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Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Strength and Conditioning for Young Athletes: Science and Application offers an evidence-based introduction to the theory and practice of strength and conditioning for young athletes. Fully revised and updated, this second edition draws on leading research to offer a holistic approach to training centred on the concept of long-term athletic development and the welfare of the young athlete. With 20 new authors and 8 new chapters, the book explores every key topic in strength and conditioning applied to young athletes, including: - - Growth and maturation - - - Talent identification and talent development - - - Monitoring and assessment - - - Coaching young athletes - - - Motor skill development - - - Strength development and plyometrics - - - Speed and agility development - - - Metabolic conditioning - - - Mobility and flexibility - - - Periodisation and nutritional strategies - - - Injury prevention and wellbeing - - - Developing a holistic programme for young athletes. - Written by a team of leading international strength and conditioning experts and paediatric sport scientists, the book includes expanded practical guidelines in every chapter to show how the latest scientific research can be applied by coaches to optimise young athletic potential. Including sample training programmes and exercises throughout, this is an essential resource for all students of strength and conditioning or paediatric exercise science, as well as any coach and athletic trainer working with children and young people.

Design of High Strength Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns - Sing Ping (singapore Institute Of Technology) Chiew - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc -

This book is the companion volume to Design Examples for High Strength Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns – A Eurocode 4 Approach . Guidance is much needed on the design of high strength steel reinforced concrete (SRC) columns beyond the remit of Eurocode 4. Given the much narrower range of permitted concrete and steel material strengths in comparison to EC2 and EC3, and the better ductility and buckling resistance of SRC columns compared to steel or reinforced concrete, there is a clear need for design beyond the guidelines. This book looks at the design of SRC columns using high strength concrete, high strength structural steel and high strength reinforcing steel materials – columns with concrete cylinder strength up to 90 N/mm 2 , yield strength of structural steel up to 690 N/mm 2 and yield strength of reinforcing steel up to 600 N/mm 2 respectively. The companion volume provides detailed worked examples on use of these high strength materials. This book is written primarily for structural engineers and designers who are familiar with basic EC4 design, and should also be useful to civil engineering undergraduate and graduate students who are studying composite steel concrete design and construction. Equations for design resistances are presented clearly so that they can be easily programmed into design spreadsheets for ease of use.

Incidental Trainer - Margaret Wan - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

"We have trained and trained. The employees still don’t get it!" Although a critical component in improving organizational performance, training is usually not conducted effectively and results in a waste of resources. Often, subject-matter experts are given training responsibilities because of their technical expertise; however, just as often, these subject-matter experts, or "incidental trainers," do not have a background in adult education, training, or facilitation. Incidental Trainer: A Reference Guide for Training Design, Development, and Delivery provides an evidence-based reference to successful training for subject-matter experts in any discipline who want to achieve the effectiveness of a professional trainer. Organizations assume that subject-matter experts can train others, creating difficult situations for incidental trainers who may be at a loss on where to begin. This book guides incidental trainers through the process of training design, development, and delivery to help them achieve effectiveness in their training program. It explains the fundamental steps from assessing the training needs to validating the training program. The book then discusses advanced topics, such as how to build a business case for the training budget and training in the virtual environment. The changing demographics of the workforce and technologies in delivery methods require adoption of new instructional strategies. Packed with practical tips for implementation in the real world, the book clearly details training techniques that incidental trainers can use to become proficient as professional trainers in enhancing training effectiveness to support organizational goals.

Occupational Therapy Manual for the Evaluation of Range of Motion and Muscle Strength - Donna Latella - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Aimed at occupational therapy practitioners, this practical and comprehensive manual demonstrates how different assessment tools can be used to evaluate the range of motion, and strength of clients, during physical rehabilitation. The book covers the key areas of evaluation that therapists need to understand, including activity analysis, clinical observation, active range of motion, gross motor testing, goniometry, and isolated muscle testing. Reconfigured to match the clinical reasoning process, this new edition has also been reorganized by region and by joint motion to make it more user-friendly, mirroring the process by which an evaluation is conducted in practice. Also included are various appendices to support the transition to practice, as well as an "At a Glance" version of the manual itself. This is an essential manual for both occupational therapy practitioners and students in training.

Trainer's Problem-Solving Manual for Kick Down the Door of Complacency - Charles C. Harwood - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book presents instructional directions to enable people to learn a basic operational problem-solving method by applying it to two case studies, conducted in two workshops. It provides materials to be used by the workshop participants and directions for the trainer conducting the workshops.

