The goal of the study was to analyse with which ball the 9-11-year-old participants achieved higher shot accuracy and efficacy during real basketball games. The participants were 54 children from six basketball teams. Three situations were established in which the participants played four games with each of the following balls: (a) a regulation ball (485 g, 69-71 cm), (b) a lighter ball (440 g,...

Evidential reasoning is a body of techniques that supports automated reasoning from evidence. It is based upon the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions. Both the formal basis and a framework for the implementation of automated reasoning systems based upon these techniques are presented. The formal and practical approaches are divided into four parts (1) specifying a set of distinct propos...

Delimited control operators abound, but their relationships are illunderstood, and it remains unclear which (if any) to consider canonical. Although all delimited control operators ever proposed can be implemented using undelimited continuations and mutable state, Gasbichler and Sperber [28] showed that an implementation that does not rely on undelimited continuations can be much more efficient...

In large video collections with clusters of typical categories, such as “birthday party” or “flash-mob”, category-specific video summarization can produce higher quality video summaries than unsupervised approaches that are blind to the video category. Given a video from a known category, our approach first efficiently performs a temporal segmentation into semantically-consistent segments, deli...

There is surprisingly little literature specifically concerned with theorising and conceptualising of the transfer and sharing of complex information and/or knowledge, despite the fact that its significance is widely and without restriction acknowledged throughout the (mostly Anglo-American) literature on knowledge management and organisational learning. It is the aim of this paper to provide a...

Based on a doctoral study, the author presents a type of music therapy interaction called ‘Interaction Themes.’ These are developed from session to session and often appear in music therapy interventions with children with severe functional limitations, especially children with autism. Although the Interaction Themes are characterised by a relatively simple and selfgenerated content, they have ...

In this paper we define the development of a user from entry to churn as his lifecycle that can be divided into discrete stages of development known as lifecycle periods. Prior work has examined how social networking site users have developed along isolated dimensions using lexical information [2] and social connections in the context of telecommunications networks [6]. We unify such dimensions...

The present paper studies the in ltration of an incompressible liquid in an initially dry (or partially dry), deformable spongeous material made of an incompressible constituent in the slugow approximation having in mind the application to some industrial processes involving ow through spongeous materials and, in particular, some composite materials manufacturing processes. The resulting initia...

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