Top Research Papers on Sports

This article explores the intersecting vectors of power, surveillance, and identity relating to technologies of material culture as located within the so-called “skort” or running skirt. It presents a cultural history of the skort, situating it within historical debates over femininity and sport, and contemporary arguments over the commercial branding of the feminine ideal. The author also presents and discusses the findings of her participant-observation that she performed in a group fitness studio on multiple occasions dressed in three different exercise outfits: a running skirt, a pair of s...

1. Origins 2. Modern sport 3. Amateurs and professionals 4. The sports business 5. International sport 6. Sport and society Index

This admirable book is the latest in OUP’s well-established Very Short Introduction series, now containing over 350 volumes. Lying between Socrates and the Soviet Union, this is the first volume to venture into leisure where the author has set himself the almost impossible task of covering world sport, historical and contemporary, in a matter of 123 text pages. Nevertheless, it is an excellent introduction to those wishing to appreciate the background to a major cultural phenomenon. The first chapter deals with the origins of sport, focusing on classical Greece and Rome and Medieval England. T...

In the past few years, synthetic sport shorts, used for sports, swimming, or everyday wear, have become popular because of their quick-drying, lightweight, and rip-proof features, but such shorts can present a problem for their wearers.

The invention aims to provide a sports short-sleeve shirt through which a wearer can wipe away sweat, which has the advantages of being simple in structure, low in manufacturing cost and suitable for mass popularization and application.

Sport and Exercise medication (SEM) that is currently well established in several countries will broadly speaking additionally see doctors and different paramedical practitioners World Health Organization add a additional broad setting.

Introduction 1. Capitalism and the Birth of Modern Sport 2. Class Conflict and the Decline of Traditional Games 3. Sport, Nationalism and the French Revolution 4. The Middle-Class Invention of Amateurism 5. Women and the Masculine Kingdom of Sport 6. The Victorian Sporting Industrial Revolution 7. Sport and the Age of Empire 8. Unfair Play: the Racial Politics of Sport 9. Soccer's Rise to Globalism 10. The Second Revolution: Sport between the World Wars 11. Revolutionary Sport 12. Sex, Drugs and Sport in the Cold War 13. Taking Sides in the 1960s 14. The Revolution is being Televised 15. Winne...

post-Apartheid, post-cold war, post-colonial and post-Beijing period. It is written from a critical liberal perspective, one which is devoid of rhetoric or attempts at point-scoring, and one which, after Hill and Houlihan, is as interested in internal Olympic politics of sport as it is in the interface between the Olympics and diplomatic flashpoints. This is evident from the start, where Beacom outlines his interest in diplomatic discourses, and his emphasis on the different political strands that go into Olympic diplomacy: bidding, hosting, boycotting, bridge-building, mediation and developme...

Wprowadzenie do tomu „Sport w dyskursie. Dyskurs sportu” składa się z dwóch części. Pierwsza poświęcona jest krótkiemu omówieniu współczesnej pozycji socjologii sportu w Polsce i za granicą, eksponuje żywotność i wielowymiarowość problematyki dotyczącej sportu w debacie naukowej toczonej w naukach społecznych. Druga koncentruje się na omówieniu tematycznego zakresu tomu, który odzwierciedla wielowątkowość naukowej refleksji dotyczącej sportu we współczesnym dyskursie.

The short version of the scale consisted of eight items and had high internal consistency and construct validity was evidenced via correlations with sport moral disengagement and prosocial and antisocial behaviour.

Science is plagued by a number of inconsistencies and incoherencies. It assumes that the laws of nature are continuous and necessarily operative in all time and space. This may also be stated as to the assumption of the law of induction. It assumes that there is always some mechanical causal system or mechanism, but we find in Quantum, a-causality, the simultaneity of a substance being A and not A (a wave and a particle), we find non-local faster than the speed of light communication and probabilities where it appears that consciousness and not simply matter in itself collapses the wave so tha...

