The Stream Control Transmissionn Protocol (SCTP) is a new transport layer protocol definedd inn RFC 2960. It was developedd by researchers from industry andd universities withh the focus of transporting telecommunications signaling informationn over IP basedd networks. It is a window based, reliable protocol withh a congestionn control mechanism similar to TCP, but it also ha s several new feat...

Commotio cordis is ventricular fibrillation that results from blunt chest trauma and is a life threatening condition; early resuscitation and defibrillation are critical. This may occur during sporting events or from child abuse and most patients are boys who are younger than 16 years. Commotio cordis' prognosis depends on the availability of cardiac defibrillation. Automatic defibrillators at ...

When traditional fixed-viewpoint video of an event is rendered, the only viewpoint available for playback is that of the camera that recorded the event. Free-viewpoint video (FVV) attempts to break this restriction by allowing the specification of the viewpoint at the point of rendering rather than the point of recording. This work proposes to apply the techniques of FVV to video recorded at ou...

Anaerobic capacity/anaerobically attributable power is an important parameter for athletic performance, not only for short high-intensity activities but also for breakaway efforts and end spurts during endurance events. Unlike aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity cannot be easily quantified. The 3 most commonly used methodologies to quantify anaerobic capacity are the maximal accumulated oxygen...

The Albany Stale Oreat Danes baseball team enters the I983 season with a youthful look in the field and on the bench. The Danes lineup will feature live new starters and a rookie manager. "My goal is always to have a better record than the year before," Albany Slate baseball head coach Dave Haighl said. "Improvement over the year before Is-always Important." Haight in his first year as pilot of...

television viewing of sports events is estimated to be 77 billion hours per year.2 One might add to this several hundreds of millions of hours spent in discussion at the water cooler. Designing an optimal contest is both a matter of significant financial concern for the organizers, participating individuals, and teams, and a matter of consuming personal interest for millions of fans. Not surpri...

In this paper we present a framework that allows for the automatic identification of sporting activities using commonly available smartphones. We extract discriminative informational features from smartphone accelerometers using the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Despite the poor quality of their accelerometers, smartphones were used as capture devices due to their prevalence in today's soci...

In a sporting context, it has been acknowledged that fan attention and response to sponsorship is affected by a range of variables, including the duration of sponsorship and fan commitment to the sporting organisation. The results of surveys of the members of five AFL clubs indicated that there is a positive relationship between the satisfaction level of season-ticket holders and their orientat...

From its initial inception in 1903 as a race premised on a publicity stunt to sell newspapers, the Tour de France had grown and evolved over time to become one of the most difficult and heralded sporting events in the world. Though sporting science and the Tour paralleled each other, it was not until the midlate 1980s, and especially the midlate 1990s (with the use of heart-rate monitors) that ...

The urgent need to increase productivity and competitiveness demands from sporting craft builders the incorporation of newer design and manufacturing technologies, as CAD/CAM and CNC machining systems. This paper describes the sporting boats’ 3D surface modelling, needed for automated manufacturing processes, throug terrestrial laser scanner technology. The methodology followed for data collect...