Changes in the World-Wide Distribution of Large-Scale International Assessments

Author(s):  
Larry E. Suter
Author(s):  
José Lages ◽  
Justin Loye ◽  
Célestin Coquidé ◽  
Guillaume Rollin

The worldwide football transfer market is analyzed as a directed complex network: the football clubs are the network nodes and the directed edges are weighted by the total amount of money transferred from a club to another. The Google matrix description allows to treat every club independently of their richness and allows to measure for a given club the efficiency of player sales and player acquisitions. The PageRank algorithm, developed initially for the World Wide Web, naturally characterizes the ability of a club to import players. The CheiRank algorithm, also developed to analyze large scale directed complex networks, characterizes the ability of a club to export players. The analysis in the two-dimensional PageRank-CheiRank plan permits to determine the transfer balance of the clubs in a more subtle manner than the traditional import-export scheme. We investigate the 2017-2018 mercato concerning 2296 clubs, 6698 player transfers, and 147 player nationalities. The transfer balance is determined globally for different types of player trades (defender, midfielder, forward, …) and for different national football leagues. Although, on average, the network transfer flows from and to clubs are balanced, the discrimination by player type draws a specific portrait of each football club.


1996 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna L. Hoffman ◽  
Thomas P. Novak

The authors address the role of marketing in hypermedia computer-mediated environments (CMEs). Their approach considers hypermedia CMEs to be large-scale (i.e., national or global) networked environments, of which the World Wide Web on the Internet is the first and current global implementation. They introduce marketers to this revolutionary new medium, propose a structural model of consumer navigation behavior in a CME that incorporates the notion of flow, and examine a series of research issues and marketing implications that follow from the model.


1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aino Henssen ◽  
Per Magnus Jørgensen

AbstractThe following new combinations are made: Anema cernohorskyi (Servít) Henssen, A. prodigulum(Nyl.) Henssen, Cryptothelelaatokkaënsis (Vainio) Henssen, C. rhodosticta (Taylor) Henssen, Gonohymenia heppii (Müll. Arg.) Henssen, G. iodopulchra (Crozals) Henssen, G. minnesotensis (Fink) Henssen, G. polyspora (Magnusson) Henssen, G. schleicheri (Hepp) Henssen, Metamelanea caesiella (Th. Fr.) Henssen, Paulia myriocarpa (Zahlbr.) Henssen, P. pyrenoides (Nyl.) Henssen, P. schroederi (Zahlbr.) Henssen, Peccania arabica (Müll. Arg.) Henssen, P. teretiuscula (Flagey) Henssen, P. tiruncula (Nyl.) Henssen, Pterygiopsis coracodiza (Nyl.) Henssen, P. umbilicaia (Vezda) Henssen, Thelignya groenlandica(Dahl) Henssen, T. Hgnyota (Wahlenb.) P. M. Jørg. & Henssen, Thyrea pachyphylla (Müll. Arg.) Henssen, T.pachyphylla var. laxa (Müll. Arg.) Henssen. The following new names (one as a new species) were found necessary: Pyrenopsis haematina P. M. Jørg. & Henssen and Thyrea confusa Henssen. New synonyms are given for several names. The world-wide distribution of the genera Phloeopeccania and Pterygiopsis is mentioned.


Water Policy ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd H. Dieterich

New targets for drinking water and sanitation were the prime water-related outcome of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. They aimed at better health and development. The critical mass needed to implement them must be created, primarily at the local level involving the people, governments and non-governmental organizations but with responsive participation and large-scale contributions of the international community. Many issues still need resolution in the light of experience since the 1980s. Let us launch a second Water Decade in 2004, world-wide, but vastly different from the Decade of the 1980s; a new Decade that will ensure enduring commitment and maintain the momentum created in Johannesburg.


2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Lahl ◽  
Anja S. Göritz ◽  
Reinhard Pietrowsky ◽  
Jessica Rosenberg

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