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Exercise in Pregnancy and Children’s Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Sports Medicine - Open, 2018
Background Maternal metabolic health during the prenatal period is an established determinant of cardiometabolic disease risk. Many studies have focused on poor offspring outcomes after exposure to poor maternal health, while few have systematically ...
Laetitia Guillemette, Jacqueline L. Hay, D. Scott Kehler, Naomi C. Hamm, Christopher Oldfield, Jonathan M. McGavock, Todd A. Duhamel   +6 more
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I sit because I have fun when I do so! Using self-determination theory to understand sedentary behavior motivation among university students and staff

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2016
Objectives. Evidence exists that independently of physical activity, a dose–response relationship exists between sedentary time and adverse health outcomes. However, little is known about motivations underlying sedentary behavior.
Anca Gaston, Stefanie De Jesus, David Markland, Harry Prapavessis   +3 more
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Afrocentric frameworks in recreation and leisure research: a perspective article

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
This perspective article re-imagines and proposes key Afrocentric frameworks that can contribute towards animating the recreation and leisure discourse in Africa.
Michael Sakala
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“Maybe a little bit of guilt isn’t so bad for the overall health of an individual”: a mixed-methods exploration of young adults’ experiences with calorie labelling

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Menu labelling, and more specifically calorie labelling, has been posited as an intervention to improve nutrition literacy and the healthfulness of consumers’ food purchases. However, there is some concern calorie labelling may unintentionally
Amanda Raffoul, Brooke Gibbons, Karla Boluk, Elena Neiterman, David Hammond, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick   +5 more
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

“Though helpful, still hesitant”: a TAM-based qualitative study on older adults’ ambivalent acceptance and model extensions in AI fitness coaches

Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundWith the deepening integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and health promotion strategies, digital health applications have continued to expand.
Yi Yau, Ya Chun Shen
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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Underlying Motives for Selected Adventure Recreation Activities: The Case for Eudaimonics and Hedonics

Behavioral Sciences, 2020
One of the interesting behaviors practiced by citizens across the globe is the pursuit of outdoor recreational activities featuring elements of personal risk and danger.
Alan Ewert, Ryan Zwart, Curt Davidson
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