Digital games can be used not only for fun and entertainment. The term ‘serious games’ denotes digital games serving serious purposes like education, training, advertising, research, and health. In the contribution the chances and challenges of serious games for computer science in sport will be discussed. Serious games, particularly adventure and shooter games, already play an important role i...

the main aim of this study was to identify and present indicators and standards necessary for security management of sport facilities. these standards were recognized via a set of interviews and questionnaires through delphi method. the revised questionnaire of panteza et al. (2003) with 0.89 of reliability and interviews were used to collect data. the subjects were selected from purposeful sam...

the goal of this research is the evaluation of some of the effective environmental attractions on khorasan razavi’s sports tourism development. the research statistical population include of all in charge expert and professors in field of sport and tourism as 120 persons. this research is past-event descriptive that had been performed based on field method. sampling had been performed as catego...

The communications of emergency response managers were tracked during simulated catastrophic events at a university campus in the Washington, D.C. region. Local, state, and federal response managers interacted with each other and with students using a variety of communication media in order to investigate the utility of new communication channels for emergency response management. Students and ...

In today’s highly dynamic and uncertain environment, peripheral vision is critical for organizational survival and prosperity. In accessing complex and ambiguous information, managers often resort to personal sources. While IT is found to improve the quality and quantity of information from well-structured databases and knowledge systems, its role in facilitating access of personal information ...

On August 19, 2009, Caster Semenya, South African track star, won a gold medal in the women's 800-meter event. According to media reports, on the same day, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ordered Semenya to undergo gender verification testing. This article critically assesses the main concepts and claims that undergird international sport organizations' policies re...

This communication presents a phonostylistic description of sport live media reports, contrasting three different sports, basketball, football (‘soccer’) and rugby. It is based on 12minute long recordings for each sport. The corpus is aligned at a phone level with EasyAlign, and manually annotated for the type of event in the game. It is analyzed with ProsoReport and ProsoDyn tools, a set of Pr...

Sport has high social valence and is a primary context for physical activity for the majority of youth. Moreover, the number of youth competing in sports at national and international levels continues to increase. As a consequence of emphasis on sport, many children and adolescents are encouraged to begin specialized, systematic training in a sport at relatively young ages with the goal of atta...