Game Plan: What AI can do for Football, and What Football can do for AI

The rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning has opened unprecedented analytics possibilities in various team and individual sports, including baseball, basketball, and tennis. More recently, AI techniques have been applied to football, due to a huge increase in data collection by professional teams, increased computational power, and advances in machine learning, with the goal of better addressing new scientific challenges involved in the analysis of both individual players’ and coordinated teams’ behaviors. The research challenges associated with predictive and prescriptive football analytics require new developments and progress at the intersection of statistical learning, game theory, and computer vision. In this paper, we provide an overarching perspective highlighting how the combination of these fields, in particular, forms a unique microcosm for AI research, while offering mutual benefits for professional teams, spectators, and broadcasters in the years to come. We illustrate that this duality makes football analytics a game changer of tremendous value, in terms of not only changing the game of football itself, but also in terms of what this domain can mean for the field of AI. We review the state-of-theart and exemplify the types of analysis enabled by combining the aforementioned fields, including illustrative examples of counterfactual analysis using predictive models, and the combination of game-theoretic analysis of penalty kicks with statistical learning of player attributes. We conclude by highlighting envisioned downstream impacts, including possibilities for extensions to other sports (real and virtual)

Effectiveness of rotavirus vaccination in Spain

With the aim of determining rotavirus vaccine effectiveness (RVVE) in Spain, from Oct-2008/Jun-2009, 467 consecutive children below 2 years old with acute gastroenteritis (AGE) were recruited using a pediatric research network (ReGALIP-www.regalip.org) that includes primary, emergency and hospital care settings. Of 467 enrolled children, 32.3% were rotavirus positive and 35.0% had received at least one dose of any rotavirus vaccine. RRVE to prevent any episode of rotavirus AGE was 91.5% (95% CI: 83.7%-95.6%). RVVE to prevent hospitalization by rotavirus AGE was 95.6% (85.6-98.6%). No differences in RVVE were found regarding the vaccine used. Rotavirus vaccines have showed an outstanding effectiveness in Spain

Corporate reputation past and future: a review and integration of existing literature and a framework for future research

The concept of corporate reputation is steadily growing in interest among management researchers and practitioners. In this article, we trace key milestones in the development of reputation literature over the past six decades to suggest important research gaps as well as to provide contextual background for a subsequent integration of approaches and future outlook. In particular we explore the need for better categorised outcomes; a wider range of causes; and a deeper understanding of contingencies and moderators to advance the field beyond its current state while also taking account of developments in the macro business environment. The article concludes by presenting a novel reputation framework that integrates insights from reputation theory and studies, outlines gaps in knowledge and offers directions for future research

Extensão de Cobertura ou Reorganização da Atenção Básica? A trajetória do Programa de Saúde da Família de Manaus-AM

Este trabalho analisa sete anos de implantação do Programa de Saúde da Família (PSF) de Manaus, procurando identificar mudanças no sistema municipal de saúde a ele relacionadas e capazes de contribuir para a redução de desigualdades em saúde. Contextualiza a gênese do PSF no município, suas características, contradições e limitações, investigando se o programa construiu apenas uma trajetória de extensão de cobertura ou contribuiu efetivamente para a reorganização do modelo de atenção básica à saúde. As categorias de análise priorizaram princípios específicos de gestão do PSF: caráter substitutivo, integração com instituições e organizações sociais, territorialização, planejamento situacional com base na família e na comunidade, participação popular e controle social. A metodologia utilizada foi quali-quantitativa, compreendendo a análise dos dados de duas pesquisas avaliativas da implementação do PSF no município, realizadas em 2001 e em 2006. Os resultados mostram que, em Manaus, o PSF se constitui em uma estratégia de extensão de cobertura, com parcial superposição à estrutura assistencial de atenção básica (AB) preexistente e paralelismo de ações. Dadas as condições de sua implantação, conclui-se que o PSF se expressa como um programa isolado dentro do sistema municipal de saúde, com potencialidade para se converter em estratégia reestruturadora da AB em Manaus. A confluência com a implantação dos Distritos Sanitários poderá contribuir para um caminho de reorientação do modelo assistencial que garanta atenção integral e concretize o direito à saúde.This paper analyzes seven years of implementation of Programa Saúde da Família (PSF - Family Health Program) in the city of Manaus, state of Amazonas, aiming at identifying its influence on changes in the municipal health care system that are capable of contributing to the reduction in health care inequalities. It contextualizes the genesis of the PSF in the municipality, its characteristics, contradictions and limitations, thus investigating whether the program has built only a coverage extension history or whether it has effectively contributed to the reorganization of the primary health care model. The analysis categories prioritized specific management principles of the PSF: substitutive nature, integration with institutions and social organizations, territorialization, situational planning based on the family and community, popular participation and social control. The methodology was qualitative-quantitative, including the analysis of data from two studies evaluating the implementation of the PSF in the municipality, carried out in 2001 and 2006. The results show that, in Manaus, the PSF is a coverage extension strategy, with partial superposition on the preexisting primary medical care structure and parallelism of actions. Given the conditions of its implementation we conclude that the PSF expresses itself as an isolated program within the municipal health care system, with the potentiality to become a restructuring strategy of primary health care in Manaus. The confluence with the implementation of the Sanitary Districts may be able to contribute to redirect the medical attention model, thus assuring integral care and concretizing the right to health