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Japanese Martial Arts as Popular Culture: Teaching Opportunity and Challenge

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2015
Japanese martial arts, here after Japanese budō, are popular cultural icons that are found in films, comics, video games and books. Teaching Japanese budō at university offers a novel way to teach about East Asian and in particular Japanese culture ...
Stephen Robert NAGY
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Gender on Editorial Boards of Sport Sciences Journals

open access: yesEvidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022
This study analyses gender distribution on editorial boards of journals in the Sport Sciences category included in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). As far as we know, this study provides the first measure of gender distribution on editorial boards in Sport Sciences.
Raquel Pastor-Cisneros   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of concurrent self-massage and resistance training in middle-aged and older adults: a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesJournal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2018
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the interactive influence of massage and exercise on health-related physical fitness in middle-aged and older adults.
Kazufumi Terada, Toshiaki Nakatani
doaj   +1 more source

Elevation of Proinflammatory Cytokine HMGB1 in the Synovial Fluid of Patients With Legg‐Calvé‐Perthes Disease and Correlation With IL‐6

open access: yesJBMR Plus, Volume 5, Issue 2, February 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT Legg‐Calvé‐Perthes disease (LCPD) is a childhood ischemic osteonecrosis (ON) of the femoral head associated with the elevation of proinflammatory cytokine interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) in the synovial fluid. Currently, there is no effective medical therapy for patients with LCPD.
Nobuhiro Kamiya, Harry KW Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Budo as philosophical background of Karate-Do: does the training method really matter? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background. The practice of Japanese originated martial arts, like Karate-Do, is associated with an individual “path of enlightment” or the way of living (Do), that surpasses the athletic practice for itself.
Saragoça, José, Tomás, João
core   +1 more source

Personalized Federated Learning with Semisupervised Distillation

open access: yesSecurity and Communication Networks, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Heterogeneous data and models pose critical challenges for federated learning. However, the traditional federated learning framework, which trains the global model by transferring model parameters, has major limitations; it requires that all participants have the same training model architectures, and the trained global model does not guarantee ...
Xianxian Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Karate Sports Disciplines from the Spotlight of the Paradigm Shift of Japanese Combat Systems: Analytical Study [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences, 2023
Background: Nowadays, many karate organizations hold their own competitions at various levels, up to and including the world championships. They are positioned as separate sports, although the content, rules and regulations of many of them differ only in
Anatoliy Lozovyy Anatoliy
doaj   +1 more source

Myopic Correction with Iris‐Fixated Phakic Intraocular Lenses: Twelve‐Year Results

open access: yesJournal of Ophthalmology, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Purpose. To evaluate a 12‐year follow‐up of myopic patients after iris‐fixated phakic intraocular lenses (IF pIOLs) implantation. Setting. Ophthalmology Department, Military University Hospital in Prague (Czech Republic). Design. Single‐center retrospective cohort study. Methods.
Iveta Nemcova   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Somatotypes and hand-grip strength analysis of elite cadet sambo athletes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The objectives of this research were to establish somatotype and hand-grip strength between elite cadet male and female sambo athletes divided by weight categories.
Casals Vázquez, Cristina   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Seishin Habitus: Spiritual Capital and Japanese Rowing [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Sport occupies an important place in educational curriculum, such as club activities in Japanese schools and universities; is it also imbued with what Bourdieu suggests are guaranteed capital properties?
Erba, Elisabetta   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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