Search for dissertations about: "Sport"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 193 swedish dissertations containing the word Sport.
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1. Sport Has Never Been Modern
University dissertation from Göteborg : Acta Universitatis GothoburgensisAbstract : Sport has often been understood as a set of formalised physical contests, and moreover as something inherently modern. New conceptions of the term implicates that sport ought to comprise all physical activity. However, the studies and approaches that describe the range and tension between those positions are lacking. READ MORE
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2. Sport-sort : sorting algorithms and sport tournaments
University dissertation from Linköping : Univ., Department of Computer and Information ScienceAbstract : Arrange a really short, thrilling and fair tournament! Execute parallel sorting in a machine of a new architecture! The author shows how these problems are connected. He designs several new tournament schemes, and analyses them both in theory and in extensive simulations. He uses only elementary mathematical and statistical methods. READ MORE
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3. The drive for change putting the means and ends of sport at stake in the organizing of Swedish voluntary sport
University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå UniversityAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to create knowledge on processes of change in the contemporary organizing of Swedish voluntary sport and the systems of meaning at work in these processes. The thesis proceeds from the assumption that the contemporary public sport policy climate is characterized by a pressure on organized sport to change in order for sport to better serve as an implementer of non-sport goals. READ MORE
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4. Deciding who is the best Validity issues in selections and judgements in elite sport
University dissertation from Umeå : Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitetAbstract : This thesis is about selection processes and processes of measuring and judging athletes in competitions in top-level sport. The purpose was to increase the knowledge of these processes and to analyse them from a validity perspective in order to contribute to the discussion of whether the “right” athletes are selected to participate in teams, competitions and games and whether the “right” athletes win. READ MORE
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5. Psychology of Sport Injury Prediction, Prevention and Rehabilitation in Swedish Team Sport Athletes
University dissertation from Växjö : Linnaeus University PressAbstract : The dissertation consists of five separate studies that all have focused on different aspects of the relationship between psychological factors and sport injuries.In the first study the aim was to investigate female elite soccer players’ experiences of the time prior to the occurrence of an ACL injury. READ MORE
