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Complexity and Control in Team Sports

Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems

By: Felix Lebed,Michael Bar-Eli

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Complexity and Control in Team Sports

Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems

By: Felix Lebed,Michael Bar-Eli

Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to 'soccer-like' team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system. It analyzes behaviour across five inter-connected levels: the team as a 'managed institution'; coaching staff controlling players via cybernetic flows; the team as a playing unit; the individual player as a complex dynamic system expressed through behaviour; and a player's complex physiological/biological system. Drawing these together, the book throws fascinating new light on the elite sports team and will be useful reading for all students, researchers or professionals with an interest in sport psychology, sport management, sport coaching, sport performance analysis or complex systems theory.

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0415672880

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9780415672887

Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture

Introduction to the Play Field Theory

By: Felix Lebed

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Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture

Introduction to the Play Field Theory

By: Felix Lebed

The psychological dependence of humanity on playing is huge. Its nature and functional utility are unclear. These linked yet contradictory issues have created the intrigue that has fed philosophical thought for more than two hundred years. During this period, philosophy transferred many of the subjects of its analysis to the aegis of the humanities that it spawned. Each of them pays close attention to human play and studies it with its own methods of theoretical and experimental research. Thus, what was once a general philosophical comprehension of human play has branched out into different directions, definitions, and theories. This new book represents a renewed general view of human play. The unique quality of the volume lies in its fairly rare interdisciplinary methodology, encompassing a broad spectrum of the humanities: philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and the history of play, and behavioral analysis of playing, which have been done by the author. As a result, the volume ends with the proposition of a new general approach to human play that is named by the author “play field theory”. Such an approach makes reflections on play, sport, and culture a source for all scholars studying play, by widening their knowledge through both a new general view and their familiarization with notions from neighboring fields and disciplines.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003848338

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9781003848332

Complex Sport Analytics

By: Felix Lebed

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Complex Sport Analytics

By: Felix Lebed

This book is the first to combine principles from analytics, complex systems theory, multi-disciplinary diagnostics and sport performance analysis. It considers athletes, teams, and sport organizations in individual and team games as complex systems, and demonstrates how complexity studies can enrich analytics and give us a more sophisticated understanding of the causalities of winning and losing in sports. Part I introduces the basic categories of analytics and their uses in elite sport. Part II presents an original conception of sport analytics both as a complex of different kinds of processes and as a complexity-adapted view of human systems acting in sport performance and management. Part III considers the main principles of complex sport analytics, expanding the prism of complexity to include all levels of a sport organization from athletes, coaches and trainers to top decision makers, and suggests practical applications and simulations for cases of both individual and team sports. This is illuminating reading for any advanced student, researcher or practitioner working in sport analytics, performance analysis, coaching science or sport management.

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1317434765

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Complexity in Games Teaching and Coaching

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

By: Felix Lebed

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Complexity in Games Teaching and Coaching

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

By: Felix Lebed

Shedding new light on sport pedagogy and the teaching and coaching of games, this book shows how complexity theory can be used to improve team sport performance, coach education, and young player development. The book draws together insights from both the humanities and behavioural sciences, including psychology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, and play theory into a new educational methodology for team sports. It shows how concepts from complexity theory underpin and inform team sport dynamics, including the uncontrolled nature of live human systems; the nature of complex systems and how this shapes student and young athlete learning; self-organization and its relation to decision-making in play; and mental self-regulation and motivation. It presents an innovative and sophisticated definition of sport pedagogy that can help teachers and coaches deepen their understanding of teaching and learning in team sports and help them develop more motivated, more effective, and more creative athletes.

