Wartime rugby and football: sports elites, French military teams and international meets during the First World War     

Waquet A  Vincent J 《国际体育史杂志》2011,28(3-4):372-392

The First World War is traditionally considered in history as a temporary halt for cultural and sporting activities. If the Olympic Games and the Tour de France were actually cancelled, football and rugby were in fact stimulated by the circumstances of war. Indeed, the gathering of allied nations behind the Western Front emerged as the main factor in the development of these two sports. Reading the sporting press and military archives shows that international sporting exchanges were stimulated during the Great War. To be specific, France benefited from the golden opportunity provided by the presence of the masters of the game to strengthen its practices and affirm its status as a sporting nation. Inter-allied sporting exchanges were primarily characterised by informal encounters between military selections. Then, following the recognition of these sports by the military authorities, the number of exchanges increased. At the end of 1917, the official status acquired by sport within the military forces created the conditions for the structuring of the French sporting elite. From that point, we can witness the birth of the first French military rugby and football teams, as they demonstrate, through their good performances during the demobilisation period, the progressive build-up of the international dimension of French sport during the war years.  相似文献   

Sport in the trenches: the new deal for masculinity in France     

Waquet A 《国际体育史杂志》2011,28(3-4):331-350

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Politics by Science     

Rasmussen  Nicolas 《Minerva》2003,41(1):83-87

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Life Science: The French Connection     

Rasmussen  Nicolas 《Metascience》2003,12(2):205-207

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Magnetophoretic manipulation in microsystem using carbonyl iron-polydimethylsiloxane microstructures     

Magalie Faivre  Renaud Gelszinnis  Jér?me Degouttes  Nicolas Terrier  Charlotte Rivière  Rosaria Ferrigno  Anne-Laure Deman 《Biomicrofluidics》2014,8(5)

This paper reports the use of a recent composite material, noted hereafter i-PDMS, made of carbonyl iron microparticles mixed in a PolyDiMethylSiloxane (PDMS) matrix, for magnetophoretic functions such as capture and separation of magnetic species. We demonstrated that this composite which combine the advantages of both components, can locally generate high gradients of magnetic field when placed between two permanent magnets. After evaluating the magnetic susceptibility of the material as a function of the doping ratio, we investigated the molding resolution offered by i-PDMS to obtain microstructures of various sizes and shapes. Then, we implemented 500 μm i-PDMS microstructures in a microfluidic channel and studied the influence of flow rate on the deviation and trapping of superparamagnetic beads flowing at the neighborhood of the composite material. We characterized the attraction of the magnetic composite by measuring the distance from the i-PDMS microstructure, at which the beads are either deviated or captured. Finally, we demonstrated the interest of i-PDMS to perform magnetophoretic functions in microsystems for biological applications by performing capture of magnetically labeled cells.  相似文献   

Teachers’ perceptions and A‐level performance: is there any evidence of systematic bias?     

Martin Snell  Sherria Hoskins  Arnaud Chevalier 《牛津教育评论》2013,39(4):403-423

Applications for places in UK Higher Education are usually made before the results of A‐level examinations are known, so references from schools and colleges normally refer to expected (or predicted) grades. Inaccuracies in these predictions may be systematically related to key characteristics of the applicant and could lead to under‐representation from various groups of students. This paper examines data on predicted A‐level grades for 415 recently‐enrolled university students. In contrast to the findings of previous studies however, we find that prediction bias is not particularly related to the gender, class or schooling of the student, but is closely linked to the predicted grades themselves—students predicted low grades performed above expectations, and vice‐versa. The implications of this for current UK government initiatives intended to widen participation in Higher Education are considered briefly in the conclusion.  相似文献   

Referees' use of heuristics: The moderating impact of standard of competition     

Nicolas Souchon  Genevieve Cabagno  Alan Traclet  David Trouilloud  Gregory Maio 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(7):695-700

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The influence of players' standard of competition on referees' decision making was investigated. Standard of competition was examined by studying 30 handball matches, 15 at League and 15 at National standard. At both standards, we examined two types of refereeing decision (sporting and disciplinary) after transgressions that varied in ambiguity. The results indicated that referees made more lenient decisions at higher standards of competition, but this tendency depended on the type of decision being made and ambiguity in the offence. The hypothesis that referees use standard of competition as a judgemental heuristic, but in varying ways, was supported.  相似文献   

Leg mass characteristics of accurate and inaccurate kickers – an Australian football perspective     

Nicolas H. Hart  Sophia Nimphius  Jodie L. Cochrane  Robert U. Newton 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(15):1647-1655

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Athletic profiling provides valuable information to sport scientists, assisting in the optimal design of strength and conditioning programmes. Understanding the influence these physical characteristics may have on the generation of kicking accuracy is advantageous. The aim of this study was to profile and compare the lower limb mass characteristics of accurate and inaccurate Australian footballers. Thirty-one players were recruited from the Western Australian Football League to perform ten drop punt kicks over 20 metres to a player target. Players were separated into accurate (n = 15) and inaccurate (n = 16) groups, with leg mass characteristics assessed using whole body dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans. Accurate kickers demonstrated significantly greater relative lean mass (P ≤ 0.004) and significantly lower relative fat mass (P ≤ 0.024) across all segments of the kicking and support limbs, while also exhibiting significantly higher intra-limb lean-to-fat mass ratios for all segments across both limbs (P ≤ 0.009). Inaccurate kickers also produced significantly larger asymmetries between limbs than accurate kickers (P ≤ 0.028), showing considerably lower lean mass in their support leg. These results illustrate a difference in leg mass characteristics between accurate and inaccurate kickers, highlighting the potential influence these may have on technical proficiency of the drop punt.  相似文献   

Do weight categories prevent athletes from relative age effect?     

Nicolas Delorme 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(1):16-21

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The aim of this study was to investigate whether weight categories prevent young athletes from being exposed to a relative age effect. The dates of birth of all French female (n = 727) and male (n = 5440) amateur boxers who participated in the 2010–2011 season were collected from the federation database. The dates of birth of all French male professional boxers (n = 354) were also collected. The results show an absence of a relative age effect among French female and male amateur boxers. The results also show an absence of this phenomenon among French male professional boxers. The male 18–18+ age category reveal an inverse relative age effect. This inverse relative age effect might be interpreted as the result of a strategic adaptation from relatively younger children who shift from one sport to another where there are weight categories in order to ensure fair competition. The results of this study suggest that the weight category system is a possible solution within the relative age effect phenomenon.  相似文献   

Under Pressure: Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism     

Tarla Rai Peterson  Nicolas Hernandez 《Quarterly Journal of Speech》2018,104(3):349-352

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