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Should Philosophy of Sport Matter More?
Authors: Kretchmar R. 
Published: December 2010

Should Philosophy of Sport Matter More?While the philosophy of sport has registered significant gains in stature over the past 40 years, and while its future looks bright quite apart from any enhanced interventions by ourselves, I suggest that the philosophy of sport should still matter more. The achievement of this end, I argue, can be expedited by heeding Spinoza's philosophy of unity, Merleau-Ponty's emphasis on embodiment, and Dewey's focus on the aesthetics of experience. While other philosophers and their works might be used for the same purpose, I claim that it would be difficult to find three more accommodating allies. The major portion of the essay is devoted to defending this assertion.
Lost in Translation: Heidegger and Ski Jumping in Slovenia
Authors: Kreft Lev 
Published: December 2010

Lost in Translation: Heidegger and Ski Jumping in SloveniaHeidegger developed his non-concept Gelassenheit after World War II. Its meaning remains uncertain and controversial, something different from notions of everyday conversation. In Slovene, however, it has been translated as sproščenost, which is parallel to English ‘relaxedness’, thus producing hybridity between notions of relaxedness, relaxation and releasement, which is, together with letting-go, a proper English translation of Gelassenheit.This hybridity was (ab)used for political slogans during the 2004 elections, when Heidegger's term was repeated on and on, until it entered popular discourse as well as other domains such as the economy, culture, and media. This phenomenon was examined by Boris Vezjak in The Relaxed Ideology of Slovenes (The Peace Institute, Ljubljana 2007). Relaxedness-releasement entered sport jargon as well, but Vezjak's book did not cover this field. At first abundant, this term more or less disappeared later. With one exception: in ski jumping, where it became one of the main words used to explain what was missing from Slovenian ski jumping during 2004-2009 period. In Slovenia, ski jumping is a national sport, and the absence of excellence during this long period created additional pressures on athletes and the whole ski jumping commonwealth.To examine the numerous cases where releasement was used to explain what is wrong with ski jumpers, or what they finally achieved in rare examples of success during that period, the only Slovene sport daily, "Ekipa" (The Team), was consulted for research. This study revealed that releasement was indeed lost in translation, appearing in ads as a signifier without any certain signified, and functioning as a je-ne-sais-quoi of sport performance and excellence. Through cases of repeated use of releasement as mystical and at the same time scientific (instead of relaxation) and colloquial notion (which is relaxedness, even carelessness), we get at inoculation of kinesiological mechanicism and psychological technique with philosophical mysticism.
Analyzing Body Values in the Context of Postmodern Youth Education. A Comparative Study Between Italy, Latvia and Romania
Authors: Isidori Emanuele , Abele Agita , Sandor Josif , Ganea Ioan , Taddei Francesco , Maulini Claudia 
Published: December 2010

Analyzing Body Values in the Context of Postmodern Youth Education. A Comparative Study Between Italy, Latvia and RomaniaNowadays, research on the body and the values it embodies is considered fundamental in the research field of sport studies. There is a correlation between the choice of values preferred by youth and changes taking place in contemporary society. The postmodern society is a society in which body values prevail over all other ones; the type of body values dominant in a capitalist society are mostly those which are connected to the hedonistic, esthetic and emotional dimension of the body itself.Starting from this background, this study aims to draw the hierarchy of body values, focusing on sport sciences students at Italian, Latvian and Romanian universities, who will be future educators and professionals of body care and well-being in the European society, in order to understand their preferences and the possible cultural differences that can emerge from the three societies.To carry out the research, a randomized sample of 300 subjects - female and male students (100 per country) - attending first-, second- and third-year sport sciences courses at the University of Rome "Foro Italico", the Latvian Academy of Sport Education in Riga, and Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca were selected.The students' values hierarchy was obtained through a Likert-scale-based questionnaire adapted and translated into Italian, Latvian and Romanian. The aim of the questionnaire was to detect the level of agreeability or disagreeability shown by each student when presented with words regarding 10 main body values models: biological body; ecological body; instrumental body; dynamic/sporting body, emotional/social body; ethical body; esthetical body; religious body; intellectual body; pleasure body.The data obtained were statistically processed and compared. The results showed that the hierarchy of body values in young students of sports sciences is broadly in line with those of postmodern society and education, and that there are differences in the perception of values among students due to cultural differences and the traditions of the societies in which they live. The research also highlighted the need to develop a more effective moral education, one that focuses on ethics, in the curricula of the three universities studied.
Elite Sport and Leisure Sport in Hungary: The Double Trouble
Authors: Gál Andrea 
Published: December 2010

