Using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy to Improve Psychological Adaptation among Future Coaches in the Post-Pandemic Era by Tomas Saulius, Romualdas Malinauskas

“…These students are also active athletes (basketball players). Interview questions were developed based on the ABC(DE) model, and answers were analyzed following the methodology of content analysis. …”
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Validating and normalizing passion questionnaire among athletes by Fatemeh Jafari Siavashani, Reza Nikbakhs, Ali Mohammad Safania

“…Method: Statistical population of this study includes athletes in each of futsal, volleyball, basketball, water polo leagues. In order to review data, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and for data gathering Vallerand passion (2003) questionnaire with three elements of obsessive passion (6 questions), harmonious passion (6 questions) and passion measure (5 questions) were used. …”
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The relationship between athlete leadership and communication: Analyzing social networks within Japanese sport teams by Shohei Takamatsu, Ryutaro Yamakita

“…The data were collected from the athletes (N = 63; three sport teams: basketball, lacrosse, and soccer) at the women's university in Japan. …”
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Increased cerebellar gray matter volume in head chefs. by Antonio Cerasa, Alessia Sarica, Iolanda Martino, Carmelo Fabbricatore, Francesco Tomaiuolo, Federico Rocca, Manuela Caracciolo, Aldo Quattrone

“…This confirms the role of this region in the development of similar expert brains characterized by learning dexterous skills, such as pianists, rock climbers and basketball players. However, the nature of the cellular events underlying the detected morphological differences remains an open question.…”
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The effectiveness of a selective counseling prenhancing the sportsmanship of some of the teams of the College of Basic Education for group games by أ. د. عكلة سليمان الحوري م. د منهل خطاب سلطان

“…The two researchers used the experimental method for its suitability and the nature of the research, and the research community consisted of the 38 players in the futsal, volleyball and basketball teams, and the research sample consisted of (24 players) representing 63.15% of the research community. …”
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Inflammation, Peripheral Signals and Redox Homeostasis in Athletes Who Practice Different Sports by Simone Luti, Alessandra Modesti, Pietro A. Modesti

“…Therefore, the purpose of this review was to focus on high-performance exercise studies performed in athletes to correlate peripheral mediators and key inflammation markers with physiological and pathological conditions in different sports such as basketball, soccer, swimming and cycling.…”
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Alternating-Offers Bargaining with Nash Bargaining Fairness Concerns by Zhongwei Feng, Fangning Li, Chunqiao Tan

“…Finally, the proposed model is applied to the bilateral monopoly market of professional basketball players, and some properties of equilibrium price are shown. …”
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Motivation of disabled athletes for sport activities: validity and reliability of the Lithuanian version of the sport motivation scale by Stanislav Sabaliauskas

“…Athletes who participated in the research were representatives of goalball, tennis, athletics, swimming, basketball and other sports. 39 athletes were prize winners in World and European championships. …”
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Genderwise Investigation of Empahty Skills in Child Athletes by Yasin Arslan, Gülfem Sezen Balçıkanlı

“…The study group is distributed into branches, with 29.2% pertaining to volleyball, 42% to handball, and 28.8% to basketball. In the study, 'Empathy Scale for Children' developed by Bryant (3) and adapted to Turkish by Yüksel (23) was used as data collection tool. …”
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Commercialized Intercollegiate Athletics by Matthew J. Mitten, James L. Musselman, Bruce W. Burton

“…For example, colleges and universities rationally use their intercollegiate athletic programs, particularly NCAA Division 1 FBS football and basketball, as a means to achieve a wide range of legitimate objectives of higher education. …”
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Special aspects of para-olympic athletes’ sport activity in the process of self-education by V.V. Shuba

“…Material: in the research 46 para-Olympic athletes form three teams of game kinds of sports participated: combined football, basketball and volleyball teams of Ukraine. The program of self-education process’s organization was designed for 9 months and consisted of three stages. …”
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Surgical treatment of rectus femoris injury in soccer playing athletes: report of two cases by Leandro Girardi Shimba, Gabriel Carmona Latorre, Alberto de Castro Pochini, Diego Costa Astur, Carlos Vicente Andreoli

“…It represents 31% of all lesions in soccer, 16% in track and field, 10.4% in rugby, 17.7% in basketball, and between 22% and 46% in American football. …”
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Physiotherapeutic treatment after break and reconstruction of ACL by Adrian Dominiak, Bartłomiej Wrzesiński, Edyta Piechocka, Paweł Wojtczak, Anna Ziółkowska, Wiktoria Śniegowska, Dominika Ciecierska, Marta Bielejewska

“…Most often the damage to this structure occurs when practicing sports, both contact (for example basketball, football, martial arts) and non-contact like skiing.…”
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Stochastic prediction of multi-agent interactions from partial observations by Sun, Chen, Karlsson, Per, Wu, Jiajun, Tenenbaum, Joshua B, Murphy, Kevin P

“…We show that our method outperforms various baselines on two sports datasets, one based on real basketball trajectories, and one generated by a soccer game engine.…”
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How Organizations Change: Three Mechanisms Supporting the Incorporation of Emerging Strategies in U.S. Higher Education by Ventresca, M, Washington, M

“…We argue that the supporting institutional mechanisms affect the incorporation patterns of intercollegiate programs in basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse over the period from the late nineteenth century to the present. …”

The influence of the environment on the physical fitness of students of the agro-industrial complex by Tashchiyan Arshak, Mavropulo Olga, Demyanova Ludmila, Usova Irina, Demyanov Sergey

“…There is an opinion that the model characteristics of students are formed on the basis of anthropometric indicators that reflect a person's height, body weight, chest circumference, etc., which depends on gender, age, the type of sport a person is engaged in, for example, if it is basketball, then the athlete's growth, psychological and social health indicators will depend on it, which manifest themselves in the behavior of the student before passing the test, exam or any other passing standards in a regular class.…”
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All-NBA Teams’ Selection Based on Unsupervised Learning by João Vítor Rocha da Silva, Paulo Canas Rodrigues

“…As the results of this paper a model is presented that may help not only the NBA to better evaluate players, but any basketball league; it also may be a source to researchers that aim to investigate player performance, development, and their impact over many seasons.…”
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Use of ant colony optimization and the Kalman filter to deduce thigh dip angle via acceleration and angular velocity sensing by Zheng Fang, Tao Yu, Qian Wang, Chao Wang, Siyuan Chen

“…The optimal parameter combination obtained was then used in a human experiment involving a basketball player. The frames from video of a whole gait cycle period were all showed with a corresponding deduced thigh dip angle curve diagram. …”
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From the Wall to the Pavement and Back. Murals in the Epoch of Drones. [with an interview with the artist Giulio Vesprini] by Marta Magagnini

“…</p><p>On the one hand, the image plane of street art has flipped from vertical to horizontal — roofs, the pavement, basketball courts — so passers by do not see the murals on their walks through the streets, but rather through the computer’s eye, which displays satellite maps and drone footage spread through social networks. …”
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Investigating the effect of grit trait on performance and success in Hungarian athlete’s sample by Annamária Apró, Annamária Apró, Nikoletta Fejes, Szabolcs A. Bandi, Róbert Járai

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