Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Health - Sport - Kinematics and Training Theory, grade: 1,7, Technical University of Darmstadt (Institut für Sportwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: This work deals with the conception of an Expert System for the identification of talented athletes for athletic sprinting. Expert Systems are a sub domain of Artificial Intelligence. They are a class of programs which simulate the reasoning capabilities of a human expert in the solution of complex, narrowly defined problems. Unlike conventional algorithms, they are capable of solving problems on the basis of incomplete or vague data, similar to a human expert. A key characteristic of Expert Systems is the strict separation of the problem-specific knowledge and the inference engine. The short distance sprint is one of the oldest and most exciting athletic disciplines, dating back as far as the first Olympic Games. In spite of the relatively simple goal of this sport, to cover the given distance in the shortest possible time, this task demands highly complex technical and physical skills. These are presented in the second chapter together with an overview of the different phases of a sprint race (start, acceleration, maximum velocity). This forms the basis of the talent identification methods presented in chapter three. A talent is a person that exhibits above average abilities or skills in a certain field or area. Talent search is usually restricted to the assessment of physical abilities. This is a gross reduction of the complexity of talent, as chapter three points out. Based on this knowledge, a five phase engineering process was devised. This work presents this process, and this discourse is as such a concrete documentation of the work performed. The first phase is characterized by planning and organizational activities, and is known as requirements analysis. In the second phase, the requirements are concretized and elaborated. Within this work, the knowledge acquisition was performed during this stage. In the third phase, the system architecture was designed. The shell d3web was presented and the major features of the front- and back-end were introduced. This tool was then utilized in the fourth phase, the implementation phase, for the creation of a system prototype. The findings of phase two were used to construct the knowledge base. The fifth phase is known as the deployment phase. Here the product is handed to the customer, and from this point on the developmental tasks are replaced by maintenance work. The work is rounded off by a conclusion and a possible outlook regarding the future use of Expert Systems in sports.

Dieses Buch wurde gemacht für die Erwachsenen, die vergessen haben, dass sie selbst einmal Kinder waren für die Erwachsenen, die ihre Kindheit niemals vergessen werden für die Kinder, die alle eines Tages erwachsen sein werden. Über den Autor: Enzo ist ein bekannter und angesehener taiwanesischer Autor/Bilderbuchmacher/Illustrator. Seine graphischen Novellen sind an der Grenze zwischen Bilderbuch und Comic angesiedelt und seine Leser finden sich unter Erwachsenen wie Jugendlichen / älteren Kindern. Kurzinhalt: Nummer 34 ist ein siebenjähriger Junge mit verborgenem kreativen Talent, ein Schulschwänzer und das verhasste schwarze Schaf der Klasse. Er wächst im Taiwan der 80er Jahre auf und ist ein Alter Ego des Autors. Während die anderen Schüler seiner Klasse im Streben nach Bestnoten und gegenseitigem Wettbewerb um den Titel des Klassenbesten sich der Erwartungshaltung von Eltern und Lehrerschaft anpassen, verschwindet Nummer 34 lieber mit seinem Jugendfreund A Ding in den Wäldern, wo sie sich ihren Spielen hingeben und eine geliebte Kaulquappe aufziehen. Eine tragische Wendung bringt den Jungen jedoch dazu, dem Druck seines Umfeldes nachzugeben und sich den schulischen und erziehrischen Zwängen unterzuordnen. Der Autor schildert in dieser graphischen Novelle Erinnerungen an seine Kindheit im Taiwan der 80er Jahre. Das mehr Erwachsene und Jugendliche als jüngere Kinder ansprechende Bilderbuch/Comic gewährt Einblicke in das Schulsystem konfuzianisch geprägter Länder Ostasiens. Es gewährt Einsichten in die Beziehungen zwischen Schülern und Lehrern, Kindern und ihren Eltern in Ländern des chinesischen Kulturkreises. Und es stellt die universelle Frage, wieweit sich ein Individuum dem gesellschaftlichen Kollektiv, den Erwartungen seines Umfeldes unterordnen soll oder kann, ohne sich selbst und sein persönliches Glück zu