Elite Sport and Leisure Sport in Hungary: The Double TroubleThe main purpose of this study is to give insight into the current status of two big areas of sport in Hungary: elite sport and leisure sport. As the expression ‘double trouble’ in the title indicates, in Hungary there are several problems in both areas.Hungary is a small country, but its Olympic teams were traditionally very successful in the Games. However, at the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing, Hungarian athletes performed below expectations, winning only three gold medals. The sport's political leaders and the public were very disappointed, therefore many experts tried to analyse the main reasons for the failure. They suggested that there were four problems in the background: the continuous disintegration of the sport clubs system; the low prestige of coaches and professionals working in sport; insufficient financial support and its inadequate timing; and the deficiency of sports science and its health care background. The second trouble concerns the sporting habits of Hungarian society. The country has faced the same problem for many decades: only a very low percentage of the Hungarian population takes part regularly in leisure sport programs. The latest empirical research shows that more than 60% of Hungarians do not do sports with suitable regularity. In comparing previous research results, there are a few changes among Hungarians according to gender, age and status of residence.How can this double trouble be resolved, or at least, how could both areas be somewhat improved? In Hungary, it is not really an easy task.
Importance and Limitations of the Leicester Group Theory towards the Comprehension of Delinquent Behaviour of Ultra Groups of Oporto
Authors: Seabra Daniel 
Published: December 2010

Importance and Limitations of the Leicester Group Theory towards the Comprehension of Delinquent Behaviour of Ultra Groups of OportoWith this paper and the communication that will be presented, I will produce the results of an investigation about four Ultra groups that support the top three football clubs of Oporto, known in Portugal as claques. I intend to state the main reasons that allow me to consider the Leicester Group theory the best in order to understand the hooliganism and delinquent behaviour of some members of Ultra groups in Oporto. The main points of the theory will be compared with the corresponding empirical data that confirms it. There are 47 neighbourhoods in Oporto, which makes it the Portuguese city with the greatest number of these neighbourhoods. More than 20,000 people - 20% of the population of Oporto - live in this type of well-identified territory in urban space. Quantitative and qualitative data, obtained through participant observation, interviews, life stories and inquiry by questionnaire, reveal the presence of a social configuration that the Leicester Group proposes in order to explain football hooliganism. This data also allows me to confirm that delinquent behaviour and some violence that could be observed in a football context can be seen as a social reproduction of a delinquent course already present in everyday life. The limitations of the Leicester Group theory will also be considered. This investigation has found that these supporters have a strong sense of belonging to their community and to their city, which is also symbolically reproduced in football stadiums. Finally, I will propose the concept of social experience as an adequate concept to study this kind of social phenomenon.
Conceptions And Interpretations of Human Rights in Europe and Asia: Normative Aspects
Authors: Drzewicka Bożena 
Published: December 2010

Conceptions And Interpretations of Human Rights in Europe and Asia: Normative AspectsThe issue of confronting values between civilizations has become very important. It influences not only the level of international politics but also the international normative activity. It is very interesting for the modern international law and its doctrine. The most important factor of causing huge changes in the system of international law is still the international human rights protection and the international humanitarian law which is related to it. It is very difficult to create one catalogue of executive instruments and procedures but it is possible to influence the attitude toward the basic paradigms. The frictions appear from time to time and move to other planes. The West and Asia are still antagonists in the dialogue on the future of the world. The article is a contribution to the intercivilizational dialogue.
Polish Catholic Church -Ecumenical Contexts
Authors: Sawa-Czajka Elżbieta , Michalski Mirosław 
Published: December 2010

