Background and Purpose: Social media play a crucial role in setting cultural standards for the ideal body, which are often unrealistic and emphasize the importance of thinness for girls. This research aimed to explore the effect of media literacy on eating disorders with the mediating role of body image of female athletes in Izeh City, Iran. Materials and Methods: This correlational research w...

Regular physical exercise is recommended by the medical community, because it offers the potential to reduce the incidence of coronary events. On the other hand, vigorous exertion may act as a trigger of acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death in susceptible individuals. Death during sports activities differs among sports disciplines and countries. In Turkey, soccer attracts more s...

Mental toughness in endurance athletes, while an important factor for success, has been scarcely studied. An online survey was used to examine eight mental toughness factors in endurance athletes. The study aim was to determine mental toughness profiles via latent profile analysis in endurance athletes and whether associations exist between the latent profiles and demographics and sports charac...

Media coverage, litigation, and new legislation have resulted in a heightened awareness of the prevalence of sports concussion in both adult and youth athletes. Baseline and postconcussion testing is now commonly used for the assessment and management of sports-related concussion in schools and in youth sports leagues. With increased use of computerized neurocognitive sports concussion testing,...

The increasing availability of continuous-media data is provoking a significant change in Internet workloads. For example, video from news, sports, and entertainment sites, and audio from Internet broadcast radio, telephony, and peer-to-peer networks, are becoming commonplace. Compared with traditional Web workloads, multimedia objects can require significantly more storage and transmission ban...

The increased participation of children and adolescents in organized sports worldwide is a welcome trend given evidence of lower physical fitness and increased prevalence of overweight in this population. However, the increased sports activity of children from an early age and continued through the years of growth, against a background of their unique vulnerability to injury, gives rise to conc...

D. Deutschmann, M. Parfant, H. Holzer, M. Ebner, G. Ivanic, M. Svehlik, A. Weiglein Medical University Graz, Austria. [email protected] Graz University of Technology, Austria. [email protected] Institute of Sports Science, KF University Graz, Austria. [email protected] Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology...

On 25 May 2001, the Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services in Darwin, was alerted by local media reports to an apparent outbreak of gastroenteritis that occurred in a visiting interstate sporting team 2 days before. The 16-member team was competing in the Arafura Games, a biennial, international sports competition conducted in Darwin. After co...

This paper examines performance issues concerning local public, educational and government (PEG) access channels. The study is based on a survey of cable subscribers in a major metropolitan market. The ®ndings suggest that community access channels compare favorably with many satellite-delivered channels, though viewership is not strongly related to the use of other media. Open-ended responses ...