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Cooking Classes as Destination Image Contribution: A Serious Leisure Perspective

Leisure Sciences, 2023
Gastronomy tourism is of great interest to scholars due to its valuable contribution to destination images. Most studies use quantitative methodology, although mixed-method research provides more valuable insights. This study proposes two complementary theoretical models based on the online gastronomic image and a mixed methodological framework to ...
Estela Marine-Roig, Min-Pei Lin, Nayra Llonch-Molina   +2 more
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Information activity in serious leisure [PDF]

, 2016
Background. In the past decade, scholars of information science have started to conduct research on information behaviour in serious leisure. Presently, these studies lack common concepts and terms and empirical discoveries are not easy to assemble into ...
Hartel, J., Griffin, B., Cox, A.
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« Soyons sérieux et jouons un peu ! » Navigation aux frontières de la classe par le jeu vidéo d’apprentissage Mecagenius.

Sciences du Jeu, 2016
The success of serious games tends to conceal the little work yet produced about these hybrid objects. Both rooted in leisure time, by strong markers related to the game, and in working time, because of the educational aim that characterizes them, these ...
Victor Potier
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“I am not an artist, I make art”: amateurish artists in Israel and the sense of creativity

Creativity Studies, 2020
This study deals with self-taught visual artists who are considered “amateurish” by the establishment of the Memorial Center in Kiryat Tiv’on, Israel, where they have exhibit their artwork.
Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld, Uri Dorchin
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Serious Leisure Experience in a Dyadic Pursuit: Elite Player Motivations and Participation in Tournament Bridge [PDF]

, 2021
International, elite level tournament bridge is a unique context to explore the dynamics of serious leisure experience. This paper presents sociological research of participation and motivations in a dyadic serious pursuit, understood through the lens of
Russell, Zoe; id_orcid, Graham, Elizabeth, Russell, Zoe, Punch, Samantha, Samantha Punch, Zoe Russell, Elizabeth Graham   +6 more
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Lifespan Intellectual Factors, Genetic Susceptibility, and Cognitive Phenotypes in Aging: Implications for Interventions

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2019
Along with rapid global population aging, the age-related cognitive disorders such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia have posed a serious threat to public health, health care system, and sustainable economic and societal development of all ...
Yongxiang Wang, Yifeng Du, Juan Li, Juan Li, Chengxuan Qiu, Chengxuan Qiu   +5 more
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Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia intervention for people with mild to moderate dementia and their family carers in the UK: the VALID research programme including RCT

Programme Grants for Applied Research, 2023
Background People with dementia find it increasingly difficult to carry out daily activities (activities of daily living), and may require increasing support from family carers.
Wenborn Jennifer, Mountain Gail, Moniz-Cook Esme, Poland Fiona, King Michael, Omar Rumana, O’Keeffe Aidan, Morris Stephen, Pizzo Elena, Michie Susan, Vernooij-Dassen Myrra, Graff Maud, Hill Jane, Challis David, Russell Ian, Sackley Catherine, Hynes Sinéad, Crellin Nadia, Mundy Jacqueline, Burgess Jane, Swinson Tom, Di Bona Laura, Field Becky, Hart Cathryn, Stansfeld Jacki, Walton Holly, Rooks Sally, Ledgerd Ritchard, Orrell Martin   +28 more
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The challenges of the wind. Ecology of serious leisure in the Brazilian Northeast

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
AimThe aim of this study is to understand the development of windsports and the challenges faced by wind-based leisure activities.MethodsThe socio-historical dynamics behind the development of wind leisure are analysed on the basis of specialised tourism
Olivier Sirost, Bernard Andrieu, Jullya Bheatriz Dantas da Costa Sobral, Petrucia Da Nóbrega   +3 more
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Viewing leisure as experience

Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Introduction. Serious leisure is a well-established concept in leisure studies and combined with the everyday information seeking model, has led to an increased study of leisure activities in library and information science.
Priya Kizhakkethil
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Improving the understanding and management of back pain in older adults: the BOOST research programme including RCT and OPAL cohort

Programme Grants for Applied Research, 2023
Background Back pain frequently affects older people. Knowledge about back pain in older people and evidence to inform clinical care was lacking, particularly for older people with neurogenic claudication due to spinal stenosis, which is a debilitating ...
Esther Williamson, Maria T Sanchez-Santos, Ioana R Marian, Mandy Maredza, Cynthia Srikesavan, Angela Garrett, Alana Morris, Graham Boniface, Susan J Dutton, Frances Griffiths, Gary S Collins, Stavros Petrou, Julie Bruce, Jeremy Fairbank, Zara Hansen, Karen Barker, Charles Hutchinson, Christian Mallen, Lesley Ward, Richard Gagen, Judith Fitch, David P French, Sarah E Lamb   +22 more
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