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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Surfers"”.
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Surfing injuries in recreational surfers
… muscle soreness is common amongst recreational surfers. Medical doctors are the most commonly consulted health care practitioner by surfers for treatment of surfing related injury, followed by physiotherapists and Osteopaths. This minor thesis was written by post graduate students as part of the …
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Assessment of competitive requirements, repeated sprint paddle ability and trainability of paddling performance in surfers
… of surfing, the physiological characteristics of surfers, training techniques and various indices important to surfing performance are limited and characterised by methodological discrepancies. This thesis consists of five studies to assess the competitive requirements, test specific repeat sprint …
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Spiritual experiences and environmentalism of recreational users in the marine environment: New Zealand surfers and scuba divers
… used quantitative survey methods to research (74 surfers and 83 divers) after participating in their activities. The study was conducted at four sites over the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The research identifies the relationship that spirituality has with leisure activities, ecological …
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The increased feminization of the surfing economy: An exploration of the lived experiences of female surfers in Muizenberg, South Africa
… is a phenomenological exploration of female surfers' lived experiences in the surfing culture and economy of Muizenberg, South Africa. The research design includes a review of literature, participant observation and semi structured in-depth interviews. The approach was qualitative so as to …
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Proprioception and performance in surfing
… efficiently on landing. Additionally, surfers must monitor the frequently changing wave formation for potential manoeuvres while maintaining or regaining an upright stance, which may induce changes in the subcomponents of the postural control system including proprioception. Currently, …
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Pre-purchase search vs. web surfing: effects of internet motives and ad relevance on psychological processing of online ads
… and had greater memory for online ads than Web-surfers. An interaction was found between user motive and ad-motive relevance. For ads that matched the purchase goal, pre-purchase searchers had more favorable attitude, greater intent to click on the ad, and perceived the ad of more usefulness …
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Aspects of a Localized Ocean: A Cultural Ethnography of Surfing
… communicative forms of aggressive behaviors by surfers, meant to deter other surfers from a specific surfing area. This, in turn, creates a greater supply of waves for the surfer who performs the actions of blocking out and enforces the unwritten rules. As a communicative act, localism performs …
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Human safety and shark conservation: an analysis of surfer risk perceptions and attitudes towards shark management
… and other associated industries. I assessed surfers' perceptions of risk from sharks, how they value sharks, their knowledge of sharks, and their attitudes towards shark management. I surveyed surfers at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town, and North Beach and Bay of Plenty Beach in Durban by …
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Data Visualization for the Benchmarking Engine
… them as XML templates for prospective website surfers. Everyday Internet users may view saved charts with the touch of a button and get real-time data, since charts are generated dynamically. Website surfers may also generate new charts, but may not save them as templates. As a result, even …
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Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment
… the natural landscape (the riding of waves by surfers), it has since become consumed within a masculine commercial culture. It is used as an exemplar, because of my own history of involvement in the culture, which allows me to question the presence women occupy within its spaces and practices. …
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Sofa-Surfing: The Cartographies of Young People Utilising Host-Dependent Shelter.
… explore the experiences of hosts and older sofa-surfers and the relationship between sofa-surfing and attachment style.
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LDA based approach for predicting friendship links in live journal social network
… backgrounds and cultures excites the web surfers. Today, there are hundreds of Social Networking sites on the web with millions of users connected with relationships such as "friend", "follow", "fan", forming a huge graph structure. The amount of data associated with the users in these …
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The impact of White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) sightings and attacks on recreational water use patterns in False Bay
… influence water use patterns amongst bathers, surfers and paddlers. In the period from 2006 to 2012, the total number of shark sightings recorded was 531 at Muizenberg and 322 at Fish Hoek, with a notable increase in sightings at both beaches in recent years. Shark sightings were rare in winter …
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Transforming user data into user value by novel mining techniques for extraction of web content, structure and usage patterns. The Development and Evaluation of New Web Mining Methods that enhance Information Retrieval and improve the Understanding of User¿s Web Behavior in Websites and Social Blogs.
… recommends a collection of hyperlinks for the surfers of a website to be placed at the homepage of that website. Second, the development of an integrated Web content and usage mining approach to improve the understanding of the user's Web behavior and discover the user group interests in a …
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Towards Management Information System in public administration in Uganda
… of online access for most people. It also surfers from undeveloped CD-ROM, and flash disk technology, meaning that information from databases is only accessible in printed form or on diskettes. The MIS programme also suffers from excessive donor dependence, resulting in the development of …
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Three essays on applied microeconomics
… are composed mainly by man-on-man heats with surfers having as many as 15 performances scored by the same judging panel in each heat, allowing one to overcome the main difficulty encountered by previous researchers which is to correctly identify whether judges misbehavior is a result of …
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An ethnographic study of Resurface - A wellbeing intervention for university students
… esteem, and social roles as Resurface members, surfers, and yogis. This study provided a series of linked themes exploring the culture of the student social world, and in doing so, develops a deeper understanding of the participants experiences, contributing towards the body of knowledge on the …