Sports the travel industry is recognized as movement that includes either watching or taking part in a game while staying outside of the sightseers' typical environmental factors. Major games, like the football, Olympic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' 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 ...

The objective of the study was to determine the effects of tobacco use on selected markers of health and lung function in professional athletes. A total of 108 male professional athletes participated in the study from ten ...

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 ...

This study determined which knee joint motions lead to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture with the knee at 25° of flexion. The knee was subjected to internal and external rotations, as well as varus and valgus motions. ...

Qatar and the UAE in particular are emerging as a new destination for sport labor migration, including from the Maghreb and the Maghrebi community in Europe, which is the focus of this chapter. Specifically, the study ...

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, ...