Etica sportiva e vita cristiana: un'alleanza pedagogica da ri-valorizzare per l'educazione delle nuove generazioni

This essay intends to resume and deepen the ancient reciprocity of values between sports ethics and Christian life. Sport and Christianity are two phenomena which have remote origins. Both of them have influenced each other reciprocally in many occasions through the contact between the original cultures and they are today globalized all over the world. Among the many arguments the question arises whether Catholicism can contribute today to restore the original epistemological statute of sports sciences for a rediscovery of the most authentic sport (without doping, corruption, betting, lack of fair play, excess of technicality and economic investments, etc.) in order to become a fundamental resource for the education of the new generations, on the base of the evangelical and at the same time rational principle: “not man for sport, but sport for man”. Sport, as an educational vehicle with widespread diffusion, is on the same wavelength of the Christian message for the same reason that the essence of real sport shares the majority of Christian values and its practical dimension allows to stage, in real terms, the ‘game field’ in which those values can be reached.      Questo saggio intende riprendere e approfondire l’antica reciprocità di valori tra etica sportiva e vita cristiana. Lo sport e il cristianesimo sono due fenomeni che hanno origini remote. Entrambi si sono influenzati reciprocamente in molte occasioni attraverso il contatto tra le culture di origine e oggi sono globalizzati a livello planetario. Tra le tante argomentazioni presentate si pone la domanda se il cattolicesimo possa contribuire oggi a ripristinare lo sta-tuto epistemologico originario delle scienze dello sport per una riscoperta dello sport più autentico (senza doping, corruzione, scommesse, mancanza di fair play, eccesso di tecnicismo e di investimenti economici, ecc.) per diventare una risorsa fondamentale per l’educazione delle nuove generazioni, sulla base del principio evangelico e al tempo stesso razionale: “non l’uomo per lo sport, ma lo sport per l’uomo”. Lo sport, come veicolo educativo a diffusione capillare e mondiale, è sulla stessa lunghezza d’onda del messaggio cristiano per la stessa ragione che l’essenza del vero sport condivide la maggior parte dei valori cristiani e la sua dimensione pratica permette di mettere in scena, in termini reali, il ‘campo da gioco’ in cui tali valori possono essere raggiunti

Associazioni tra immagini corporee di stato, auto-descrizioni del proprio corpo e indice di massa corporea

Objectives: To find any possible relationships between dimensions of state body image (SBI), physical self-description (PSD) and body mass index (BMI). Methods: Body Image States Scale (BISS) and Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ) were administrated to 280 students (143 girls and 137 boys) aged between 14 and 18 years (M = 16.86; SD = 1.28). Participants answered also a demographic form. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants and their parents.The study was based on a cross-sectional research design. Appropriate statistical analyzes (such as the correlation circle) were conducted on the data to verify the hypotheses of the study. Results: Pearson’s r correlations and the correlation circle have shown multiple correlations between variables, some of which have been very strong and significant (r closed to 1; p<.0001), so much so that areas of overlap between survey instruments could be identified. Conclusions: Possible areas of overlap between the questionnaires that measure the dimensions of the SBI and those of the PSD, and also BMI have been identified (e.g., appearance BISS – appearance PSDQ; obesity BISS – obesity PSDQ – BMI).Obiettivi: Trovare eventuali possibili relazioni tra le dimensioni dell’immagine corporea di stato (SBI), l’auto-descrizione del sé fisico (PSD) e l’indicedi massa corporea (IMC). Metodi: La Body Image States Scale (BISS) e il Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ) sono stati somministrati a 280 studenti (143 ragazze e 137 ragazzi) di età compresa tra 14 e 18 anni (M =16,86; SD = 1,28). I partecipanti hanno risposto anche a un modulo demografico. Il consenso informato scritto è stato ottenuto da tutti i partecipanti e dai loro genitori. Lo studio si è basato su un disegno di ricerca trasversale. Sui dati sono state condotte opportune analisi statistiche (come il cerchiodelle correlazione) per verificare le ipotesi dello studio. Risultati: Le correlazioni r di Pearson e il cerchio delle correlazione hanno mostrato molteplici correlazioni tra variabili, alcune delle quali molto forti e significative (r vicino a 1; p<0,0001), tanto da poter individuare aree di sovrapposizione tra strumenti di rilevazione. Conclusioni: Sono state individuate possibili aree di sovrapposizione tra i questionari che misurano le dimensioni del SBI e quelle del PSD, e anche con l’IMC (e.g., aspetto BISS – aspetto PSDQ; obesità BISS – obesità PSDQ – IMC).

Fitting age-specific fertility rates by a skew-symmetric probability density function

Mixture probability density functions had recently been proposed to describe some fertility patterns characterized by a bi-modal shape. These mixture probability density functions appear to be adequate when the fertility pattern is actually bi-modal but less useful when the shape of age-specific fertility rates is unimodal. A further model is proposed based on skew-symmetric probability density functions. This model is both more parsimonious than mixture distributions and more flexible, showing a good fit with several shapes (bi-modal or unimodal) of fertility patterns

Dynamic modeling of mortality via mixtures of skewed distribution functions

There has been growing interest on forecasting mortality. In this article, we propose a novel dynamic Bayesian approach for modeling and forecasting the age-at-death distribution, focusing on a three-components mixture of a Dirac mass, a Gaussian distribution and a Skew-Normal distribution. According to the specified model, the age-at-death distribution is characterized via seven parameters corresponding to the main aspects of infant, adult and old-age mortality. The proposed approach focuses on coherent modeling of multiple countries, and following a Bayesian approach to inference we allow to borrow information across populations and to shrink parameters towards a common mean level, implicitly penalizing diverging scenarios. Dynamic modeling across years is induced trough an hierarchical dynamic prior distribution that allows to characterize the temporal evolution of each mortality component and to forecast the age-at-death distribution. Empirical results on multiple countries indicate that the proposed approach outperforms popular methods for forecasting mortality, providing interpretable insights on the evolution of mortality

