The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a self-report instrument that measures the nature of the coach-athlete relationship. Jowett et al.'s (Jowett & Meek, 2000; Jowett, in press) qualitative case studies and relevant literature were used to generate items for an instrument that measures affective, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of the coach-athlete relationship. Two st...

In February 2009, an outbreak of 38 cases of gastroenteritis occurred among the participants of two Dutch coach trips (A and B) who visited the same hotel in Germany. We initiated an outbreak investigation to determine possible risk of food-borne infection. A retrospective cohort study was performed among 87 passengers using a self-administered questionnaire. The response rate was 75 of 87 (86%...

Abstract Agile systems, like the Kanban and Scrum frameworks, are built on assumptions of sustainability stability, however, there is little empirical evidence whether such systems stable in practice or not. Therefore, this study we aim to inspect stability by leveraging concept described Queueing Theory. We define a novel metric, Stability Metric, as way assessing queueing especially systems. ...

The practice of sports favors the development physical, psychological and social skills participants. Recent studies have found a positive association between coach-athletes relationship life skills. Thus, aim this study was to investigate coach-athlete in handball athletes, comparing according sex, time, age group time with coach. included 101 athletes participating JAPS regional stage 2021, b...

The analysis of coach behaviour using information and communications technology has become an established area of research. Advances in the application of information technology have lead to analysis systems for sports being integrated with match video allowing interactive video feedback to be provided in an efficient and flexible manner. Commercial video analysis packages are not only useful f...

This article argues for a new way of studying executive-coaching outcomes, which is illustrated with a study based on data from 156 client–coach pairs. The argument accepts that we are unlikely to get robust data on coaching outcomes in the near future but assumes that we can expect similar effectiveness for coaching as that demonstrated in rigorous psychotherapy outcome research. Therefore, it...

PTSD Coach is a mobile application (app) designed to help individuals who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms better understand and self-manage their symptoms. It has wide-scale use (over 130,000 downloads in 78 countries) and very favorable reviews but has yet to be evaluated. Therefore, this study examines user satisfaction, perceived helpfulness, and usage patterns of PTSD Co...

MOTIVATION Alignments of two multiple-sequence alignments, or statistical models of such alignments (profiles), have important applications in computational biology. The increased amount of information in a profile versus a single sequence can lead to more accurate alignments and more sensitive homolog detection in database searches. Several profile-profile alignment methods have been proposed ...

In the Robot Soccer domain of RoboCup, a coach robot is allowed to provide strategic information to its team mates from the sidelines. To explore the possibilities and reliability of using a robot coach from a vision and localization perspective, our project looks at the ways to aid a robot player on the field. For the scope of the project, we restrict to oneway communication in the form of UDP...

In multiagent domains with adversarial and cooperative team agents, team agents should be adaptive to the current environment and opponent. We introduce an online method to provide the agents with team plans that a “coach” agent generates in response to the specific opponents. The coach agent can observe the agents’ behaviors but it has only periodic communication with the rest of the team. The...