ABSTRACT Volunteer parent-coaches form a substantive component of the global coaching workforce and their contributions to children’s sporting participation are both vital and commendable. However, despite the role’s importance, it remains under-researched. Accordingly, the purpose of this personal account was to provide insight to the author’s experiences as a volunteer grassroots football (soccer) parent-coach in England. This novel autoethnographical approach reflects on my entry into the parent-coach role, in situ experiences, and culminates with my decision to step back, encompassing my entire tenure as a volunteer parent-coach over a seven-year period. Social, biographical, relational, cultural, emotional, and (micro)political experiences are explored, as I reflect on the challenges, enjoyment, and unease I encountered. The paper aims to provide readers with a greater awareness and deeper understanding of the role and includes implications for both prospective and current parent-coaches. Further, this contribution also ponders whether the parent-coach workforce is being adequately prepared for the complexities and challenges of the dual parent-coach role through formal coach education.

ABSTRACT This article analyses an M X / G / 1 retrial queueing model with a constant retrial policy. Customers arrive in batches with a compound Poisson process, while the service time is generally distributed. If the server is idle, the first customer in a batch starts service immediately upon arrival, while the rest joins the orbit. However, if a customer occupies the server, the entire batch is required to join the orbit. Customers retry for service from the orbit in order of arrival with a retrial time that follows an exponential distribution. We utilize the roots of the associated characteristic equation of the probability generating function to determine the steady-state orbit length distribution at the post-departure epoch. The orbit length distribution at random epoch is also derived with the help of differential difference equations. The most challenging part of this article is to execute the waiting time distribution of an arbitrary customer of a batch in a closed and compact form. We also perform a cost analysis aimed to minimize the total operational cost of the system. Finally, some numerical results are shown in the form of tables and graphs that take account of the behavior of model parameters in order to validate our findings.

The article analyzes the factors of academic mobility that influence the formation of civic identity of future teachers. In the context of globalization of education, academic mobility is becoming an integral part of the process of professional training of students, including future teachers. In the presented study, the authors use both quantitative and qualitative research methods that allow us to assess the restraining and resource factors of academic mobility in matters of forming civic identity among students of pedagogical universities, as well as their professional interests within the framework of these educational opportunities. The study involved 396 full-time students of pedagogical universities from 24 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, of which 122 students participated in academic mobility programs and 274 students did not participate in such programs. The author's questionnaire ‟Specifics of student participation in academic mobility” was used as the main methodology for studying the mechanisms of academic mobility of students - future teachers, and the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U-test was also used. The results of the study showed that students who took part in academic mobility programs give a positive assessment of such educational experience in their professional development, while students of pedagogical universities, regardless of their experience of participating in such programs, demonstrate a responsible and serious attitude towards academic mobility programs, which is associated with fairly high expectations regarding the results of their participation and a focus on the development of civic identity.

ABSTRACT With the collection of a wide range of ethnic dance data with different styles, how to reasonably organise and support exploratory browsing of ethnic dance data and effectively analyse the relationship between dance movements and performances has become a hot topic in Chinese traditional dance performance research. This research combines data mining, pattern recognition, action interaction and other technologies and proposes extraction and recognition methods for dance actions and performance videos in traditional Chinese dance performances. First, the dance video is divided into frames. Then, optical flow is calculated on each image with good frames to obtain the movement characteristics of the dancers in the image. Then, the image entropy is calculated using the optical flow image to get the entropy sequence. Finally, the sequence is used to extract key frames. Continuous iterations are needed to select the best threshold, obtain high-quality keyframes, and analyse the iterative relationship between dance action and performance. The experimental results prove that the similarity-matching model constructed in this study considers the factors of time order, granularity, interference, and other factors. By comparing the similarities, it can fully analyse the correlation between the dance action and the performance effect, performance time, stage scenery and other elements.

ABSTRACT The practice of school inspections is well-established across many European countries. While it is part of broader international traditions and trends, the Flemish Education Inspectorate takes a unique approach. The Education Inspectorate engages in dialogue with schools and operates in a participatory manner. This case study explores the effects of such inspections in 10 primary schools. It aims to understand the perceptions of school leaders and teachers regarding the impact of being inspected, and it expands the knowledge base on how the perceived fairness of the inspection process, the credibility of the inspectors, and the quality of feedback contribute to variations in the perceived impact of the inspections. For each selected case, two in-depth interviews were conducted: one with the school leader and one with either an individual teacher or a pair of teachers. In most of the schools examined, there is a predominantly positive view of the inspection process. However, the actual impact of the inspection in most schools exists but is quite limited. The study identifies and discusses implications for strengthening school inspections as a means to enhance educational quality.

