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The effect of combined training on players' body composition and their performance in beach soccer

Physical Education of Students
Background and Study Aim. Beach soccer is a high-intensity sport requiring a combination of aerobic capacity, strength, agility, and coordination, making training strategies crucial for optimizing performance and physical fitness.
Özgür Nalbant, Seyit Ahmet Süer
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Beyond Kahoot! Reflections and guidelines from a serial gamifying educator on when and how to effectively use games and game elements in anatomical education

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract According to Nietzsche, “In every real [adult], a child is hidden that wants to play.” In everyday life, playfulness and competition can make routine or dull tasks more engaging and can offer educators opportunities to engage a learner in a more entertaining or interactive manner.
Judi Laprade
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Potential financial loss and risk factors for hamstring muscle injuries in elite male Brazilian soccer players: a season-long prospective cohort pilot study

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
PurposeThe aim of this pilot study was to analyze the potential financial loss and a range of potential risk factors for hamstring muscle injuries in elite Brazilian soccer.MethodsThirty-four male players (age: 25 ± 6 years; stature: 180 ± 8 cm; body ...
Otaviano Oliveira-Júnior, Otaviano Oliveira-Júnior, Tim J. Gabbett, Tim J. Gabbett, Natalia F. N. Bittencourt, Roberto C. Quintão, Guilherme F. Reis, João G. Claudino, Rodrigo C. P. Lasmar, Amanda A. O. Leopoldino   +9 more
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Multiple Players Tracking in Virtual Reality: Influence of Soccer Specific Trajectories and Relationship With Gaze Activity

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The perceptual-cognitive ability to track multiple moving objects and its contribution to team sports performance has traditionally been studied in the laboratory under non-sports specific conditions.
Alexandre Vu, Anthony Sorel, Annabelle Limballe, Benoit Bideau, Richard Kulpa   +4 more
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
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Large Language Model (LLM) and Human Performance in Child Investigative Interviewing Question Formulation Tasks

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We compared the performance of large language models (LLMs) and humans with various levels of expertise in child investigative interviewing on tasks related to question formulation. Two tasks were employed: a static Interview Excerpt Task where participants (60 psychologists, 60 naive participants, GPT‐4, and Llama‐2) formulated follow‐up ...
Liisa Järvilehto, Yongjie Sun, Nami Aiba, Shumpei Haginoya, Hasse Hallström, Julia Korkman, Pekka Santtila   +6 more
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Adolescent male soccer players have higher growth rates and risk of injury is associated with biological maturity

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2023
Background. The objective of this study was to ascertain disparities in growth and maturation between male adolescents engaged in soccer and their non-athletic counterparts, as well as to examine the injury features specific to young soccer ...
Raziye Dut, Sinem Akgül, Gürhan Dönmez, Bülent Ulkar, Nuray Kanbur, Orhan Derman   +5 more
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Creativity and its link to epilepsy

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Creative thinking represents one of our highest‐order cognitive processes, involving multiple cortical structures and an intricate interplay between several cortical and subcortical networks. It results in novel ideas that translate to useful products or concepts. The evolutionary purpose of creativity is therefore apparent, as it advances our
Itay Tokatly Latzer, Phillip L. Pearl
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Inclusão Social Através do Desporto

Licere, 2014
O presente estudo pretendeu compreender qual foi o papel do Programa “Pintando a Liberdade e Cidadania” na inclusão social em Feira de Santana. O estudo teve caráter etnográfico, e utilizou a técnica de análise de conteúdo para examinar os dados ...
Renildo Rossi Junior, Roselene de Alencar, André Reis, Mary Liao, Antonino Pereira   +4 more
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An Assist for Cognitive Diagnostics in Soccer: Two Valid Tasks Measuring Inhibition and Cognitive Flexibility in a Soccer-Specific Setting With a Soccer-Specific Motor Response

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
In professional soccer, players, coaches, and researchers alike recognize the importance of cognitive skills. Research addressing the relevance of cognitive skills has been based on the cognitive component skills approach (i.e., general cognitive ...
Lisa Musculus, Franziska Lautenbach, Franziska Lautenbach, Simon Knöbel, Simon Knöbel, Martin Leo Reinhard, Martin Leo Reinhard, Peter Weigel, Peter Weigel, Nils Gatzmaga, Andy Borchert, Maximilian Pelka, Maximilian Pelka   +12 more
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