Search results for "Indicators"
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Possession Zone as a Performance Indicator in Football. The Game of the Best Teams
2017
Possession time in football has been widely discussed in research but few studies have analyzed the importance of the field area in which possession occurs. The objective of this study was to identify the existence of significant differences in the field zone of ball possession between successful and unsuccessful teams and to acknowledge if the match status modulates the possession model. To this end, 2,284 attacks were analyzed corresponding to the matches in the final phase of the UEFA Euro 2016 France, recording possession time and field zone in which possession occurred. Video recordings of matches were analyzed and coded post-event using notational analysis. We have found that successf…
Exploring land snails’ response to habitat characteristics and their potential as bioindicators of riparian forest quality
2021
Abstract Riparian ecosystems are crucial for landscape-level biodiversity, especially in highly anthropic and agricultural areas. Although the low mobility of snails reduces their dispersal capacity and makes them vulnerable to habitat degradation, they are less commonly used as indicators. We evaluated the potential of land snails as bioindicators of riparian forest quality in central European riparian forests by surveying snail communities in relation to habitat characteristics that characterize its quality. Habitat characteristics were found to affect both snail abundance and species richness. The abundance of snail species increased with the forest continuity, forest width and abundance…
Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Health Care Performance in the Czech Republic and Poland
2022
Health is considered as the most important value in a person's life. It follows, therefore, that health care evaluation is very important aspect from a societal point of view. Evaluating of health care is an essential component to determine the functioning of national health care system and to improve its performance. The paper is focused on the evaluation and comparison of health care performance in the Czech Republic and Poland based on a multicriteria analysis. The research is monitoring the selected health care indicators for the period of six years from 2014 to 2019. The obtained data are processed by TOPSIS method. the output of the research is the ranking of the countries of the Euro…
Evaluación de las instituciones de educación superior: revisión bibliográfica de sistema de indicadores
2008
[ES]: En las últimas décadas, las universidades están experimentando nuevos roles y tendencias que tienen serias implicaciones en su estructura y funcionamiento. Los gobiernos y organismos implicados en la educación superior están implementando estrategias para mejorar la eficiencia en las universidades y así asegurar su correcto funcionamiento. En este sentido, son muchos los estudios que abordan la evaluación de las universidades mediante la utilización de sistemas de indicadores. En este artículo se presenta una revisión bibliográfica de algunas de las propuestas de indicadores utilizados en la evaluación de las universidades en países de la OCDE, dedicando especial atención a los elabor…
Screening of complicated grief
2013
Objetivo: Conocer en profundidad el fenómeno del duelo complicado o patológico, y recabar aquellos indicadores de detección y evaluación que nos permitan su pronta identificación en la práctica clínica. Método: Tras una amplia revisión de la literatura científica aparecida en los últimos años, y a la luz de nuestra experiencia profesional, se realizó una recopilación de los indicadores más significativos. Resultados: Presentamos los principales criterios diagnósticos e instrumentos de medida utilizados en la actualidad, que permiten a los profesionales del ámbito de la salud valorar con precisión posibles complicaciones en el proceso de duelo. Conclusiones: Contamos con importantes indicado…
La sostenibilità delle destinazioni turistiche: la misurazione per indicatori
2013
Tourism often has had (and has) detrimental outcomes on destinations but the need and the rele-vance of a sustainable development of tourism was only recently recognised. Sustainable tour-ism is a quite recent concept, derived by the notion of sustainable development; it is usually re-lated to environmental issues and particularly to natural resources waste. Wider definitions are now emerging in the scientific community including, usually, social and economic dimensions together with the environmental one. Although, the intrinsic multidimensional nature of sustain-ability and the high number of stakeholders to be involved in its evaluation (e.g. policy makers, administrators, local resident…
Matrici Meridiane. Strumenti di georeferenziazione e visioni per il futuro delle regioni mediterranee nella selezione degli indicatori territoriali. …
2013
Il progetto OTREMED, Finanziato dal programma MED, è stato pensato come uno strumento per la strategia territoriale dello spazio MED, che mira a sviluppare strumenti metodologici a livello regionale per migliorare il processo decisionale in termini di competitività e pianificazione nel territorio nelle regioni del Mediterraneo. Il progetto ha avuto una durata di due anni, ha riunito 13 partner, in prevalenza composte da autorità regionali: Regione di Murcia (capofila del progetto) Generalitat Valenciana, Centro sloveno Ricerca Scientifica Accademia delle Scienze e delle Arti , Regione Emilia Romagna , Regione Sicilia, Regione Piemonte, MMLAB Laboratorio per la Grafica, Multimedia & GIS Univ…
Aquatic Macrophytes Occurrence in Mediterranean Farm Ponds: Preliminary Investigations in North-Western Sicily (Italy)
2021
Mediterranean wetlands are severely affected by habitat degradation and related loss of biodiversity. In this scenario, the wide number of artificial farm ponds can play a significant role in the biodiversity conservation of aquatic flora. In the present contribution we show the preliminary results of a study on Mediterranean farm ponds of north-western Sicily (Italy), aimed to investigating the environmental factors linked to the occurrence of submerged macrophytes (vascular plants and charophytes). We studied the aquatic flora of 30 ponds and determined the chemical and isotopic composition of their water bodies on a subset of the most representative 10 sites. Results show that (1) farm p…
Determination of Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Pb, Mn, Ni and Zn in diets: Development of a method
1991
A method useful for the determination of cadmium, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, manganese, nickel and zinc in diets is described. Organic matter is destroyed applying a wet procedure, and element content is measured by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS) in the case of copper, iron, manganese, nickel and zinc, and by graphite furnace (GF-AAS) in the case of cadmium, cobalt and lead. The matrix interference study is carried out. Values found for linearity, detection and quantitation limits as well as accuracy show that the described method is useful to determine the elements taken into account at usual levels in diets.
Sense of coherence and health among home-dwelling older people.
2010
Sense of coherence (SOC) is important for maintaining health. The aim of this study was to investigate if the SOC experience among home-dwelling physically active older people differs from that of hospital patients with the same age and sex. Data were collected with questionnaires and structured interviews containing Antonovsky’s SOC scale in an age- and sex-matched study group (n=160). Non-parametric statistical analyses were performed. No differences were found in SOC between home-dwelling individuals and patients. Ninety-five percent of the home-dwelling individuals perceived themselves as being in good health and 42.5% among the patients (p<0.001). SOC and disease were predictors fo…