Glenn K. McConell, Stephen Rattigan, Robert S. Lee-Young, Glenn D. Wadley, and Troy L. Merry Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living and the School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Victoria University, Footscray, Victoria, Australia; Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Cellular & Molecular Metabolism Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbou...

The achievements by Australia and New Zealand in sport on the basis of population size are quite remarkable. Both countries invest in sports coaching and training for elite athletes with the associated expertise in many areas of sports science. This article discusses the role of the mathematical sciences in these developments and the spreading of these ideas through the six conferences held, so...

Kiyoshi Sanada, Motoyuki Iemitsu, Haruka Murakami, Izumi Tabata, Kenta Yamamoto, Yuko Gando, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Mitsuru Higuchi, and Motohiko Miyachi College of Sport and Health Science, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga; Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University; Health Promotion and Exercise, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo; and Facu...

Erika Koltai, Nikolett Hart, Albert W. Taylor, Sataro Goto, Jenny K. Ngo, Kelvin J. A. Davies, and Zsolt Radak Research Institute of Sport Science, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; and Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center of the Davis School of Gerontology; and Division of Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los An...

A) Department of Physiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands B) Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands C) Department of Internal Medicine, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands D) Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands E) Research institute for Sport an...

Massimo Venturelli and Russell S. Richardson Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological, Morphological and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, George E. Whalen VA Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Department of Exercise and ...

Motohide Hori1,2, Tomoya Nakamachi2,3, Junko Shibato2,4, Randeep Rakwal2,4,5*, Seiji Shioda2,4 and Satoshi Numazawa1 1Division of Toxicology, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, Showa University, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan 2Department of Anatomy I, School of Medicine, Showa University, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan 3Laboratory of...

The question of the significance and importance of ethnographic approaches within the German-speaking sports sciences could briefly be answered with a "negative report", if one is interested in having a look at studies that are explicitly accounted as ethnographic. This estimation changes, if the perspective is widened and the idea of "estrangement of the own culture" (i.e. the sports culture),...

Miriam Getz is with the Kibuzzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel and the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled in Ramat Gan, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]. Yeshayahu Hutzler is with Zinman College for Physical Education and Sports at the Wingate Institute and the Israel Sport Center for the Disabled Ramat Gan, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]. Adri Vermeer is with the faculty of ...