Challenge Cup Research Articles

Investigating the Organization and Management Model of "Challenge Cup" College Student Competition Activities

As an important way for colleges and universities to carry out quality education and cultivate modern talents, extracurricular academic, scientific and technological work knowledge competitions have gradually attracted attention from all walks of life and the universities themselves. As the current relevant research continues to deepen, the problems are gradually revealed. To explore the organization and management model of "Challenge Cup" competitions in colleges and universities and achieve the scientific development of different competitions, it is necessary for college event organizing departments and professional teachers to adapt to the development of the times, actively expand the online education competition polishing platform under "Internet +" and create online and offline system activities. Furthermore, leverage the effectiveness of competition in educating people and deepen the reform of second-classroom education in colleges and universities. In conclusion, extracurricular academic scientific and technological works knowledge competitions have emerged as a vital component of quality education within colleges and universities, serving as a means to foster the development of modern talents. Over time, these competitions have garnered attention from various stakeholders, highlighting their significance in the educational landscape. However, as research in this area advances, it has become evident that certain challenges exist within the organization and management of such competitions.

EXPLORATION AND APPLICATION OF "1+2+3" TEACHING MODE USING VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS FOR GEOMATICS UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Abstract. Since the beginning of this century, mapping and geographic information technology has been deeply integrated with virtual reality, artificial intelligence and other technologies, the mapping industry has entered the "intelligent mapping era", how to train innovative and practical mapping talents is urgent. The teaching team takes the cultivation of innovative and practical talents in surveying and mapping as the core goal, and focuses closely on the cultivation of students' innovation ability and large (complex) project implementation ability. Relying on Guangxi Spatial Information and Mapping Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center and Southern Mapping Virtual Simulation Teaching Platform, the team carries out teaching reform and practice. The team proposes the training mode of "one goal, two synergy, three integration", which will use VR/AR, GIS and other technologies to teach major projects and scientific research achievements through virtual simulation, and adopt online + offline methods to enhance students' innovative practical ability. Through scientific assessment and incentive mechanism, students' initiative and enthusiasm will be improved, thus solving the problem of difficulty in cultivating students' innovation and practice ability. After years of reform and practice, students' innovation and practical ability have been improved significantly, and they have won dozens of awards such as the silver prize of "Internet+" national competition, the second prize of "Challenge Cup" national competition, and the national mapping skills competition. The teaching reform methods have been well promoted.

Improving the Comprehensive Ability of Vocational Education Students Through Skills Competitions

Skills competition is an important part of the vocational education system and a booster of teaching quality in vocational colleges. This study explores the role of skills competition in advancing the comprehensive ability of students in vocational colleges from specific cases. Firstly, this paper elaborates on relevant educational policy issue papers. Secondly, the studies of relevant scholars are discussed. Thirdly, the students’ work in the Capital Challenge Cup Skills Competition is presented. Fourthly, the preparation process of the competition is used as a case study to explore the improvement of students’ abilities in four dimensions. Finally, the main conclusions are summarized. The skills competition is of great significance for vocational institutions to improve teaching quality and talent training mode. Vocational institutions should invest more financial resources and create more policies to support the development of skills competitions.

The youdan and Cromwell cups: Sheffield football’s knockout trophies

ABSTRACT It is fitting that in the year celebrating 150 years of the Football Association Challenge Cup, a focus is given to Sheffield’s own knock-out competition held 4 years before the FA Cup was launched. While it is argued in certain quarters that Charles Alcock based the FA competition on his own experiences of the Cock House tournament during his time at Harrow School – although, interestingly, no cup was awarded for this during that period – it could also be argued that the success of the world’s first adult football club knock-out competition, the Youdan Cup, possibly influenced the direction of his thinking. Why the Sheffield tournament was established in the first place and why it was only staged for just 1 year in 1867 are the more obvious questions surrounding its conception which this article aims to address.

