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Small angle limits of Hamilton's footballs [PDF]

open access: yesBull. London Math. Soc. 52 (2020) 189-199, 2019
Compact Ricci solitons on surfaces have at most two cone points, and are known as Hamilton's footballs. In this note we completely describe the degenerations of these footballs as one or both of the cone angles approaches zero. In particular, we show that Hamilton's famous non-compact cigar soliton is the Gromov--Hausdorff limit of Hamilton's compact ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Qualitative investigation of the role of collaborative football and walking football groups in mental health recovery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Efforts to increase physical activity levels in people with serious mental health conditions are viewed as desirable but little is known about how best to support this group to engage in exercise over extended periods.
Dickens, Geoffrey L.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

With Crisis Comes Opportunity: Redesigning Performance Departments of Elite Sports Clubs for Life After a Global Pandemic

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
The suspension of major sporting competitions due to the global COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial negative impact on the sporting industry. As such, a successful and sustainable return to sport will require extensive modifications to the current ...
Scott McLean   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Football is football and is interesting, very interesting [PDF]

open access: yesSport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2015
There are robust consequences of the fact that football is football and not something else. The aesthetic personality of football does not submit to a template inappropriately borrowed from elsewhere. One consequence is that beauty should not be awarded privileged status.
openaire   +2 more sources

More than a Match: The Role of Football in Britain’s Deaf Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The University of Central Lancashire has undertaken a major research project into the role of football within the deaf community in Britain. As well as reconstructing the long history of deaf involvement in football for the first time, the project has ...
Atherton, Martin   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Virtual sports deserve real sports medical attention

open access: yesBMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2019
In recent years, virtual sports or ‘eSports’ have grown exponentially both recreationally and at the professional level. eSports comprise several regulated video games played competitively, using electronic platforms.
João Brito   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monitoring Individual Sleep and Nocturnal Heart Rate Variability Indices: The Impact of Training and Match Schedule and Load in High-Level Female Soccer Players

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2021
PurposeTo describe individual sleep habits and nocturnal heart rate variability (HRV) responses, and to explore intra-individual associations of workload with sleep and nocturnal HRV indices in high-level female soccer players throughout a 2-week ...
Júlio A. Costa   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Even Though We Have Different Colors, We Are All Equal Here”: Immigrants building a sense of community and wellbeing through sport participation

open access: yesJournal of Community Psychology, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 201-218, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Although there are several studies reporting the beneficial role of sports in immigrant health, more research is needed to understand whether and how these activities can guide the psychological sense of community (SOC) and well‐being outcomes.
Chiara Corvino   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The footballers of Croam

open access: yesJournal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 1973
AbstractThe vertices of the graph Ok are indexed by the (k−1)-subsets of a (2k−1)-set. Two vertices are adjacent if and only if their labelling sets are disjoint. This paper establishes that O5 is an edge disjoint union of two Hamiltonian circuits and a 1-factor and that O6 is an edge disjoint union of three Hamiltonian ciruits.
E.Keith Lloyd, Guy H.J Meredith
openaire   +2 more sources

Spanish Football [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The authors analyze the financial situation of the Spanish football industry. They first argue that a relevant analysis of the industry's financial results relies on a careful description of how historical and cultural factors have influenced its ...
Ascari, Guido, Gagnepain, Philippe
core   +3 more sources

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