Matchmaking Process Research Articles

Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector

Structural labour shortages have increased demand for skilled and documented migrant workers in Western European labour markets. In response, private recruitment agencies are playing a more significant role in the identification, placement and integration of migrant workers. While the literature on labour intermediation practices has largely focused on the commercial and contractual work of matching workers with employers, this article develops an embedded understanding of labour intermediation that foregrounds the increasingly social and relational nature of intermediation practices in contexts of labour shortage. Through a qualitative study of intermediation in the Belgian construction sector, the article demonstrates the ways in which private agencies seek to produce the ‘right candidate’ through (i) the infiltration of migrant networks, (ii) the regularisation of migrant workers and (iii) the facilitation of their integration into host societies. These findings advance an expanded understanding of labour intermediation that transcends the conventional matchmaking process.

Love, (un)automated: Human matchmaking in the era of online dating

Human matchmaking has existed for millennia and continues to be an important means of relationship initiation. Yet little is known about the matchmaking process or the role of formal intermediaries in mate selection. To begin exploring this topic, a two-part study was conducted using proprietary data from a professional matchmaking company. Study 1 surveyed matchmakers about what makes their services unique and the criteria they use to select partners for their clients. Study 2 used data from couples to understand if matchmakers’ preferences align with the characteristics their clients seek in a long-term partner. The results showed that rather than matching according to others’ preferences, part of a matchmaker’s work is helping their clients discover, and in some cases reassess, what they desire in a mate. These findings provide novel insight into the commercial dating industry at a time when online dating is beginning to automate many of the tasks traditionally associated with human matchmakers.

Содержательно-структурные особенности эпических произведений российских хори-бурят

This article examines the plot-compositional structure of uligers, epics of Hori Buryats. The composition of Hori Buryat uligers is centered on a primary epic core that forms the basis of the plot for each text. The events in these texts are organized into semantic blocks, each comprising motifs or sets of motifs. The content-structural features of the epics are characterized by analyzing the sources from the eastern regions of Ethnic Buryatia. Emphasis is placed on the local peculiarity of uligers of Hori Buryats of Russia, with fewer records of the Eastern Buryat texts compared to the Western Buryat epics. An attempt is made to identify the plot-motif units used in the Hori uligers in the context of the main narrative core. These are the search for a betrothed or kidnapped wife and the process of matchmaking or passing repeated tests. Systematizing and describing the plots and motifs of the Hori Buryat uligers required the identification of the concept of “epic motif.” According to the theoretical judgments of scholars, a motif is the smallest narrative unit that serves a specific function in the plot development and has its own semantics within the implementation of the narrative outline of the epic tradition. The plot is formed by combining different motifs. The plot is defined as a certain model combining different motifs.

Bridging the Literal Gap to Develop New Research Partnerships

The School Library Media Special Interest Group session offered multiple opportunities to “bridge the gap” between passive listening to the research of others and active engagement in the research of others through collaborations. Developing research collaborations informs future practice through teaching and learning, as well as in practice. As one example of a research project, Dr. Tara Zimmerman presented her study “Awareness and Critical Thinking (ACT) Program: How School Librarians Can Teach Children to Detect and Avoid Misinformation”. Dr. Zimmerman’s project is funded by a three-year early career grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The spread of misinformation is a recognized threat to democratic societies, and children are particularly susceptible due to increased use of digital technology, particularly in education. The Awareness and Critical Thinking (ACT) Program is a proposed research project to investigate and strengthen school librarians’ role in educating students about the dangers of misinformation, how to detect it, and avoid it. Based on a survey of school librarians, curriculum will be developed and piloted in several states. Finally, the fully scaffolded, flexible curriculum will be made available to all schools, supplemented with teaching tips and examples gained from the program. This research on teaching children to identify misinformation segued smoothly into more active participation in “Speed Dating a Researcher.” Opportunities to confer one-to-one with other researchers in the field of school librarianship are rare. By "thin-slicing” or using limited information from a narrow period of experience, we can draw conclusions which may be as good as, or even better than, carefully planned and considered ones (Gladwell, 2007). One example of thin slicing is speed dating. Through this matchmaking process, eligible research partners had the opportunity to meet new potential partners in a very short period. Rows of chairs were arranged to seat participants knee-to-knee so that attendees literally needed to “bridge the gap” between to chat about their research. Participants rotated to meet each other over a series of short "dates" lasting five minutes. Participants were encouraged to discuss their own research, research that they have read about and found interesting, or a possible future research project. At the end of each interval, the conveners rang a bell to signal the participants to move on to the next date. At the end of the event participants submitted to the conveners a list of who they would like to provide their contact information to. When matches were made, contact information was forwarded to both parties. Contact information was not traded during the initial meeting to reduce pressure to accept or reject a researcher in person. Participants were informed of these activities prior to the conference at the SIG business meeting and through the SIG listserv. They were encouraged to bring their ideas and business cards with them to prepare for making new research partnerships. Nametags and forms to request matches were supplied at the event to actively engage participants in this collaborative process.

