Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, European elite football (soccer) leagues played the remaining season 2019/20 without or strongly limited attendance of supporters (i.e., “ghost games”). From a sport psychological perspective this situation poses a unique opportunity to investigate the crowd’s influence on referee decisions and the associated effect of “home advantage”. A total of 1286 matches - played in the top leagues of Spain, England, Germany, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Austria and the Czech Republic - were analyzed for results, fouls, bookings and reasons for bookings and contrasted between respective matchdays of season 2018/19 (regular attendance) and season 2019/20 (ghost games). There are two main findings. First, home teams were booked significantly more often with yellow cards for committing fouls in ghost games. Most importantly, this effect was independent of the course of the games. In contrast, bookings for other reasons (criticism and unfair sportsmanship) changed si
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Potsdam. Wassertourismus sowie Bewegung im, am und auf dem Wasser locken zahlreiche Tagesbesucher und Urlauber nach Brandenburg. Nach Angaben der Tourismus Marketing Gesellschaft Brandenburg (TMB) hatte die Mark im Jahr 2019 rund 5,2 Millionen Touristen und im vergangenen Jahr dann rund 3,2 Millionen Urlaubsgäste gezählt. In einer repräsentativen Umfrage des GfK DestinationMonitor Brandenburg hatten 39 Prozent der Gäste angegeben, dass sie Aktivitäten im, am und auf dem Wasser nachgegangen waren.
July 1, 2021
As offices nationwide spring back to life, interior space designers and architects will soon have an easy-to-use planning tool to put indoor workplace furniture, staff and partitions – quite literally – in their proper place.
The Cornell Environmental Systems Lab in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning will introduce a new indoor module for their existing Eddy3D software, a professional-level airflow and microclimate simulator that can help improve ventilation. Provided
The new indoor module for Cornell’s Eddy3D software, which shows airflow in various indoor configurations, will be available July 30.
The new indoor module will be released this summer, while the research supporting it will be presented at the International Building Performance Association conference this September in Belgium.
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