Dynamic modelling of mortality via mixtures of skewed distribution functions

In this article, we propose a novel dynamic Bayesian approach for modeling and forecasting the age-at-death distribution, focusing on a three-components mixture of a Dirac mass, a Gaussian distribution and a Skew-Normal distribution. According to the specified model, the age-at-death distribution is characterized via seven parameters corresponding to the main aspects of infant, adult and old-age mortality. The proposed approach focuses on coherent modeling of multiple countries, and following a Bayesian approach to inference we allow to borrow information across populations and to shrink parameters towards a common mean level, implicitly penalizing diverging scenarios

El cuestionario sobre el problema de la intersexualidad en las competiciones deportivas : Construcción, validación, aplicación

Se presenta en este estudio el Cuestionario sobre el problema de la Intersexualidad en las Competiciones Deportivas (C-ICD). Los principales objetivos del estudio son los siguientes: construcción del C-ICD; validación del C-ICD; aplicación del C-ICD. Los análisis estadísticos llevados a cabo comprobaron una buena validez y fiabilidad de la herramienta, así como las descriptivas de la escala y el análisis de la varianza permitieron obtener información de interés sobre la aplicación de la mism

El cuestionario sobre el problema de la intersexualidad en las competiciones deportivas: construcción, validación, aplicación

Se presenta en este estudio el Cuestionario sobre el problema de la Intersexualidad en las Competiciones Deportivas (C-ICD). Los principales objetivos del estudio son los siguientes: construcción del C-ICD; validación del C-ICD; aplicación del C-ICD. Los análisis estadísticos llevados a cabo comprobaron una buena validez y fiabilidad de la herramienta, así como las descriptivas de la escala y el análisis de la varianza permitieron obtener información de interés sobre la aplicación de la misma.Departamento de Educación Físic

Educar en la motricidad de 0 a 6 años: nuevas fronteras de la investigación para la promoción de estilos de vida activos en la civilización tecnológica

En este proyecto está prevista la realización de una "investigación-intervención", que se llevará a cabo siguiendo el modelo del Project Cycle Management. En la fase de análisis se ha llegado a identificar los ámbitos de intervención y de investigación que, en nuestro caso, a partir del árbol de objetivos ha sido identificado como una acción prioritaria en la formación de educadores / enseñantes, que también influye en el ámbito del uso de los espacios escolares.Departamento de Educación Físic

La trascendentalità dell’essere-con nella didattica delle scienze motorie

This contribution originates from the reflections that took place in a fruitful scientific and correspondence debate with the pioneer Umberto Margiotta. The speculative path that follows takes its cue from a basic question: “what is the transcendental nature of formative intersubjectivity and the practices it establishes?” (Minello & Margiotta 2011, p. 25), in an attempt to be able to account for the way in which even the ontology of the motor science domain is constituted on theoretical iuxta propria principia as a rigorous epistemic domain. Thus a path of analysis, reflection and deepening of a large part of Western philosophy on the subject in question is undertaken, with particular reference to phenomenology and ‘post-phenomenology’, with the aim of reaching a foundational explanation of the sports sciences as a unitary disciplinary sector, albeit interconnected with many other scientific knowledges, in a profound reflection on the transcendental question of pedagogy, training and teaching in motor sciences, deepening some crucial themes intimately linked to it such as: intentionality, intersubjectivity, and incarnation.Il presente contributo trae origine dalle riflessioni intercorse in un proficuo dibattito scientifico ed epistolare con il maestro Umberto Margiotta. Il percorso speculativo che ne segue prende spunto da un interrogativo di fondo: “qual è la natura trascendentale dell’intersoggettività formativa e delle pratiche che essa fonda?” (Minello & Margiotta 2011, p. 25), nel tentativo di riuscire a dar conto del modo con cui anche l’ontologia di dominio delle scienze motorie si costituisca su teoretiche iuxta propria principia quale dominio epistemico rigoroso. Viene intrapreso così un percorso di analisi, riflessione e approfondimento di buona parte della filosofia occidentale sul tema in oggetto, con particolare riferimento alla fenomenologia e ‘post-fenomenologia’, con lo scopo di giungere ad una esplicazione fondativa delle scienze motorie quale settore disciplinare unitario, seppure interconnesso a molteplici altri saperi scientifici, in una profonda riflessione sulla questione trascendentale della pedagogia, della formazione e della didattica nelle scienze motorie, approfondendo alcuni temi cruciali intimamente legati ad essa quali: intenzionalità, intersoggettività e incarnazione

From nonlocal to local Cahn-Hilliard equation

In this paper we prove the convergence of a nonlocal version of the Cahn-Hilliard equation to its local counterpart as the nonlocal convolution kernel is scaled using suitable approximations of a Dirac delta in a periodic boundary conditions setting. This convergence result strongly relies on the dynamics of the problem. More precisely, the $H^{-1}$-gradient flow structure of the equation allows to deduce uniform $H^1$ estimates for solutions of the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation and, together with a Poincar\'e type inequality by Ponce, provides the compactness argument that allows to prove the convergence result.Comment: 13 page