Konsep Kafa’ah pada Perkawinan Syarifah Di Desa Pambusuang Kabupaten Polewali Mandar

This study uses a qualitative research method with empirical legal research located in Pambusuang, Balanipa, Polewali Mandar. It is conducted by using a normative theological and sociological research approach. The primary data sources are several Syarifah women and Habib. The study reveals that the Syarifah women's marriage system is not significantly different from the women's marriage system in general in Pambusuang, namely using the traditional Mandar procession, however, there are few differences are found. First, Syarifah women's marriage tends to focus on nasab (lineage) at the matchmaking process or at the proposal process so that the marriage is arranged, they do not apply several kufu' concepts (compability) in choosing a partner, and some of them even choose not to marry. Second, at the metindor process in Syarifahs' Wedding (arrival of the groom), the groom should attend the syarifahs' place by riding a horse. Third, the groom has to wear white to carry out the Ijab kabul . Regarding the first result, the concept of kafâ`ah for Syarifah women in achieving sakinah mawaddah warahmah marriage cannot be separated from the combination of several kufu’ concepts, such as religion, lineage, work, and wealth. However, in their marriage, the concept of kufu' in terms of lineage and religion is the most important consideration when choosing a partner while the wealth and work aspect are tend to be ignored nowadays. The implication of the research is that there is an understanding that not only lineage of sayyid descent is a determinant in achieving a life of sakinah mawaddah warahmah for syarifah women in Pambusuang, but it is also necessary to grant rights to Syarifah women to choose their partner outside the lineage of sayyid rather than live unmarried because they are not from the same nasab (lineage).

Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation while Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism by Schneur Zalman Newfield

Reviewed by: Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation while Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism by Schneur Zalman Newfield Jessica Lang Schneur Zalman Newfield. Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation while Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. 210 pp. The title of Schneur Zalman Newfield's text, Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation while Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, speaks to the nuance and subtlety with which he explores his subject matter. Newfield identifies and analyzes the many features and facets that inform "exit narratives," the term he offers to describe the process of departure from the ultra-Orthodox community in which one has been raised. The phrase "exit narratives" is one that he applies bi-directionally—as a description of the action according to those who remain in the community, and also as the recounting narrated by the "exiters" themselves. Newfield's book focuses on the narratives of seventy-four exiters from the two largest ultra-Orthodox communities, Lubavitch and Satmar. Both communities are Hasidic; the leadership of both centers on a revered single figurehead, a "rebbe"; both adhere to strict definitions of religious conformity, and both minimize contact with the secular world. Important differences separate these two communities, and Newfield takes care to enumerate them: the Satmar community has more rules governing modest and appropriate dress, especially for women and girls; education for girls is more restrictive; gender segregation is more extreme; and the matchmaking process that leads to marriage is more tightly controlled and on a more compressed schedule. These differences—and similarities—lead to interesting and telling overlaps and distinctions in exit narratives and community explanation and justification. [End Page 443] Importantly, the author was himself raised in the Lubavitch community, learned to read English by himself, and eventually enrolled in Brooklyn College, where he moved away from the practices of the community in which he had been raised. The great advantage of this personal background is that it helps Newfield gain the trust of his subjects. His familiarity with Yiddish, his firsthand experience as an insider within an ultra-Orthodox community, and his own identity as an "exiter," offer his interviewees a sense of ease and possibly gain him greater access to more people and more subject areas. To his credit, Newfield explicitly acknowledges the challenge that this familiarity also presents: that personal biases can be inadvertently intertwined with and influence scholarly analysis. Newfield identifies this danger and stays aware of it; I believe he fully succeeds in avoiding any pitfalls that might be associated with it. Degrees of Separation fills a significant scholarly gap by researching and analyzing the "exit process for those exiting ultra-Orthodoxy" (4). There has been growing interest in the topic, in large part fed by essays published in journalistic venues, online, and in popular presses, and also because of hit miniseries such as Netflix's Unorthodox. Scholarship studying the phenomenon of leave-taking, however, has lagged. One of Newfield's great contributions to the broader field is his carefully worked-out examination of the "patterns among the experiences of exiters, including the ways that the old life continues within the new" (5). Departure and reinvention from the Satmar and Lubavitch communities demand a transformation that is far more encompassing than suggested by a more typical tale of lapsed religious practice, or an anticonversion narrative. In the first chapter of the volume, Newfield identifies three types of exiters, those who feel trapped, "unable to substantially replace the goals and means of their community, despite having exited" (12); those who are hybrid, who "adopt new goals and means while simultaneously incorporating a limited amount of their former community's means and/or goals into their new lives" (12); and those who are disconnected, who seemingly have "replaced all the goals and means of their former community with new ones" but who in fact struggle to maintain that perception (13). Degrees of Separation concentrates on the sustained sense of in-betweenness that exiters experience, which is defined by the influence and incorporation of traits and practices from their upbringing that influence their post-Orthodox lives. The volume offers readers and scholars a great deal; Newfield's richly detailed interviews with a substantial number of exiters...

