BACKGROUND A quality improvement initiative was created during the 2014 Africa Goal campaign, which uses live screenings of FIFA World Cup football matches as a platform for local organizations to provide HIV outreach and services in East and Southern Africa. MATERIALS AND METHODS Survey data assessed attendees' baseline knowledge of HIV and prevalence of prior testing. RESULTS The data sho...

he ultimate goal of the RoboCup initiative is stated as follows [1]: By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous hu-manoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, comply with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup. We consider this goal from the perspective of how close we are to it and what has to be done to reach it. What does it mean to imp...

he ultimate goal of the RoboCup initiative is stated as follows [1]: By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous hu-manoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, comply with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup. We consider this goal from the perspective of how close we are to it and what has to be done to reach it. What does it mean to imp...

Many psychology experiments show that individually judged probabilities of the same event can vary depending on the partition of the state space (a framing effect called "partitiondependence"). We show that these biases transfer to competitive prediction markets in which multiple informed traders are provided economic incentives to bet on their beliefs about events. We report results of a short...

The results of recent studies on prediction markets are encouraging. Prior experience demonstrates that markets with different incentive schemes predicted uncertain future events at a remarkable accuracy. In this paper, we study the impact of different monetary incentives on the prediction accuracy in a field experiment. In order to do so, we compare three groups of users, corresponding to thre...

Among the many technical and tactical aspects of the behavior of players, the goals are the most studied. The goal is the key to success for teams and its analysis in all matches of a major futsal tournament (World Cup) that allows multiple assessments. The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of the first goal for the final result in the futsal match, identifying the team that scored th...