title: Introduction: Special Issue of Selected Papers from ACML 2015

authors: Holmes, Geoffrey

subjects: computer science

abstract: We are delighted to present this special issue of Machine Learning Journal with selected papers from the Seventh Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2015) held in Hong Kong, from 20 to 22 November 2015. ACML aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in machine learning and related fields to share their new ideas and achievements. While located in Asia, the conference has a wide visibility to the international community. ACML was the first machine learning conference with two cycles of submissions with a strict double-blind review process, and this tradition continues.

text: Introduction: Special Issue of Selected Papers from ACML 2015 We are delighted to present this special issue of Machine Learning Journal with selected papers from the Seventh Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2015) held in Hong Kong, from 20 to 22 November 2015. ACML aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in machine learning and related fields to share their new ideas and achievements. While located in Asia, the conference has a wide visibility to the international community. ACML was the first machine learning conference with two cycles of submissions with a strict double-blind review process, and this tradition continues.

year: 2017

title: Workload demands during ball-in-play periods: A comparative study of locomotive and contact metrics in professional male and female rugby union players.

authors: MacDonald, Chantal

abstract: Title: Workload Demands during Ball-in-Play Periods: A Comparative Study of Locomotive and Contact Metrics in Professional Male for Female Rugby Union Players. 
Purpose: Rugby Union is a high collision-based sport demanding the best physical, technical, tactical and decision-making capabilities of players to influence success on the field. Various factors affect the ability of females and males to perform and meet the demands of match-play. This thesis was developed as a pilot study and employed an innovative design that examined and compared contact and workload metrics between female and male professional rugby players, aiming to explore differences in match play. 
Methods: Data were collected from 60 professional male and female rugby players, from two professional 2023 New Zealand National Provincial Rugby teams. All participants wore GPS units (Apex Pro Pod, STATSport, Newry, NIR). Each match was filmed and coded using a Sportscode video analysis software package (Sportscode 12.4.3, Sportstec, Australia), where contact and GPS metrics during Ball-in-Play periods were identified and recorded throughout the match. GPS and Sportscode data for each Ball-in-Play period for each match were combined in a bespoke software package. Differences between the sexes for each metric were analysed using Welch’s t-test with the level of significance set at P<0.05 and the magnitudes of the standardised differences were calculated using effect sizes determined by Cohen’s d (Hopkins, 2009, 2017). Tests for equality of variances, normality, and the examination of outliers were conducted in IBM SPSS Statistics (Version 27) and the few metrics that failed normality testing were log-transformed. 
Results: Males locomotive metrics (GPS measures) and impacts (accelerometer measures) were typically significantly greater than females showing large to moderate magnitude differences. On the other hand, contacts were often significantly higher for females with small to large magnitude differences. 
Conclusion: The differences between males and females were likely a combination of genetic differences, and differences in how the respective games were played, and the males in this study typically had greater full-time professional training support and resources. Due to these differences, altering female threshold standards for specific intensive locomotion metrics to suit the physical capabilities of females, may give more of an accurate representation of game demands. On the other hand, providing greater resources to female rugby union players for similar periods to the males may reduce the differences observed in this study.

text: Workload demands during ball-in-play periods: A comparative study of locomotive and contact metrics in professional male and female rugby union players. Title: Workload Demands during Ball-in-Play Periods: A Comparative Study of Locomotive and Contact Metrics in Professional Male for Female Rugby Union Players. 
Purpose: Rugby Union is a high collision-based sport demanding the best physical, technical, tactical and decision-making capabilities of players to influence success on the field. Various factors affect the ability of females and males to perform and meet the demands of match-play. This thesis was developed as a pilot study and employed an innovative design that examined and compared contact and workload metrics between female and male professional rugby players, aiming to explore differences in match play. 
Methods: Data were collected from 60 professional male and female rugby players, from two professional 2023 New Zealand National Provincial Rugby teams. All participants wore GPS units (Apex Pro Pod, STATSport, Newry, NIR). Each match was filmed and coded using a Sportscode video analysis software package (Sportscode 12.4.3, Sportstec, Australia), where contact and GPS metrics during Ball-in-Play periods were identified and recorded throughout the match. GPS and Sportscode data for each Ball-in-Play period for each match were combined in a bespoke software package. Differences between the sexes for each metric were analysed using Welch’s t-test with the level of significance set at P<0.05 and the magnitudes of the standardised differences were calculated using effect sizes determined by Cohen’s d (Hopkins, 2009, 2017). Tests for equality of variances, normality, and the examination of outliers were conducted in IBM SPSS Statistics (Version 27) and the few metrics that failed normality testing were log-transformed. 
Results: Males locomotive metrics (GPS measures) and impacts (accelerometer measures) were typically significantly greater than females showing large to moderate magnitude differences. On the other hand, contacts were often significantly higher for females with small to large magnitude differences. 
Conclusion: The differences between males and females were likely a combination of genetic differences, and differences in how the respective games were played, and the males in this study typically had greater full-time professional training support and resources. Due to these differences, altering female threshold standards for specific intensive locomotion metrics to suit the physical capabilities of females, may give more of an accurate representation of game demands. On the other hand, providing greater resources to female rugby union players for similar periods to the males may reduce the differences observed in this study.

year: 2024-10-31

title: Indigenous human rights and knowledge in archives, museums, and libraries: Some international perspectives with specific reference to New Zealand and Canada

authors: Morse, Bradford W.

subjects: indigenous records

abstract: This article highlights the extent to which international law has changed rapidly in recent years in relation to the rights of Indigenous peoples generally and in particular how this impacts upon the legal status of traditional knowledge and culture. It reviews the recognition of the unique legal status of Māori in Aotearoa and Aboriginal peoples in Canada in relation to self-determination and how their changing place within these nations are affecting the operations of museums, libraries, and archives as case studies, illustrating some of the key legal and practical challenges that now impinge upon the work of archivists and related professionals in many countries.

text: Indigenous human rights and knowledge in archives, museums, and libraries: Some international perspectives with specific reference to New Zealand and Canada This article highlights the extent to which international law has changed rapidly in recent years in relation to the rights of Indigenous peoples generally and in particular how this impacts upon the legal status of traditional knowledge and culture. It reviews the recognition of the unique legal status of Māori in Aotearoa and Aboriginal peoples in Canada in relation to self-determination and how their changing place within these nations are affecting the operations of museums, libraries, and archives as case studies, illustrating some of the key legal and practical challenges that now impinge upon the work of archivists and related professionals in many countries.

year: 2012