Терминология традиционного свадебного комплекса у калмыков: шаһата

Introduction. The article deals with the term ‘shaγata’ (Kalm шаһата) to have denoted both the matchmaking process and the young woman as bride proper. The insight into materials on wedding rites of 19th-century Kalmyks and Oirat groups of Mongolia and China attests to that the term is rather widespread in traditional communities. So, the lexeme is virtually absent in present-day Kalmyk wedding discourse. Materials and methods. The study analyzes works to have examined traditional household activities and cultural phenomena of Kalmyks related to traditional wedding rites. Special attention is paid to publications exploring ethnic ritual cultures of Southern Siberia, Mongolia, and Xinjiang (China). The employed research methods include the comparative/historical, comparative proper, and structural/functional ones. Results. The analysis of materials dealing with the term ‘shaγata’ in the Kalmyk wedding tradition makes it possible to suggest a polysemantic meaning inherent thereto. So, it served to mark a number of aspects, such as a young woman’s status of bride, emergence of a new family, introduction of the woman into the community of relatives, property relationships between the two sides of the marriage, and numbers of wedding treats. In traditional Kalmyk society, the term was closely associated with nomadic lifestyle, traditions and centuries-old worldviews of nomads. The factors to have caused its disappearance are changes in economic patterns and modes of life, transformed ritual culture of Kalmyks.

A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders

Sharing successful practices with other stakeholders is important for achieving SDGs. In this study, with a deep-learning natural language processing model, bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT), the authors aimed to build (1) a classifier that enables semantic mapping of practices and issues in the SDGs context, (2) a visualizing method of SDGs nexus based on co-occurrence of goals (3) a matchmaking process between local issues and initiatives that may embody solutions. A data frame was built using documents published by official organizations and multi-labels corresponding to SDGs. A pretrained Japanese BERT model was fine-tuned on a multi-label text classification task, while nested cross-validation was conducted to optimize the hyperparameters and estimate cross-validation accuracy. A system was then developed to visualize the co-occurrence of SDGs and to couple the stakeholders by evaluating embedded vectors of local challenges and solutions. The paper concludes with a discussion of four future perspectives to improve the natural language processing system. This intelligent information system is expected to help stakeholders take action to achieve the sustainable development goals.

Industrial symbiosis marketplace concept for waste valorization pathways

Acceleration of raw materials’ depletion and waste accumulation create a need for stakeholders to shift from linear to circular business models by adopting novel strategies. Circular economy (CE) and industrial symbiosis (IS) offer a direction towards sustainable, resource efficient systems and eco-friendly waste management approaches. IS encompasses all types of interfirm cooperation in order to achieve a green, waste-free supply chain and at the same time to attain profits. However, among other barriers hampering widespread adoption of IS is lack of information exchange. Digital tools have emerged as facilitators of IS, since they enable real-time data sharing, identification and evaluation of symbiotic opportunities, while continuous progress of those tools is necessary for the digital transformation of IS. Important elements for the functionality and success of such tools are the criteria determining the matching of potential stakeholders and the support of the decision-making process. In the ongoing research that is presented, these matching criteria and benchmarks for waste valorization pathways are investigated and a matchmaking framework is proposed. The objective of the framework is to identify the most suitable collaborators to be deployed later to an automated matchmaking process, revealing latent possibilities (e.g. by suggesting indirect matches) and advantages of symbiotic actions from a holistic perspective. This tailor-made assessment is aspired to evaluate stakeholders’ compatibility based on more than a mere waste streams’ valorization match. Stakeholders’ specific requirements and motivations are incorporated in the potential partnership evaluation, thereby a multicriterion approach is proposed considering the potential cooperators’ relevance in terms of aspects like strategic goals, the level of IS embracement or synergy’s environmental impact.

