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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Differences in Technical-Tactical Behaviour of la Liga Spanish Football Teams [PDF]

, 2020
[Abstract] The aim of this study was to identify differences in technical-tactical behaviour between the men and women first division football teams of the Spanish league, to this end 68 matches corresponding to 2016/17 season were analysed.
Ardá Suárez, Antonio, Casal Sanjurjo, Claudio Alberto, Losada, J.L., Maneiro, Rubén   +3 more
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Duration of American Football Play and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Annals of Neurology, 2019
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with exposure to contact and collision sports, including American football. We hypothesized a dose–response relationship between duration of football played and CTE risk and
Jesse B. Mez, Daniel H. Daneshvar, Bobak Abdolmohammadi, A. Chua, M. Alosco, Patrick T Kiernan, Laney Evers, Laura Marshall, Brett M. Martin, J. Palmisano, Christopher J. Nowinski, Ian Mahar, Jonathan D. Cherry, Victor E. Alvarez, Brigid Dwyer, B. Huber, T. Stein, L. Goldstein, D. Katz, R. Cantu, R. Au, N. Kowall, R. Stern, M. McClean, J. Weuve, Yorghos Tripodis, A. Mckee   +26 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

A school-based physical activity intervention in primary school: effects on physical activity, sleep, aerobic fitness, and motor competence

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveThe “Super Quinas” project evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention program to improve physical activity, aerobic fitness, sleep, and motor competence on children in primary school.MethodsThe experimental group (n = 19) enrolled in a 12 ...
Júlio A. Costa, Susana Vale, Susana Vale, Rita Cordovil, Rita Cordovil, Luís P. Rodrigues, Vasco Cardoso, Rui Proença, Manuel Costa, Carlos Neto, João Brito, José Guilherme, José Guilherme, André Seabra   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monitoring Individual Sleep and Nocturnal Heart Rate Variability Indices: The Impact of Training and Match Schedule and Load in High-Level Female Soccer Players

Frontiers in Physiology, 2021
PurposeTo describe individual sleep habits and nocturnal heart rate variability (HRV) responses, and to explore intra-individual associations of workload with sleep and nocturnal HRV indices in high-level female soccer players throughout a 2-week ...
Júlio A. Costa, Pedro Figueiredo, Pedro Figueiredo, Fábio Y. Nakamura, Fábio Y. Nakamura, António Rebelo, João Brito   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Football and doping: study of African amateur footballers [PDF]

British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2003
Objective:To investigate use and awareness of lawful and unlawful substances by amateur footballers in Yaounde, Cameroon.Methods:A total of 1116 amateur footballers (1037 male and 79 female) out of 1500 contacted participated in this study. They were divided into three groups: elite players (n = 314); local players (n = 723); female players (n = 79 ...
P F M, Ama, B, Betnga, V J, Ama Moor, J P, Kamga   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Efeitos do Walking Football na saúde física de homens e mulheres acima de 50 anos

Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde
Objetivo: Este estudo investigou os efeitos da prática do Walking Football nas capacidades físicas e índice de massa corporal de pessoas com mais de 50 anos, considerando possíveis influências do gênero e da idade dos participantes.
Júlia Barreira, Maria Eduarda Saia, Ana Beatriz Chaves Vasconcelos Batista, Demerval Souza, Daniel Castro, Ademir Aparecido da Cunha, João Pedro Santos de Oliveira, Ricardo Leme   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring human capital: discrimination factors and group-specific performance in the football industry [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of the study is to investigate whether discrimination factors exist within professional football clubs, concerning the management of their human capital, by analysing the correlation between the footballers’ wages and their performance.
Lardo, Alessandra, Lombardi, Rosa, Ricci, Federica, Trequattrini, Raffaele   +3 more
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Football fans’ views of racism in British football [PDF]

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2013
This article analyses 2500 responses from association football (soccer) fans to an anonymous online survey conducted from November 2011 to February 2012 that examined the extent of racism in British football. Eighty-three per cent of the participants stated that racism remains culturally embedded and when exploring the reasons behind its continuation ...
Jamie Cleland, Ellis Cashmore
openaire   +2 more sources