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Analyzing NBA player positions and interactions with density-functional fluctuation theory

Scientific Reports
The increasing availability of high-precision player-tracking data in sports—centimeter-precision positional information of athletes captured dozens of times per second—has the potential to improve the quantification of player abilities and overall team ...
Boris Barron, Nathan Sitaraman, Tomás Arias   +2 more
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Intramuscular haemangioma of the thigh in a basketball player [PDF]

British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2004
Haemangioma is a common benign soft tissue tumour. Intramuscular haemangiomas may present as a perceived sporting injury. Magnetic resonance imaging is the investigation of choice. Intramuscular haemangioma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of unexplained pain and swelling in a muscle.
R A, Brown, K, Crichton, G M, Malouf
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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining player roles in professional women's basketball: From traditional positions to functional profiles.

PLoS ONE
The analysis of box-score performance indicators has traditionally been used to classify player roles in women's basketball based on the five conventional positions: point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center.
Sergio J Ibáñez, Javier Courel-Ibáñez, José Miguel Contreras-García, María Isabel Piñar-López   +3 more
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Getting (un)wasted: How planning failures generate consumer waste across resources: Time, money, goods, and energy

Consumer Psychology Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Past research suggests that people exhibit robust waste aversion. However, many consumers routinely feel that they waste not only goods but also time, money, energy, and emotion and would be hard‐pressed to imagine their lives otherwise. Why does consumer waste persist? In this paper, we first propose a definition for consumer waste.
Marissa A. Sharif, Cait Lamberton
wiley   +1 more source

Accuracy of basketball shots by student basketball players

Sports games
Effective shooting is the main and determining element of the effectiveness of competitive activity in basketball. The team is tasked with showing the highest possible shot efficiency in each game, as each shot can determine the score and victory in the match. The knowledge of the level of accuracy of throwing the ball into the basket allows coaches to
Viktor Bondarenko, Oleksandr Sukach, Iryna Olkhovikova, Natalііa Chucha, Natalia Pashchenko   +4 more
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High Rate of Return to Sport in Competitive Athletes Undergoing Periacetabular Osteotomy With Concomitant Hip Arthroscopy

Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Purpose To report the return‐to‐sport rate of competitive athletes with hip dysplasia, in relation to their preoperative level of competition, who underwent hip arthroscopy with concomitant periacetabular osteotomy (HA + PAO). Methods Patients participating in competitive sports who underwent HA + PAO for the correction of hip dysplasia between January
Alfred Mansour, Nicole Lemaster, Jacob Jelmini, Philip Sheedy, Anota Adekunle, Alexis Aboulafia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proof of Concept for a Deep-Learning Computer-Vision System to Quantify External Load in Basketball: Comparison with Local Positioning Systems

Algorithms
Background: Monitoring external load in team sports is essential for performance optimization, injury prevention, and individualized training prescription. Although Local Positioning Systems (LPS) are widely used for indoor athlete tracking, they require
Athanasios Chatzinikolaou, Ioannis Kansizoglou, Antonios Gasteratos, Georgios Pistikos, Ioannis Papavasilopoulos, Panagiotis Kaddas, Dimitrios Pantazis, Panagiotis Aggelakis, Dimitrios Balampanos, Alexandros Dendrinos, Stavros Moutsis, Sarantis Antoniou, Panagiotis Foteinakis, Konstantinos Margonis, Nikolaos Zaras, Alexandra Avloniti, Christos Kazantzis, Athanasios Kaltsos, Georgios Pavlidis, Christos Kokkotis   +19 more
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Self-Efficacy and Shot Success of Basketball Players

Philippine Social Science Journal, 2020
In the Philippines, basketball is a popular sport, and there are local, provincial, and regional and national competitions (Antolihao, 2010). From urban and rural areas, both public and private institutions, organizations, sectors, different schools ...
Raymund Jason P. Santua
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