The strange three-dimensional flight behaviour of slowly spinning soccer balls is one of the most interesting and unknown phenomenon associated with the trajectories of sports balls. Many spectators have experienced numerous exciting and emotional instances while observing the curious flight behaviour of these balls. We examine the aerodynamic mechanisms of erratic ball behaviours through real ...

The interplay between spectator and participant matter in heavy-ion collisions is investigated in the context of a microscopic transport model. Transport simulations show that flow patterns for the participant matter are strongly influenced by the presence of the nearby spectator matter. However, the influence is mutual. During the explosion of the participant zone, the spectator matter acquire...

The 18th FIFA Soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany enthused millions of people worldwide, but only little is known about the association of such an event with cardiovascular events. Modest physical activity is known to reduce the cardiovascular risk significantly. On the other hand, vigorous physical activity and emotional strain increase the cardiovascular risk and the incidence of cardiovascular ...

The frequency subband scalefactors are fundamental components of MPEG-1 audio encoded bitstreams. Examination of scalefactor weights is sufficient for the establishment of an audio amplitude profile of an audio track. If, for sports programme TV broadcasts, the audio amplitude is assumed to primarily reflect the noise level exhibited by the commentator (and/or attending spectators), then, this ...

We investigated an individual ability to identify whether choices were made freely or forced by external parameters. We capitalized on magical setups where the notion of psychological forcing constitutes a well trodden path. In live stage magic, a magician guessed cards from spectators while inquiring how freely they thought they had made the choice. Our data showed a marked blindness in the in...

Integral quantum Hall plateau transitions in a planar lattice system due to gap collapse can be described by an effective field theory with Dirac fermions. We discuss how to reproduce the correct integral values for the Hall conductance, σxy, before and after the plateau transition, which are dictated by the microscopic topological invariant. In addition to the massless Dirac fermions that appe...

In the context of leisure travel in sport, United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to promote public health and combat climate change may be addressed simultaneously. This study investigates football spectators’ carbon footprint that is generated from traveling stadium. It also examines effects stadium everyday pro-environmental behavior on subjective well-being. The uses data were gather...

More than a million spectators watch game streaming platforms such as Twitch every month. This phenomenon suggests video games are a powerful entertainment media not just for players but for spectators as well. Since each spectator has personal preferences, customized spectator-specific game plays are arguably a promising option to increase the entertainment value of video games streaming. In t...

.._ . -. We examine the possibility of finding charged Higgs bosons (H*) at the SSC. The charged Higgs boson is produced with a top quark via a gluon + bottom quark interaction (g + b + H + t). For the two Higgs doublet models, H* decays predominantly into t + b. Since the background from QCD processes will be very severe for this decay mode, we studied the H* + r + Y decay mode. Even for this ...

This article defines in a precise manner three different mechanisms to achieve impartiality in distributive justice and studies them experimentally. We consider a first-person procedure, the Rawlsian veil of ignorance, and two third-party procedures, the impartial spectator and the ideal observer. As a result, we find striking differences in the chosen outcome distributions by the three methods...