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Friluftsliv: the almost nearly perfect concept [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sports and Active Living
Over the past 40 years, English-language scholarship has often portrayed Norwegian friluftsliv as an ideal way for people to build a simple, healthy, fulfilling, and low-impact relationship with nature.
Simon Kennedy Beames   +1 more
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Effect of Sex-Specific Running Shoes on Female Recreational Runners

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Alterations in running shoe design have been studied and used in the prevention of injury and enhancement of performance allowing running shoe companies to market to a variety of runners based on skill level, foot-strike pattern, and even sex.
Spencer Rasmussen   +6 more
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USER PATTERNS: OUTDOOR SPACE AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES [PDF]

open access: yesPresent Environment and Sustainable Development, 2020
The understanding of the relationship between outdoor activities and outdoor urban spaces is a complex issue, comprising a mutual study between urban space configuration and human behaviors aspect. Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre 1987 confirmed that when the outdoor areas are of high quality, the outdoor activity take place with the same frequency, and ...
Hadjira, Sakhri   +3 more
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Outdoor allergens. [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 2000
Outdoor allergens are an important part of the exposures that lead to allergic disease. Understanding the role of outdoor allergens requires a knowledge of the nature of outdoor allergen-bearing particles, the distributions of their source, and the nature of the aerosols (particle types, sizes, dynamics of concentrations).
Burge, Harriet A.   +1 more
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Heart rate processing algorithms and exercise duration on reliability and validity decisions in biceps-worn Polar Verity Sense and OH1 wearables

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Consumer wearable technology use is widespread and there is a need to validate measures obtained in uncontrolled settings. Because no standard exists for the treatment of heart rate data during exercise, the effect of different approaches on reliability (
James W. Navalta   +9 more
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Under pressure to exercise: a cross-sectional study of characteristics and predictors of compulsive exercise in early adolescents

open access: yesJournal of Eating Disorders, 2022
Background To investigate the frequency of compulsive exercise among early adolescents, and determine the associated impact of sex, physical activity level, exercise habits, motivational regulation, dieting behaviour and health-related quality of life ...
S. Bratland-Sanda   +3 more
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Relationships Between Maximal Aerobic Speed, Lactate Threshold, and Double Poling Velocity at Lactate Threshold in Cross-Country Skiers

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
PurposeTo investigate the relationships between maximal aerobic speed (MAS), lactate threshold in per cent of peak oxygen uptake (LT) and velocity at LT (LTv) in cross-country skiers.
Jan-Michael Johansen   +4 more
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ML-Based Classification of Device Environment Using Wi-Fi and Cellular Signal Measurements

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
Future spectrum sharing rules very likely will be based on device environment: indoors or outdoors. For example, the 6 GHz rules created different power regimes for unlicensed devices to protect incumbents: “indoor” devices, subject to ...
Arun Ramamurthy   +3 more
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An open‐source image classifier for characterizing recreational activities across landscapes

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2022
Environmental management increasingly relies on information about ecosystem services for decision‐making. Compared with regulating and provisioning services, cultural ecosystem services (CES) are particularly challenging to characterize and measure at ...
Samantha G. Winder   +4 more
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Contract Instructing within Aotearoa New Zealand’s Secondary Schools

open access: yesNew Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2018
Over the last 150 years, outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand has evolved from teachers taking students out of school on field trips to running expeditions and adventure activities as part of the curriculum.
Alan Haslip, Jo Straker, Sarah English
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