The recognition and development of the rights transgender people raises various problems, one which is their possibility to participate in sports. aim article identify analyze issues transgenders’ participation sports, reviewing possible ways solving them. There used such research methods as analysis new scientific literature legal documents, qualitative content comparative analysis, historical...

The study’s goal was to know the most important physical and agility of (60) metres young riders how motor skills lead end competition for riders. research community identified runners m in central Euphrates provinces, whose number is (13) runners. A sample (12) randomly selected from them, each runner given (6) attempts so that size becomes (72) attempts.
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Computers, information and communication technology (ICT) are more and more involved in the education process. Students should learn to use information technologies (IT) in a suitable, effective way, and when learning any subject they should be capable to implement computer facilities and thus develop their learning methods. Competitions are an excellent tool to achieve these goals. Competition...

How do workers within the field of cybersecurity perceive cybersecurity competitions? This study aims to address this question and investigate if competitions left a positive mark on the information security workers who participated in them. In this paper, we report on an online survey of current employees of the cybersecurity industry who had once participated in Cybersecurity Awareness Week, ...

The M5 forecasting competition has provided strong empirical evidence that machine learning methods can outperform statistical methods: in essence, complex be more accurate than simple ones. Regardless, this result challenges the flagship led discipline for last four decades: keep sophisticatedly simple. Nevertheless, was a first, and we argue will not happen again. There been different winner ...

Computer security competitions and challenges are a way to foster innovation and educate students in a highly-motivating setting. In recent years, a number of different security competitions and challenges were carried out, each with different characteristics, configurations, and goals. From 2003 to 2007, we carried out a number of live security exercises involving dozens of universities from a...

BACKGROUND Trauma is an inescapable part of sports competitions. It occurs more frequently in contact sports such as wrestling. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of injury in Greco-Roman style wrestling competitions at national level. PATIENTS AND METHODS This descriptive epidemiological research included 50 Greco-Roman style wrestlers who participated in n...

This paper compares and contrasts two recent series of competitions in which multiple agents compete directly against one another: the robot soccer world cup (RoboCup) and the trading agent competition (TAC). Both of these competitions have attracted large numbers of competitors and have motivated important research results in arti cial intelligence. Based on extensive personal experiences, bot...

We show how Item Response Theory (IRT) can be used to define a new type of rating system, one that is especially suitable for programming competitions (and other types of competitions where difficulty of competitions varies between rounds). We show some useful theoretical properties of this rating system, including the ability to argue about hardness of past competition tasks, and about the pre...