Mongolia’s Economic Development in the context of Northeast Asian Economic Cooperation

No abstract available The Mongolian Journal of International Affairs; Number 6, 1999, Pages 50-6

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Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively

Creative Skating: A Creative Approach to Figure Skating

Standard figure skating training methods focus on rote learning and skill practice. Little or no attention is given to the development of the skater\u27s creative self. As a skater, coach, competitor and professional performer, it is my contention that it is this lack of attention to creativity that contributes to the high rates of burnout and stress-related disorders found in the sport. By enhancing creative development, I believe that confidence levels and levels of intrinsic motivation can be improved which should in turn lead to better, more substantial skill development and more contented skaters. In this paper, I will describe one such program, Creative Skating, that I developed to speak to these concerns. The conceptual framework for this project is grounded in the fields of creativity, education, and psychology, including the work of Teresa Amabile (1996) who has studied extensively the effects of intrinsic motivation; Bernie Warren (1997) who has focused on the use of creativity as a therapeutic tool; and Roger Von Oech (1997) who advocates the value of play for stimulating creativity and breaking the mental set. The Creative Skating method proposed here is intended as a supplement to standard training. This paper examines the problems of standard training methods, describes the Creative Skating method that I have designed, and presents evidence from a small pilot study of adult beginners participating in the Creative Skating workshop, as documented by a companion video tape. The participants\u27 stress and confidence levels were tested by several instruments, including the PANAS measure (Watson, Clark, & Tellegen 1988), a visual self-portrait and a specially designed questionnaire before and after the workshop. The results offered considerable support for my hypothesis. Participants reported greatest gains in the areas of pride, trust in one\u27s body, and confidence suggesting that by enhancing intrinsic motivation through play, adult beginners are better able to relax while skating, and begin to automate kinesthetic skills. Further study of the importance of creativity as a means of increasing intrinsic motivation levels, lowering stress levels and encouraging confidence in acquiring complex motor skills is warranted based on the positive results of this study

Essays on Worker Self Selection and Wage Inequality

This thesis consists of three self contained essays about the influence of worker self selection on rising German wage inequality. Chapter 1 analyses the influence of changing returns to occupational skill on overall wage inequality, in the face of worker self selection. In Chapter 2, I study the importance of shifts in skill prices for declining wage differences between men and women. Chapter 3 investigates the impact of worker sorting across locations on growing spatial disparities

Manifestations of Local Supersolidity of 4^{4}He around a Charged Molecular Impurity

A frozen, solid helium core, dubbed snowball, is typically observed around cations in liquid helium. Here we discover, using path integral simulations, that around a cationic molecular impurity, protonated methane, the $^4$He atoms are indeed strongly localized akin to snowballs but still participate in vivid bosonic exchange induced by the ro-vibrational motion of the impurity. Such combination of solid-like order with pronounced superfluid response in the first helium shell indicates that manifestations of local supersolid behavior of $^4$He can be induced -- and probed experimentally -- by charged molecules