OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between recorded head accelerations and impact locations and acute clinical outcome of symptomatology, neuropsychological, and postural stability tests after cerebral concussion in Division I collegiate football players. METHODS A prospective field study was used in which accelerometers were embedded in the football helmets of 88 collegiate football pla...

Crowd-based events, such as football matches, are considered generators of crime. Criminological research on the influence of football matches has consistently uncovered differences in spatial crime patterns, particularly in the areas around stadia. At the same time, social media data mining research on football matches shows a high volume of data created during football events. This study seek...

OBJECTIVES A review of the current literature is used to propose a 'conceptual model for relative pitch hardness' and how this may affect incidence of injury within Association Football. Based upon the injury risk and causation model of Meeuwisse et al. (Clin J Sport Med 2007; 17(3):215), it may provide researchers a necessary framework to guide future research investigations. DESIGN A litera...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between P wave dispersion, aortic elastic properties and transthoracic echocardiographic findings in the young and old football players compared to control groups in order to asses the influence of regular sportive activity on aortic distensibility and its potential effect on atrial electrophysiology. METHODS We recruited ...

American college football faces a conflict created by the desire to stage national championship games between the best teams of a season when there is no conventional playoff system to decide which those teams are. Instead, ranking of teams is based on their record of wins and losses during the season, but each team plays only a small fraction of eligible opponents, making the system underdeter...

Byrne is a talking head system, developed with two goals in mind: to allow artists to create entertaining characters with strong personalities, expressed through speech and facial animation; and to allow cognitive scientists to implement and test theories of emotion and expression. Here we emphasize the latter aim. We describe Byrne’s design, and discuss some ways in which it could be used in a...

This paper describes a novel adaptation and use of Terrain Mapping and Optimal Path Planning to fuse large and diverse time varying data sets into a common structure used for path extraction. The method described uses a system of map distortion and manipulation to encode anticipated future states of the environment into a single map. By doing so, it effectively encodes time into the map, allowi...

Association football is becoming increasingly competitive and the financial stakes involved are causing football clubs and football leagues to become more professional. Over the past 25 years, club budgets have grown enormously due to ticket sale revenues, broadcasting revenues, merchandising, and prize money. Recently, player tracking systems were introduced and are producing overwhelming amou...