An understanding of how an athlete’s motivation is affected by coaching behaviours is vital information for a coach to acquire. This study examines the impact and need for a coach in optimising international athletes’ training and competition motivation within the framework of Cognitive Evaluation Theory. The participants were six long distance runners with international experience. Qualitative...

Takeuchi Mfg.'s core products are compact excavators, track loaders, and other compact construction equipment used to build homes and other buildings. Internet of Things (IoT) utilization has recently become a major topic in the manufacturing industry, and Takeuchi Mfg. has set its sights on leveraging IoT as it continues to push reforms, implement a wide variety of IT systems, and build new fa...

1.0 Introduction The million-dollar question for any production manager today is the selection between a push and a pull production system. Push and pull systems determine when and where to move material in a production process. A push system is characterized by a make to stock environment and a pull system is characterized by make to order. An appropriate system that would cater to the require...

Due to multiple-factors, bracketed popularly in ‘push-pull’ category, migration, both internal and external, is taking place in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, the dominant form of migration is from rural to urban centers. For, Bangladesh is predominantly an agrian rural society for 80.0 percent of the total population lives in 87319 villages. The urban centers of Bangladesh are developing rapidly a...

We prove that two pushing-blocks puzzles are intractable in 2D. One of our constructions improves an earlier result that established intractability in 3D [OS99] for a puzzle inspired by the game PushPush. The second construction answers a question we raised in [DDO00] for a variant we call Push-1. Both puzzles consist of unit square blocks on an integer lattice; all blocks are movable. An agent...

Am ajor problem ofe-commerce is the high rate of customer initiated abortions of processes. It may be solved by the implementation of a Push System that supports the webshop. One major module of the Push System is the Pushflow Manager that proactively l eads customers through their processes by taking over tasks or triggering following activities. Its theoretical background, the Push Concepts, ...

School bullying is a serious problem among teenagers, causing depression, dropping out of school, or even suicide. It is thus important to develop antibullyingmethods.This paper proposes a physical bullying detectionmethod based on activity recognition. The architecture of the physical violence detection system is described, and a Fuzzy Multithreshold classifier is developed to detect physical ...

due to its complexity and destructive nature, convection has been subject of many studies and researches among weather phenomena throughout the world. scientists have attempted for decades to generate different types of models to provide the possibility of abating or, at least, reducing convective weather phenomena effects on people’s lives. in south or southwest of iran, people are familiar wi...

In this paper we experimentally investigate how the allocation of inventory risk in a two-stage supply chain affects channel efficiency. We first evaluate two common wholesale price contracts that differ in which party incurs the risk associated with unsold inventory; a push contract in which the retailer incurs the risk, and a pull contract in which the supplier incurs the risk. Our experiment...