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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of skiing on the biomotoric characteristics of children with evaluating tests of girls between the ages of eight and 14 before and after the season. The experimental group of this study was 15 girls who had just started skiing and the control group of 30 girls. In total, 45 volunteers joined the study. To follow the development of the children in the study, the Bruininks biomotoric-Oseretsky proficiency testing of engines, Second Edition Short Form (BOT 2 brief) test: Fine Motor Precision, Fine Motor Integration, Manual Dexterity, Bilateral Coordination, Balance, Running Speed and Agility, Upper-Limb Coordination, and Strength was used and total scores were measured. All measurements observed changes in the first test by applying the latest testing methods. The Windows SPSS 17.0 statistical package program was used to analyze the data with Independent-Sample t-test to find the differences between the groups. Statistically meaningful levels resulted as p< 0.05 and p< 0.001. No meaningful differences were found in the comparison of the motoric features of the girls who ski and those who do not in their pre-test. A meaningful difference was found in fine motor skills, fine motor accord and total score after ski training. Ski training contributed to the fine motor skills, fine motor accord and total score of the girls.

As the National Research Council [17] described the technology management as "a process, which includes planning, directing, control and coordination of the development and implementation of technological capabilities to shape and accomplish the strategic and operational objectives of an organization'', Technology Management education is becoming more important for solving problems within organizations. Therefore, institutions of higher education need to lead the way in developing programs, curriculums, departments, and institutes addressing and meeting the needs of industries and the organizations. In this paper we evaluate the need of technology management undergraduate programs and provide some insights about this need. We realize the importance of technology management in both industrial and academic contexts and how important it is to have an interaction and collaboration between the industry organizations and universities. However, there is a lack of technology education on undergraduate level at today's universities curriculum. While there are many graduate programs on technology management in universities around the world, scholars and practitioners are paying less attention to undergraduate programs on technology management education. Therefore, we focus more on technology management education in undergraduate programs by outlining several assumptions, proposing a conceptual framework based on current debates in literature, and articulating its importance in the academic field.

In the research it was aimed to examine the effects of basic table tennis trainings, which were implemented on girls aged 10-12 for 16 weeks, on certain physical and physiological parameters. A total of 40 students, as randomly selected 20 test groups and 20 control groups at an age range of 10-12 participated in the research. These students were first applied pre-test measurement, and final test measurement was performed following application of basic table tennis trainings for 16 weeks. Statistical analysis of data was performed using SPSS 20.0 statistical package program. Mann Whitney U test was used in comparison of two variable groups, and the result being p<0.05 was considered significant when examined statistically. Statistical differences between measurements of body fat percentage, flexibility, vertical jumping, standing long jump, 30 m sprint, anaerobic strength, right and left hand grip strength, visual and audio reaction times, resting heart rate, and VC, FVC, FEV and FEV1 were found to be significant in favour of the test group (p<0.05). No statistically significant differences occurred between the two groups in height, body weight, body-mass index, maxVo2, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure values (p<0.05). Consequently, it was observed that the table tennis trainings, which were performed for 16 weeks, provided positive contributions to certain physical and physiological properties of girls aged 10-12, and improved them.

The aim of this study is to investigate whether the biomotor capacities of boys doing table tennis trainings are affected. A total of 40 students, as randomly selected 20 test groups and 20 control groups at an age range of 10-12 participated in the research. Statistical analysis of data was performed using Statistic Package for Social Science (SPSS) 20.0 statistical package program. Mann Whitney "U" Test was used in comparison of two variable groups, and the result being p<0.05 was considered significant when examined statistically. In pre-test and final-test comparisons of the subjects, it was detected that the statistical differences between flexibility, vertical jump, standing long jump, 30 m sprint, anaerobic strength, maximal oxygen capacity (MaxVO2) right and left hand grip strength, visual and audio reaction times, resting heart rate, and forced expiration volume (FEV) and FEV1 measurements were significant in favor of the test group (p <0.05), while there was no statistically significant differences between the two groups in height, body weight, body fat percentage, body mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and vital capacity (VC) and forced vital capacity (FVC) values (p >0.05). At the end of this study, it was observed that table tennis trainings provided positive contributions to biomotor capacities in boys of the group aged 10-12.

