Event datasets on political violence, which are comprised of coded collected news reports, have enjoyed a renaissance within the academic community. The inclusion of civilian fatalities within these datasets is a promising and welcomed advancement regarding the availability of data on one-sided violence. However, these datasets are often criticised due to their heavy reliance on media records, ...

This paper exploits nationalistic biases in Olympic winter sport judging to study the problem of designing a decision making process that uses the input of potentially biased agents. Judges score athletes from their own countries higher than other judges do, and they appear to vary their biases strategically in response to the stakes, the scrutiny given the event, and the degree of subjectivene...

Sport and exercise contribute to health well-being in cities. While previous research has mainly focused on activities at specific locations such as sport facilities, "informal sport" that occur arbitrary across the city have been largely neglected. Such are more challenging observe, but this challenge may be addressed using data collected from social media platforms, because users regularly ge...

S p.17 Monday 22th September 10h-10h45 Why a conference on Science and Practice of Sports Refereeing A Lack of Interconnectivity for Research on Sport Officials p. 18 11h-12h15 Cognitive and physiological constraints on referees' performance 1 Comparison between the match demands of elite and sub-elite Australian football umpires p.20 An examination of the relationship between decision making a...

BACKGROUND The proportion of media sports coverage devoted to women is reported at between 1 and 6%. Our survey examines and compares reporting patterns before and after the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. METHODS We collected data on sports coverage in six national newspapers on 3 weekend days in February and March 2012, and in February 2013; ∼5 months before the opening of the 2012 Olympic G...

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