Goals: The main aim is to map and characterize current situation of The swimming for the physically disabled in Czech Republic and Great Britain. To provide information about the identity or difference of working with swimmers with physical disabilities in both countries, in terms of content, organizational, safety and personnel. To draw conclusions and to propose possible changes and recommendations for optimization and improvement of the state while swimming with people with disabilities in Czech Republic based on these information. Methods: The method of quality, analysis and subsequent synthesis, comparative method, visiting activities and observations have been used. Information was drawn from Czech and foreign literature, as well as from Czech and foreign web sites. Some facilities were visited personally, the others were contacted throughout the internet. Results: This work focuses on content of the methods used for swimming of the persons with disabilities in both countries and compares them, further evaluate and compare the swimming centers in both countries according to set criteria. The criteria that should be meet by the coach who works with physically disabled swimmers can be learned in this diploma, and are also valid for both countries. The work introduces the various organizations,...

Bakgrund:  Simning är en populär sport. De extrema repetitiva rörelserna som ingår i sporter med majoriteten av rörelserna över huvudet, som exempelvis simning, och otillräcklig stabilitet i axelleden resulterar ofta i överansträngning och skador. Ett vanligt syndrom är impingement och det har rapporterats att 40-91 % av alla simmare har eller upplever problem i axelleden eller de omkringliggande strukturerna. Syfte: Att undersöka om en intervention bestående av övningar för scapulas närliggande muskler i fyra veckor kan påverka upplevd smärta i axel och nacke hos unga simmare. Deltagare: Sexton unga simmare mellan åldrarna (13±2), bestående av (10 flickor och 6 pojkar) deltog. Alla deltagare utförde minst fyra simpass i veckan. Alla deltagare i studien upplever problematik i axel och/eller nacke. Metod: Deltagarna fick fylla i ett (SRQ-S) formulär och genomgå ett Beighton-test. Alla deltagare instruerades i fyra olika övningar, syftet med övningarna var att öka neuromuskulär kontroll och styrka i axelns stabiliserande muskler. Alla övningar skulle utföras innan träningspass, minst en gång om dagen, i fyra veckor. Efter fyra veckors interventionen fick deltagarna fylla i ett nytt (SRQ-S) formulär, den totala poängen innan och efter jämfördes. Resultat:  (SRQ-S) formulären resulterade i en signifikant skillnad (p=0,0005) mellan innan och efter interventionen. Majoriteten av deltagarna rapporterade ett högre välmående i axel och/eller nacke. Konklusion : Majoriteten av deltagarna upplevde minskad problematik i axel och/eller nacke efter fyra veckors interventionen. Det visar på att det finns ett samband mellan ökad axel stabilisering och minskad upplevd smärta i axel/nacke. Dock kan denna studie inte komma till en säker konklusion då vidare undersökning måste göras i detta område. / Background : Competitive swimming is a popular sport. The extreme repetitive motions that overhead-sports implies, like swimming, and inadequate stability in the shoulder joint often results in overexertions and injuries. A common condition is impingement syndrome and it has been reported that 40-91% of all swimmers have or experience problems in the shoulder joint or in the surrounding structures. Purpose : To investigate whether an intervention consisting of exercises for scapulas nearby muscles for four weeks can affect perceived distress in the shoulders and neck of young swimmers. Participants : Sixteen young swimmer between the age of (13±2), consisting of (10 females and 6 males) volunteered to participate. All the participants are performing at least four sessions of swimming a week. All the participants in the study are experiencing trouble in their neck or/and shoulders. Method : The participants had to fill in a (SRQ-S) form and do a Beighton-test. Participants were instructed in four different exercises, the purpose of the exercises were to increase neuromuscular control and strength in the shoulder stabilizing muscles. All exercise were to be performed before every session of swimming, at least once a day, for four weeks. After the four weeks of intervention the participants had to fill in a new (SRQ-S) form, the before and after score were compared. Results : The (SRQ-S) formulas resulted in a significant difference (p=0,0005) between before and after the intervention. The majority of the participants reported also a higher prosperous in their shoulder and/or neck area. Conclusion: The majority of the participant experienced less discomfort in their shoulder and neck area after the four weeks of intervention. There seems to be a relationship between increased shoulder stability and decrease in discomfort in the shoulder/neck. However this study can not come to a secure conclusion and further investigation has to be made in this area.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

