INVESTIGATION OF THE METAPHORICAL PERCEPTIONS OF SPORTS SCIENCES FACULTY STUDENTS REGARDING THE CONCEPTIONS OF PLAY AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Investigation of the metaphorical perceptions of sports sciences faculty students regarding the conceptions of play and physical activity

The aim of this research is to examine the metaphorical perceptions of the students of the faculty of sports sciences towards the concepts of play and physical activity.In the results of the analysis, metaphors for the concept of game consist of nine metaphors, namely, repressive activity, physical well-being, life phenomenon, social and emotional

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An Evaluation of the Sale of Public Assets as Alternative Public Debt Reduction Strategy in European Countries

Against the backdrop of the recent crisis, many European countries have been confronted to high and unsustainable public debts, the issue of conceiving and implementing debt reduction strategies becoming one of great interest to both the scientific community and public policy-makers.Several options have been put forward, some of them (like fiscal c

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Contextualizing Scenarios to Explore Social-Ecological Futures: A Three Step Participatory Case Study for the Humboldt Current Upwelling System

In the face of global change, the exploration of possible futures of marine social-ecological systems (MSES) becomes increasingly important.A variety of models aims at improving our understanding of ecosystem dynamics and complexities by assessing how systems react to internal and external drivers of change.However, these models are often built fro

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