Polish Catholic Church -Ecumenical Contexts
Polish Catholic Church operates in its parishes as well as ecumenical cooperation with other Catholic Churches. Moreover, there is also an important ecumenical dialogue conducted with the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Catholic Church is also active in the Polish Ecumenical Council.
Two Prayers for the Sick from the Euchology of Sinai
Authors: Mrňávek Tomáš 
Published: December 2010

Two Prayers for the Sick from the Euchology of SinaiThe present publication offers 2 prayers out of the 50 related to sick persons and contained in the Euchologium Sinaiticum Slavicum (a manuscript from the 10th/11th century). These texts, concerning mainly psychological pathologies, have not yet been properly studied, albeit they embody a peculiar importance both for the understanding of illnesses in ancient Christian communities and for the way how they were treated in those days. This work, thus, presents first the prayers in their Old Slavonic version accompanied by the Greek version. We thought it opportune to add a Czech translation with basic references to the New Testament; a short commentary touching upon cultural and social milieux envisaged by the texts will then follow.
Discrete Spherical Harmonic Transforms for Equiangular Grids of Spatial and Spectral Data
Authors: Blais J. 
Published: December 2010

Discrete Spherical Harmonic Transforms for Equiangular Grids of Spatial and Spectral DataSpherical Harmonic Transforms (SHTs) which are non-commutative Fourier transforms on the sphere are critical in global geopotential and related applications. Among the best known global strategies for discrete SHTs of band-limited spherical functions are Chebychev quadratures and least squares for equiangular grids. With proper numerical preconditioning, independent of latitude, reliable analysis and synthesis results for degrees and orders over 3800 in double precision arithmetic have been achieved and explicitly demonstrated using white noise simulations. The SHT synthesis and analysis can easily be modified for the ordinary Fourier transform of the data matrix and the mathematical situation is illustrated in a new functional diagram. Numerical analysis has shown very little differences in the numerical conditioning and computational efforts required when working with the two-dimensional (2D) Fourier transform of the data matrix. This can be interpreted as the spectral form of the discrete SHT which can be useful in multiresolution and other applications. Numerical results corresponding to the latest Earth Geopotential Model EGM 2008 of maximum degree and order 2190 are included with some discussion of the implications when working with such spectral sequences of fast decreasing magnitude.
The Integration of TLS and Continuous GPS to Study Landslide Deformation: A Case Study in Puerto Rico
Authors: Wang G. , Philips D. , Joyce J. , Rivera F. 
Published: December 2010

The Integration of TLS and Continuous GPS to Study Landslide Deformation: A Case Study in Puerto RicoTerrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies provide comprehensive information on ground surface deformation in both spatial and temporal domains. These two data sets are critical inputs for geometric and kinematic modeling of landslides. This paper demonstrates an integrated approach in the application of TLS and continuous GPS (CGPS) data sets to the study of an active landslide on a steep mountain slope in the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico. Major displacements of this landslide in 2004 and 2005 caused the closing of one of three remaining access roads to the national forest. A retaining wall was constructed in 2009 to restrain the landslide and allow the road reopen. However, renewed displacements of the landslide in the first half of 2010 resulted in deformation and the eventual rupture of the retaining wall. Continuous GPS monitoring and two TLS campaigns were performed on the lower portion of the landslide over a three-month period from May to August 2010. The TLS data sets identified the limits and total volume of themoving mass, while the GPS data quantified the magnitude and direction of the displacements. A continuous heavy rainfall in late July 2010 triggered a rapid 2-3 meter displacement of the landslide that finally ruptured the retaining wall. The displacement time series of the rapid displacement is modeled using a fling-step pulse from which precise velocity and acceleration time series of the displacement are derived. The data acquired in this study have demonstrated the effectiveness and power of the integrating TLS and continuous GPS techniques for landslide studies.
Orientation of the Geometrically Best fitting Triaxial Lunar Ellipsoid with Respect to the Mean Earth/Polar Axis Reference Frame
Authors: Iz H. , Shum C. , Ding X. , Dai C. 
Published: December 2010

