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Sports science is a field that focus on the way human body functions during activity, and how sport and physical workout leads to general wellbeing and performance of the body. Sports science customarily focuses on aspects of physiology, biomechanics, organic chemistry, biokinetics, psychology and anatomy. Through scientific sport studies, specialists have fostered a more prominent understanding of how the human body responds to workout, various conditions and numerous different stimuli. The 'sport' part incorporates the assessment of performance, teaching, managing and administering, and the effect of sport on an individual. The 'activity' part of sports science incorporates examination of the positive and protection effect of sports on a wide scope of major physical and psychological well-being conditions, including inertia, weight, diabetes, malignant growth, cardiovascular recovery, and despondency. At the center of sports science is a comprehension of how our bodies respond, react, and adjust to activity. Sports science is deductively thorough and gives athletes an exhaustive outline of physiological, mental and biomechanical processes associated with physical workout.

Today, more than ever, the role of educational technology in teaching is of great importance because of the use of information and communication technologies. In order to keep pace with the changes we are seeing in schools, districts, and states on an almost daily basis, we also need to change how often the national education technology plan is updated. With the help of various applications for distance education, the Internet, teachers, and students themselves, they see the advantage of educational technology. This book is intended to give an overview of the components and use of educational technology in the classroom.

The relevance of the library as a gateway for information provision in this era of Information Communications and Technology (ICT) has been an issue of debate. Library is a learning institution that exists in our society from ancient times. Library from time immemorial has been considered as a "e;social institution"e;. It has an immense role in the modern society and regarded as the "e;gateway of knowledge"e; for the community. Library and society are both interlinked and interdependent. The book presents research, developments, and trends in the leadership and management of libraries.

This book highlights the concepts of family law and marriage. It lays emphasis on the merging of religion, law and family life in addition to this it describes the impacts of modernization, and industralization on family along with outlining the domestic abuse, and violence. It addresses the issues of divorce trends, and patterns and throws light on child custody, the legal decisions and outcomes as well as the different law and policy concerning the older citizens. It defines the concepts of human rights, childrens rights and family law.

The book explains the different aspects of socio-economic governance and gives and overview on e-governance. This book sheds light on the political governance in small states as well as environmental governance in small states. It also emphasize the social and economic governance in small states along with discussing the small states and good governance for sustainable development.

In this book, the key concepts of social theory and social movement have been outlined. This book also explains the theories of political protests and social movements, along with the theory of social enterprise and pluralism. It also lays emphasis on movements, from national to global social movement, network movements, alternative globalization and new media. It also explains the social movements starting from the ancient to contemporary times, which also deals with capitalism, culture, and the reinvention of everyday life. apart from this, it further illustrates the inequality, inclusion, and protests as also the action forms, repositories and cycle of protests.

This book introduces an overview of language teaching and instructional technology. It gives a critical look at computer and mobile assisted language learning, electronic test, and technology assisted language learning. The most outstanding feature of the book is its description on online learning during Covid-19 Pandemic. The book outlines technology-enhanced learning environment from different views, current SLA theory and CALL, social networking, assessing language through computer technology, factors influencing the quality of online learning, parents attitudes toward online learning, and teachers challenges for online classrooms during Coronavirus.

This book briefly introduces the main language teaching methodology by providing a brief historical overview along with outlining basic issues in language teaching. It presents students a succinct overview of the main issues, terms used in the literature. The goal is not to be exhaustive but rather to provide a sketchy overview of the basics for the novice reader. The most outstanding feature of the book is its concise description and controversial topics dominating critical debates defining the interlocking dimensions comprising the field of English language teaching. The organization of the book is in fact transparent enough to support student learning about successful handling of exams and interviews by focusing on a myriad of related topics and questions often asked by honorable teachers, interviewers, and professors as one of the fundamental requirements in post graduate university admission tests as well as PhD comprehensive examinations. The sketchy overview of the core topics introduced in 125 key terms makes the book a must-have reference for the readers in applied linguistics.

This book sheds light on various key terms or jargans that have been used for marketing and advertising. In basic terms, marketing is the process of identifying customer needs and determining how best to meet those needs. In contrast, advertising is the exercise of promoting a company and its products or services through paid channels. In other words, advertising is a component of marketing.

This book takes the readers through several different stages tourism and forecasting necessitated by tourism sector. It also highlights the several aspects of tourism demand forecasting such creativity and innovations in tourism business. It oulines the various strategic management in tourism, parameters and techniques used in tourism demand forecasting. In this book, several challenges and opportunities, and tourism supply chain management ahve also been explained.

