Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 647-740).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Judith A. Niemeyer; submitted to the School of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-161).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-13T13:27:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-04-10. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-01-13T13:32:42Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000855827.pdf: 1018239 bytes, checksum: a320c4a4ce95a6c7a1e68bc861fe734c (MD5) / Objetivo: Analisar, ao longo de uma coorte de 09 meses de seguimento, se o ganho de massa óssea é superior entre jovens envolvidos em diferentes Modalidades Esportivas de Combate (MEC), quando comparado ao grupo controle (GC). Métodos: Nas medidas de base do estudo, os critérios de inclusão do Grupo MEC foram: (i) idade entre 11 e 17 (ii) mínimo de 06 meses de prática e (iii) a permissão do técnico ou professor responsável para participar. Ao todo, 50 adolescentes de ambos os sexos (19 meninas e 31 meninos) que estavam envolvidos em MEC e cumpriam os critérios de inclusão foram selecionados em clubes esportivos em diferentes áreas da cidade: Caratê (09 meninas e 05 meninos [estilo Shotokan]), Judô (08 meninas e 10 meninos) e Kung-fu (02 meninas e 16 meninos [estilo sanda]). Por outro lado, os critérios de inclusão adotados para o Grupo Controle (GC) foram: (i) com idade entre 11 e 17 e (ii) não se dedicam à atividade física regular / desporto fora da escola. Nas medidas de base, este grupo foi composto por 90 adolescentes de escolas e associações sem fins lucrativos de diferentes regiões da cidade (36 meninas e 54 meninos), que também compunham amostra de conveniência. Assim, a amostra do início da coorte foi composta por 140 adolescentes com idade média de 12,6 anos e de ambos os sexos. Após o seguimento de 09 meses, dos 140 jovens inicialmente avaliados, 67 indivíduos foram reavaliados e incluídos neste documento, sendo 11 meninos e 06 meninas do GC (n=17) e 31 meninos e 19 meninas do Grupo MEC (n=50). A avaliação da DMO foi realizada pelo DEXA, foi analisado o corpo todo e posteriormente o programa do DEXA separou em diferentes regiões do corpo: (i) DMO total, (ii) DMO dos membros inferiores, (iii) DMO dos membros superiores e (iv) DMO da região da coluna vertebra. Resultados: A comparação da DMO entre os diferentes grupos de MEC e do grupo controle apresentou diferenças estatisticamente relevantes para... / Objective: To analyze, over a cohort of 09 months of follow up, the bone mass gain is higher among young people involved in different sports Combat (MEC) compared to the control group (CG). Methods: In the study the basic measures, the MEC Group Inclusion criteria were: (i) aged 11 and 17 (ii) a minimum of 06 months of practice and (iii) the permission of the coach or teacher in charge to participate. In all, 50 adolescents of both sexes (19 girls and 31 boys) who were involved in MEC and met the inclusion criteria were selected sports clubs in different areas of the city: Karate (09 girls and 05 boys [Shotokan style]), judo (08 girls and 10 boys) and Kung-fu (02 girls and 16 boys [sanda style]). On the other hand, the inclusion criteria for the control group (CG) were: (i) aged between 11 and 17 and (ii) not engaged in regular physical activity / sport outside school. In the baseline measurements, this group was composed of 90 adolescents from schools and non-profit associations from different regions of the city (36 girls and 54 boys) who also composed convenience sample. Thus, the start of the sample cohort was composed of 140 adolescents, mean age 12.6 years, of both sexes. After the following 09 months, 140 young people initially evaluated, 67 individuals were assessed and included in this document, including 11 boys and 06 girls CG (n = 17) and 31 boys and 19 girls of the MEC Group (n = 50). The evaluation of BMD was performed by DEXA, the whole body and then analyzed the DEXA program separated in different regions of the body: (i) the total BMD, (ii) BMD of the lower limbs, (iii) BMD of the upper and ( iv) BMD of the spine vertebra. Results: Comparison of BMD between different MEC groups and the control group showed statistically significant differences for all body regions analyzed except the pelvis (p-value = 0.966). To lower limbs higher values were found in the initial period (CG = 1.061 ± 0.028 and 1.146 ± 0.015 = MEC) and ...