Skills, Drills & Strategies for Strength Training - David Newberry - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book is part of the Teach, Coach, Play series, emphasizing a systematic learning approach to sports and activities. Both visual and verbal information are presented so that readers can easily understand the material and improve performance. Built-in learning aids help readers master each skill in a step-by-step manner. Using the cues, summaries, skills, drills, and illustrations will help build a solid foundation for safe and effective participation now and in the future. The basic approach in all of the Teach, Coach, Play activity titles is to help readers improve their skills and performance by building mastery from simple to increasingly complex levels. The books strive to illustrate correct techniques and demonstrate how to achieve optimal results. The basic organization in each book is as follows: Section 1 overviews history, organizations and publications, conditioning activities, safety, warm up suggestions, and equipment. Section 2 covers exercise or skills, participants, action involved, rules, facility or field, scoring, and etiquette. Section 3 focuses on skills and drills or program design. Section 4 addresses a broad range of strategies specifically designed to improve performance now and in the future. Section 5 provides a convenient glossary of terms.

The Practical Library Trainer - Ruth C Carter - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Family Cycles - Allan C. Carlson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

In this paradigm-shifting volume, Allan C. Carlson identifies and examines four distinct cycles of strength or weakness of American family systems. This distinctly American family model includes early and nearly universal marriage, high fertility, close attention to parental responsibilities, complementary gender roles, meaningful intergenerational bonds, and relative stability. Notably, such traits distinguish the "strong" American family system from the "weak" European model (evident since 1700), which involves late marriage, a high proportion of the adult population never married, significantly lower fertility, and more divorces. The author shows that these cycles of strength and weakness have occurred, until recently, in remarkably consistent fifty-year swings in the United States since colonial times. The book''s chapters are organized around these 50-year time frames. There have been four family cycles of strength and decline since 1630, each one lasting about one hundred years. The author argues that fluctuations within this cyclical model derive from intellectual, economic, cultural, and religious influences, which he explores in detail, and supports with considerable evidence.

Culture Of Honor - Richard E Nisbett - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book focuses on a singular cause of male violence—the perpetrator''s sense of threat to one of his most valued possessions, namely, his reputation for strength and toughness. The theme of this book is that the Southern United States had—and has—a type of culture of honor.

Yoga for the Brain - Dawn Diprince - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Intended for ages 12 and upwards, this work contains daily exercises, which include more than 365 topics. These activities encourage writers to have fun, take risks, and write in creative ways. The writing prompts range from the serious to the bizarre, with the intention of exercising writing muscles, regardless of the writer's strength.

Violence Against Women and the Law - Jillienne Haglund - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the strength of laws addressing four types of violence against women--rape, marital rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment--in 196 countries from 2007 to 2010. It analyzes why these laws exist in some places and not others, and why they are stronger or weaker in places where they do exist. The authors have compiled original data that allow them to test various hypotheses related to whether international law drives the enactment of domestic legal protections. They also examine the ways in which these legal protections are related to economic, political, and social institutions, and how transnational society affects the presence and strength of these laws. The original data produced for this book make a major contribution to comparisons and analyses of gender violence and law worldwide.

Constructionist Controversies - James A. Holstein - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

"Constructionist Controversies" reviews the substantial contributions to social problems theory that have been made by social constructionist theorists and examines debates about the future of this perspective. Intended for the student, the volume provides a succinct formulation of all the major issues of social constructionism by contributors who are well recognized within the field for the strength with which they articulate their own widely varied viewpoints.

Principles of Pharmacology for Athletic Trainers - Teresa M. Seefeldt - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Principles of Pharmacology for Athletic Trainers, Third Edition continues the tradition of past editions to provide applications of pharmacological principles specifically aimed at the athletic trainer. The drug categories that are included are primarily those that may be pertinent to the treatment of athletic injuries or that may affect athletic performance. Drs. Joel Houglum, Gary Harrelson, and Teresa Seefeldt have taken a unique aspect to the organization and design of the Third Edition to be instructional discussions regarding the use and effects of drugs and of the disease states treated by these drug categories. Additionally, there is a specific discussion of the role of the athletic trainer regarding the therapeutic use and effects of these drugs. Features of the Third Edition : - Satisfies all of the CAATE Educational Competencies on pharmacology - Advanced organizers and specific learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter - Summaries after each major topic within the chapter - Case studies and clinical applications - Discussion on popular fitness supplements - Key words are in italics and defined in the glossary - Concept maps present important, yet complex, processes in a concise, graphical way - Shaded textboxes throughout include additional information and are beneficial for the reader to recall a key concept addressed in an earlier chapter - New ancillary materials specifically for faculty that include PowerPoint slides and test bank questions for each chapter Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. Principles of Pharmacology for Athletic Trainers, Third Edition will continue to be the go-to resource to determine the best pharmacological treatment strategy and management by athletic trainers.

