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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"School of Sport and Exercise Science"”.
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Cognitive effort in contextual interference and implicit motor learning
The broad aim of this dissertation was to explore the paradoxical accounts of contextual interference and implicit motor learning from the perspective of cognitive effort. Three key outcomes have emerged. First, from a theoretical perspective, the thesis offers a previously unexplored account for …
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Young people’s perceptions and experiences of their physical bodies
… gender differences in physical self-concept and engagement in physical activity, with results typically favouring boys. Despite strong evidence to suggest that socialisation results in physical activity taking on different meanings and experiences for girls and boys, these different meanings …
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An investigation of the assumptions of self-handicapping : youth responses to evaluative threat in the physical domain
Self-handicapping refers to the process whereby people proactively plan excuses for future mistakes. The interpersonal motivation to self-handicap lies in clouding any evaluation of ability, whilst the intrapersonal motivation is the protection of self-esteem. On the surface, self-handicapping …
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Technology and Educational Change: Making the Links
This study investigated teachers' professional learning and pedagogy as they grappled with the challenges and implications of using new information and communications technologies (ICT) in their classrooms. It contributes to knowledge about the way teachers learn and change, their pedagogical …
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Obscenities offstage: Melbourne’s gay saunas & the limits of representation
Obscenities offstage is conceived and designed as a study in performance. It is alert to the dangers inherent in positing erotic fields, especially so-called 'gay saunas', as objects of study, dangers that have dogged the scientific research, both qualitative and quantitative, undertaken in this …
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Rapture : excursions in little tyrannies and bigger lies
… studies is anchored around the writing, devising and performing of a series of three solo performance works entitled Rapture, Rapture II, and Rapture III. Rapture III was examined in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This written document, including …
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Kinematics of drop punt kicking in Australian rules football - comparison of skilled and less skilled kicking
The types of kick that are performed in the football codes fall into two broad categories: punt kick and place kick. One type of punt kick is the major means of ball movement in Australian Rules football – the drop punt kick. Past studies have investigated the biomechanics of kicking. The pattern …
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It opens a whole new world: older people’s perceptions of the role of the creative arts as leisure in their lives
… thesis reports on an original qualitative study of older people’s perceptions about how they benefited from participating in a creative arts program. The study brought together the research fields of leisure, arts and ageing well to explore the meaning that 10 older people gave to their creative …
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Digoxin and exercise effects on Na+,K+-ATPase isoform gene and protein expression in human skeletal muscle
This laboratory has shown that exercise in humans impairs skeletal muscle Na+,K+-ATPase maximal in vitro activity, whilst in isolated rat muscles, Na+,K+-ATPase inhibition with ouabain leads to early muscle fatigue. Hence, Na+,K+-ATPase function is likely to be important for skeletal muscle …
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Breathing embodiment: a study of Middendorf breathwork
This thesis is about Middendorf breathwork, a way of cultivating breath and body awareness developed by Ilse Middendorf (b.1910, Berlin), based on sensing subtle bodily movements that occur with breath as it is allowed to come and go on its own. Drawing on the author’s personal experience, together …
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Social identities in physical activity promotion for sedentary women
The importance of regular and life long physical activity, both from a physical and medical perspective and from a psychological well-being perspective, is well documented. Also well documented is the reduction, below sufficient levels, in physical activity participation, particularly for …
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The contribution of divided attention to tripping while walking
… intervention. Tripping while walking is one of the most commonly cited reasons for falls, however, little research has focused so far on foot motion characteristics and their contribution to the likelihood of tripping while walking. Even fewer studies have examined tripping on unseen …
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Effects of exercise, renal disease, and digoxin on skeletal muscle Na+,K+-ATPase and related effects on plasma K+ and muscle performance
… enzyme regulates trans-membrane Na+ and K+ fluxes during contractions, and therefore also affects muscle excitability and plays an important role in delaying muscle fatigue. Consequently, any modulation of Na+,K+-ATPase content or activity has the potential to affect muscle …
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Propensity and attainment of flow state
In this thesis, I investigated the influence of personality and situational variables on the experience of flow in order to enhance flow state in tennis competition. Based on propositions of the sport-specific flow model (Kimiecik & Stein, 1992), I conducted three interconnected studies. In Study …
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Starving in the sport of kings : weight management and cognitive function in Australian jockeys
… many jockeys engage in repetitive cycles of rapid, short-term weight loss, termed "wasting". The physical and psychological effects of "wasting" are not well understood, although several recent studies suggest that, at least in the short-term, they may be numerous, and with any one of them …
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The adoption and maintenance of physical activity for mid-life, sedentary women
… regular physical activity produces both physical and psychological benefits. People engaged in sedentary work who avoid physical activity, or have physical or psychological obstacles to being physically active, forgo the substantial benefits that being physically active provides. In Australia, …
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Kinematic and centre of pressure (COP) parameters in golf putting
The aims of the present study were to: develop a portable and reliable fieldbased system for assessment of centre of pressure movement during the putting task; identify different putting techniques used by experienced golfers; identify the relationship between handicap and putting performance; …
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Estimating centre of mass trajectory and subject-specific body segment parameters using optimisation approaches
… sources including body segment parameter (BSP) and ground reaction force (GRF) measurement errors. This research employed nonlinear optimisation techniques, attempting to account for such errors and, thus, improve dynamical representation of whole body movement activities. The first experiments …
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Weight transfer styles in the golf swing : individual and group analysis
… transfer have been conflicting due to a number of limitations. This thesis examined weight transfer in the golf swing using more trials per golfer, Club Velocity at ball contact rather than handicap to indicate performance and more swing events at which weight position was quantified. Also, …
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The final hour: coach-athlete interactions immediately prior to performance in basketball
Pre-competitive preparations in elite sport have been shown to be important to performance. In particular, mental preparation and mental readiness have been shown to be important determinants of successful performance. For example, Orlick and Partington (1988) highlighted that mental preparation in …
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