Title: The comparison of components in football performance Key words: Football match analysis, FC Viktoria Pilsen, AC Sparta Prague, Gambrinus League The problem definition: All football matches played during season 2013/2014 in the Czech first football league were, for the first time in history, analysed with Instat programme. Data from analysis served as main source for comparison of two most successful teams - FC Viktoria Pilsen and AC Sparta Prague. I will try to analyse these statistical data and consequently define key statistics for both teams. The aim of the thesis: Comparison and interpretation of performance data acquired by statistical programme Instat is the primary aim of this thesis.

Title: Rytiri Kladno hockey match benefits for spectrators Objectives: Analysis and description of benefits, taken from the visiting Rytiri Kladno hockey game to spectators in the season 2012/2013. Finding satisfaction with individual benefits and propose measures that could lead to increased satisfaction and increase attendance. Methods: observation, electronic survey, written interview, personal interview Results: Proposals and recommendations to improve spectator satisfaction and increased attendance. Keywords: Rytiry Kladno, marketing research, ice hockey, hockey match benefits, spectator satisfaction

Ce travail de recherche porte sur l’engagement des supporters de football ultras. La plupart des recherches sur les supporters de football dégagent deux modèles de supportérisme« extrême » par rapport au supportérisme traditionnel : le modèle anglais (hooligans) et le modèle italien avec les groupes de supporters ultras. Ces derniers sont constitués en association de loi 1901 dont les membres les plus actifs sont très majoritairement des jeunes hommes de 15 à 30 ans. Leur manière de supporter repose sur une culture partisane et des activités propres (réalisation d’animations sur l’ensemble de la tribune, recours à des chants et des gestuelles spécifiques, utilisation d’engins pyrotechniques, organisation de déplacements,etc.). Cette recherche propose une étude détaillée du processus de constitution du collectif qu’est le groupe ultra et de son fonctionnement, à travers l’angle de la sociologie de la déviance et des notions de « sous-culture » (codes, règles, langage) ou celle de « carrière »(structure hiérarchisée, différents statuts, réputation). Mais l’objectif de ce travail est de dépasser une lecture monographique qui s’en tiendrait à la seule étude du fonctionnement interne du groupe ultra. Cette recherche s’inscrit ainsi dans une conception interactionniste de la déviance qui nécessite d’analyser l’action des déviants – celle des ultras - mais aussi celledes personnes qui réagissent à cette déviance, en l’occurrence celles des agents des services répressifs ou chargés de la sécurité des stades. Ce travail se propose de décrire et d’analyser les interactions entre les ultras, les groupes de supporters « adverses » et les acteurs de la sécurité (policiers, stadiers, directeurs de sécurité des stades) en privilégiant une ethnographie des situations et une description détaillée des pratiques sociales des ultras. En développant« une perspective en terme de monde social » (Strauss) nous nous efforçons d’appréhender le spectacle des ultras comme une production collective, sans cesse négociée et ré-ajustée par rapport à celle des autres acteurs et institutions publiques. Cette perspective permet également de travailler la façon dont les pratiques sociales et « culturelles » des ultras sont affectées notamment par le processus de criminalisation des supporters de football : les supporters ultras sont, en effet, devenus des « délinquants de stades » et la police s’est spécialisée dans la lutte contre ce phénomène sportif et urbain. Les supporters sont désormais surveillés,identifiés, fichés, parfois « interdits de stade » ou incarcérés. Dans le cadre de cette recherche,nous avons suivi l’évolution de ce monde contraint de s’ajuster et de s’adapter à ces différentes évolutions. L’objet de cette recherche est de décrire les processus sociaux qui traversent au quotidien le monde des ultras et qui provoquent sa segmentation et fragmentation en plusieurs « sous-mondes » (celui des interdits de stades, des supporters« indépendants » etc.). En mobilisant les outils descriptifs et analytiques de la sociologie interactionniste qualitative, ce travail entend prolonger la discussion avec les Culturals Studies, dont les travaux ont historiquement alimenté la majorité des travaux sur le supportérisme.Cette recherche repose sur un travail de terrain ethnographique mené par observation participante, principalement parmi les supporters ultras stéphanois – les Green Angels et les Magic fans-, et par entretiens semi-directifs auprès d’ultras et d’acteurs de la sécurité(policiers, stadiers, etc.) en France et à l’étranger. Elle s’appuie aussi sur l’analyse de nombreux documents indigènes, d’articles de presse et mobilise la photo-ethnographie. / This work of research deals with the ultras football fans' engagement. Most of there searches about football fans reach two models of "extreme" sports fanaticism in comparison with the traditional sports fanaticism: the English model (hooligans) and the Italian one with the ultra supporters' groups. The latter are formed in association under the French Law of 1901, which the most active members are predominantly young men between 15 and 30 years old. Their way of supporting is based on a partisan culture and own activities (creation of activities in the whole terraces, resort to songs and specific gestures, use of pyrotechnic devices, organisation of travels, etc.).This research proposes a detailed study of the creation process of the collective that forms the ultra group and its functioning, through the sociology angle of the deviance and the"subculture" notions (codes, rules, language) or the one of the "career" (ranked structure,different status, reputation). Nevertheless, the objective of this work is to go beyond amonographic reading that would just give a study of the internal functioning of the ultragroup. This research falls within an interactionist conception of the deviance which requests an analysis of the deviants' action - the ultras' one - but also the one of the persons who reactto this deviance, in this case, the action of the law enforcement officers or the agents in charge of the stadium security. This work aims to describe and analyse the interactions between the ultras, the "opposing" supporters groups and the security actors (policemen, football stewards,stadium security directors) by favouring an ethnography of situations and a detailed description of the ultras' social practices. By developing " a perspective in terms of social world" (Strauss) we endeavour to comprehend the ultras' show as a collective production,always negotiated and readjusted in relation to the one of the other actors and the public institutions. This viewpoint also enables to work on the way the ultras' social and "cultural"practices are affected notably by the process of the football supporters' criminalisation: the ultra supporters became, in fact, the "stadium delinquents" and police get specialised in the struggle against this sportive and urban phenomenon. The supporters are now kept undersurveillance, identified, filed, and sometimes "stadium banned" or incarcerated. As part of this research, we have followed the evolution of this world forced to fit and to adapt itself to different developments. The purpose of this research is to describe the social processes that go through the ultras' world and causes its segmentation and fragmentation in several "subworlds"(the stadium banned's one, the "independent" supporters' one, etc.). Mobilising the descriptive and analytical tools of the qualitative interactionist sociology, this research aims to extend the discussion with the Culturals Studies, which works have historically fed most ofthe studies about the sports fanaticism. This research rests upon an ethnographic field work driven by participant observation,principally among the ultra supporters from Saint-Etienne - the Green Angels and the Magic fans -, and by semi-structured interviews with ultras and security actors (policemen, stewards,etc.) in France and abroad. It is also based on the analysis of numerous native documents,press articles and mobilise the photo-ethnography.

