The objective of this study was to compare the views of spectators concerning the quality perception of the World Indoor Athletics Championships. The study group consisted of 568 spectators who watched the events. A measurement scale of event quality in spectator sports (SEQSS) developed by Ko et al. (2011) was used as a data collection tool in the study. In order to determine the views of the ...

Badminton is an achievement sport. Sports influenced by several factors, including endogenous factors (factors that exist within a person) and exogenous (environmental affect person). The background of this research seen from the achievements have been achieved PB club. Tugu Muda Semarang with athletes managed to get mabar championships between clubs regency/city level championships. This one e...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and characteristics of newly incurred injuries and illnesses during international Athletics Championships, by improving the medical surveillance coverage, in order to determine future prevention strategies. DESIGN Prospective recording of newly occurred injuries and illnesses. SETTING 13th International Association of Athletics Federations World Champion...

In 1998-2002, Argentina experienced what the government described as a “great depression.” Using the “Great Depressions” methodology developed by Cole and Ohanian (1999) and Kehoe and Prescott (2002), we find that the primary determinants of both the boom in Argentina in the 1990s and the subsequent depression were changes in productivity, rather than changes in factor inputs. The timing of eve...

This paper gives an overview of a new risk-sensitive, continuous plan executive called p-Sulu, as well as its full-horizon variant, the p-Sulu Planner. p-Sulu and the p-Sulu Planner provide two capabilities: 1) goaldirected planning in a continuous domain and 2) risksensitive planning that respects a user-specified upper bound on the probability of constraint violations. They both take as an in...

Dislocation following total hip replacement surgery represents a significant cause of early failure, incurring additional medical costs. The causes of dislocation are multifactorial and are related to surgical approach, soft tissue tension, prosthetic design, and most important, orientation of components. This paper describes experimental verification of our analytical approach for predicting i...

Oversubscription planning (OSP) appears in many real problems where finding a plan achieving all goals is infeasible. The objective is to find a feasible plan reaching a goal subset while maximizing some measure of utility. In this paper, we present a new technique to select goals “a priori” for problems in which a cost bound prevents all the goals from being achieved. It uses estimations of di...

Intelligent systems are often called upon to form plans that direct their own or other agents' activities. For these systems, the ability to describe plans to people in natural ways is an essential aspect of their interface. In this paper, I present the Cooperative Plan Identi cation (CPI) architecture, a computational model that generates concise, e ective textual descriptions of plans. In thi...

Graspless manipulation is to manipulate objects without grasping by just pushing, tumbling, and so on. One of the main difficulties in graspless manipulation is planning. It is very time-consuming to plan a general graspless manipulation problem, because it requires complicated mechanical analysis including friction. To reduce the load of computation, we adopt a two-step approach: 1) constructi...