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Motor skills as predictors of applied route performance in Romanian Police Academy candidates [PDF]
GeoSport for SocietyThe purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of different motor skills to final performance in the applied route of the Romanian Police Academy.
Mirela ȘTEF +5 more
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Sports tourism as a new form of tourist activity – terminology and history of the concept
Sport i Turystyka, 2023 This article deals with the broadly understood concept of sports tourism. Although this term has been used for a relatively long time, it was not until the 1970s that research on the concept and all kinds of considerations began.
Bartłomiej Łuć
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Emotion and memory in nostalgia sport tourism: Examining the attraction to postmodern ballparks through an interdisciplinary lens [PDF]
, 2013 Nostalgia sport tourism, one of Gibson’s (1998) three forms of sport tourism, appears to have received little scholarly attention in contrast to active sport tourism and event sport tourism (Fairley, 2003; Gibson, 2002, 2003; Ritchie & Adair, 2004 ...
Gordon, Kiernan O.
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Specific interventions for optimizing reaction speed in fencing in 10-12 year old children [PDF]
GeoSport for SocietyIn the context of fencing, reaction speed refers to the athlete's ability to respond promptly and effectively to external stimuli, such as the opponent's movements.
Dana Ioana CRISTEA +5 more
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Sports geography: new approaches, perspectives and directions [PDF]
Sport in Society, 2018 Within some disciplines, for example sociology, management, history, media and cultural studies, strong trends on sports research have been established.
Wise, Nicholas, Kohe, Geoffery Z.
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Major sporting events and geographies of disability [PDF]
Urban Geography, 2017 ABSTRACTMajor sporting events for athletes with disabilities have become part of a strategic agenda to create positive social legacies for those typically marginalized in their communities. These events are subject to strict guidelines set forth by the International Paralympic Committee to deliver broad-based accessibility.
David McGillivray +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed +5 more
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Frontiers in EducationBackgroundAchieving educational equity requires understanding how physical education (PE) teachers are spatially distributed.MethodsGuided by a sports-geography lens on spatial allocation (center–periphery dynamics; clustering/dispersion), we ...
Chengwei Xu, Chengwei Xu, Bing Shi
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Formal and Informal Planning Instruments as Catalyst for Urban Attractiveness. Enhancing Town Attractiveness in the Land of Beiuş, Romania [PDF]
Romanian Review of Regional Studies, 2014 We are once again witnessing a directional change in urban studies. This simple and concise statement comes out from a brief analysis of both the latest interests of different scholars and the discourses of urban, regional, and governmental actors.
PAUL EMIL OLĂU, LUMINIȚA FILIMON
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Geography of a sports metropolis [PDF]
, 2008 This study analyses the sports infrastructure of Hamburg, Germany, from the residents’ perspective. Empirical evidence is provided for the Sports Place Theory developed by BALE (2003) using a micro-level dataset of 1,319 sports facilities, which is ...
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M., Feddersen, Arne
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