Biomechanics - Krystyna Gielo Perczak - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This full-color biomechanics textbook comprehensively covers biomechanics theory, while emphasizing and encouraging students’ creativity through interactive examples using professional computer simulation software. It provides novel problem-solving techniques based on learning experiments and interactive computer simulations with design feedback requirements. Drawing on the author’s more than 10 years of teaching experience and influenced by an original learning model, this book teaches multidisciplinary methods of resolving and approaching complex problems, supported by mathematical analysis about how design parameters are influenced by a user’s physical and strength capabilities.

Empowering Children To Cope With Difficulty And Build Muscles For Mental health - Sandra F. Allen - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Providing a conceptual understanding and practical suggestions for educating children in skills that can promote their mental health, this text presents principles for effective delivery of suggested intervention techniques. Chapters in the first section of the text focus on helping children to deal with problem situations. The second section provides Information To Promote Emotionally Healthy Children, Including A knowledge of self, a respect for self and others, healthy habit strength, and a balance between work and play. Suggestions are also provided for enhancing intervention efforts and principles proven effective in mental health education.

How to Run Reflective Practice Groups - Arabella Kurtz - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

In How to Run Reflective Practice Groups: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals , Arabella Kurtz explores the use of reflective practice in the modern healthcare context. Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for reflective practice groups in healthcare and drawing on her extensive experience as a facilitator and trainer, Kurtz presents a fully developed, eight-stage model: The Intersubjective Model of Reflective Practice Groups. The book offers a guide to the organisation, structure and delivery of group sessions, with useful suggestions for overcoming commonly-encountered problems and promoting empathic relationships with clients and colleagues. Clearly and accessibly written, using full situational examples for each stage of the presented model, How to Run Reflective Practice Groups offers a comprehensive guide to facilitating reflective practice in healthcare.

Implementation of Total Quality Management - Erdener Kaynak - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Here is a comprehensive guide for training a workforce in Total Quality Management (TQM). An ideal resource for trainers, Total Quality Management Implementation contains a complete presentation of all relevant aspects of TQM. It provides a ready-made training format that can be used in all operational seminar/workshop contexts and includes a full set of charts for use by trainers in their presentations of TQM. The book assumes the trainer has a basic understanding of quality management, and it does not repeat the numerous discussions of TQM concepts readily available in other works. Total Quality Management Implementation begins with an overview of the current status of TQM in the United States. It then presents W. Edward Deming’s 14 point TQM philosophy, the core of his recommendations for achieving quality excellence through continuous improvement, along with a discussion of each point. The presentation charts have been designed to allow the trainer to adapt them to a particular organization’s unique characteristics and to supplement or add to them as necessary to fully explain each point to a particular audience. The charts are arranged in sequential order and follow the approach used by the author in training seminars around the world. Trainers can easily manipulate the length of the presentation for different audiences and purposes. A reference section lists many books on TQM principles which provide a helpful refresher. Total Quality Management Implementation is a unique and helpful guide for trainers with a basic knowledge of TQM, college or university faculty teaching TQM seminars or courses, and consultants and quality professionals who could use a reference and checklist of TQM principles.

Worst Things First - Adam M. Finkel - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates the controversy that ensues when previously implicit administrative processes are made explicit and subjected to critical examination. It reveals surprising limitations to quantitative risk assessment as an instrument for precise tuning of policy judgments. The book also demonstrates the strength of political and social forces opposing the exclusive use of risk assessment in setting environmental priorities.