The matching process and the implications of the competitive market system

Abstract In the broad field of economic research, the process of resource allocation and the degree of manifestation of the freedom of the competitive market are relevant points of interest in order to achieve in terms of microeconomic performance. Through this work, we have proposed to investigate the extent to which competitive markets tend towards that form of perfection and what are the main challenges and implications for the market freedom. The novelty of this study counts in bringing to the forefront the match-making process, implicitly the study of the match-making market, introduced by the American economist Alvin E. Roth in 2015. In particular, it analyzes a new valence of the competitive market, the operating mechanism being aimed at highlighting a specific terminology, such as linguistic decryption of markets. This paper has extended the concept of matching, by analyzing the ethical issues involved, as well as the way in which we are witnessing a crescendo of concrete examples of the functioning of these markets. At the same time, we used the use of methodological tools specific to the analysis of statistical data on measuring the degree of competitive freedom in the main key sectors in Romania in 2015 and 2019, by applying The Aggregate Index of Competitive Pressure (AICP). The results showed the degree of openness to competition of the main sectors in Romania, as well as the fact that the matching market assumes the effective operation and manifestation of the competitive mechanism.

Optimal, dynamic and reliable demand-response via OpenADR-compliant multi-agent virtual nodes: Design, implementation & evaluation

Extracting and exploiting the flexibility of electric demand has been shown to reduce the needs of network upgrades and generation capacity increases. Demand Response (DR) in considered as one of the few available solutions for accessing the untapped energy potential of small and medium customers. Over the past decade, rigorous research has produced significant results in optimally dispatching DR in an attempt to maximize flexibility extraction. However, the vast majority of works assumes a “happy path” scenario in which DR requests are always successfully completed. Hence, there is a large gap in the literature that fails to account for non-deterministic factors that manifest in practical deployments, e.g., the stochasticity of end-user behavior that can drastically influence the DR's outcomes. Investing on that notion, a novel, distributed, multi-agent system (MAS) that aggregates consumers and prosumers and handles automatically OpenADR-compliant DR requests is introduced, following virtual power plant (VPP) principles. Agents of the proposed MAS are able to service DR events originating from a higher level, e.g., Aggregators or Utilities, and optimally dispatch them to their assigned customers. The proposed framework ensures 100% DR success rate, compared to conventional methods, by not only optimally exploiting aggregated flexibility through a combination of clustering and optimisation engines, but also through a dynamic, bi-directional DR matchmaking process that can mitigate observed deviations both internally (intra), as well as, externally (inter) in real-time. Via experimentation, we demonstrate the framework's efficiency in ensuring technical DR fault-tolerance along with its ability to deliver savings of up to 3 orders of magnitude to Aggregators and the customers serving the DR requests.

Energy and water saving potentials in industrial parks by an infrastructure-integrated symbiotic model

The industrial park is a common feature in global industrial development. Sharable infrastructure, such as the centralized energy facility and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), are widely employed in industrial parks. This study established a high-resolution inventory of 252 WWTPs and 308 energy facilities in 111 Chinese national industrial parks (NIPs), and proposed an infrastructure-integrated symbiotic model in industrial parks by establishing water-energy nexuses between WWTPs and energy facilities. A match-making process was established to uncover the feasibility of fostering symbiosis between energy facilities and WWTPs. The effluent and sludge from WWTPs can be reused in energy facilities to save freshwater withdrawals and partly reduce fossil fuel consumption, and the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can also be mitigated simultaneously. The results show that effluent and sludge from WWTPs can substitute 73.4% and 7% of the water withdrawals and energy consumption of the energy facilities, respectively. The GHG emissions mitigation potential is about 9.92 Mt CO2-eq per year, accounting for a 2.56% reduction compared to the baseline scenario. The study will also enlighten other developing countries in facilitating a circular economy by targeting industrial parks and contributing to water conservation, energy savings, and pollutant reduction.

