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Faecal Attraction: 40 Years of Research in Gut Microbiology

Nutrition Bulletin, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article summarises the 2025 British Nutrition Foundation Annual Lecture given on 25/11/25. It overviews aspects of research in anaerobic microbiology, principally involving the human gut. Until October 2025, Gibson was Professor of Food Microbiology at the University of Reading.
Glenn R. Gibson
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The Role of Physical Activity in the Prevention and Management of Obesity: A Position Statement From the World Obesity Federation

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This position statement is intended to synthesize and interpret current consensus and salient developments regarding the relationship between obesity and physical activity. It draws from the latest evidence and guidelines to update and share the World Obesity Federation's stance with policymakers, healthcare professionals, public health ...
Zoe Gowers, Bai Li, Santi F. Gómez, Angela Jackson‐Morris, Mychelle Farmer, Rachel Thompson, Kent Buse   +6 more
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Seriality and style: The embodiment, perception, and normalization of collectives

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Within existential phenomenology, both seriality and style have been drawn on to theorize the embodiment and perceptibility of (social) ontological differences. While style refers to how we encounter the world and others not in the abstract, but as immediately and intuitively meaningful, seriality is a form of collective being that pertains to
Tris Hedges
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How to Win the Olympic Games – The Empirics of Key Success Factors of Olympic Bids [PDF]

This paper examines the probability of the success of city bid campaigns on the basis of the quantified factors of a total of 43 bids for the Summer Olympic Games between 1992 and 2012.
Arne Feddersen, Philipp Zimmermann, Wolfgang Maennig   +2 more
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Periods, Pains, Pills, and Performance—Fighting Blood, Bodies and Biology

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on various data from long‐term immersion in combat sports to explore the period experiences of cis women fighters. We blend theoretical ideas from the social scientific literature on menstruation and the sociology of medicalization, pain and injury.
Reem AlHashmi, Debra Forbes, Christopher R. Matthews   +2 more
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Inspiring Sport Participation: The Demonstration Effect. [PDF]

, 2011
The Olympic and Paralympic Games can inspire some people to play more sport. 1- Are politicians and Games organisers telling the whole story about sport participation legacies?
Dr Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Dr Ian Wellard, Dr Louise Mansfield, Miss Suzanne Dowse, Professor Mike Weed   +4 more
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Paris Olympics and Paralympics: Insights from nationwide coordination in preparedness, supply chain management and blood inventory

Vox Sanguinis, EarlyView.
Abstract The Paris 2024 Olympic Games posed a unique challenge due to their scale, associated risks and the need for robust healthcare preparedness. This review outlines the forecasting and anticipatory measures taken by the Etablissement français du sang (EFS) to ensure a resilient blood supply chain throughout the event.
Jean‐Baptiste Thibert, Hervé Meinrad, Thibaut Bocquet, Marjolaine Jacques, Thierry Baudonet, Pierre Tiberghien, Sabine Cléophax, Syria Laperche, Pierre Gallian, Sophie Le Cam   +9 more
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Regional income and employment effects of the 1972 Munich Olympic Summer Games [PDF]

, 2007
Olympic Games may have impacts on income and employment in the host city, but no ex post study has been carried out for European Olympic host cities to date. The present study closes this gap using the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
Jasmand, Stephanie, Maennig, Wolfgang
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Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English.
Eva Codó, Carly Collins
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