Duong, D. 2017. Healthcare context for knowledge translation in Vietnam. Development and application of the Context Assessment for Community Health (COACH) tool. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1297. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9811-5. The failure to translate evidence into clinical practice has been repea...

A typical track and field sports event reveals a great deal of diversity. While a pole-vaulter is getting ready for the next vault, the starting pistol goes off and a group of track athletes break explosively into a 100 m sprint. A coach is helping an athlete to prepare herself mentally for a decisive high jump, while another group of athletes is relaxing on a mat at the edge of the stadium. Du...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TWOFOLD (a) to develop an underwater chronometer capable to provide feedback while the athlete is swimming, as well as being a control tool for the coach, and (b) to analyse its feedback effect on swim pace control compared with feedback provided by the coach and with no feedback, in 25 m and 50 m swimming pools. 30 male swimmers of national level volunteer to part...

This is a quantitative study of executive coaching to determine the key factors or ‘active ingredients’ which contribute to its effectiveness. Data collected from 156 client–coach pairs participating in formally contracted, external executive coaching was analysed to examine the impact on coaching outcome of the following: client self-efficacy, client personality and client–coach personality ma...

How to achieve shared meaning is a significant issue when more than one intelligent agent is involved in the same domain. We define the task of concept convergence, by which intelligent agents can achieve a shared, agreed-upon meaning of a concept (restricted to empirical domains). For this purpose we present a framework that, integrating computational argumentation and inductive concept learni...

While recent work recognizes a need for coach education to place greater emphasis on interpersonal knowledge when developing coaching expertise, it is our position that educators (CEs) must follow similar trajectory in embracing the requisite of their role and move beyond reliance content professional order shape delivery. To better understand CEs’ behaviors, authors observed four experienced C...

The effectiveness of coach education programmes has been identified as a key factor in the development of coaches (Gilbert & Trudel, 1999a). There are a number of elements that constitute a measurement of effectiveness, not least of all, how useful the coaches find the information presented to them during coach education courses, if they utilise the content during their execution of the coachin...