These experiments investigate people’s knowledge of routine activities (e.g., eating in a restaurant, visiting a dentist) and how that knowledge is organized and used to understand and remember narrative texts. We use the term script to refer to these action stereotypes. Two studies collected script norms: people described what goes on in detail during familiar activities. They largely agreed o...

Computer vision has a great potential to help our daily lives by searching for lost keys, watering flowers or reminding us to take a pill. To succeed with such tasks, computer vision methods need to be trained from real and diverse examples of our daily dynamic scenes. While most of such scenes are not particularly exciting, they typically do not appear on YouTube, in movies or TV broadcasts. S...

We examined the effects of visual control training on expert wheelchair basketball shooting, a skill more difficult than in regular basketball, as players shoot from a seated position to the same rim height. The training consisted of shooting with a visual constraint that forced participants to use target information as late as possible. Participants drove under a large screen that initially bl...

Shooting training is associated with exposure to a considerable amount of unique noise. We wanted to evaluate noise exposure during such training. Our observations especially apply to professional sport shooters, but they are also valid for shooting coaches/instructors. We collected acoustic signals in 10-, 25- and 50-m as well as open-air shooting ranges. The recorded material was analysed wit...

This paper investigates spatial and visual analytics as means to enhance basketball expertise. We introduce CourtVision, a new ensemble of analytical techniques designed to quantify, visualize, and communicate spatial aspects of NBA performance with unprecedented precision and clarity. We propose a new way to quantify the shooting range of NBA players and present original methods that measure, ...

There are two basic strategies used for carrying out the illumi nation computation the gathering strategy in which light reaching a point from all directions is simulated and the shooting strategy in which light emitted from a point in all directions is simulated Based on the strategy used all the existing methods can be classi ed into two broad categories namely gathering methods and shooting ...

In this paper, we present a variational integrator that is based on an approximation of the Euler–Lagrange boundary-value problem via Taylor’s method. This can be viewed as a special case of the shooting-based variational integrator. The Taylor variational integrator exploits the structure of the Taylor method, which results in a shooting method that is one order higher compared to other shooti...

To determine what factors are associated with successful free throw (FT) shooting in wheelchair basketball and to examine the relationship between shooting mechanics and player classification, a biomechanical analysis of clean shots was undertaken. Significant differences were observed between the player classes in FT shooting mechanics employed for a clean shot. Players from Classes 1 and 2 te...

This paper presents work on document retrieval based on participation in the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2001 task of non-English monolingual retrieval task using French only. In summary, the experiment findings indicate that Okapi, the text retrieval system in use, can successfully be used for non-English text retrieval although a lot of internal pre-processing is required in the ba...

We discuss the effects of particle-vibration coupling on the shell structure of nuclei near the neutron drip line by choosing, as examples, 10Be and 24O cores. In particular, we calculate the energy shifts of single-particle neutron states induced by the interaction with collective modes. In the case of the 10Be core, the coupling to 2+ states is responsible, within our model, of narrowing the ...