Continuous play: leisure engagement in competitive fighting games and taekwondo
نویسندگان
چکیده
In order to better understand the development of play and games in modern lives, this article examines two competitive leisure groups: digital fighting game players traditional taekwondo practi...
منابع مشابه
Nash equilibrium in strictly competitive games: live play in soccer
I model a scoring situation that arises frequently during soccer matches. The Nash equilibrium solution is shown to be broadly consistent with the conventional wisdom of experts. Data on goals scored over an entire season in Italy’s soccer league provide statistical support for a prediction of the model’s Nash equilibrium. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
متن کاملCompetitive fighting in the rat.
Competitive fighting was obtained in pairs of like-sexed laboratory rats by placing a single piece of food into the food hopper following 48 hr. of food deprivation. The fighting was characterized by offensive sideways posture, full aggressive posture, and bite and kick attack. Tests were conducted at 110-120 days of age on pairs of animals that had been housed together since weaning. Fighting ...
متن کاملWeight loss practices in Taekwondo athletes of different competitive levels
This study investigated the prevalence, magnitude, and methods of rap-id weight loss among male and female Taekwondo athletes from all competitive levels. A questionnaire was administered to 72 men (regional/state level, n=31; national/international level, n=41) and 44 women (regional/state level, n=9; national/international, n=35). Among the male athletes, 77.4% of the regional/state level and...
متن کاملAdaptive AI for Fighting Games
Traditionally, AI research for games has focused on developing static strategies—fixed maps from the game state to a set of actions—which maximize the probability of victory. This works well for discovering facts about the game itself, and can be very successfully applied to combinatorial games like chess and checkers, where the personality and play style of the opponent takes a backseat to the...
متن کاملInternational Engagement Is Critical to Fighting Epidemics
I n the past 15 years, a series of infectious disease emergencies—the anthrax attacks in 2001, the rapid global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, the emergence and international spread of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), the largest Ebola epidemic on record, and the emergence and spread of Zika virus—hav...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of leisure research
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2159-6816', '1174-5398']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1865173