Historically, cognitive researchers have largely ignored the domain of sport in their quest to understand how the mind works. This neglect is due, in part, to the limitations of the information processing paradigm that dominated cognitive psychology in its formative years. With the emergence of the embodiment approach to cognition, however, sport has become a dynamic natural laboratory in which...

In two experiments, we explored how novice and expert athletes represent the everyday and sport-specific objects and actions that they read about. Novice and expert ice hockey players (Experiment 1) and football players (Experiment 2) read sentences describing everyday or sport-specific situations and then judged whether a pictured item (either matching the action implied in the previous senten...

The purposes of the study were to evaluate corporate social responsibility (CSR) and developing a novel Intuitionistic Fuzzy Importance–performance Analysis (IFIPA) for sport tourism event. IFIPA implies intuitionistic fuzzy theory to Importance–performance Analysis (IPA) for providing a promising decisionmaking value when IPA encounters uncertain situations. The results indicated that the prop...

The focus of researchers, media and policy on doping in cycling is often limited to the professional level of the sport. However, anti-doping test results since 2001 demonstrate that banned substances are also used by US cyclists at lower levels of the sport, necessitating a broader view of the patterns and motivations of substance use within the sport. In this article, we describe and explain ...

Sport and exercise contribute to health well-being in cities. While previous research has mainly focused on activities at specific locations such as sport facilities, "informal sport" that occur arbitrary across the city have been largely neglected. Such are more challenging observe, but this challenge may be addressed using data collected from social media platforms, because users regularly ge...

This paper aims to propose a reliable location-allocation model where facilities are subject to the risk of disruptions. Since service facilities are expected to satisfy random and heavy demands, we model the congested situations in the system within a queuing framework which handles two sources of uncertainty associated with demand and service. To insure the service quality, a minimum limit re...

background : clinical decision making as a major part of the performance of professional nursing is the distinctive factor of professional nurses and non-professional health care personnel. this study aimed to assess the relationship between the exercise and physical activity and the nurses’ collaboration in clinical decision making in al-zahra hospital, isfahan, iran. methods: th descriptive-c...