Are spectator preferences weaker for cup compared to league competitions? Evidence from Irish soccer

ABSTRACT This paper exploits data from eight recent playing seasons to examine the spectator appeal for League of Ireland fans of the national soccer challenge cup competition (the FAI cup). The study finds a sizable spectator attendance penalty for Premier Division clubs in FAI cup games for the earlier rounds of the tournament compared to league fixtures against the same opposition. However, this is reversed by the penultimate stage of the tournament. The policy implications of these findings are discussed.

A New Method for the Simultaneous Creation of Live HDR and SDR Video

<italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Deploying separate high dynamic range (HDR) and standard dynamic range (SDR) production facilities to cover the same event simultaneously can be economically prohibitive. In this case study, we present a new method for creating both ultrahigh-definition (UHD) HDR and HD SDR streams from a single UHD HDR production workflow, developed through a series of real-world UHD HDR production trials in 2018 and 2019, concluding with the 2019 Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup), a major U.K. sporting event. We describe the findings from those trials and the lessons learned and include descriptions of what worked well and what worked less well. The workflow solution presented allows for the integration of both HDR camera sources and SDR camera sources (e.g., super slow-motion and specialist cameras), prerecorded or archive SDR content and SDR graphics into a single HDR production environment. It can exploit the backward-compatible nature of the hybrid log-gamma (HLG) HDR solution and recent advances in color volume management. We show how a production’s two outputs, HDR and SDR, can be made using current SDR shading/racking monitoring, with only a single HDR vision guarantee monitor</i> .

A Novel Intelligent Garbage Classification System Based on Deep Learning and an Embedded Linux System

The dramatic increase in the amount of garbage and complex diversity of the materials in the garbage bring serious environmental pollution problems and wastes resources. Recycling reduces waste but manual pipeline waste sorting involves a harsh working environment at high labor intensity with low sorting efficiency. In our paper, a novel intelligent garbage classification system based on deep learning and an embedded Linux system is proposed. The system is divided into three parts. First, a Raspberry Pi 4B is utilized as the master board for the hardware system. The peripherals of the system consist of a touch panel, sensors, a 2-DOF (degree of freedom) servo, and a camera. Second, a new GNet model for garbage classification based on transfer learning and the improved MobileNetV3 model is proposed. Third, a GUI based on Python and QT is employed to build a human-computer interaction system to facilitate system manipulation and observation. A series of garbage classification experiments on the Huawei Garbage Classification Challenge Cup dataset were conducted. The proposed classification system’s prediction accuracy was 92.62% at 0.63 s efficiency. The experimental results in this paper demonstrate that the proposed intelligent garbage classification system delivers high performance both in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

Enhanced Heartbeat Graph for emerging event detection on Twitter using time series networks

With increasing popularity of social media, Twitter has become one of the leading platforms to report events in real-time. Detecting events from Twitter stream requires complex techniques. Event-related trending topics consist of a group of words which successfully detect and identify events. Event detection techniques must be scalable and robust, so that they can deal with the huge volume and noise associated with social media. Existing event detection methods mostly rely on burstiness, mainly the frequency of words and their co-occurrences. However, burstiness sometimes dominates other relevant details in the data which could be equally significant. Besides, the topological and temporal relationships in the data are often ignored. In this work, we propose a novel graph-based approach, called the Enhanced Heartbeat Graph (EHG), which detects events efficiently. EHG suppresses dominating topics in the subsequent data stream, after their first detection. Experimental results on three real-world datasets (i.e., Football Association Challenge Cup Final, Super Tuesday, and the US Election 2012) show superior performance of the proposed approach in comparison to the state-of-the-art techniques.

FA Cup, UK GDP, FTSE Growth and National House Prices

The current paper examines national sporting events related market anomaly. It assesses an interrelationship between the Football Association Challenge Cup, known as FA Cup, winning team and annual returns for UK GDP, FTSE All Share index over the 133-year competition period as well as house price inflation starting from 1931. To test the hypothesis, the study employs a combination of non-parametric and regression techniques. The former is Kruskal-Wallis (KW) test. The latter is dummy variable regression. As the results of the study suggest, there is no statistical relationship between FA Cup winners and the annual growth in macro-series. All in all, analysts should simply enjoy ‘o jogo bonito’ (the beautiful game) rather than use it’s outcomes to gauge annual market trends.

