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Education & Educational Research
Gabriele Morganti, Alexandra Lascu, Gennaro Apollaro, Laura Pantanella, Mario Esposito, Alberto Grossi, Bruno Ruscello
Summary: Talent Identification and Development Systems (TIDS) aim to enhance predictability and reduce uncertainty in sport by identifying talented athletes early and providing them with superior developmental opportunities. However, recent research has shown that early talent identification does not guarantee future success. A new probabilistic approach is proposed, considering TIDS as a responsive, dialogical, and open-ended process influenced by sociocultural constraints.
SPORT EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
(2023)
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Economics
Silvia Rocchetta, Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Dieter F. Kogler
Summary: The study demonstrates that technological diversification measures have different non-linear effects on regional productivity growth, with opposite directions. Regions investing in both existing technological capabilities and more distant knowledge domains tend to have higher regional productivity returns. This has significant implications for understanding regional productivity growth processes and the implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategies.
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Sport Sciences
Jan Willem Teunissen, Irene R. Faber, Jelle De Bock, Maarten Slembrouck, Steven Verstockt, Matthieu Lenoir, Johan Pion
Summary: This study aims to analyze the characteristics of various sports in order to understand the importance of talent development and transfer in sports talent programs. The study uses Discriminant Analysis and Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) with CatBoost classifier to differentiate and classify sports based on their characteristics. The results show that the algorithm is able to accurately distinguish different sports and their respective characteristics.
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
(2023)
Review
Entomology
Mariana P. Braga, Niklas Janz
Summary: One of the main challenges faced by ecologists today is understanding and predicting how species interactions will respond to current environmental change, with a particular focus on intimate and specialised ecological interactions. The differentiation between fundamental and realised host repertoires is vital for understanding how insect-plant interactions will respond to the ecological opportunities instigated by environmental change.
ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
(2021)
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Economics
Shu-Hao Chang
Summary: This study adopted an inventor mobility perspective to observe technological trends in international technology transfer, and performed network analysis to identify technology hotspots. The results indicated that hot technology inventions were primarily semiconductor devices, electric digital data processing, optical elements, pictorial communication, material analyses, and control systems.
JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
(2023)
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Economics
Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Ron Boschma
Summary: The study highlights the positive impact of interregional linkages on regional diversification, especially in peripheral regions. It emphasizes the importance of being connected to regions that provide complementary capabilities, rather than just being connected to other regions. Additionally, a new indicator is proposed to help regions identify strategic partners for S3 policy based on the presence of complementary capabilities in other regions.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Wenbin Sun, Xiaobo Xu
Summary: This study explores how firm international diversification affects CSR capability, and the results show the significant driving role of international diversification on CSR capability, with diminishing return effects in certain contingencies. Moreover, this relationship becomes stronger in more dynamic and competitive environments.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
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Sport Sciences
Lars Lenze, Marc Zibung, Claudia Zuber, Pascal Stegmann, Achim Conzelmann
Summary: This study examined the relationship between the micro-environment of former Swiss junior national team ice hockey players and their performance level in adulthood. The results showed that simultaneous support across all four factors (club, family, peers, and school) increases the chances of reaching an international playing level in adulthood.
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yongqi Gao, Kim Geok Soh, Noor Syamilah Zakaria, Roziah Mohd Rasdi, Wei Guo, Kim Lam Soh
Summary: This article reviews studies on the knowledge transfer theory (KTT) in sport psychology and identifies research gaps using the PRISMA method. The review conducted a systematic search across six databases to investigate the relationship between KTT and crossover selection, thereby promoting the development of winter sports and cultivating outstanding athletes. The findings highlight the importance of crossover selection in resolving the shortage of professional athletes in specific sports.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Business
H. Emre Yildiz, Sergey Morgulis-Yakushev, Ulf Holm, Mikael Eriksson
Summary: This article examines the impact of companies' international diversification characteristics on performance by comparing the inter-organizational context. The study found that companies can achieve optimal performance when their partners have a moderately higher level of international diversification and a moderate overlap in presence in foreign markets.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Sport Sciences
Bryan Charbonnet, Michael J. Schmid, Merlin Orencik, Elena van Niekerk, Achim Conzelmann
Summary: This study examines the training and environmental characteristics influencing the development of female Swiss national team players in elite football over a three-decade period. The findings demonstrate better perceived environmental conditions, decreasing age at club entry, and increasing club practice and total training volume.
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN FOOTBALL
(2023)
Article
Sport Sciences
Tor Soderstrom, Alex C. Garn
Summary: Drawing on data from 1026 present and former football players selected to a national football talent programme at the age of 15, this study explores sport specialisation. The study examined early football specialisation, participation in youth elite football training environments, and enrolment in upper secondary football specialisation schools. Factors such as gender, grit, and perceptions of family finances were found to influence sport specialisation. Outcomes included elite football participation and personal development.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SPORT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Mathematics
Chia-Chin Chang, Chia-Syuan Chang
Summary: To enhance national competitiveness, countries are committed to building a National Human Resource Development (NHRD) system to develop talents. However, studies have rarely investigated the internal development process of the NHRD system and the performance at the system and sub-system levels. This study constructed a performance evaluation model of the NHRD system from a two-stage process efficiency perspective to address these gaps.
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Business
Pratik Arte, Jorma Larimo
Summary: International diversification has a non-linear inverted U-shaped relationship with firm performance. The dual-diversification strategy is detrimental to firm performance, while low/related product diversification benefits firm performance. There is no significant difference in the performance of firms from advanced and emerging economies, but the importance of intangible assets for diversified firms is emphasized.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Mehmet Umutlu, Seher Goren Yargi, Adam Zaremba
Summary: We suggest that partially segmented stock indexes with low correlation to the world market are priced by local factors and should generate abnormal returns compared to a global asset-pricing model. This implies a negative correlation between correlation and future index returns when segmented indexes are present. Empirical evidence confirms this relationship for industry indexes, indicating heterogeneous segmentation. However, we do not observe the same pattern for country indexes. Additionally, industries still have international diversification potential during volatile periods, and cross-industry diversification outperforms mere cross-country diversification for more segmented subsamples of small market size and emerging country origin.
RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE
(2023)