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The Importance of Lower Body Strength and Power for Future Success in Professional Men’s Basketball
(Paneuropean University Apeiron, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020)Heavy resistance exercise is often prescribed for collegiate basketball players to enhance game performance, but few data are available concerning the transference of lower body strength and power to the opportunity to ... -
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the ‘Return to Duty Readiness Questionnaire’
(MDPI, 2022-12-23)The Readiness to Return to Duty Questionnaire (RDRQ) is a recently developed screening instrument for detecting fear-avoidance behavior in a military musculoskeletal pain population. The RDRQ was developed based on the ... -
Physical and Performance Characteristics of 3×3 Professional Male Basketball Players
(MDPI, 2023-01-12)Despite exponential growth in popularity over the last decade and recently becoming an Olympic sport, the amount of scientific literature focused on depicting a profile of successful 3×3 basketball players is sparse. Thus, ... -
Assessment of Countermovement Jump: What Should We Report?
(MDPI, 2023-01-09)The purpose of the present study was (i) to explore the reliability of the most commonly used countermovement jump (CMJ) metrics, and (ii) to reduce a large pool of metrics with acceptable levels of reliability via principal ... -
Repeatability of Motion Health Screening Scores Acquired from a Three-Dimensional Markerless Motion Capture System
(MDPI, 2022-09-02)The purpose of the present study was to examine the repeatability of five algorithm-derived motion health screening scores (i.e., readiness, explosiveness, functionality, quality, and dysfunction) obtained from an innovative ... -
Relationship between Upper and Lower Body Strength and Basketball Shooting Performance
(MDPI, 2022-09-20)Strength is one of the key physiological performance attributes related to optimal on-court basketball performance. However, there is a lack of scientific literature studying how strength relates to shooting proficiency, ... -
Development and validation of a military fear avoidance questionnaire
(Frontiers Media, 2022-10-03)Chronic pain due to musculoskeletal injury is one of the leading causes of disability and reduced combat readiness in the U.S. Army. Unidimensional pain management systems are not effective in addressing the complex ... -
Impact of Distance and Proficiency on Shooting Kinematics in Professional Male Basketball Players
(MDPI, 2022-09-30)Shooting efficiency is one of the key performance parameters related to securing the desired game outcome at various levels of basketball competition, and it is largely influenced by the biomechanical adjustments incorporated ... -
Does school SES matter less for high-performing students than for their lower-performing peers? A quantile regression analysis of PISA 2018 Australia
(Springer Open, 2022-11-11)Background While the relationship between school socioeconomic composition and student academic outcomes is well established, knowledge about differential effects is not extensive. In particular, little is known whether ... -
Remote, Whole-Body Interval Training Improves Muscular Endurance and Cardiac Autonomic Control in Young Adults
(MDPI, 2022-10-26)High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is an exercise modality acknowledged to maintain physical fitness with more engagement in an active lifestyle compared with other traditional exercise models. Nevertheless, its effects ... -
Supporting the inclusion and retention of autistic students: Exploring teachers' and paraeducators' use of evidence-based practices in public elementary schools
(Frontiers Media, 2022-12-06)Introduction: Educators in public schools are required to serve students in their least restrictive environment. While many evidence-based practices (EBPs), defined as practices and strategies shown by research to have ... -
The Influence of Instructor Behaviors and the Perceived Motivational Climate on Undergraduate Students’ Experiences in College STEM Laboratories
(American Society for Cell Biology, 2022-11-01)Biology laboratory instructors play a key role in creating an optimal environment where college students try hard and enjoy their classroom experiences. This study used achievement goal perspective theory to examine the ... -
Acute muscle swelling effects of a knee rehabilitation exercise performed with and without blood flow restriction
(Public Library of Science, 2022-12-22)This study assessed the acute effect of adding blood flow restriction (BFR) to quad sets on muscle-cross sectional area (mCSA), muscle thickness (MT), echo intensity (EI), and subcutaneous fat-normalized EI (EINORM) of the ... -
Multidimensional Scaling of Cognitive Ability and Academic Achievement Scores
(MDPI, 2022-12-01)Multidimensional scaling (MDS) was used as an alternate multivariate procedure for investigating intelligence and academic achievement test score correlations. Correlation coefficients among Wechsler Intelligence Scale for ... -
Game statistics that discriminate winning and losing at the NBA level of basketball competition
(Public Library of Science, 2022-08-19)The purpose of the present study was to examine differences in game-related statistical parameters between National Basketball Association (NBA) regular and post-season competitive periods and to determine which variables ... -
Observations from a prospective small cohort study suggest that CGRP genes contribute to acute posttraumatic headache burden after concussion
(Public Library of Science, 2022-08-05)Introduction: Post-traumatic headache (PTH) is commonly reported after concussion. Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is implicated in the pathogenesis of migraine. We explored how single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) ... -
Game statistics that discriminate winning and losing at the NBA level of basketball competition
(Public Library of Science, 2022-08-19)The purpose of the present study was to examine differences in game-related statistical parameters between National Basketball Association (NBA) regular and post-season competitive periods and to determine which variables ... -
Tofu Is Not Cheese: Rethinking Education Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
(SAGE Publications, 2020-06-29)The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the closure of millions of schools around the world. As a result, teachers and education leaders must find new ways to provide education to over one billion students. This is a crisis, but ... -
Virtual Teaching in the Time of COVID-19: Rethinking Our WEIRD Pedagogical Commitments to Teacher Education
(Frontiers Media, 2020-12-03)Teacher Educators confront a professional future in which online instruction will play an increased role in student learning. As instructional activities are delivered online, a critical challenge for teacher educators ... -
The Effect of Concerns About COVID-19 on Anxiety, Stress, Parental Burnout, and Emotion Regulation: The Role of Susceptibility to Digital Emotion Contagion
(Frontiers Media, 2020-12-18)Background and aims: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused social and economic turmoil, which has led to enormous strain for many families. Past work with pandemic outbreaks suggests that media attention can increase anxiety ...
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