Browsing Sport Sciences by Title
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Sport and the ‘question’ of Islam in Europe
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2020 , Book chapter)The aim of this chapter is to examine how the debate about Islam in Europe is affecting the discourse on sport and Islam and Muslim communities. Recent sources of tensions occurred around the question of Islam including ... -
Sport at Home, Sport in the World: Evaluating Qatar’s Sports Strategy from Above and Below
( Springer , 2021 , Book chapter)This piece is an overview of actors and policies concerning sport in the nation of Qatar. In recent years, sports have been given high priority in government attempts to raise exposure of the nation internationally. Many ... -
Sport in Islam and in Muslim communities
( 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. ... -
Sport in Islam: The complexities, controversies and context
( Taylor & Francis Group , 2015 , Book chapter)no abstract -
Sport in the African World
( 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 labour migrant communities from the maghreb in the GCC
( Oxford University Press , 2017 , Book chapter)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 ... -
Stretching the Spines of Gymnasts: A Review
( Springer International Publishing , 2016 , Article)Gymnastics is noted for involving highly specialized strength, power, agility and flexibility. Flexibility is perhaps the single greatest discriminator of gymnastics from other sports. The extreme ranges of motion achieved ... -
Studying movement reorganization when learning a whole-body action: Example of learning a constrained gait pattern
( OMICS International , 2015 , Poster)In order to better understand the process of learning a complex motor skill, an effort was done to identify principles of movement reorganization. However, many studies refuted the existence of generalized invariant ... -
Supplementation of adiantumcapillus-veneris modulates alveolar apoptosis under hypoxia condition in wistar rats exposed to exercise
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)Background and Objectives: Several studies have reported that some conditions such as exercise and hypoxia induce DNA damage and dysfunction and apoptosis. Some plant foods contain numerous bioactive compounds and ... -
Teaching Plyometric Drills to Children: A Skill Theme Approach: Editor: Ferman Konukman
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)Considering the concerns that exist related to the risks and effectiveness of the plyometric training for children, the purpose of this article is to provide practical and developmentally appropriate teaching guidelines ... -
Technical and tactical discriminatory factors between winners and defeated elite karate athletes
( Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. , 2019 , Article)Purpose: To assess the technical and tactical demands of elite karate athletes in relation to 3 match sequences (ie, advantage, disadvantage, and drawing) and match outcome (ie, win/defeat). Methods: One hundred twenty ... -
Ten-year cardiovascular risk assessment in university students
( Akademiai Kiado , 2014 , Article)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for more than half of all deaths in the European region. The aim of the study was to compare body composition, blood pressure, total cholesterol (TC) and high density lipoprotein ... -
The Arab region
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The associations between mental well-being and adherence to physical activity guidelines in patients with cardiovascular disease: Results from the scottish health survey
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)The association between physical activity (PA) and mental well-being in individuals with a cardiovascular disease (CVD) is poorly studied. The objective of this study was to assess the association between mental well-being ... -
The ball kicking speed: A new, efficient performance indicator in youth soccer
( Public Library of Science , 2019 , Article)Success in different soccer skills like kicking depends on motor abilities achieved. Kicking is a soccer fundamental, which depends on many different and complex factors (technique, foot-ball interaction, ball flight, ... -
The buffering effect of ramadan fasting on emotions intensity: A pilot study
( Maison du Medicine , 2019 , Article)The present study attempted to examine how Ramadan fasting could influence positive and negative feelings in healthy Muslims. Ninety-one Muslim fasters (48 women; mean age, 28.6±6.2 years) voluntarily completed an on-line ... -
The Development of Urban to Support Sport Tourism in Qatar, A Case Study: West Bay North Beach
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)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 ... -
The effect of exercise on glucoregulatory hormones: A countermeasure to human aging: Insights from a comprehensive review of the literature
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article Review)Hormones are secreted in a circadian rhythm, but also follow larger-scale timetables, such as monthly (hormones of the menstrual cycle), seasonal (i.e., winter, summer), and, ultimately, lifespan-related patterns. Several ... -
The effect of Ramadan fasting on the morning-evening difference in team-handball-related short-term maximal physical performances in elite female team-handball players
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2021 , Article)The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of time of day (TD) on two types of exercise protocols [continuous (CP) versus alternated (AP)]. Eleven physical education students (mean ± SD: age = 24.4 ± 1.2 years, ... -
The effect of sport and physical activity on transport proteins: implications for cancer prevention and control
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)The present contribution briefly overviews the major biological functions of the plasma membrane and of the transport proteins (transporters), which enable the movement of different molecules and substrates (either charged ...