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Sport and Quality of Life

2022

Negli ultimi trent’anni lo sport ha assunto un significato molto rilevante nella vita delle persone e, seppure con notevoli differenze, sia nei paesi a sviluppo economico avanzato, sia in quelli in via di sviluppo. A livello individuale, esso ha costituito un’area di investimento identitario quando ha assunto la forma di sport spettacolo del quale fruire, alimentando la pratica del tifo e il fandom o costituendo il modello di uno stile di vita vincente; ma anche quando ha assunto la forma di pratica del tempo libero attraverso la quale tenersi in forma, facendo crescere, in questo caso, la diffusione di una cultura della salute e del benessere. Si tratta di due modalità di approcciare al co…

but also when he took the form of free time practice through which to keep fit making grow in this case the diffusion of a culture of health and well-being. These are two ways of approaching the consumption of sports by spectators and actorIn the last thirty years sport has taken on a very significant meaning in people's lives and albeit with considerable differences both in advanced economic development countries and in developing countries. On an individual level it constituted an area of identity investment when it assumed the shape of “sport spectacle” to be enjoyed fueling the practice of cheering and fandom or constituting the model of a winning lifestyleand the two ways of use can be strongly related to the perception and assessment of the quality of life. The “semantic universes” which however connote sport and “free time sports” have often appeared polarized. Commercial sport and sports professionalism are intertwined with the institutions of economics politics and culture which above all stress its “spectacularity” in order to capture first and foremost the audience. But also the sport of leisure time is intertwined with the actions of the institutions of economics politics and culture with the difference that these stress above all its “healthy value” aimed at the “healthy and rational” investment of time in an activity which improves the quality of life in the short medium and long period. This polarization between the consumption of sport entertainment - commercial sport - and the consumption of sport as a leisure activity - sport for all - has become increasingly interconnected precisely because of the increased collective identity demand via sport. In other words we have witnessed the spread of shape of sports entertainment that recall the importance of sports for psychophysical well-being for integration and social participation for the reduction of social inequalities ethnic and cultural differences and in which the importance assumed was weakened in the show from agonism from competition from the physical confrontation between two contenders or two teams. A sport in which we act with competitors as well as against competitors. And on the other hand we have gradually witnessed the spectacularization of sports in our free time to the point that the sharing of the results obtained through the declination of a competitive spirit that presents itself as directed no longer against other contenders but against its own performance limits it has become the way in which each person makes part of his or her own life spectacular the one he often considers most authentic. The aim of this work is to describe how the intertwining between the commercial/professional dimension of the sports show and the playful/recreational dimension of sports practice are fueled by a demand and an offer of social identity that characterizes these two “semantic universes”.Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
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A NEW DIALETICS CENTRE/PERIPHERY: CONSUMPTION PATTERNS AND PRACTICES IN THE SUBURBAN AREAS

2014

This paper deals with the analysis of current changes which have been recently shaping unprecedented urban structures in some suburban areas, due to the emerging of new consumptions spaces. In particular, the work aims at highlighting the effect of urban sprawl on the main Sicilian metropolitan areas, also moulded by the diffusion of the suburban retailing formats, in order to evaluate to what extent these dynamics have been contributing to the configuration of new urban landscapes and unprecedented socio-economic structures, not to mention the support in the process of containing social and economic marginalisation.

centre-periphery dialecticsSettore M-GGR/02 - Geografia Economico-Politicaperiphery dialecticsurban sprawlconsumption spaces ; periphery dialectics ; urban sprawlcitynew consumption spaces centre-periphery dialectics urban sprawl city SicilySettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSicilynew consumption spacesconsumption spaces
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The explanatory variables of narrative transportation and consumer engagement with a transmedia consumption experience

2019

International audience; Professionals in the cultural sector are increasingly designing transmedia narrative devices. By that new strategy, they expect to increase cultural consumption and attendance. Considering the central role of the narrative transportation during the transmedia experience, this article presents results about six anticipated antecedents of this process experienced by users of a transmedia device that combines digital and physical elements, and deals with the heritage history of a French province. The six variables tested are gender, age, level of education (to describe the socio-demographic profile), geographical proximity (to proxy the familiarity with the topic and co…

digital and physical deviceconsumer’s engagement[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administrationquantitative studynarrative transportationtransmedia consumption experience[SHS.GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administrationheritage
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Digitalisaation vaikutukset yksilön kuluttajakäyttäytymiseen

