scholarly journals Health-Related Physical Fitness of School Going Girls in Indian Himalayan Region: An Analytical Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 436-444
Author(s):  
Tadang Minu ◽  
Anil Mili ◽  
Dipika Basumatary ◽  
Vivek Kumar Singh ◽  
Poli Borah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Himalayan Region ◽  
Indian Himalayan Region ◽  
Health Related

The Effect of Combined exercise on Health related physical fitness, Blood Variables in Middle Aged Women

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 957-968
Author(s):  
Hyun-Hun Jung ◽  
Sang-Kab Park ◽  
Yun-Hwan Kim ◽  
Min-Ki Jeong ◽  
Do-Kyum Min ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Combined Exercise ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Blood Variables

scholarly journals Examination of Construct Validity and Criterion-Related Validity of the German Motor Test in Egyptian Schoolchildren

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8341
Author(s):  
Osama Abdelkarim ◽  
Julian Fritsch ◽  
Darko Jekauc ◽  
Klaus Bös
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Latent Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
First Order ◽  
Motor Test ◽  
Health Related

Physical fitness is an indicator for children’s public health status. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the construct validity and the criterion-related validity of the German motor test (GMT) in Egyptian schoolchildren. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a total of 931 children aged 6 to 11 years (age: 9.1 ± 1.7 years) with 484 (52%) males and 447 (48%) females in grades one to five in Assiut city. The children’s physical fitness data were collected using GMT. GMT is designed to measure five health-related physical fitness components including speed, strength, coordination, endurance, and flexibility of children aged 6 to 18 years. The anthropometric data were collected based on three indicators: body height, body weight, and BMI. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with IBM SPSS AMOS 26.0 using full-information maximum likelihood. The results indicated an adequate fit (χ2 = 112.3, df = 20; p < 0.01; CFI = 0.956; RMSEA = 0.07). The χ2-statistic showed significant results, and the values for CFI and RMSEA showed a good fit. All loadings of the manifest variables on the first-order latent factors as well as loadings of the first-order latent factors on the second-order superordinate factor were significant. The results also showed strong construct validity in the components of conditioning abilities and moderate construct validity in the components of coordinative abilities. GMT proved to be a valid method and could be widely used on large-scale studies for health-related fitness monitoring in the Egyptian population.

Buddhist Business and Benevolence in Leh, Ladakh

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Himalayan Region ◽  
Indian Himalayan Region ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Donor System

Due to a burgeoning tourism industry in the Indian Himalayan region of Ladakh, Buddhist monasteries now have lucrative means for generating income through tourism-related business and financial support from international sponsors and local business owners. Where previously Buddhist monasteries were dependent on the donations and labour of the lay community, currently, with the accumulation of surplus wealth, many Buddhist leaders of prominent monasteries have begun flipping this donor system around. Throughout this article, I look at how Buddhist monastic leaders have invested surplus economic resources into philanthropic projects as a way to ‘give back’ to the wider community. I argue that the philanthropic initiatives by Buddhist leaders in Ladakh help to position Buddhist monastics as taking a leading role in the social and economic transformation of the region, thus working to push back against processes of secularization that threaten to decrease the influence of Buddhist monastic institutions.

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