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Physiological and Physical Profile of Snowboarding: A Preliminary Review

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
The sport of snowboarding has grown in popularity as both a recreational winter activity as well as a prominent Olympic sport. Both forms are comprised of one of three different disciplines within the sport: freestyle, alpine, and snowboard-cross.
Gianluca Vernillo, Gianluca Vernillo, Cesare Pisoni, Gabriele Thiébat, Gabriele Thiébat   +4 more
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Universality, limits and predictability of gold-medal performances at the Olympic Games [PDF]

, 2012
Inspired by the Games held in ancient Greece, modern Olympics represent the world's largest pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. Performances of athletes at the Olympic Games mirror, since 1896, human potentialities in sports, and thus ...
A Guttmann, A Guttmann, A Petersen, AM Nevill, AM Nevill, AM Petersen, AM Petersen, B Efron, B Sjödin, C Holden, C Sire, E Ben-Naim, EA Codling, EE Peters, F Péronnet, F Radicchi, FD Desgorces, Filippo Radicchi, G Berthelot, G Waitt, G Wergen, G Wergen, G Yaari, GL Gerstein, H Preuss, HJ Grubb, J Beirlant, J Duch, J Swaddling, JS Katz, K Rice, M Atkinson, M Guillaume, MA Stephens, MB Wilk, MW Denny, NA Hill, NCC Sharp, PB Sparling, PE Di Prampero, R Tibshirani, RB D’Agostino, RB Knight, RD Mandell, Renaud Lambiotte, S Redner, S Reeve, S Saavedra, S Sabhapandit, S Savaglio, SS Shapiro, TW Anderson, W Alt   +52 more
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Motivations and Expectations of Olympic Volunteers: Building a Legacy of Personal Development as a Key Factor for the Success of Sports Mega-Events

Physical Culture and Sport: Studies and Research, 2023
The scientific breakthrough in understanding the role of sports volunteers, as well as the importance of motivation and expectations management in decision-making, has boosted several studies, helping to reinforce the conceptual idea of a sports legacy ...
Teixeira Mário Coelho, Banza Telma Frade, Almeida Nuno Castanheira, Sesinando André Dionísio   +3 more
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The Seeds of Time [PDF]

, 2013
A fictional exploration of the uses of Shakespeare in the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Festival of Britain of 1951, and the 2012 London Olympics, in the form of an imitation of H.G.Wells's story The Time Machine.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted ...
Holderness, G.
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Title IX and the Global 1970s: Women's Sports Activism in International Perspective

Historia Social y de la Educación, 2013
Title IX, a piece of federal legislation passed in 1972, spurred dramatic growth in the opportunities for women and girls to participate in sports and athletics in the United States, especially in the 1970s.
Susan Ware
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Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
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MRI-Detected Knee Ligament Sprains and Associated Internal Derangement in Athletes Competing at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics

Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine, 2021
Andrew Kompel,1 Prashanth H Haran,1 Akira M Murakami,1 Lars Engebretsen,2– 4 Mohamed Jarraya,1,5 Frank Roemer,1,6,* Ali Guermazi1,7,* 1Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; 2Medical and Scientific ...
Kompel A, Haran PH, Murakami AM, Engebretsen L, Jarraya M, Roemer F, Guermazi A   +6 more
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Governance of the London 2012 Olympic Games legacy [PDF]

, 2011
© The Author(s) 2011. This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.This study addresses the governance of the London 2012 Olympics legacy.
Girginov, V
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Interactive Prompt‐Guided Robotic Grasping for Arbitrary Objects Based on Promptable Segment Anything Model and Force‐Closure Analysis

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
A laser pointer‐guided robotic grasping method for arbitrary objects based on promptable segment anything model and force‐closure analysis is presented. Grasp generation methods based on force‐closure analysis can calculate the optimal grasps for objects through their appearances. However, the limited visual perception ability makes robots difficult to
Yan Liu, Yaxin Liu, Ruiqing Han, Kai Zheng, Yufeng Yao, Ming Zhong   +5 more
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Olympics Legacy: the London Olympics 2012 [PDF]

, 2010
The reasons for proposing a London 2012 bid are outlined in the light of London city planning over the past sixty years. The processes influencing the bid for the London 2012 Olympics are investigated in respect of the lessons from Barcelona and Sydney ...
Gulsen, Guler, Holden, Robert
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