Essays about: "Fitness Culture"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the words Fitness Culture.
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6. Korean Bodybuilding : Cultural Hybrid or Instance of Cultural Homogenization?
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och TurkietstudierAbstract : This study deals with the trend of male bodybuilding in Korea and investigates the motivations and aesthetic ideals of Korean male bodybuilders. The author of the study uses the few hitherto academic research works on the subject and tries to give an overview of the history of Korean bodybuilding. READ MORE
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7. A Scoping Review for the Parameters of Crowd Movement
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : Existing models which describe crowd movement are running out of time and are failing to take the change of people’s characteristics into account. The purpose of this study is to determine the “state-of- the-art” regarding the research within the field of crowd movement and identify parameters that influence crowd movement. READ MORE
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8. Information Quality under the lens of Practice Theory: A Case of Syskonstödjare (Sibling Supporters) in Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/InformationssystemAbstract : The awareness of having a good information quality (IQ) in organizations has been increasing in the past decades. Despite that the well-accepted definition of information quality emphasizes the fitness of information to its consumers, IQ itself is known as context sensitive (Wang and Strong, 1996). READ MORE
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9. The 'Perfect' Body : A Study of the Body in Today's Consumer Society
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för modevetenskapAbstract : This thesis explores the ways in which the body is positioned within consumer society. The development of body ideals in Western societies is examined in order to point out consumers’ occupation with appearances and their bodies as signifiers of success. READ MORE
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10. Knockdown of the ERK pathway using siRNA in cultured chicken cardiomyocytes
University essay from Biologi; Tekniska högskolanAbstract : The ancient South American birds called tinamous (Tinamidae) have the smallest hearts known among birds and their cardiomyocytes have previously been shown to express significantly lower levels of the mitogen-activated protein kinase ERK compared to the more modern chicken (Gallus gallus). ERK is a well-known mediator of growth signalling in the heart, especially in hypertrophy. READ MORE