Sports Venues Research Articles

Optimized Path Analysis about College Sports Venues Socialization

Optimized Path Analysis about College Sports Venues Socialization

The development and popularisation of network platform of college sports venues in intelligent manufacturing

With the promotion of the national fitness campaign, the number of physical exercise shows explosive growth in China. The question that block the development of sports exposed which is a lack of public sports venues. This paper focuses on building a network platform of all college sports venues resources which can reach the goal to serve national fitness and proposes an improved parallel heuristic map reduce algorithm. The experimental results show the stability, concurrency and feasibility of the network platform of college sports venues in big data era.

Physical Education and Athletic Facility Emergency Readiness: The Emergency Action Plan

The emergency action plan (EAP) at physical education and sport venues is a necessity, no matter the level. Although medical emergencies are rare, an EAP helps to ensure a smooth response, necessary for positive outcomes. Many entities should be involved developing the EAP. All personnel who act in an emergency must be trained in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and automated external defibrillators should be readily available. This article assists administrators with developing and implementing emergency planning at all facilities that host athletic events at any level. This article breaks down an EAP into its two central components: equipment and personnel. Subscribe to TPE

Surround Video Stitching and Synchronous Transmission Technology for Immersive Live Broadcasting of Entire Sports Venues

Surround Video Stitching and Synchronous Transmission Technology for Immersive Live Broadcasting of Entire Sports Venues

Attitudes toward smokeless tobacco use at all public sports venues among U.S. adults, 2016

Policies prohibiting smokeless tobacco (SLT) use at sports venues have been enacted in California and nine U.S. cities. We measured opposition toward SLT use at all public sports venues and its correlates among U.S. adults. Data were from the 2016 SummerStyles, a web-based survey of U.S. adults aged ≥18years (n=4203). Weighted estimates of opposition (“strongly” or “somewhat”) SLT use were computed overall and by selected characteristics. Multivariable Poisson regression analyses were performed to identify determinants of opposition toward SLT use overall and among current tobacco product users. Overall, 81.8% of U.S. adults opposed SLT use at all public sports venues. Opposition varied by tobacco product use status: 85.9%, 86.9% and 60.4% among never, former, and current tobacco product users, respectively. Among all adults, the likelihood of opposition was higher among females than males (Adjusted Prevalence Ratio [APR]=1.05; 95%CI=1.01–1.08) and increased with every 10-year increase in age (APR=1.01; 95%CI=1.00–1.02). Likelihood was lower among persons with a high school diploma (APR=0.92; 95%CI=0.88–0.96) than those with college degree or higher; persons widowed/divorced/separated (APR=0.92; 95%CI=0.87–0.97) than those married; and current tobacco product users (APR=0.70; 95%CI=0.65–0.76) than never users. Among current tobacco product users, likelihood was lower among persons living in the Midwest (APR=0.81; 95%CI=0.66–0.98) and South (APR=0.78; 95%CI=0.65–0.94) than the Northeast. Most U.S. adults, including three-fifths of current tobacco product users, oppose SLT use at all public sports venues. Complete tobacco-free policies for sports venues that prohibit all forms of tobacco product use can help reduce the social acceptability of SLT use.

Retrospection and state of sports marketing and sponsorship research in IJSMS from 1999 to 2015