verleugnen. Zweisprachige Doppelausgabe Deutsch-Chinesisch. Beschreibung aus dem Katalog des taiwanesischen Gemeinschaftsstandes an der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2009: This book was the winner of the Golden Tripod Award in 2007. In it, a seven-year-old boy doesn’t like to go to school, because at school everything is under the control of the authorities. Besides, none of his classmates like him. He feels so sad and so hopeless. One day, he decides not to go to school anymore. This is a long, graphic novel written like an autobiography. An adult narrator tells stories of his rebellious childhood and how he changed and matured. The teacher/ student relationship, parent/ children interaction, and the school buildings and the classroom environment are al inspired by the educational outlook in Taiwan during the 80s, giving the whole book a nostalgic flavour. As in most Asian countries, Taiwan’s education is very much oriented toward advanced studies; in other words, intellectual education is given the highest priority. The campus scenes and the education system described in this work give an accurate picture of the common memories of Asian students. Zielgruppe: Erwachsene und Jugendliche/Kinder. Leser von poetischen Bildergeschichten. Thematisch besonders relevant für Menschen, die sich für den chinesischen Kulturkreis und seine Gesellschaft interessieren. Medienstimmen: „Enzo ist ein Illustrator, auf dessen Stiftspitze sich ein Engel niedergelassen hat.“ – Taiwanesischer Bestseller-Autor Giddens über den Autor. Träger des staatlichen taiwanesischen Literaturpreises (Golden Tripod Award). Ausgezeichnet in den Kategorien „bestes Buch“ und „schönste künstlerische Gestaltung“. Auszeichnung als bestes Buch 2006 durch drei taiwanesische Buchhandlungsketten. Folgende taiwanesische Autoren und andere Kulturschaffende empfehlen dieses Buch: Hou Wenyong, Yi Zhiyan, Huang He, Li Jiatong, Cai Kangyong, Jiu Badao, Wu Danru, Jimi (Jimmy Liao)

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften), course: Europa in der Krise ¿ welche Krise, language: English, abstract: Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least five hundred years ¿ to create a disunited Europe. ...It was necessary for us to break up the EEC,... . Now that we're in, we were able to make a pig's breakfast out of it. (The Complete Yes Minister, qtd. In Otte 1) The essence that this sarcastic quotation transports, brushing away all party politics, great leaders and platform commitments, suggests that Euro-scepticism has always been in Great Britain's political culture and it is here to stay. Intrinsic motifs and reasons for the British Euroscepticism will be dealt with in part I of this paper and indeed, they constitute strong evidence that the rejection of Europe ¿ not only of the EU as a political instrument ¿ is firmly entrenched in major parts of the UK's society. To assume however that this sentiment has been equally present in all the political phases and parties in post WWII Great Britain is scientifically unsustainable. It becomes obvious especially if one considers the pro-European mood in the devolved Scottish Parliament and the parties represented in it, eg. The Scottish National Party and the Liberal Democrats (Watts/Pilkington 222, 243). Also on UK level the political approach towards the EU and its institutions has changed with the political personal in charge, intergovernmental relations and constellations; it is true especially in regard of the UK that the lines of approval and rejection of the EU are not congruent with party loyalities. t is therefore the task of this paper to distil ideological determinants and mind-sets and the crucial phases in British policies towards the European Union after World War II. Focus in part one lies on Britishness and its surrounding ideological patterns; part two at its core examines the last three governments of the United Kingdom, that is the administrations of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair. It will be one of the statements of this work that both of the subsequent governments in many respects can be seen in the tradition of the first mentioned, although it was then indicated in another way and hoped by many pro-Europeans that this would not be the case. Furthermore one aim will be to isolate a tendency that enables the percipients of this academic work to venture an outlook on the future relations between Europe and the UK, which is especially vital in regard of the sustainability of the Union: