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Does Pelvic Tilt Angle Influence the Isokinetic Strength of the Hip and Knee Flexors and Extensors?

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of pelvic tilt angle on maximum hip and knee muscles’ strength and antagonist/agonist strength ratios.
Eleftherios Kellis, Athanasios Konstantopoulos, Georgios Salonikios, Athanasios Ellinoudis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

L’entrée des jeunes dans l’agriculture : cas du maraichage sous serre dans les Ziban (Algérie) [PDF]

Alternatives Rurales, 2015
En Algérie, l’approvisionnement des marchés de gros en fruits et légumes dépend quasi exclusivement de la production locale. L’abondance et la régularité de ces productions constituent un enjeu important de sécurité alimentaire pour l’Etat qui doit ...
Tarik Hartani, Mohamed Naouri, Marcel Kuper   +2 more
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Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
wiley   +1 more source

Organising Innovation as a New Commons: Eliciting Perspectives, Practices and Tensions in Multi‐Stakeholder Experimentations

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how innovation is organised as a new commons within place‐based experimental settings characterised by institutional plurality. Drawing on scholarship on commons, commoning, and transformative innovation, we approach innovation as a collectively produced resource whose organisation becomes complex in contexts where market ...
Giulia Rossi, Enrico Bellazzecca, Irene Bengo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Motor Competence Profiles in Greek Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Multilevel Analysis of Skill-Specific and Contextual Variability

Children
Background/Objectives: Motor competence is a key indicator of children’s developmental readiness and an important component of health and well-being education.
Andreas Skiadopoulos, Dimitra Dimitropoulou, Theodoros Ellinoudis, Ermioni Katartzi, Christina Evaggelinou   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statues as a source of new epistemology (the case of Michel Serres)

Przestrzenie Teorii, 2017
The article attempts to read the metaphor of the statue in Michel Serres’ philosophical discourse. Sculpture understood in the broad sense, as Serres proposes in Statues: The Second Book of Foundations, enables him to trace a whole array of concepts in ...
Katarzyna Trzeciak
doaj   +1 more source

Medial meniscus posterior root repair with concomitant centralization does not demonstrate superior reduction of meniscal extrusion or improved clinical outcomes compared with isolated repair: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To evaluate whether the addition of a meniscal centralization procedure to medial meniscus posterior root (MMPR) repair improves medial meniscus extrusion (MME) and patient‐reported outcomes compared with isolated MMPR repair. Methods A systematic review and meta‐analysis were conducted in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for ...
Angelo V. Vasiliadis, Nifon K. Gkekas, Alexandros Maris, Nicholas Colyvas, Michael Hantes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transversus Abdominis Ultrasound Thickness during Popular Trunk–Pilates Exercises in Young and Middle-Aged Women

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2023
The transversus abdominis (TrA) is a core muscle that contributes to functional mobility and lumbar stability. This study aimed to compare the changes in TrA thickness during different Pilates exercises, and to identify the exercise that elicited the ...
Ioannis Tsartsapakis, Maria Gerou, Aglaia Zafeiroudi, Eleftherios Kellis   +3 more
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Hearing the Serre Invariant of a Compact p‐Adic Analytic Manifold

Mathematische Nachrichten, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a previous novel way of defining kernel functions for Laplacian integral operators on a compact p$p$‐adic analytic manifold X$X$, one such operator Δ0s$\Delta _0^s$ with s∈R$s\in \mathbb {R}$ is applied to hearing the Serre invariant i(X)$i(X)$ by showing that a wavelet eigenvalue (with the wavelet having small support) is always ...
Patrick Erik Bradley, Ángel Morán Ledezma   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source