The analysis of sports and their communication in the context of creative industries

The emergence of the phenomenon of sports is closely associated with the processes of communication. Sport is a social phenomenon, which solves a number of various tasks. The integrity and popularity of sport promoted the emergence and development of sport industry, integrating all human activities. The sport industry is changing with the changes in social and technological development. It is aimed at satisfying the needs of the society at various levels (i.e. personal, group, social, national and international levels). Sport helps to solve the tasks of personal growth. The analysis of sport and the basic elements of the sport industry allows for assessing the importance and determining the stages of the sport industry’s development. The phenomenon of sport and the associated industry needs a thorough study, including seemingly unrelated areas (i.e. education, physiology, psychology, law, economy, communication, culture, technologies, etc.). Santrauka Sporto reiškinio atsiradimas siejamas su visuomenės komunikacijos procesais. Sportas – tai socialinis reiškinys, kuris integraliai sprendžia daugybę skirtingų uždavinių. Sporto integralumas ir populiarumas paskatino sporto industrijos atsiradimą ir plėtrą. Sporto industrija integruoja visų žmogaus veiklos rūšių sritis, vykstant visuomenės socialinei raidai ir technologijų plėtrai, keičiasi ir sporto industrija. Pagrindinis jos uždavinys – tenkinti įvairaus lygmens visuomenės poreikius (asmens, grupės, bendruomenės, valstybės, tarptautinius). Sporto reiškinys padeda spręsti ir asmenybės augimo uždavinius. Atlikta sporto ir sporto industrijos pagrindų analizė leidžia įvertinti sporto industrijos svarbą ir plėtros gaires. Sporto reiškinys ir jo generuojama industrija reikalauja plačių integralių tyrimų sujungiant iš pirmo žvilgsnio nesusiejamas sritis (edukaciją, fiziologiją, psichologiją, teisę, ekonomiką, komunikaciją, kultūrą, technologijas ir t. t.). Reikšminiai žodžiai: turinys, plėtra, sporto integralumas, sąsajos, visuomenės poreikiai, vertybės

Personnel Ranking and Selection Problem Solution by Application of KEMIRA Method

In this study KEmeny Median Indicator Rank Accordance (KEMIRA) method is applied for solving personnel ranking and selection problem when there are two subgroups of evaluating criteria. Each stage of KEMIRA method illustrated with the examples. In the first stage Kemeny median method is applied to generalize experts’ opinions for setting criteria priorities. Medians were calculated for all experts opinions generalization and for experts majority opinions generalization. In the second stage criteria weights calculated and alternatives ranking accomplished simultaneously by Indicator Rank Accordance method. The obtained solutions compared with the results received in previous work of authors

Algorithm of Maximizing the Set of Common Solutions for Several MCDM Problems and it’s Application for Security Personnel Scheduling

The article deals with the task of elite selection of private security personnel on the basis of objective and subjective criteria. One of the possible solutions of this multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem is creation of heuristics allowing to minimize discrepancy of ranks calculated for the objective and subjective criteria on the basis of the best security staff. The proposed heuristic combines interval points re-selection and random points generation methods. Two optimizing algorithms are proposed. It is shown how this method is applied for solving specific task of elite selection from security personnel

Kūno kultūros ir sporto mokslo plėtros aktualumas tarpdalykinių komunikacijų kontekste