2018

Digitalisaatio on integroitunut osaksi kaikkea nyky-yhteiskunnissa, ainakin län-simaissa, eikä kulutusympäristö ole poikkeus. Muuttuva kulutusympäristö asettaa uusia haasteita niin yksilöille, kuin organisaatioillekin käynnissä olevan digitaalisen muutoksen aikana. Muutokset ovat nopeita ja laajoja. Teknologia sekä niiden sovellukset kehittyvät ennennäkemättömällä vauhdilla, joka johtaa myös tuotteiden ja palveluiden nopeaan kehittymiseen sekä uusien ideoiden ja konseptien syntymiseen. Tämä tutkimus pyrkii selvittämään, mitkä ovat digi-talisaation merkittävämpiä muutoksia yksilön kuluttajakäyttäytymiselle ja tar-kastelemaan niiden merkittävyyttä. Tutkimus toteutettiin kirjallisuuskatsauk-se…

digitalisoituminenkuluttajakäyt-täytyminenkulutustyylitstyles of consumptiondigitizationkulutusympäristöcustomer behav-iordigital transformationconsumption environmentdigitalisaatiodigitaalinen muutosdigitalization
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Education for optimized Life Cycle Management : The Project e-CIRP and its insights into embedding circular economy aspects to product design via tea…

2022

Publisher Copyright: © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. The integration of circular economy-based life cycle management (LCM) into product design and optimisation is essential for the transformation towards a circular economy (CE). However, companies often lack the expertise to adapt life-cycle design (LCD) thinking in their business operations and are in need of respective capacity building. To close this apparent gap is the aim of the project e-CirP (Embedding Circular Economy into Product Design and Optimization) where LUT University, Fraunhofer, Technical University of Denmark, University of Padova, Delft University of Technology, University of Helsinki and Metso Outotec have wor…

elinkaariarviointikiertotalousprojektioppiminen516 Educational sciencesSDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growthtuotekehitys/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_productionSDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
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An Experiential Approach to the Consumption Value of Arts and Culture: The Case of Museums and Monuments

2006

This article is intended to enhance our understanding of the consumer experience within the cultural domain. The analysis of arts and culture consumption is based on a paradigm founded on the theory of value, which, in turn, underlies the notion of the consumer experience. By investigating the field of museums and monuments, the authors validate this experiential approach to the consumption value of arts and culture. They recommend that, since a theatrical setting elicits emotional and ludic reactions in individuals and entails visitor participation, attendance at museums and monuments could be increased by means of “theatricalizing” – or adding a show-oriented dimension to the consumer exp…

experiential approach to valueapproche expérientielle de la valeur[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and financesTheory of valueThéorie de la valeurconsommation culturelle[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Financeconsumption of culture
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Increasing the effectiveness of aggregates for planting sugar beet stecklings to receive elite seeds

2019

Article Planting sugar beet stecklings with planting machine is one of the stages in the technological process of producing elite seeds. The analysis of the experience of using planting units for planting stecklings showed a number of disadvantages: poor quality of planting stecklings without spacing stability and the absence of parameter control; unregulated applying nutrients and granules of water preservation to the roots negatively affect the development of plants. The aggregate having openers of the planting device was designed, and the system of supplying the spray of nutrients and growth stimulator is envisaged. The technological process is conducted in the following way: during the …

growth stimulatorsarticlearticlesaccumulated energy consumption of productionparameters of the aggregateplanter
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ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS CYCLES CONVERGENCE IN A SWITCHING REGIME VIEW

2012

In this paper I analyzed the convergence between Romanian and Euro Zone`s business cycles using a Switching approach. Considering the evolution of final consumption expenditure as proxy for the business cycles, the underlying study is calibrated on the second key feature of Burns and Mitchell`s (1946) definition about business cycles, namely the cycles are divided and also treated differently for cases of expansionary and downward regimes. Therefore a cyclical convergence between Romanian and Euro Zone`s business cycles is characterized by synchronization in the occurrence of different regimes (states) and also in the time for which these regimes are standing up. For this purpose, I called …

jel:E32Business Cycles consumption expenditure convergence permanent income filter correlation.jel:F41Revista economica
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Eettinen kuluttaminen kulutuskulttuurissa

2016

The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of the various meanings of ethical consumption constructed in consumer culture, especially from consumers’ viewpoint. This doctoral thesis belongs to the field of cultural and interpretive consumption research (CCT). The research consists of an introductory essay and three articles, of which two are published in academic journals. The introductory essay presents the general research task, conceptual framework, and methodological choices and discussion to conclude the main results of the dissertation. The research included in this dissertation uses qualitative methods and applies discursive content analysis, geo…

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Racial Stratification of Traditional Medicine’s Consumption in South Africa

2018

Introduction: Post-apartheid South Africa remains highly stratified on variable grounds including race. The 8.9 percent (whites) of the total population has an average income per capita that is five times higher than that of 79.2 percent (blacks). Socio-economic inequalities are embedded in a ‘culture of consumption’ which includes the availability of goods for sale and the marketization of basic human life experiences including health. Study Objective: The objective of this review was to ascertain the racial status quo in traditional medicines consumption. Results: Literature shows that the consumption of traditional medicines is saturated within the Black population at 72 percent whilst d…

kulttuurisidonnaisuussymbolic powerlääketiedeperinneviolenceracial stratificationkulttuurikulutustottumuksetrodutprofessionalizationtraditional medicine tradekulutuskulttuuriEtelä-Afrikkaconsumption culturesosioekonomiset tekijät
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