BACKGROUND In England, rugby union is a popular sport and is widely played within schools. Despite the large participation numbers, the movement and physical demands of the sport and how they progress by age have not been explored. METHOD Ninety-six male rugby union players wore microtechnology devices during six rugby union matches within the education pathway to investigate the movement and...

In this study, we examined the stressors experienced by British tennis-parents. The parents (n = 123) completed an extensive survey focused on the internal and external demands that they had encountered through having a child compete in the sport. The survey consisted of open-ended questions related to competition, coaching, organizational, personal, and developmental issues. Inductive and dedu...

Indoor hockey is a highly competitive international sport, yet no research to date has investigated the key actions within this sport. As with outdoor field hockey, penalty corners represent one of the most likely situations in which goals can be scored. All 36 matches of the round-robin phase of the 2010-2011 England Hockey League Women's Premier Division 'Super Sixes' competition were analyse...

objective: memory and concentration may be affected by hemodialysis in end-stage renal disease. in this study, changes in cognitive function parameters such as attention, impulsiveness, and reaction time were measured and evaluated in the iranian hemodialysing patients. methods: in this analytic observational study, cognitive function of 38 hemodialysis patients was measured before and after he...

We tackle the problem of scheduling the matches of a round robin tournament for a sport league. We formally deene the problem, state its computational complexity, and present a solution algorithm using a two-step approach. The rst step is the creation of a tournament pattern and is based on known graph-theoretic results. The second one is a constraint-based depth-rst branch and bound procedure ...

In the paper the problem of the recognition of trademarks placed on banners which are visible during a sport television broadcast is described and experimentally investigated. It constitutes the second stage of the process of the analysis of the banners, e.g. in order to estimate the time that a particular banner is visible and can exert influence on the customers’ behaviour. Banners placed nea...

Officially organized, spectator driven eSport tournaments occur within the notoriously transgressive and ruthless game EVE Online. In these tournaments spying, bribing and throwing matches is commonplace. Based on results from interviews with competitors and spectators, this paper discusses the appeal of this unique eSport and explores the way in which the relatively ‘unbounded’ approach in EVE...

The last FIFA World Cup in Brazil presented the ambition of a global event, referring both to the number of audiences and the number of platforms involved in its coverage. Taking the advantages promoted by social media platforms and mobile technologies, media companies had the opportunity to try new strategies in a truly ambient information reality. Taking into account the development of Twitte...