Play Smart, Be Smart? Effect of Cognitively Engaging Physical Activity Interventions on Executive Function among Children 4~12 Years Old: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Wenjing Song, Leyi Feng, Junwei Wang, Feifei Ma, Jiebo Chen, Sha Qu, Dongmei Luo

“…This paper aims to collect a compendium of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) exploring the effects of cognitively engaging physical activity (PA) interventions (basketball and floorball) on various domain-specific executive functions (EFs) in children aged 4 to 12. …”
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HOW DO SPORTS COMPETITIONS HELP IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIALIZATION OF STUDENTS (10-12 YEARS OLD) by Ioan Sabin SOPA, Marcel POMOHACI, Dan Alexandru SZABO

“…The experiment started in september 2016 and was finished in june 2017, and had as samples two groups of children, the first group, the experimental group, consisted of 20 students aged between 10 and 12 years old, 12 boys and 8 girls, with whom we dealt with the 2 hours of physical education and sports from the curriculum and 3 more training sessions on initiation in basketball game; the second group, the control group, consisting of 20 pupils aged between 10 and 12 years old, 13 boys and 7 girls, with whom we spent 2 hours of physical education following the classical curriculum. …”
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Modal Characterization of Manual Wheelchairs by Ophélie Lariviere, Delphine Chadefaux, Christophe Sauret, Layla Kordulas, Patricia Thoreux

“…In this approach, experimental modal analyses were conducted on eleven MWCs, including daily and sport MWCs (tennis, basketball, and racing). Through this procedure, modal properties (i.e., modal frequencies, damping parameters, and modal shapes) were identified for each MWC part. …”
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Risk factors for ankle sprains in children and adolescent athletes: an integrative review by Victor Hugo Morais Ruela, Gabriela Silva Bochi, Eli Ávila Souza Júnior

“…The risk factors associated with a greater chance of ankle sprains were: previous ankle sprain history, balance deficit, decrease in hip extension strength, higher one-repetition maximum at the leg press, higher quadriceps isokinetic strength, the difference between the legs related to hip abduction strength, feminine sex, high BMI, higher age, more than six years of playtime, the incidence in basketball is higher than in soccer, anatomical alterations like genu recurvatum, and navicular drop. …”
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Club Méditerranée: One of the most optimal formulas of club vacation in sport and recreation tourism by Pavlović Tamara

“…The sport offer of the Club comprises of around 60 different physical activities, including sailing, billiard, horseback-riding, basketball, soccer, kayaking, volleyball, surfing, water-skiing, table tennis, archery, roller-skating and similar. …”
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Causes of bradycardia with static respiratory hypoxia in athletes by Yu. E. Vaguine

“…According to some literature data, during voluntary long-term breath holding (BH), the heart rate (HR) increases, and according to others, it decreases.Objective: to determine the psychophysiological parameters that cause a change in HR during BH in athletes with different resistance to respiratory hypoxia.Materials and methods: HR at BH was studied in 14 beginner athletes, 15 basketball players and 12 swimmers-divers. Duration of BH was recorded. …”
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EFFECTIVENESS OF INDIVIDUALIZED APPROACH FOR PHYSIOTHERAPY OF CHRONIC SHOULDER PAIN AND PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING IN ELITE ATHLETES WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES by Eremiev, Martin, Krumov, Bobi, Lyudmilova, Irena, Popova, Nadezhda, Lubenova, Daniela

“…Materials and methods: Thirteen athletes, members of the Bulgarian National Teams in wheelchair basketball and track and field athletics, with mean age 40.6 ± 10.9 participated in the study. …”
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Validation of sport superstition questionnaire by mousa abdolbaghi, Reza Nik bakhsh, Hossein Poursltani Zarandi, Alimohammad Safania

“…The statistical population of the study was the fans of the Iranian Football, Basketball and Volleyball Premier League teams in the 2019-20season. …”
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Parental emotional warmth and adolescent internet altruism behavior: a moderated mediation model by Song Zhou, Man Leng, Ji Zhang, Wenbo Zhou, Jiahui Lian, Huaqi Yang

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Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand by Simon R. Walters, Vincent Minjares, Vincent Minjares, Trish Bradbury, Patricia Lucas, Andrew Lenton, Kirsten Spencer, Simone Spencer