The topic of this thesis becomes anxiety issues that negatively affects the enjoyment of sports performance and the performance of the individual itself. It assumes that the level of anxiety can consciously influence through the acquisition of specific mental skills. The theoretical part deals with the individual components that create or otherwise affect anxiety athletes. In the practical part we assume the application of research Sheldon Hanton and Graham Jones, who applied in the Czech environment for using standardized methods (questionnaire anxiety CSAI-2 (R), a guided interview). This is a qualitative research. At the end we evaluate and compare the results.

Topic: The Factors Influencing Early Termination of Swimming Career in China Goals: We studied a number of young Chinese swimmers who experienced early retirement. Great attention is paid to the reasons why Chinese swimmers ended their careers at a relatively young age. The goal of this thesis is to find out reasons that make Chinese swimmers choose to end their career during their top-performance period and at a much younger age compared with their counterparts worldwide. Meanwhile, finding potential solutions to the situation is also considered as one of the goals of the thesis. Methods: On the basis of literature review, in this study, we collect the characteristics of Chinese swimmers who have experienced early intensive specialized training by conducting observation, interviews, and questionnaires. Results: The number of Chinese swimmers who took early retirement increased incredibly during past twenty years. According to the interviews and the results of the questionnaires, the reasons why Chinese swimmers tend to finish their career at a relatively young age can be classified as follows: 1. Despite the professional training, they lack the spirit while they are training. 2. There are few materials guarantees after they finish their career. 3. Not all swimmers are given what they deserve due...

Dans la première partie, on propose une étude sur le problème de nage à faible nombre de Reynolds à partir d'unnageur modélisant la nage des copépodes et du nageur historique de Purcell.En minimisant l’énergie dissipée par les forces de trainée sur le fluide, laquelle est reliée au concept d’efficacitéd’une nage, on utilise les outils géométriques et numériques du contrôle optimal. Le principe du maximum estutilisé pour calculer les contrôles optimaux périodiques satisfaisant une condition de transversalité fine reliée à laminimisation de l’énergie mécanique pour un déplacement fixé où à la maximisation de l’efficacité. Ce sont desproblèmes sous-Riemanniens ce qui permet d’utiliser des techniques efficaces telles que l’approximation nilpotentepour calculer des nages de faible amplitude et qui est utilisée pour calculer des nages sur le vrai système parcontinuation. Les conditions nécessaires et suffisantes du second ordre sont calculées pour sélectionner desminimiseurs faible dans le cas d’une famille de nages périodiques.Dans la seconde partie, on s‘intéresse à la trajectoire d’un engin spatial contrôlé sous l’action d’un champ à forcecentral et où l’on considère les perturbations conservatives dues à l’effet lunaire et à l’aplatissement de la Terre àses pôles. Notre approche est basée sur des techniques moyennisation appliquées sur le système issu du principedu maximum. Nous donnons des résultats de convergence entre le système moyenné et le système non moyenné.Enfin, nous simulons les trajectoires du système non moyennée en utilisant les solutions du système moyennépour initialiser des méthodes numériques indirectes / The first part of this work is devoted to the study of the swimming at low Reynolds number where we consider a2-link swimmer to model the motion of a Copepod and the seminal model of the Purcell Three-link swimmer. Wepropose a geometric and numerical approach using optimal control theory assuming that the motion occursminimizing the energy dissipated by the drag fluid forces related with a concept of efficiency of a stroke. TheMaximum Principle is used to compute periodic controls considered as minimizing control using propertransversality conditions, in relation with periodicity, minimizing the energy dissipated for a fixed displacement ormaximizing the efficiency of a stroke. These problems fall into the framework of sub-Riemannian geometry whichprovides efficient techniques to tackle these problems : the nilpotent approximation is used to compute strokeswith small amplitudes which are continued numerically for the true system. Second order optimality, necessary orsufficient, are presented to select weak minimizers in the framework of periodic optimal controls.In the second part, we study the motion of a controlled spacecraft in a central field taking into account thegravitational interaction of the Moon and the oblateness of the Earth. Our purpose is to study the time minimalorbital transfer problem with low thrust. Due to the small control amplitude, our approach is to define anaveraged system from the Maximum Principle and study the related approximations to the non averaged system.We provide proofs of convergence and give numerical results where we use the averaged system to solve the nonaveraged system using indirect method

