Anni Aavikko The use of dietary supplements and medication among Finnish elite athletes. Department of Health Exercise, University of Turku, Department of Physiology and Paavo Nurmi Centre , University of Turku. Background: Dietary supplements are widely used among elite athletes but the prevalence of dietary supplement use among Finnish elite athletes is largely not known. The use of asthma me...

The present research examines MIS exemplar articles, analyzing their citation patterns in MIS and other scientific fields. Using MIS Quarterly articles of the year and peer-nominated articles, we identified 36 exemplar MIS articles. In all, 421 journals contained articles that cited the exemplars. Our five findings are: (1) the MIS exemplars cover a wide range of themes, (2) the average lifetim...

While researchers go to great lengths to justify and prove theoretical links between constructs, the relationship between measurement items and constructs is often ignored. By default, the relationship between construct and item is assumed to be reflective, meaning that the measurement items Carol Saunders was the accepting senior editor for this paper. Traci Carte was the associate editor. Ron...

In this study, we assess the current trends and patterns of 85 qualitative research articles published over the period of 2001-2011 from four mainstream IS journals with no stated preference for qualitative research (MISQ, ISR, JMIS, JAIS). We analyze each article with respect to it anatomical elements. More specifically, we review the nature of the research question; the way the IT artifact is...

introduction: the aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of instructing hardiness components on anxiety level of national olympic committee personnel. materials and methods: the study was a semi-experimental research. the statistical population included all the personnel of the national olympic committee of islamic republic of iran employed in 2013-2014 who contained 117 indivi...

Most game interfaces restrict the player to a place in front of the computer screen. In mixed reality applications the point of interaction seems to be moving away from technical devices towards a more natural user interface. Actions of players are no longer indirect and mediated by devices: i.e. a jump is a jump. A mixed reality enhanced game is presented, where the traditional interface is re...

The aim of present study was comparison of advanced physical fitness profile between Olympic soccer team members of Iran according to playing position. 29 Invited soccer players to the 17th national Olympic soccer team of Iran dispatched to 17th Asian Olympics Games, Incheon 2014 )mean age of 20.39± 2.01 yrs(, divided into five group of goalkeepers, defenders, midfield players, wingers and atta...