The third thread is the sponsorship of the international Message Understanding Conferences (MUC's) and Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC's). These conferences, which evaluated the state of the art and promoted text-processing R&D outside of the TIPSTER Text contracts, were organized by NRaD and NIST. MUC-1 and MUC-2 preceded and set the stage for TIPSTER, before the sponsorship of these conferen...

the aim of this study was to survey sport sponsorship objectives of super league sponsors of iran. the method of this study was descriptive correlation. the statistical population consisted of all sponsors who sponsored 9 active sport fields in super league. the sample consisted of 134 sponsors. a research-made questionnaire was used to collect data; its content and face validity was confirmed ...

Sponsorship is bigbusiness.Major international sporting events–—such as the Summer and Winter Olympic Games,and theWorldSoccerCup–—commandsponsor fees running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, via which each global sponsor acquires marketing rights to the all-inclusive use of the event, its images, and logos. Worldwide sponsorship generated $663 million in revenue for the 2001—2004 Salt...

A group of 63 refugees and asylum seekers, comprising 27 women and 36 men with a mean age of 33.08 years (SD = 10.3) from Chechnya and Afghanistan were granted sponsorship for 6 months and were randomized to an intervention or waiting-list control group. Only those participants who had been traumatized benefited from the intervention. For the traumatized subsample, sponsorship led to a signific...

The paper contains an incorrect funding statement within the Acknowledgements section. The statement currently reads: Sponsorship for this study was funded by Gilead. No funding or sponsorship was received for publication of this article. The statement should read: Sponsorship for this study and article processing charges for the manuscript were funded by Gilead. Open Access. This article is di...

While the nature of gambling practices is contested, a strong evidence base demonstrates that gambling can become a serious disorder and have a range of detrimental effects for individuals, communities and societies. Over the last decade, football in the UK has become visibly entwined with gambling marketing. To explore this apparent trend, we tracked shirt sponsors in both the English and Scot...