The aim of this study was to examine the determinants of successful and unsuccessful fast-break (FB) actions in elite and sub-elite basketball games. Fifteen 1st-division (elite) and fifteen 3rd-division (sub-elite) Italian men's championship games were analysed across two seasons (2012/2013 and 2013/2014). A binary logistic regression analysis was performed, and the fast-break outcome (success...

This article reviews contemporary elite theory in political sociology and political science. The concept of ‘elites’ is based on the notion that every society holds a ruling minority, a group that controls and disputes the most important power sources. Not only do elites dispute power (reaching different levels of conflict and violence), but new elites also enter the game through different mech...

A series of projects attempted to explore a southern perspective for global visual art. The South Project was a series of gatherings across the latitude to develop a southsouth network and conversation. This was followed by an intellectual push through Southern Theory to diversity academic frameworks beyond the trans-Atlantic. The application of this to visual arts was explored with the project...

This study examines the reasons for officiating soccer among Norwegian elite and non-elite referees. Eighty-three elite referees and 44 non-elite referees completed a web-based questionnaire (SurveyXact) that solicited their three main reasons for officiating soccer. The data were obtained by bracketing, intuiting, and describing their different reasons. Three main categories of descriptions em...

We propose a dedicated tabu search algorithm (TSX_WDP) for the winner determination problem (WDP) in combinatorial auctions. TSX_WDP integrates two complementary neighborhoods designed respectively for intensification and diversification. To escape deep local optima, TSX_WDP employs a backbone-based recombination operator to generate new starting points for tabu search and to displace the searc...

We introduce a new multi-objective optimization (MOO) methodology based the splitting technique for rare-event simulation. The method generalizes the elite set selection of the traditional splitting framework, and uses both local and global sampling to sample in the decision space. In addition, an ε-dominance method is employed to maintain good solutions. The algorithm was compared with state-o...

Background Research shows that the prevalence of lower back (LBP) pain is high among rowers [1,2]. Previous methods of data collection on LBP in the Australia Rowing Team (ART) do not allow for comparison against other rowing populations. The purpose of this study was to collect the current prevalence of LBP across senior elite Australian rowers at one point in time, using methods comparable to...

Sport has high social valence and is a primary context for physical activity for the majority of youth. Moreover, the number of youth competing in sports at national and international levels continues to increase. As a consequence of emphasis on sport, many children and adolescents are encouraged to begin specialized, systematic training in a sport at relatively young ages with the goal of atta...

Soheil Salahshour 1, Ali Ahmadian 2, Fudziah Ismail 2 and Dumitru Baleanu 3,4,* 1 Young Researchers and Elite Club, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh Branch, Mobarakeh, Iran; [email protected] 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Universti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Selangor, Malaysia; [email protected] (A.A.); [email protected] (F.I.) 3 Department of Mathematics and...

attribution theory is one of the psychological dynamic theories that explainsand describes people's perception of facts. therefore, the aim of this research wasto study success and failure attributions in athletes and coaches. the population ofthis study consisted of athletes and coaches of national teams (elite) and clubteams (sub–elite) in swimming, badminton, karate, taekwondo, table te...