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Participation Motivation in Martial Artists in the West Midlands Region of England [PDF]
, 2006 The objectives were to identify the participation motivations and the perceived importance of certain participation factors in martial artists in the West Midlands, England, UK.
Jones, Gareth, Mackay, Ken, Peters, D.M.
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Information and affective valence influence judgments of complexity, liking and understanding
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Visual complexity is a key factor in perceptual and evaluative judgments. People's representation of visual complexity is constructed from quantitative and structural image features, but it is also influenced by familiarity and expertise. We examined how people represent visual complexity and its impact on perception and evaluation, focusing ...
Xiaolei Sun +3 more
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Biological conservation at risk in Slovakia: Brown bears under attack of autocratic pressures
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Recent governance changes in Slovakia have allowed extensive brown bear removals while reducing expert involvement. These developments raise concerns about long‐term management and consistency with EU conservation standards. The case underscores how political context affects conservation outcomes.
Michal Haring +3 more
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Martial Arts and ADHD: A Narrative Review of Cognitive, Behavioral, and Epigenetic Effects
Physical Education Theory and MethodologyObjectives. The study aimed to explore the cognitive, behavioral, and potential epigenetic effects of martial arts-based interventions in individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Materials and methods.
Carola Costanza +10 more
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Spartan Daily, March 5, 1993 [PDF]
, 1992 Volume 100, Issue 25https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/8383/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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, 2002 I offer an account of how ideals motivate us. My account suggests that although emulating an ideal is often rational, it can lead us to do irrational ...
Velleman, J. David
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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective
Dialog, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
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Interventions for children with developmental coordination disorder: A scoping review
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.This scoping review identified 13 differing categories of interventions delivered to children with developmental coordination disorder worldwide ranging from task oriented, motor skills training, and sensorimotor approaches to sports training approaches and health promotion, with motor performance mostly reported as outcome and similar effectiveness ...
Dorothee Jelsma +9 more
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Limits of Understanding in the Study of Lost Martial Arts
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2016 The paper is organised around the notion of embodied technique. The recent attempts to formulate scientific methodologies for the reconstruction of medieval fighting techniques based on a study of premodern fight books raise questions about the epistemological status of these (re)constructed techniques developed by modern practitioners of Historical ...
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‘A Very Unstatic Sport’: An Ethnographic Study of British Savate Classes
Societies, 2018 The empirical focus of this paper is a martial art, Savate, which has received little scholarly attention from social scientists in the English-speaking world.
James Victor Southwood, Sara Delamont
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