changing UEFA football industry.

The purpose of this study is to explore the cultural meanings of Asian/American and Asian female skaters through an examination of the US media narratives of them from a period beginning in the early 1980s and ending in the late 2000s. Main subjects are Tiffany Chin (Taiwanese American), Kristi Yamaguchi (Japanese American), Michele Kwan (Chinese American), and a group of Asians such as Japanese skaters (Midori Ito, Yuka Sato, Shizuka Arakawa and Asada Mao), Chinese skaters (Chen Lu), and Korean skater (Yu-Na Kim). Drawing on Reading Sport Project as a methodological tool and the Sporting Black Atlantic as a theoretical tool, I deploy what I call the Sporting Yellow Pacific as a theoretical reading frame for this project. It refers to a genealogical space that is geographically transnational and historically neo colonial, in which the difference of Asian females is epistemologically subjected as ‘Other’ in the ontological space of American white national imagination. With this frame, I attempt to conceptualize the skaters as what I call the yellow female skater, a racialized and gendered sporting icon, which signifies a number of sets of complex and sometimes ambivalent images: nationally American but racially Asian; culturally favored as a model minority but also perilous and foreign as yellow peril; naturally primitive and/or childish but also hyper-sexual and exotic; and, biologically talented or superior but aesthetically underdeveloped. Through an analysis of these images in relation to representation, discourse, and power, I eventually write this dissertation as a genealogy that traces a historical trajectory of the yellow female skater.