This study quantified the position-, duration-, and phase-of-play specific peak locomotor characteristics of senior professional rugby league match-play at a multi-club level. Match-play data were collected from 378 male players, 11 clubs, across two competitive seasons. A total 9643 match-observations analysed; 10-Hz instantaneous velocity acceleration Catapult S5 microtechnology units aligned...

The Standard Platform League is a soccer league at the annual RoboCup world championships in which teams of five humanoid robots play against each other. In 2014, the Dropin Player Competition was added to the league to serve as a testbed for cooperation without pre-coordination. Instead of homogeneous robot teams that are programmed by each team to implicitly work together, this competition fe...

The article attempts to examine the question of reasons that led League Arab States (LAS) be in crisis, and what extent ideological basis — unity was realistic. author analyses various elements define concept show their contradictory nature. examines activities LAS, which did not achieve its main goal unity, only realized a relative consolidation member states on confrontation with Israel uphol...

The UT Austin Villa team, from the University of Texas at Austin, won the 2014 RoboCup 3D Simulation League, finishing with an undefeated record. During the course of the competition the team scored 52 goals and conceded none. Additionally the team won the RoboCup 3D Simulation League technical challenge by accumulating the most points over a series of three league challenges: drop-in player, r...

Global vision systems as found in the small size league are prohibited in the middle size league. This paper presents methods for creating a global view of the world by cooperative sensing of a team of robots. We develop a multiobject tracking algorithm based on Kalman filtering and a single-object tracking method involving a combination of Kalman filtering and Markov localization for outlier d...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the physiological and anthropometric characteristics of amateur rugby league players. METHODS Thirty five amateur rugby league players (19 forwards and 16 backs) were measured for height, body mass, percentage body fat (sum of four skinfolds), muscular power (vertical jump), speed (10 m and 40 m sprint), and maximal aerobic power (multistage fitness test). Data were ...

This study investigated the physical qualities that discriminated state-based rugby league players competing for selection in a semiprofessional rugby league team, and determined the relationship between tests of physical qualities and physical match performance in these players. Thirty-two rugby league players (mean ± SD age, 24 ± 3 years) from a Queensland Cup rugby league squad participated ...

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