by George Wright* T his contribution aims to assess the relationship between sport and globalization. Modern sport originated in the mid-nineteenth century in Great Britain and the United States. Professional sports were organized in mining and industrial towns and cities as businesses, while amateur spectator sports, particularly “American” football, were introduced on university campuses. As ...

After the First World War, disabled British veterans returned home to an uncertain future of work. In addition to voluntary efforts, the government's response to the national employment crisis - the National Scheme for Disabled Ex-Servicemen (commonly known as the King's Roll) - was established in 1919 to encourage employers to hire a five per cent quota of disabled ex-servicemen. Historians ha...

It could be that, at the moment you finish reading this essay, the entire universe is wiped out in a great cosmic reset. After the reset, events exactly like those of the past 14 billion years are replayed. You and I and everyone we know have doppelgänger echoes in the very distant future. Call this scenario First. Here’s a different way things could be: this could have already happened. That i...

the purpose of current article is to study the effect of sense of place on creating the urban identity in new cities. in order to fulfill the mentioned purpose, the key concepts of research and the theories related to the issue were studied. according to it, in order to collect the data, library method and note taking tool were used. the studies indicated the presence of human in the environmen...

Securing web-based systems involves a whole host of security components and practices, such as managing user digital identities, user authorizations, creating a web portal, implementing single sign-on, managing and monitoring servers and other resources critical to the enterprise web. This paper describes some of the real world challenges encountered in implementing enterprise web security, and...

C. I. N. Sampaio Filho, A. A. Moreira, R. F. S. Andrade, H. J. Herrmann, J. S. Andrade Jr. Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60451-970 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 2 Instituto de F́ısica, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 3 Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, IfB, ETH Zurich, Schafmattstrasse 6, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland (Dated: April 1...

[Our world] is highly diverse in almost all senses—physical, biological, and cultural—and although this produces problems for society and even conflicts and war, would we really want a less diverse and interesting home?...The broad diversity of places, materials, living things, experiences and peoples not only makes the world a more useful and interesting place, but probably also stimulates cre...

In the core of every information integration and data exchange effort lies the ability to identify whether two pieces of information refer to the same real world entity. This ability is of paramount importance for all those applications and systems currently operating in the highly heterogeneous web environment. Research in data management has long ago exploited features like keys or schema con...

We present a novel Web Pages Summarizer ContextSummarizer that subgroups the given Web pages into ‘sense-clusters’ respecting a user’s topic interests, and constructs a dynamic extractive summary for each sense-cluster. A user’s topic interest is described by the user who selects and refines some of word senses disambiguated within the content contexts of the given Web pages. The semantic simil...