Attachment style and prolonged singlehood in the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel

The present study investigates the relationship between attachment style and prolonged singlehood in the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel. As in many religious and collectivistic communities, great value is attached to the institution of marriage while singlehood is perceived as an unwanted phenomenon and inflicts suffering on ultra-Orthodox singles and on their families. Two hundred and fifty-nine singles, women and men, who define themselves as ultra-Orthodox responded to an online questionnaire about “Experiences in Close Relationships” and a personal details questionnaire. The dependent variable of the singlehood period was defined by three values: (1) “number of years of singlehood” (N = 259), (2) “number of years of dating” (N = 249), and (3) “number of partners dated” (N = 239). The end of the singlehood period by marriage was defined functionally as the engagement of the participant. Data was subjected to a Cox proportional hazards survival analysis. Results generally showed that avoidant and anxious attachment styles were negatively correlated with the odds of getting married. Results are discussed in the context of attachment theory and the capability of compromising during the process of match-making.

Design a Chatbot for Chennai Corporation Using Logistic Regression Algorithm

Chatbots are the famous nowadays in business because of its service offered to the community at large. They provide support of 24*7 for business in terms of customercare, helpline, planning, analyzing and decision making. In this paper, a chatbot for Chennai corporation is proposed. This chatbot helps the citizens in providing the responses for their queries related to civic problems. There is no such system is available to handle the public grievances automatically. This system handles the public query and the relevant suggestion and responses will be given promptly. The chatbot receives the text or voice input and processed. The voice recognition module used to recognize the voice query and the voice to text convertor used to convert the voice data into text format. The matchmaking process used to match the input query with the available data set and the relevant responses is generated. If no match is for the query, the matchmaker will find the relevant response from online sources. The output channel equipped with the text to voice converter which converts the text data into voice and it will be delivered to the end user. The naïve bayers and logistic regression algorithm is implemented for classifying the query and the performance is compared. The result shows that the logistic regression algorithm outperform well with the precision and recall values.

Constructing a Resource-Sharing Platform for Biomedical IP Trading

This project aims at designing and building a resource-sharing and online transaction platform to support and facilitate the technology transfer from the biotech academia to the industry and to prosper Biotech industry in Taiwan. This project constructs a web-based platform, namely BioIPMall, for biomedical IP trading, analyzing and developing strategy. To facilitate the classification and categorization of biotechnology, a tree-structured classification framework was constructed to create the taxonomy system in this project. The framework is composed of two main categories: “Industrial Application” and “Biotechnology” and 259 sub-categories totally. This biotechnology classification tree has been used to facilitate data mining and tech matchmaking process in BioIPMall. A prototypical business model was developed for providing IP management and technology transfer services. Currently 342 bio-related patents or technologies have been gathered from research institutes and have been posted on BioIPMall. Website available at: http://www.bioipmall.com.tw/.

Implicit Leader- and Followership Theories and Interpersonal Attraction in Workplace Relationships

Implicit leadership and followership theories (ILTs/IFTs) play an important role for judgements and decisions in organizational settings. We focus on espoused ILTs and IFTs (i.e. assumptions about leadership and followership that someone claims to have) and examine their influence on other-perceived attractiveness for building professional relations at the workplace. Data were collected in a factorial survey (N = 178) in which prospective and actual job sharers were ex-posed to short profiles of fictive partners. Results of multi-level modelling tend to confirm that leadership and followership prototypes are positively related to attractiveness regarding job sharing, while the opposite holds for antiprototypes. As the first study to examine ILTs and IFTs simultaneously, we find that espoused IFTs exert a considerably stronger influence on interper-sonal attraction than ILTs. Moreover, we provide evidence on how the valence of prototypes can shift from positive to negative depending on the context. Finally, implications for leadership theory and the matchmaking process for job sharing are discussed.

