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Currently, there is no theory that identifies the ideal personality type for sports coaches. The study's goal is to gain insight into the personalities of German basketball coaches and use existing study results from other professional groups to make recommendations for the content of coaches' education. Given the German Olympic Sports Federation's emphasis on comprehensive coach education that includes personal development, this paper examines the relationship between a coach's vocation and personality, filling in knowledge gaps about how coaches' personalities appear. The analyses are based on a unique dataset of 360 German basketball coaches and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), allowing for a more in-depth comparison of coaches' Big Five personality traits. Using SOEP data from the German general population, teachers, and managers as benchmarks, this paper investigates the relationship between different coaching license levels and distinct personality profiles, providing insights into the characteristics displayed by coaches at various professional levels. The analysed data indicate that lower coaching licence levels are associated with lower neuroticism and more agreeableness, whereas openness, conscientiousness, and extraversion are higher. When comparing coaches to the general population and other occupational groups, A‑license coaches have more characteristics that are similar with managers, whilst C‑license coaches have more parallels with teachers. Furthermore, examining particular traits and individual comparisons, it is transparent that C‑license coaches are more agreeable than A‑license coaches. The findings suggest that coach development programs should be improved by incorporating insights from teachers and managers to select coaches and update educational paradigms more carefully. The study emphasizes the importance of traits such as conscientiousness and agreeableness in coaching success and identifies potential areas for intervention to maximize coaching efficacy. In conclusion, this study adds to our empirical understanding of the complex relationships between personality traits, professional roles, and effective coaching on multiple levels. Furthermore, it emphasizes the dynamic relationship between an individual coach's intrinsic disposition and professional efficacy, showing the importance of tailored interventions to improve coaching outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article appraised the use of political cartoons in communicating messages to the public using The Guardian newspaper, The Punch newspapers and The Sun newspapers; particularly, between June 2022 and February, 2023. The paper adopted media intrusion theory propounded by Dennis Davis in 1990. And framing theory propounded by Gregory Bateson in 1972. Comment: take the deleted details to the body of the paper. The paper adopted content analysis and in-depth interview with key informants. The units of analysis included: image of corruption, image of responsibility, image of brutality, image of cruelty, image of terrorism, and image of political failure. The findings indicate that the impact and significance of cartoons in the information age cannot be over emphasize. That cartoons are very attractive to mostly children and it influences their perception of the world and value system in their upbringing, and that people read cartoons for different reasons. Political cartoons aim to make people laugh about current political situations or issues, while at the same time enabling readers to critically think about issues in a new way. Findings also indicate that cartoons have help to expand media scope and content by adding cartoons varieties from every field or disciplines. It is therefore, recommended among others that, the media should be granted true or practical freedom to perform it functions the public and more cartoons should be employed in articles, news or stories that are sensitive or important since it make reading more appealing thereby enhancing retention of messages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper presents a guest register from the Putna Monastery Archive, which was written in the first decade of the 20th century. The paper analyzes the pilgrims’ places of origin – countries, regions, cities, villages, monasteries, their trade – professors, doctors, artists, architects, lawyers etc. The most important personalities have also been selected. This analysis presents quite an accurate picture of daily life at Putna Monastery at the beginning of the last century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The incorporation of technology in higher education has increased rapidly in recent years to allow for remote work and to promote active learning. Technology use could align with personality type and adopter status as defined by the diffusion of innovations theory. A review of the literature was conducted using PubMed with 106 articles found, and 2 articles meeting the inclusion criteria of the study. Search terms included "technology AND education", "pharmacy AND personality", "technology AND faculty AND personality", and "technology AND health educators AND personality". This paper highlights the current literature and introduces a new classification system to describe the technology personalities of instructors. The proposed personality types (TechTypes) include expert, budding guru, adventurer, cautious optimist, and techy turtle. Awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of each personality type—as well as one's own technology personality—may guide the selection of collaborators and tailor technology training for future growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that are important in the individual's tendency to build a positive self-image. Knowing others and self-knowledge