Goalball is a Paralympic sport exclusively for athletes who are visually impaired and blind. The aims of this study were twofold: to describe game performance of elite male goalball players based upon the degree of visual impairment, and to determine if game performance was related to anthropometric characteristics of elite male goalball players. The study sample consisted of 44 male goalball a...

Luís Vilar, Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids and Yaneer Bar-Yam 1 Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal 2 Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 3 Queensland University of Technologies, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Abstract Quantitative analysis is increasingly being used in team sports...

World Scientists’ Open Letter was signed by more than 310 scientists from 38 countries when presented to the United Nations Convention on Sustainable Development (CSD), April 24 to 5 May 2000, New York. It was warmly welcomed and given much prominence in the official as well as unofficial proceedings because it speaks for the overwhelming majority of the participants and stakeholder groups. The...

English. The present research deals with the automatic annotation and classification of vulgar ad offensive speech on social media. In this paper we will test the effectiveness of the computational treatment of the taboo contents shared on the web, the output is a corpus of 31,749 Facebook comments which has been automatically annotated through a lexicon-based method for the automatic identific...

A defensive k-alliance in a graph is a set S of vertices with the property that every vertex in S has at least k more neighbors in S than it has outside of S. A defensive k-alliance S is called global if it forms a dominating set. In this paper we study the problem of partitioning the vertex set of a graph into (global) defensive k-alliances. The (global) defensive k-alliance partition number o...

The amount of raw information available for basketball analytics has been given a great boost with the availability of player tracking data. This facilitates detailed analyses of player movement patterns. In this paper, we focus on the difficult problem of offensive playcall classification. While outstanding individual players are crucial for the success of a team, the strategies that a team ca...

This paper studies a baseball statistic that plays the role of an offensive earned-run average (OERA). The OERA of an individual i s simply the number of earned runs per game that he would score if he batted in all nine positions in the line-up. Evaluation can be performed by hand b y scoring the sequence of times at bat of a given batter. This statistic has the obvious natural interpretation a...