Libellule et Demoisells (Insecta: Ordre des rdonates) by Seth Bybee

“…Les odonates sont appréciés par l'amateur aussi bien que par le professionnel notamment pour leurs grandes tailles, couleurs, ainsi que leurs comportements exceptionnellement charismatiques. …”
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Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

“…Perhaps no English Catholic played a more central role in the almost daily war of words in the secular and religious press than Douglas Jerrold (1893-1964), a lay publicist, novelist, and amateur historian whose Tory sentiments and disillusionment with liberal democracy and the course of modern civilisation in general permeated his writing. …”
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Trabalho cultural no Recôncavo da Bahia: uma abordagem a partir da organização das classes criativas by Mariella Pitombo, Frederico Barbosa, Amanda Botelho

“…Moreover, the indicators have restrictions because they do not capture amateur or nonformal activities - a defining feature of the cultural dynamics of the Recôncavo, strongly shaped by expressions of popular culture. …”
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Prediction of mental strength from the satisfaction of basic needs in CABA and GBA esports players by Pablo Christian González Caino

“…This study aimed to determine the relationship and predictors of mental toughness from the satisfaction of basic needs in amateur esports players from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. …”
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The Effect of Goal orientation and Motivation of Female Footballers in Sports on Resilience Power by Yeşim Bayrakdaroğlu, Ahmet Yilmaz Albayrak, Ali Tekin, Efecan Tezcan

“…In the study, there 183 female footballers based upon the leagues Süper Lig (Super League), PTT 1st League, 3rd League and Amateur League. As data collection tools, Resilience Scale, Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire and Sport Motivation Scale were used. …”
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Channels of Iranian pastoral nomads on the YouTube network: Video narratives of the life of the Lori (Lur) Bakhtiari tribal people and ethnic group by Gorunović Gordana

“…The main question underlying the research is what an anthropologist as a viewer and an impartial bystander can learn from these amateur videoformats, which can be included in the genre of domestic folk films about the daily life and customs of the pastoral, partially sedentarized, (semi)nomads in southwest Iran. …”
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<i>CYDONIA OBLONGA </i> MILL. (ROSACEAE) AT THE PETER THE GREAT BOTANICAL GARDEN by G. A. Firsov, A. V. Volchanskaya, K. G. Tkachenko, N. E. Staroverov, A. Yu. Gryaznov

“…In North-Western Russia, quince has never been regarded as promising even for amateur cultivation, but it may become promising in case of further warming of the climate. …”
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L’excès dans la fiction de Wilkie Collins by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Paradoxically, the resolution of both (detective) novels, the return to order and normality are finally achieved thanks to Jennings (a sick and ostracized doctor) and Dexter (a crippled amateur artist threatened with incurable madness). …”
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Effects of Repetitive Pitching on Trunk Muscle Endurance and Thoracic and Shoulder Kinematics by Takuya Aso, Yoshinori Kagaya

“… # Study design Cohort study # Methods Trunk muscle endurance was assessed in flexion, extension, and lateral flexion positions in 12 healthy amateur baseball players. The positions of stride foot contact (SFC) during the early cocking phase and maximal shoulder external rotation (MER) during the late cocking phase were used to compute the thoracic and shoulder kinematics in degrees. …”
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Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…Under the editorship of Margaret Gatty (1809-1873)—an amateur naturalist and the author of several didactic fairy-stories—a new monthly, six-penny magazine was launched in 1866: Aunt Judy’s Magazine. …”
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Acute effects of bout duration in small-sided games on physiological and kinematic responses by Osman Yılmaz

“…The SSG took place separately with a 4v4 format on a 25 × 32-sized field, 4 × 6 min bouts, and 6 × 4 min bouts. Twenty-four amateur soccer players (age = 16.83 ± 0.381 years; height= 175.83 ± 6.75; weight: 66.21 ± 7.19; body mass index; 21.36 ± 1.36) participated in the study voluntarily. …”
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Sociétés chorales et Renaissance de la musique anglaise, 1840-1910 by Gilles Couderc

“…Paradoxically, the Renaissance of English music in the late 19th century benefited from the craze for choral singing but also somehow triggered its demise when native composers, who had assimilated the lessons of their foreign competitors and raised their standards of composition, required more from their amateur choristers, gradually forced to give up in favour of professionals, increasing the gap between popular and high brow culture.…”
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« Histoires perturbées, passés retrouvés », une introduction by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…Our aim has been to interrogate relationships between oral histories and amateur histories with more formal written archives and historiography in a series of disrupted settings: evictions in colonial and apartheid west Namibia (SULLIVAN); memories and historical interpretations of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora (BAUSSANT); the evacuation of children in Second World War France (DODD); recent maritime exodus of migrants from Africa (OTELE); and rupture from a hegemonic imperial-nostalgic narrative in Portugal (DOS SANTOS). …”
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Lower Limb Exercise-Based Injury Prevention Programs Are Effective in Improving Sprint Speed, Jumping, Agility and Balance: an Umbrella Review by Loïc Bel, Nicolas Mathieu, Vincent Ducrest, Mario Bizzini

“…Only articles that investigated multicomponent lower limb injury prevention programs and their effects on the performance criteria of strength, balance, agility, jumping or speed by both amateur and professional athletes of all ages and sex were included. …”
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Immagini migranti, immagini in-discriminanti Latenze e valenze nell’uso di foto e filmati in ambito migratorio by Alberto Baldi

“…They gathered from the urban contexts where they settled down, all the necessary and technological know-how to convey, sometimes autonomously, as an amateur photographer or film maker, the winning image they wanted to send back home and project on the village walls on occasion of one of their “well planned” trips back. …”
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Apricot cultivars approved for production in Chelyabinsk Province by F. M. Gasymov

“…The economic indicators of these cultivars (profitability ratios are 220.2% for ‘Uralets’ and 233.9% for ‘Prizer’) witness to their suitability for both commercial and amateur cultivation in Chelyabinsk Province.…”
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From Komedie Stambul to Toneel: Theatre Arts Development in Batavia, 1891-1942 by Khairana Zata Nugroho, Dhanang Respati Puguh

“…The increasing popularity of Komedie Stamboel resulted in imitators, both professional and amateur, with the majority of their performers consisted of Indo [hybrid] and Pribumi [local; indigenous]. …”
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Introducing “Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts” by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…Our aim has been to interrogate relationships between oral histories and amateur histories with more formal written archives and historiography in a series of disrupted settings: evictions in colonial and apartheid west Namibia (SULLIVAN); memories and historical interpretations of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora (BAUSSANT); the evacuation of children in Second World War France (DODD); recent maritime exodus of migrants from Africa (OTELE); and rupture from a hegemonic imperial-nostalgic narrative in Portugal (DOS SANTOS). …”
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Black currant cultivars, developed at the Polli Horticultural Research Center (Estonia), in Northwest Russia by O. A. Tikhonova, V. S. Popov

“…They are recommended for amateur gardens in Northwest Russia. Cv. ‘Karri’ (k-44172) is a promising source of such traits as good self-fertility, large fruit size, stable yield, well-balanced taste, high anthocyanin content in berries, and resistance to American powdery mildew and gall mite. …”
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Obscene beasts: the stage behind the scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mathilde La Cassagnère

“…Such is the challenge faced by the amateur company of mechanicals who are producing the love tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s play within the play featuring a fearful lion. …”
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