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Sport in the African World
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2018 , Book)
Sport has been a component of African cultural life for several hundred years. In today's globalized world, Africans and Africa have become a vital part of the international sporting landscape. This is the first book to ...
Sport and international relations in North Africa
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia share the same history of French colonial presence. While Algeria was simply annexed to become part of the French territory and divided into three provinces, Tunisia and Morocco were under the ...
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 ...
Sport and political transition in Tunisia: Another terrain of competition between Islamists and seculars
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2015 , Book chapter)
This chapter reports on a research project that focused on how policy makers perceived and responded to the sporting needs of Muslim communities in Norway. A unique trait of Norwegian sport policy is that sport organizations ...
Sport in Islam and in Muslim communities
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2015 , Book)
As Islam's visibility in global society increases, Muslim populations grow, and Muslim countries compete to take up positions at the heart of global sport, the interplay between sport and Islam becomes ever more illuminating. ...
Islamic sport marketing or sport marketing in Muslim cultures and communities
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2015 , Book chapter)
As naming is categorising and, in turn, categorising is excluding, there have been many discussions about the respective definitions of marketing and sport marketing, their differences, their communalities, their practices, ...
Postprandial insulin and triglyceride concentrations are suppressed in response to breaking up prolonged sitting in Qatari females
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2019 , Article)
Background: Cultural, environmental and logistical factors challenge the Qatari population, particularly females, to engage in physical activity, and there is a high prevalence of diabetes in this population. Sedentary ...
Acute effect of toe cap choice on toe deviation angle and perceived pain in female professional ballet dancers
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Hindawi Limited
, 2019 , Article)
Several classical dance complex movements, such as pointe, require body weight to be supported properly to avoid risk of foot injury. Regarding the choice of toe cap for pointe shoes, it is unclear which type can better ...
Effects of exercise training on type 2-diabetes: The role of Meteorin-like protein
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Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
, 2019 , Article)
Diabetes, as a chronic condition affects millions of people worldwide. In the United States, approximately 84 million people have pre-diabetes, a condition that blood sugar is elevated but not to the number that is considered ...
Effect of physical exercise and training on gastrointestinal hormones in populations with different weight statuses
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Oxford University Press
, 2019 , Article)
Several types of hormones exert control over appetite in humans. This narrative review explores the effects of exercise and training on the concentrations of gastrointestinal hormones in healthy and obese individuals. It ...