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Customer Relationship Marketing in Martial Arts
The present paper reviews good practices in modern management and marketing for sports clubs, especially in the Martial Arts. Objectives: to study how modern management and especially marketing should impact the development of martial arts clubs in ...
Corneliu Miron
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Would the Real Trait Sadism Please Stand Up? On the Factor Structure of Trait Sadism
ABSTRACT Objective We analyzed the items of trait sadism measures to identify a coherent, hierarchical factor structure. Background Numerous models and measures purport to assess trait sadism. Some of these measures overlap to a limited extent only. Simultaneously, trait sadism measures show strong redundancies with measures of psychopathy.
Christian Blötner +3 more
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Folklore and foundation myths in Chinese martial arts: testing and expanding the Theory of Martial Creation [PDF]
[EN] How and why might a person create a new martial art? Folklore is a continued tradition in martial arts that helps us answer this question in a narrative format.
Jennings, George
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Russia's Wartime Economy: Measuring Regional Inequalities From Outer Space
ABSTRACT We study Russia's February 2022 full‐scale invasion of Ukraine as a natural experiment to determine how sudden disruptions to international market access reshape sub‐national economic inequalities. Using remotely‐sensed nighttime lights as a proxy for economic activity, we estimate the economic effects of the war at the national and regional ...
Irakli Barbakadze +3 more
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Martial arts and mental health
The field of psychotherapy has seen a renaissance of mindfulness, the practice of being in the present moment without judgement. Scientific evidence suggests that mindfulness helps to counter Depression and has a beneficial effect on the brain.
Roberts, Ron, MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar
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Abstract Across former colonies, the question of access to cultural heritage remains contested and constrained by the enduring legacies of colonialism. While physical restitution has been the subject of much debate, comparatively little attention has been paid to the legal structures governing control of cultural memory associated with said physical ...
Jade Kouletakis
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The Japanization of Karate?: Placing an Intangible Cultural Practice [PDF]
Although Okinawa is now under the political administration of Japan, its history has been shaped under the influence of Chinese, Japanese and, most recently, American military domination.
Johnson, Noah C.G.
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The article analyzes the concepts of "skill" and "sport skills", which are studied in the framework of various theories: psychology, acmeology, theory of activity, axiology.
Olga V. Yusupova, Alexander D. Voronin
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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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