Focused attention enhances processing of some aspects of the world at the expense of unattended items. Although focused attention has been studied for decades, few studies have measured individual and group differences in how people distribute attention. In three studies, we explored differences in the breadth and distribution of attention as a function of athletic expertise. Study 1 found 25% ...

Local governments often justify subsidizing sports stadiums as economic development projects that have positive returns on investment. If this is true, and quality-of-life spillovers are capitalized in local property values ought to generate additional tax revenue for host municipalities through increased assessments. This analysis uses the synthetic control method estimate effect of a new publ...

Purpose The objective of stadium owners is to attract visitors their stadiums and by this optimally use business potential. Stadiums face increasing competition from home-viewing options, with which especially aging have trouble competing. This paper aims study the concept smart as a solution problem, adding corona age an additional challenge. Design/methodology/approach First, (smart) literatu...

In the present study, differences in visuospatial attention lateralization were evaluated in athletes engaged in open-compared to closed-skill sports and sedentary nonathletes. 23 volleyball players (open skill; Italian national level and regional level), 10 rowers (closed skill, Italian national level), and 23 sedentary participants responded to a computerized line-length judgment task. Five l...

The purpose of this research project was to evaluate the methodology of an iso-inertial force-velocity assessment utilizing a range of loads and a group of high-performance athletes. A total of 26 subjects (19.8 +/- 2.6 years, 196.3 +/- 9.6 cm, 88.6 +/- 8.9 kg) participated in this study. Interday reliability of various force-time measures obtained during the performance of countermovement jump...

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Identification and Prioritizing Consequences Strategies of Effective Crisis Management in Iranian Sports Stadiums

purpose the purpose of this study was to estimate the dominant handgrip strength and its correlations with some hand and arm anthropometric variables in 101 randomly selected indian inter-university female volleyball players aged 18-25 years (mean age 20.52±1.40) from six indian universities. methods three anthropometric variables, i.e. height, weight, bmi, two hand anthropometric variables, vi...