Orientation of the Geometrically Best fitting Triaxial Lunar Ellipsoid with Respect to the Mean Earth/Polar Axis Reference FrameThis study provides new estimates for the orientation of a geometrically best fitting lunar triaxial ellipsoid with respect to the mean Earth/polar axis reference frame calculated from the footprint positions of the Chang'E-1 (CE-1), SELenological and ENgineering Explorer (SELENE) laser altimetry measurements and Unified Lunar Control Networks 2005, (ULCN 2005) station coordinates. The semi-principal axes of the triaxial ellipsoid and the coordinates of its geometric center are also calculated simultaneously. All the estimated parameters from all three data sets are found to be consistent. In particular, the RMS differences of the semi-principal axes of the triaxial ellipsoids and the locations of their geometric centers from solutions with and without modeling Euler angles (orientation of the triaxial ellipsoid) using uniformly distributed laser altimetry (LAL) footprints are 29 and 31 m respectively. The misclosures of all the solutions indicate a better fit for the triaxial ellipsoid to the footprint and station coordinates if the Euler angles are included in the models.
Extremal dynamic errors in linear dynamic systems
Authors: Górecki H. , Zaczyk M. 
Published: December 2010

Extremal dynamic errors in linear dynamic systems
Two different analytical methods of determining extremal dynamic errors in linear dynamic systems are presented. The main idea of these methods is based on finding certain additional equations. These additional equations are obtained due to the assumption that an extremal point τ obtained from the necessary condition , is also an extremum point with respect to initial conditions, that is, .
Visual data analysis with computational intelligence methods
Authors: Kruse R. , Steinbrecher M. 
Published: December 2010

Visual data analysis with computational intelligence methodsVisual data analysis is an appealing and increasing field of application. We present two related visual analysis approaches that allow for the visualization of graphical model parameters and time-dependent association rules. When the graphical model is defined over purely nominal attributes, its local structure can be interpreted as an association rule. Such association rules comprise one of the most prominent and wide-spread analysis techniques for pattern detection, however, there are only few visualization methods. We introduce an alternative visual representation that also incorporates time since patterns are likely to change over time when the underlying data was collected from real-world processes. We apply the technique to both an artificial and a complex real-life dataset and show that the combined automatic and visual approach gives more and faster insight into the data than a fully-automatic approach only. Thus, our proposed method is capable of reducing considerably the analysis time.
Negative refraction of photonic and polaritonic waves in periodic structures
Authors: Kempa K. , Rose A. 
Published: December 2010

Negative refraction of photonic and polaritonic waves in periodic structuresNegative refraction can be achieved in photonic crystals. We briefly summarize recent studies in this field, and show that such effects are also possible in polaritonic and plasmonic structures, such as the dipole crystal. We propose a practical realization of this crystal, a periodic lattice of dielectric spheres. We study its mode structure, and preliminary results demonstrate the negative refraction on a polaritonic band.
On job models in power management problems
Authors: Różycki R. , Węglarz J. 
Published: December 2010

On job models in power management problemsIn the paper a model of job processing is presented where processing speed is related to the amount of power allotted to this job at a moment. Basic time-optimal results are showed assuming that energy is treated as a scarce doubly-constrained resource in a computer system. The proposed approach is applicable to the practical power management problems appearing in modern portable device systems.
Tomos inédit de 1180 contre Mahomet
Authors: Darrouzès Jean 
Published: December 2010

