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Safety Culture: The Prediction of Commitment to Safety in the Manufacturing Industry
1998
This paper reports one aspect of a large-scale study of safety culture in 13 companies operating in the manufacturing sector in the UK. The study is based on data collected from three different domains of measurement relevant to the description of safety culture: workplace assessments, a survey of employee attitudes to safety – including questionnaire and interview data – and company accident records. The data described in this paper concern the prediction of perceived commitment to safety from employees' attitudes to safety as reported in a self-administered questionnaire. Commitment to safety was used as a marker of the strength of the organization's safety culture. The data showed that e…
2020
Purpose: To examine the potential sex differences in adaptations to combined endurance and strength training in recreationally endurance trained (eumenorrheic) women (n = 9) and men (n = 10). Methods: Isometric (ISOMmax) and dynamic bilateral leg press (1RM), countermovement jump (CMJ), running performance (3,000 m time trial), lean mass and body fat % (LEAN and FAT% determined by dual X-ray absorptiometry) as well as serum testosterone and cortisol (TES and COR, respectively, measured using hormone-specific immunoassay kits) were examined before a control period and pre, mid, and post a supervised 10-week combined high-intensity interval endurance training (4 × 4 min intervals and 3 × 3 × …
Effect of training on aerobic capacity of female athletes differing in muscle fibre composition
1983
Abstract The effects of endurance training were studied in two groups of female cross‐country skiers who differed in muscle fibre composition. The ST‐group (n = 10) had 56–76% slow twitch (ST) muscle fibres and the FT‐group (n= 10) 40–55% ST fibres in the m. vastus lateralis. During a four‐month period, the subjects trained on the average 81 km per week. The intensive training (heart rate 0–15 beats per min below maximum) averaged 8.5 km per week. The differences in training between the two groups were not significant. The ST‐group significantly increased their cycling maximum oxygen uptake (C max, 4.6%, P <0.01) and the anaerobic threshold (AT, 2.8%, P <0.01) during the training period whe…
Contribution of Woldemar von Knieriem to the Training and Experimental Farm «Peterhof» of Riga Polytechnicum and Riga Polytechnic Institute
2019
The article is dedicated to Professor Woldemar von Knieriem (1849– 1935), who has made a significant contribution to the development of agricultural science, headed the Department of Agriculture of Riga Polytechnic Institute (1903–1906), as well as Training and Experimental Farm «Peterhof» (1880– 1915) near Olaine city. It became a model farm not only in the Baltic region but also throughout the Russian Empire. Professor W. von Knieriem was the Director of RPI (1906–1916), an outstanding organizer and author of scientific works. He provided students with extensive theoretical and practical knowledge in agriculture, focusing on practical, scientifically approbated lessons about the managemen…
Developing adult motivation for continuous training
2021
Traditional education focused primarily on the moment of teaching, on the moment of transmitting information, knowledge, and only then on aspects related to ethical, motivational, moral nature. Contemporary society in a continuous remodeling and change, no longer coincides, no longer accepts such a system. Traditional learning does not keep pace with contemporary society. The aim of this study is to investigate the motivation of learning in adulthood. In the motivational structure of the investigated adults, extrinsic reasons predominated, indirectly related to the learning activity, such as: the need to advance professionally, to keep up with the times, to obtain a social status as high as…
Effects of exercise on life quality in a rheumatoid arthritis patient
2020
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic-degenerative disease characterized by symptoms that significantly impact on the functional capacity and thus, the ability to carry out daily functional activities reducing the quality of life (QoL). The aim was to evaluate the effects of a strength and conditioning (S&C) program on the quality of life (QoL), the self-perception disease impact, the self-fatigue perception and cardiovascular risk factors in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). 34-year-old woman (height: 1.40m; weight: 36.1kg) diagnosed with RA and CVD underwent a six-month S&C program with aerobic training 2-3 times a week in 1-3 sets of 5-15 minutes…
Desarrollo de la carrera emprendedora: Identificación de perfiles, competencias y necesidades
2020
En el marco específico de la formación y orientación profesional de jóvenes y adultos, se considera el emprendimiento como una transición posible que acontece en la trayectoria profesional/laboral de las personas (en crecimiento ante la estructural precarización laboral), con lo que ello implica para la construcción y reorientación de proyectos profesionales-vitales. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las motivaciones y los condicionantes de carrera que tienen las personas que desarrollan una actividad emprendedora, identificando perfiles y necesidades sobre el modo en que articulan sus diversos roles vitales-profesionales. Para ello se realiza un estudio tipo encuesta, diseñando y ap…
Hablantes de herencia del español en Estados Unidos: implicaciones para el entrenamiento de instructores en el nivel universitario
2013
Este estudio investiga las necesidades pedagógicas de los estudiantes de español como lengua de herencia (LH) en el nivel universitario. Basado en un análisis del perfil del hablante de herencia del español en el contexto de Estados Unidos y en un estudio del Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Modernas de la Universidad de Nebraska-Lincoln como caso ilustrativo, esta investigación busca explorar argumentos que apoyen la necesidad de proporcionar un entrenamiento a instructores de español del nivel universitario que responda a las necesidades pedagógicas específicas de los hablantes de herencia. This study researches the pedagogical needs of learners of Spanish as a Heritage Language (HL)…
Redzes ietekme uz stāju
2017
Maģistra darbs ir uzrakstīts angļu valodā uz 45 lapām. Tas satur 28 attēlus un 40 literatūras atsauces. Darba mērķis bija izvērtēt optometriskās ārstēšanas ietekmi uz stājas izmaiņām. 11 pacientiem tika veikti mērījumi ar datorizētu stabilometrijas platformu pirms un pēc redzes treniņu veikšanas. Pacientam stāvot ar atvērtām acīm, pēc redzes treniņiem svara sadalījums bija sabalansētāks priekšēji-mugurējās ass virzienā, spiediena centrs nobīdījās tuvāk teorētiskajam centram, kā arī svārstību ātrums, amplitūda un laukums samazinājās. Pacientam stāvot ar aizvērtām acīm, nenovēroja nozīmīgas izmaiņas pirms un pēc ārstēšanas. Līdz ar to, redzes kvalitātes uzlabošana var tieši ietekmēt pacienta …
ASSESSMENT OF A PILOT PROGRAMME FOR SUPPORTING PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP FOR CHARACTER EDUCATION IN LATVIAN SCHOOLS
2020
Implemented with the support of the ERAF postdoctoral research grant “Modernization of school education in Latvia through an innovative research-based program on 21st century competences and virtue ethics development supported by a virtual campus (ARETE-school).