Anthropometric measurements were collected from a group of Australian Rules footballers at the start and end of the competitive season. Eighty-nine players were studied, drawn from a top level professional league team, a second level association team and an A-grade amateur association team. Changes in the physical profile of these players during the season were observed. A small but significant...

Although conflict is widely acknowledged as critical to virtual teams, little is known regarding the interplay between different types of conflict and the corresponding conflict management styles in virtual teams. This paper examines the influence of relationship as well as process conflict on team performance together with adequate conflict management styles. Using survey and archival data fro...

This paper describes the design of the RoboRoos, a fully autonomous robot soccer team. A soccer robot has similar needs to a human soccer player; fast and agile motion, good control of the ball, strong kicking ability, robust navigation and coordination of actions with other members of the team. Each robot is mechanically designed to meet these needs of a competitive soccer player. Mechanically...

Multi-agent systems are an increasingly important software paradigm and in many of its applications agents cooperate to achieve a particular goal. This requires the design of efficient collaboration protocols, a typical example of which is team formation. In this paper, we illustrate how probabilistic model checking, a technique for formal verification of probabilistic systems, can be applied t...

TEAM THAT GIVES ITS BEST. Football is the most practiced sport in world, and admittedly one of biggest cultural manifestations Brazil. Its size importance impact many fields science. In this work, a playful interactive activity proposed, which allows so beloved national Chemistry to be united fun reflective way, through selection dream team. Each team can formed by desired tactical lineup, plac...

Team sport athletes face a variety of nutritional challenges related to recovery during the competitive season. The purpose of this article is to review nutrition strategies related to muscle regeneration, glycogen restoration, fatigue, physical and immune health, and preparation for subsequent training bouts and competitions. Given the limited opportunities to recover between training bouts an...

Based on some results of the fuzzy network computation and competitive analysis, the Online Fuzzy Most Reliable Path Problem (OFRP), which is one of the most important problems in network optimization with uncertainty, has been originally proposed by our team. In this paper, the preliminaries about fuzzy and the most reliable path and competitive analysis are given first. Following that, the ma...

C in firm governance is often associated with inbound and outbound movements of key decision makers. This research extends that observation by treating mobility as a trigger of demographic change in management teams that, in turn, influences organizational survival. Mobility occasions transformations in demographic profiles both within a firm and among firms sharing a competitive arena. In the ...

There are some industries whose strategic innovations are easier and faster to replicate because the products are mostly commodities, one of such industries is the fast-moving consumer goods industry (FMCG). In the fast-moving consumer goods industry, companies face a very difficult, if not almost impossible, task developing a competitive advantage based on differentiation or low cost strategie...

A large group of autonomous, mobile entities e.g. robots initially placed at some arbitrary node of the graph has to jointly visit all nodes (not necessarily all edges) and finally return to the initial position. The graph is not known in advance (an online setting) and robots have to traverse an edge in order to discover new parts (edges) of the graph. The team can locally exchange information...