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Abstract Purpose To assess the effect of beach handball training during the indoor handball off‐season on the incidence of indoor handball injuries over three seasons. It was hypothesised that off‐season beach handball training would be associated with a lower injury incidence in indoor handball season.
Hannes Degenhardt +7 more
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The artisanal underground: gold, subsistence, and subsurface materiality in Colombia
Abstract This article focuses on subsurface materiality to explore how small‐scale gold miners in Colombia navigate formal politics. In much critical research, the underground appears as a space of great developmentalist ambition, whose resources enable corporate expansion and bureaucratic rule.
Jesse Jonkman
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Abstract Occupational nerve injuries span a broad array of pathologies and contribute toward functional limitation, disability, and economic impact. Early and accurate recognition, treatment, and management of workplace factors rely on a thorough understanding of the anatomic and biomechanical factors that drive nerve injury.
Sandra L. Hearn +3 more
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Technical and tactical actions determine performance in beach volleyball. This research develops and tests an instrument to monitor and evaluate the manner of execution and efficacy of the actions in beach volleyball.
José Manuel Palao +2 more
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With a Little Help From My Friends? Understanding Individual and Team Success in the Summer Olympics
ABSTRACT Objective This paper investigates the determinants of Olympic success, examining why some countries excel in individual sports while others perform better in team sports. We propose three explanations: (1) a multiplicative effect, where success in individual sports boosts team sport performance; (2) the influence of collectivist cultures ...
Ignacio Lago, Carlos Lago‐Peñas
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Introdução: A importância mundial do esporte destaca a necessidade do estudo de todos os fenômenos nele envolvidos. Um dos fatores mais relevantes relacionados ao rendimento dos atletas é estado psicológico. Há diferentes formas de enfrentamento (coping)
Renata Victor Silva +3 more
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ABSTRACT Physical activity (PA) is indispensable for overall health. Sub‐optimal PA is linked to reduced quality of life (QOL) and premature death. In clinical research and therapeutics development, defining aspects of PA that are meaningful to patients and care providers is essential for designing tailored interventions, identifying individual ...
Candice Taguibao +10 more
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Performance of machine learning models in application to beach volleyball data.
Driven by the increased availability of position and performance data, automated analyses are becoming the daily routine in many top-level sports. Methods from the domains of data mining and machine learning are more frequently used to generate new ...
Wenninger Sebastian +2 more
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ABSTRACT This investigation observed the repeated effect of using social media on smartphones immediately before training sessions on attack efficiency (AE) and repeat‐vertical jumping ability (RVJA) in young volleyball athletes. A crossover study involved 14 volleyball athletes (17.57 ± 0.65 years of age). For three weeks, the athletes participated in
Carlos Freitas‐Junior +4 more
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This study established sex‐ and sport‐specific reference intervals (RIs) for the neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and systemic immune‐inflammation index (SII) in elite athletes. By analyzing 13,647 athlete data records, significant differences were found based on sex and sport type.
Cong Wang +6 more
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