Parents can enhance their children's intrinsic motivation, and competence by providing positive feedback and encouraging them to become involved in decision making and problem-solving activities (Babkes & Weiss, 1999); however, there is limited research available that has demonstrated how parents might learn to engage in these supportive behaviours with their child.Thus, the purpose of this research was to examine whether increasing parents' awareness of communication influences parent-athlete communication behaviours. Ten athletes between 13-15 years of age, and one of their parents were recruited (total N = 20). Parents and athletes completed pre-and post-study interviews and surveys. Parents also participated in a workshop and completed at least one audio diary entry per week over the course of six weeks. The findings indicated that reflective practice and increased awareness of parent-child communication led parents to engage in more autonomy supportive parenting, and to be less critical of their child's performance.

In nowadays power networks, transmission companies are faced with a drastic growth in the electrical energy demand. As a result, further utilization of existing transmission lines capacity is very essential. Dynamic thermal rating (DTR), which is based on the actual weather and pre-load conditions, has a potential to offer a significant increase in a given transmission line capacity. Two types of DTR calculation methods, namely on-line monitoring of line temperature and weather-based rating, are discussed in this paper. The first method is the main contribution of this work and the second one is only reviewed. In the first method, phasor measurement units (PMUs) data are used for estimation of transmission line parameters and its temperature. In this method, a non-linear weighted least-square (NWLS) based algorithm is adopted for the estimation process. The second method uses weather stations data such as wind speed, ambient air temperature, etc., for calculation of DTR. A typical transmission line is simulated in MATLAB Power System Toolbox to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method for on-line monitoring of line temperature.I.

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