Background. Futsal has attracted many enthusiasts these days due to its special attractiveness as well as the skillful performance of players. Objectives. This research was aimed at analyzing the futsal strategic plan in Sulaymaniyah province and providing management solutions. Methods. The present research is a descriptive-analytical and applied research. The statistical population consisted...

We investigate the evolution and survival of decision making strategies for the Deterrence Game in a population of interacting agents. The Deterrence Game is a sequential, two player game that is used to study how player preference orderings affect the outcome in situations of conflict. Although there are twenty-four possible player preference orderings, only five are given serious theoretical ...

The system described in this paper is an attempt at developing a coach for sports using a virtual world and multimodal interaction, including brain activity. Users can ride a bicycle through a virtual world while the coach monitors the user’s performance. The system incorporates the user’s brain activity, heart rate and respiration rate. These data are analyzed and the features are sent through...

Using domain knowledge to speed up learning is widely accepted but theory revision of such knowledge continues to use general syntactic operators. Using such operators for theory revision of teleoreactive logic programs is especially expensive in which proof of a top-level goal involves playing a game. In such contexts, one should have the option to complement general theory revision with domai...

As agent relationships become more complex, one challenging relationship that merits study is that of coach or adviser to another agent. Our research on coaching refers to one autonomous agent providing advice to another autonomous agent about how to act. In this paper, we first describe the current state of the coach agent framework we are developing. One of our goals is to design a coach agen...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the overall incidence of acute and overuse volleyball injuries, and to describe factors associated with ankle sprains. METHODS 486 players from the second and third Dutch national volleyball divisions participated in the study and were followed prospectively during a whole season. Three measurements were made during the season (baseline, follow up 1, and follow up 2), wh...

a valid questionnaire is a precursor to a sound measurement process. this study examined the psychometric properties of the persian version of the revised competitive state anxiety inventory – 2 (csai-2r). a total of 131 female taekwondo athletes (mean age =12.37 ± 2.52) from damghan completed csai-2r at competition venues. confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyze the structure of csai-...

The aims of this study were to analyze the peak physical demands in elite futsal by quantifying most demanding scenarios match play and identify differences between playing positions (defenders, wingers, pivots) seasonal trend for five different rolling average time windows (30, 60, 120, 180, 300 s). external load from distance, speed, acceleration, deceleration variables obtained 14 players us...

Research objective: To determine if using a personal digital assistant (PDA) reduced the need for personal supports and improved work performance and competence among adult workers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Design: Waitlisted randomised controlled trial (RCT) with two intervention groups: the experimental group received the PDA intervention upon starting their job placement; the cont...

This paper explores whether and how facial displays of emotion can impact emergence of cooperation in a social dilemma. Three experiments are described where participants play the iterated prisoner’s dilemma with (computer) players that display emotion. Experiment 1 compares a cooperative player, whose displays reflect a goal of mutual cooperation, with a control player that shows no emotion. E...