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Piezo/Triboelectric Nanogenerator from Lithium-Modified Zinc Titanium Oxide Nanofibers to Monitor Contact in Sports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The need for technological innovation in competitive sports is crucial for self-monitoring and smart decision making. In this work, we demonstrate how intelligent sports and smart decision making can be achieved in cricket and boxing using lithium ...
Badhulika, Sushmee
core   +1 more source

Development of a smart cricket ball for advanced performance analysis of bowling

open access: yes, 2023
Development of a smart cricket ball for advanced performance analysis of ...
Batdelger Doljin (13614931)   +1 more
core  

It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, Volume 30, Issue 19, May 10, 2018., 2018
Insects have evolved manifold optimized solutions to everyday problems. The diversity and precision of their hierarchical material adaptations often outsmart and outperform current man‐made approaches. These materials hence provide an excellent basis for the inspiration of new technological approaches by taking design cues from nature's solutions ...
Thomas B. H. Schroeder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advanced Composite Technologies for High‐Performance Sports Equipment: Materials, Manufacturing, and Sustainability Perspectives

open access: yesPolymers for Advanced Technologies, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Advanced composite materials have become the leading material platform for high‐performance sports equipment, enabling superior strength‐to‐weight performance, stiffness tailoring, and enhanced functional integration compared with conventional materials. This review summarizes state‐of‐the‐art developments across multiple sporting disciplines,
Alhayat Getu Temesgen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Media in Sport: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda Using the Theory, Context, Characteristics, and Methodology Framework

open access: yesInternational Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 49, Issue 5, September 2025.
ABSTRACT The growing influence of social media in sport has drawn considerable attention from researchers and marketing professionals. Social media platforms serve as powerful tools that shape and enhance sport consumers' emotional engagement with entities, such as teams, athletes, leagues, and organizations.
Jaskirat Singh Rai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Field: Race, Gender and Sports in Colonial Ghana

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 621-635, July 2025.
Abstract This article analyses Ghanaian women's sport practice from the late nineteenth century to the late 1950s, from games intertwined with displays of colonial authority to school competitions, physical education and tennis. The article argues that their performances played with changing categorisations of African girlhood and womanhood, especially
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Dilemmas of vulnerability in Indian education NGOs: Neoliberal subjectivity, emotions, and class‐based employment hierarchies in Delhi

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract Neoliberal discourse seems to simultaneously demand Delhi's education NGOs to foreground social emotional learning that promotes emotional vulnerability and requires educational leaders to passionately present as “resilient” entrepreneurs who must not let emotions influence their capacity to lead.
Rich Thornton
wiley   +1 more source

Centre for Design Innovation - Smart Products Engineering - Smart Cricket Ball

open access: yes, 2020
This video is from the Smart Products Engineering program at Centre for Design Innovation (CDI) and discusses the development of a Smart Cricket ...
Professor Tino Fuss
core  

‘An Adult Who Protects the Child With an Umbrella’: Making Sense of Happiness and Unhappiness in Finnish children's Drawings

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 35, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
ABSTRACT Research into the phenomenon of happiness is often approached from the perspective of adults, yet the sense‐making practice around happiness may not be the same for all age groups. This paper explores the conceptions of happiness and its opposite, unhappiness, among children in Finland—ranked ‘the happiest country in the world’ for 7 ...
Jennifer De Paola   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing fear of predators and competitors as deterrents for an invasive predator

open access: yesEcosphere, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2024.
Abstract Manipulation of animal behavior is a powerful tool for nonlethal wildlife management where lethal control is not possible. Animal behavior is driven by motivations to acquire food and mates and to avoid predation, and animals utilize their sensory systems to obtain information and assess perceived risks.
Sze Wing Yiu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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