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208

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1000552845

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9781000552843

Remote Sensing Land Surface Changes

The 1981-2020 Intensive Global Warming

By: Felix Kogan

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Remote Sensing Land Surface Changes

The 1981-2020 Intensive Global Warming

By: Felix Kogan

This book discusses the detrimental consequences of climate-related land changes over a 40-year period between 1981 and 2020, and focuses on how climate warming is deteriorating the agricultural system due to excessive heat, lack of moisture and more intensive and widespread droughts leading to a reduction of agricultural production. Most of the existing literature on the unfavourable consequences of global warming for land are based on a relatively short period of weather station data, covering local land areas with limited networks and monitoring parameters. These concerns have led to the use of satellite data, whose measurements are controlled by such vegetation characteristics as chlorophyll, carotenoids, moisture contents in the plants and temperature inside the vegetation community. Therefore, the discussion of this book is completely based on high-resolution global land surface measurements by the sensors on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) operational afternoon polar-orbiting satellites. The book also focuses on understanding climate change impacts on land changes where humans are living, and combines biophysically-grounded methods and the 40-year data to develop models for monitoring large-scale Earth warming impacts on land and for timely prediction of climate consequences for humans. These 40-year trends in land characteristics will help to better inform the assessment of potential changes in the future and how to reach human sustainability. The book will of interest to scientists using satellite remote sensing to track climate change impacts on land over time, as well as students and researchers in climatology and environmental sustainability.

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463

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Springer Nature

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3030968103

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9783030968106

Remote Sensing for Food Security

By: Felix Kogan

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Remote Sensing for Food Security

By: Felix Kogan

This volume gathers a variety of applications for remote sensing of vegetation health (VH) and concretely shows how this information can be used in service of ending hunger and of ensuring future food security. In this book’s ten chapters, Dr. Felix Kogan, one of the most prolific scientists in this sphere, shows how a new VH method, designed from operational environmental satellite data, can be used to provide advanced predictions of agricultural losses, helping to enhance food security and reducing the number of hungry people. Topics covered include the scientific basis of the VH method, drought monitoring, prediction of short-term agricultural yield and crop insurance, and impacts of long term climate variability and change on food security. A short discussion on VH for human health-related topics such as detection and prediction of malaria and fire risk is included as well.

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3319962566

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Remote Sensing for Malaria

Monitoring and Predicting Malaria from Operational Satellites

By: Felix Kogan

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Remote Sensing for Malaria

Monitoring and Predicting Malaria from Operational Satellites

By: Felix Kogan

This book presents research using high-resolution operational satellite data for monitoring and assessing numerically how to reduce the area and intensity of malaria outbreaks. Satellite data and imageries a powerful and effective tool for malaria monitoring and reduction of the number of affected people as it bypasses the limitations imposed by the dearth of near-the-ground weather data in many malaria-prone areas. With this in mind, this volume provides readers with: In-depth information in monitoring signs of malaria from operational polar-orbiting satellites Examples of country-specific models for predicting malaria area (1 and 4 km2 resolution) and intensity Information on the how the effects of climate change on malaria outbreak area and intensity can be monitored A new Vegetation Health (VH) methodology to estimate vegetation moisture, temperature and moisture/temperature conditions as indicators of malaria vector activity Advice to users on the application of VH technology for early assessments of malaria area, intensity and risk level Remote Sensing for Malaria is intended for an audience of public health practitioners, environmentalists, and students and researchers working in spatial epidemiology and disease prevention.

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3030460207

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Complex Sport Analytics

By: Felix Lebed

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Complex Sport Analytics

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Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture

Introduction to the Play Field Theory

By: Felix Lebed

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Introduction to the Play Field Theory

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Complexity and Control in Team Sports

Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems

By: Felix Lebed,Michael Bar-Eli

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Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems

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Book's by Felix Lebed

Complexity and Control in Team Sports

Complexity and Control in Team Sports

Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture

Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture

Complex Sport Analytics

Complex Sport Analytics

Complexity in Games Teaching and Coaching

Complexity in Games Teaching and Coaching

Remote Sensing Land Surface Changes

Remote Sensing Land Surface Changes

Remote Sensing for Food Security

Remote Sensing for Food Security

Remote Sensing for Malaria

Remote Sensing for Malaria

Complex Sport Analytics

Complex Sport Analytics

Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture

Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture

Complexity and Control in Team Sports

Complexity and Control in Team Sports

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