...MANAGING TECHNOLOGY 1 Managing Technology Research Paper JMM March 30 2010 95-250 MANAGING TECHNOLOGY 2 Technology has profound effects on almost every modern facet of today’s world. Understanding and working with technology is fundamental to any person striving to be an elite competitor in their respective field. Whether the person is an athlete, a teacher, a trades worker, or a businessman a thorough knowledge and utilization of the available tech related to that field is needed to be an industry leader. This may not seem like an overly difficult task, but the fact of the matter is that technology is constantly changing and advancing, at a speed that is increasing exponentially. These advancements bring about changes in the field itself that are generally positive in the sense that tasks become easier allow for more time efficiency, but it is nearly impossible to keep up. Sport management is a field that has evolved to become fairly dependent on technology. In order to gain a better understanding on what it takes to become a successful sport manager we can study the technology involved in the field by answering the question of how exactly has the rapid advancement in technology changed the world of sport management and the way sport managers operate. One of, if not the most fundamental aspect of any business or organisation is communication. Whether it be communication between co-workers, other organisations, or customers, effective communication is vital to...
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...How has Technology Forged the World of Athletics? The world of athletics is defined by the technology used to elevate the human body beyond its current limitations. Having natural ability, skill or dedication are foremost needed by athletes, but in the growing world of athletics, it is hard to stand out without the help of the new inventions being engineered every day. Whether it be during training, competition, or in between the greatest athletes of our time need an edge to stand out above the rest, what gets them there, is technology. To understand how impactful it truly is, you must look at the history of the technology, every individual component of today’s sporting advancements, and what the future holds for the athletes of this time....
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...CQ1) How are priority issues for Australia’s health identified? 1. Account for the differences in health status of men and women in Australia (7 marks) 2. Define the following terms: mortality, morbidity and life expectancy (3 marks) 3. How is epidemiology used to improve the health of Australians? Provide examples (6 marks) 4. Outline two indicators of morbidity. Include examples in your answer (3 marks) 5. Why is it important to prioritise particular health issues in Australia? Include examples in your answer (5 marks) 6. Discuss the limitations of using epidemiology to describe the current health status of a population (4 marks) 7. Compare the health status of Australian males to Australian females (4 marks) 8. Analyse the importance of social justice principles in selecting health priorities in Australia (6 marks) 9. Demonstrate how an illness or disease is selected as a National Priority area (5 marks) 10. What is the role of epidemiology? Explain how epidemiology can be used to determine the priority areas for Australia’s health (4 marks) 11. Explain the main measures of epidemiology. What information do they provide about the current health status of Australians (4 marks) 12. Is Australia a healthy nation compared with the rest of the world? Explain your answer. How can Australia’s health be improved? (5 marks) 13. Distinguish between the terms ‘prevalence’ and ‘incidence’ (2 marks) 14. Identify reasons for Australia’s declining infant mortality rate...
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...Describe how political, legal, social factors are impacting upon the business activities of the selected organisations and their stakeholders: Sports Direct Political How the local, national, and international developments could affect the organisation and in what ways this could happen. Economical Nationally and internationally environmental issues that could affect the organisation Social Social and developing trends that an organisation might use or operate for future planning. Technological The various types of new technology can put impact on a competitive advantage with other organisations. Political factors These political factors are laws and regulations that are made by the government that could affect the business (legislations.) Many types of businesses and organisations can be affected by these laws. Political factors can cover a number of things from both national and international laws (European Union) e.g. employment of people within UK (Sports Direct-working permit), environmental issues such as Sports Direct - insuring that their products are recyclable and government e.g. taxation. Economical factors The economy plays a huge effect on businesses for example if the consumer spends more at Sports Direct then the business will attentively receive more revenue (income.) If the government raise taxes this then raises the costs of the business and could therefore affect what people buy, what the business sells and how much they sell...
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...Effectiveness of Technology on Math Facts Fluency Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: A. RESEARCH TOPIC The majority individuals would have the same opinion that a key objective of education must involve the expansion of learners’ comprehension of fundamental mathematical theories along with procedures. Every student, comprising learners with impairments and students vulnerable to failure, require gaining the know-how and capabilities that may allow them into “understanding” math-associated questions which they come across everyday at domicile as well as in upcoming work incidences. Unluckily, substantial evidence exists to designate that such goal isn’t being achieved, particularly for kids manifesting learning problems. Because the initial dispiriting outcomes of arithmetic accomplishment discovered with State Evaluation of Schooling Progress (SESP) during 1974, insufficient evidence exists to indicate that arithmetic accomplishment has increased considerably, particularly for learners with impairments (Spinelli, 2012). The intention for this research is to identify technology effectiveness towards fundamental arithmetic fluency. As a component of the classroom educational involvement, the research was carried out with ten learners with fair to stern cognitive impairments registered into a school of special training. This five-week research employed a solitary-case turnaround plan (ABAB). Data...
