Adolescent disengagement in school and school-related activities continues to be a national problem (Christenson, Reschly, & Wylie, 2012; Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, 2009). Recent research has shown that allowing choice in what adolescents read in school and school-related activities strengthens student engagement (Kittle, 2013; Lee, 2011; Miller, 2009). Much of this literature,...

Following variables were selected Somatotype : Endomorph, Mesomorph and Ectomorph. Psychological Variables: Achievement motivation, Sports Competition anxiety and Sports Aggression. Fitness test: modified Canadian test Achievement Motivation was measured by Sports Achievement Motivation Test (SAMT). Sports Competition Anxiety was measured by Sports Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT). The aggressio...

This literature review evaluates the significance of dental injuries and their relationship to specific sports activities. Many studies have been published on individual sports or groups of sports but most pertain to specific age groups or levels of competition. Research suggests that many sports that do not require mouthguards should encourage male and female participants to use orofacial prot...

College sports are a multi-billion dollar industry that have grown and will continue to grow with the founding and development of ESPN and other sports information technologies. Initially the author sought out to find relationships between winning on the field and academic advancement off the field, but quickly realized there was another story to be told. He examines the college sports scene wi...

This document provides an overview of selected medical issues that are important to team physicians who are responsible for the care and treatment of athletes. It is not intended as a standard of care and should not be interpreted as such. This document is only a guide and, as such, is of a general nature, consistent with the reasonable, objective practice of the healthcare profession. Adequate...

World economy is in the trend of globalization while Chinese urbanization construction has also constantly developed. Nation has paid more and more attention to spiritual cultural construction and sports cultural construction. Nowadays, people sports consciousness strengthens, however it cannot speed up traditional sports events development, which attracts masses attention. The paper takes stil...

An advanced content-based sports video browsing and retrieval system, SportsVBR, is proposed in this work. Its main features include event-based sports video browsing and keyword-based sports video retrieval. The paper first defines the basic structure of our SportsVBR system, and then introduces a novel approach that integrates multimodal analysis, such as visual streams analysis, speech recog...

In sports motion analysis, observation is a prerequisite for understanding the quality of motions. This paper introduces a novel approach to detect and segment sports motions using a wearable sensor for supporting systematic observation. The main goal is, for convenient analysis, to automatically provide motion data, which are temporally classified according to the phase definition. For explici...