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The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis
The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis is a groundbreaking edited book – the first devoted solely to mixed methods research analyses, or mixed analyses. Each of the 30 seminal chapters, authored by internationally renowned scholars, provides a simple and practical introduction to a method of mixed analysis. Each chapter demonstrates "how to conduct the analysis" in easy-to-understand language. Many of the chapters present new topics that have never been written before, and all chapters offer cutting-edge approaches to analysis. The book contains the following four sections: Part I Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Data (e.g., factor analysis of text, multidimension...
Mixed Methods Research in the Movement Sciences
Mixed methods research techniques, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements, have become well established throughout the social, behavioural and natural sciences. This is the first book to focus on the application of mixed methods research in the movement sciences, specifically in sport, physical education and dance. Researchers and practitioners in each of these fields are concerned with the study of habitual behaviour in naturalistic contexts, and of the concurrent and sequential nature of events and states, precisely the kind of work that multi-method research design can help illuminate. The book is arranged into four sections. The first provides a thorough overview of mixed m...
Spatial-temporal Metrics to Assess Collective Behavior in Team Sports
Team sports performance functions as a complex system, and players from different positions exhibit a tendency to form team synergies into coordinated patterns contingent upon task orientation, whether in the attacking or defensive phases. This inherent organizational process manifests self-organizing, nonlinear, and dynamic characteristics. In a traditional way, match performance analysis has mainly focused on event data with frequency tables and sequential systems. Such isolated, single-dimensional, and descriptive analysis of high-level football performance provides limited information about what actually constitutes individual behaviors and teams’ collective performance, and will inevi...
From Communication to Presence
Communication is the core activity for an educator, conveying and sharing information from one person to another, from one organization to another. This work includes contributions which encompass a series of topics in communication psychology.
The Hidden Structure of Interaction
The idea of complexity states that most things tend to organize themselves into recurring patterns, even when these patterns are not immediately visible to an external observer. The general name for the scientific field concerned with the behaviour over time of a dynamic system is complexity theory. The dynamic systems - systems capable of changing over time - are the focus of this approach, and its concern is with the predictability of their behaviour. The systems of interest to the complexity theory, under certain conditions, perform in regular, predictable ways; under other conditions they exhibit behaviour in which regularity and predictability is lost. The concepts of stable and unstabl...
Systematic Observation: Engaging Researchers in the Study of Daily Life as It Is Lived
Assessment in natural contexts through observation is unquestionably complex. Systematic observation grounded in observational methodology offers a wide range of possibilities to the rigorous study of everyday behavior in their natural context. These possibilities have been enriched in recent decades with the explosion of information and communication technologies. In this eBook we assemble 23 articles from several researchers who have made important contributions to this evolving field. The articles included in this eBook has been organized with a first part on general methodological developments and a second part with methodological contributions that emphasize different application areas. Considering the enormous possibilities of the systematic observation in the study of daily life, we hope this eBook will be useful to understand innovative applications in different fields.
Behavior and Self-Similarity between Nano and Human Scales: From T-pattern and T-string Analysis (TPA) with THEME to T-Societies
This project was inspired in the sixties by primatologist D. Morris’s “The Naked Ape”, Niko Tinbergen, K. Lorenz, and K. von Frisch ethological research rewarded in 1973 by a shared Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology and E. O. Wilson’s 1975 opus “Sociobiology”. Other important inspirations were B. F. Skinner’s work on probabilistic real-time contingencies, N. Chomsky’s on syntactic structure and creativity, H. Montagner’s on interactions in social insects and children, S. Duncan’s on turn-taking in human dyadic interactions, and Richard Dawkins’ on behavioral hierarchy and detection algorithms. Structured animal mass-societies (>104 individuals) are only found in insects and modern humans and understanding their similarities and differences became a major aim through a search for hidden interaction patterns. Existing multivariate and artificial neural network methods and models lacked adequate description and detection of complex real-time patterns requiring new mathematical time structure (1-D) models, now the T-system, with detection algorithms and software (THEME™).
Advances in Sport Science: Latest Findings and New Scientific Proposals, volume II
This Research Topic is the second volume of the Research Topic 'Advances in Sports Science: Latest Findings and New Scientific Proposals'. Please see the first volume here. In the realm of sports, precise measurement is crucial. Over the past 30 years, the scientific exploration of physical activity and sports has seen continuous growth. Enhancing athlete performance through evidence-based strategies and recommendations has become imperative. Numerous sports and disciplines leverage empirical evidence to boost performance in competitions, including sports training, where both groups and individuals embrace novel methodologies and intervention proposals. Despite the expansive knowledge surrounding sports, there remains a need for more in-depth research. Established approaches like sports physiology, behavior analysis, performance analysis, sports psychology, innovative methodologies, the latest training proposals, and new statistical techniques must continue to evolve.
