Efficiency in team sports depends on the strength of the team’s weakest link. Sport practice and a plethora of studies showed that athletes’ performance often deteriorates during competition (Gaudreau & Blondin, 2004; Wilson, Raglin, & Pritchard, 2002). Regardless of whether they are good athletes, many of them are bad competitors. The main reason for this is poor psychological preparation or i...

In this paper, based on the Position Maintaining Strategy (PMS for short), on-line scheduling of k-truck problem, which is a generalization of the famous k-server problem, is originally presented by our team. We proposed several competitive algorithms applicable under different conditions for solving the on-line k-truck problem. First, a competitive algorithm with competitive ratio 2k + 1/θ is ...

Purpose: Athletes are faced with competitive surrounding all the time where they are required to perform at high levels in high-pressure situations. This can often lead to anxiety so the aim of this study was to investigate levels of trait anxiety among elite, national team Croatian junior and U23 male wrestlers and to examine differences in trait anxiety between national team members in 2010 a...

Recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the advent of the Internet have facilitated the emergence and growth of collaborative strategies amongst small e-Businesses (Matlay & Westhead, 2005). In addition, during the last decade or so, team-led entrepreneurship has been identified as a highly profitable alternative to single founder entrepreneurship. Recent resear...

The aim of this study was to examine the injury incidence and characteristics of a Spanish female elite soccer team (n=22 players) during an entire competitive season. Time loss injuries and individual exposure times were recorded during all team training sessions and matches during the 2009-2010 season, following the Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA) consensus statement on ...

The existing reinforcement learning methods have been seriously suffering from the curse of dimension problem especially when they are applied to multiagent dynamic environments. One of the typical examples is a case of RoboCup competitions since other agents and their behavior easily cause state and action space explosion. This paper presents a method of modular learning in a multiagent enviro...

We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort, and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating equilibrium in which workers self-select into different firms and firms employing cooperative workers make strictly positive profits. Profit differences across firms persist because cooperation stric...

This article describes the distributional strategy submitted by the Citius team to the SemEval 2017 Task 2. Even though the team participated in two subtasks, namely monolingual and crosslingual word similarity, the article is mainly focused on the cross-lingual subtask. Our method uses comparable corpora and syntactic dependencies to extract count-based and transparent bilingual distributional...

Context-aware database has drawn increasing attention from both industry and academia recently by taking users’ current situation and environment into consideration. However, most of the literature focus on individual context, overlooking the team users. In this paper, we investigate how to integrate team context into database query process to help the users’ get top-ranked database tuples and ...

Participation in competitive bicycling has increased substantially over the past decade, and bicycle injuries have increased accordingly. Cycling has been reported in several studies to have higher rates of injury than other sports and recreational activities; accordingly, riders must be cognizant of the potential for injury and protect themselves appropriately. The purpose of the current study...