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Relationship marketing in 140 characters or less: the case of community trusts in English football
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MK Dons FC and AFC Wimbledon: moving the goalposts and rising from the ashes
This case study provides an insight into a unique and unprecedented event in English professional football: the relocation of a major club to a completely different geographical area.
The ruling, in 2002, was hugely controversial, and effectively spawned two entirely new entities: MK Dons FC, who took the place of Wimbledon FC in the Football League and based themselves in Milton Keynes, 60 miles away from the original club; and AFC Wimbledon, a fan- owned ‘phoenix’ club which started again at the bottom of the football pyramid and is located near to Wimbledon FC’s original home.
Despite their creation resulting from the same event, the two newly created clubs are notable for their contrasting ownership models and the reaction they have received from both the media and the wider football community in Great Britain
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MK Dons FC and AFC Wimbledon: moving the goalposts and rising from the ashes
The aim of this paper will be to compare a franchise and fan-ownership model within a European sports team context, and conclude what the key learnings are for sport managers. In particular, the paper will examine an unprecedented event in English football, the relocation of a major professional club to a completely different geographical area and the resulting creation of an additional fan-owned 'phoenix club'
On the characterisation of a Bragg spectrometer with X-rays from an ECR source
Narrow X-ray lines from helium-like argon emitted from a dedicated ECR source
have been used to determine the response function of a Bragg crystal
spectrometer equipped with large area spherically bent silicon (111) or quartz
(10) crystals. The measured spectra are compared with simulated ones
created by a ray-tracing code based on the expected theoretical crystal's
rocking curve and the geometry of the experimental set-up.Comment: Version acceptee (NIM
Notes on noncommutative supersymmetric gauge theory on the fuzzy supersphere
In these notes we review Klimcik's construction of noncommutative gauge
theory on the fuzzy supersphere. This theory has an exact SUSY gauge symmetry
with a finite number of degrees of freedom and thus in principle it is amenable
to the methods of matrix models and Monte Carlo numerical simulations. We also
write down in this article a novel fuzzy supersymmetric scalar action on the
fuzzy supersphere
Facility Location in Evolving Metrics
Understanding the dynamics of evolving social or infrastructure networks is a
challenge in applied areas such as epidemiology, viral marketing, or urban
planning. During the past decade, data has been collected on such networks but
has yet to be fully analyzed. We propose to use information on the dynamics of
the data to find stable partitions of the network into groups. For that
purpose, we introduce a time-dependent, dynamic version of the facility
location problem, that includes a switching cost when a client's assignment
changes from one facility to another. This might provide a better
representation of an evolving network, emphasizing the abrupt change of
relationships between subjects rather than the continuous evolution of the
underlying network. We show that in realistic examples this model yields indeed
better fitting solutions than optimizing every snapshot independently. We
present an -approximation algorithm and a matching hardness result,
where is the number of clients and the number of time steps. We also
give an other algorithms with approximation ratio for the variant
where one pays at each time step (leasing) for each open facility
ESCAP CovCAP survey of heads of academic departments to assess the perceived initial (April/May 2020) impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatry services.
In April 2020, the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) Research Academy and the ESCAP Board launched the first of three scheduled surveys to evaluate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) services in Europe and to assess the abilities of CAP centers to meet the new challenges brought on by the crisis. The survey was a self-report questionnaire, using a multistage process, which was sent to 168 heads of academic CAP services in 24 European countries. Eighty-two responses (56 complete) from 20 countries, representing the subjective judgement of heads of CAP centers, were received between mid-April and mid-May 2020. Most respondents judged the impact of the crisis on the mental health of their patients as medium (52%) or strong (33%). A large majority of CAP services reported no COVID-19 positive cases among their inpatients and most respondents declared no or limited sick leaves in their team due to COVID-19. Outpatient, daycare, and inpatient units experienced closures or reductions in the number of treated patients throughout Europe. In addition, a lower referral rate was observed in most countries. Respondents considered that they were well equipped to handle COVID-19 patients despite a lack of protective equipment. Telemedicine was adopted by almost every team despite its sparse use prior to the crisis. Overall, these first results were surprisingly homogeneous, showing a substantially reduced patient load and a moderate effect of the COVID-19 crisis on psychopathology. The effect on the organization of CAP services appears profound. COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the adoption of new technologies, including telepsychiatry
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