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The study aimed to identify essential aspects of the technical-tactical organization in the defensive phase between the Spanish football team Real Madrid and the Romanian football team FCSB, as well as to interpret and compare the noticeable differences between them in order to establish a model for the optimisation of training sessions for the Romanian football teams. The research methods used are: bibliographic study method, observation method, comparative analysis method, case study method, statistical and mathematical method, video recording method. In order to check the hypotheses, we used the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test, setting a significance threshold (p) of 0.05. The values obtained by adding the ranks were introduced in the calculation formulas to determine the values of U1 and U2, and subsequently they were compared with the values in the Mann-Whitney table. The obtained results emphasised a significant difference regarding the behavioural organization in the defensive phase, aspects revealed in both a descriptive and quantitative form. The interpretation of the results in terms of scores received by the two teams for all components of the defensive organization phase was rendered by graphs, which highlighted a clear superiority of the Spanish football team Real Madrid over the Romanian FCSB team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is first to ascertain what the brand image of a globally recognized sport club is as perceived by the citizens of a foreign market, then to determine how brand image predict behavioral intentions from the perspective of citizens of a foreign market. Using Real Madrid as an example, a survey study was conducted to collect data from residents of Shanghai, China on their perceptions of the club using a public intercept methodology, and CFA analysis resulted in a 16-item scale showing acceptable validity resulted in the creation of five dimensions titled 'club performance', 'CSR activity', 'club quality', 'club history and tradition', and 'team spirit'. In addition, the study supported the assumption that club image would predict the behavioral intentions of citizens from a foreign market. Professional sport clubs wanting to engage with foreign markets need to recognize the relationship between their brand image and the behavioral intentions of citizens in each foreign market to attract them to become supporters of the club. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her paper, "Hunting the Real" Wallerstein discusses the challenges of providing good-enough clinical services on an under-resourced in-patient psychiatric unit, with African American males experiencing various types of psychosis. I comment from a variety of perspectives including, culture, institutionalized racism, and the under-thematization of Blackness in psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed to identify the essential aspects regarding the technical-tactical organization on the offensive phase between the Spanish football team Real Madrid and the Romanian football team FCSB, to interpret and compare the differences that are noticed between these two football teams, in order to establish a model that will lead to the optimization of the trainings of the Romanian football teams. The study aimed to identify the essential aspects regarding the technical-tactical organization on the offensive phase between the Spanish football team Real Madrid and the Romanian football team FCSB, to interpret and compare the differences that are noticed between these two football teams, in order to establish a model that will lead to the optimization of the trainings of the Romanian football teams. The exploratory study involved in the comparative technical-tactical analysis of a top team of Europe and a club team from Romania, started from the premise that the technical-tactical component, represented by behaviors, organization, tactical conception of the game, aspects regarding the collective relations, the forms, the actions that are established between the players, taken as a whole, are defining, essential, determinant in the qualitative evolution, in obtaining the performances, aspects that make the difference between the value level of the football teams. The research methods used are: bibliographic study method, observation method, comparative analysis method, case study method, statistical-mathematical method, video recording method. In order to verify the hypotheses we used the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test (U), setting a significance threshold (p) of 0.05. The values obtained by adding the ranks were introduced in the calculation formulas to determine the values of U1 and U2, and subsequently they were compared with the values in the Mann-Whitney table. The obtained results revealed a significant difference regarding the behavioral organization mode on the offensive phase, aspects revealed both in descriptive and quantitative form. The interpretation of the results in terms of the notes received by the two teams in all the components of the defensive organization phase were rendered with the help of graphs that showed a clear superiority of the Spanish Real Madrid football team over the Romanian FCSB team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The names "COVID-19" and "Sars-CoV-2" signify an impoverished Symbolic Order attempting to come to terms with "a great disorder in the Real." Our contemporary defense against the Real has proceeded by way of the insistence of the Imaginary, and at the same time, the Symbolic has become enslaved to this very same Imaginary. The article ends with a plea for a revitalized mode of signification-- a correspondence--between the Real and the Symbolic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We derive sufficient conditions for the differentiability of all orders for the flow of stochastic differential equations with jumps and prove related Lp-integrability results for all orders. Our results extend similar results obtained by H. Kunita [Stochastic differential equations based on L'evy processes and stochastic flows of diffeomorphisms, in Real and Stochastic Analysis, Birkh auser Boston, 2004, pp. 305-373] for first order differentiability and rely on the Burkholder-Davis-Gundy (BDG) inequality for time inhomogeneous Poisson random measures on R+×R, for which we provide a new proof. