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Effect of plyometric training on swimming block start performance in adolescents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study aimed to identify the effect of plyometric training (PT), when added to habitual training (HT) regimes, on swim start performance. After the completion of a baseline competitive swim start, 22 adolescent swimmers were randomly assigned to ...
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Fish swimming in schools save energy regardless of their spatial position [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
For animals, being a member of a group provides various advantages, such as reduced vulnerability to predators, increased foraging opportunities and reduced energetic costs of locomotion. In moving groups such as fish schools, there are benefits of group
Domenici, Paolo   +5 more
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Application of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) fishing lights to improve catch rates of small-scale trammel net fishery in the Yellow Sea, China

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The small-scale trammel net fisheries are essential to the economy and well-being of coastal communities in the Yellow Sea, China. However, these fisheries are low efficient and urgently demand technical innovations to improve catch rates. In this study,
Mengjie Yu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The pattern of the university innovation area in order to realize the policies of the entrepreneurial university [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات مدیریت راهبردی, 2022
Aim and Introduction: Innovative economy has brought about fundamental changes and various opportunities for cities and businesses so that nowadays cities have turned to an innovation model based on "proximity " in order to attract the new generation of ...
Abbas Zareii   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the changing nature of sports organisations in transforming societies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The paper examined the process of changing in three Bulgarian national sport organisations (NSO) in swimming, weightlifting and field hockey, as the country is undergoing fundamental political, economic and social transformations from state socialism ...
Girginov, V, Sandanski, I
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Explain the factors affecting the development of sports entrepreneurship; Sociological and ecological approach [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات راهبردی جامعه‌شناختی در ورزش, 2022
Objective: The purpose of this study was to carefully study the past and present process, opportunities and threats of the external environment in analyzing the process of sports entrepreneurship in Ardabil.Methodology: The method of the present research
Nima Hasanzadeh, Zahra Sohrabi
doaj   +1 more source

Postcopulary sexual selection increases ATP content in rodent spermatozoa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Sperm competition often leads to increase in sperm numbers and sperm quality, and its effects on sperm function are now beginning to emerge. Rapid swimming speeds are crucial for mammalian spermatozoa, because they need to overcome physical barriers in ...
Gomendio, Montserrat   +5 more
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Sinking, Swimming, or just treading water. : The Olympic Legacy for London 2012- 4 Years on. Has it made a difference? Pupil Voice and an an analysis of Swimming Provision. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Barry Costas, 'Sinking, Swimming or just Treading Water. The Olympic Legacy from London 2012 – 4 Years On. Has it made any difference? Pupil Voice and an Analysis of Swimming Provision', Athens Journal of Sports, Vol. 4(1): 35-52, March 2017.
Costas, Barry
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“The Planet Is Swimming in Discarded Plastic”: How Do Circular Economy Policy Statements Affect Corporate Engagement in Addressing Plastic Pollution?

open access: green
With the global economy only 7.2% circular, strong collaboration among diverse stakeholders becomes increasingly required to tackle plastic pollution. Aware of the role of businesses as key stakeholders in designing new forms of resource use, this study seeks to answer how publicly announced circular economy (CE) policies affect the businesses ...
Refk Selmi
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Intraspecific variation in aerobic and anaerobic locomotion: gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) and Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) do not exhibit a trade-off between maximum sustained swimming speed and minimum cost of transport.

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2015
Intraspecific variation and trade-off in aerobic and anaerobic traits remain poorly understood in aquatic locomotion. Using gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) and Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata), both axial swimmers, this study tested four ...
Jon Christian Svendsen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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