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Risk and safety in Nature and Adventure Sports: risks perceived by rafting guides

The aim of this study is to identify the risk factors that are perceived by guides in the rafting activity. We have applied a questionnaire to 39 rafting guides from Iberia and Latin America, with a mean age and standard deviation respectively of 37.49 ± 12.16. The participants were asked about their mental representation of the risk they experience in the Rafting modality. Data analysis and processing was perf...

Perceived Risk Questionnaire in Canyoners: content validity, cross-validation a...

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire related to the risk perception in canyoning. Cross-validation and transcultural invariance, across Portugal and Spain, were also analysed. A total of 707 canyoners (81.3% males, 18.7% females) from Portugal (47.5%) and Spain (52.5%) participated in this study, with ages between 18 and 57 years old (M = 36.13; SD = 7.71). The initial version of qu...

Perceived Risk Questionnaire in Canyoners: content validity, cross-validation a...

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire related to the risk perception in canyoning. Cross-validation and transcultural invariance, across Portugal and Spain, were also analysed. A total of 707 canyoners (81.3% males, 18.7% females) from Portugal (47.5%) and Spain (52.5%) participated in this study, with ages between 18 and 57 years old (M = 36.13; SD = 7.71). The initial version of qu...

Perceived risk questionnaire in canyoners: content validity, cross-validation a...

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire related to the risk perception in canyoning. Cross-validation and transcultural invariance, across Portugal and Spain, were also analysed. A total of 707 canyoners (81.3% males, 18.7% females) from Portugal (47.5%) and Spain (52.5%) participated in this study, with ages between 18 and 57 years old (M = 36.13; SD = 7.71). The initial version of qu...

Proposta de instrumento para avaliação da qualidade de serviços em Centros de F...

A venda de serviços predomina nas relações de consumo das sociedades contemporâneas, exigindo aumento contínuo da sua qualidade, obrigando prestadores de serviços a investir e monitorar continuamente a qualidade dessas entregas. O segmento fitness é um mercado em expansão com alta concorrência onde, equipamentos, espaço físico e modalidades não são fatores de diferenciação duráveis. Diante desse quadro, o objet...

Can a single session of a community-based group exercise program combining step...

Golfe e qualidade de serviços: Modelo Conceptual de Avaliação da Qualidade de S...

Procurando dar resposta à falta de modelos de avaliação da qualidade de serviços desportivos, nomeadamente na indústria do golfe, definimos como objectivo principal deste estudo a elaboração de um modelo conceptual de avaliação da qualidade de serviços desportivos de golfe, tendo por base as percepções de gestores, recursos humanos e clientes de campos de golfe de Portugal. A amostra é constituída por 36 gestor...

Materiais xistosos: aplicabilidade em pavimentos rodoviários

Neste estudo faz-se a caracterização, geotécnica e do comportamento mecânico, de dois materiais xistosos, pertencentes ao "Complexo Xisto-Graváquico", recolhidos no troço Raiva-Catraia dos Poços do Itinerário Complementar 7 (IC7) da rede rodoviária nacional, tendo como finalidade analisar a sua aplicabilidade em fundação e nas camadas granulares de pavimentos rodoviários. Procede-se ainda à análise dos resultad...