A comparative study to determine the sport branches that the classroom pre-service teachers want to be engaged in the most in their leisure time by Osman Dalaman

“…The sports that the students want to do the most are sequenced as follows: most preferred sport by the male students is football (87.5%), then volleyball (63.7%), swimming (60.1%), trekking (50.9%) and basketball (50.5%) and the most preferred sport by female students is volleyball (68.1%), then trekking (54.6%), swimming (53.2%) and folkdances (49.5%).…”
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Adaptation of the Ego and Task Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ) in Argentine athletes by Alejandro Emilio Pagano, Nicolás Alejandro Vizioli

“…Results: The sample consisted of 258 Argentine athletes (63.36% women; 36.4% men) from the disciplines, basketball, volleyball, indoor soccer, field hockey, and soccer (Mean age = 24.41, SD = 6.55). …”
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The Corporate Social Responsibility Sport Model: Grounded Theory Approach by Tayebeh Zargar, Steven Rynne

“…A total of 30 participants were involved including executive managers, university faculty members, and coaches of the Iranian Premier League clubs of Football, Volleyball, Basketball, Futsal, and Handball, as well as members of university sport management faculties. …”
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An AI-Based Curling Game System for Winter Olympics by Xuanke Shi, Quan Wang, Chao Wang, Rui Wang, Longshu Zheng, Chen Qian, Wei Tang

“…Although some AI-based systems have been applied to sporting events such as tennis, basketball, and football, they are replayed after the game rather than applied in real time. …”
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Comparative analysis of patellar tendon, achilles tendon and plantar fascia structure in indoor and outdoor football players: a novel cross-sectional pilot study by Carlos Romero-Morales, Álvaro Berzosa-Rojo, Daniel Di Luca-Calabrese, Sergio Vázquez-González, Vanesa Abuín-Porras, Gonzalo Jaén-Crespo, Fernando García-Sanz, Helios Pareja-Galeano

“…Abstract Different sport modalities were associate with tendon adaptation or even tendon disturbances, such as volleyball, soccer or basketball. Purpose: the aim of the present study was to determine de difference between indoor and outdoor football players on patellar tendon (PT), Achilles tendon (AT), plantar fascia (FP) and Hoffa’s fat pad thickness assessed with ultrasound imaging (USI). …”
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A cluster analysis of high-performance female team players' perceived motivational climate: Implications on perceived motor competence and autonomous behaviour. by J Arturo Abraldes, Luis Conte Marín, David Manzano-Sánchez, Manuel Gómez-López, Bernardino J Sánchez-Alcaraz

“…These players participated in different team sports, specifically football, handball, basketball and volleyball, training between 6 and 24 hours a week (M = 8,34; DT = 4,33). …”
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Iron Deficiency and Anemia in Male and Female Adolescent Athletes Who Engage in Ball Games by Daniela Nicotra, Rakefet Arieli, Noam Redlich, Dalya Navot-Mintzer, Naama W. Constantini

“…Data of the hemoglobin concentration (Hb) and serum ferritin (sFer) levels of male (<i>n</i> = 350) and female (<i>n</i> = 126) basketball and football players, aged 11–18, from two sport medicine centers in Israel were gathered and analyzed. …”
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Cushioning mechanism of the metatarsals during landing for the skateboarding ollie maneuver by Yusen Wu, Haichun Wang, Cheng Deng, Yangyu Guo, Xiaolan Zhu

“…Skateboarding is characterized by the formation of a “man–shoe–skateboard system,” which makes its foot cushioning mechanism different from those of other sports maneuvers, such as basketball vertical jump and gymnastics broad jump. …”
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Application of peptide bioregulators in case of physical excretion by T. Potupchik, O. Veselova, L. Evert, I. Gatskikh

“…Materials and methods: the research involved 10 persons (6 men and 4 women) engaged in intensive physical activities (gym, football, basketball), 10 persons with injuries from sports (bruises and closed wounds after football and volleyball), 3 persons with skin burns. …”
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A cluster analysis of high-performance female team players’ perceived motivational climate: Implications on perceived motor competence and autonomous behaviour by J. Arturo Abraldes, Luis Conte Marín, David Manzano-Sánchez, Manuel Gómez-López, Bernardino J. Sánchez-Alcaraz

“…These players participated in different team sports, specifically football, handball, basketball and volleyball, training between 6 and 24 hours a week (M = 8,34; DT = 4,33). …”
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Summer Camp as a Force for 21st Century Learning: Exploring Divergent Thinking and Activity Selection in a Residential Camp Setting by Myles L. Lynch, C. Boyd Hegarty, Nate Trauntvein, Jonathan A. Plucker

