The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered prob...

Injuries to the knee, including intra-articular fractures, ligamentous ruptures, and meniscal and articular cartilage lesions, are commonplace within sports. Despite advancements in surgical techniques and enhanced rehabilitation, athletes returning to cutting, pivoting, and jumping sports after a knee injury are at greater risk of sustaining a second injury. The clinical utility of objective c...

OBJECTIVE To synthesize the best available evidence on prognosis after sport concussion. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and other databases were searched (2001-2012) with terms including "craniocerebral trauma" and "sports." Reference lists of eligible articles were also searched. STUDY SELECTION Randomized controlled trials and cohort and case-control studies were selected according to predefined cr...

Based on Ames' conception of situational goal structures, the present study investigated whether achievement-related cognitions and affect were related to specific motivational climates. The participants were 148 experienced students in team sport at a Norwegian university who responded to a questionnaire on their perceptions of the motivational climate in their sport, use of learning strategie...

â  industrial site selection is a complicated decision and is related to various factors, so it is kind of multi-criteria decision analysis which is used for prioritizing different factors and selecting the best alternative among possible alternatives. in fact by scientific site selection, it is possible to minimize negative impacts of industrial construction and going towards sustainable devel...

organizations in private and public sector assign many projects in information technology (particularly software) field to contractors for implementation every year. previous experiences shows that most of these projects are stopped before finishing or cannot meet the expected results. based on studies related to this issue, many of failures depend on implementation contractor, directly or indi...

the selection of efficient and creative personnels contributes to a justifiable and acceptable potentiality of organizations, for efficiency of an organization is connected with the speciality and the commitment of its active personnels. since efficiency is more than merely increasing profit and production, some other value, moral, legal categories are of significance in selecting personnels. g...

in this study, effective criteria on process of tourism areas selection were collected due to macro planning of capable areas to tourism sample regions in khorasan razavi province. then, their priority was carried out based on delphi method. after determining the relative weights and criteria priorities, the map of capable areas to planning tourism sample regions was obtained at the province le...

increasing global notices in environmental protection, green supply chain management (gscm) has received much attention by researchers and managers more than the past. commonly, firms have considered cost criteria to select their suppliers. despite the fact that there are various papers considering the formal criteria in supplier selection, there is a few limited numbers considering the environ...