Three different models, relating to the study of microswimmers immersed in a low Reynolds number fluid, are presented. The underlying, mathematical concepts employed in each are developed using singularity methods of Stokes flow. The first topic concerns the motility of an artificial, three-sphere microswimmer with prescribed, non-reciprocal, internal forces. The swimmer progresses through a low Reynolds number, nonlinear, viscoelastic medium. The model developed illustrates that the presence of the viscoelastic rheology, when compared to a Newtonian environment, increases both the net displacement and swimming efficiency of the microswimmer. The second area concerns biological microswimming, modelling a sperm cell with a hyperactive waveform (vigorous, asymmetric beating), bound to the epithelial walls of the female, reproductive tract. Using resistive-force theory, the model concludes that, for certain regions in parameter space, hyperactivated sperm cells can induce mechanical forces that pull the cell away from the wall binding. This appears to occur via the regulation of the beat amplitude, wavenumber and beat asymmetry. The next topic presents a novel generalisation of slender-body theory that is capable of calculating the approximate flow field around a long, thin, slender body with circular cross sections that vary arbitrarily in radius along a curvilinear centre-line. New, permissible, slender-body shapes include a tapered flagellum and those with ribbed, wave-like structures. Finally, the detailed analytics of the generalised, slender-body theory are exploited to develop a numerical implementation capable of simulating a wider range of slender-body geometries compared to previous studies in the field.

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The aim is to map the development of techniques of swimming for the period from 1896 to the present. The work will also outline changes to the rules swimming. Key words swimming styles, breast, crawl, backstroke, dolphin swimmer, Olympic games, development, rules of swimming

The following study examined leadership characteristics of a modern leader of the Cherokee Nation, Ross O. Swimmer, during his three elections as Principal Chief, 1975-1985. Few Western scholars paid attention to the Cherokee Tribe after the break-up of institutions legislated by the federal Indian policy of Allotment. The position of the government was, the Cherokee Tribe no longer existed. For almost seventy years, no form of Cherokee leadership was visible; no Cherokee government existed. Federal Indian policy changed again, allowing tribes to elect their own leaders. This study began filling in gaps of missing information on modern Cherokee leadership by examining Swimmer’s leadership characteristics. The study attempted to add to the body of leadership knowledge by mining minds and memories, searching for the meaning of leadership from a modern Cherokee perspective. The three questions guiding the study were: what were the leadership characteristics of Principal Chief Ross O. Swimmer; to what extent did these leadership characteristics reflect traditional Cherokee leadership characteristics; and from a tribal perspective, did these make a difference, and to what extent? The data indicate seven Swimmer leadership characteristics: Visionary, Goal Oriented, Bureaucratic, Top-Down, Authoritarian, Delegator, and Communicator. There was inconsistency with Swimmer’s use of traditional leadership practices. Swimmer used a combination of traditional Cherokee, traditional Native American, and Anglo-European-American leadership characteristics during his three terms as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Two possible explanations for Swimmer’s blending leadership characteristics from varying models were suggested. First, given his bi-cultural heritage, Swimmer could navigate back and forth between the mainstream White culture and the traditional Cherokee culture, to pick and choose various types of leadership characteristics. Second, adaptability has always been a unique characteristic of the Cherokee people. Cherokee leaders frequently applied the feature of borrowing from White culture in order to adapt and survive. Swimmer accomplished many of his goals for the Cherokee people and set the Nation on a path of growth and stability. His methods were not without criticism from traditional Cherokees. However, Swimmer built the foundation for a corporate government that instilled pride in the Cherokee people and provided opportunity for self-sufficiency. / text