Volunteers have long been regarded as an essential part of the staging major sport events both to encourage community participation and contain labour costs. Major often attract a large pool applicants which exceeds number volunteer positions available. Selecting best qualified for available requires selection processes that are fair, effective, efficient from event organising committee perspec...

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The relationship between sport and the environment has been primarily examined to understand how impacts natural environment. However, as influence of climate change become more apparent, there is a need establish systematic understanding on operations sport. aim this review take stock existing literature change's organized competitive entities, with further attention paid their adaptation effo...

My purpose is to introduce the psychological perspective (or perspectives) on stress. In doing so, I will focus on conceptual models or frameworks that guide sport and exercise psychology work on stress, leaving the details of the research findigs and implications to the later papers (Berger, 1994; Dishman, 1994; Wrisberg, 1994). Rather than detailed research, this paper presents a framework or...

Correct classification of various kinds of scenes in sport videos is essential for higher-level content analysis such as event detection. The paper presents a novel technique for the classification of the typical scenes of baseball videos. The spatial color features are employed to detect pitch scene first. The temporal features derived from a shot are utilized to classify infield and outfield ...

Volunteers are a valuable set of human resources for any sporting event, and various studies have been conducted in different contexts to understand volunteers’ psychological characteristics. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of motivations on individual’s volunteer satisfaction using a modified version of Bang and Chelladurai’s (2003) Volunteer Motivations Scale for Internatio...

Sprint is an important sporting event in track and field competition, in which, athletes’ pre-competition anxiety will greatly affect them in bringing into play their competence, which will then influence their final performance in the competition. For this reason, to study the correlation between sprinters’ pre-competition anxiety and their competition performance is of great significance in p...