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Movement Velocity in Resistance Training

Sports Medicine, 2003
Guidelines for resistance training include the number of exercises, sets, repetitions, and frequency of training, but only vaguely mention movement velocity. Nevertheless, different velocities imply different performances, i.e. a different number of repetitions or different loads.
Marta I R, Pereira, Paulo S C, Gomes
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On minor movements of resistance

2020
The concluding chapter of Part Two of the book closely examines the efforts people make to resist poverty and the means by which social workers should identify these acts of resistance in order to amplify them. The chapter is based on Lister’s taxonomy of acts of agency and conceptualizes the difference between agency and resistance.
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Social Movements and Resistance

2017
Although social movements are concerned with resistance, there has been a surprisingly little effort towards conceptualizing and problematising resistance within social movement studies. This chapter aims to address such a gap. It shows how a deeper understanding of resistance can in turn allow to better grasp diverse social movements.
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Members of Resistance Movements

Netherlands International Law Review, 1977
Twenty years ago, when I presented my thesis on “The position of members of resistance movements under international law” at a public graduation ceremony in the Amsterdam University auditorium, Professor Tammes was my Promotor. For many years he had watched with interest over the progress of the thesis and had helped me, in our frequent exchanges of ...
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Resistance Movements

2018
Examines the emergence, make-up, and activities of the two resistance movements – the nationalist Chetniks and the communist Partisans - and the complexity of their relationship. Initially, they collaborated with one another, but their ultimate goals were mutually exclusive.
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Resistance Movements in the War

Royal United Services Institution. Journal, 1948
(1948). Resistance Movements in the War. Royal United Services Institution. Journal: Vol. 93, No. 570, pp. 210-223.
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Reducing Resistance to Movement

1977
The development of adaptations aimed at reducing hydrodynamic resistance is one of the most important aspects of adaptation to the nektonic mode of life and constitutes one of the most general specific features of nektonic animals, since the total hydrodynamic resistance encountered by a nektonic animal determines the overall expenditure of energy ...
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Liberation and Resistance Movements

2019
The phenomenon of resistance and liberation movements has occurred throughout history and remains current. Wars of independence and attempts of those range back centuries, including prominent examples such as the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), the Kosovo War (1996–1999), the Second Sudanese Civil War (
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Resistance and Social Movements

Social Forces, 1959
SOCIOLOGISTS and anthropologists have long been interested in the tenacity of culture and its slowness to change. Representative of this concern are Tylor's "survivals," Bagehot's "cake of custom," Tonnies' "sitte," Sumner's "mores and folkways," Boas' "cultural inertia," and Ogburn's "cultural lag." Common to these concepts is the notion that once a ...
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Resistance movements and International Law III

International Review of the Red Cross, 1967
The legal status of members of resistance movements cannot be discussed but in the light of previous court rulings, some of which are very instructive within the scope of the present study. They have been set out below.
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