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Does observance of Ramadan affect sleep in athletes and physically active individuals? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Description: This article presents a systematic review and meta-analysis is to provide an accurate description of the effect of Ramadan observance on sleep duration, sleep quality, daily nap duration, and daytime sleepiness in athletes and physically active individuals.
Date: October 24, 2021
Creator: Trabelsi, Khaled; Ammar, Achraf; Glenn, Jordan M.; Boukhris, Omar; Khacharem, Aimen; Bouaziz, Bassem et al.
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Longitudinal trajectories of physical activity in women using latent class growth analysis: The WIN Study

Description: This article discusses a study to examine the longitudinal trajectories in objectively measured physical activity (PA), to identify unknown (i.e., latent) subgroups with distinct trajectories, and to examine the correlates of latent subgroups among community dwelling women.
Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Kim, Youngdeok; Kang, Minsoo; Tacón, Anna M. & Morrow, James R.

Print or iPad? Young Children’s Text Type Shared Reading Preference and Behaviors in Comparison to Parent Predictions and At-home Practices

Description: Article examining young children’s reading preference by text type. Discourse and observation analyses show children engage differently between text types. Findings have implications for parents, teachers, and teacher educators support today’s young children as readers.
Date: June 29, 2020
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren & Trotter, Julia
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Exceptional Friction Mitigation via Subsurface Plastic Shear in Defective Nanocrystalline Ceramics

Description: This article reports that atomic layer deposition {0002}-textured ZnO films, with nanocolumnar grains and defective sub-stoichiometric structure, exhibit nanocrystalline plasticity and exceptionally low sliding friction and wear.
Date: June 13, 2014
Creator: Mohseni, Hamidreza; Mensah, B. A.; Gupta, N.; Srinivasan, S. G. & Scharf, Thomas W.
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Analysis of the start to the first hurdle in 110 m hurdles at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015

Description: Article describes study in which observational analysis was used to evaluate the relationships between variables measured at the start of the men’s 110 hurdles event and race performance itself.
Date: May 2018
Creator: del Amo, José Luis López; Rodríguez, M. Carmen; Hill, David W. & González, Julián Ernesto
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Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

Description: Article discusses how quality of life and physical activity relate to each other in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. The authors use Fitbit activity trackers to find connections between physical activity and quality of life of their sample group of autistic adults.
Date: September 13, 2021
Creator: Tomaszewski, Brianne; Savage, Melissa N. & Hume, Kara
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Psychosocial predictors of physical activity and health-related quality of life among Shanghai working adults

Description: This article investigates the psychosocial predictors of physical activity and quality of life (QOL) among Shanghai working adults. Stress and social support from friends were two important sources of self-efficacy, all of which facilitated more physical activity participation. Lower stress, higher social support, and more physical activity may directly increase QOL among Shanghai working adults.
Date: April 25, 2019
Creator: Xiao, Yi; Wang, Hongying; Zhang, Tao & Ren, Xiaoling
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