The struggle for marriage: elite and non-elite weddings in rural Namibia

Psychological Skills of Elite and Non-Elite Volleyball Players

The present paper aimed to study and compare some psychological skills of elite and non-elite volleyball players in the City of Urmia. Statistical population included all volleyball players of Urmia in the premier league and youth competitions, among of whom 60 male athletes with an average age, weight, and height of 24±1.68, 78±2.86, and 188±2.53, respectively, were selected by non-random and ...

Elite or non elite: ccomparing mindfulness Items in Iranian athletes

The purpose of this study was to compare selected Mindful skills in Iranian athletes.  The athlete's sample included 112 athletes with 23.6 average. The FFMQ has been shown to have strong psychometric characteristics, including adequate to excellent internal consistencies for all five facets (Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.72 to 0.92) as well as good construct validity (2). Cronbach's alpha fo...

The key to success in elite athletes? Explicit and implicit motor learning in youth elite and non-elite soccer players.

In sports, fast and accurate execution of movements is required. It has been shown that implicitly learned movements might be less vulnerable than explicitly learned movements to stressful and fast changing circumstances that exist at the elite sports level. The present study provides insight in explicit and implicit motor learning in youth soccer players with different expertise levels. Twenty...

Marriage and Elite Structure in Renaissance Florence , 1282

The Marriage Core of the Elite Network of Colonial Guatemala

The problem addressed is how an elite group manages to trap recycle wealth intergenerationally through marriage strategies. Following Houseman and White's (1998b) definition of the core of a marriage network, we identify the core of the elite network of colonial Guatemala in the period 1640 and 1820 in structural terms, in relation both to the concept of marriage relinking (Jola, Verdier, Zonab...