is a goal of each of us, but by mirroring ourselves in others we discover aspects of ourselves. Thus, selfformation is initiated by knowing others and ends by knowing our own person. Social perception with the aim of getting to know other individuals represents a cognitive segment, with the help of which the person can outline an image of himself and at the same time build his opinion about others. The manifested phenomenon has a perspective of the individual who makes an approach starting from himself and puts his own person in dialectical opposition with the other characters found in the context. So, the self-image does not denote the result of a usual introspection, but "a double knowledge" of the personality, according to the French psychologist Paul Fraisse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A truism concerning college attendance is that the knowledge and experiences gained from it have the ability to change one's attitudes and beliefs. In regard to criminology and criminal justice (C&CJ) education, this has led researchers to assume that what separates the students majoring in this field from other majors is course work alone. Due to students self-selecting their major, however, any similarities found among C&CJ majors may simply be an artifact of them commencing college as a more homogenous group. The question then is whether or not C&CJ majors begin their college careers as a more likeminded group compared to their non-C&CJ counterparts. This paper addresses this question by surveying college freshmen from all academic fields. Specifically, it examines how C&CJ majors and non-majors differ at the start of their college careers in the areas of personality characteristics, parental demographics, TV show preferences, and reasons for selecting a major. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study investigates the relationship between market power and bank profitability, and the impacts of CEOs' personality traits, in Vietnam from 2007 to 2020. The analysis of CEOs' signatures is used to determine their characteristics. The findings support the quiet-life hypothesis, which suggests that the negative relationship between market power and bank profitability may depend on CEOs' characteristics. More specifically, the results show that conscientious CEOs with market power tend to reduce bank profitability, and this effect is more pronounced for foreign-owned banks. Therefore, our findings have critical implications for bank management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper work belongs to a cycle of articles which have as purpose to bring to the sport lovers’ attention a number of coaches, teachers, sportives, sports managers from Oradea who have obtained remarkable results on national and international level. After the introductory part, which refers to the motivation of the endeavor and importance of the paper work, it is presented coach Traian Constantinescu’s activity during the first years when, under his guidance, the female basketball team Crişul Oradea achieved their most valuable performances. A special place is granted to the years when Baschet Club ICIM Arad team, coached by Traian Constantinescu, won two national champion titles at seniors, participated to the Liliana Ronchetti Cup and European Champion Clubs Cup. There are also presented the results of Romania’s national teams which he trained and guided to the Balkan Championships, European Championships and University World Games. In the end, the article contains the enumeration of the distinction which were awarded to him as acknowledgement of his professional value and as appreciation of his merits.

Lagrange was born and lived in Turin until he was 30 years old. Thanks to his fame as one of the most gifted mathematicians of his time, he moved to the Berlin Academy of sciences in 1766. It was a definitive departure: in 1787 he accepted the invitation of the Paris Academy of Sciences and lived in Paris until his death in 1813. He never saw his country and relatives again. Lagrange's biographers have considered such a radical separation as motivated by the mathematician's coldness and insensitivity. Against such a view, this paper examines some aspects of Lagrange's years in Turin (salary, professional satisfaction, scientific career, relationships with the government) and proposes to consider Lagrange's departure and lasting absence from Turin as a response to facts and circumstances which marked his life and career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simple Summary: Over the last three and a half decades, many studies have been published about cat behavior and cat–human interactions (many by the author and his former team of assistants and university students); these have been summarized in recent review articles. Although we have learned much about domestic cats and their relationships with people, there are still many unanswered questions of interest to scientists and the lay public. The author has briefly referred to the past results and formulated the unanswered questions (some as hypotheses), even suggesting possible ways to answer or test them. Although the author is now retired, his intent is to encourage young researchers beginning their academic careers to take up the torch and work on this fascinating companion animal species. After recent publication of several reviews covering research results from the last 35 years of domestic cat studies, a number of important unanswered questions and hypotheses have arisen that could interest active researchers, especially those beginning their academic careers. Some sections of this paper concern methodologies that have yielded new insights and could provide more in the future; other sections concern findings and interpretations of those that need further testing. First, hypotheses arise from combining subjective (or psychological) assessments