PurposeBased on the increasing significance and proliferation of sports marketing and sponsorship, it is important to explore the state of sports marketing and sponsorship research, assess the development of sponsorship-related research, and grasp its future directions. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to help scholars understand future research directions to improve our knowledge of sports marketing and sponsorship.Design/methodology/approachThis study used content analysis that incorporated three multidimensional measures and applied social network analysis in order to identify the knowledge structure of sponsorship research. The authors conducted content analysis to assess the status of the nature of sports marketing and sponsorship in the International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship (IJSMS). The authors coded 282 articles published in the IJSMS from 1999 through 2015 using three multidimensional measures.FindingsAnalyzing research trends in specific academic fields helps improve and provide understanding of research practices and future research directions to improve knowledge, in this case about sports marketing and sponsorship. This study is the most up-to-date research trend study regarding sports marketing and sponsorship (December 2015). Compared with previous trend studies that have focused on research purpose, research perspective, statistical method, and subject area, this study offers a more detailed analysis based on a wider set of concepts such as game types, individual authors, affiliated organizations, countries of origin, etc. Furthermore, social network analysis was used to identify the knowledge structure of sponsorship research in the IJSMS. The study provides valuable insight into the challenges marketers and scholars face as they implement a more market-centric business strategy.Research limitations/implicationsThe study aims to highlight the knowledge structure of sports marketing and sponsorship using social networking analysis. In order to highlight specific research area trends, the process of development should be explored together with the intellectual structure of sports marketing and sponsorship research using “Author Co-citation Analysis”. Such an analysis would provide the advantage of incorporating the development process into sports marketing and sponsorship research.Practical implicationsMarketers and researchers have long explored the effects of sponsorship, an alternative marketing strategy to commercial advertising that involves placement of brand images and logos on athletes’ uniform and equipment as well as on structural elements of sports venues. Sponsoring the Olympic Games or the World Cup enables marketers to leverage the exposure made possible at a global sporting event, producing favorable responses to sponsoring companies. From a marketing communication perspective, this study makes a valuable contribution to the literature by reviewing the diversity of articles and the knowledge structure of those articles. The results should benefit marketing studies by offering crucial strategic implications for marketers seeking to adopt future sponsorship strategies.Originality/valueThe results provide valuable insights that can improve the understanding of the knowledge structure of sports marketing and sponsorship and suggest planning and directions for research on similar topics. This study’s findings provide insight into the challenges marketers and managers of corporate sports marketing firms face as they implement a more market-centric business strategy.

Numerical simulation of low temperature on plastic runway of cement base

Surface polyurethane materials in sports venues, which have good elasticity, high strength, excellent wear resistance and fine damping capacity, easily crack in winter. These cracks will affect their service performance for applications in sports. In this study, the temperature and stress distribution in cement concrete base layers in sports venues was investigated. A transient, two-dimensional finite-element model was built to predict the transient temperature distributions at various depths in a plastic runway of cement concrete base using the Ansys software. The results show that the temperature change almost occurs in the surface polyurethane layer. The low thermal conductivity of the polyurethane layer will be helpful for temperature distribution across the layer in winter. It should be realized to control or decrease the crack’s appearance in the plastic runway. Ultimately, the model is aimed at providing runway engineers with an efficient computational tool that attempts to increase the prediction accuracy of temperature in plastic runways of cement concrete base layer in cold regions for more reliable runway design.

Role of Sports Facilities in the Process of Revitalization of Brownfields

The paper gives an evidence that building a large sports facility can generate beneficial urban space transformation and a significant improvement in the dilapidated urban areas. On the basis of theoretical investigations and case studies it can be proved that sports facilities introduced to urban brownfields could be considered one of the best known large scale revitalization methods. Large urban spaces surrounding sport facilities such as stadiums and other sports arenas create excellent conditions for designing additional recreational function, such as parks and other green areas. Since sports venues are very often located on brownfields and post-industrial spaces, there are usually well related with canals, rivers and other water routes or reservoirs. Such spaces become attractors for large groups of people. This, in effect initiate the process of introducing housing estates to the area and gradually the development of multifunctional urban structure. As research shows such process of favourable urban transformation could be based on implementing several important preconditions. One of the most significant one is the formation of the new communication infrastructure, which links newly formed territories with the well-structured urban core. Well planned program of the new sports facilities is also a very important factor. As research shows multifunctional large sports venues may function in the city as a new kind of public space that stimulates new genres of social relations, offers entertainment and free time activities, not necessarily related with sport. This finally leads to the creation of new jobs and more general improvement of a widely understood image of the district, growing appreciation for the emerging new location and consequently new investments in the neighbouring areas. The research gives new evidence to the ongoing discussion on the drawbacks and benefits of placing stadiums and sports arenas in the urban core.

Between the Show and the War. Sports as a generator of emotions and architecture of sports venues

The author proposes definition of sports as means of production of sthenic emotions concerning demonstration of human physical and psychic abilities, hic et nunc. The article tells how sports bear a close resemblance to such fields as military art and show business. Architecture of sports venues is viewed through history in connection with the changes in interrelations between these three fields.