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Background: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is an enigma that has become synonymous with combat sports over the past few decades. Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a combat sport that is growing in popularity world-wide. The objective of this study is to determine the factors associated with head trauma among MMA athletes. Methods: Logistic regression analyses using SPSS 20 was employed to model putative covariates against the dichotomous outcomes of unconsciousness (for the full dataset) and diagnosed concussion (for the enriched subset of fighters who were rendered unconscious). Results: Increasing age, black or African-American ethnicity, shorter rest periods between fights, increasing numbers of significant clinch strikes landed, significant distance body strikes landed and power strikes landed to the body at distance are all factors associated with being diagnosed with a concussion among the fighters rendered unconscious. Conclusion: If bolstered by confirming laboratory and clinical evidence, policies should be developed for implementation by MMA governing bodies to help reduce incidences of head trauma and concussion, built around fighters’ demographic and behavioural characteristics. In particular, enforcing a mandatory rest period between fights and placing an upper limit on fighters’ age are ideas worth exploring.

abstract: Previous literature on synchronization to music using finger tapping tasks in a laboratory or otherwise controlled setting has led to some invaluable, albeit dated, theories about time and synchronization. In an effort to modernize some of the approaches utilized in research on music synchronization, this study applies established theories of music entrainment to a fieldwork study. Specifically, this study focuses on the extent to which participants of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art disguised as a dance, synchronize to external timekeepers by analyzing icti in several types of movements and comparing them to musical rhythmic beats. Sports psychology studies have shown that the presence of music can have involuntary effects on exercise. For example, walkers and runners will spontaneously synchronize gait to auditory signals. However, runners do not normally focus on choreology, acrobatics, and environmental stimuli while exercising. This study contributes to this field of research by adding observations and analyzing degrees of synchronization in a martial art, which may be more cognitively demanding than running. In Capoeira, participants are still expected to attend to music. The degree of synchronization that occurs in a Capoeira class can then be compared with synchronization in martial arts that have music solely as a background component. These future studies would be analyzing music entrainment in real-life environments with physical activities that are more cognitively complex than running. Moreover, these future studies can help to confirm or challenge current theories of attention and music entrainment and synchronization. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Music 2020

Cette thèse porte sur une analyse diachronique du rapport entre l'anarchisme, les techniques du corps sorcellerie dans la pratique du Mesing et arts martiaux au Gabon. Cette étude porte exclusivement sur le groupe ethno linguistique fang du Gabon. Le but de ce travail est de démontrer le lien existant entre ses deux domaines d'étude. en effet, quels rapports les sports de combat et la sorcellerie des fangs du Gabon pourraient ils bien entretenir avec un projet politique né en Europe, au lendemain des lumières et au moment où cette même Europe se préparait, au nom des lumières justement (du progrès et de la raison), à imposer à l'ensemble de l'Afrique la morgue et la bassesse mercantile de sa domination. l'anarchisme est apparu au XIXe siècle, en Europe. et on perçoit mieux, avec le temps, en quoi, de par son lieu, son époque et sa nature, il a constitué, à l'échelle de l'ensemble des expérimentations humaines, une alternative radicale au monde où il naissait, l'affirmation et l'espérance d'une altérité à la fois intérieure et extérieure, dans les coursives de l'Europe et des amériques comme dans l'intensité des résistances à l'impérialisme et aux dominations des entreprises coloniales. ce travail s'efforce à montrer comment les fangs du Gabon et d'ailleurs, aux côtés de beaucoup d'autres et de multiple façon, mobilisaient tous leurs savoirs magiques et guerriers sous forme anarchique pour résister à la domination coloniale. / This thesis focuses on a diachronic analysis of the relationship between anarchism, the techniques of body witchcraft in the practice of the Mesing and martial arts in Gabon. This study focuses exclusively on the fang ethno linguistic group of Gabon. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the link between his fields of study.Indeed, what combat sports reports and witchcraft of the Fang of Gabon could they keep with a political project born in Europe, in the wake of the enlightenment and the moment where this same Europe preparing,on behalf of the lights just (progress and reason), to impose on the whole of Africa the morgue and the mercantile baseness of his domination. Anarchism emerged in the 19th century in Europe. And there is better, over time, what, from his place, his time and his nature, he was across all the human experiments, a radical alternative to the world where he was born, the affirmation and the hope of an otherness, both indoor andoutdoor, in the corridors of Europe and the Americas as in the intensity of resistance to imperialism and domination of colonial enterprises. This work strives to show how the Fang of Gabon and elsewhere, along with many others and multiple way, mobilized all their knowledge magic and warriors in anarchic form to resist colonial rule.

