The football referee is charged with the responsibility for implementing the laws of the game. To undertake this role effectively the referee and the two assistant referees must strive to keep up with play. Referees routinely cover 11 km during a game with match activities placing high demands upon both aerobic and anaerobic energy systems. Assistant referees cover approximately 7 km, with mode...

The RoboCup Small Size League (SSL) is a robot soccer game with robots that play on a customized field with overhead cameras. The majority of the research effort to date has been on the performance of the autonomous teams in aspects of motion planning and team strategy. However, another critical component of a robot game is the referee. In current SSL games, refereeing is done by humans, who us...

In the search for high performance, most transactional memory (TM) systems execute atomic blocks concurrently and must thus be prepared for data conflicts. These conflicts must be detected and the system must choose a policy in terms of when and how to manage the resulting contention. Conflict detection essentially determines when the conflict manager is invoked, which can be dealt with eagerly...

objectives we aimed to perform the first such study to measure the injury incidence, severity and type as the first step in creating a badminton injury prevention program. patients and methods a prospective, longitudinal survey was conducted between april 2012 and march 2013 with 133 national tournament-level badminton players from junior high school to university in japan with the teams’ physi...

Background. There is a weakness that the win-loss ranking model in the MLB now is calculated based on the result of a win-loss game, so we assume that a ranking system considering the opponent’s team performance is necessary. Objectives. This study aims to suggest the PageRank algorithm to complement the problem with ranking calculated with winning ratio in calculating team ranking of US MLB. ...

The motivation of proposing and editing the Special Issue “Blockchain cryptocurrencies” came from inspirational invited contributed talks at 43rd annual A.M.A.S.E.S. conference held in Perugia September 2019. All papers have gone through journal regular refereeing process under same standards set by journal, nine contributions were finally accepted for publication.

performance   evaluation in regular periods is one of the ways in which organizations can   evaluate their performance as well as weak and strong points unifiedly and   precisely. these days, mathematical models are also used to evaluate the   efficiency and productivity of various units. these units are a collection of   education, research and service activities as input and output factors an...

blood sulfhemoglobin (s-hb), total haemoglobin and phosphorous (p) level and blood cell count in 33 matches industry workers of azar abhar, who were exposed directly or indirectly to chemical agents used in the factory (subjects), were measured. the results were compared with the result of the same measurement on 14 farm workers of the region (control) and were analysed. in this study the effec...