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Home-Court Advantage and Home Win Percentage in the NBA: An In-Depth Investigation by Conference and Team Ability

open access: yesApplied Sciences
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the major professional basketball league in the United States. Home-court advantage (HA) and home win percentage (HW) have been identified as decisive factors in determining the final outcome of a game.
Adrián López-García   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home advantage in the Brazilian soccer championship: effect of game location and team quality

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, 2010
The objective of the present study was to evaluate home advantage in Brazilian soccer considering the interference of and interaction between game location and team quality in the percentage of wins and draws.
Cristiano Diniz da Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A MADM Location Privacy Protection Method Based on Blockchain

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2021
Location-based services make life easier, but they also involve privacy leakage issues. Many location privacy protection algorithms have been proposed to protect the privacy of users.
Hui Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Shapley Facility Location Games [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Facility location games have been a topic of major interest in economics, operations research and computer science, starting from the seminal work by Hotelling. Spatial facility location models have successfully predicted the outcome of competition in a variety of scenarios.
Ben-Porat, Omer, Tennenholtz, Moshe
openaire   +2 more sources

Evaluation of the Differences Between Home and Away Matches Depending on GPS Data from a Senior Professional Football Team in the Turkish Super League

open access: yesApplied Sciences
This study aimed to define performance characteristics of elite male football players in the Turkish Super League in 2024–2025 according to playing positions, evaluate advantages/disadvantages, and reveal the differences between home and away matches ...
Betul Coskun, Mustafa Cebel Torun
doaj   +1 more source

The Mesoamerican Ball Game: A Deadly Sport [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
My presentation is part of the research event “Bridging Cultures in Latin America: Maya and Colonial Heritage in Guatemala and Belize.” This work was conducted during the 2017 Maymester study abroad program in Central America with faculty from UT Austin ...
Cawthon, Rylie
core   +1 more source

A Location–Time-Aware Factorization Machine Based on Fuzzy Set Theory for Game Perception

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Game user perception is of great significance for game developers and network operators for improving service quality and operational efficiency. At present, the most common approach is to use the linear model that considers only the impact of network ...
Xiaoxia Xie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Popularity in location games

open access: yesJournal of Mathematical Economics
We study a variant of the Hotelling-Downs model of spatial competition between firms where consumer choices are influenced by their individual preferences as well as the popularity of the firms. In general, a multiplicity of market equilibria might exist due to the popularity effect.
Gaëtan Fournier, Marc Schröder
openaire   +2 more sources

AnswerTree – a hyperplace-based game for collaborative mobile learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper we present AnswerTree, a collaborative mobile location-based educational game designed to teach 8-12 year olds about trees and wildlife within the University of Nottingham campus.
Brown, Elizabeth   +3 more
core  

Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

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