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Review: Grappling with the Beast [PDF]

open access: yesSettler Colonial Studies, 2012
Review of the book 'Grappling with the beast: Indigenous Southern African responses to colonialism, 1840-1930', edited by Peter Limb, Norman Etherington and Peter Midgley, published by Brill, 2010.
Jared McDonald (12744806)
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Intra-unit reliability and movement variability of submission grappling external load as measured by torso mounted accelerometery [PDF]

open access: yesBiology of Sport, 2022
Submission grappling consists of skills and movements used in combat sports to physically control opponents whilst trying to apply choke holds and joint locks.
Christopher Kirk   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Grappling With Grapes: Developing Strategy for the Poncini Vineyards

open access: yesWine Business Journal, 2018
Brothers Lorenzo and Angelo Poncini are part of a family business in the Trentino region of northern Italy. It began as a trucking firm but diversified over the years. One such diversification is grape growing, which began in 1988.
Mary A. Barrett   +2 more
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Experience, Training Preferences, and Fighting Style Are Differentially Related to Measures of Body Composition, Strength, and Power in Male Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Athletes—A Pilot Study

open access: yesSports, 2023
To examine relationships between Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) descriptors (belt rank, experience, gi preference, and fighting style), resistance training (RT) experience, and measures of body composition, strength (maximal handgrip, 3-5-repetition maximum ...
Christian G. Almeda   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid Weight Loss Practices in Grapplers Competing in Combat Sports

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
BackgroundGrappling is a wrestling style that combines different techniques such as freestyle wrestling, jiu-jitsu, judo, sambo, and others. As with other combat sports, it requires categorizing the athletes in weight classes, which leads to the use of ...
Marijana Ranisavljev   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grappling with the Bomb [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957–58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island—today, part of the Pacific nation of ...
Maclellan, Nic
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Figural Solidarity: Grappling with Meaning in Comics

open access: yesComicalités, 2022
Thierry Groensteen’s concept of iconic solidarity (IS) is one of the most familiar terms in all of comics scholarship. This paper introduces a new theoretical term and concept, figural solidarity (FS), as a critical adaptation of Groensteen’s notion ...
Jean Braithwaite, Kai Mikkonen
doaj   +1 more source

Grappling with the Economy of Enrichment

open access: yesValuation Studies, 2015
In a conversation with Fabian Muniesa from the board of editors of Valuation Studies, Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre unravelled a few of the distinguishing features of their new work on the sociology of valuation.
Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre
doaj   +1 more source

A tale of grappling: Performative duoethnography as expanded methodological thinking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article is a tale of two researchers, teachers, and artists grappling and playing with duoethnography. By expanding the methodology, we aim to bridge duoethnography into pedagogy.
Martin, Rosemary Kate   +3 more
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