The Art of Revitalization - Sean Zielenbach - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods. It explores the role of social capital in stabilizing and turning around distressed communities, and it highlights the roles that local actors can and do play in the revitalization process. The Art of Revitalization takes two Chicago neighborhoods, Englewood and North Lawndale, as case studies. Zielenbach discusses them in the context of racial change and urban decay in Chicago since World War II. The account of the changing neighborhoods is fascinating and clear, and the strength of the author''s portrayal of Chicago''s transformation sets the stage for his detailed analysis.

Education Now - Paul Theobald - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Education Now is a clear and persuasive account of the way in which popular seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theories about the human condition formed the basis for America''s choices in the realms of politics, economics, and education. Theobald chronicles the fate of alternative, less popular ideas about the human condition-ideas that would have led to vastly different political, economic, and educational landscapes than those we experience today. This book exposes the flaws among prevalent theories and the strength of those alternatives that were dismissed or ignored. In so doing, Theobald points the way toward substantive changes across three dimensions ubiquitous to human life: politics, economics, and education.

Prehistoric America - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The cultural parallels between widely separated but environmentally similar regions are often extraordinary, yet these parallels are discounted by anthropologists on the basis that they ignore a large mass of less similar data. Too often cultural parallels between distant regions have been taken for granted rather than recognized as phenomena that need to be explained. The thesis of Prehistoric America is that they are neither fortuitous nor inconsequential, but an indication of the strength of environmental pressures on cultural development. This work is an excellent introduction to the prehistoric cultures of North and South America, one that will help the reader to discover and enjoy the intellectual adventure of archeology.

Agenda Setting - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The role of the news media in defining the important issues of the day, also known as the agenda-setting influence of mass communication, has received widespread attention over the past 20 years. Since the publication of McCombs and Shaw''s seminal empirical study, more than one hundred journal articles and monographs have appeared. This collection exemplifies the major phases of research on agenda-setting: tests of the basic hypothesis, contingent conditions affecting the strength of this influence, the natural history of public issues, mass media influence on public policy, and the role of external sources from the president to public relations staffs on the news agenda.

Explorations In Global Ethics - Sumner B Twiss - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This volume for the first time brings the scholarly discipline of comparative religious ethics into constructive collaboration with the community of interreligious dialogue. Its design is premised on two important insights. First, interreligious dialogue offers to comparative religious ethics a new, more persuasive rationale, agenda of issues, and practical orientation. Second, comparative religious ethics offers to interreligious dialogue an arsenal of critical tools and methods which will enhance the sophistication of its practical work. In this way, both theory (a dominant concern and strength of comparative religious ethics) and praxis (a dominant concern and strength of interreligious moral dialogue) are joined together in mutual effort, each contributing to the benefit of the other.The volume''s contributors share this vision of collaboration, drawing explicitly from both communities of discourse in a manner that crosses disciplinary and professional boundaries to deal creatively and constructively with important methodological and global moral issue. Although theory and practice cannot easily be separated in such a collaborative project, for the purpose of clarity, the volume is divided into two main parts. The first specifically engages questions of method, theory, and the social role of the public intellectual; the second, on substantive moral themes and issues, many of which were raised at the 1993 Parliament. Taken together, the volume''s essays articulate and illustrate new ways of approaching contemporary moral concerns cross-culturally yet with a rigor appropriate to our complex and pluralistic world.

Best Team Skills - Lewis Losoncy - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Best Team Skills gives you the tools you need to achieve the highest performance through the most productive encouragement and motivational methods available. Dr. Losoncy identifies the 50 skills that will most encourage your team members. Using 100 encouragement opportunity exercises, he works as your personal trainer to reinforce your progress. Just as there are vital technical skills that team members need in their own areas of expertise, there are also consequential team skills that are necessary to build responsible, involved and committed team players. If you want to become a more encouraging team member or help your entire team to become mutual encouragers, Best Team Skills is for you. Written not only for your work team, you can also can also apply Losoncy''s techniques to your home or sports team. Presented in an easy-to-read format, each skill is put to use quickly for immediate feedback and success.

Personality in the Social Process - J. P. Wilson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

First published in 1985. This book presents a new way to ask an old question. Many fields have considered the nature of the influence that members of a group exert on the course of social events. Social science provides another way to examine this issue. Moreover, social science has a particular strength: It helps us to phrase questions more precisely than before, it encourages us to follow a line of rea­soning systematically, and it requires us to evaluate our ideas in light of a par­ticular kind of evidence. The authors want to use these strengths to explore systematically the ways that factors in the person and in the environment to­gether may shape the emergence of social behavior.