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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"periodization"”.
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Variability of Practice and Strength Training Periodization: When Theories Collide
<p>The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether variability of practice enhances neuromuscular adaptations when compared to traditional strength training. The secondary purpose was to investigate whether there was a difference in perception of exertion between the two strength programs. …
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Applicability of periodization to orchestral audition preparation on trombone: a case study
The process of auditioning can seem daunting because of the high standards of performance required to win. Brass players have a finite amount of time they can practice each day because of the small muscles of the embouchure. Despite the vast amount of information available on preparing for a brass …
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A Practical Comparison Between Traditional Periodization and Daily-Undulated Weight Training Among Collegiate Track and Field Athletes.
… a focus of sport science. Daily undulating periodization (DUP), using daily alterations in repetitions, has been developed and touted as a superior method of training. The purpose of this study is to compare traditional periodization (TRA) to DUP in Division I track and field athletes. …
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The efficacy of periodized resistance training in older adults
… all of these factors is referred to as periodization. Despite the well-recognized value of periodization in younger populations, the application of periodized RT has received little attention among the aged. Also, despite a great deal of focus on the application of the session rating of …
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An Evaluation of the Physical Demands of American Football Training in the NFL
… football training demands with an emphasis on periodization; and, (3) Examination of the consequences of training with an emphasis on injury risk. The first study of this thesis (Chapter 3) showed that three commercially available inertial sensors were able to differentiate between fundamental …
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Recondite Reading: William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism
… addresses Gaddis's place in literary history and periodization based upon that difficulty. Almost all critics of Gaddis are surveyed as to their commentary on the difficulty of his works. The comments of critics are categorized as pertaining to three types of difficulty in Gaddis's work: the …
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Interrogating Music-Historical Narratives Through Ralph Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs
… the twentieth century. This style complicates periodization of his work. By exploring other facets of his work and using alternative methods -- such as studies of the music's relationship to sociocultural movements, English music history, and history of genre -- for understanding his music, a …
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A Comparison of Linear and Daily Undulating Periodizied Strength Training Programs.
… programs, and determine if either method of periodization elicits superior gains in 1 Repetitions maximums (1RM) for back squat (BS) and bench press (BP) (core exercises). Nineteen subjects (n=19) underwent a 6-week resistance-training (RT) program. Participants performed both BS and BP two …
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Anarchist Strategy and Visual Rhetoric in Brazil, 1970: The Living Theatre as “The People in the Street”
… between the fields of theatre and politics, or "periodization" (Postlewait), and because of the ways in which the "New Left" is identified as overtly American in much theatre scholarship, historicizing the Living Theatre as "in-line" with the New Left has resulted in the erasure of the Living …
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The Relationship between Eating Disorders, Weight Control Methods, and Body Satisfaction in Elite Female Runners Competing at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials
… population. Various training styles, weight periodization, and presence of eating disorder (ED) may affect energy availability. This study investigated the relationship between lifetime prevalence of ED with training, body satisfaction, and weight-control methods among elite female endurance …
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Magic and possibility: medievalism and the idea of the occult
… to a series of crucial themes including periodization, representation, performance, the writing of history , and the writing of contemporaneity itself. The thesis also engages with the history and philosophy of science, and the recently-emerging discipline of science studies. Operating …
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Topic Modeling Location-Based Social Media Applications
… to visualize topic-modeling results using corpus periodization to observe topic-change detection as extracted from Twitter data feeds.</p>
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From public person to private prisoner: the changing place of women in medieval Russia
… women's position is not identical to the usual periodization of Russian history. Hence the unconventional time span of this research.</p>
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ELT IN CHINESE GENERAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ELT TEXTBOOKS
… English language teaching in China, proposing a periodization into seven historical phases, ranging from the imperial era (up to 1912) to the present day, identified as the “Xi Jinping Era” (2012–present). This classification, developed by the author, is based on the function attributed to …
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SINO–LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS: 1959–1976
… developments. This thesis refines the periodization of Maoist-era Sino–Latin American relations and offers new insights into key Sino–Latin American interactions. During the early to mid-1960s, Sino–Latin American relations saw expanded communist ideological engagement and nascent …
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'What are ye, little mannie?': the Persistence of Fairy Culture in Scotland,1572-1703 and 1811-1927
… and complicate traditional conceptions about periodization. Ultimately, this thesis reveals how issues of class impacted the popularization and persistence of fairy culture across both eras, reflecting ongoing discussions about Scottish identity.
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Using a non-modal method for system identification of highly damped and high modal density mechanical structures
… the SLDV technique. Data reduction, filtering, periodization, and remapping techniques are applied to the measured data in the spatial domain. Linear and polynomial singular vector interpolation and subspace rotation techniques are applied in the frequency domain for the prediction of the …
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On the Horizon: Toward a Revisioning of Environmentally-Engaged Arts Practices
… treated by the natural sciences and humanities. Periodization is of particular importance, and I take a longer view of this new epoch locating its beginning alongside first contact and the birth of capital. While this thesis does not break new ground here, this view better allows us to consider …
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Ben Jonson and the Four Emotions
… This recognition in turn implies the periodization which separates seventeenth-century emotional experience from our own is faulty.
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EDWARD CHANNING’S WRITING REVOLUTION: COMPOSITION PREHISTORY AT HARVARD, 1819-1851
… is typically acknowledged, it argues against the periodization that has often blinded scholars to early eras of composition’s history.</p>
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