Abstract It is well-established that sport mega-events remain highly relevant sites of enquiry for sociologists leisure. Whereas are associated with a range diverse and (un-)intended socio-spatial impacts, they can also have transformative impacts on children young people. Against this backdrop, article discusses the inter-relationship between By focusing predominantly Olympic planning, partici...

the purpose of this study affective factors analyze in hosting sport major events of urmia city based on porter's model of competitive advantage. research method was descriptive-correlation. the population for this study consists of students and graduates in physical education. among these patients, 208 were selected as the sampling method. the research instrument consisted of a questionna...

In this study, using data from the National Sports and Society Survey (N = 2853), we examine U.S. women’s reports of their sport consumption self-identified fandom. Multiple regression analyses are used to assess associations between social structural sociocultural antecedents frequencies watching following sport, attending live events, amount money that they spend watch follow sport. We then i...

Recent advances in sensor technology have led to a rapid growth in the availability of accurate, portable and low-cost sensors. In the Sport and Health Science domains, this has been used to deploy multiple sensors in a variety of situations in order to monitor participant and environmental factors of an activity or sport. As these sensors often output their data in a raw, proprietary or unstru...

We develop deterministic fluid approximations to describe the recovery from rare congestion events in a large multi-server system in which customer holding times have a general distribution. There are two cases, depending on whether or not we exploit the age distribution (the distribution of elapsed holding times of customers in service). If we do not exploit the age distribution, then the rare...

CONTEXT Standards for treating patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis have been difficult to establish because of the lack of evidence for factors influencing these patients' prognoses. However, preliminary evidence suggests that an alteration in cerebral hemodynamic function may play a relevant role in the occurrence of stroke in patients with carotid artery disease. OBJECTIVE To...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of major multi-sport events on health and socioeconomic determinants of health in the population of the city hosting the event. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES We searched the following sources without language restrictions for papers published between 1978 and 2008: Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), British Humanities Index (BHI), Co...

Breath-holding spells are benign, paroxysmal events with apnea and postural tone changes after a crying episode in infants. The objective of this study was to investigate the pathologies in brain metabolite values in the absence of seizure in children with breath-holding spells by using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). Brain MRS examination was performed on 18 children with breath-holding...

Sport development had been influenced by military, economic, political and social chaos. The period 1912 to 1927 was a tumultuous time for China, fragmented and ruled as it was by an assortment of regional military dictators or warlords. The first Chinese Republic was established in 1912 and soon collapsed, in 1916, when the first president Yuan Shih-kai died. National government ceased to exis...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that from 1965 to 1996, coronary heart disease was a frequent natural cause of death among world leaders. OBJECTIVE To assess incidence of and death from coronary heart disease among world leaders and to determine the effect of this disease on office-holding ability. DESIGN Archive search of worldwide English-language and translated press and media rep...