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Staging Mass Participation Marathons in Heritage Tourism Destinations: Seeing Through the Eyes of Distance Runners

open access: yesJournal of Tourismology, 2016
This study attempted to explore how World Heritage sites and mass participation marathons may have an effect on each other. Feedback and comments of marathon runners (N=530) who participated in the World Heritage Himeji Castle Marathon and the Mt.
Chin-Kuang Chen
doaj  

Driven by risk: Understanding reference‐dependent preferences using simulated auto racing

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Using data from over 56,000 simulated auto races worldwide, we analyze risk‐taking at the margins, consistent with reference‐dependent preferences. We show that participants' risk‐taking changes when a desired intermittent outcome is presented, sometimes at the expense of a more favorable expected end state.
James Hilliard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marathon Health Pitfalls: What Every Runner Needs to Know

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport
Introduction and Purpose: Long-distance running, especially marathons, tests human endurance and physical limits. While the benefits of marathon running are well-documented, the associated health risks often go unnoticed.
Daniel Gondko   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Description of Variability of Pacing in Marathon Distance Running [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to describe variability of pacing during a marathon and 2) to determine if there is a relationship between variability of pacing and marathon performance.
Haney, Tom, Jr., Mercer, John, Dr.
core   +1 more source

Dynamic Capabilities as Drivers of Circular Business Models: Exploring Direct and Indirect Relationships

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academic Summary Despite the urgent need for a circular economy, firms' transition from linear to circular business models (CBMs) remains slow. While previous research suggests that dynamic capabilities are the key drivers of this transition, it assumes a direct link, overlooking that these capabilities can facilitate change but do not ...
Jörn Block   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Motivation and Performance, Blog 9 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Student blog posts from the Great VCU Bike Race ...
Johnson, Victoria
core   +1 more source

‘Like an infant … trying to run a marathon’: A longitudinal audio‐diary study exploring the transition from medical school to internship

open access: yesMedical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction The transition from student to doctor represents a challenging shift in identity and responsibility that many graduates find difficult to manage. To understand better how to support the transition to practice we need an exploration of graduates' experiences that does not see the transition as a single moment, but a continuous ...
Stuart Redvers Pattinson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deep dialogism, inner voices, and mental health

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
The idea that cognition involves dialogic interchange between mutually influencing “voices” has long featured in psychology and philosophy. While dialogic structure is most explicit in inner speech, some authors have argued that other types of mental activity can be (or always are) dialogic. We introduce two dimensions of dialogism, strength and depth,
Sofiia Rappe, Sam Wilkinson
wiley   +1 more source

Exercise‐induced vasculitis with histological and genetic evidence of complement involvement

open access: yes
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Massimo Cugno   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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