Wissenschaftliche Literatur Technique

Janez Vodičar / Bojan Jošt

Reliability and Validity of the Skijumping Technique Factors

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

The new book by the experienced authors in sports presents research in the ski jumping technique based on selected dynamic and kinematic factors.

Ski jumping is a technically challenging sport and the most important for jump realization are stability, reliability and validity.

The authors divided the ski jumping technique into a sequence of specific movements in four phases (in-run, take-off, flight, and landing), and gave a detailed explanation of…

Mareike Elisabeth Hinsch

User Innovation in Techniques

Empirical Studies in the Medical Devices Industry

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Techniques, i.e. systematic activities to accomplish a complex task, play an important role in innovation as they often are a prerequisite for the development of new products or increase the benefit drawn from already existing products. Users are a primary source of new techniques. Even though user-generated techniques are a pervasive phenomenon which can be observed in many different contexts, existing research on user innovation has focused on product and service…

Frane Erčulj, Vinko Zovko

Basketball Shooting: A Science-based Approach to Coaching

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

"The book offers everything a basketball coach, player, or enthusiast should ever know about this important element of the game with the orange ball – that can never be mastered to perfection. There is always something small left to be fixed with extra work. This book, which should not be missing in the collection of any true basketball fan, will be of great help to all."

Goran Dragić, basketball player [...]

Helmut Wasserbacher

Causal Inference and Causal Machine Learning for Data-Driven Management

Applications in Corporate Finance and Marketing

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

The availability of large amounts of data, coupled with artificial intelligence and machine learning as suitable techniques to exploit them, has led to increasing interest in data-driven management. Data are turned into insights, and insights into management decisions.

In the midst of this passion for artificial intelligence, practitioners must remain aware that most machine learning methods maximize predictive performance. This is not the same as identifying…

Bojan Jošt / Janez Vodičar

Development of the Ski Jump Hill Profile from the Viewpoint of Ski Jumping Technique

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

Historicallly, the development of ski jumping hills has been in line with the development of ski jumping techniques. The development of ski jumping centers around the world has made great progress over the past decade, as new ones have been built and many existing centers have been modernized. This monograph presents the brief development of the world’s most recognized ski jumping centers. As a rule, their development has been associated with the organization of major…

Peter Berk / Denis Stajnko / Aleš Belšak

Sensor Based Alternative Plant Protection Product Application Techniques in Orchards

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Dieses Buch stellt die Entwicklung und den Stand der Technik alternativer Pflanzenschutzmittel-Anwendungstechniken auf der Grundlage verschiedener Prinzipien des Sprühgerätebetriebs in den letzten Jahrzehnten dar.

Nach der massiven Einführung der Sprühgeräte in die Obstbauproduktion wurde die Dosierung des Pflanzenschutzmittels (PSM) zur ersten wichtigen Aufgabe, die es zu lösen galt, da es zunächst zu einer enormen Abweichung in den Obstgärten aufgrund der…

Robert Celec

Contribution to the Solution of some Ecological Problems Under the Aspect of Sustainability

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

The scientific monograph Contribution to the Solution of some Ecological Problems Under the Aspect of Sustainability features six scientific articles that cover different environmental topics.

The first article explores the prevalence and species of ectoparasites in feral pigeons in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The second article discusses the importance of green buildings and safe construction facilities for sustainable community health…

W. Eckart Jonas

Die Persönlichkeit im Formdeut-Versuch

Leitfaden der morphologischen Psychodiagnostik

Schriften zur medizinischen Psychologie

Die allseits bekannten Testbilder mit Farbklecksen enthalten rätselhafte Gestalten, die zu spezifischen Phantasien anregen. Ihr Vorkommen wurde im Hotzman-Inkblot-Verfahren in validen Skalen für verschiedene Bevölkerungsgruppen erfasst, die, gestalttheoretisch begründet, zu verschiedenen Fragestellungen insbesondere der forensischen Psychiatrie, Schulpsychologie und Psychotherapie diagnostische Hilfen geben können.

Der Verfasser wandte schon in seiner Zeit als…

Urška Štremfel

A Decade After the Lisbon Strategy: Decisive for the Development of the EU and National Educational Space

Schriften zur Europapolitik

For a long time, education had been a more or less neglected policy field in European integration. The Lisbon Strategy (2000) marked the turning point, when education was first recognised as important for the social and economic development of the European Union (EU). Since then, EU cooperation in the field has significantly widened and deepened. Following the implementation of two strategic frameworks for European cooperation in education and training (2000–2010,…

Marek Krawiec / Robert Pritchard (eds.)

Seize the Day: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

In Seize the Day: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, educators from several European countries consider new conditions and expectations in foreign-language (FL) teaching, and how teachers may best serve their learners in a changed and changing world.

The volume begins with several articles on the role and attributes of the FL teacher. With a focus on learners that permeates the volume, Marek Krawiec and Agnieszka Miklasz report…