Protective Effects of Baicalin on Diabetes Mellitus-Induced Renal Fibrosis in Mice

Baicalin is a flavone glycoside that possess numerous pharmacological properties including anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-pruritic effects. Based on these properties, we investigated whether baicalin could be used to alleviate kidney fibrosis induced by diabetes mellitus. Using a streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mouse model, we found that baicalin treatment could suppress diabetes-enhanced water consumption, urine volume production, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum creatinine and urinary albumin/urinary creatinine (UACR). Correspondingly, baicalin treatment could significantly maintain the morphology of the glomerulus and renal tubules in diabetes-induced kidney lesions by repressing WT1 and Nephrin expressions in the glomeruli, as well as LTL, caspases-9 and Fas expressions in the renal tubules. We also determined that baicalin could suppress inflammation responses and reduced MDA activities that were enhnaced by diabetes while increasing SOD, CAT, GPX and Nrf2 expressions that were inversely lowered. We demonstrated the presence of interstitial fibrosis in the diabetic kidney but this could be alleviated by baicalin which downregulated ɑ-SMA and TGF-β1 expressiond (key pro-fibrotic markers). We investigated Klotho a transmembrane protein that is expressed by renal tubule epithelial cells. Secreted form of Klotho could bind to TGF-β1 receptors and block the TGFβ1 signaling pathway. We determined that hypermethylation of the Klotho promoter plays an important role in baicalin's ability to rescue renal fibrosis induced by diabetes mellitus. In sum, our results showed that baicalin could alleviate renal fibrosis-induced by diabetes through partly modulating Klotho promoter methylation. Funding Statement: This study was supported by NSFC grant (31771331, 81741016), Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2017A050506029, 2017A020214015, 2016B030229002), Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (201710010054), Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (2016A030311044), Project of National University Students Challenge Cup (18112003). Declaration of Interests: The authors declare that there are no competing financial interests. Ethics Approval Statement: This study was carried out in strict accordance with the recommendations of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. The protocol was approved by the Animal Ethic Committee at Jinan University.

Changes in northern hemisphere male international rugby union players’ body mass and height between 1955 and 2015

ObjectivesWe sought to establish the effects of professionalism, which officially began in 1995, on the body mass and height of northern hemisphere male international rugby union (RU) players. We hypothesised...

Descriptive Epidemiology of Soccer Injury During Elite International Competition in Africa

Epidemiological research on soccer injuries during African soccer competition is sparse. This study was conducted among 12 teams in the Council of East and Central Africa Football Association (CECAFA) challenge cup tournament. Fifty-seven injuries were reported (2.7 injuries per match), or 82.25 injuries per 1,000 match hours. The ankle was most often injured (23%). The majority (81%) of injuries occurred as a result of traumatic contact, with the most injuries occurring in the last 30 min of the match. A majority (84%) of athletes who sustained injuries continued to play. African medical personnel should be trained to handle the unique constraints and variety of injuries sustained during soccer competition.

Rethinking ‘ethnic’ soccer: the National Junior Challenge Cup and the transformation of American soccer’s identity (1935–1976)

This paper contends that the way in which the term ‘ethnic’ is applied to the history of soccer in America needs rethinking. Through a case study of the National Junior Challenge Cup (now know as the JP McGuire Cup), the country’s oldest ongoing competition across all youth sports, this paper examines the transformation of American soccer’s identity. The tournament began in 1935 and evolved from an initial constituency of ethnic, immigrant and Catholic youth clubs. Following societal demographic trends, the growing national participant base came from more suburban, middle-class neighbourhoods. The 1970s witnessed a paradigm change in youth soccer as the sport began to move closer to mainstream consciousness. The tournament is a window into the complexity of defining the term ‘ethnic’ and its individuals who straddled both ‘ethnic’ and ‘native’ worlds. This article explores the origins of soccer in America, the bridges between ethnic identity, immigration and the foreign-native cultural debate and Soccer Americana.

