Gaining Insight into Actual and Preferred Sources of Coaching Knowledge

Previous research has suggested that current formal coach education programs do not fully meet the learning needs of coaches. The purpose of the present study was to examine actual and preferred sources of coaching knowledge for developmental-level coaches. Structured quantitative interviews were conducted with coaches (N = 44) from a variety of sports. Learning by doing, interaction with coaching peers, and formal coach education were the top actual sources of coaching knowledge. Discrepancies were found between actual and preferred usage of learning by doing, formal coach education, and mentoring. Coaches indicated they would prefer more guided learning and less self-directed learning by doing. Further, differences in preferred sources were identified between coaches wishing to move to an elite level versus coaches wishing to stay at a developmental level. Findings highlight the importance of both experiential and formally guided sources of coaching knowledge and the context-specific nature of coach learning.

Fossil and Nonfossil Sources of Organic and Elemental Carbon Aerosols in the Outflow from Northeast China

Source quantification of carbonaceous aerosols in the Chinese outflow regions still remains uncertain despite their high mass concentrations. Here, we unambiguously quantified fossil and nonfossil contributions to elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) of total suspended particles (TSP) from a regional receptor site in the outflow of Northeast China using radiocarbon measurement. OC and EC concentrations were lower in summer, representing mainly marine air, than in other seasons, when air masses mostly traveled over continental regions in Mongolia and northeast China. The annual-mean contribution from fossil-fuel combustion to EC was 76 ± 11% (0.1−1.3 μg m−3). The remaining 24 ± 11% (0.03−0.42 μg m−3) was attributed to biomass burning, with slightly higher contribution in the cold period (∼31%) compared to the warm period (∼21%) because of enhanced emissions from regional biomass combustion sources in China. OC was generally dominated by nonfossil sources, with an annual average of 66 ± 11% (0.5−2.8 μg m−3), approximately half of which was apportioned to primary biomass burning sources (34 ± 6%). In winter, OC almost equally originated from primary OC (POC) emissions and secondary OC (SOC) formation from fossil fuel and biomass-burning sources. In contrast, summertime OC was dominated by primary biogenic emissions as well as secondary production from biogenic and biomass-burning sources, but fossil-derived SOC was the smallest contributor. Distinction of POC and SOC was performed using primary POC-to-EC emission ratios separated for fossil and nonfossil emissions.

Water-quality assessment of the Lower Susquehanna River Basin, Pennsylvania and Maryland : sources, characteristics, anaylsis, and limitations of nutrient and suspended-seditment data, 1975-90 /

"National Water-Quality Assessment Program"

Sport and dance films; a descriptive catalog of selected 16mm films on sports, dance and recreation, with appraisals, purchase, and rental sources.

Mode of access: Internet.

A history of the three cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London : with reference chiefly to their structure and architecture, and the sources whence the necessary funds were derived /

"With 6 engravings on steel and nearly 50 woodcut illustrations."--t.p.

Public and private sources of funding for sexual assault treatment programs /

Mode of access: Internet.

History of Saginaw county from the year 1819 down to the present time. Comp. from authentic records and other sources: traditionary accounts, legends, anecdotes, &c., with valuable statistics, and notes of its resources, and general information concerning its advantages: also a business directory of each of the three principal towns in the county.

Mode of access: Internet.

The radicalism of Shelley and its sources,

Mode of access: Internet.

Bill Nye's chestnuts, old and new. Latest gathering. With new illustrations from original sketches, photographs, memoranda, and authentic sources,

Illustration on t.-p.

Schwenkfelder hymnology and the sources of the first Schwenkfelder hymn-book printed in America

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Pennsylvania, 1906.

Catharine of Aragon and the sources of the English reformation,

Mode of access: Internet.

The history and antiquities of the Tower of London, with memoirs of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from records, state-papers, and manuscripts, and from other original and authentic sources /

Paged continously.

The battle of Waterloo, also of Ligny, and Quatre Bras, containing the series of accounts published by authority, British and foreign, with circumstantial details relative to the battles, from a variety of original and authentic sources, with connected official and private documents, forming an historical record by those who had the honour to share in the operations of the campaign of the Netherlands, 1815.

Vol. 2 has title "Additional particulars to the Battle of Waterloo ..."

The life of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette : a marquis of France; a general in the American and French revolutions; the compatriot and friend of Washington; the champion of American independence, and of the rights and liberties of mankind : from numerous and authentick sources /

[11] leaves of plates included in pagination.