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Outdoor Recreation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Outdoor Recreation

Outdoor recreation refers to recreation/activity executed outdoors, most commonly in natural settings. At least in many high-income countries, outdoor recreation is by many considered as an attractive activity during spare time or holidays. People actively seek out activities such as walking in the mountains, climbing, hunting, horseback riding, skiing, etc., which are very often difficult to accommodate in ordinary working days. Some people find outdoor recreation attractive to the extent that they take several months or a year off from work in order to spend time in nature. Outdoor recreation stimulates a healthy lifestyle and increases public health, and it is important to develop outdoor...

Sport Psychology in Sports, Exercise and Physical Activity
  • Language: en

Sport Psychology in Sports, Exercise and Physical Activity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Sports psychology is an interdisciplinary science for the purpose of increased participation in sports and physical activity to improve health and wellbeing. It addresses everything from optimal performance and wellbeing of athletes to developing mental and social aspects of participation to systemic issues associated with sports settings and organizations. This book introduces readers to topics within sports psychology with a special focus on motivation, behavior change, and personalities.

Sport Psychology in Sports, Exercise and Physical Activity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

Sport Psychology in Sports, Exercise and Physical Activity

Sports psychology is an interdisciplinary science for the purpose of increased participation in sports and physical activity to improve health and wellbeing. It addresses everything from optimal performance and wellbeing of athletes to developing mental and social aspects of participation to systemic issues associated with sports settings and organizations. This book introduces readers to topics within sports psychology with a special focus on motivation, behavior change, and personalities.

Nordic Work with Traumatised Refugees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Nordic Work with Traumatised Refugees

The Nordic welfare societies have been described as ‘beacons of light’ in work with refugees, with their emphasis on egalitarian and extensive benefit levels, wealth redistribution, promotion of gender equality and maximisation of labour force participation. Members of the population benefit from free education, universal healthcare and public services that provide an elaborate social safety net. The conditions seem favourable for refugees exposed to severely traumatic events in countries of origin and in flight who have come to rest in the safe havens of the Nordic countries. But has society really done what it could and should in the field of refugee mental health? Does it really care?...

Current Issues in Sports and Exercise Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Current Issues in Sports and Exercise Medicine

This unique resource presents current issues in sports and exercise medicine which outlines new areas of knowledge and provides updates on current knowledge in the broad field of sports and exercise medicine. Written by experts in their own sub-disciplines, Current Issues in Sports and Exercise Medicine discusses the physiology behind sports injuries and presents new and exciting approaches to manage such injuries. In addition, the book explores the relationship between exercise, health and performance by providing new information in areas such as exercise and immunity, the use of iron supplementation for performance, how exercise affects reactive oxygen species, and the proposed benefits of real and simulated altitude training. This book is well referenced and illustrated and will be a valuable resource for sports medicine specialists, physiologists, coaches, physical conditioners, physiotherapists and graduate and medical school students.

Out of Corpora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Out of Corpora

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Main headings: Introduction. - I. Representing language use. - II. Grammar and lexis in English corpora. - III. Contrastive and translation studies. - IV. English abroad. - List of Stig Johansson's publications (selection).

Automating the News
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Automating the News

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present and future of a world in which news is created by algorithm. Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization of industrial economies, automation has proven one of the biggest news stories of our time. Yet the wide-scale automation of the news itself has largely escaped attention. In this lively exposé of that rapidly shifting terrain, Nicholas Diakopoulos focuses on the people who tell the stories—increasingly with the help of computer algorithms that are fundamentally changing the creation, dissemination, a...

The Black Atlantic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Black Atlantic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Verso

An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1419

Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-06-30
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.

Sports Injury Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Sports Injury Research

This book is a comprehensive guide to the epidemiology and methodology involved in sports injury research, including detailed background on epidemiological methods employed in research on sports injuries and discussions on key methodological issues.