Feminist scholars of nationalisms acknowledge the gendered character national identity. Due to their association with heterosexual masculinity, sports teams are one avenue through which manifest. Football (soccer) represents peak sporting masculinity and identity around world. Following inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1991, women’s football continues gain global popularity, raising questions abo...

We have made a robot soccer model using LEGO Mindstorms robots, which was shown at RoboCup98 during the World Cup in soccer in France 1998. For the robot soccer model, we constructed a stadium out of LEGO pieces, including stadium light, rolling commercials, moving cameras projecting images to big screens, scoreboard and approximately 1500 small LEGO spectators who made the “Mexican wave” as kn...

These studies examined whether having thoughts related to an event before it occurs leads people to infer that they caused the event--even when such causation might otherwise seem magical. In Study 1, people perceived that they had harmed another person via a voodoo hex. These perceptions were more likely among those who had first been induced to harbor evil thoughts about their victim. In Stud...

In the context of Sustainable Development Goals interest and concerns about environmental impact major sporting events have become increasingly widespread, voiced not only by organizers, but also spectators residents affected areas, as well politicians institutional representatives host territories. There are multiple studies economic, social, legal impacts sport events. Although several pointe...

ESports tournaments, such as Dota 2’s The International (TI), attract millions of spectators to watch broadcasts on online streaming platforms, to communicate, and to share their experience and emotions. Unlike traditional streams, tournament broadcasts lack a streamer figure to which spectators can appeal directly. Using topic modelling and crosscorrelation analysis of more than three million ...

This paper explores the way push technology was used to support spectators during the International Swedish Rally, 2000. The Swedish Radio used SMS in their reports from the event, approximately they pushed 500 messages to each subscriber during the weekend. The messages contained information about the rally and the local traffic situation. The subscribers of the services were a selected group ...

Some results indicate that quantum information based on quantum physics is more powerful than classical one. In this paper, we propose new tricks based on quantum physics. Our tricks are methods inspired by the strategies of quantum game theory. In these tricks, magicians have the ability of quantum physics, but spectators have only classical one. We propose quantum tricks such that, by manipul...

Abstract Historians of modern India have emphasized the reflexivity men and women in making womanhood, paying attention to notions gender difference emerging from both primordial, restrictive codes behaviour contrarian impulses towards what was popularly called progress. There been relatively few attempts trace interaction outdoor leisure activities, public displays femininity, male regulatory ...

The authors focus on spectators’ judgements on the performance quality in opera. The results of a field study conducted in Dessau Opera House revealed the single components (e.g. orchestra) and the congruency components (e.g. congruency between the music and the staging dimension) which contribute to operagoers’ overall quality judgements. Spectators’ individual judgements were found to be high...

We have made a robot soccer model using LEGO Mindstorms robots, which was shown at RoboCup98 during the World Cup in soccer in France 1998. We developed the distributed behaviour-based approach in order to make a robust and high performing robot soccer demonstration. Indeed, our robots scored in an average of 75-80constructed a stadium out of LEGO pieces, including stadium light, rolling commer...