Principle Investigators: Hilbert v. Löhneysen, Christoph Sürgers, Detlef Beckmann CFN-Financed Scientists: Alexander Cosceev (BAT IIa, 6 months), Michael Marz (71% BAT IIa, 36 months), Heiko Stalzer (BAT IIa, 6 months), Niraj Joshi (BAT IIa, 12 months), Marc Müller (5/8 BAT IIa, 6 months), Oliver Berg (1/2 BAT IIa, 5,5 months), Sebastian Zaum (3/4 BAT IIa, 3 months) Further Scientists: Florian ...

Robot football combines microrobotics, artificial intelligence, multi agent real time control and dynamic vision sensing in a unique way. This paper discusses developments in each of these technologies resulting from over five years work by the University of Plymouth Mirosot robot football group. Problems encountered along the way are highlighted and various solutions presented. The limitations...

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BACKGROUND The literature dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of cervical spine injuries is considerable. Absent, however, are comprehensive criteria or guidelines for permitting or prohibiting return to collusion activities such as tackle football. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this report is to describe developmental and posttraumatic conditions of the cervical spine as presenting (1) no co...

Goals and Applications Our overall goal is to successfully predict the offensive play-calling decisions of college football coaches. We will attempt to make such predictions on the basis of data from past games and from previous plays in the current game. While there is extensive literature on machine learning in some other sports such as baseball, football has been relatively neglected; furthe...

Motivation – The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the thought processes of football decision-makers in natural setting. Research approach – Twelve French football players were observed during a specially designed study favourising counter-attacks. Players then watched a videotaped recording of their performance and provided the researcher with a verbal description of their cogn...

Imaging Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Football Players There has been an increasing awareness of the long-term neuropsychiatric pathologies associated with repeated mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and specifically sports-related concussive and subconcussive head impacts.1 While mTBI had been associated with diffusion tensor imaging evidence of diffusivity changes in soccer,2 American fo...

This research aimed to determine when kinetic changes place greatest risk for noncontact ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury during football cutting in match play. Fourteen professional football players undertook three trials of a straight line run and sidestep cutting at 30° and 60° with standardised velocity on an approved football surface. Two types of standardised studded football boots...

We investigate the effect of new facilities on attendance in professional baseball, basketball, and football from 1969 to 2001. We find a strong, persistent effect in baseball and basketball, and little effect in football. Size and duration estimates imply that baseball teams sell 2,500,794 additional tickets over the first eight seasons, basketball teams 293,878 over the first nine seasons, an...

IntroductIon After fevered media coverage of a possible link between football (soccer) heading and long-term damage to the brain, 2016 saw the Professional Footballers’ Association call for a review of the game to decide whether to follow the lead of the United States Soccer and ban heading for younger players. Given these concerns, and the fact the relevant Rules of Football were conceived ove...