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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"referee"”.
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How coaches influence referee decisions
… coaches in non-professional soccer can influence referee decisions. Modeled from a principal-agent perspective, the managing referee boards can be seen as the principal. They aim at facilitating a fair competition which is in accordance with the existing rules and regulations. In doing so, the …
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Assessing Soccer Referee Performance Using Work Sample and Conventional Testing Methods
… battery were compared for testing college soccer referees as linesmen. A content-oriented strategy (Alba & Dickinson, 1985) was used to prepare the tests. Sixty-one referees from two testing sites were assigned to one of two conditions of physical demand and one of three experience groups. Strong …
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Blowing the Whistle: Investigating the Psychological Consequences of Referee Abuse in Sport
… the well-being of sporting officials (i.e., referees) has been vastly overlooked. This oversight is evident not only at the professional level, but also in youth competitive settings. In collaboration with Ontario Soccer, Saskatchewan Soccer Association, and British Columbia Soccer, the …
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A preliminary, multidisciplinary investigation into the performance of professional referees in the Australian National Rugby League
… investigating the performance of rugby league referees. As a result, there is a deficiency in evidence–based practice when evaluating and training rugby league referees. This is of concern given the prominence of the elite rugby league competition has on the Australian sporting landscape. Given …
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Traditional Versus Immersive Video-Based Referee Training Methods and How They Affect Situational Confidence Levels in Intramural College Basketball Officials
The number of sports officials around the United States and world has been slowly declining. The average age of sports officials keeps rising year over year, meaning younger officials are leaving their jobs at a high rate. The goal of this study was to compare training methods, traditional and …
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Analisis faktor penyebab stres pada wasit sepakbola di asosiasi PSSI Kota Blitar
… capability to overcome (Rise, 1994). A referee always faces a direct pressure from the surrounding. In 2010 on the PSSI internal Association football match, happened a great deal of heat between a referee and a player. The player was disappointed in the referee’s decision that became the …
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Extending and characterizing quantum magic games
… "quantum pseudo-telepathy". The game has a referee separately ask each player to color a subset of a 3x3 grid. The referee checks that their colorings satisfy certain parity constraints that can't all be simultaneously realized. We define a generalization of these games to be played on an …
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An Identity Theory of Role Exit among Soccer Referees
… Using a sample of 940 current and former soccer referees in Virginia and the District of Columbia, the results show that several role-set background factors and social characteristics affect role exit. However, identity processes explain some of the effect that the background factors have on role …
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Impact of alternative jet fuels on gas turbine combustion systems
… in a realistic single-cup swirl-stabilized ‘referee’ combustor, under the umbrella of the Aviation Sustainability Center’s National Jet Fuels Combustion Program. Average OH* chemiluminescence images are used to determine flame structure and dynamics with the goal of correlating spray …
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Dynamic substructuring of complex hybrid systems based on time-integration, model reduction and model identification techniques
… Part of significant results were published on referee journals and proceedings of international conferences. Part of developed tools was uploaded to the NEESHub web repository that is a United States web platform for research, collaboration and education powered by the George E. Brown, Jr. …
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Mental toughness in elite football officiating
… (MT) and its development within elite football referees. A secondary purpose was to use the findings of the series of studies contained herein, to bridge the gap between theory and applied practice by providing recommendations for football officiating National Governing Bodies (NGBs), sport …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… the magnitude of own race preference among referees in professional basketball. Previous research in this vein has depended on foul frequency and the overall racial composition of referee crews for its estimates. This research adds to the literature by exploiting two unique data sets from …
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Accurate Player Modeling and Cheat-Proof Gameplay in Peer-to-Peer Based Multiplayer Online Games
… players without the need for a third party referee. In each action, the player is either prevented from cheating, or if they do cheat, the opponent will be able to prove they have done so. We show these methods are secure and may be used in many various styles of TCGs. We measure moves in a …
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Breaking barriers in secret sharing
… group of parties want to disclose a secret to a referee the parties' respective inputs satisfy some predicate. The key conceptual contribution of this thesis is a novel connection between secret sharing and CDS, and the notion of (2-server, information-theoretic) private information retrieval.
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Fairness for affective and wellbeing computing
… methods, we propose FairReFuse, a novel referee-based multimodal framework with causal intervention, for fairer predictions in a multimodal classification setting. To achieve group-level gender fairness, we implement causal interventional debiasing using backdoor adjustment in order to …
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Quantization of prior probabilities in Bayesian group decision-making
… setting. This could arise with a team of three referees deciding by majority rule on whether a foul was committed. The referees face a collection of problems with different prior probabilities, varying by player. This scenario illustrates that even as all referees share the goal of making …
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The role of leather science and technology in heritage conservation
… editorial committees and reviewed by an external referee before acceptance for publication. The book The Conservation of Leather and Related Materials, was published as part of the Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology, after consideration by a panel of prestigious, …
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A statistical approach to sports betting
… match, one must also consider the effect of the referee. It is also discovered that the average booking rate for Premier League soccer matches varies significantly throughout the course of a season. The unusual scoring system used in the NFL means that a histogram of the final scores for match …
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Surveillance of Time-varying Geometry Objects using a Multi-camera Active-vision System
… poses for the next sensing instant. Finally, a Referee Agent examines the complete set of chosen poses for consistency, enforces global rules not captured through the optimization, and maintains system functionality if a suitable solution cannot be determined. In order to validate the proposed …
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