Kūno kultūros ir sporto mokslo formavimasis vyko sprendžiant skirtingus uždavinius, kurie istorinėje raidoje sistemingai transformavosi ir keitėsi. Vyko daugybės mokslų sričių bei krypčių bendrinimo ir komunikacijų procesai. Vykstant tarpdalykinėms komunikacijoms, tęsėsi kūno kultūros ir sporto mokslo transformacijos, sintezuojant socialinius, biomedicininius, humanitarinius, fizikinius, technologinius ir kitus mokslus, įvairiai juos derinant, skatinant fundamentinių žinių kaupimą ir sisteminimą. Kūno kultūros ir sporto mokslas turėtų padėti spręsti uždavinius, susijusius su asmenybės, kaip socialinės-biologinės savireguliacinės sistemos, funkcionavimu, ugdymu ir rekreacija, padėti kurti aplinką, skatinančią kūrybingumą, visuomenės sveikatingumo plėtrą ir sveikatos korekciją. Atlikta kūno kultūros ir sporto mokslo pagrindų, kaip tarpdalykinių komunikacijų, analizė susistemino pagrindinius kūno kultūros ir sporto, kaip savarankiško mokslo, fundamentalius dėsnius (dominantės, superkompensacijos, adaptacijos). Šių dėsnių taikymas kūno kultūros ir sporto mokslo tarpdalykinių komunikacijų procese reikalauja platesnių tyrimų taikant įvairias mokslines metodikas

Evaluation of competences possessed by security guards employed by private security

The present article provides research data elicited from the leading managers (experts) of a private security concerning the evaluation of competences. The article offers classifications of the security guard competences and an algorithm for the computation of the level of their importance. The findings show the distribution of competences falling into the categories of very important, important, and slightly important competences. Investigation into the correlation of findings indicates that the system for the evaluation of security guards competences ought to be characterised by a larger number of indices under evaluation

Development of students’ physical fitness and capacity

The problem of evaluation of healthy people’s health condition focuses on the assessment of adaptation of specific groups of people and separate individuals to stressful situations. Public health processes cannot be controlled by comparing “less healthy” individuals to “more healthy” ones unless health parameters are available. It is vital to create new diagnostic methods reflecting a capacity to adapt to environment, and to elaborate the existing ones on a personal and population level. It is urgent to examine the indicators of physical fitness, physical and functional capacity demonstrated by students at higher schools; and to compare research data with the findings provided by previous research, to create scales for the evaluation of individual physical condition of students. Research subject: physical and functional condition of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) students. Research purpose: to inquire into the development of physical fitness, physical and functional capacity of present-day students and to work out scales for the evaluation of indicators under investigation. Over the academic year 2011/12, 456 VGTU students were examined. Physical fitness, physical and functional capacity parameters were determined. Eurofit research protocol and methodology created for the research of higher school and college students was used. Research data were processed by means of the mathematical statistics quantitative data computation methods. Height indicators demonstrated by students under research do not differ essentially from data published ten years ago. The findings show vital changes in student height increase over the past 40 years, from 1963 till 2003, witnessing the acceleration phenomena; however, over the past 10 years, this phenomenon has not been observed because the mean height of students investigated by us does not differ statistically from the data provided by Eurofit. Mean body mass indicators demonstrated by students involved in our research coincide with the Eurofit data; however, they differ greatly from the data exhibited by students 40 years ago. Indicators of physical capacity showed that students involved in our research were weaker than students examined 10 years ago. The Ruffier test performance mean shown by students under our research was evaluated as a medium one; since the area of distribution of this value is wide, it is evaluated as an indicator of heart function insufficiency by quite a large number of students. Estimation of the development of students’ height and body mass over 40 years provides sufficient grounds to argue that youth acceleration process in Lithuania took place from 1963 till 2003; however between 2003 and 2013 this phenomenon was not observed. It was found that the means of performance by students tested in this research against Sit up and lie down and Flamingo tests lagged behind the means provided by Eurofit for students. Physical capacity of students investigated by us varied greatly, and the research data distribution area was extensive, with especially wide distribution in the Flamingo, Handgrip and Sit down and reaches out test data. Inquiry into the functional capacity of circulation system of students under research indicated that a substantial part of students had their circulation systems evaluated at the level of heart function insufficiency. On the grounds of these data, medical control as well as strictly regulated, health-promoting physical activity is recommended. Evaluation scales created by us will help to assess more precisely the physical and functional condition of students and to provide the grounds for more precise recommendations for working out the complexes of physical activity measures. They will facilitate the monitoring of the development of the existing physical condition of students

