Events such as RoboCup, the Netflix Prize, the Trading Agent Competition, the International Planning Competition, the General Game Playing Competition, the AAAI Computer Poker Competition, and the DARPA Grand Challenge have succeeded in raising awareness and stimulating research about their respective topics. The empirical, problem-oriented nature of these competitions can be an important count...

The RoboCup simulation league is traditionally the league with the largest number of teams participating, both at the international competitions and worldwide. 2011 was no exception, with a total of 39 teams entering the 2D and 3D simulation competitions. This paper presents the champions of the competitions, WrightEagle from the University of Science and Technology of China in the 2D competiti...

The 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association were held in Dallas, Tex, November 8 through 11, 1998. A traditional highlight of the annual AHA Scientific Sessions is the recognition of excellence in clinical and basic cardiovascular research via the Scientific Councils’ distinguished lectureships, awards, and Young Investigator competitions. The awardees and nominees for these ...

The M3-Competition continues to improve the design of forecasting competitions: It examines more series than any previous competition, improves error analyses. and includes commercial forecasting programs as competitors. To judge where to go from here, I step back to look at the M-Competitions as a whole. I discuss the advantages of the M-Competitions in hopes that they will be retained, descri...

OBJECTIVE To assess intraocular pressure (IOP) in conditioned equine athletes and document changes with exercise. A secondary objective was to assess associations between IOP and heart rate, as well as with other subjective physical parameters. SAMPLE POPULATION Horses were evaluated during 50 mile endurance ride competitions. Data were collected on 69 horses during five different competition...

Background: Robotics competitions are increasingly popular and potentially provide an on-ramp to computer science, which is currently highly gender imbalanced. However, within competitive robotics teams, student participation in programming is not universal. This study gathered surveys from over 500 elementary, middle, and high school robotics competition participants to examine (1) whether pro...

Research on cybersecurity competitions is still in its nascent state, and many questions remain unanswered, including how effective these competitions actually are at influencing career decisions and attracting a diverse participant base. The present research aims to address these questions through surveying a sample of excybersecurity competition participants from New York University’s Cyber-S...

D uring the past century, mathematics competitions have become part of the landscape in mathematics education. The first major mathematics competition in the United States began with an idea of William Lowell Putnam in 1921 [6], and the mathematics competition named in his honor has become the premier mathematics competition in the United States for undergraduates, with 508 schools and 3,640 in...

purpose weight loss in wrestling has been found to be an interesting issue for researchers. in this regard, complications of weight loss in wrestlers before the competitions and their weight gain in course of competitions have been debated in previous studies. the objective of this study was to investigate the extent of weight gain and to estimate the percentage of body fat in participants in t...

improving anaerobic performance and anaerobic power is the critical aspect on successfully in competitions for many athletes. the purpose of current research was to investigating the effect of various pre-competitions warm-up on anaerobic performance. it has been shown that, differences pre-competitions activity may effect on anaerobic and explosive performance. effect of general warm-up, witho...