“…Participants who self-selected one or more artistic activities (e.g., drama, arts and crafts, dance) had significant increases on the tasks as opposed to participants who did not select any artistic activities (e.g., basketball, baseball, archery). Finally, girls significantly increased across all scoring methods, whereas boys slightly increased in fluency and flexibility but not in originality. …”
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REGIONÁLNÍ ASPEKTY SPORTOVNÍHO DIVÁCTVÍ [REGIONAL ASPECTS OF SPORT SPECTATORSHIP] by Pavel Landa, Pavel Slepička, Kamil Kotlík

“…The research took part through the years 2007 and 2008 in stadium, arenas and sports halls of all football, ice hockey, handball, basketball and volleyball clubs belonging to the highest Czech league. …”
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Sport-specific influences on respiratory patterns in elite athletes by Tijana Durmic, Biljana Lazovic, Marina Djelic, Jelena Suzic Lazic, Dejan Zikic, Vladimir Zugic, Milica Dekleva, Sanja Mazic

“…In addition, PEF was significantly higher in basketball players than in handball players (p < 0.001). …”
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Energy and Macronutrients Intake in Indoor Sport Team Athletes: Systematic Review by Mónica Castillo, Mar Lozano-Casanova, Isabel Sospedra, Aurora Norte, Ana Gutiérrez-Hervás, José Miguel Martínez-Sanz

“…The studies focused on adult professional or semi-professional volleyball, basketball, handball, or futsal athletes. Two independent researchers screened and extracted the data, with 20 documents included after they met the inclusion criteria. …”
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A Blockchain-Based Anti-Counterfeit and Traceable NBA Digital Trading Card Management System by Chin-Ling Chen, Cheng-Chen Fang, Ming Zhou, Woei-Jiunn Tsaur, Hongyu Sun, Wanbing Zhan, Yong-Yuan Deng

“…NBA (National Basketball Association) trading cards are a hot collector’s item, with sales increasing rapidly every year. …”
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Immediate Effects of Kinesio-taping and Joint Mobilisation on Shoulder in Over-head Athletes with Glenohumeral Internal Rotation Deficit by Amrinder Singh, Yogini Makhijani, Monika Sharma, Shweta Shenoy, Jaspal Sandhu

“…Thirty-two asymptomatic players were recruited from basketball, volleyball and handball who had a loss of shoulder internal rotation range of motion (IR ROM) of 10 degrees or more on their dominant compared to non-dominant side. …”
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Analysis of Sports Participation Characteristics in West Java Society by Sandi Arisma Cipta Perdana Ilsya, Amung Ma'mun, Nurlan Kusmaedi, Nuryadi Nuryadi, Marisa Noviyanti Fajrah Ilsya, Muhamad Fahmi Hasan

“…The results showed that 49.7% of respondents were active in exercising their favorable sports, including Walking 18.9%, Aerobic Gymnastics 13.4%, Football 12.3%, Cycling 11.6%, Badminton 10.4%, Volleyball 10.1%, Run 8%, Futsal 6.7%, Basketball 1.6%, Swimming 1.6%, Self Defense 1.5%, and other sports 3.5%. …”
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental status of health workers at sports clubs by Nevzad Denerel, Onur Yüksel Öçal

“…Method: A total of 192 physicians, physiotherapists and masseurs employed in four different sports branches (football, basketball, volleyball, handball) participated in this survey study, which was conducted one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. …”
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Charitable activities of the Young Men’s Christian Association in the camps of interned Ukrainian soldiers in Poland, 1921 by Ihor Sribnyak, Natalia Yakovenko, Viktor Matviyenko

“…At the same time, the YMCA relied on the development of game sports (football, volleyball, basketball, etc.), participation in which enabled to stabilize the emotional state of the military, forced to spend much of time in camp isolation. …”
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Revisiting ESKAPE Pathogens: virulence, resistance, and combating strategies focusing on quorum sensing by Parvathy Venkateswaran, Sahana Vasudevan, Helma David, Adityan Shaktivel, Karthik Shanmugam, Prasanna Neelakantan, Adline Princy Solomon

“…In this regard, this review captures the ingenious strategies commissioned by these master players, which are teamed up against the defenses of the human team, that are equally, if not more, versatile and potent through an analogy. We have taken a basketball match as our analogy, dividing the human and bacterial species into two teams playing with the ball of health. …”
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