Dynamic Creative Interaction Networks and Team Creativity Evolution: A Longitudinal Study

AbstractTo assess the dynamical effects of creative interaction networks on team creativity evolution, this paper elaborates a theoretical framework that links the key elements of creative interaction networks, including node, edge and network structure, to creativity in teams. The process of team creativity evolution is divided into four phases, including formation, growth, maturity and decline/restart. The importance of domain‐relevant knowledge, creativity‐relevant skill, interaction frequency, interaction length, network density and closeness centrality are emphasized in specific phases of team creativity evolution in a complex creative context. To test our assumptions, a longitudinal study of creative teams in a “Challenge Cup” Creative Business Plan Competition for university students is performed and the full networks of 17 creative entrepreneur teams are mapped. Both static comparison and dynamic analysis are conducted to analyze the relationship between creative interaction networks and team creativity evolution. For specific phases of team creativity evolution, we find confirmation of our predictions. The implications of dynamic creative interaction networks for all the phases of creative teams from formation to decline/restart are discussed.

Excellent ethanol sensing properties based on Er2O3-Fe2O3 nanotubes**Project supported by Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department, China (Grant No. 20140204027GX) and the Challenge Cup for College Students, China (Grant No. 450060497053).

In this work, pure α-Fe2O3 and Er2O3-Fe2O3 nanotubes were synthesized by a simple single-capillary electrospinning technology followed by calcination treatment. The morphologies and crystal structures of the as-prepared samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction, respectively. The gas-sensing properties of the as-prepared samples have been researched, and the result shows that the Er2O3-Fe2O3 nanotubes exhibit much better sensitivity to ethanol. The response value of Er2O3-Fe2O3 nanotubes to 10 ppm ethanol is 21 at the operating temperature 240°, which is 14 times larger than that of pure α-Fe2O3 nanotubes (response value is 1.5). The ethanol sensing properties of α-Fe2O3 nanotubes are remarkably enhanced by doping Er, and the lowest detection limit of Er2O3-Fe2O3 nanotubes is 300 ppb, to which the response value is about 2. The response and recovery times are about 4 s and 70 s to 10 ppm ethanol, respectively. In addition, the Er2O3-Fe2O3 nanotubes possess good selectivity and long-term stability.

SnO2-doped α-Fe2O3 patulous microtubes for high performance formaldehyde sensing**Project supported by the Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department (No. 20140204027GX) and the Competition Funded Projects of “Challenge Cup” College Students' Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works (No. 2014LG064).

SnO2-doped α-Fe2O3 patulous microtubes (SFPNs) are synthesized by an electrospinning method. The as-synthesized materials are characterized by scanning electron microscope, X-ray powder diffraction and energy dispersive spectroscopy. The gas sensing results show SFPNs possess an excellent sensing property to formaldehyde. The response value of SFPNs gas sensor to 50 ppm formaldehyde is 25.4 at 220 °C. The lowest detecting limit of 1 ppm formaldehyde is 3.2. Response and recovery characteristic curves of SFPNs gas sensors to 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 3, 2 and 1 ppm formaldehyde are also tested. The results show a good reversibility and repeatability of SFPNs gas sensors. The sensor exhibits a high selectivity in the presence of acetone, ethanol, toluene, ammonia, hydrogen, carbon monoxide and butane. Moreover, the sensor has a good long-time stability.

Excellent acetone sensing properties of porous ZnO**Projected supported by the Project of Challenge Cup for College Students, China (Grant No. 450060497053).

Porous ZnO was obtained by hydrothermal method. The results of scanning electron microscope revealed the porous structure in the as-prepared materials. The acetone sensing test results of porous ZnO show that porous ZnO possesses excellent acetone gas sensing properties. The response is 35.5 at the optimum operating temperature of 320 °C to 100 ppm acetone. The response and recovery times to 50 ppm acetone are 2 s and 8 s, respectively. The lowest detecting limit to acetone is 0.25 ppm, and the response value is 3.8. Moreover, the sensors also exhibit excellent selectivity and long-time stability to acetone.