Well-being research conducted in competitive athletics has been marred by the lack of a context-specific measurement instrument. The purpose of this study was to adapt the Mental Health Continuum –...

I. Introduction In this contribution I will first deal with the case NOS (the Dutch joint national public broadcaster) v. Talpa (a new commercial broadcaster) regarding the possible existence of an enforceable "preferential right" of the NOS with regard to the short reporting (summaries) of matches of the Dutch Premier League on the basis of Article 71t of the Media Act (Mediawet). Secondly, I will deal with and comment on the proposed Article 3b of the Television without Frontiers Directive in the light of the NOS v. Talpa case. What conclusions may be drawn from comparing the proposal with t...

Firma CARMAN, a.s. Uničov přijme do stálého pracovního poměru: Rozpočtáře – přípraváře Požadujeme: SŠ – VŠ vzdělání, obor stavebnictví, řidič. průkaz skup. B, zkušenosti v oboru výhodou, spolehlivost, samostatnost, kreativita. Nabízíme: notebook, telefon, profesní růst, velmi dobré platové podmínky. Stavbyvedoucího Požadujeme: SŠ vzdělání, obor pozemní stavby, schopnost vedení kolektivu, řidič. průkaz skup. B. Praxe v oboru podmínkou, spolehlivost, samostatnost, kreativita. Nabízíme: telefon, notebook, profesní růst, velmi dobré platové podmínky. Nástup u obou profesí ihned. Kontaktní osoba: p...

Bestselling author Glenn Liebman scores again with another riotous installment in the Sports Shorts series -- this time celebrating women athletes. Fans will revel in the hilarity and inspiration that abounds in quotes by and about a range of personalities including Rebecca Lobo, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Mia Hamm, Oksana Baiul, and Brandi Chastain.

Abstract The 40th anniversary of the biennial Sporting Traditions Conference provides a timely opportunity to examine the health of sports history in Australia. This paper identifies three methods through which we can take the temperature of the field and judge its wellbeing. Usually neglected, the first approach is to explore the teaching of sports history in Australia. The second is an analysis of the individuals who have presented to the 21 Sporting Traditions conferences held since 1977 and the content of their papers. The third method is to consider the impact of research in Australian sp...

In the tropical city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, dry season soil sampling cultured Burkholderia pseudomallei from 7 (70%) of 10 sports fields, however, during the 23 years of the Darwin Prospective Melioidosis Study, only 5 (0.6%) of 785 melioidotic cases have been attributed to infection from sports fields.

Sport direct feeling is a unique mode of thinking.Combination with the form and character of sport direct feeling in training and match in the short track speed skating the author probes into the psychological mechanism of direct feeling in the speed skating tactics and theoretical base.The author also puts forward the method and the theoretical base applied concretely in the short track speed skating.

It’s been an extremely difficult task, but the ANGUSalive Sports Awards independent panel of judges has reduced a total of 86 excellent nominees to just three outstanding contenders in each of the nine award categories.

In order To reflect various economic functions of China's sport,this article makes a short analysis on many aspects as social sports,competitive sports,sports industry,development of sports goods,sports advertisement and television media,and the role of large-scale sports stadiums and sports meetings to reveal the sport's relevant economic functions and its influence on economy.Besides,if we wish to accelerate the pace of socializing and industrializing Chinese sports industry,we should realize the full economic potential of sports and make it a new economic growth point.

Hidden references and scope of Ayurveda in sport medicine are explored to explore the application of various medical principles to the sports activities, physical exercise and performance.

Makes an analysis to the present situation and reform of sport theory. Puts forward the concept of fundamental theory of sport, and it consists of sport teaching theory, sport training theory, sport thinking theory and sport managing theory. Makes a short guide to contents of each theory.

The research work of this paper is about to analyze and dissect the reasons that why sports is underdeveloped in groups of farmers under the background of the current situation of rural farmers’ life by the literature method, observation method and the interview investigation method. The results of the study are that the farmers are still short of sports and the understanding of sports is still weak, which is a lagging link in the development of the national fitness. There are some relative strategies that are changing farmers’ understanding of sports, publicising the function and the role of ...