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...Imagery, PEETLEP Model and Technology Michael S. Harmon Capella University Abstract The use of imagery in the realm of sport psychology is widely accepted and used to enhance skill, reduce anxiety, increase decision making skills, etc. Although several models are available to construct imagery scripts, the PEETLEP model offers seven concepts that should improve the delivery system over more traditional oriented approaches. Integrate that model with advances in technology (video capture, podcasts, virtual reality), the sport psychologist has the opportunity to help an athlete enhance their performance like no other time in history. Imagery conducted for sport performance is referred to as sport imagery, but can be used interchangeably with the broader term mental imagery (Taylor and Wilson, 2005). Several other terms including mental practice, mental rehearsal, and visualization have also been used to refer to various components of mental imagery in sport (Morris, Spittle, & Watt, 2005; Taylor and Wilson, 2005; Weinburg & Gould, 2007). Specifically, sport imagery can be defined as using all senses to re-create or create a sport experience in the mind with the goal of enhancing sport performance during training and competition (Morris, Spittle, & Watt, 2005; Vealey & Greenleaf, 2001; Weinberg & Gould, 2007). There is a large amount of empirical evidence that supports that mental imagery works (Liggett, 2000; Moran, 2002; Morris, Spittle, & Watt...
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...Effect of Fandom on Marketers In the “old days” an areas culture had a massive effect on the way that the people of that area lived their lives. What they wore, ate, watched, participated in, etc. But with the ever expanding and diversifying markets of the world today it is becoming easier and easier to start seeing alterations from this. In Kaplan and Langdon’s article “Chinese fandom and potential marketing strategies for expanding the market for American professional sports into China” (Kaplan & Langdon 2012). Marketing strategies are reviewed as one of the main topics. “One strategy of the NBA was to partner with established Chinese brands” (Kaplan & Langdon, 2012). This allowed the NBA to have an easy avenue for expansion as the market had already been developed. Take Nike for instance from the example. In Kaplan and Langdon’s article it is stated “China’s biggest seller of athletic shoes, Li Ning, recently surrendered its top position to Nike, even though Nike’s shoes – upwards of $100 a pair – cost twice as much. The new middle class ‘seeks Western culture’, says Zhang Wanli, a social scientist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. ‘Nike was smart because it didn’t enter China selling usefulness, but selling status” (Kaplan, Langdon 2012). Basically when Nike came in, they did not say that they had the best product. They did not say they had the cheapest product. They said they had their product. Because of the interest by these Chinese consumers that was...
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...Yes this is an original research report Causes and Consequences of Sports concussions. Jonathan C. Edwards M.D graduated from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and is a professor at the Medical University of Neurosciences. Jeffrey D Bodle MD graduated from the Indiana University School of medicine and is a neurologist in Charleston, North Carolina. The title Causes and Consequences of Sports concussions reflects the focus of the study because in the article the focus is on causes of sports related concussions and also the consequences. The research in this article is qualitative because the researchers focus on gathering verbal data rather than measurements. This report includes an abstract, discussion, results and references. It does not contain an introduction or methods. The abstract of this article contains the purpose of the study; it covers the common characteristics of concussions, certain symptoms and touches base on the impact of a concussions. Within the overview a concussion can also happen with impact to the...
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...adults but children as well. The Center for Disease Control and Prevent (CDC) states that statistically speaking more than one-third of US adults (35.7%) is obese, for children the CDC states that 15.21% are obese. JAMA (2012) Many blame the recent development of technology i.e. video games, TV, and the media. Even our economy could be the one to blame, but we’ll dive into that later on. Throughout this paper I will be talking about the causes of obesity, the effects obesity has, and how can we prevent it. What causes obesity? Throughout the generations we have experienced a lot of changes in the world such as advancement of technology, medical sciences, etc. Many children now a days are learning how to get an infinite kill streak in Call of Duty, rather than learning how to play ultimate Frisbee, or 2 hand touch football. We also put a lot of emphasis on lets say a new console like the PS4/Xbox One. Look at how much advertising and promoting we did so the children would go crazy over these new game systems. Companies like Sony and Microsoft look at how much money they're going to make over the consequences there systems would cause. Though some could argue that professional gaming could be a sport. Gonchar (2013) Who’s really...
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...(2009, p.315). Though others see a performance-enhancer as more then just a drug or treatment, but as ways of training/ recovery technologies and innovations which improve performance (Savulescu et. al, 2004). Innovations is quite a broad term, but in terms of competitive sports it is referred to as the development of new or altered training and recovery techniques which are introduced into competitive sports to gain any athletic advantage possible, this being mainly of new technological advances (Loland, 2009). Affirmative Performance-enhacning drugs are ethically different from innovations and technologies in sport as performance enhancing drugs can potentially damage the health of those taking them, while anyone using them is gaining an unfair advantage and how the morals and the spirit of sport is affected by the use perfromance-enhancing drugs as compared to innovations in sports. The health of athletes in sport has always been a number one priority by sporting governments, while drugs do improve an athletes performance and can give them a superior athletic edge, they do come with many negative side effects which cause harm to their bodies. Continuing use of these drugs have caused permanent damage and even death to many users, which makes it a very unsafe and an unethical problem within sports, while on the other hand innovations in sports have been used to reduce many health...
