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Young people, physical activity and the everyday
In this collection, leading international scholars address the differences in young people's experiences and meanings of physical activity as these are related to their social, cultural and geographical locations, to their abilities and their social and personal biographies.
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Time-like Graphical Models
The author studies continuous processes indexed by a special family of graphs. Processes indexed by vertices of graphs are known as probabilistic graphical models. In 2011, Burdzy and Pal proposed a continuous version of graphical models indexed by graphs with an embedded time structure-- so-called time-like graphs. The author extends the notion of time-like graphs and finds properties of processes indexed by them. In particular, the author solves the conjecture of uniqueness of the distribution for the process indexed by graphs with infinite number of vertices. The author provides a new result showing the stochastic heat equation as a limit of the sequence of natural Brownian motions on time-like graphs. In addition, the author's treatment of time-like graphical models reveals connections to Markov random fields, martingales indexed by directed sets and branching Markov processes.
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Sports & fitness : how to use your body and mind to play and feel your best
To help girls decide whether to participate in a team sport or engage in a solo activity, this guide provides exercises to make their bodies stronger and last longer, confidence-building tips and brainpower drills, team and spirit-building activities, and with advice from other girls.
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Cornered Heegaard Floer Homology
Bordered Floer homology assigns invariants to 3-manifolds with boundary, such that the Heegaard Floer homology of a closed
3-manifold, split into two pieces, can be recovered as a tensor product of the bordered invariants of the pieces. We construct cornered
Floer homology invariants of 3-manifolds with codimension-2 corners, and prove that the bordered Floer homology of a 3-manifold with
boundary, split into two pieces with corners, can be recovered as a tensor product of the cornered invariants of the pieces.
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Hodge Ideals
We use methods from birational geometry to study the Hodge filtration on the localization along a hypersurface. This filtration leads
to a sequence of ideal sheaves, called Hodge ideals, the first of which is a multiplier ideal. We analyze their local and global
properties, and use them for applications related to the singularities and Hodge theory of hypersurfaces and their complements.
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Routledge handbook of youth sport
'The Routledge Handbook of Youth Sport' is a comprehensive survey of the latest research into young people's involvement in sport. Drawing on a wide diversity of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, policy studies, coaching, physical education and physiology, the book examines the importance of sport during a key transitional period of our lives, from the later teenage years into the early twenties, and therefore helps us develop a better understanding of the social construction of young people's lives.
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Algebraic geometry over C∞-rings
If X is a manifold then the \\mathbb R-algebra C^\\infty (X) of smooth functions c:X\\rightarrow \\mathbb R is a C^\\infty -ring. That is, for each smooth function f:\\mathbb R^n\\rightarrow \\mathbb R there is an n-fold operation \\Phi _f:C^\\infty (X)^n\\rightarrow C^\\infty (X) acting by \\Phi _f:(c_1,\\ldots ,c_n)\\mapsto f(c_1,\\ldots ,c_n), and these operations \\Phi _f satisfy many natural identities. Thus, C^\\infty (X) actually has a far richer structure than the obvious \\mathbb R-algebra structure. The author explains the foundations of a version of algebraic geometry in which rings or algebras are replaced by C^\\infty -rings. As schemes are the basic objects in algebraic geometry, the new basic objects are C^\\infty -schemes, a category of geometric objects which generalize manifolds and whose morphisms generalize smooth maps. The author also studies quasicoherent sheaves on C^\\infty -schemes, and C^\\infty -stacks, in particular Deligne-Mumford C^\\infty-stacks, a 2-category of geometric objects generalizing orbifolds. Many of these ideas are not new: C^\\infty-rings and C^\\infty -schemes have long been part of synthetic differential geometry. But the author develops them in new directions. In earlier publications, the author used these tools to define d-manifolds and d-orbifolds, \"derived\" versions of manifolds and orbifolds related to Spivak's \"derived manifolds\".
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Key Themes in Youth Sport
Key Themes in Youth Sport is a concise, easy to read guide to core concepts in the study of young people’s relationship with sport, exercise and leisure. Designed to help students get to grips with the basics and go on to master the central ideas and debates in contemporary youth sport, this book reflects the multi-disciplinary interest in youth sport, exploring perspectives from sociology, psychology, physiology, sports policy, sports development, and physical education.
Ken Green is Professor of Sociology of Sport and Head of the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Chester, UK. He is also Editor of the European Physical Education Review and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.
Introduction 1. Ability and Talent 2. Abuse 3. Activity and Exercise 4. Age and Life-Stages 5. Body/Bodies 6. Capital 7. Clubs and Organized Sport 8. Commercialization and Consumption 9. Competition 10. Disability 11. Drugs 12. Ethnicity 13. Extra-Curricular Physical Education 14. Facilities and Venues 15. Friends and Peers 16. Gender 17. Gender Socialization 18. Global Youth 19. Health, Well-being and Physical Activity 20. Identity (Self-) 21. Individualization 22. In Formalization 23. Leisure 24. Lifelong Participation 25. Lifestyle Sports and Activities 26. Moral Panic 27. Motivation 28. Obesity 29. Parents and Family 30. Participation 31. Physical Education 32. Policy 33. Risk 34. Role Models 35. Sedentariness 36. Social Class 37. Socialization and Habitus 38. Sporting repertoires 39. Technology/ies 40. Time 41. Transitions 42. Typologies 43. Work 44. Youth Cultures and Lifestyles 45. Youth’s New Condition
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