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The influence of physiobiomechanical parameters, technical aspects of shooting, and psychophysiological factors on biathlon performance: A review

open access: yesJournal of Sport and Health Science, 2018
The biathlon, an Olympic sporting discipline that combines cross-country skiing with rifle marksmanship, entails considerable physiological demands, as well as fine motor control while shooting after intense exercise and under mental pressure.
Marko S. Laaksonen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting Tides: A Decade of Business Climate Adaptation and Resilience Research (2013–2023)

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is causing significant disruptions to the socio‐ecological systems in which organizations operate, presenting unprecedented challenges for businesses across sectors in adapting to shifting environmental conditions and building resilience to extreme weather events.
Domenico Villano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates

open access: yesThe Economic Journal, EarlyView., 2018
The negative consequences of long‐term exposure to particulate pollution are well established but a number of studies find no effect of short‐term exposure on health outcomes. The high correlation of industrial pollutants complicates the estimation of the impact of individual pollutants on health.
Timothy J. Halliday   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Propulsive Power in Cross-Country Skiing: Application and Limitations of a Novel Wearable Sensor-Based Method During Roller Skiing

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2018
Cross-country skiing is an endurance sport that requires extremely high maximal aerobic power. Due to downhill sections where the athletes can recover, skiers must also have the ability to perform repeated efforts where metabolic power substantially ...
Øyvind Gløersen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green swans and blue skies: Climate change and insolvency risk for financial institutions

open access: yesInternational Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This lecture in honour of the late Gabriel Moss QC and Ian Fletcher QC examines the challenge of climate‐related financial risk. Prudential regulators and central banks recognize that the systemic nature of climate‐related financial risk makes it an emerging vulnerability relevant to cross‐border insolvency resolution.
Janis Sarra
wiley   +1 more source

Functional Design Employing Miniaturized Electronics with Wireless Signal Provision to a Smartphone for a Strain-Based Measuring System for Ski Poles

open access: yesComputers, 2021
The individual monitoring of cross-country skiers’ technique-related parameters is crucial to identifying possible athlete-individual deficits that need to be corrected in order to optimize the athlete’s performance in competition.
Uwe Hentschel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Similar revision rates after ACL reconstruction with hamstring tendon or bone–patellar tendon–bone autografts in young females: Results from the Swedish knee ligament registry

open access: yesKnee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To compare subjective knee function and revision rates at the 5‐year follow‐up in young females (14–25 years) undergoing primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with either hamstring tendon (HT) or bone–patellar tendon–bone (BPTB) autografts in a nationwide registry‐based cohort.
Firathan Koca   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choice of Pole and Ski Lengths Among Elite Cross-Country Skiers: The Influence of Sex and Performance Level

open access: yesFrontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021
Cross-country (XC) skiers employ whole-body exercise to generate speed through poles and skis. The choice of optimal pole and ski lengths are therefore of high importance.
Per-Øyvind Torvik   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Allograft use and fixed suspensory fixation increase revision risk in multiple revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A Swedish knee ligament registry study

open access: yesKnee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the association between surgical‐related variables, revision‐free survival and knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (KOOS) following multiple revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (mrACLR) using data from a national knee ligament registry.
Felix Conrad Oettl   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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