Democratising Multi‐Projector Displays
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Spatially augmented reality (SAR) transforms large, surround, collaborative experiences out of VR/AR headsets to the real world by merging content from projectors with the physical environment. This detailed state‐of‐the‐art survey reports on the advancements in multi‐projector aggregation and hardware technologies used to achieve SAR and build ...
Aditi Majumder, Muhammad Twaha Ibrahim
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Women in the 2006 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: An Analysis of Participation, Leadership and Media Coverage [PDF]
, 2006 Increasing women's participation in the Olympic Movement as participants and leaders has been a slow and challenging process. While the number of "events" open to female athletes has increased steadily during the past 30 years, the actual number of ...
Donna A. Lopiano +2 more
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Incidence of injury and illness among paediatric Team USA athletes competing in the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games [PDF]
, 2023 Eric G. Post +10 more
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From bias to bliss: Racial preferences and worker productivity in tennis
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate the impact of differences in consumers' racial preferences on worker productivity through the example of the home advantage (HA) effect using data on wins in men's tennis from 2001 to 2020 (pre‐COVID‐19). We identify players' racial affiliation as one of five distinct groups by combining clustering and facial recognition methods.
Carsten Creutzburg +2 more
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Human Rights at the Olympic Games: Policy, Protest, Progress?
, 2022 Adam Talbot
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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if ...
Andrea Petö, Borbála Klacsmann
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Sport TKDespite volunteers being essential to the success of the Olympic Games, research on Olympic volunteers’ motivations remains limited. The aim of this study was to investigate this phenomenon with volunteers at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games during the COVID-
Risato Ando +4 more
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People, place, enterprise: proceedings of the first annual conference on Olympic Legacy 8 and 9 May 2008 [PDF]
, 2009 The Olympic Legacy: People, Place, Enterprise conference took place at the University of Greenwich in May 2008. The first in a series of annual conferences, it brought together leading academics, policy makers and practitioners to debate the lasting ...
Bladen, Charles +2 more
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Past Carbon Emissions and Future Targets for the Olympic Games
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract The global visibility and political weight of the Olympic Games can inspire climate change action. Yet, at the same time, the Olympics are also significant carbon emitters. To date, however, there is a lack of a systematic assessment of past carbon emissions and extrapolation of future targets considering international agreements.
David Gogishvili, Martin Müller
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The Economic Impact of Olympic Games: Evidence from Stock Markets [PDF]
By means of an event study of stock market reactions to the announcement of the Olympic Games host cities, we find a significant and positive announcement effect of hosting the Summer Games, with a cumulative abnormal return of about 2% within a few days.
Dick, Christian D., Wang, Qingwei
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