The Quality of the Training Environment for Athletics Players in Iraq by Nagham Al Khafaf, Fadi Isaac

“…The descriptive approach was used in the survey method, and the research community included the players of athletics who participated in leagues and Iraq institutions for athletics championship (categorized into: advanced, youth, and amateur) including both men and women in Iraq for the 2019 sports season (905) players, representing (52) clubs, while the research sample was (109) players divided into two sections. …”
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Management of Transfer Prices in Professional Football as a Function of Fan Numbers by Martin Užík, Roman Warias, Jozef Glova

“…For 6907 players of the European top leagues, we analyzed data in the period from 2003 to 2019. …”
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Foot Alignment Profile in Injured Professional Basketball and Football Athletes by Cesar de Cesar Netto MD, PhD, Alessio Bernasconi MD, Lauren Roberts MD, Francois Lintz MD, FEBOT, Martinus Richter MD, PhD, Martin O’Malley MD

“…Methods: In this single center retrospective comparative study, 80 professional male athletes - 47 basketball and 33 American football players from College, NBA and NFL leagues - that underwent WBCT as part of the clinical investigation for different injuries of the foot and ankle were included in the study. …”
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Examining the Link between Isokinetic Strength Metrics and Ball Speed in Women’s Soccer by Cengiz Ölmez, Nadhir Hammami, Büşra Yücelsoy, Soukaina Hattabi, Pedro Forte, Andrew Sortwell, Mehrzia Amani Khezami, Alparslan İnce

“…Thirteen voluntary players from professional leagues took part in the research study. The study analyzed the average and peak concentric (Con) and eccentric (Ecc) torques, isometric (Iso) strength performances at angular velocities of 60°/s, 180°/s and 300°/s, the time required to reach peak torque, and ball velocities during shooting. …”
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Same game, different worlds? General conditions, perceived stress, and associations between stress and past season injuries in elite female and male ice hockey players by Tobias Wörner, Stefan Kauppinen, Frida Eek

“…Methods Prior to the 2022–2023 season all female and male players from the top ice hockey leagues in Sweden were invited to an online survey. …”
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Seroprevalence of five diarrhea-related pathogens in bovine herds of scattered households in Inner Mongolia, China between 2019 and 2022 by Mengyuan Xie, Kejia Chen, PingPing Liu, Xiaodan Wang, Yexin Chen, Hewei Shang, Yanru Hao, Peiyuan Gao, Xiuling He, Xiaojing Xu

“…Using a two-stage random sampling strategy, 3,050 serum samples were collected from 72 bovine herds in 11 leagues and cities in Inner Mongolia, and the positive rates of BVDV, BRV, BCoV, K99, and Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (M. paratuberculosis) antibodies in the samples were detected by ELISA to determine the epidemic trends and epidemic differences of the five pathogens in Inner Mongolia. …”
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Impact of tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence and quit ratios in 27 European Union countries from 2006 - 2014 by Ariadna Feliu, Luk Joossens, Filippos T. Filippidis, Geoffrey T. Fong, Constantine I. Vardavas, Yolanda Castellano, Cristina Martinez, Esteve Fernández

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Student-sportowiec w amerykańskim modelu sportu - charakterystyka sportu uniwersyteckiego w USA = Student-Athletes in american model of sport – characteristic of university sport... by Marek Owsianny

“…It brings closer the most important matters linked with practinig sport by students at universities in the United States and relationships between student-athletes, univesities, agents, different types of organizations and professional leagues. Description of the system established in academic sport in the United States gives also the opportunity to identify and evaluate its advantages and disadvantages.   …”
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International Directory of Company Histories; Vol. 60 / by Grant, Tina, editor 651952, Ferrara, Miranda H. (Herbert), editor 652275, Gale Group (Online service) 651863

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Historical and contemporary trends in competitive balance in the Commonwealth Games. [Las tendencias históricas y contemporáneas en el equilibrio competitivo en los Juegos de la Co... by Girish Ramchandani, Darryl Wilson

“…<p align="justify">Studies of competitive balance in sport have considered primarily professional leagues and team sports. This paper investigates trends in competitive balance in a multi-sport event context – the Commonwealth Games – using three distinct indicators. …”
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Study protocol comparing the ethical, psychological and socio-economic impact of personalised breast cancer screening to that of standard screening in the “My Personal Breast Scree... by Alexandra Roux, Rachel Cholerton, Jonathan Sicsic, Nora Moumjid, David P. French, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Corinne Balleyguier, Michal Guindy, Fiona J. Gilbert, Jean-Benoit Burrion, Xavier Castells, David Ritchie, Debbie Keatley, Camille Baron, Suzette Delaloge, Sandrine de Montgolfier

