Abstract Obesity is a state of abnormal or excessive fat accumulation. in horses increases the risk developing variety health issues such as: insulin dysregulation (ID), reduced athleticism, colic, reproductive performance, laminitis, endotoxaemia, diabetes mellitus , hyperlipaemia, impaired thermoregulation, pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction, and osteochondrosis. significant welfare issue ...

The popularity of eSports has skyrocketed recently, prompting increasing academic attention. However, reflecting the male-dominated reality industry, most research is focused on men. Decades gender in context technology and computer gaming present a valid cause for concern regarding how women other minority individuals these settings have been remain oppressed. This article presents traditional...

In sport and media, figure skating is often perceived as ‘feminine’ male skaters frequently occupy an ambiguous position, especially for Asian (American) athletes in a historically White-dominated sport. Based on discourse analysis, this article compares how English- Japanese-language news narratives represent elite Nathan Chen Yuzuru Hanyu, who are close rivals skate the United States Japan re...

Traditional talent identification and development programs have sought to identify select the most promising children as athletes of future, provide them with specialised training preparation for expert performance in sport from an early age. models tend be linear, emphasising numbers hours spent training. However, major concerns been raised by evidence emerging on psycho-emotional physical iss...

The ACTN3 R577X (rs1815739) genotype has been associated with athletic status and muscle phenotypes, although not consistently. Our objective was to conduct a meta-analysis of the published literature on athletic status and investigate its associations with physical capability in several new population-based studies. Relevant data were extracted from studies in the literature, comparing genotyp...

In red blood cells (RBC) of horses, both lactate-transport activity and lactate accumulation during races vary interindividually. To study whether similar variation in lactate transport is apparent also in RBCs of other racing species, blood samples were collected from 21 reindeer, 40 horses, 31 humans, and 38 dogs. Total lactate-transport activity was measured at 10 and 30 mM concentrations, a...

During human evolution, men and women faced distinct adaptive problems, including pregnancy, hunting, childcare, and warfare. Due to these sex-linked adaptive problems, natural selection would have favored psychological mechanisms that oriented men and women toward forming friendships with individuals possessing characteristics valuable for solving these problems. The current study explored sex...

The argument presented here is that the sociological discourse of gender and sport, in other words the way the topic is approached, the assumptions surrounding its investigation, and the ways in which new knowledge is generated has been determined without sufficient recognition of its own ideological foundations. Gender, it is argued, is a major social and theoretical category that, along with ...

a Department of Zoology & Faculty of Land and Food System, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada b Nofima AS, Ås, Norway c Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland d Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR), Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France e Unité de Physiologie Fonctionnelle des Organismes Marins, Ifremer,...

OBJECTIVE We examined the extent and nature of the psychological difficulty experienced by athletic adults with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), correlates of that difficulty and coping mechanisms. METHODS A survey assessed athletic history and psychological impact of exercise restrictions. LASSO penalised linear regression identified factors associated with psychological difficulty. Semist...