This review scrutinizes gender uniqueness disputes in competitive sports, centering the evolution of policies relating to female and male gender confirmation and transgender participation in sport. The issues are complex and remain to contest sport governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, as they struggle to offer a safe environment in which transgender athletes may compete fairly and equitably.

Sometime ago Olav Ballisager and I were sharing memories about our involvement in institutionalizing a field of sport studies and research in the 80’s in Denmark. One event turned out to be a very remarkable and promising one. It took place in July in 1980 at Gerlev folk high school of sport. More than 200 persons were gathered to rediscover their bodies in modern dance together with outstanding American instructors like Judith Chaffe, Adrienne Hawkins and Betty Toman. Occasionally, there were also opportunities for learning about body and movement in cultural, philosophical and educational pe...

ABSTRACT Research on positive youth development and life skills in sport has gained considerable attention over the past decades. However, there is a lack of translated questionnaires examining youth development and life skills available to non-English researchers and practitioners. The purpose of this research project was to adapt in French two questionnaires and to accumulate validity evidence of these adaptations. The short form – Youth Experiences Survey for Sport and the Life Skills Scale for Sport were adapted using a procedure based on a transcultural validation methodology applied to p...

The use of WBVE has proven to be a safe and useful strategy to improve the physical conditions of players of different sports and should be considered as a strategy to be used to try improve thePhysical conditions ofPlayers.

It is argued that sport may have found itself lending unwarranted credibility to products which would otherwise not necessarily be seen as beneficial for participation in sports and exercise or as inherently healthy products.

From leisure theory perspective,the paper,with the methods of history and logic,expatiates distincˉtions and contacts between leisure sports as a newconcept and mass sports,sports for all,social sports after conˉtrastively analyzing them.

Transport of horses under certain conditions relate to their adjusting to manhandling during loading and unloading operations, as well as the anals' temper, may be considered a stress factor with significant depreciating effect on horse welfare.

By combining the research approaches of questionnaire, investigation, document and mathematical statistics, this paper analyses the features of the sports activities that Yulin residents take part in and the structure of their sports consumption. The result indicates, with the improving of living standard, the residents' choices in sports activities present a diversity, and their concepts in sports consumption tend to be more practical.

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The findings demonstrate initial validity and reliability of the two measures and reflect the results of the German versions, however, further research is needed before applying these scales in practical settings.

SpART was a one-year part time artist residency whose goal was to engage members of a recreational community center in making artistic expressions of the sports they participated in Over 200 participants actively engaged and over a thousand members of the public saw and watched their art works. Overall, participation was enthusiastic. The project demonstrated how art could be introduced in daily operations of a sport-focused community center. A video of sporting memories highlighted the benefits of sport in building community, friendships and maintaining health. Space and time were limitations...

Review(s) of: Sport in capitalist society: A short history, by Tony Collins, Routledge, Abington, Oxon, 2013, pp. 184, pb, 19.99 pounds.

It was concluded that sports sponsorship has contributed positively to the development of sport in Nigeria, but more incentives should be provided to corporate organizations in order to promote their sponsorship of sporting events in the country.

Extreme sports (ES) have developed and won the interest of individuals to practice and watch, all over the world. The need to build personal identity, to live one's own experiences, to look for stimulating emotions were the mechanisms for creating and disseminating motor action "differently". Also, a series of societal changes have contributed to changes in social models, value systems, behaviors of social actors. The media was an important vector. The impact of ES targets a series of socio-cultural, economic and political influences, psycho-physical, with both positive and negative consequenc...

Background: No data are available about the sports activity of patients with bone-conserving short-stem hip implants. Hypothesis: Patients can return to a good level of sports activity after implantation of a short-stem hip implant. Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Methods: The sports activity level of 68 patients (76 hips) after short-stem hip arthroplasty was assessed for a minimum of 2 years after implantation. In addition to the clinical examination, a detailed evaluation of the patients’ sports pattern was obtained. Furthermore, the results were analyzed with regard to gen...

