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Walking Heritage: Walking sideways in Sandwich [PDF]

, 2016
A misguide of Sandwich.
Overall, S.
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Walking The Walk

UF Journal of Undergraduate Research
In recent years, experts, politicians, and policy leaders have struggled with what they feel is a critical lack in civic educational proficiency and disappointing levels of youth participation in politics. The rise of hyper political polarization contested electoral outcomes, and the spread of misinformation online has prompted a reinvigoration of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Walking football for older adults: A scoping review of research and health benefits

Cogent Gerontology
Walking football (WF) is an adapted form of football specifically designed to encourage sport participation among older adults. By modifying rules to prohibit running, aerial play, and physical contact, WF creates a safe and inclusive environment that ...
Júlia Barreira, Maria Eduarda Saia, Ricardo Leme, Mariana Simões Pimentel Gomes   +3 more
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Amphibian richness, rarity, threats, and conservation prospects across the U.S. National Park System

npj Biodiversity
We assessed amphibian diversity, rarity, and threats across the National Park System (U.S.A.), which covers 3.5% of the country and 12% of federal lands. At least 230 of 354 (65%) amphibian species documented in the country occur on National Park Service
Benjamin J. LaFrance, Andrew M. Ray, Michael T. Tercek, Robert N. Fisher, Blake R. Hossack   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neuro-mechanical entrainment in a bipedal robotic walking platform [PDF]

, 2006
29.01.14 KB. Ok to add accepted version to spiral, paper available on publisher website under CC license.In this study, we investigated the use of van der Pol oscillators in a 4-dof embodied bipedal robotic platform for the purposes of planar walking ...
Veskos,P., Demiris,Y.
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Quantifying blistering on Vajrasana pagoda using complementary in-situ non-destructive techniques

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Blistering is a common yet under-quantified form of decay in historic stonework, progressively causing surface spalling and threatening structural integrity. Current in-situ surveys often rely on a single investigative technique and therefore miss either
Yao Zhang, Bo Li, Ziyi Cai, Hong Guo, Xiang He   +4 more
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Increasing the amount of walking by children [PDF]

, 2004
Children’s car use is increasing. As a result of this, they are walking less. This has serious implications for their quantity of physical activity and consequently for their health.
Lucas, L, Paskins, J, James Paskins, Mackett, RL, Turbin, J, Jill Turbin, Roger L Mackett, Lindsey Lucas   +7 more
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Extended Model-Based Automatic Gait Recognition of Walking and Running [PDF]

, 2001
Gait is an emerging biometric. Current systems are either holistic or feature based and have been demonstrated to be able to recognise people by the way they walk.
Mark S. Nixon, Yam, ChewYean, Chew-Yean Yam, Nixon, Mark S., John N. Carter, Carter, John N.   +5 more
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Walking Backwards:

Parse Journal
This essay explores how fabulation and embodied gestures of remembrance can unsettle dominant frameworks of memory and reconciliation in “postwar” Guatemala.
Andrea Ancira
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An evaluation of the Walking for Wellness project and the befriender role [PDF]

, 2013
Walking for Health is a national programme of volunteer-led health walks, coordinated through Natural England and endorsed by the NHS as a means of promoting physical activity in the sedentary population.
Giuntoli, G, Kinsella, K, South, J
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