PROSES PERJODOHAN DAN KRITERIA KAFA’AH DALAM PERKAWINAN ANGGOTA LDII DESA MEDAENG KECAMATAN WARU KABUPATEN SIDOARJO

This paper is a bibliographical research on the process of marriage and kafa'ah criteria in LDII’s members in Medaeng, Waru, Sidoarjo under the perspective of Islamic law. This study aims to answer the questions of how the matchmaking process in the marriage system of LDII’s members in Medaeng, Waru, Sidoarjo and how the application of the concept of kafa'ah in LDII’s members in Medaeng, Waru, Sidoarjo and how the maslahah analysis of the process of matchmaking and the concept of kafa'ah in LDII’s members in Medaeng, Waru, Sidoarjo. This data of the research is obtained from the board of LDII of Medaeng, Waru, Sidoarjo which become the object of research. Technique of collecting data of this research are descriptive verikatif technique and deductive mindset. From the result of the research, it is concluded that kafa'ah match and criteria in LDII’s members are more inclined to fellow members or groups. According to Islamic law, it does’t matter to marry such a model as long as it aims to benefit and rejects the danger, because the main purpose of the Islamic law is promoting benefit for the people. In addition, during the process of matchmaking, it doesn’t against the syari’ah, then it can be done. Nevertheless, it is expected that LDII’s members in Medaeng, Waru, Sidoarjo are more open in understanding kafa'ah, because what is meant by kafa'ah in Islam is not limited to certain group of the people.

Pernikahan Dini dan Budaya

Early marriage is still a common phenomenon in Indonesia. This phenomenon is motivated by various factors such as social, economic and cultural. This study aims to examine the role of cultural factors on the occurrence of early marriage in Indonesia. The culture proxyed by two forms, first, ethnicity background in the household and second, the matchmaking process. The analysis used Indonesia Life Survey (IFLS) data in 2014 with logistic model and ordinary least square (OLS). Results show that ethnic background has a very important role in influencing early marriage. Children from Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Sasak and Betawi ethnic have a tendency to marry earlier than other tribes. The study also proves that matchmaking process is a significant factor that encourages early marriage. Children with matchmaking process do marriage at a younger age than children who choose their own partner (without matchmaking process).
 Keywords: J12 marriage; J16 Economics of gender

Safety in Mixed Martial Arts: a 7-Year Review of Cancelled MMA Bouts in Calgary, Alberta, During the Pre-bout Medical Examination Period

BackgroundPresently, there is no literature that examines the reasons for the cancellation of amateur or professional mixed martial arts (MMA) bouts. The purpose of this study was to review the circumstances that lead to the cancellation of MMA bouts by Calgary ringside physicians during the pre-bout examination period and to identify any emerging patterns that may guide the regulatoin of this sport.MethodsThe case-series was constructed from the Calgary Combative Sports Commission pre-bout examination records and the medical records submitted by each athlete from January 2010 to December 2016.ResultsCancelled bouts in the pre-bout examination periods represented 5.4% of all MMA bouts in Calgary. A total of 25 reasons lead to bout cancellation and included the following: failure to obtain required neuroimaging (28.0%), neuroimaging abnormalities (24.0%), incomplete routine screening investigations (16.0%), exceeding maximum weight differential between the two athletes (16.0%), injury in the pre-competition period (8.0%), dehydration (4.0%), and ECG abnormalities (4.0%). The abnormalities on neuroimaging (n of 6) included the following: post traumatic gliosis on MRI (n = 1, 16.7%), flares diffusely and findings consistent with microhemorrhage on MRI (n = 1, 16.7%), chronic orbital fracture with fat pad extrusion on CT (n = 2, 33.3%), lacunar infarct on MRI (1), and unspecified MRI abnormality (n = 1, 16.7%). Twenty-two athletes had bouts cancelled and of these three athletes had their bouts stopped for two reasons.ConclusionsThe following recommendations are presented and include: the creation of guidelines regarding pre- and post-bout neuroimaging, the implementation of industry-wide minimum medical screening standards, the adoption of a longitudinal approach to weight monitoring, the development of competent ringside physician groups, and active oversight by the Combative Sports Commission during the matchmaking process.

Semantic web service discovery for mobile web services

The process of service discovery is the most important task in web services. But this service discovery process may degrade network performance due to the mobile environment. To overcome these issues, a new approach called 'semantic mobile web services (SMWS)' is proposed. This proposed semantic mobile web services is used for a better discovery process even in the high mobile environment. By using the query request (QRY REQ), response (RSP) packets, user can identify the location of the mobile node as well as discover the web services with the minimum utilisation of bandwidth resources. During the service discovery process, a service registrar is included between service requester and service provider to reduce overhead. The process of matchmaking produces the exact match responses for the respective requestor queries. This helps to increase the quality of performance and network efficiency. Simulation has analysed the performance of the proposed semantic mobile web services.