Exploring relatable topics in a format that suits concise classes and reduced attention spans is a win for students and teachers alike, writes Luke Rodesiler, who looks at three highly engaging and thought-provoking short films from ESPN's '30 for 30 Shorts' series.

We note the recurrence of errors in specifying an econometric proxy for short-run uncertainty of outcome in sporting fixtures. This research note aims to prevent the spread of these errors because they are becoming embedded in a growing literature. The note also suggests how investigators might more usefully define uncertainty of outcome.

Luke Short perfected his skills as a gambler in locations that included Leadville, Tombstone, Dodge City, and Fort Worth. In 1883, in what became known as the "Dodge City War," he banded together with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and others to protect his ownership interests in the Long Branch Saloon—an event commemorated by the famous "Dodge City Peace Commission" photograph. During his lifetime, Luke Short became one of the best known sporting men in the United States, and one of the wealthiest. The irony is that Luke Short is best remembered for being the winning gunfighter in two of the mos...

An up-to-date description of the most relevant CNS changes after injury, the concept of somatotopic maps, and their relationship with motor control, intracortical inhibition, and cortical facilitation processes is presented.

Sbornik přispěvků mezinarodni studentske vědecke konference Sport ve vědě, věda ve sportu 2012. Přispěvky autorů jsou zaměřeny na oblast kinantropologie a biomechaniky.

The coaches and the supports staff including sports medicine doctors, should ensure the players get adequate & optimal recovery and sleep; and also make sure to minimize the adverse effect of jet lag.

Big sporting events don’t have a significant impact on the numbers of people playing sport, according to new research by Theos and the Sports Think Tank.

This is the first attempt ever to create the collection of markers potentially useful in sport practice, andCorrelation between the levels of markers elucidated, as well as the data, have to be cross-correlated with the fitness level of the studied group.

This article attempts to identify the correlation between the concepts of cybersports, computer sports, e-sports, distance sports, online sports, digital sports on the basis of the current legislation regulating computer sports in the Russian Federation and scientific literature on the topic of research. Based on the analyzed information, the author has made the following conclusions: it is acceptable to apply to the term “computer sports” such synonyms as “cybersport”, “e-sports” and “digital sports”; the term “online sport” is incorrect to use as a synonym to the concept “computer sports”, b...

H üs er /D ie ts ch y/ D id io n Franz Steiner Verlag www.steiner-verlag.de Franz Steiner Verlag VICE VERSA Deutsch-französische Kulturstudien | 7 Sport-Arenen sind Kristallisationspunkte herrschender Verhältnisse und gesellschaftlicher Aushandlungsprozesse. Stadien, Sportpaläste, Velodrome verheißen emotionale Massenspektakel, dienen als sportliche Performanzorte und politische Geltungsbauten. SportArenen lokalisieren Sport-Welten und Sport-Kulturen an einem konkreten Ort, erlauben aber auch identifikatorische Effekte darüber hinaus. Die Autorinnen und Autoren beleuchten Sport-Arenen in trans...

Under the current socialism market economy condition,the industry of athletics' turning is a kind of inevitable trend.However,make Chinese athletics quickly of the market turn,the industry turn,have to raise appreciating of athletics game sex,this isn't only the demand of athletics regression origin but also a market economy condition private parts to teach industry existence and the objective request of development.To raise appreciating of athletics game sex,have to set out from the need of audience,put together the athletics game and the modern medium knot,pay attention to "packing" to the g...

Sport floor for a sports cartridge especially for dynamic IPSC shooting, wherein the sports projectile is designed as a preferably encapsulated FMJ particular with lead core and / or copper jacket and a cylindrical guide portion for holding the sport projectile into a cartridge case of the sports cartridge and for guiding the sports projectile in a barrel of a sporting arm and having a front portion with a tapering end portion, wherein it is provided that the guide portion is offset relative to the front portion in the radial outward direction.