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Cross-country skiing.

, 2006
This chapter describes the cross-country-skiing adventure sector and presents case studies from Norway, Australia and the USA. For each of the three case studies, the place, operator, activity, equipment, accommodation, statistics, access, community, experience, environment, safety and marketing are described.
openaire   +2 more sources

Advancing Nurse Mentors' Development Through a Mentoring Intervention: A Mixed Methods Study

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Mentoring in nursing is crucial for supporting newly qualified nurses, enhancing retention and promoting professional development. Despite its significance, limited research has explored nurse mentors' perspectives and their own development through mentoring.
Stina Kallerhult Hermansson, Yvonne Hilli, Fredrik Norström, Rita Solbakken, Karin Bölenius   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Sensors, 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, Colin Macintosh, Gordon Waddington, Judith Anson, Keith Lyons, Finn Marsland   +5 more
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Ski areas, weather and climate: Time series models for New England case studies [PDF]

, 2007
Wintertime warming trends experienced in recent decades, and predicted to increase in the future, present serious challenges for ski areas and whole regions that depend on winter tourism. Most research on this topic examines past or future climate-change
Brown, Cliff, Hamilton, Lawrence C., Keim, Barry D.   +2 more
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Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli, Michal Onderco, Irena Kalhousová   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

First Steps from Walking in Snow to Cross-Country Skiing

Akademisk Kvarter, 2019
This article investigates the ways in which a young child learns to sense and move through a transient environment while learning to walk on skis. Audiovisual recordings were made of a parent instructing a child on how to walk on snow and to start moving
Paul McIlvenny
doaj   +1 more source

Web Based System for Sport Performance Monitoring [PDF]

, 2016
Tato práce dala za vznik webovému tréninkovému deníku pro sportovce a trenéry v běhu na lyžích. V současné podobě je deník veden v tabulkách Microsoft Excel se specifickou strukturou.
Píč, Karel
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All Is Relative—A Call for Considering “Physiologically Informed” Control Conditions to Improve the Mechanistic Understanding of the Effects of Physical Exercise on Cognition

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a growing interest in elucidating the mechanisms that drive the benefits of physical exercise on cognitive performance. A key element for a better understanding of a particular phenomenon (e.g., the mediators of the exercise‐cognition interaction) is the selection of an appropriate control condition/group as the basis for causal ...
Fabian Herold, Benjamin Tari, Sylwester Kujach, Olivier Dupuy, C. Shawn Green, Thomas Gronwald, Matthew Heath   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A simulation of cross-country skiing on varying terrain by using a mathematical power balance model

Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine, 2013
John F Moxnes,1 Øyvind Sandbakk,2 Kjell Hausken31Department for Protection, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway; 2Human Movement Science Program, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; 3Faculty of ...
Moxnes JF, Sandbakk Ø, Hausken K   +2 more
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Anti‐Astrotropik — Outer Space, Technology and Resistance in the Tropics

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
This paper traces an intellectual and geographical arc of thinking about outer space in the tropics, connecting Peter Redfield's Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (2000), Sean T. Mitchell's Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil (2017) and Asif Siddiqi's Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent
Rob Krawczyk
wiley   +1 more source