REB 30 1972 France p. 187-197
J. Darrouzès, Tomos inédit de 1180 contre Mahomet. — L'action de Manuel Comnène concernant l'anathème contre le Dieu de Mahomet est connue par le récit de Nicétas Choniatès. Le tomos synodal composé à cette occasion a été conservé par le Sinaiticus gr. 1117. Le document est ici présenté, édité et traduit.
Photographies de documents athonites (Collection P. I. Sevast'janov)
Authors: Granstrem Eugénie , Medvedev Igor 
Published: December 2010

REB 33 1975 France p. 277-293
Eugénie Granstrem et I. Medvedev, Photographies de documents athonites {Collection P. I. SevasVjanov). — Les photographies de documents athonites prises par P. I. Sevast'- janov au cours de son expédition de 1859-1860 sont dispersées et partagées entre trois bibliothèques. La description indique la cote des photographies dans leur fonds et leur rapport avec les archives athonites ; pour chaque document on indique le titre et la définition de l'acte, le nombre et la dimension des photographies, la référence aux éditions, dépendantes ou non des photographies anciennes.
Le commerce extérieur polonais : résultats et stratégie
Authors: Gwiazda Adam 
Published: December 2010

L'article est consacré aux tendances récentes des exportations et importations polonaises. La situation précaire des échanges avec l'extérieur et les changements intervenus ces dernières années dans le système du commerce extérieur polonais font l'objet d'une attention toute particulière.
Le principal objectif des réformes économiques en cours en Pologne est de rendre le système plus efficace. La Pologne doit trouver le moyen de produire davantage et d'accroître ses exportations vers le reste du monde. Elle pourrait y parvenir en libéralisant encore plus son système de commerce extérieur et en introduisant les mécanismes de marché dans le système économique « mixte » qui existe actuellement. Les tendances récentes du développement des exportations polonaises vers l'Occident montrent que les ajustements structurels et la politique orientée vers l'exportation portent déjà leurs premiers fruits puisqu'ils ont permis d'accroître tant les exportations que les importations avec cette région du monde.
Régulation de la valeur ajoutée dans les entreprises d'Etat en Pologne (1982-1988)
Authors: Klimczak Bozena , Sulkowski Czeslaw 
Published: December 2010

L'article traite de la hausse des salaires payés par les entreprises d'État au cours des années 80 durant lesquelles le processus de réforme du mécanisme économique a été amorcé.
Les auteurs présentent les fondements théoriques de la réforme en mettant l'accent sur la question de la mobilisation par l'État du surplus économique et de son utilisation. Ils constatent que, aussi bien en théorie qu'en pratique, l'intérêt de laisser à la disposition de l'entreprise la totalité de la valeur ajoutée n'a même pas été pris en compte et que l'État en est resté maître.
Sont présentées ensuite les méthodes de régulation dont l'État s'est servi pour répartir la valeur ajoutée au cours des années 80 et leur incidence sur la limitation de la hausse des salaires, sur le maintien par l'État du monopole de l'accumulation et sur le recours à la contrainte comme principal instrument du pouvoir économique.
Le développement de la consommation d'énergie en Hongrie en fonction de la restructuration de la production et de la croissance économique
Authors: Szergényi István 
Published: December 2010

Development of the energy consumption as a function of production structure and of economic growth
The international comparisons show that in Hungary further considerable increases of production can ben achieved by improving energy intensity. In order to realize it, the increase of the GDP should be accomplished in a structure of production considerably more up-to-date than the former one. This can be realized by the development of different pace of production blocks having various energy intensity, on the one hand and by the modernization of the product pattern within blocks, on the other hand. Though a great importance should also be attached to the different ways of using energy — and rationalization measures in the future — the resounding success in the improvement of the energy intensity of the country can be achieved only by producing up-to-date products and modernizing the production in accordance with the level of our days. The adjustment of the energy development conception to the varying structuro-political alternatives through the method described in the article can ben carried out rapidly. Moreover the application of the correlation among the generally prognosticate modernization possibilities, the energy consumption and the economic growth is a more utilizable procedure — and better corresponding to the new attitude — than the previously applied practice for calculating the energy intensity.