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...* Advantages: there are many effective of television such as news, technology, culture and civilization, business, sports, education, environments, health care, products and films. * News: news make people know clearly about any events of nation and global. * Technology: provide people widely knowledge * To make people know about caring their health in modern science. * People know more about evaluation of technology. * People are highly of creative thinking, and to develop technology. * Provide people convenient communication via internet with each other and getting fast information. * People can produce things using technology today. * Culture and civilization: the advertising which allow people know more about their religion include languages, letter, speech, belief, clothes and sort of things. * Business: people know about * Create business strategy * People are clearly to decide what they have to do in their business. * People are able to develop their business and let them success. * Sport: educate people more about * Sports are importance to health * Prevent people from ills * Get rid of any drugs * Education: * People value in themselves and society * Educate people to get in touch in study and let them know how importance of learning * People become good citizen and good behavior * Make people respect to their parents and the elder * Educate people to act in good * Prevent people...
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...Football in America by Jeannie Ray SPM/210 - SOCIO-CULTURAL ELMNTS OF SPORT: PLAYING WELL W/OTHERS DR DION DALY August 6, 2011 Football In America American football has a long legacy in American History. It can be traced back centuries to early European cutures, influenced through the years by multiple people, changed the rules and has become a National phenomenon for Americans. American football is over 100 years old and still going strong. It has inspired songs, movies and motivated individuals to great heights in their careers and lives. American football originated with its earlier form of play that derived from a variation of the sport Rugby in 1892. There are mentions of Native Americans playing ball games but, modern American football originates in traditional ball games played at villages and schools in Europe dating many centuries before America was settled by Europeans. Reports of early settlers at Jamestown, Virginia playing games with inflated balls in the early 17th century have been noted in history also. American football is the result of several major divergences from its earlier form of rugby. The introduction of the line of scrimmage and down-and- distance are among the first major changes of the game Rugby to its conversion to American football by Walter Camp. Walter Camp is considered as the father of football. The changes that he incorporated into collegiate football became dominant in the United...
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...Analysis - Prince Sports, Inc. Quick and fast changes in an environmental market place such as social growth (globalization and the growth of social networks), economic instability (crises), industrial progress, fast growing competitive world and firm marketing regulatory mainly have an effect on the work of most of marketing companies or marketing and brand image divisions of the companies. In order to put into practice a winning marketing plan or a boost in sales and customer awareness companies have to stay in pace with the new marketing environment and take into thought every likely detail that might help out or ruin the image of a company or product. This case study will examine the marketing principle and vision in the background of Prince Sports, Inc. The main emphasis of the case study is Prince Sports, Inc segmentation and positioning. Prince Sports is a racquet sports company, their brands includes Prince (tennis, badminton, and squash), Viking (platform/paddle tennis), and Ektelon (racquetball). Its whole line of tennis products alone is quite remarkable: more than 150 racquet models; greater than 50 tennis strings; in excess of 50 footwear models; and numerous sorts of bags, attire and additional accessories. (Marketing, Eleventh Edition, Kerin, p.239). With the rise of the interest to tennis among different demographics Prince Sports perceived a necessity to target every possible type of consumer. Being in business from 1970 Prince Sports, Inc noticed the...
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...Jennifer N, and Kevin D. Walter. Pediatric and Adolescent Concussion: Diagnosis, Management, and Outcomes. New York, NY, Springer, http://0-link.springer.com.librus.hccs.edu/book/10.1007%2F978-0-387-89545-1. Jennifer Apps is a pediatric neuropsychologist and assistant director of research in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin. According to her book, with an increase in sports affiliated concussions among children, it has become necessary for practitioners to understand how to go about handling age appropriate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the concussions. It is also critical...
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...Why Playing Sports Keeps High School Teens Out of Trouble There are a lot of benefits that a teen may experience from playing sports. When teens participate in sports, it is a fact that their chances of being involved in trouble are minimized. Teens who participate in sports acquire a lot of life skills overtime that help them become better people. One skill that a teen may learn from playing a sport can be as simple as how to become a better team player. Also playing sports help teens build self esteem while also taking up the majority of their free time outside of school. There are also things that cause trouble for teens when it comes to playing sports. These would be that teens may sometimes resolve to doing something negative for the sake of being a part of the team, not know how to handle the fame that may come from being a star athlete, and also it could cause a teen to have depression if he or she faces a losing season in a particular sport. Although some of these aspects are negative, most of the things that are experienced from playing sports ultimately lead to sports keeping teens out of trouble. In today’s society, technology has become a very popular thing. As more and more things like the TV, movies, computers, and video games are becoming the popular things, it has led teens to being much more isolated. This leads teens to becoming bored, which then leads them to be more likely to involve themselves in dangerous behavior. It used to be that these teens would go...
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