Purpose: To pilot test the efficacy of a documented 5-week karate training intervention for rehabilitation and neuroprotection in older adults. Methods: eleven older adults (4 male, 7 female, age 59-90y; 168.4±5.8cm; 67.2±10.7kg), five older adults (4 male, 1 female, age 67-76y;176.8±6.4 cm; 69.9±17.6kg) with chronic conditions, and two young adults (2 female, age 23; 165.1±4.9cm; 60.1±6.7 kg) participated. A commercial balance board was used to assess balance through dynamic posture. Arm and leg strength, Timed Up and Go (TUG), and spinal cord excitability (via the soleus H- reflex) were assessed. Results: Over the intervention participants completed approximately 2437 steps, 1762 turns, 3585 stance changes, 2047 punches, 2757 blocks, and 1253 strikes. Dynamic postural performance improved after the intervention (tTarget (18%, p=0.128), tCenter (9%, p<0.01), and tTotal (14%, p=0.073)), with 9 participants showing improvements in balance. No significant changes were found in TUG group data (p=0.539) but 5 neurologically intact participants (4-9%; p<0.05) and 1 Parkinson’s Disease participant (3%, p<0.05) improved. There was significant improvement to strength in the left hand (2%, p=0.037) and right leg (40%, p=0.050). Spinal cord excitability remained unchanged across the group a but 5 (3 neurologically intact (195%, 215%, 48% (avg= 153%); p<0.05); 2 Parkinson’s Disease participants (19%, 23%; p<0.05)) had significantly modulated H-reflex amplitudes following the intervention. Conclusion: Five weeks of training caused improvements in balance reactions and strength suggesting that neuromechanical integrity improved. Whole-body training in martial arts enhanced neuromuscular function and postural integration. The observations of this pilot investigation provide quantitative groundwork for explorations of dose and development of martial arts interventions as functional fitness intervention for older adults. / Graduate / 2022-01-01

Wu Huaiting. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-130). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction and Analytical Framework --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Local Agents and Global Alliance --- p.28 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Particularization and Universalization --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- "Distribution, Marketing and Exhibition" --- p.75 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- The Globalization of a Local Culture --- p.94 / "Appendix 1 Awards for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" --- p.104 / "Appendix 2 Credits for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" --- p.106 / Appendix 3 Ang Lee's Features --- p.108 / Appendix 4 Source List for Database --- p.110 / "Appendix 5 The Story of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" --- p.113 / "Appendix 6 Release dates for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" --- p.119 / Bibliography --- p.122

”Never!” That was the answer UFC President Dana White gave when asked when women would be seen in the UFC. Two years later the first fight between two women took place and now there’s more than 50 female competitors in the UFC - an organisation that earlier was reserved only for men. ”Women will never fight in the UFC” – A qualitative content analysis of the depiction of women’s MMA in media is a study which focuses on how women’s MMA and Ronda Rousey as an individual athlete are portrayed in american internet based MMA media, with a gender research perspective. This study also investigates how the introduction of the first women’s division in the UFC might have affected the depiction women’s MMA in media. The theoretical framework consists of gender theory concepts such as gender performativity, the man as norm, sports and masculinity. With this theoretical framework as foundation, a directed content analysis was used as research method. The results of this analysis shows a frequent emphasis on the appearance of female athletes in the material. An attractive woman is preferable, and a muscular and more masculine woman is considered as deviant. Female athletes are constantly in comparison to male athletes, both in a positive sense, when their athleticism or talent is compared, and in a negative sense to downgrade their appearance. It is clear that the man is the starting-point, which the women are compared to. The material shows that before the introduction of a female division in the UFC there were strong concerns about women entering the organisation - would it be received as a positive or a negative change and thus if it was economically sustainable. After the first women’s fight in the UFC, the appearances of the competitors weren’t referenced as frequently in the material as before, and their performances were highlighted in a much higher degree. Ronda Rousey is portrayed as the most important individual competitor in women’s MMA. She’s got “everything”, both the looks and talent. But to some extent her talent is marginalized. A resistance that may be based in the unfamiliarity of seeing a woman in the spotlight of the MMA-world.