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From the sports hall into the classroom: Learning life skills through sport [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This study draws upon a wide range of research to examine underachievement in UK schools.
Allen, Georgia
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Purity and Danger – researching child protection and welfare in youth sport [PDF]
, 2006 Drawing on Mary Douglas’ classic social analysis in ‘Purity and Danger’ (1966) I argue that youth sport is a purity system and that pollution of it, through child abuse, breaches the belief system that still attaches to sport.
Brackenridge, CH
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The seduction of football: Youth and sport for development and peace in post-conflict Liberia [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis considers Liberian youth and the concept of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP).
Collison, Holly Lindsay
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik +5 more
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Sport specialization in youth: A literature review [PDF]
, 2004 Objective: Youth participation in sport is reviewed to include its history, current growth patterns, reasons behind sport specialization, and the implications of sport specialization.
Hecimovich, M.
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The microbiome in human skin aging
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐related skin changes encompass the well‐known visible phenotypic alterations, together with microbiome dysbiosis and a series of molecular aging hallmarks. These hallmarks characterize not only a fully stablished aged phenotype but also the skin aging process itself.
Manuel Huerta Arana +3 more
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Social Motivation in Youth Sport [PDF]
, 2003 Youth sport participants frequently report social reasons for their involvement in sport such as wanting to be part of a team or to be with friends, and social sources of positive and negative affect such as social recognition and parental pressure ...
Allen, Justine
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Small RNA pathways in mammalian oocytes
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Three distinct small RNA pathways operate in mammalian oocytes: RNAi interference (RNAi), the microRNA (miRNA) pathway, and the PIWI‐associated RNA (piRNA) pathway. These pathways use small RNAs to guide sequence‐specific repression and contribute to oocyte biology by targeting genes and mobile elements or appear insignificant since different ...
Petr Svoboda, Josef Pasulka
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Characterizing Cutaneous α‐Synuclein Deposition and Seeding Activity in Parkinson's Disease Subtypes
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Cutaneous phosphorylated α‐synuclein (p‐syn) and α‐synuclein seeding activity are promising biomarkers for Parkinson's disease (PD), but their clinical value remains uncertain due to disease heterogeneity. This study evaluates these two biomarkers in PD patients to inform phenotype‐specific diagnosis and disease severity assessment ...
Yuting Jin +8 more
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UK Youth Sport Coaches and Coaching Efficacy: an Exploration into the Perceived Development of Coaching Ability [PDF]
The current study has three purposes. Firstly, to explore coaches’ perceptions of their abilities in leading athletes to success and what experiences have influenced their perceived competence (or game strategy efficacy).
Fiander, Matthew
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