the aim of this research was to compare brain quadrant dominance between athletic and non-athletic students. for this purpose, 199 university students participating in sport olympiad summer 1391 were selected as the athletic sample and 162 students as the non-athletic samples using simple random sampling method. the hermann brain dominance instrument (hbdi) was used for data collection. the res...

The factors that impact attendance at sporting events in general and at small college sporting events in particular have been widely examined by sports marketing academicians. Among the various factors emerging over two decades has been attendance based on identity with individual teams and players, to idiosyncratic factors such as the environment and the entertainment value of the sporting eve...

in today's world, women's participation in social activities is considered as a measure of their social and civil rights. however, there are challenges to such participation. this research aims to investigate these socio-cultural obstacles, comparing athletic and non-athletic women. the present study examines women's sports participation as a form of behavior which includes fishb...

The general practitioner working in his consulting room or his patient's home has a strictly limited range of diagnostic facilities available to supplement his clinical skills and experience. As long ago as 1946 the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association recommended that wherever possible, hospital departments of pathology and radiology should give direct access facili...

BACKGROUND Clinicians, nurses, and managers in hospitals are continuously confronted by new technologies and methods that require changes to working practice. Quality systems can help to manage change while maintaining a high quality of care. A new model of quality systems inspired by the works of Donabedian has three factors: structure (resources and administration), process (culture and profe...

results our study comprised 739 subjects (367 athletes and 372 non-athletes). among athletic university students, 152 (41.2%) participants complained of headache. such a complaint was present in 217 (58.3%) non-athletic university students. this lower prevalence of headache in athletes was statistically significant (p value < 0.001). among ten different sports fields, the prevalence of headache...

background: alcohol is a substance that is consumed widely around the world. there are different interpretations regarding the effects of alcohol on athletic performance. today, alcohol is introduced as a contributing factor for increasing athletic performance by some sport clubs. methods: the purpose of this article is to investigate the effects of alcohol on athletic performance. pubmed, scop...