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More likes, more climbing: An investigation of climbers' intention to use social media for self-promotion [PDF]
Sport - Nauka i Praksa, 2023 Building on Ajzen's (1991; 2013) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this study aimed to investigate the predictors of social media use among climbers globally.
Arsova Ilina, Adjanin Nina
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European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 2023 In recent decades, the exponential growth that sports practice in mountain and climbing disciplines have experienced has led to trying to find an explanation for the predisposition of those socio-emotional factors of these athletes that are considered in
Laura Martín-Talavera +3 more
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Accuracy and Precision of a Novel Photogate System to Measure Toe Clearance on Stairs
Sensors, 2023 Background: Toe clearance on stairs is typically measured using optoelectronic systems, though these are often constrained to the laboratory, due to their complex setups.
Timmion K. Skervin +7 more
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Sensors, 2023 Trips and slips are significant causal perturbations leading to falls on stairs, especially in older people. The risk of a trip caused by a toe or heel catch on the step edge increases when clearance is small and variable between steps.
Malarvizhi Ram +6 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023 IntroductionClimbing is an increasingly popular activity and imposes specific physiological demands on the human body, which results in unique injury presentations. Of particular concern are overuse injuries (non-traumatic injuries).
Andrew Quarmby +7 more
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MRI of Finger Pulleys at 7T—Direct Characterization of Pulley Ruptures in an Ex Vivo Model
Diagnostics, 2021 The aim of this study was to evaluate 7 Tesla (7T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for direct visualization and specific characterization of the finger flexor pulleys A2, A3, and A4 before and after ex vivo pulley rupture.
Rafael Heiss +8 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020 Safe stair negotiation is an everyday task that children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) are commonly thought to struggle with. Yet, there is currently a paucity of research supporting these claims.
Johnny V. V. Parr +4 more
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Executive Functions and Domain-Specific Cognitive Skills in Climbers
Brain Sciences, 2021 Athletes in a particular sport have specific cognitive skills acquired due to regular confrontation with sport-specific requirements. Studies show that the particular type of sport carried out and fostered by general physical activity impacts executive ...
Florian Heilmann
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Mechanical loading of primate fingers on vertical rock surfaces
South African Journal of Science, 2021 Mechanical loading of finger bones (phalanges) can induce angular curvature, which benefits arboreal primates by dissipating forces and economising the recruitment of muscles during climbing.
Michael C. Everett +8 more
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« Plus rien à prouver » : marche, course, escalade extrêmes
Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2021 Our research falls within the sphere of the linguistic disciplines, and in particular of the discourse analysis of the French school, privileging lexical data and phrasal items in the corpus we have compiled.
Mariagrazia Margarito
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