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Can Residential Greenspace Exposure Improve Pain Experience? A Comparison between Physical Visit and Image Viewing by Hansen Li, Xing Zhang, Shilin Bi, Yang Cao, Guodong Zhang

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Hamstring-to-Quadriceps Ratio in Female Athletes with a Previous Hamstring Injury, Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, and Controls by Eleftherios Kellis, Nikiforos Galanis, Nikolaos Kofotolis

“…This study examined three hamstrings-to-quadriceps (H:Q) strength ratio types (conventional, functional, and mixed) in thirteen female athletes with a history of hamstring injury, fourteen basketball players following ACL reconstruction and 34 controls. …”
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تأثير برنامج بدني لتحسين المستقبلات الحسية للوقاية من اصابات مفصل الکاحل للاعبات کرة السلة by شيماء مصطفي, mohamed kadry, ashraf abdelsalam

“…The researchers used the experimental method of two groups, one of them is control and the other is experimental, by following the pre and post measurement, and the sample was chosen by an intentional method consisting of (16 players) basketball players in the October shooting Club, and the duration of the program is three months.…”
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Pain and Depression in Pediatric Hereditary Multiple Exostoses Patients by Osman Emre Aycan

“…The most common cause that initiated pain was running 52.8% and contact sports (football, basketball, etc.) was reported in 50% of patients. 31.9% of the patients reported that the pain limited their daily activities, the mean VAS score was 7.4 ±2.4. …”
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Behavior of Cross-Laminated Timber Panels Made from Fibre-Managed <i>Eucalyptus nitens</i> under Short-Term Serviceability Loads by Yingwei Liang, Assaad Taoum, Nathan Kotlarewski, Andrew Chan, Damien Holloway

“…The dynamic response of CLT panels was tested using a basketball and an accelerometer. The fundamental natural frequencies of all tested panels were above the minimum frequency limit (8 Hz) when extrapolated to spans of up to 4.4 m. …”
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An empirical link between motivation gain and NBA statistics: applying hierarchical linear modelling by Yunsik Shim, Myoungjin Shin

“…Abstract Background This study tested whether the motivation gain in groups is the result of social compensation or the Köhler effect by examining scaled individual salaries of National Basketball Association (NBA) players. Both factors explain the positive effects of a group, unlike social loafing. …”
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Satisfaction of basic psychological needs of young Serbian female athletes: the role of coach and teammates by Jovana Trbojević, Jelica Petrović

“…The sample consisted of 192 young Serbian female athletes from collective sports (handball, volleyball, and basketball) with an average age of 13.6 years. They filled out Peer Motivational Climate in Youth Sport Questionnaire – MCYSQ (Ntoumanis & Vazou, 2005), Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire – 2 – PMCSQ-2 (Newton, Duda & Yin, 2000), and the Basic Need Satisfaction in Sport Scale (BNSSS, Ng, Losdale, & Hodge, 2011). …”
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The most common cause of sudden cardiac death in athletes by Topalović Nikola, Mazić Sanja

“…In our region, discussion about this issue began after the World Basketball Championship, which was held in Ljubljana in 1970, because of the sudden death of the national team member Trajko Rajkovic. …”
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Virtual training, real effects: a narrative review on sports performance enhancement through interventions in virtual reality by Fabio Richlan, Moritz Weiß, Patrick Kastner, Jeremias Braid

“…Our literature search and review eventually resulted in 12 intervention studies with a pre vs. post design focused on different sports, including target and precision sports (archery, bowling, curling, darts, golf), bat/racquet and ball sports (baseball, table tennis), goal sports (football/soccer, basketball), martial arts (karate), and sport-unspecific processes such as bodily sensations and balancing. …”
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Positive personality traits for players disabled In some Iraqi team games by Moayed Hasso, Ebtehal Yousef

“…<br /> <br />   The researchers used the descriptive method in the survey style ,<br /> the research community included members of the Paralympic sub-committees of the wheelchair basketball federation and , volleyball - sitting in  Iraq and their number(191) had been selected(100) Player of the search community to represent the construction sample, While the stability sample conducted on (20) players, and As for the application sample, 61 players from the research community were selected to represent the final application sample. …”
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