ABSTRACT This paper elucidates the contributions of child analysis to the treatment of adult patients by examining the interplay of play, containment, and countertransference in the analyst’s work with a disruptive, enuretic/encopretic child. Drawing on clinical vignettes from the analysis of a five-year-old boy, the authors illuminate how child analysis affords unparalleled access to primitive layers of the unconscious. Intense countertransference reactions evoked by children offer crucial opportunities for deepening the analyst’s capacity to tolerate primitive anxieties and rage without retaliating or reacting defensively. Learning to recognize and contain these powerful affective experiences with children can enhance the analyst’s capacity to interpret and work through infantile transferences and regressive transference in adult analyses. The authors suggest that insights gleaned from child analysis enrich the analysts’ ability to effectively treat adults.

On September 27, 2024, the III All-Russian Scientific and Practical conference with international participation ‟Socio-pedagogical and psychological-pedagogical activity: current problems, achievements, innovations” was held at Kostroma State University. The conference was organized by KSU together with the Kostroma Regional Institute of Education Development. The article highlights the main research areas that received a scientific response during the conference, the current issues of the work of psychologists, teachers and other specialists within the framework of the stated topic, and provides conclusions on a number of significant issues of modern psychological and pedagogical science, which resulted from the conference "Socio-pedagogical and psychological-pedagogical activities: current problems, achievements, innovation".

The article considers the problem of assessing the degree of formation of adolescents' readiness for military-professional activity; the author's express questionnaire for its diagnostics is presented. The criteria of adolescents' readiness for military-professional activity are described: value, cognitive, emotional and behavioral; the main empirical indicators of their formation are characterized. The study sample consisted of 120 students of 10 grades of schools in the city of Kostroma (69 boys and 51 girls). The results of the study showed that the value and emotional components of readiness for military-professional activity are most developed in modern adolescents. Students have value orientations associated with the military profession, realize the importance of protecting their homeland, and also have an emotionally positive attitude to military service, experience feelings of pride and patriotism when talking about a military career. The behavioral component of readiness for military-professional activity in adolescents is developed to the least degree. Today's adolescents are a resource for the development of society in the near future. That is why a timely assessment of the formation of their readiness for military-professional activity is extremely important in the context of an unstable military-political situation; it allows you to build an individual profile of military-professional development and provides an opportunity to organize targeted career guidance work with adolescents.

ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the associations between chrononutrition profile, social jet lag (SJL) with obesity-related indicators (body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHTR), and percentage of body fat (PBF)). This cross-sectional study was conducted among college students in a university in Hunan Province, China, from 14 September 2023 to 8 June 2024. This study employed the Chrononutrition Profile – Questionnaire (CP-Q) along with physical examinations. SJL was defined as time difference of midpoint of sleep between the workdays and freedays. Sleep-corrected SJL (SJLsc) is the absolute difference between the sleep onset on free days and workdays. Average evening latency is the time between the last meal of the day and bedtime. Eating jet lag is the difference in the midpoint of the eating window between workdays and freedays. Logistic regression was utilized to assess the associations between chrononutrition profile, SJL, and obesity-related indicators among college students. A total of 805 participants were recruited, of which 695 have complete data after excluding those who did not meet the inclusion criteria. After adjusting for potential covariates, average evening latency <4 h was related with lower risk of high BMI, WC, and PBF [OR (95% CI) = 0.435 (0.285–0.663), 0.508 (0.305–0.848), 0.564 (0.402–0.792), respectively]. Average eating window >12 h was associated with a lower risk of high BMI, WC, and PBF [OR (95% CI) = 0.511 (0.327–0.800), 0.485 (0.277–0.851), 0.651 (0.456–0.930), respectively]. Last eating occasion jet lag >1 h was a higher risk of high PBF [OR (95% CI) = 1.554 (1.018–2.371)]. SJLsc > 1 h was associated with high PBF [OR (95% CI) = 1.527 (1.073–2.174)]. Circadian rhythm disruptions, including SJL and eating jet lag, are prevalent among college students. Long eating window, short evening latency, is associated with low risk of obesity, while short sleep duration, last eating occasion jet lag and larger SJLsc were associated with higher risk of obesity among youths.