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From ‘philosophy of sport’ to ‘philosophies of sports’? History, identity and diversification of sport philosophy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)My goal in this article is to give a portrait of how modern sport philosophy, which started in 1972, developed from relatively narrow paradigmatic borders to become a diverse and multi-paradigmatic international discipline. ... -
Front crawl body roll characteristics in a Paralympic medallist and national level swimmers with unilateral arm amputation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The purpose of this study was to establish the asymmetry and body wave characteristics related to shoulder, hip, knee, and ankle roll in unilateral arm amputee swimmers. Three unilateral arm amputee swimmers, including one ... -
Front Crawl Is More Efficient and Has Smaller Active Drag Than Backstroke Swimming: Kinematic and Kinetic Comparison Between the Two Techniques at the Same Swimming Speeds
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in Froude efficiency (ηF ) and active drag (DA) between front crawl and backstroke at the same speed. ηF was investigated by the three-dimensional (3D) motion analysis ... -
Functional and anthropometrical screening test among high performance female football players: A descriptive study with injury incidence analysis, the Basque Female Football Cohort (BFFC) study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The main objectives of the present study were to describe the injury incidence and to analyze the anthropometric and physical characteristics of players from three high-level women’s football teams. The present study ... -
Functional and Structural Adaptations of Skeletal Muscle in Long-Term Juvenile Dermatomyositis: a Controlled Cross-Sectional Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objective: To compare muscle strength and endurance of the knee extensors between patients with long‐term juvenile dermatomyositis (DM) and controls and between patients with active disease and those with inactive disease, ... -
Functional reserve and sex differences during exercise to exhaustion revealed by post-exercise ischaemia and repeated supramaximal exercise
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The purpose of this study was to ascertain what mechanisms explain sex differences at task failure and to determine whether males and females have a functional reserve at exhaustion. Exercise performance, cardiorespiratory ... -
Functional tests should be accentuated more in the decision
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-04-22)A high pre-injury activity level, the desire of the patient to continue pivoting sports and fear of future give-way episodes are considered the most significant factors affecting the decision to perform anterior cruciate ... -
Functioning and disability in patients with hip osteoarthritis with mild to moderate pain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-10)STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE: To compare functioning and disability in patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA) not candidates for surgery, to a matched control group, and thereby to examine the relationship ... -
The future-oriented hopes and goals of adolescent student-athletes in Finnish sport high schools
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)As most young athletes do not end up making a living in sport, and professional athletic careers are relatively short, adolescent athletes need to think about and plan their future outside of sport. The present longitudinal ... -
Fysisk-motorisk ferdighet gjennom kroppsøving – et viktig bidrag til elevenes allmenndanning og læring i skolen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Elevenes personlighetsutvikling og allmenndannelse er viktige mål for skolen. Kognitive, sosiale, moralske, emosjonelle og fysisk-motoriske sider ved danning og utvikling er nedfelt i overordnede mål og læreplaner. Dette ... -
Galectin-3 levels relate in children to total body fat, abdominal fat, body fat distribution, and cardiac size
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Galectin-3 has recently been proposed as a novel biomarker for cardiovascular disease in adults. The purpose of this investigation was to assess relationships between galectin-3 levels and total body fat, abdominal fat, ... -
A games-based assessment in ecological dynamics for measuring physical literacy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Ideas and concepts taken from ecological dynamics might provide an alternative perspective on physical literacy assessment. The aim of this paper was to pilot an assessment of physical literacy conceptualised in an ecological ... -
GDF15 provides an endocrine signal of nutritional stress in mice and humans
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)GDF15 is an established biomarker of cellular stress. The fact that it signals via a specific hindbrain receptor, GFRAL, and that mice lacking GDF15 manifest diet-induced obesity suggest that GDF15 may play a physiological ... -
Gender matters in sport event volunteering
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-01)The theoretical framework of Hustinx and Lammertyn on reflexive and traditional styles of volunteering is used to examine the differences between female and male volunteers at a sport event. Our study of the Nordic Skiing ... -
Gender policy and organizational change : a contextual approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-05-12)The purpose of this article is to draw upon Pettigrew's contextualist approach to organizational change to examine the implications of gender policy on the imbalance between female and male board members in sport organizations. ... -
Gender-specific mediators of the association between parental education and adiposity among adolescents: The HEIA study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Identifying the mechanisms behind socioeconomic inequalities in adiposity among youth is vital for efforts aimed at combating these inequalities. The study explored whether a broad range of behavioral and familial factors ... -
Gendered pathways to elite coaching reflecting the accumulation of capitals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)While earlier research on coaches’ careers and the development of coaching expertise appears ‘gender blind’, the focus of this article on the underrepresentation of women in elite-level coaching is how various forms of ... -
Gene expression is differentially regulated in skeletal muscle and circulating immune cells in response to an acute bout of high-load strength exercise
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-03)Background: High-intensity exercise induces many metabolic responses. In is unknown whether the response in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) reflects the response in skeletal muscle and whether mRNA expression ... -
General versus sports-specific injury prevention programs in athletes: A systematic review on the effect on injury rates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Introduction: Annually, 2 million sports-related injuries are reported in Germany of which athletes contribute to a large proportion. Multiple sport injury prevention programs designed to decrease acute and overuse injuries ... -
Generating actiGraph counts from raw acceleration recorded by an alternative monitor
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Purpose: This study aimed to implement an aggregation method in Matlab for generating ActiGraph counts from raw acceleration recorded with an alternative accelerometer device and to investigate the validity of the method. ...