background: grip strength is one of the important criteria in determining the physical fitness of all people, especially athletes. the purpose of this study was to compare the hand-grip strength of young highly trained male athletes of different fields and the effect of some anthropometric indices on it. methods: this cross-sectional study was done on 78 athletes of four fields -wrestling, badm...

A lot of money is involved with the transfers of top players in the big European football leagues. For various reasons, obtaining a good economic valuation of football players throughout the year is valuable, in other words, not just when a player has just transferred. Furthermore, it is relevant to consider how the market value of a player relates to the performance of that player. Both these ...

The plethora of actors, the complexity of relationships and the variety of information and financial flows affecting the mobile entertainment arena today, have created a series of challenging business opportunities for entrepreneurs and key market players. The evolving and quite promising mobile music market, however, is suffering from the luck of integrated theoretical frameworks critical for ...

if global trade were fair, it is argued, then international aid would be unnecessary and inequalities inherent to the economic system would be justifiable. here, we argue that while global trade is unfair, in part because richer countries set the rules, we believe that additional interventions must go beyond trade regulation and short-term aid to redress inequalities among countries that will p...

This paper discusses the linguistic knowledge extraction from the iterative execution of a multiplayer non-cooperative repeated game. Linguistic knowledge is automatically extracted in the form of fuzzy if-then rules. Our knowledge extraction is mainly based on the on-line incremental learning of fuzzy rule-based systems. In this sense, our linguistic knowledge extraction is the learning of fuz...

The recent events of the “Black Friday” – the biggest online poker networks in the USA were shut down – demonstrated the necessity to make decisions about the regulation of online poker. But although online poker is a gold mine of data, until now nobody knows where the players and their money come from. It seems that the knowledge about the online poker market has not been able to keep up with ...

Hydrogen fuel cells are increasingly seen as the propulsion technology of the future for road transport. However, despite the potential of this technology to reduce the environmental impact of road transport and to improve energy efficiency, both technical and economic barriers need to be overcome for it to be successfully introduced in mass markets. At Imperial College we are currently underta...

Cloud Computing enables the dynamic provision of resources on-demand over the Internet. The key advantage for users is that data becomes accessible from anywhere and at any time. However, to the extent that they lose control over the infrastructure, users can no longer control the way data can be accessed by them or by others. This is likely to negatively affect the fundamental rights of end-us...

The m-business landscape never stops to change and the impacts on the mobile market are constant as players reposition themselves on the market according to the new opportunities and threats brought by rapid technological developments. This paper proposes a conceptual tool to better understand this player arena. Its objective is to provide the researchers with an ontology for analyzing and asse...