Framing democracy: stadium financing and civic paternalism in Test Market, USA

The vast majority of North America’s professional sport arenas, ballparks and stadiums are publicly subsidized without direct approval from voters. In this article, we examine the discursive constitution of ‘no-vote subsidies’ within the public sphere, and in particular problematize the twinned production(s) of citizenship and democratic process in framing public subsidization of these sites of private accumulation. To do this, we examine the recent no-vote subsidy occurring in Columbus, Ohio – thereby providing a context-specific interrogation of the mediations of participatory citizenship, political decision-making and the institution of democracy as related to sport stadium funding. As part of this analysis, we discuss the public production of civic paternalism – a political ideology focused on urban growth and unconcerned with future electoral consequences – in the Columbus arena financing case. We conclude the article with a call for increasing scholarly engagement in, and intervention into, the political processes that result in the public subsidization of professional sport venues.

On the Planning and Design of the Utilization Efficiency of College Gymnasiums in Jiangsu

The research focus in this paper is the planning and implementation of the efficiency of the rational use of sports venuesin Jiangsu.With the rapid development of in-college sports industry and the continually increasing demand for physical fitness, we conducted a systematic analysis in the rational design of college sports building and its overall trend of development. We obtain such research findings as the sports architectural tendency, which is functional diversification, integration of architecture and the environment, and organic application of architectural science and technologies to gymnasiums; as the principle of design, which includes diversification, high efficiency, dynamism, sustainability and people first; as a feasible strategy and method of adaptiveness, in terms of the overall layout of gymnastic facilities, the planning and layout of gymnastic buildings, the functionality requirements of gymnastic structure, the size requirements of sports venue, and the choice of structural forms. With the said analysis, the design method of the gymnastic adaptiveness is rendered more theoretically practical.

Design and Implementation of Online Booking System of University Sports Venues

To solve the imbalanced use of university sports venues, the online booking system of university sports venues based on the table tennis hall of Zhengzhou University is designed, combining the experience of the existing online booking systems, the main methods and the major ideal of building these systems both at home and aboard. The basic functions of the system are designed according to the general requirement analysis, including user’s registration and login, online venue booking, online payment, personal center, message board and database construction. The development of the system used Java programming language, JSP (a Web platform development technology), MySQL database processing technology, JDBC data access model, MyEclipse development platform and Tomcat server. The system has accomplished such functions as online booking, online payment and online message. The tests of the system are run in good conditions. The use of the system has made up for the current luck of sports venues management, solved the problems of the online booking function of university sports venues, improved the efficiency of the venues and meet the needs of efficient use of the venues. The system can be an experience of the management of the other college sports venues.

In the Zone: Performing Fandom and Branding in Toronto’s Jurassic Park

Fan zones are increasingly used at sporting events to extend the shared viewing experience beyond the capacity of traditional sports venues. The NBA’s Toronto Raptors have made Jurassic Park a key part of their supporters’ experience in the city during crucial playoff games. While the primary purpose for the fans in the zone is to enjoy watching the game as a group, the Raptors management has repurposed and branded their collective identity to drive desire not just within the fan zone but also among audience watching Raptors games on TV.

Typologies of neighbourhood environments and children's physical activity, sedentary time and television viewing

This study examined cross-sectional and prospective associations between clusters of neighbourhood attributes (typologies) and non-school moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, sedentary time (objectively measured) and proxy-reported television viewing among children aged 5–6 and 10–12 years. Four distinct clusters were identified from seven objectively-measured neighbourhood attributes (land use mix, traffic exposure, playgrounds, sports venues, intersections and cul-de-sacs within 800m, crime/postcode). Some cross-sectional associations with behavior were found. Longitudinally, the cluster characterised by mixed land use and many playgrounds and sport venues was associated with less television viewing on weekends three years later. Considering the aggregate effects of urban form elements may help understand how combinations of neighbourhood attributes influence behavior.

