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Current Practice in the Measurement and Management of Vitamin D Status in Elite Sport and Parasport

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Sport Science, Volume 25, Issue 5, May 2025.
ABSTRACT The field of vitamin D research in sport has stagnated, with a notable lack of new evidence challenging existing paradigms. Despite well‐documented consequences of vitamin D deficiency in athletes, gaps remain in understanding the feasibility of best practices for measuring and managing vitamin D status in elite sports.
Daniel J. Owens   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determining the Contextual Factors in a Decision‐Making Framework for a Rugby League Ball Carrier: A Rapid Review and Delphi Study

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Sport Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Using a two‐phase approach in the form of a rapid literature review and Delphi consensus, this study aimed to reach consensus on the terms, definitions and potential options to develop a framework that captures the contextual factors that can affect a rugby league ball carrier’s decision‐making, whilst also determining the perceived importance
James Bletsoe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SPORTING LIVES: AN ANALYSIS OF A LIFETIME OF IRISH SPORT. RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 2 APRIL 2008 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This report analyses participation in sport over the lifetimes of the current generation of Irish adults. It reveals strong trends. Compared with older generations, current young adults played more sport as children and are continuing to play more as ...
Layte, Richard, Lunn, Pete
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Using sensor networks to measure intensity in sporting activities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The deployment of sensor networks is both widespread and varied with more niche applications based on these networks. In the case study provided in this work, the network is provided by two football teams with sensors generating continuous heart rate ...
Moyna, Niall   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Familial Reputation, Bias and Impartial Arbitrators “on the Field”*

open access: yesEconomic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 77-90, March 2025.
Those with intra‐organisational familial links often advance more quickly due to nepotism. We harness a large database from a natural setting relating to a specific paternal mechanism in professional sport; with our results suggesting that when external arbitrators are utilised as a tool to ensure fairness of assessments, there is effectively no ...
Liam J. A. Lenten   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary and the Ossian controversy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A study of the influence of the controversy about Macpherson's Ossian poems on Scott's novel The ...
Leask, Nigel
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Aerobic Fitness and Playing Experience Protect Against Spikes in Workload: The Role of the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio on Injury Risk in Elite Gaelic Football. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
PURPOSE: To examine the association between combined session-RPE workload measures and injury risk in elite Gaelic footballers. METHODS: Thirty-seven elite Gaelic footballers (mean ± SD age of 24.2 ± 2.9 yr) from one elite squad were involved in a single
Collins, KD   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Introduction to themed section on mechanisms of national solidarity

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 25-29, January 2025.
Abstract This introduction to the themed section on ‘Mechanisms of National Solidarity’ explores key questions and challenges related to studying national solidarity as distinct from national identity. Focusing on the ‘how’ rather than the ‘what’, this section highlights the importance of examining and theorising the social mechanisms that shape ...
Danny Kaplan
wiley   +1 more source

The metabolic power and energetic demands of elite Gaelic football match play. [PDF]

open access: yes
BACKGROUND: Metabolic power has not yet been investigated within elite Gaelic football. The aim of the current investigation was to compare the metabolic power demands between positional groups and examine the temporal profile of elite Gaelic football ...
Collins, K   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Public narratives of disadvantage across multiple groups in Australia: A research map and practice reflections

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 979-994, December 2024.
Abstract This paper provides the first known “heatmap” representing Australian public narratives across a range of groups experiencing disadvantage developed from a comprehensive literature review of primary Australian studies between 2020 and 2021.
Peter Bragge   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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