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The relative contributions of ACE genotypes on personality traits in Tunisian athletes
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Edizioni Minerva Medica
, 2016 , Article Review)
BACKGROUND: The present study attempted to test whether the ACE genotypes can be associated with particular personality traits that can be potentially used as predictors of athletic performance. Eighty seven track and field ...
Analysis of positional training loads (ratings of perceived exertion) during various-sided games in European professional soccer players
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SAGE Publications
, 2016 , Article)
The primary aim of the study was to perform a comparative analysis of the positional training loads during various game
formats among European professional soccer players. Twenty-two male professional soccer players ...
Predicting academic success in health professions training and education: Insights from a data mining analysis
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Dropping-out is a very common phenomenon among students enrolled in Health Professions degree courses. For this reason, it would be extremely useful to have a model with the main variables that can predict, with a certain ...
Rapid weight loss in the context of Ramadan observance: Recommendations for judokas
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Institute of Sport
, 2016 , Article Review)
Judo is a weight-classified combat sport, and many athletes seek to compete at the lightest possible weight category to gain an advantage from competing against shorter/smaller, and supposedly weaker opponents. To achieve ...
Charactertistics of preferred gait patterns: Considerations for exercise prescription
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Gait patterns have been widely studied in different fields of science for their particular characteristics. A dynamic approach of human locomotion considers walking and running as two stable behaviours adopted spontaneously ...
Adolescents surveillance system for obesity in Europe. A pioneering project to prevent obesity in Italy using E-technology: The ASSO* project * adolescence surveillance system for obesity prevention
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IADIS
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Adolescents' obesity is a major concern in our modern life; it could lead to significant increase in the rate of obese in the future generations and consequently the health budget. The ASSO Project in Italy (Adolescence ...
Sport and politics in the Arab world
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter examines the interaction between sport and politics in the Arab World. In post-independence, in the 1950s and 1960s, sport was an arena for the consolidation of national unity, at least the way it was dened ...
Le momentum psychologique en sport : vers une perspective complexe et dynamiquePsychological momentum in sport: Toward a complex and dynamical perspective
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Elsevier Masson SAS
, 2016 , Article)
Le momentum psychologique (MP) est un phénomène social ayant suscité la curiosité des psychologues du sport depuis les années 1980. Depuis les premières conceptualisations, le MP a été considéré comme un construit complexe, ...
Sport and Muslims or Muslims in sport, post-9/11
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter organizes three aspects: hijab and the ‘Islamization’ of sport; Arab-Muslim investment in sport as a means for ‘soft power’; and sport and the question of integration of Muslims as a challenge to citizenship ...