Consumer-based brand equity of a destination for sport tourists versus non-sport tourists

Destination authorities invest in sport venues and related infrastructure to attract sport events due to their influence on destination image and visitation. Several studies have revealed a significant influence of image on behavioral intentions of sport or event tourists; however, a comprehensive assessment of consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) inclusive of image, consumer value, brand value, quality, and loyalty by comparing sport and non-sport tourists is lacking. The current study conducted an online survey with a sample of the US population and compared Orlando’s CBBE from the perspectives of sport and non-sport tourists in general and those sport and non-sport tourists who have visited Orlando in the past. Results revealed some differences between sport and non-sport tourists, both in the general sample and in the past visitor group. Although both groups revealed a strong CBBE in general, sport tourists have a better perception of Orlando in some image and loyalty dimensions. General sport tourists’ overall quality, image, and consumer value influence their loyalty, while only image and quality influence loyalty for those sport tourists who visited Orlando before.

Based on the Cellular Model of Chinese Citizen’s Sports Venues of Affordable Public Services Strategy Research

Based on the Cellular Model of Chinese Citizen’s Sports Venues of Affordable Public Services Strategy Research

‘See These Brilliant Exponents of the Game’: The England Women’s Hockey Team Tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1914

This paper argues that the 1914 England Women’s hockey tour of Australia and New Zealand has an ambiguous place within wider progress narratives of women’s sport. It created some important sporting precedents, being the first time Australian and New Zealand women’s teams had taken the field. The media reception of the tour was mixed. While the social pages and some of match commentary focused on the appearance of the players, the majority presented the tour as a worthy sporting spectacle. Indeed in the final match the New Zealand team was billed as the ‘All Blacks’, the name normally associated with national men’s teams. Moreover, the symbolic importance of the tour was enhanced by the fact that the tourists were accorded the same rites and rituals accorded men’s touring teams to New Zealand: parliamentary and civic receptions; playing in the leading sporting venues and being linked to imperial bonding.

EXPLORING THE SOCIO ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF A MEGA SPORTING FACILITY: LESSONS FROM SOWETO

ABSTRACT Hosting of the FIFA world cup in South Africa raised expectations of benefits in terms of developments (economic and otherwise). So much has also been documented about the financial and economic impact of the $3Billion spent on the 2010 event. This paper takes a view on the social impact the (re) development of the sports venues used have on the host community especially in terms of social legacies. The paper focuses on the Orlando stadium in Soweto. 19 interviews were conducted with stakeholders. Analysis of findings show that ‘ownership status’, ‘duration of stay in the area’ and the ‘distance of respondent’s house from the stadium’ were key factors responsible for their perception of the social impact of the stadium. The paper concludes that as a way of further enhancing the perception of social impact, government should encourage actions that help promote increased home ownership in the surrounding areas of the stadium. Keywords Economic Development, Social Impact, South Africa, Sporting Facilities and Urban Regeneration.

THE RELATIONSHIP OF STATUS OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL, SPORTS PLACES WITH AMOUNT THE MOTIVATION TO ACTIVITIES SPORTS AMONG THE STUDENTS KERMANSHAH CITY

The aim of this study the relationship of status of health and environmental ,sports places with amount the motivation to activities sports among the students Kermanshah city have been. This research, applied and of descriptive statistics, inferential has been. Also the high school student’s members of sports venues have constituted the statistical community and 353 of them the statistical sample. Standard questionnaire Hong Yong Lin with sampling method randomly- stratified among students distributed and by them was completed .All statistical analysis using SPSS software descriptive and inferential with test, T-Test and Pearson correlation coefficient was used. The findings suggest that the health and ecological status, sport venues had no significant relationship with the motivation of participation of students. Also Participation motivation of students by of health and ecological, venues sports was not explained.

Suggestions for the Needed Standardization of Determining the Local Economic Impact of Professional Sports

An effort to secure a local government subsidy for a professional sports venue or event typically cites findings from a private consultant’s economic impact analysis on its purported benefits to the jurisdiction(s) offering the subsidy. Scholars have consistently expressed concerns regarding the ability of the public, and the officials that represent them, to detect the deficiencies that often plague such an analysis. The authors review the previous academic research to identify a common set of concerns regarding this form of analysis. These concerns are the basis for a list of 20 evaluative questions to consider in a critical assessment of an economic impact study. To illustrate the practicality of these questions, the authors ask them of previous studies regarding the economic impact of different professional sport venues or events in five different U.S. cities.