Levels of phenolic glycosides and protein inßuence the quality of aspen leaves to herbivorous insects, and vary in relation to genetic and environmental factors. This research was conducted to assess the independent and interactive effects of phenolic glycosides and protein on the performance and detoxication enzyme activities of gypsy moths, Lymantria dispar (L.), and forest tent caterpillars,...

This paper presents a new media production for sports event like a soccer match. Multiple cameras capture a soccer match at stadium. The soccer match can be observed at arbitrary viewpoints selected by each viewer. Video at the arbitrary viewpoints is synthesized from the videos captured with the actual cameras by image-based view interpolation technique. Our view interpolation method does not ...

We formulate a general framework for the construction of hyperbolic billiards. Spherical symmetry is exploited for a simple treatment of billiards with spherical caps and soft billiards in higher dimensions. Other examples include the Papenbrock stadium.

Does a country’s income inequality affect its citizens’ quest for equality in leisure? To answer this question, the letter investigates impact of competitive balance on fan demand (stadium attendance) European men’s football over 2006-18 period, splitting leagues into groups depending their inequality. Competitive has significant negative stadium attendance countries with lowest and positive hi...

INTRODUCTION: Pre-crisis planning is one of the important issues facing managers and planners, especially in the field of crisis management. In recent years, the world has faced an increasing number of natural and man-made disasters, such as earthquakes. Moreover, the growing effect of disasters on communities has highlighted the need for efficient and effective emergency logistics operations i...

In this article, we show tow examples for the application of pedestrian flow simulation and analysis: the World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne and the egress (non-emergency) from a football stadium. Various circumstances are specific for religious events. The persons might perform rituals and therefore the pat-terns of movement or gathering are governed by rules that go beyond simple necessity or co...

This paper describes experiments carried out to automatically transcribe football commentaries in Dutch, English and German for multimedia indexing. Our results show that the high levels of stadium noise in the material create a task that is extremely difficult for conventional ASR. The baseline WERs vary from 83% to 94% for the three languages investigated. Employing state-of-the-art noise rob...