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The Elementary School Journal, 1935
Two appalling facts are staring us in the face today: One is the large number of children who are killed or injured annually while playing in city streets, and the other is the number of young men who are found every year among the ranks of the criminals.
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Two appalling facts are staring us in the face today: One is the large number of children who are killed or injured annually while playing in city streets, and the other is the number of young men who are found every year among the ranks of the criminals.
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Leisure Time Physical Activity and Mortality
Epidemiology, 2013Some studies indicate that a large part of the beneficial effect of physical activity on mortality is confined to a threshold effect of participation.Self-reported physical activity was investigated in relation to all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort, including 29,129 women and 26,576 men aged 50-64 years at baseline 1993 ...
Johnsen, Nina Føns +4 more
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What Inspires Leisure Time Invention? [PDF]
Research Papers in Economics, 2009 This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of "leisure time invention," where the main underlying idea for the new product or process occurs when the inventor is away from the workplace. We add to previous research by focussing on the inventive creativity of the individual researcher, and reassessing the image ...
Davis, Lee N. +2 more
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Pursuing Leisure During Leisure-Time Physical Activity
Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2010Background:While considerable attention has been given to quantifying leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among subpopulations, less attention has focused on the perception of the experience as leisure. The current study describes the prevalence of leisure-like experiences during LTPA among college students.
Stephanie T. West, Kindal A. Shores
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Leisure Time and Leisure Space
1989Leisure time and leisure space are not fixed and definite features of society. ‘Nineteenth and twentieth century life,’ writes Yeo,1 ‘has been full of attempts to divide performing from spectating, street space from play space, education and welfare from recreation, politics from the rest of life, values and choices from production, work from ...
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Leisure Time, Non-leisure Time, and Occupational Physical Activity in Asian Americans
Annals of Epidemiology, 2005Asian American immigrants' risk of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity increase with duration of residence in the United States (US). Regular physical activity reduces the risk of these diseases, yet little is known about physical activity in Asian Americans and how it changes after immigration.Data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey ...
Diane S. Lauderdale, Namratha R. Kandula
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2006
Both notions examined in this chapter — time and leisure — pose considerable definitional difficulties. St Augustine, struggling in the fourth century with the concept of time, wrote: ‘What then is time? If no one asks of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not’ (St Augustine, Confessions, XI, 14). Ennis, in an article published 16
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Both notions examined in this chapter — time and leisure — pose considerable definitional difficulties. St Augustine, struggling in the fourth century with the concept of time, wrote: ‘What then is time? If no one asks of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not’ (St Augustine, Confessions, XI, 14). Ennis, in an article published 16
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Patterns of Leisure Time and Non-Leisure Time Physical Activity of Korean Immigrant Women
Health Care for Women International, 2011Our purpose in this study was to examine the patterns of physical activity and demographic characteristics associated with those patterns in Korean immigrants in the United States. Participants were 197 women, and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire was utilized.
Mi Ja Kim, JiWon Choi, JoEllen Wilbur
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Gender and Leisure: Inequality in the Distribution of Leisure Time
Journal of Leisure Research, 1985Consideration of status differences between males and females in society in general leads to the expectation of inequality in access to leisure time.
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In search of leisure time: An endogenous growth model with leisure services
Metroeconomica, 2019AbstractStarting from the Ladrón‐de Guevara et al.’s framework, we develop a model with an additional sector for the production of leisure services. By introducing consumption of leisure services as a time‐consuming activity, our model generalizes the standard time allocation problem whereby total available time can be allocated between work, education,
Guido Candela +2 more
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