Synchronized movement is a ubiquitous feature of dance and music performance. Much research into the evolutionary origins of these cultural practices has focused on why humans perform rather than watch or listen to dance and music. In this study, we show that movement synchrony among a group of performers predicts the aesthetic appreciation of live dance performances. We developed a choreograph...

As of January 2009, the online social networking application Facebook registered more than 175 million active users. To put that number in perspective, this is only slightly less than the population of Brazil (190 million) and over twice the population of Germany (80 million)! At the same time, every minute, 10 hours of content were uploaded to the video sharing platform YouTube. And, the image...

Cognitive performance modeling captures patterns of observable behavior that reflect the operation of underlying cognitive activities. These behavioral patterns can be linked to training requirements in order to derive automated measures of cognitive performance. We are currently developing the Team Coaching Assistant for SimulationBased Training (T-CAST), a cognitive performance modeling syste...

Since the enactment of the Federal Trademark Anti-Dilution Act ("FTDA") in 1996, how to measure a mark's "fame" has emerged as an important and controversial issue in trademark law. Congress did not intend the FTDA to protect trademarks unless they are "truly famous." Rather than specifically defining "famous" in the legislation, Congress provided an eight-factor fame test that courts "may" con...

In this paper we investigate wage determination among professional football players ranked in the Italian A and B series. Since football is a highly labour intensive activity, both scale economies and scarcity of the most talented players emerge as the main determinants of the high earnings levels observed. In particular, the marginal revenue product of a player is related to the extra price th...

Basketball competitions are characterized by special spectacle, high dynamism, emotional intensity and variety of game activities, thus ensuring popularity arousing increasing interest spectators in basketball matches, which have been winning people's hearts for the third century. At same time, they central element that determines entire system organization, methods training athletes effective ...

Experiments have shown that the presence of an audience affects individual performance by enhancing the emission of dominant responses. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the proposal of Zajonc that the mere presence of other persons is responsible for audience effects. A total of 45 university students performed a pseudorecognition task; 15 performed the task alone, IS performed the task ...

team reflexivity as a conscious reflection on team functioning, is a key factor of team effectiveness. because reflexivity (including some of the behaviors that) is caused of learning from past mistakes and errors (team learning) improve the performance of the team. the present study attempts to demonstrate the key role of the team reflexivity on team performance (especially in a project team w...

In 1696 an Act of Parliament established the Bristol Corporation of the Poor. This brought together the Poor Law arrangements of all the parishes in the City. It was hoped that-the inmates by their work would produce goods which would have a ready sale and thus defray the costs. For this purpose the Aldworth mansion was purchased from a group of merchants, one of whom was Edward Colston. This b...