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Preparing athletes and teams for the Olympic Games
As part of an increased effort to understand the most effective ways to psychologically prepare athletes and teams for Olympic competition, a number of sport psychology consultants have offered best-practice insights into...
Socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income resettlement archetypes - A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India.
This study looks into the socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income settlement archetypes. Paradoxically, recently mushrooming slum rehabilitation housing which have delivered secured tenure to its...
Potential Health Risks of Contaminants in Private Groundwater Sources in Newfoundland and Labrador
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regularly tests public drinking water supplies to ensure the absence of any microbiological, physical or chemical contaminants. Private water supplies, including wells however, fall...
Preparing athletes and teams for the Olympic Games
As part of an increased effort to understand the most effective ways to psychologically prepare athletes and teams for Olympic competition, a number of sport psychology consultants have offered best-practice insights into...
ESPN’s Greatest Sporting Cities 2015
This report outlines a study to establish ESPN’s Greatest Sporting Cities 2015. Specifically, the research seeks to identify from sport fans the most important factors that make a great sporting city, weight each factor based on...
Published by: University of Bath
Mechanical Properties of Flax Tape-Reinforced Thermoset Composites.
Three thermoset resin systems-bio-epoxy, epoxy, and polyester-with 30 v% flax fiber reinforcement have been studied to identify the optimal fiber-resin combination in a typical composite structure. Tensile, interface and...
Potential Health Risks of Contaminants in Private Groundwater Sources in Newfoundland and Labrador
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regularly tests public drinking water supplies to ensure the absence of any microbiological, physical or chemical contaminants. Private water supplies, including wells however, fall...
Water Insecurity in Indigenous Canada
Water insecurity in Northern Indigenous communities in Canada is pervasive and complex with multiple dimensions and impacts. Yet the relevant literature is sparse, especially for Labrador. Our case study aimed to understand the...
The impact of identity leadership on team functioning and well-being in team sport
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of psychological safety in explaining the impact of identity leadership on team performance and athlete well-being. Adopting a cross-sectional survey design, 289 handball...
Exploiting Semantic Term Relations in Text Summarization
The traditional frequency based approach to creating multi-document extractive summary ranks sentences based on scores computed by summing up TF*IDF weights of words contained in the sentences. In this approach, TF or term...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
What doesn't kill me. . .
Objectives: Recent research suggests that experiencing some adversity can have beneficial outcomes for human growth and development. The purpose of this paper was to explore the adversities that the world's best athletes...
Correction to: Examining the interaction of fast-food outlet exposure and income on diet and obesity
Furthermore, these errors were mistakenly introduced by the Production team managing this article and, as such were not the fault of the authors.
What doesn't kill me. . .
Objectives: Recent research suggests that experiencing some adversity can have beneficial outcomes for human growth and development. The purpose of this paper was to explore the adversities that the world's best athletes...
Mechanical Properties of Flax Tape-Reinforced Thermoset Composites
Three thermoset resin systems—bio-epoxy, epoxy, and polyester-with 30 v% flax fiber reinforcement have been studied to identify the optimal fiber−resin combination in a typical composite structure. Tensile, interface and...
Nanomaterials-Mediated Immunomodulation for Cancer Therapeutics
Immunotherapy holds great promise in overcoming the limitations of conventional regimens for cancer therapeutics. There is growing interest among researchers and clinicians to develop novel immune-strategies for cancer diagnosis...
Water Insecurity in Indigenous Canada
Water insecurity in Northern Indigenous communities in Canada is pervasive and complex with multiple dimensions and impacts. Yet the relevant literature is sparse, especially for Labrador. Our case study aimed to understand the...
ESPN’s Greatest Sporting Cities 2015
This report outlines a study to establish ESPN’s Greatest Sporting Cities 2015. Specifically, the research seeks to identify from sport fans the most important factors that make a great sporting city, weight each factor based on...
Published by: University of Bath
Adverse life events, cardiovascular responses, and sports performance under pressure
Research suggests that experiencing a moderate number of adverse life events can benefit future stress responses. This study explored the relationship between adverse life (ie, non-sport) events and cardiovascular responses to...
Nanomaterials-Mediated Immunomodulation for Cancer Therapeutics.
Immunotherapy holds great promise in overcoming the limitations of conventional regimens for cancer therapeutics. There is growing interest among researchers and clinicians to develop novel immune-strategies for cancer diagnosis...
Heterogeneous interventions reduce the spread of COVID-19 in simulations on real mobility data
Major interventions have been introduced worldwide to slow down the spread of
the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Large-scale lockdowns of human movements are effective in
reducing the spread, but they come at a cost of significantly limited...
The impact of identity leadership on team functioning and well-being in team sport
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of psychological safety in explaining the impact of identity leadership on team performance and athlete well-being. Adopting a cross-sectional survey design, 289 handball...
Adverse life events, cardiovascular responses, and sports performance under pressure
Research suggests that experiencing a moderate number of adverse life events can benefit future stress responses. This study explored the relationship between adverse life (ie, non-sport) events and cardiovascular responses to...
Examining the interaction of fast-food outlet exposure and income on diet and obesity
BACKGROUND: Household income (as a marker of socioeconomic position) and neighbourhood fast-food outlet exposure may be related to diet and body weight, which are key risk factors for non-communicable diseases. However, the...
Adiposity Fast-food outlet exposure Household income Interaction Processed meat consumption UK Biobank Adipose Tissue Adiposity Biological Specimen Banks Body Mass Index Body Weight Cohort Studies Cross-Sectional Studies Diet Environment Fast Foods Feeding Behavior Female Humans Income London Male Meat Products Middle Aged obesity Odds Ratio Poverty Residence Characteristics restaurants
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