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Women in the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games: An Analysis of Participation, Leadership, and Media Opportunities [PDF]

, 2010
This report is the third in the series that follows the progress of women in the Olympic and Paralympic movement. The report provides the most accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date examination of the participation trends among female Olympic and ...
Alison Wrynn, Maureen Smith
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Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios

FUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Scenario reports, holding a long‐standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field ...
Gerhard Schönhofer, Pauli Komonen, Jan Oliver Schwarz, Laura Bechthold   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Tidda Talk Program: A Culturally Relevant Approach to Assessing Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women

Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Issue Addressed While culturally appropriate health programming for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is increasing, evaluations of such initiatives remain limited by pragmatic and epistemological challenges. This study sought to address these limitations when piloting and examining the feasibility and acceptability of Tidda ...
Madeleine English, Karla Canuto, Danielle Manton, Colleen Fricker, Jake Wilson, Cristina M. Caperchione   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temperature Below a Gliding Cross Country Ski

Procedia Engineering, 2014
AbstractThe temperature of snow under skating skis was studied with infrared sensors at four positions and three different velocities. To have an indication of causes and consequences of the heating the friction coefficient with a linear tribometer and the pressure distribution were measured as well. The friction increased with velocity.
Schindelwig, K., Hasler, M., Van Putten, J., Rohm, S., Nachbauer, W.   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Surgery in space: The ultimate frontier

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Mohamad Bashir, Ali Murtada, Matti Jubouri, Adam Bashir, Ian Williams, Damian Bailey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate justice and curriculum justice: Young people's accounts of schools' uneven responses to their climate justice activism

The Curriculum Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 140-163, March 2026.
Abstract The uneven ways in which climate change is taught (or not) within schools, and the uneven opportunities for students to experience justice‐oriented climate education, are curricular injustices. Recent systematic reviews of Climate Change Education literature note a depoliticising tendency in climate change education, with official curriculum ...
Eve Mayes, Dani Villafaña, Sophie Chiew, Netta Maiava, Natasha Abhayawickrama, Rachel Finneran   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

National‐Standard Middle‐Distance Runners Maintain 1500 m Time Trial Running Performance on Successive Days

European Journal of Sport Science, Volume 26, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT To examine how middle‐distance athletes maintain self‐paced time trial performance on successive days, 12 national‐standard middle‐distance specialists performed two self‐paced 1500 m time trials on successive days. Following baseline assessment and familiarisation trials, participants (10 male, 2 female, mean age ± SD: 27 ± 7 years, mass: 66 ±
Laurence P. Birdsey, Steven Brown, Thomas Dos’Santos, Daniel Evans, Adam Runacres, Matthew Weston, Adam Field   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women in the 2006 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: An Analysis of Participation, Leadership and Media Coverage [PDF]

, 2006
Increasing women's participation in the Olympic Movement as participants and leaders has been a slow and challenging process. While the number of "events" open to female athletes has increased steadily during the past 30 years, the actual number of ...
Donna A. Lopiano, Lisa Zurn, Marjorie A. Snyder   +2 more
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New Zealanders’ Connection to the Night Sky

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.
Artificial light at night (ALAN) provides many benefits to people, but the resulting erosion of natural darkness is increasingly recognised as negatively affecting human and environmental health, scientific endeavours and cultural connection to the night sky. This first nationally representative survey assessed New Zealanders’ connection with the night
Ellen Cieraad, Jeff Dalley
wiley   +1 more source

A Smart Ski Pole for Skiing Pattern Recognition and Quantification Application

Sensors
In cross-country skiing, ski poles play a crucial role in technique, propulsion, and overall performance. The kinematic parameters of ski poles can provide valuable information about the skier’s technique, which is of great significance for coaches and ...
Yangyanhao Guo, Renjie Ju, Kunru Li, Zhiqiang Lan, Lixin Niu, Xiaojuan Hou, Shuo Qian, Wei Chen, Xinyu Liu, Gang Li, Jian He, Xiujian Chou   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source