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Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meta-analysis of reported cross-country skiing injuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The purpose of this study was to conduct a comprehensive quantitative meta-analysis including a qualitative assessment of studies reporting cross-country skiing injuries.
Larocque, Maryse Raymonde
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Health status and health behaviors among citizen endurance Nordic skiers in the United States

open access: yesBMC Research Notes, 2017
Background More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese (69%) placing them at high risk for a wide array of chronic diseases. Physical activity anchors most approaches to obesity prevention and weight management, but physical activity levels
Paul J. Anderson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of Using Compression Garments in Winter Racing Sports: A Narrative Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2020
Nowadays, compression garments (CGs) are widely used in winter racing sports, such as speed skating, short-track speed skating, alpine skiing, and cross-country skiing.
Chenhao Yang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collaborative practice to support community‐based physical activity for young people with childhood‐onset physical disability: A scoping review

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
This scoping review highlights that collaboration between healthcare and physical activity providers to support community physical activity participation for young people with childhood‐onset physical disability is limited. Collaboration strategies to support community physical activity lack sufficient detail for replication.
Karen Brady   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cardiovascular Adaptations to Four Months Training in Middle-Aged Amateur Long-Distance Skiers

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2020
Cross-country skiing has a positive effect on health. However, without an individual, thoughtful, and professional plan, it can cause irreversible health problems from overload and injury.
Natalia Grzebisz
doaj   +1 more source

Unmothered at Work: Organizational Silence Around Reproductive Loss

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An identity transition refers to changes in self‐concept that can result from professional or personal shifts. Although organizations increasingly support institutionally legible and culturally normative nonwork transitions, others remain professionally stigmatized or culturally unspeakable.
Katrina M. Brownell
wiley   +1 more source

Using the power balance model to simulate cross-country skiing on varying terrain

open access: yes, 2014
John F Moxnes,1 Øyvind Sandbakk,2 Kjell Hausken31Department for Protection, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway; 2Center for Elite Sports Research, Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...
Hausken K, Sandbakk Ø, Moxnes JF
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Predicting habitat suitability of selected Meloidae species and future potential refugia: A case study from inner Western Anatolia

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Consensus habitat‐suitability maps identify current hotspots of species richness across the Inner Western Anatolian mountain systems. Late‐century projections (2081–2100) under SSP2‐4.5 and SSP5‐8.5 show range shifts and changing richness patterns, intensifying at higher elevations.
Muhammed Arif Demir, Mahmut Kabalak
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Cross-Country Skiing Movement Patterns Using Micro-Sensors

open access: yesSensors, 2012
This study investigated the potential of micro-sensors for use in the identification of the main movement patterns used in cross-country skiing. Data were collected from four elite international and four Australian athletes in Europe and in Australia ...
Dale Chapman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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