BACKGROUND Prevention of cardiac events during competitive sports is fundamental. New technologies with remote monitoring systems integrated into clothing could facilitate the screening of heart disease. Our aim was to evaluate the feasibility of Nuubo system during a field stress test performed by soccer players, comparing results with treadmill ergospirometry as test reference. METHODS Nine...

Abstract Platform work is often advocated as offering freedom of to labour. Contesting this claim, article undertakes a comparative analysis the pros and cons food delivery platform prior during COVID-19 pandemic, argues that workers essentially an ‘illusory freedom’. In reality, has only changed mechanisms through which companies can exercise control over labour evade their employer obligation...

This research introduces a framework for selecting efficient inter-unit structures in facilitating the transfer of knowledge with different levels of complexity. We argue that while boundary spanner structure is efficient for transferring discrete knowledge, it is inadequate for transferring collectively held complex knowledge. We propose that the transfer of such knowledge requires a more dece...

In this paper we investigate a passivity approach to collective coordination and synchronization problems in the presence of quantized measurements and show that coordination tasks can be achieved in a practical sense for a large class of passive systems.

Individual owned forests have boomed in the last decade in China. Hundreds of millions of private forest owners have emerged since years of afforestation practice and collective forest ownership reform. Most of those private forest owners are former peasants living in afforestation areas. They thirst for forestry information, such as technique knowledge, forestry policies, finance, marketing, e...

We define the problem of group identification in a fuzzy environment. We concentrate on the case where the society is required to self-determine the belongingness of each member to a specific group, characterized by a single attribute. In general terms, this case consists of a collective identity issue that can be regarded as an aggregation problem of individual assessments within a group. Here...