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Contents: 1. Interceptive Actions in Sport: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Applications 2. Cognitive Expertise and Interceptive Actions 3. Visual Search and Cue Utilisation in Racket Sport 4. Vision and Proprioception in Controlling a Soccer Ball 5. Learning to Cross a Balance Beam: Implications for Teachers, Coaches and Therapists 6. Implicit and Explicit Learning in Golf Putting 7. Visual Information for One-Handed Catching 8. Intercepting Accelerating Objects 9. Catching Fly Balls 10. Auditory Information for Ball Catching 11. Sensitivity of Children and Adults to Haptic Information in Wielding Tennis Rackets 12. Perception and Action During Interceptive Tasks: An Integrative Modelling Perspective 13. Co-ordination Dynamics of Interceptive Actions 14. Bimanual Co-ordination in Catching Behaviour 15. Co-ordination in the Volleyball Serve: Expert-Novice Differences 16. Co-ordination and control of kicking in Soccer 17. Acquiring Co-ordination in Self-Paced Extrinsic Timing Tasks 18. Control of Grip Force in Interceptive Sport Actions 19. Grip Force Dynamics in Cricket Batting 20. Regulating Stride Parameters in the Long Jump Approach Phase 21. Co-ordination and Control of the Triple Jump Run-Up
Dynamic interceptive actions play a significant role in human behaviour, and are central to all forms of sporting activity. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive review of current theoretical research on dynamic interceptive actions, as well as demonstrating the connections between theory and practice for a wide range of key sporting skills. An international team of authors, including many of the key figures in the field, present important new work on many of the most fundamental sporting actions such as : *catching * hitting * external-paced striking * self-paced timing tasks * locomotion towards targets or long surfaces * kicking. This book offers a wealth of theoretical material, as well as unique analysis of dynamic interceptive actions in practice. It will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in motor control and skill acquisition, and will also be of interest to students and practitioners in sport psychology, movement science and coaching science.
Risk is an enduring theme of modern life. It permeates political,
economic and environmental domains. Some risks are unavoidable.
Others are not. Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster
Management provides ideas and action plans for in a risk society.
Dealing with issues of civil safety and security, the book
addresses the management of socio-technical risks and hazards,
environmental risk, and risk perception. Focusing on risk
reduction, chapters cover key themes such as terrorism, public
order, emergency responding, energy supply, climate change, and
natural disasters. Featuring contributions from expert scholars,
the book is both accessible and original. Practitioners in the
emergency services, industry and commerce will find the book to be
valuable reading, whilst for policy makers, students and academics
with a focus on risk and crisis management, this is an essential
reference.
Risk is an enduring theme of modern life. It permeates political,
economic and environmental domains. Some risks are unavoidable.
Others are not. Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster
Management provides ideas and action plans for in a risk society.
Dealing with issues of civil safety and security, the book
addresses the management of socio-technical risks and hazards,
environmental risk, and risk perception. Focusing on risk
reduction, chapters cover key themes such as terrorism, public
order, emergency responding, energy supply, climate change, and
natural disasters. Featuring contributions from expert scholars,
the book is both accessible and original. Practitioners in the
emergency services, industry and commerce will find the book to be
valuable reading, whilst for policy makers, students and academics
with a focus on risk and crisis management, this is an essential
reference.
The fourth edition of Object- Oriented Systems Analysis and Design
has been revised and updated to reflect the most up-to-date
approaches to information systems development. Still a best-seller
in its field, Bennett's, McRobb's and Farmer's text remains a key
teaching resource for Systems Analysis and Design courses at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level. The book provides a clear,
practical framework for development that uses all the major
techniques from UML 2.2. It follows an iterative and incremental
approach based on the industry-standard Unified Process, placing
systems analysis and design in the context of the whole systems
lifestyle. Structured in four parts, the first provides the
background to information systems analysis and design and to
object-orientation. The second part focuses on the activities of
requirements gathering and systems analysis, as well as the basic
notation of UML. Part three covers the activities of systems
architecture and design, and UML notation for object design, and
the book concludes with the implementation of systems and the
issues of how the systems life cycle is organized and how reusable
components can be developed.
A manifesto for the systems-thinking-informed approach to incident
and accident investigation, this accessible text is aimed at
experts and generalists. A Glossary of Terms explains key concepts.
The premise is both unoriginal and original. Unoriginal, because it
stands on the shoulders of systems-thinking pioneers - Barry
Turner, Bruno Latour, Charles Perrow, Erik Hollnagel, Diane Vaughan
and other luminaries. Original, because it is populist: The
Systems-thinking for Safety series shows how theoretical insights
can help make the world a safer place. Potentially, the series as a
whole, and this manifesto text, have agency. True to its mission to
affect change, the book uses case studies to demonstrate how
systems-thinking can help stakeholders learn from incidents,
accidents and near-misses. The case studies of, for example, the
Piper Alpha and Deepwater Horizon offshore disasters, the
Lac-Megantic rail disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster,
the United States Navy collisions and the Grenfell Tower fire,
demonstrate the universal applicability of systems-thinking. The
manifesto argues that the systems-thinking informed approach to
incident, accident and near-miss investigation, while resource
intensive and effortful, produces tangible safety benefits and, by
ensuring that "right is done", delivers justice and closure.
In the more than seven years since the Object Management Group
(OMG) adopted the Unified Modeling Language (UML), UML has
established itself as the de facto industry standard for modeling
software systemsIn 2001 OMG put together a task force to revise UML
Version 1.0. In March of 2003, UML Version 2.0 was finalized and
rolled out to the 35 major companies participating in the adoption
effort and made available to the public. This book provides a
step-by-step guide to the notation and use of UML, one of the most
widely used, object-oriented notation systems/programming languages
in existence. The outline demonstrates the use of the techniques
and notation of UML through case studies in systems analysis,
showing the student clearly how UML is used in all kinds of
practical situations. This revised edition will discuss the new
infrastructure of the latest UML Version 2.0, and will include new
examples, review questions, and notations.
This book paints a detailed picture of the commercial pilot
lifestyle, from the struggle to pay for training to time spent down
route to thoughts of retirement. Once a glamorous occupation,
commercial flying is today more of a job than a vocation with many
pilots working the maximum permissible hours for increasingly
meagre rewards under evermore stressful conditions. Pilots talk
candidly about acute and chronic fatigue, short-notice roster
changes that leave them insufficiently rested, noisy and poorly
serviced down-route hotels, long daily commutes to work,
indebtedness, fear of losing their pilot's licence, industry
volatility, dread of lay-off or redundancy, the quality and agendas
of airline managers, the impact of these and other stressors on
family life and where they think the aviation industry is going.
Despite these privations pilots remain enthusiastic - a testament
to their professionalism and love of flying.
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