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Injury Epidemiology of 626 Athletes in Surfing, Wind Surfing and Kite Surfing

Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine, 2021
Introduction/Background: Surfing, wind surfing and kite surfing enjoy a growing popularity with a large number of athletes worldwide. The aim of this study was to identify and compare the injury profiles and compare the injury profiles of these three extreme water sports.
Szymski, Dominik, Achenbach, Leonard, Siebentritt, Martin, Simoni, Karola, Kuner, Norbert, Pfeifer, Christian G., Krutsch, Werner, Alt, Volker, Meffert, Rainer, Fehske, Kai   +9 more
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A preliminary study investigating the neglected domain of mental health in Australian lifesavers and lifeguards

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Surf lifesavers and lifeguards have provided essential education, preventative, and rescue services to the Australian community for over 110 years.
Samantha Fien, Jasmin C. Lawes, Jessica Ledger, Murray Drummond, Pamela Simon, Nancy Joseph, Shane Daw, Talitha Best, Robert Stanton, Ian de Terte   +9 more
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Evaluation of anti-biofilm potential of biosurfactant extracted from Nocardia species [PDF]

Folia Medica, 2021
Introduction: Bacterial natural products such as biosurfactants and surface-active agents are important compounds which exhibit many applications in the fields of medicine.Aim: The aim of the present study was to isolate and identify Nocardia ...
Ali Javadi, Mohamad Reza Pourmand, Javad Hamedi, Fatemeh Gharebaghi, Zohre Baseri, Abbas Morovvati, Razieh Mohammadzadeh, Seyyed Saeed Eshraghi   +7 more
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Underwater multi-frame target images mosaic method based on adaptive image enhancement

Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2022
The severe attenuation and scattering of light in the water reduces the effective field of view of the underwater camera, making the scene information contained in a single image limited, and it is difficult to meet the application requirements of the ...
ZHANG Wenbo, LIU Weidong, LI Le, LI Jiyu, LI Yanli, JIAO Huifeng   +5 more
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Are the Kinetics and Kinematics of the Surf Pop-Up Related to the Anthropometric Characteristics of the Surfer?

Sensors, 2021
The surf pop-up is a unique and challenging skill, critical to successful surfing. Hypothesizing that anthropometric characteristics of surfers influence the pop-up performance, we aimed to measure kinematics and ground-reaction forces (GRF) during a ...
Márcio Borgonovo-Santos, Thiago Telles, Jeff Nessler, Marcelo Peduzzi de Castro, Ricardo J. Fernandes, João Paulo Vilas-Boas   +5 more
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Field Research and Numerical CFD Analysis of Humpback Whale-Inspired Shortboard Fins

Proceedings, 2020
Compared to other Olympic sports, little research exists on competitive shortboard surfing—especially research comparing field and numerical data. In this paper, GPS sensors with 9-axis motion sensors were used to collect data on nearly 2000 surfed waves.
David Shormann, Marc in het Panhuis, Luca Oggiano   +2 more
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Financial Objectives and Satisfaction with Life: A Mixed-Method Study in Surf Lifestyle Entrepreneurs

Social Sciences, 2022
Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs (TLEs) have introduced an innovation in business management based on the region, community, environmental sustainability, and extra financial factors.
André O’Neill, Alvaro Dias, Mafalda Patuleia, Leandro Pereira   +3 more
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Numerical CFD Investigation of Shortboard Surfing: Fin Design vs. Cutback Turn Performance

Proceedings, 2020
The surfing performance of two shortboard fin types with surface features were compared to a standard (control) fin with a smooth surface using dynamic computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The fins with surface features included designs with a
David Shormann, Luca Oggiano, Marc in het Panhuis   +2 more
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Surf Tourism in Uncertain Times: Resident Perspectives on the Sustainability Implications of COVID-19

Societies, 2021
Surf tourism is the principal development driver in many coastal communities around the world. Surf tourism development brings economic opportunities to residents in coastal destinations, but has also been criticized for associations with gentrification,
Leon John Mach
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SenseCam image localisation using hierarchical SURF trees [PDF]

, 2009
The SenseCam is a wearable camera that automatically takes photos of the wearer's activities, generating thousands of images per day. Automatically organising these images for efficient search and retrieval is a challenging task, but can be simplified ...
B. Fasel, D.G. Lowe, H. Bay, K. Mikolajczyk   +3 more
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