Several football stadiums were built or renovated in France for hosting the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship. This study examines to what extent financial support by local governments stadium construction renovation induces soft budget constraints (SBC) professional sports clubs. We address research question based on a quantitative case context of and eight that took place between 2012 ...

'n Belangrike aspek wat dikwels met betrekking tot die huidige verpleegpersoneelkrisis verontagsaam word, is dat veral jonger verpleegkundiges aan besondere emosionele spanninge onderworpe is en dus persoonlike ondersteuning nodig het. Hierdie spanninge spruit voort uit faktore in die samelewing, die jong mens self, die verpleegberoep en dieonderrigsituasie. Emosionele ondersteuning van die stu...

In Clark v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court was faced with two main questions: Does Arizona's insanity defense statute, with its abridged M'Naughten standard, violate the Fourteenth Amendment? And does Arizona case law, with its complete prohibition on the use of mental disease or defect evidence to combat required mens rea elements of a crime, violate due process? In a six-three decision, the ...

The paper is focused on mathematical modelling and computer simulation of the anaerobic fermentation mechanism for neutral or slightly acid and acid fermentation. Degradation of organic substances to final products, methane and carbon dioxide, involves their coordinated metabolic cooperation. A product of one microorganism group turns into substrate for the subsequent ones. Generally, the studi...

With the increase in realism of games based in stadiums and urban environments, real-time crowds are becoming essential in order to provide a believable environment. However, realism is still largely lacking due to the computation required. In this paper, we describe the pipeline of work needed in order to prepare and export models from a 3D modelling package into a crowd system. For our crowd,...

Mobile personalization is frequently discussed, and has been shown in relation to a number of usage scenarios. However, this research has focused mainly on technology development. There have been few studies of mobile user experience, and personalization in sports. This paper is devoted to the new field of studying the user experience related to mobile personalization at large sports events (LS...

More often homeland security, disaster mitigation and military operations are performed in urban environments. Time consuming, labor intensive and possibly dangerous tasks like bomb detection, searchand-rescue and reconnaissance done with robots could save resources. An aerial robot capable of flying in closed quarters like warehouses, stadiums, underground parking lots and tunnels is featured....