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Organized sports‐based interventions and motor outcomes in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Organized sports‐based interventions show promise for improving motor skills in children with ASD, particularly martial arts and aquatic training, but stronger evidence form higher‐quality studies is needed. Abstract Aim To evaluate the effectiveness of organized sports‐based interventions on motor outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder ...
Kailash Ram   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The physical and psychological benefits of martial arts training for individuals with disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Plan BThe purpose of this study was to determine the physical and emotional benefits of martial arts training for persons with disabilities. Three specific research questions were asked: Does participation in martial arts training lead to a reduction in ...
Martin, Richard A.
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Aikidō and spirituality: Japanese religious influences in a martial art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This thesis examines spirituality in the Japanese martial art aikidō, which was created in the 1940s in Japan by Ueshiba Morihei. He described aikidō entirely in spiritual terms and claimed that it is an art of peace which leads religion to completion ...
Greenhalgh, Margaret
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI

open access: yesAI &Innovation, Volume 1, Issue 2, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
wiley   +1 more source

Arts nation: an overview of Australian arts - 2015 edition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper provides evidence as a catalyst for informed discussion about arts and culture in Australia. Executive summary Australians value the arts.
Australia Council for the Arts
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Embodied Research: An Epistemic Context for Martial Arts Practice

open access: yes, 2016
This talk will place martial arts practice and studies in the context of an ongoing sea change in the university as a social institution. A generation of embodied practitioners — across the martial, healing, performing, ritual arts and more — is entering
Spatz, Ben
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Not Too Young to Understand: Meaning Making From the Perspectives of School‐Aged Children With Cancer—A Scoping Review

open access: yesPsycho-Oncology, Volume 35, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Meaning making is increasingly recognized as an important determinant of psychosocial adjustment in adult oncology. However, how school‐aged children make meaning of cancer and how developmental, relational, and sociocultural influences shape this process remain insufficiently characterized, particularly because frameworks are ...
Yixuan Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interventions for children with developmental coordination disorder: A scoping review

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 68, Issue 9, Page 1184-1194, September 2026.
This scoping review identified 13 differing categories of interventions delivered to children with developmental coordination disorder worldwide ranging from task oriented, motor skills training, and sensorimotor approaches to sports training approaches and health promotion, with motor performance mostly reported as outcome and similar effectiveness ...
Dorothee Jelsma   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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