This study analysed the intensity and direction of referee’s emotions 24 to 48 hours before a game, looking into relation between stress, cognitive appraisal, performance perception. Participants were 708 football referees, 91.2% male 8.8% female. The results indicate higher prevalence positive rather than negative showing that, when perceived as facilitating referees’ sports performance, they ...

We present a distributed system, Dott, for approximately solving the Trav-eling Salesman Problem (TSP) based on the Teamwork method. So-called experts and specialists work independently and in parallel for given time periods. For TSP, specialists are tour construction algorithms and experts use modiied genetic algorithms in which after each application of a genetic operator the resulting tour i...

We present a dialogue collection and enrichment framework that is designed to explore the learning and evaluation of dialogue policies for simple conversational characters using textual training data. To facilitate learning and evaluation, our framework enriches a collection of role-play dialogues with additional training data, including paraphrases of user utterances, and multiple independent ...

Visual perspective taking is a fundamental feature of the human social brain. Previous research has mainly focused on explicit visual perspective taking and contrasted brain activation for other-versus self-perspective judgments. This produced a conceptual gap to theory of mind studies, where researchers mainly compared activation for taking another's mental perspective to non-mental control co...

The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) is a technology that changing the behavior of referees, players, managers, and fans in soccer. This scoping review mapped studies on use VAR An electronic database searching was performed November 2020 using Medline/PubMed, Scopus, Web Science. Studies analyzed field referees or video assistants addressed professional soccer were eligible. Studies’ characterist...