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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections On Teaching Chinese Language Films At American Colleges [PDF]

, 2011
“Film Studies” has become one of the fastest developing disciplines at liberal arts colleges in the United States since the early 1990s. Many factors have contributed to the growth of this new teaching field, among which is the fact that new generations ...
Kong, Haili
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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?

Curtis's Botanical Magazine, EarlyView.
Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
wiley   +1 more source

Interventions for children with developmental coordination disorder: A scoping review

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
This scoping review identified 13 differing categories of interventions delivered to children with developmental coordination disorder worldwide ranging from task oriented, motor skills training, and sensorimotor approaches to sports training approaches and health promotion, with motor performance mostly reported as outcome and similar effectiveness ...
Dorothee Jelsma, Zdenek Svoboda, Reza Abdollahipour, Miriam Palomo Nieto, Miguel Villa De Gregorio, Kamila Banatova, Farhad Ghadiri, Fatemeh Alaei, Paola Violasdotter Nilsson, Dido Green   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Makes Theatrical Performances Successful in China's Tourism Industry? [PDF]

, 2012
This study aims to explore the factors affecting the success of a popular tourist product, namely, theatrical performance, within the context of China's tourism industry and develop a model based on previously successful productions.
Catherine Cheung, d'Hauteserre A. M., Daniel Y. P., Dou Q., Edhlund B. M., Glesne C., Hanqun Song, Henard D. H., Hsu C. H. C., Li C., Loi K. I., McDaniel C., Morrison A. M., Pearce P. L., Pearce P. L., Qiao G., Reid R. D., Rong H., Ryan C., Song H., Song H., Swarbrooke J., Tian M., Wang C., Wei X., Zeithaml V. A., Zhang H. Q., Zhuge Y.   +27 more
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Biomechanical Analysis of 3D Printed and Thermoformed EVA Custom‐Made Mouthguard: Experimental and Finite Element Analyses

Dental Traumatology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objective 3D printed materials have been evaluated for fabricating mouthguards; however, little is known about their biomechanical performance in preventing dental trauma. This study aimed to compare two 3D printed polymers and three ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) sheets used for mouthguard fabrication regarding their mechanical ...
Airin Karelys Avendaño Rondon, Izabela Batista Cordeiro, Maribí Isomar Terán Lozada, Gustavo Mendonça, Priscilla Barbosa Ferreira Soares, Paulo Sergio Borella, Carlos José Soares   +6 more
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The amalgamation of eastern and western philosophies within Idokan Karate

Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2023
Every school of the Japanese martial art of karate possesses special values and norms unique to its practice. Unsurprisingly, the philosophy of Idokan karate is therefore similar to other schools while remaining distinct in the myriad of martial art ...
Wojciech Jan Cynarski, John Arthur Johnson   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The potential yield of Tai Chi in cancer survivorship [PDF]

, 2016
The purpose of the current paper is to encourage research into all areas of Tai Chi and cancer survivorship. Tai Chi is defined here as a combination of Chinese philosophy, martial and healing arts.
Bourke L, Caspersen CJ, Irwin ML, Moore HC, Pan Y, Whitney KA   +5 more
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THE NAITŌ HYPOSTASIS: NAITŌ KONAN (1866–1934) AND THE JAPANESE IMPERIALIST LEGACY IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MIDDLE‐PERIOD CHINA (800–1400 CE)

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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Los luchadores japoneses tienen más destreza y arte que los luchadores chinos, o cuando el contexto importa más que el texto

Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012
El presente estudio propone una reflexión sobre el modo en que diferentes factores contextuales (políticos, económicos, militares, sociales, culturales, etc.) condicionan el conocimiento, percepción, introducción e implantación de las artes marciales en ...
Carlos Gutiérrez García, Mikel Pérez Gutiérrez, William Acevedo, Mei Cheung   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources