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Martial Arts and Metabolic Diseases [PDF]
Sports, 2016 Different forms of martial arts are practiced worldwide, each with various intensities of physical activity. These disciplines are potentially an effective exercise therapy for metabolic diseases. Tai chi is the most well-studied style of martial arts and has shown evidence of its effect on metabolic diseases; however, little evidence is available ...
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Problematising ‘Vulnerability’ in Women's Prisons
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Vulnerability’ is a commonly used but little understood term in the field of social policy and beyond. The refocusing of our criminal justice system around notions of ‘vulnerability’ has had wide‐reaching consequences which often escape both academic and political attention.
Sarah Waite, Danica Darley
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Analysis of the Chinese martial periodicals edited during the Republican Era
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012 The present article studies the periodicals and magazines published during the Chinese Republican period (1912-1949). The main sources for this work are the index and thirty volumes of the Republican Era Collection of National Arts Periodicals (Mingguo ...
William Acevedo, Mei Cheung
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International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract This autoethnographic study lies at the intersection of architectural, teaching and research practice through the lens of an architect‐teacher‐researcher working in post‐Apartheid South Africa. The research traces a shift from unconscious design practice to a more conscious, critical and careful practice through practice‐based design research ...
Sandra Felix
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Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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The Rhythmic and the Metronomic: On Charlie Chaplin's Gait
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Matthew Beaumont
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are online discourses in subissues within counternationalist movements constructed? This study better understands what comprises digital counternationalist dissent against right‐wing nationalism, finding that right‐wing nationalism's success can also be explained through limitations in counternationalist discourse.
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui
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Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Regular exercise is a first‐line nonpharmacological strategy for managing metabolic syndrome (MetS), but varied exercise modalities and outcomes across studies have led to inconsistent findings that limit clinical guidance. Objective To synthesize up‐to‐date evidence on the efficacy of exercise‐based interventions in improving MetS ...
Eric Tsz‐Chun Poon +5 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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