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to find out who were the bookbinders who worked for the Spanish Royal Academy in the second half of the 18th century, identifying the type of bookbinding, materials, construction techniques and state of conservation, number of copies, prices, to whom the works were addressed, the relationship with other bookbinders and printers, thus contributing to knowledge of the history of the Royal Academy itself and also of the history of the Madrid and Spanish bookbinding workshops in the latter part of the 18th century. The research has found documentation of bookbinders as relevant as Gabriel de Sancha, others less known as Ramón Antonio de Herrera, Joaquín Ibarra, the brothers Miguel and Manuel Millana, and some more of which we had practically no news as Manuel Serrano, Santiago Torrado, Rafael Sánchez de Aguilera, Hilario Clarós, Jaime Vidal and Román Matute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we study 1-bit convolutional neural networks (CNNs), of which both the weights and activations are binary. While being efficient, the lacking of a representational capability and the training difficulty impede 1-bit CNNs from performing as well as real-valued networks. To this end, we propose Bi-Real net with a novel training algorithm to tackle these two challenges. To enhance the representational capability, we propagate the real-valued activations generated by each 1-bit convolution via a parameter-free shortcut. To address the training difficulty, we propose a training algorithm using a tighter approximation to the derivative of the sign function, a magnitude-aware binarization for weight updating, a better initialization method, and a two-step scheme for training a deep network. Experiments on ImageNet show that an 18-layer Bi-Real net with the proposed training algorithm achieves 56.4% top-1 classification accuracy, which is 10% higher than the state-of-the-arts (e.g., XNOR-Net), with a greater memory saving and a lower computational cost. Bi-Real net is also the first to scale up 1-bit CNNs to an ultra-deep network with 152 layers, and achieves 64.5% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet. A 50-layer Bi-Real net shows comparable performance to a real-valued network on the depth estimation task with merely a 0.3% accuracy gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the relationship between Chinese firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) and their earnings management (EM) practices. As China rapidly emerges as one of the largest exporters as well as importers, an understanding of Chinese CSR practices is increasingly important not only to Chinese authorities and firms, but also to international stakeholders. However, Chinese CSR has been largely underestimated in previous studies, and this CSR–EM relationship has never been sufficiently examined with regard to Chinese firms. In addition, this study measures the level of EM using two different methods: accrual‐based EM (AEM) and real activity‐based EM (REM). In general, REM is regarded as more costly but less detectable, while AEM is regarded as less costly but more detectable, owing to the fact that AEM is subject to greater scrutiny from auditors and regulators. The results show that Chinese firms' enhanced CSR generally decreases their EM practices. On the contrary, state‐controlled firms and firms operating in more institutionally developed regions are more likely to engage in REM, while increasing their CSR activities. These findings provide new evidence that managers in Chinese firms tend to opportunistically adopt CSR practices according to the firm's institutional environment. This study examines the relationship between Chinese firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) and their earnings management (EM) practices. Two methods are used to measure the EM level: accrual‐based and real activity‐based. The results show that this CSR–EM relationship can be effectively moderated by a firm's institutional environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article explores the two ancient documents the "Mappa Mundi" and the biblical book of Ezekiel to show how Babylon and Jerusalem function as real and symbolic concepts in each. Topics covered include the role of central placement of Babylon in the religious imagination of the seventh and six centuries Before the Common Era (BCE), an examination of a similar concept of political center in the book of Ezekiel, and the ways in which Ezekiel's rhetorical picture of Jerusalem.

While giving a historical overview of the Atlético/Real rivalry, this essay aims at scrutinizing the building blocks of this cross-city rivalry by analyzing key demographic, social and economic factors at work. First, it explains the cartographic dimensions of both clubs within the Madrid urban space, studying their shifting geographic status while examining supporters’ patterns of behaviour, paying close attention at how Real global branding has turned Santiago Bernabéu into a central touristic destination whereas old (now replaced) Vicente Calderón prided itself of being and old-fashion, locally populated ground. In addition, it looks at celebration gatherings and rallies and other manifestations of team fandom to pinpoint the key differences between both teams in their functioning within the broader cultural sphere. Finally, it studies in depth how different types of ownership have moulded the contemporary development of both clubs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rivalries in ‘mob’ or ‘folk’ football were some of the first and most intense in the game, illustrating that such feelings pre-dated the game’s modern form. The parishes of St. Peter’s and All Saints in Derby and the areas represented by the Up’Ards and Down’Ards in Ashbourne defined early football’s highly competitive nature in both the city itself and in the county of Derbyshire. However, whilst the ‘conflict’ in the city has not survived, its Ashbourne counterpart has remained and thrived. Furthermore, the intensity of the rivalry in the city of Derby has provided a ready depiction of local hostility in sporting contexts. But, what were the real reasons for the Derby spectacle’s demise and Ashbourne’s sustained popularity? This essay is underpinned by the figurational sociology developed by Norbert Elias, noting in particular how the nineteenth century Western European ‘civilizing process’ played a crucial part in events, at the same time minimizing the effect of industrial practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this paper is to analyse the concept of social responsibility in sport management. By drawing on Hans Jonas, I shall analyse the concept of ‘corporate social responsibility’ in order to analyse several ambivalent cases within contemporary soccer such as the transfer of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid or the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Football is perhaps the most popular sport in the world. The market of football players is one of the most popular factors of the sport that makes the fans dream of each team which increases the interest around the sport. In 2013 the player Gareth Bale was sold from Tottenham to Real Madrid for 100 million Euros. Someone argues that the market for football players is inherently irrational precisely because of the sale price of certain players. This paper is based on Tunaru et al. model that is a real option based model. The aim of the paper is the financial valuation of a goalkeeper of Serie A League club. The model depends on relationship of player's and team's performance and the club's turnover. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Real Madrid was named as the best club of the 20th century by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics. The aim of this study was to compare if players from Real Madrid covered shorter distances than players from the opposing team. One hundred and forty-nine matches including league, cup and UEFA Champions League matches played by the Real Madrid were monitored during the 2001-2002 to the 2006-2007 seasons. Data from both teams (Real Madrid and the opponent) were recorded. Altogether, 2082 physical performance profiles were examined, 1052 from the Real Madrid and 1031 from the opposing team (Central Defenders (CD) = 536, External Defenders (ED) = 491, Central Midfielders (CM) = 544, External Midfielders (EM) = 233, and Forwards (F) = 278). Match performance data were collected using a computerized multiple-camera tracking system (Amisco Pro®, Nice, France). A repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed for distances covered at different intensities (sprinting (>24.0 km/h) and high-speed running (21.1-24.0 km/h) and the number of sprints (21.1-24.0 km/h and >24.0 km/h) during games for each player sectioned under their positional roles. Players from Real Madrid covered shorter distances in high-speed running and sprint than players from the opposing team (p < 0.01). While ED did not show differences in their physical performance, CD (p < 0.05), CM (p < 0.01), EM (p < 0.01) and F (p > 0.01) from Real Madrid covered shorter distances in high-intensity running and sprint and performed less sprints than their counterparts. Finally, no differences were found in the high-intensity running and sprint distances performed by players from Real Madrid depending on the quality of the opposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent changes in the sports industry – derived from increasing financial pressures – have led to the update of existing business models. Particularly in football, the dominant clubs develop new business models based on the spectators’ commitment to the sport. Packed stadiums attract more people who consume both the matches and the many other associated goods and services. In an experience economy, the lever is the tapping of their emotions by an increasingly sophisticated value proposal. Groups of passionate supporters lead the way to the establishment of communities with a common interest in the club. Following a qualitative methodology (interviews and other texts’ analysis) our study of the Real Madrid Football Club (RM) business model suggests that one of the biggest football clubs in the world is creating a business model based on the emotions of its supporters. This finding could be useful for other clubs in many different countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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This paper analyzes how Real Madrid Football Club took advantage of the enormous international prestige that they gained thanks to their victories in the first five editions of the European Champion Clubs’ Cup (between 1956 and 1960) to arrange a large number of international friendly matches that generated great income. Real Madrid created a new strategy by means of friendly matches and international tours that favoured an economic model centred on signing the best players of the day, as a way to attract fans to their stadium and to achieve new victories. Having access to the documentation of the Real Madrid archive has allowed the author to rely on primary sources which support these arguments, sources that hitherto had not been used. In the same way, this research demonstrates the important economic benefits that this activity brought to the Franco dictatorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay examines the relationship between nationalism and soccer in contemporary Spain. Firstly, it pays close attention to the roles of the national team and the rivalry between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in articulating conflictual social agendas. Secondly, it compares how Spanish and Catalan media utilize the Spanish soccer team success to articulate clashing forms of nationalism. It scrutinizes a wide range of journalistic interventions as well as the TV coverage of the national soccer team in the Spanish and Catalan media to determine how they constantly re-articulate the role of soccer in defining the distinguishing characteristics of the nation. Lastly, it studies a series of soccer-related cultural and social practices such as street rallies, gatherings and celebrations in order to determine their role within contemporary nationalism in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of online and mobile marketing as drivers of brand love. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected through an online survey during early 2013. A total of 241 valid answered questionnaires were collected and the constructs were tested for unidimensionality by using principal components analysis. Findings – This work confirms that in spite of the fact that players are relevant assets and investments, sports managers need to concentrate their efforts on managing the team's brand, as this is one of the company's most important assets. Moreover, the present paper shows that developing an interactive website is not enough to get brand love. In particular, findings reveal that traditional websites are no longer motivating customers to return to the site. As a result, sports managers need to use interactive marketing mediums to connect with consumers in real time. In addition, by integrating different elements of social media such as blogs, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, professional teams elevate presence and create virtual communities, which influence the choice of brands and impact fan engagement. Practical implications – As the Real Madrid branded mobile application was not found to be a driver of brand love, marketers should consider this strategy with caution. Originality/value – This work could also be of help for sport managers considering mobile marketing as a way to interact with their followers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La Susi en el vestuario blanco(2003) is a fictional chronicle of life in the Real Madrid locker room, a privileged insight into the sanctum sanctorum of the world's richest soccer team. The hiring of Susi as glamour coach ostensibly aims to boost the competitive advantage of thegalácticosin foreign as well as local markets (reflecting the reality of the club at the time). In Mendicutti's homoeroticizing gaze, it also serves to uncover the homophobic substrate reportedly still common in male team sports and teases at the anxieties of the players. This article explores the peculiar function of Susi as she sets the comic tone of the work and engages with the varied virilities before her. It examines the notions of “glamour” and “identification” both as tongue-in-cheek team objectives and as phenomena with wider relevance for the way spectators relate to sport and players relate to the world around them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The influence on the environment, the financial demands and a global view of the corporate management have led to a change in the communication model of the Real Madrid CF, with regard to its relationship with its stakeholders and especially with the sports journalists. A qualitative methodology was used and a literature review was done including secondary information sources and interviews to journalists who cover the club. The results show that the communicative management of the club equates journalists to other target audiences and that the Department of Communication has become a control mechanism that limits the access to information, monitoring the one that is produced for the media and hindering the work of journalists. Accordingly, it is warned that the personal relations between the two actors have deteriorated and the communication behavior of the club homogenized with their counterparts in other European competitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this article is to understand how the online sport journalism in Spain manufactures conflict narratives on Real Madrid versus Barcelona football matches. The clásico has been frequently framed as a clash between two national identities that goes beyond its sportive dimension. Following Whannel’s concept of ‘vortextuality’ in relation to ‘celebrity culture’ and Boyle’s concept of ‘quote culture’, and by means of a case study, this paper challenges the presumed national identity approach in journalistic discourse and frames the rivalry as a narrative dispute between their main characters. Contrary to the common belief, the results suggest the self-sufficiency of the sporting competition to create conflict and the comparatively minor role the social context plays in media narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings A firm’s brand is widely acknowledged as being one of its most critical assets. Considerable emphasis on effective brand management must therefore be a top priority for company leaders. Securing a competitive edge becomes much likelier when the brand is strong. Brands play a major role in raising an organization’s profile and helping to engage customers. People form associations about a brand that serve to influence their purchase decisions. Research has shown how such positive attitudes often result in consumers demonstrating loyalty towards the brand in question.Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking psychoanalysis of Freud and Lacan as a reference, we seek to weave previous theoretical considerations of an Intercession-Research in the Collective Mental Health context. To this end, we outlined the theories of subject and subjectivity, as well as the vision of "science" and knowledge production that is made possible from these concepts. Psychoanalysis elucidates a subject beyond I (Ego/Moi), as the speech deflagrates the hole in the speech. A subject that is not limited to a signifier, but it emerges from the symbolic movement to be represented by a signifier to other signifiers. This is because it is produced from the cascade of signifiers, like a swarm of meaning and it is in constant motion, the reasons enunciated the hypothesis of subjective processing. We speak about active subjectivity, which continues to produce new signifiers: production of new meanings from the subject-effects. We see, with psychoanalysis, a paradigmatic revolution in the epistemological field, while laying emphasis on the subjective production always via the subject. It enables a praxis which is placed in the condition of treating the Real by the Symbolic; an only partial treatment since the Symbolic does not have the last signifier able to fully tell the Real of the subject. In this way, it is from the perspective of the symbolic castration that is conceivable what we may call a psychoanalytic "scientific" field: a no-whole "science". The production of knowledge on the praxis, in the Intercessor Device, is inevitably tied to a subject's knowledge of himself, who is capable of operating equations in the impasses of the experienced subjectivity. Regarding to the knowledge of the research, it is produced a posteriori, and corresponds to a reflection on the epistemological status about the process of production of knowledge on the clinical praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Football clubs are benchmark sports organisations for public opinion and society that have become official sources for the media. Communications management at the Communications departments of football clubs is crucial for sports journalists, as it determines both the quantity and the relevancy of the information produced, which is required and demanded by the media. This paper analyses the sports journalists' perception of the Real Madrid CF communication model during the 2011-2012 season and their positioning within the information ecosystem that has been developed by this organisation to keep in contact with its strategic target audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]