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Spatially Explicit Seagrass Extent Mapping Across the Entire Mediterranean by Dimosthenis Traganos, Chengfa Benjamin Lee, Alina Blume, Dimitris Poursanidis, Hrvoje Čižmek, Julie Deter, Julie Deter, Vesna Mačić, Monica Montefalcone, Gérard Pergent, Christine Pergent-Martini, Aurora M. Ricart, Aurora M. Ricart, Peter Reinartz

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Fator local e sua influência no Futebol: Análise quantitativa do Campeonato Brasileiro Série A by Rodrigo Carlet

“…Results and Discussion: The results show that 97.6% of forty-three leagues analyzed, the local factor accounted for a greater amount of victories for principals teams, the local factor can be a significant tool in the success in football matches. …”
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INFLUENCE OF NORMATIVE INSTITUTIONS OF HANDBALL FOR COACHES' LEARNING: STANDPOINT OF SAO PAULO STATE COACHES [La influencia de las instituciones normativas del balonmano para el a... by Rafael Pombo Menezes, Felipe Modolo, Walmir Romário dos Santos, Vinicius da Silva Musa

“…Twenty two coaches from two biggest leagues of Sao Paulo State were interviewed. Their speeches were transcribed verbatim and analyzed based on the Collective Subject Discourse method. …”
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Epidemiology of Injuries in Men’s Professional and Amateur Football (Part I) by Tudor Vladimir Gurau, Gabriela Gurau, Doina Carina Voinescu, Lucretia Anghel, Gelu Onose, Daniel Andrei Iordan, Constantin Munteanu, Ilie Onu, Carmina Liana Musat

“…The aim of this study was to perform a systematic review of epidemiological literature data on injuries in professional and amateur football players belonging to certain leagues. Methods (2): A systematic review according to the PRISMA guidelines was performed until June 2023 in the databases PubMed, Web of Science, Google Academic, Google Scholar, and Diva portal. …”
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<b> Ideological leadership behavior: teacher-coaches in charge of school basketball teams </b> by Sérgio Ricardo de Souza Oliveira, Antonio Carlos Simões, Helio Serassuelo Junior, Luiz Carlos Delphino de Azevedo Junior

“…Data were collected by applying the ACS-3 Evaluation System during official events scheduled by the State and Regional School Leagues. The data collected were input on a dedicated ACS software program and the results, in the form of predictedand observed frequencies, were analyzed using the non-parametric chi-square test. …”
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INFLUENCE OF NORMATIVE INSTITUTIONS OF HANDBALL FOR COACHES' LEARNING: STANDPOINT OF SAO PAULO STATE COACHES [La influencia de las instituciones normativas del balonmano para el a... by Rafael Pombo Menezes, Felipe Modolo, Walmir Romário dos Santos, Vinicius da Silva Musa

“…Twenty two coaches from two biggest leagues of Sao Paulo State were interviewed. Their speeches were transcribed verbatim and analyzed based on the Collective Subject Discourse method. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports and exercise by Ashley Ying-Ying Wong, Samuel Ka-Kin Ling, Lobo Hung-Tak Louie, George Ying-Kan Law, Raymond Chi-Hung So, Daniel Chi-Wo Lee, Forrest Chung-Fai Yau, Patrick Shu-Hang Yung

“…The local professional football leagues, governed by the Hong Kong Football Association, ultimately postponed all matches after much deliberation on the transmission risk for the spectators and on-field players. …”
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Towards a cancer mission in Horizon Europe: recommendations by Anton Berns, Ulrik Ringborg, Julio E. Celis, Manuel Heitor, Neil K. Aaronson, Nancy Abou‐Zeid, Hans‐Olov Adami, Kathi Apostolidis, Michael Baumann, Alberto Bardelli, René Bernards, Yvonne Brandberg, Carlos Caldas, Fabien Calvo, Caroline Dive, Angelika Eggert, Alexander Eggermont, Carolina Espina, Frederik Falkenburg, Jérôme Foucaud, Douglas Hanahan, Ulrike Helbig, Bengt Jönsson, Mette Kalager, Sakari Karjalainen, Miklós Kásler, Pamela Kearns, Klas Kärre, Denis Lacombe, Francesco deLorenzo, Françoise Meunier, Gerd Nettekoven, Simon Oberst, Péter Nagy, Thierry Philip, Richard Price, Joachim Schüz, Eric Solary, Peter Strang, Josep Tabernero, Emile Voest

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Tras las huella del silencio: Potosí, los incas y Toledo Por traz das pegadas do silencio: Potosí, os Incas e o Toledo Behind the Footprints of Silence: Potosí, the Incas and Toled... by Tristan Platt, Pablo Quisbert

“…<br>Why did the Aymara lords of Charcas and Inca Paullo, after dis-covering the silver-mines of Porco in 1538 to Hernando Pizarro, remain silent about Potosí (just a few leagues distant) which was not discovered to the Spanish until April 1545? …”
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