Information Reliability Assessment and Filtering for Decision Making. Case Study of Lithuanian and China Students’ Life Goals Survey Data

This article presents the methodology and tools to evaluate the reliability of quantitative sociological research data. The problem of filtering unreliable data is usually solved by statistical methods. This article proposes an improved method for filtering unreliable data. In this case, the statistical methods are not applied to the initial data but the value of the distance function between the two preferences. This allows for the disclosure of conflicting or erroneous data. Calculation of the distance between two preferences and prioritisation of life goals are based on binary relation theory, where the properties of symmetry (antisymmetry) are very important. The article presents a case study on 11 life goals evaluation and ranking by Lithuanian and China students. The study revealed that the China student data filtered at least twice as much as the Lithuanian student data, i.e., they are less reliable. The filtered data show that students of both countries ranked the most and the least important life goals in a very similar way with minimum deviations detected in the ranking results

Information Reliability Assessment and Filtering for Decision Making. Case Study of Lithuanian and China Students’ Life Goals Survey Data

This article presents the methodology and tools to evaluate the reliability of quantitative sociological research data. The problem of filtering unreliable data is usually solved by statistical methods. This article proposes an improved method for filtering unreliable data. In this case, the statistical methods are not applied to the initial data but the value of the distance function between the two preferences. This allows for the disclosure of conflicting or erroneous data. Calculation of the distance between two preferences and prioritisation of life goals are based on binary relation theory, where the properties of symmetry (antisymmetry) are very important. The article presents a case study on 11 life goals evaluation and ranking by Lithuanian and China students. The study revealed that the China student data filtered at least twice as much as the Lithuanian student data, i.e., they are less reliable. The filtered data show that students of both countries ranked the most and the least important life goals in a very similar way with minimum deviations detected in the ranking results

Comparative Evaluation and Ranking of the European Countries Based on the Interdependence between Human Development and Internal Security Indicators

New solutions and techniques for developing country policies are used under real conditions. The present study aims to propose a new approach for evaluating and ranking the European countries by using the interrelation between two groups of criteria, associated with the Human Development Index (HDI) and the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI). HDI and its components rank countries by value and detail the values of the components of longevity, education and income per capita. WISPI focuses on the effective rendering of security services and the outcome of rendered services. The priority of criteria is determined in the descending order of their correlation values with other group criteria. The criteria weights are set simultaneously for both groups by applying the weight balancing method WEBIRA. The methodology based on minimising sum of squared differences of the weighted sums within groups is used. Finally, the generalised criteria measuring the level of the country are calculated using the SAW method. Cluster analysis of the countries was carried out and compared with MCDM results. The study revealed that WEBIRA ranking of countries is basically consistent with the results of cluster analysis. The proposed methodology can be applied to develop the management policy of the countries, as well as to their evaluation and ranking by using various indices, criteria and procedures. The results of this research can also be used to reveal national policy choices, to point out government policy priorities

Evaluation of Elite Athletes Training Management Efficiency Based on Multiple Criteria Measure of Conditioning Using Fewer Data

Innovative solutions and techniques in the sports industry are commonly used and tested in real conditions. Elite athletes have to achieve their peak performance before the main competition of the year, which is the World Championship, and every fourth year before the Olympic Games, when the main competition of athletes takes place. The present study aims to analyze and evaluate the ability of elite kayakers to achieve the best form at the right times, with the Olympic Games taking the greatest importance. Target values for multiple measures of conditioning are compared to target values set by experts. A weighted least squares metric with weights varied by time period is developed as a measure of fulfillment of the athletes’ conditioning plans. The novelty of the paper is the idea of using linear combination of polynomials and trigonometric functions for approximating the target functions and application of the proposed methodology for the optimization and evaluation of athletic training