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Testing factors influencing handgrip strength and reaction time to visual stimulus in selected martial arts [PDF]
Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise SciencesBackground: Handgrip strength (HGS) is essential in sports, including martial arts, as it can be used to evaluate general athletes’ performance and physical fitness.
Dariusz Bajkowski, Wojciech J. Cynarski
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Handgrip Strength as a Distinguishing Factor of People Training Martial Arts
Applied Sciences, 2023 Jujutsu is a close-contact grappling combat sport. Karate is a long-distance combat sport, primarily using strikes and kicks. Well-designed strength characteristics should be capable of differentiating between participants of martial arts and combat ...
Dariusz S. Bajkowski +1 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Motion analysis systems as optimization training tools in combat sports and martial arts
Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2016 Introduction: Over the past years, a few review papers about possibilities of using motion analysis systems in sport were published, but there are no articles that discuss this problem in the field of combat sports and martial arts.
Ewa Polak +4 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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The Effectiveness of Martial Arts Interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review
Physical Education Theory and MethodologyBackground. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition marked by social-communication difficulties, restricted interests, and motor coordination challenges.
Carola Costanza +16 more
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Involuntary Clozapine Treatment: A Systematic Review
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction We aimed to synthesize the information relevant for clinical practice on involuntary clozapine treatment. Methods Articles were identified with MEDLINE, Web of Sciences and PsycINFO search from inception through September 2025 (PROSPERO database registration CRD420251234475).
Hélène Verdoux +2 more
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“Your Kung Fu is very good, Master Fiore!” Asian and European fight books in comparison
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2016 The phenomenon of the fight book is not restricted to the European tradition. Similar artefacts, usually combining text and image to describe the techniques of close quarter combat with and without weapons, exist also in various Asian cultures, in China,
Wetzler Sixt
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