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The Sport for All Ideal: A Tool for Enhancing Human Capabilities and Dignity
2014
Abstract Sport, as a child of modernity, is intertwined with typically modern elements, such as the search for universality, competition, and the fascination for measurement. As modernity is essentially defined, in legal and moral terms, as a search for universally grounded moral principles or basic human rights, modern sports are widely seen as a means to promote typically modern values such as dignity. This paper conceives of the term "dignity" in light of the capabilities approach upheld by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. According to these authors, dignity is conferred according to certain human basic capabilities that we all are entitled to. This is the reason why this article explore…
A Hermeneutical Analysis of the InternalistApproachin the Philosophy of Sport
2015
Abstract In this paper, we make a hermeneutical analysis of internalism, the dominant tradition in the philosophy of sports. In order to accomplish this, we identify the prejudices that guide the internalist view of sports, namely the Platonic-Analytic prejudice introduced by Suits, one of the forefathers of internalism. Then, we critically analyze four consequences of following such a prejudice: a) its reductive nature, b) the production of a unrealistic view of sports, c) the vagueness of the idea of excellence; and d) the leap from the descriptive analysis of the sporting phenomenon to the setting of normative requirements for the practice of sports.
Wild food plants of popular use in Sicily
2007
Abstract In the present work the authors report the result of their food ethnobotanical researches, which have been carried out in Sicily during the last thirty years. Data concerning 188 wild species used in the traditional Sicilian cuisine are reported. The authors underline those species that are partially or completely unknown for their culinary use and they illustrate other species that local inhabitants suggested in the prevention or treatment of symptomatologies caused by a refined diet, poor in vegetables. These data want to contribute to avoid the loss of traditional knowledge on uses and recipes concerning wild food botanicals, and to encourage further studies for those species th…
Evaluación de un programa de actividad física en adultos mayores no institucionalizados
2021
La actividad física es uno de los hábitos clave que influyen en el envejecimiento saludable, según la OMS. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el efecto en la esfera funcional de un programa de actividad física realizado en el contexto de un taller de envejecimiento activo. Se realizó un estudio de diseño de preintervención y posintervención en un solo grupo. Se incluyeron 54 adultos sanos, no institucionalizados, de edad igual o mayor a 60 años. El programa de actividad física consistió en 90 sesiones grupales bisemanales, de 45-60 minutos de duración, realizadas durante 45 semanas. Los participantes realizaron estiramientos y ejercicios aeróbicos y de tonificación muscular de intensid…
Formación del profesorado de educación física en el uso de aplicaciones tecnológicas
2021
La inclusión de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) en el ámbito educativo precisa de un profesorado con un nivel de competencia digital (CD) suficiente para enseñar al alumnado dicha tecnología. Paradójicamente, en la literatura existe una tendencia emergente por el estudio de la CD, mientras que el uso específico de las herramientas tecnológicas se está dejando de lado, especialmente en el campo de la educación física (EF). Por ello, el objetivo del presente trabajo fue valorar el empleo real de las aplicaciones educativas por parte del futuro profesorado de EF. Para ello, se aplicó el cuestionario CUTDEF (Cuestionario sobre conocimiento y uso de las TIC por los y las d…
Traditional knowledge and practice of the Triassic variegated clay from Silesia (Krasiejów), Poland, in human medicine.
2021
AbstractBackgroundKrasiejów clay (in German: Krascheow) became famous following the discovery of numerous fossilised bones of Upper Triassic amphibians and reptiles, which have been extracted from clay deposits since the 1980s. These organic remnants remained in Krasiejów clay due to the large amount of slime deposits and the optimal concentration of basal mineral salts.The main aims of the paper are to determine the historical evolution of the use of clay in Silesia for therapeutic purposes and to provide a summary of the historical uses of Krasiejów clay as a medical treatment, based on the knowledge of the local population.MethodsThe mode of utilisation of Triassic variegated claystone t…
Contents of Physical Education through the Images of PrimaryEducation Textbooks
2014
Esta investigación analiza las imágenes relacionadas con las actividades físicas que aparecen en los libros de texto de educación física (EF), concretamente en el tercer ciclo de la etapa de educación primaria (EP) y su correspondencia con los bloques de contenido de dicho currículo. La muestra está formada por 821 imágenes publicadas en cuatro editoriales españolas, a partir de la LOE. Se realiza un estudio descriptivo univariante mediante un sistema de categorías elaborado ad hoc, cuyo proceso de construcción consta de dos pruebas piloto, dos consultas a expertos y la triangulación con tres observadores. Las variables del estudio son: tipo de actividad física, ámbito, espacio y nivel de p…
The Chaperone Activity of Clusterin is Dependent on Glycosylation and Redox Environment
2014
Background/Aims: Clusterin (CLU), also known as Apolipoprotein J (ApoJ) is a highly glycosylated extracellular chaperone. In humans it is expressed from a broad spectrum of tissues and related to a plethora of physiological and pathophysiological processes, such as Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis and cancer. In its dominant form it is expressed as a secretory protein (secreted CLU, sCLU). During its maturation, the sCLU-precursor is N-glycosylated and cleaved into an α- and a β-chain, which are connected by five symmetrical disulfide bonds. Recently, it has been demonstrated that besides the predominant sCLU, rare intracellular CLU forms are expressed in stressed cells. Since these for…
Computational annotation of genes differentially expressed along olive fruit development
2009
Abstract Background Olea europaea L. is a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean basin with a worldwide economical high impact. Differently from other fruit tree species, little is known about the physiological and molecular basis of the olive fruit development and a few sequences of genes and gene products are available for olive in public databases. This study deals with the identification of large sets of differentially expressed genes in developing olive fruits and the subsequent computational annotation by means of different software. Results mRNA from fruits of the cv. Leccino sampled at three different stages [i.e., initial fruit set (stage 1), completed pit hardening (stage 2) a…
Development-dependent changes in the tight DNA-protein complexes of barley on chromosome and gene level
2008
Abstract Background The tightly bound to DNA proteins (TBPs) is a protein group that remains attached to DNA with covalent or non-covalent bonds after its deproteinisation. The functional role of this group is as yet not completely understood. The main goal of this study was to evaluate tissue specific changes in the TBP distribution in barley genes and chromosomes in different phases of shoot and seed development. We have: 1. investigated the TBP distribution along Amy32b and Bmy1 genes encoding low pI α-amylase A and endosperm specific β-amylase correspondingly using oligonucleotide DNA arrays; 2. characterized the polypeptide spectrum of TBP and proteins with affinity to TBP-associated D…