The choice of exchange functional is a critical factor in determining the energy bandgap of semiconductors. Ab initio calculations using different exchange functionals, including the conventional generalized-gradient approximation (GGA) functionals, meta-GGA functionals, and hybrid functionals, show significant differences in the calculated energy bandgap for semiconducting half-Heusler compounds. These compounds, which have 18 valence electrons per unit cell, are of great interest due to their thermoelectric properties, making them suitable for energy conversion applications. In addition, accounting for electronic correlations using the G W method also affects the calculated energy bandgaps compared to standard GGA calculations. The variations in calculated energy bandgaps are specific to each material when using different functionals. Hence, a detailed investigation of the electronic properties of each compound is necessary to determine the most appropriate functional for an accurate description of the electronic properties. Our results indicate that no general rules can be established and a comparison with experimental results is required to determine the most appropriate functional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the effects of regular sport training implemented at Integrated Disabled Athlete Department on autistic children's adolescence development of individual abilities as motor proficiencies. Method: The subject group of this study is composed of 12 boys with autism who practiced physical education programs in running speed and agility, balance, coordination, and strength for 13 weeks. They were trained for one hour a day and for three days a week. In order to analyse the result of that training program, both preliminary and post-test techniques and particularly Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor (2nd ed.) (BOT-2) were implemented. Results: The result of preliminary and post-tests showed that there is a significant difference between motor levels (running speed and agility, balance, coordination, and strength). This result was interpreted that physical education has positive effects on the subjects. Conclusions: Regular sports training provided to children with autism were found to promote the development of physical properties.

The number of international students attending U.S. higher learning institutions has decreased over the past decade (excluding students from China and Saudi Arabia) from 40 percent to 30 percent. These students are an important resource for the U.S. and their native countries in terms of education, culture, and economy. Differences between international and domestic students currently enrolled in a private university were assessed using a new American College of Testing Survey of Student Opinion combined with a sociocultural adaptation scale. Those analyzed results were incorporated into a customized 18 question survey and interview process to assess international and domestic students who had not graduated. These analyzed assessments identified and increased the understanding of needs--academic and non-academic--so that recommendations could be made to the university on how to better satisfy those needs and thereby recruit and retain more international students. A total of 136 surveys and interviews were analyzed. Significant differences between international and domestic students in sociocultural adaptation and financial security and other notable differences in international graduate and undergraduate students exist. Recommendations focused on improving programs and services--orientation, advising, counseling, sociocultural, student governance, and support--to better integrate and promote diversity in meeting academic and nonacademic needs.

We conduct ab-initio electronic structure calculations to explore a novel category of magnetic Heusler compounds, comprising solely  3 d  transition metal atoms and characterized by high spin magnetic moments. Specifically, we focus on Co 2 Y Z  Heusler compounds, where Y and Z represent transition metal atoms such that the order of the valence is Co > Y > Z. We show that these compounds exhibit a distinctive region of very low density of minority-spin states at the Fermi level when crystallizing in the  L 2 1  lattice structure. The existence of this pseudogap leads most of the studied compounds to a Slater–Pauling-type behavior of their total spin magnetic moment. Co 2 FeMn is the compound that presents the largest total spin magnetic moment in the unit cell reaching a very large value of 9  μ B . Our findings suggest that these compounds are exceptionally promising materials for applications in the realms of spintronics and magnetoelectronics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inspired by the magnificent features of two-dimensional (2D) materials that aroused much of the interest in recent materials science research, we study P T -symmetric 2D-Weyl semimetal (WSM) to reveal the broadband and wide-angle invisible configurations in a P T -symmetric optical slab system. Desired unidirectional reflectionlessness and invisibility phenomena are obtained by the optimal control of system parameters. We unravel the mystery of broadband and wide-angle invisibility in regular slab materials with finite refractive indices by means of the plenary expressions. We show that materials whose refractive indices are relatively small (usually around η = 1) give rise to quite a lot of broadband and wide-angle (almost all incidence angles) invisible configurations. This is not observed with any 2D material other than 2D WSMs. Our findings suggest concrete expedience to experimental realizations in this direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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