On The Art Of Making Business Plan - A Successful Case

Abstract “Challenge Cup” business plan competition of Chinese college students is held jointly by Central Committee of Chinese Communist Youth League, China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and All-China Students Federation. It is held every two years and is universally acknowledged as the “Scientific and Technological Olympics” of Chinese college students. It is important to make a business plan after the student chooses a subject of business plan, builds a business creation team, and does a wide &amp; deep marketing investigation. However, tens of year’s practices of business plan competition have seen that business plan’s theory is not closely related to the practice, its practicality is not strong and the attractiveness &amp; persuasiveness need to improve. Thus, it’s necessary to do a summarization through analyzing cases.

Physical and Physiological Characteristics of Elite Male Handball Players from Teams with a Different Ranking

The aim of this study was to examine possible discriminant physical and physiological characteristics between elite male handball players from elite teams with different league rankings. Players from three teams (A, B and C), which competed in the first league of the Greek championship during the season 2011–2012 participated in the study. Team A finished first, B came second and C came eighth out of eleven clubs. Teams A and B also participated in European Cups, and team A won the European Challenge Cup. The players (n=44) were examined for anthropometric characteristics and performed a series of physical fitness tests. Players from teams A and B were taller (6.2 cm (0.7;11.7), mean difference (95% CI) and 9.2 cm (4.0;14.5), respectively), and had a higher amount of fat free mass (6.4 kg (1.1;11.8) and 5.4 kg (0.2;10.5)) compared to those of team C. Players from team A performed better than players from team C in the squat jump (5.5 cm (1.0;10.0)), the countermovement jump without (5.5 cm (0.4;10.6)) and with arm-swing (6.0 cm (0.7;11.3)) and in the 30 s Bosco test (5.7 W·kg−1 (1.2;10.2)). Also, players from team A outperformed team B in mean power during the Wingate anaerobic test (WAnT, 0.5 W·kg−1(0;0.9)) and in the Bosco test (7.8 W·kg−1 (3.4;12.2)). Overall, players from the best ranked team performed better than the lowest ranked team on WAnT, vertical jumps and the Bosco test. Stepwise discriminant analysis showed that stature and mean power during the Bosco test were the most important characteristics in TH players, accounting for 54.6% of the variance in team ranking. These findings indicate the contribution of particular physical fitness components (stature, fat free mass and anaerobic power) to excellence in TH. In addition, the use of the Bosco test as an assessment tool in talent identification and physical fitness monitoring in this sport is further recommended.

‘Notwithstanding the Discomfort Involved’: Fordson's Cup Win in 1926 and How ‘the Old Contemptible’ Were Represented in Ireland's Public Sphere During the 1920s

In the new Irish Free State, soccer, a game that had previously been popular mainly in the metropolitan centres of Dublin and Belfast, was growing rapidly in the southern province of Munster. Simultaneously, there was a push among the grass roots of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to rid itself of the ban on participation in foreign games. Many writing in columns and letters pages of the press at the time felt that this push within the GAA to remove the ban was a sign of a complacency that came from the granting of independence. Throughout the remainder of the decade a continuous debate surrounding Irish national identity and the place of soccer in the new state was played out in the national, provincial and radical presses. All the while, the popularity of soccer in Munster continued apace, and the victory of Fordson FC in the Football Association of the Irish Free State (FAIFS) Senior Challenge Cup final of 1926 cemented the popularity of both that club and the game in Cork for the period. By examining this particular victory and setting it against the wider backdrop of the debate on soccer, it is my contention that it displays strongly the gap between the Irish people's conception of their own sense of ‘Irishness’ and the Irish identity being promoted by many journalists, GAA and Gaelic League enthusiasts and many of the new political élite.