This book offers to explain the basic concepts of tourism labor and employment, role of labor in the tourism and hospitality, human resource management for tourism, quantifying employment in tourism industry. This book sheds light on managing employee attitudes and behaviors in tourism, employer branding for hospitality and tourism industry. It also addresses the numerous challenges and opportunities in tourism and future trends and policies in tourism.

Tourism is an important sector for economic development in a country. With a year ahead full of important sporting events, we look at how sports tourism has grown in importance from niche market to multi-billion dollar business. Sport and tourism each contribute a great deal to the global economy and have become an element in the armoury of politicians, planners and economists seeking to regenerate local economies. The trend to increase sport touristic experiences and to provide them in faraway, often very different cultures simply increases the importance of addressing both the potential positive and the negative sociocultural impacts of sport tourism. This book critically explores sport-related tourism drawing on the fields of sport management, sports marketing, economic, sports geography, and tourism studies.

The book provides a breif overview of work managing in the digital economy, and the challenges and strategies involved in it. It deals with digital economy for customer benefit and business fairness. This book sheds light on the human resource management, digital transformation of labor, principles of management, efficiency and effectiveness and the social as well as economic transformation in the digital era

This book mentions technologies that present new difficulties for consumer law, imaginative improvements that can assist with securing customers financial advantages, inventive ways to deal with lasting purchaser concerns, and the difficulties involved by suggesting methods of making and conveying buyer items and administrations. Also, it ponders past triumphs and disappointments of sconsumer law and strategy, investigates prospects for moving customer law an alternate way, and examines likely dangers to consumer government assistance, particularly regarding the changing political scene in many parts of the world. A few parts inspect consumer law in singular nations, while others have a global core interest. The digital change that is in progress in our economies and social orders has furnished customers with an abundance of business openings while likewise bringing various new and arising risks. This report gives an outline of chosen key advantages and difficulties faced by digital shoppers. It centers around different areas of significance to strategists including: changing policy to quickly evolving innovations, reinforcing cross-line co-activity, improving the effect of product reviews in the advanced age, shopers goals and reviews, the job of consumer security organizations in accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals, and securing vulnerable purchasers in the computerized age.

This book entitled, Applying Phonetics: Speech Science in Everyday Life has been designed to add to the knowledge of researchers, scholars and the students of linguistics to enlighten them with various aspects of speech, the language and their applications in their day-to-day life. It takes the readers through an overview of the speech, the basic concepts of phonetics and how these concepts assist the learners in gaining the intricate nuances of the spoken language. The book also talks about the role and technique in the articulation of the speech sounds and the spoken language and its application in the teaching of a second language. Additionally, the book sheds light on the linguistic aspects of phonetics, its utility in the day-to-day conversation and other applications.

The capacity to concentrate and comprehend spoken language of multiple expressions (i.e., listening comprehension) is one of the essential aspect talents in literacy. In this book, the authors assess theoretical frameworks and empirical proof of listening comprehension and development, and propose an immediate and mediated model of listening comprehension. A review of correlational and intervention studies indicates that many language and cognitive abilities contribute to listening comprehension, together with operating memories, interest, vocabulary, syntactic information, inference, and comprehension of observance. Despite the limitation in variety, research indicates that those abilities are malleable. Active listening and comprehension form a crucial a part of reading and writing instruction, incorporating these are a couple of language and cognitive abilities. Guidance may further be used to improve modern literacy preparation, along with book reading or studying comprehension.The contribution of oral language in literacy development is indisputable in terms of concept and empirical evidence. Oral language, nevertheless, is a vast construct encompassing lexical, sentence, and discourse abilities. A lexical-degree oral language skill, vocabulary, has obtained plenty of interest in terms of theoretical ways of analyzing.

This book takes a theory to practice approach on language syllabus design, materials evaluation and development, and to develop understanding of appropriateness of materials for specific target groups. The book aims to foster a working awareness of the methodological issues involve is syllabus design. The contents serve to develop and implement the lesson integrating for adopting, adapting, and developing language instructional units. The key feature of this book is to develop language instructional materials for young learners, electronic language instructional material, materials for cultural awareness, and EAP/ESP instructional materials. The book takes different approaches in curriculum development that lead into the practical aspect of situation analysis and language curriculum development, project work, discourse-based, genre-based, and competency-based language curriculum development.