of cat and human personality traits and observational (ethological) studies of cat–human interactions: e.g., do owners with high attachment to their cats interact differently with them than owners with low attachment levels? New analytical methods of dyadic interaction observations open the door for testing further hypotheses. In particular, the Theme® (Noldus bv, NL) program could be used to determine if there are differences between cat breeds in interaction patterns with people, which is not only of interest to owners but also therapists employing cats in their practices. Cat breed differences have been found using subjective ratings, but these need to be corroborated by direct observational data from the home setting and/or non-invasive colony observations, since ratings based on anthropomorphic projections might not be reliable. This should be done before searching for the genetic basis of such differences. Reliable information on breed differences is also needed before prescribing certain breeds for animal-assisted interventions. A model has predicted that the degree of socialization as a kitten affects cats' responses to positive and negative experiences with unfamiliar humans and their formation of feline–human relationships later on. This needs to be tested in an ethically approved manner on cats of known socialization status and has enormous consequences for cat adoptions from animal shelters. Observations of human–cat interactions have yielded many correlations, which can be tested by non-invasive manipulations of human behavior in the home setting. Examples of these will be given and are of general interest to the cat-owning public. A review of first findings on social cognition in cats has resulted in further unanswered questions and hypotheses. Finally, two aspects of domestic cat ecology will be considered (effects on wildlife and space utilization), which are of great interest to the public and conservationists alike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The doctors enter in politics for the national interest, and the advantage is that by forming themself have the own consciousness community, one understanding science culture . Doctor Elena Alistar was the woman who managed to impose on the political scene of Bassarabia when it was difficult for a woman to do school and become a politician. She founded the Cultural League of women in Bassarabia, was deputy in the parliament St. Country of Bassarabia, contributing to the Great Union. Elena Alistar was the person who sat the tricolor scarf on the chest of Ion Inculet,the elected president of Saint Country. Doctor Daniel Ciugureanu was the personality that has contributed substantially to the Great Union, he was prime minister of Democratic Republic Moldova, deputy of Saint Country, president of Council of Ministers, he asked officially for help to the Romanian army and was part of the delegation that bring the unification paper of Bassarabia with Romania in Iaşi and he was also vice chairman of the Senate of Great Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the paper is to explore the emotional aspect of Liang Ch'i-ch'ao's self-contradictions so as to further our understanding of Liang. Self-contradictory Liang Ch'i-ch'ao has been one of the most fascinating subjects in the study of modern China. However, since most studies concentrated one aspect of this complicated phenomenon, namely, Liang's intellectual self-contradictions, there has been little understanding of Liang's personality as a whole and the interactions between his personality and intellectual self-contradictions. Based upon Liang's personal correspondences in his chronological biography compiled by Ting Wen-chiang, I was able to piece together evidences about Liang's emotional development and to suggest that Liang suffered from emotional instability throughout his life. The emotional instability, characterized by periodical alternations between depression and elation, was very similar to a psychological disorder grouped as "cyclothymia". First of all, Liang's theory of journalism was analyzed to examine his intellectual self-contradictions in details. It was found that, although the summer of 1903 was indeed a watershed which divided Liang's political thought into two parts, that of a revolutionary and that of a reformist, his journalistic theory, particularly his attitude toward the journalistic responsibility of objective reporting, vacillated between pros and cons before as well as after 1903. This suggests that, in many aspects of Linag's thought other than his shift from revolution to reform, Liang's intellectual self-contradictions might be characterized by constant vacillations rather than by one big and clear shift in 1903. The constant vacillations corresponded to Liang's constant emotional swings as expressed in the ten cycles of elation and depression found in his biography. During the periods of elation, Liang worked so hard that he often could not sleep for several days. He had exaggerated confidence and thought himself equal to gods or saints. During the periods of depression, Liang was often struck by serious but unknown diseases which immobilized him. He lost confidence and thought himself lower than dogs or pigs. He overdrank, wept easily and became extremely dependent upon the emotional support of his relatives and friends, particularly his teacher K'ang Yu-wei and his daughter Liang Ling-hsien. The emotional dependency upon particularistic ties was in fact one of the most important factors in Liang's shift from revolution to reform in 1903. Intellectually, Liang was against particularism (men hu chih chien) at the beginning of his career. He often attacked particularism and advocated universalistic criteria to recruit revolutionaries for the cause of institutional change. However, due to his emotional dependency upon his own particularistic ties with reformists, Liang withdrew from revolution step by step and finally dropped it completely in the summer of 1903. The paper concludes that analyses of Liang's emotional development are very important for our understanding of Liang Ch'i-ch'ao. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is part of a series of papers that aim to bring to the attention of sports fans a number of Cluj sports personalities, sportsmen, coaches, managers - with remarkable results at national and international level. The authors illustrate the role that coach Nicolae Martin played in developing women's basketball in Romania, particularly at the ''Universitatea” Cluj-Napoca club. After the introductory part, concerned with the motivation and importance of their approach, the authors present Nicolae Martin's beginnings as a coach, the efforts and results that foreshadowed his later great achievements. Next, they illustrate the period during which, under his leadership, the ''Universitatea” Cluj-Napoca women's basketball team achieved the greatest results in its history, ten national champion titles, eight starts at different stages of the European Champions Cup and one start at the Liliana Ronchetti Cup. They also show his results as a coach of various national teams of Romania that he trained and led to the Balkan Championships, European Championships and World University Games. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The incorporation of technology in higher education has increased rapidly in recent years to allow for remote work and to promote active learning. Technology use could align with personality type and adopter status as defined by the diffusion of innovations theory. A review of the literature was conducted using PubMed with 106 articles found, and 2 articles meeting the inclusion criteria of the study. Search terms included “technology AND education”, “pharmacy AND personality”, “technology AND faculty AND personality”, and “technology AND health educators AND personality”. This paper highlights the current literature and introduces a new classification system to describe the technology personalities of instructors. The proposed personality types (TechTypes) include expert, budding guru, adventurer, cautious optimist, and techy turtle. Awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of each personality type—as well as one’s own technology personality—may guide the selection of collaborators and tailor technology training for future growth.

In this paper, the contribution of the Faculty of Law of Kazan University to the development of the TASSR statehood was studied. Three major groups of events and persons were singled out based on the degree of their influence: lecturers and researchers, who worked at the Faculty of Law in different years (Faculty of Social Sciences, Law Institute); state and public figures; law enforcement and court officers. The transformation of the Faculty of Law in line with the reforms in the higher education system of the USSR was considered. Special attention was paid to the role of the Faculty of Law in the development of cities and infrastructure of the TASSR, as well as in ensuring the rule of law during the administration of justice. Through the prism of outstanding personalities of the Faculty of Law, the history of Tatarstan during the Soviet period was constructed.

After recent publication of several reviews covering research results from the last 35 years of domestic cat studies, a number of important unanswered questions and hypotheses have arisen that could interest active researchers, especially those beginning their academic careers. Some sections of this paper concern methodologies that have yielded new insights and could provide more in the future; other sections concern findings and interpretations of those that need further testing. First, hypotheses arise from combining subjective (or psychological) assessments of cat and human personality traits and observational (ethological) studies of cat–human interactions: e.g., do owners with high attachment to their cats interact differently with them than owners with low attachment levels? New analytical methods of dyadic interaction observations open the door for testing further hypotheses. In particular, the Theme® (Noldus bv, NL) program could be used to determine if there are differences between cat breeds in interaction patterns with people, which is not only of interest to owners but also therapists employing cats in their practices. Cat breed differences have been found using subjective ratings, but these need to be corroborated by direct observational data from the home setting and/or non-invasive colony observations, since ratings based on anthropomorphic projections might not be reliable. This should be done before searching for the genetic basis of such differences. Reliable information on breed differences is also needed before prescribing certain breeds for animal-assisted interventions. A model has predicted that the degree of socialization as a kitten affects cats’ responses to positive and negative experiences with unfamiliar humans and their formation of feline–human relationships later on. This needs to be tested in an ethically approved manner on cats of known socialization status and has enormous consequences for cat adoptions from animal shelters. Observations of human–cat interactions have yielded many correlations, which can be tested by non-invasive manipulations of human behavior in the home setting. Examples of these will be given and are of general interest to the cat-owning public. A review of first findings on social cognition in cats has resulted in further unanswered questions and hypotheses. Finally, two aspects of domestic cat ecology will be considered (effects on wildlife and space utilization), which are of great interest to the public and conservationists alike.