Active relatives and health-related physical fitness in European adolescents: The HELENA Study     

M Martín-Matillas  FB Ortega  JR Ruiz  D Martínez-Gómez  G Vicente-Rodríguez  A Marcos  L Béghin  A Kafatos  M González-Gross  M Zaccaria  D Molnár  S De Henauw  M Sjöström  LA Moreno  MJ Castillo On Behalf Of The Helena Study 《Journal of sports sciences》2012,30(13):1329-1335

Abstract High physical fitness in childhood and adolescence is positively associated with favourable health-related outcomes. Our aim was to examine the relationship between relatives' (father, mother, brother, sister, and best friend) physical activity engagement and encouragement on adolescents' physical fitness. Adolescents were part of the HELENA study, a multi-centre study conducted in 10 cities from nine European countries in 2006-2008. Participants were 3288 adolescents (48% boys, 52% girls) aged 12.5-17.5 years with valid data on at least one of the three fitness variables studied: muscular strength (standing long jump), speed/agility (4×10 m shuttle run), and cardiorespiratory fitness (20 m shuttle run). The adolescents reported their relatives' physical activity engagement and encouragement. Analysis of covariance showed that relatives' physical activity engagement (father, mother, brother, and best friend) was positively related to cardiorespiratory fitness (P?相似文献   

E-government and citizen's engagement with local affairs through e-websites: The case of Spanish municipalities     

Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro  José Rodrigo Córdoba Pachón  José Luis Moreno Cegarra 《International Journal of Information Management》2012

As a mixture of new technologies, processes and services oriented to the citizen, e-government has become one of the most important keywords for the public sector reform with proponents claiming that it guarantees transparency, accountability and better communication between local and national administrations and their public. Few if any studies have investigated the factors that might contribute to the establishment of trusting relationship between city councils and citizens. This paper examines the relative importance and significance of three types of information communication technologies (ICTs) towards the use of e-government and the development of civic engagement. We conduct an empirical investigation of 179 Spanish official town websites (web sites in the municipalities). The research findings suggest that implementing ICT not only involves a step towards an increase in the use of e-government services by people, but also provides numerous opportunities for their civic engagement. The main conclusion of this study is that although ICT can leverage the adoption of e-government, it cannot create alone engagement with traditional activities of the local government. What is missing from this relationship is a mediating variable (adoption of e-government by government officers), which in turn can greatly help to better understand how ICT impacts relationships between governments and their citizens.  相似文献   

Are determining factors of municipal E-government common to a worldwide municipal view? An intra-country comparison     

Isabel Gallego-Álvarez  Luis Rodríguez-Domínguez  Isabel-María García-Sánchez 《Government Information Quarterly》2010

The implementation of E-government aims at simplifying and improving the transactions between public administrations and their users or customers. The objective of this study is to analyze whether the factors behind the level of development of E-government among municipalities of a specific country are common to the improvement of digital administration in the largest municipalities from 81 countries worldwide. While previous studies provide evidence that municipalities from the same country, mainly those governed by left-wing parties, focus on differentiating themselves in the content of their Web sites, our findings emphasize that internationally, in the most important municipalities worldwide, all the political parties attempt to promote the development of a dynamic and participatory E-government.  相似文献   

Differences between web sessions according to the origin of their visits     

José Luis Ortega  Isidro Aguillo 《Journal of Informetrics》2010,4(3):331-337

The aim of this paper is to characterize the distribution of number of hits and spent time by web session. It also expects to find if there are significant differences between the length and the duration of a session with regard to the point of access–search engine, link or root. Web usage mining was used to analyse 17,174 web sessions that were identified from the webometrics.info web site. Results show that both distribution of length and duration follow an exponential decay. Significant differences between the different origins of the visits were also found, being the search engines’ users those who spent most time and did more clicks in their sessions. We conclude that a good SEO policy would be justified, because search engines are the principal intermediaries to this web site.  相似文献   

La formación permanente del profesorado de Lengua y Literatura: Modelos teóricos y actuación del asesor     

Luis González 《Cultura y Educación》2013,25(9):45-56

En este artículo se reflexiona sobre el papel del educador y del asesor de formación, al que se propugna más activo y centrado en la disciplina. Desde esa base se pasa a una segunda reflexión centrada en el papel de las ciencias del lenguaje en la educación en que se trata de establecer un puente entre los requerimientos del saber disciplinar y teórico sobre el lenguaje y los de las situaciones, textos y contextos reales de uso del lenguaje. Se trata una vez más de la vieja necesidad de articular en la ciencia y en la educación el rigor y la relevancia.  相似文献   

Informatica aplicada a la comprensión textual     

Luis Guerra  Juan Martín 《Cultura y Educación》2013,25(13):95-99

Uno de los inconvenientes de los programas didácticos que tratan de desarrollar en el alumno estrategias de comprensión lectora es que, dada la estructura grupal de la clase, deben aplicarse colectivamente cuando su propia naturaleza requeriría la aplicación individual. El ordenador puede conseguir aplicar a toda una clase los mismos modelos de comprensión, pero individualizadamente. En este artículo se expone un modelo experimental.  相似文献   

Shadow Education in Spain: Examining Social Inequalities Through the Analysis of PISA Results     

Ariadne Runte-Geidel  Pedro Femia Marzo 《欧洲教育》2013,45(2):117-136

This article examines the use of shadow education by students of compulsory secondary education in Spain over the period 2000?2010. The study identifies the proportion of the student population that uses this type of education and examines how the use of shadow education has evolved during this period. Data was drawn from the student questionnaire in the PISA report, which gathered information on extra lessons in the four studies conducted between 2000 and 2009. The study also contrasted the data on the use of extra classes with the socioeconomic profile of students and other indicators of social inequality.  相似文献   

From the Margins to the Center: Debunking Claims about Southeast Asian American Masculinity     

Peter T. Keo  Pedro A. Noguera 《Equity & Excellence in Education》2013,46(2):199-216

This study reviews empirical data from the U.S. Census, American Community Survey (ACS) and academic journals to explore K-12 and higher educational outcomes pertaining to Southeast Asian American (SEAA) males. We argue that the empirical dismissal of SEAA males in social science research reinforces a longstanding agenda of structural neglect and invisibility. By disaggregating some of the existing data for Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese subgroups from the broader “Asian” group, we hope to repudiate the model minority myth and stereotypes related to masculinity. Findings revealed that SEAA males had K-12 and higher educational outcomes that contradict the standard conception of academic and financial success. We situate the findings of the article in a discussion of intersectionality and the mainstream cultural forces that impact SEAA males.  相似文献   

The Neighborhood School Concept: A Real History     

Luis Fuentes 《Equity & Excellence in Education》2013,46(3-6):64-67

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Determinants of cultural and popular celebration attendance: the case study of Seville Spring Fiestas     

María Luisa Palma  Luis Palma  Luis Fernando Aguado 《Journal of Cultural Economics》2013,37(1):87-107

The Spring Fiestas in Seville (Spain) (SFS) are the most important cultural events in the city each year. The present paper pursues two aims. The first is to characterize the SFS as a new prototype of a complex cultural good that expresses the link between the people and the place in which they live based on material and immaterial cultural heritage represented through popular celebrations. The second goal is to conduct an empirical analysis of the determinants that shape attendance intensity by estimating a zero-truncated count data model using a unique dataset of attendees at the SFS in 2009. Findings indicate that attendance is strongly associated with variables reflecting knowledge, institutional links, past experiences, and the perceived external benefits generated by the existence of the SFS. The article contributes to the literature by exploring participation in popular celebrations, a field of inquiry that to date is extremely limited in cultural economics.  相似文献