This book gives a brief introduction to the several aspects of diverse Asian cultures coupled with a brief history of Asia. It talks about the growth and changes in Asian tourism over the years with special emphasis on cultural and contemporary tourism, food tourism and development in Asia. It sheds light on the impact of culture on tourism, cultural potential and challenges facing Asia, and the future of Asian contemporary tourism.

Service excellence is about delivering to the customer expectation, and then meeting and slightly exceeding that expectation. Service operations management in the tourism and hospitality industry requires a high level of coordination, communication and facilitation to satisfy visitors. In all of these activities, service excellence means a lot to visitors in terms of their experience, and to the business it means repeat customers and word-of-mouth marketing. This book analyses important drivers of service excellence in the tourism and hospitality industry. The book is meant as a reference and supplementary reading for students, researchers and industry practitioners.

Indigenous education is a local decision-making framework in food security, human and animal health, education, natural resource management, and other important economic and social activities. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions, as well as their scientific, technological, and cultural expressions, including the characteristics of human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, animals and plants, oral tradition, literature, design, traditional sports and games, and visual and performing arts. The book presents and develops the notion of community-based education as a means of combating this tendency. Some examples of indigenous community-based education are examined, and there is a discussion both of its distinctive features and underlying principles, and its potential impact on the education of indigenous students.

Brand Management in Digital and Sustainable Times is a book intended to serve as a reference guide for undergraduates, graduates, as well as professionals aiming to understand and overcome the challenges of brand management. Brands have various applications for companies, goods, and individuals. Nowadays, every customer is a publisher and has a brand to promote goods through social media platforms. Companies should leverage this aspect as maintaining the brands reputation is essential. When a company decides on a brand to represent itself in the public eye, it must first establish its identity or how it wants to be perceived. The book presents seven carefully written chapters. Chapter one presents an introduction to brand management. A holistic approach to branding is presented in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 discusses product placement and brand integration. Chapter 4 covers brand identity, a critical requirement for any company to progress. Chapter 5 focuses on retail management, providing an overview of the visual merchandising concept, and focusing on customer relationship management (CRM), brand management, and sales management. Chapter 6 concentrates on digital branding and marketing. The final chapter, Chapter 7, explores the fundamental concepts, challenges, and issues of contemporary sustainable brand management in light of the concepts multidisciplinary aspects. With these seven chapters, readers are expected to have a comprehensive introduction to brand management in the current marketing environment. A list of references is presented in each chapter to support the reader with additional literature on the subject.

In current times, innovation has gained tremendous interest as a strategic tool for business. For many industries innovation in business includes either digital or bio-tech. However, across most industries innovation covers both finance, and labor, and is a crucial towards achieving overall performance, although there is currently no formal innovation strategy. In this book, the topic of innovation in the corporate environment is taken into consideration and is placed into the category of a technology lifecycle version to better understand the innovation process. This book explores some commonplace versions of innovation, techniques for innovation, and evaluates genericized business methodologies of technology, providing a listing of possible study areas. Growing international demand for innovation in business activities, is intended to grow and provide international financial competitiveness, inclusively as an impact of cognizance regarding the results of economic growth on intake of resources and environment, which calls for layout of new styles of manufacturing and consumption. This book critiques the contributions of technology in modern day society and business.

Organizational groups are continually settling on choices that impact on the adequacy of their performance and the organization at large. This volume makes reference to the nature of cooperative decision making, which despite being more beneficial than individual decision making, is still prone to risks including different personalities and incongruity of ideas. Some of the chapters in this book include; chapter 1: group decision-making and chapter 2: the essentials of negotiation among others. Strategies for improving collective decision making have been developed to such an extent that they can be utilized to guarantee top notch decisions in company settings. Cooperative decision-making measures are usually embraced to strengthen social bonds within the company. In this volume, the author examines the impacts of collective decision making on organizational goals, recognizing the strengths and result impacts of the strategy. In particular, it builds on the likelihood of attaining better results in comparison to individual decision-making strategy. Different ideas are presented and the most ideal ones are chosen.

Multi-Channel Marketing System: An Overview is a book is targeted to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as marketing professionals playing across diverse channels of distribution from online to brick-and-mortar stores. It addresses the practice of interacting with customers across various platforms, both direct and indirect, to sell them goods and services, blending different distribution and advertising channels into a single approach to attract consumers. This book serves as a step-by-step guide through the functions of multi-channel marketing systems, covering theory and practices. This new edition seamlessly integrates the latest changes in social media technology, including expanded coverage of mobile technology, elaborating how these new ways to reach customers can be integrated into marketing plans. The contents are presented into seven chapters. Chapter 1 : Multi-Channel Marketing System: An Overview; Chapter 2: Social Media as a Marketing Tool. Chapter 3: Mobile Marketing; Chapter 4: Email marketing; Chapter 5: Content marketing/blogging; Chapter 6: SEO in Marketing, and finally, Chapter 7: Branding in Marketing. We hope the reader enjoys the approach and the overview presented in all these seven chapters.

This volume discusses the models, definitions, and foundations of leadership in business organizations. Before addressing the fundamental concepts of leadership in corporate organizations, it first describes the understanding of the definition and the interrelationship between leaders, leadership, and change management. The author emphasizes the importance of leadership that influences business results and business organizational change processes. The second is the connection between the leader and employees. It recommends that business leaders should have adequate leadership skills, that is, communication, motivation, delegation, enthusiasm, trustworthiness, feedback, responsibility, creativity, dedication, and flexibility. This volume explores the nature of leadership styles in organizations. Some of the topics covered include: Chapter 1: "e;Introduction to Leadership;"e; Chapter 2: "e;Leadership Theories;"e; and Chapter 3: "e;Digitalization and Digital Transformation in Leadership."e; The volume mentions that neither men nor women will show more transactional or transformational tendencies. It is worth noting that women are significantly different from men on the transformational scale of personal considerations. In addition, the volume did not find any age predictive factors in leadership styles. Further research is needed on the leadership forms at different corporate levels, which may in turn help simplify professional training criteria and the prospects of different individuals for managing competence in the business environment.

This book briefly introduces the main approaches, theories, hypotheses, and models in the field of second language acquisition outlining key terminologies in each as well as their basic claims. The book provides the intended readerships with a substantive source by which they can acquire an immediate experience with ins and outs of the trends in second language acquisition. It offers students introductions to the core topics in encyclopedia-like descriptions of various concepts used in the L2 professional literature. The most outstanding feature of the book is its clear and concise description of the content knowledge and controversial topics dominating polemical debates defining the interlocking dimensions comprising the field of English language teaching. Citations provided at the end of each concept will lead the reader to original. The sketchy overview of the main issues, terms, and people introduced makes the book a must-have reference for MA students, PhD students, teachers and researchers in applied linguistics.

The book is written with a multidisciplinary ethos in mind. Hence, it may be useful for undergraduates studying biology, social biology, epidemiology, public health, sociology, social work, psychology, public administration, and many other related disciplines. I have deliberately avoided rooting myself in a specific discipline because one of the main lessons of pandemics is that they do not follow linearity and disciplinary silos. They instead impact on various facets of human life which have been invariably studied by a host of experts from a range of disciplines. Hopefully, this book will raise public consciousness about our vulnerabilities, strengths, threats, and opportunities so that we are better equipped the next time a Covid-19 happens.

There was a time when merely expressing same-sex attractions could get you hanged in many countries across the globe. Now, we are talking about same-sex marriage. This book charts the debates and evolution of same-sex marriage as a key point and process in the acceptance of sexual minorities. The book also raises questions about as-yet-unanswered questions about the future of LGBT people and marriage in general.

This book reflects the dark realities of modern slavery and human trafficking and analyses the horrifying human and social cost of these processes. Adopting an eclectic and multidisciplinary approach, this book offers a profound understanding on modern slavery and human trafficking and its devastating consequences on human lives. The book covers a wide variety of themes including the legacy of modern slavery, economic exploitation of migrants, patterns of exploitation, globalisation and the changing nature of slavery and the policy response towards human trafficking and slavery. The book that unflinchingly illustrates the torments endured by the powerless victims of slavery and human trafficking is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students of International Law, Human Rights, Sociology, Political Science and International Relations.

By reading this book you will enter into the core of the problems that follows the dislocation of people. You will clearly see all the psychological, economic, cultural and social aspects which condition both the issues of crime in individual states and the way in which international law will be applied to these people. Of course, no less important is the issue of preserving the basic human rights of those who change their domicile for a certain reason. The approach to the problem is comprehensive, and will help us to better understand the reason for accepting or not accepting newcomers in the new environment.