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Training load, recovery and game performance in semiprofessional male basketball: influence of individual characteristics and contextual factors

Biology of Sport, 2020
This study examined the effects of individual characteristics and contextual factors on training load, pre-game recovery and game performance in adult male semi-professional basketball.
Pierpaolo Sansone   +3 more
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Social inclusion of immigrant children at school: the impact of group, family and individual characteristics, and the role of proficiency in the national language

International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
The present study, based on data concerning 2328 immigrant children attending a representative sample of 561 schools, investigates the impact of various group, family and individual characteristics as well as proficiency in the national language on ...
Elisa Cavicchiolo   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Top Managers’ Individual Characteristics Affect Accounting Manipulation in the Public Sector?

, 2020
Drawing on upper echelons theory, the article investigates the potential impact of top managers’ background and demographic characteristics and personality traits on organizational decisions in the public sector.
Eugenio Anessi-Pessina   +1 more
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Individual characteristics influencing the sharing of knowledge on social networking services: online identity, self-efficacy, and knowledge sharing intentions

Behavior and Information Technology, 2019
Social media have become an important place for individuals with similar interests to exchange opinions and share resources. Ubiquitous collaborative learning environments in SNS have great educational and organisational potential and offer a platform ...
Hannah Kim, Jeongmin Lee, Sung-Eun Oh
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An exploratory study of entrepreneurs in impoverished communities: when institutional factors and individual characteristics result in non-productive entrepreneurship

Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction, 2019
It is widely acknowledged that entrepreneurship can help the poor escape poverty. However, while many people in impoverished regions engage in entrepreneurial activities, many fail to develop successful businesses.
Stelvia Matos, Jeremy Hall
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Individual behavioural characteristics in pigs

Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 1993
Abstract In two identical experiments a total of 218 piglets from 20 sows were used to test if consistent individual behavioural differences exist among pigs. At an age of 1–2 weeks piglets were divided between aggressive and non-aggressive individuals on the basis of their behaviour in two successive social confrontation tests (SC1 and SC2 ...
Hessing, M.J.C.   +5 more
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Individual Characteristics of Human Spermatozoa

Archives of Andrology, 1980
We have investigated the variability of some characteristics of a sperm sample in 18 young volunteers in good health who were examined twice per month over a period of two years, and in about one hundred men undergoing treatment for sterility and for whom more than 4 spermiograms had been established during the past three years.
C, Souchier   +3 more
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Aeroacoustic analysis on individual characteristics in sibilant fricative production.

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2019
The cause of individual acoustic characteristics of sibilant fricatives /s/ and /ʃ/ was analyzed by extracting vocal tract geometries and conducting aeroacoustic experiments and simulations on each geometry.
T. Yoshinaga, K. Nozaki, S. Wada
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Circadian Parameters as Individual Characteristics

Journal of Biological Rhythms, 1998
Human circadian rhythms that are free running in temporal isolation can show an extreme variability of the sleep-wake cycle without the subject being aware of it. This is due mainly to a systematic adjustment of certain circadian time structures to the varying length of the “day”: the perception of long time intervals in the range of 1 h and the ...
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Individual Personality Characteristics Related to Suggestibility

Psychological Reports, 2002
The current study investigated the relationship between suggestibility of memory, personality characteristics identified by the Millon Index of Personality Traits, and tolerance for ambiguity measured by MacDonald's Ambiguity Tolerance-20. 85 female and 16 male college students were assigned to either an experimental group receiving the suggestive ...
Cheryl W, Van Hook, Connie, Steele
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