O objetivo da presente dissertação foi verificar o efeito da participação de jovens jogadores de futebol em competições com calendário congestionado (CC) nas medidas de desempenho físico, e comparar as acelerações (ACC), as desacelerações (DEC), a potência metabólica média (PM), distância total percorrida (DT) e distância percorrida em alta velocidade (DAV) em 24 jogadores de futebol juvenil (sub-15, n = 11 e sub-17, n = 13) expostos a campeonatos de CC e períodos regulares de calendário não congestionados (calendário regular; CR); como critério de retenção dos dados dos jogadores, adotou-se, a participação mínima de 75% do tempo total de jogo em cada partida. Adicionalmente as medidas de desempenho físico foram normalizadas pelo tempo de participação em minutos na partida. Foram analisados 10 jogos internacionais no formato de CC (5 para cada categoria), realizados durante 3 dias sucessivos, incluindo 2 dias com 2 jogos consecutivos jogados com intervalo de 4-5 horas; para estabelecer uma condição \"controle\", 10 jogos de CR, de cada categoria, foram analisados; os jogos de CR foram realizados com um intevalo de pelo menos 7 dias. Os jogadores usavam uma unidade GPS de 15 Hz com um acelerômetro triaxial de 100 Hz alocada em uma veste especial. Uma diferença classificada como digna de consideração (tamanho do efeito; TE> 0,20) entre CC e CR, foi observada para os parâmetros de desempenho físico ACC, DEC e PM, para sub-15 e sub-17, com valores mais elevados no CC. Enquanto que DT e DAV apresentaram valores superiores para CR, apenas para o sub-15. Contrariamente à hipótese levantada, os parâmetros de desempenho físico mostram que os jogadores juvenis de elite avaliados elevaram a intensidade do jogo quando participaram de torneio CC. Uma diminuição em ACC e DEC, do 1° tempo para o 2° tempo foi observada (sub-15 e sub-17) nos diferentes formatos de campeonato. No entanto, observou-se um aumento da PM do 1° tempo para o 2° tempo; com um aumento muito grande para ambas as categorias durante a CR; para o CC, a PM aumentou (1ª para a 2ª metade) para o sub-17, mas diminuiu para o sub-15. Os resultados do presente estudo, sugerem que os perfis de taxa de trabalho dos jogadores não são prejudicados no CC e que o desempenho físico aumentado nesse tipo de competição pode estar associado a uma estratégia de auto-regulação ou \"pacing\" da intensidade de realização das ações. Apesar das semelhanças para os dados de desempenho físico (sub-15 e sub-17), a PM para o sub-17 foi amplamente aumentada no CC (vs CR) em comparação com os valores de PM do sub-15; sugerindo assim, uma maior capacidade dos atletas, com um suposto nível mais elevado de treinamento (sub-17) em otimizar o desempenho físico neste tipo de competição. Estas informações podem servir como um meio alternativo e eficiente de representação do desempenho físico e auxiliar na organização de uma preparação específica de equipes participantes destes formatos de competições (CC); adicionalmente, os resultados indicam a importância de de considerar as medidas de ACC, DEC e PM na análise do desempenho físico de jovens jogadores, ao invés da utilização isolada de medidas relacionadas a DT e DAV / The aim of this study was to compare the physical performances in youth players during congested (CM) versus regular match (RM) schedules. The accelerations (ACC), decelerations (DEC), average metabolic power (MP), total distance covered (TD) and distance covered at high speed (HSD) were compared across congested match (CM; 10 international matches played over 3 successive days, including 2 days with 2 consecutive matches played with a 4-5 hr interval) and 10 regular non-congested match periods (RM), played with a 7-day interval between matches, in elite youth soccer players (U15, n=11; U17, n=13).; as criterion for retention of the players\' data, it was adopted, the minimum participation of 75% of the total match time of each game. In addition, all variables were normalized per min of on-field playing time. Each player wore a 15-Hz GPS unit coupled with a 100 Hz tri-axial accelerometer (SPI Elite, GPSports, Canberra, Australia A difference classified as worthy of consideration (effect size; ES > 0.20), between CM and RM, was observed for ACC, DEC and MP, for U15 and U17, with higher values in CM. While TD and HSD showed lower values for CM for u15. Contrary to the hypothesis, the relative values of the physical performance parameters were higher for CM. A decrease in ACC and DEC, from the 1st half to the 2nd half of the match was observed (U15 and U17) for both CM and RM. However, an increase in MP from the 1st half to the 2nd half of the match was observed; with a very large increase for both categories during the RM; during the CM, MP increased (1st half to the 2nd half) in the U7, but decreased in U15. The present findings suggest that the players work rate profiles are not impaired in CM and that the intensity of the match-play is increased in this type of competition, and might be associated to self-regulation or pacing strategy; despite the similarities for physical performance in U15 and U17), MP was largely increased in U17 during CM (vs CR) compared to U15; this result suggests that the higher the level of the conditioning, the greater the ability of the athlete in optimizing physical performance in this type of match schedule. This information can serve as an alternative and efficient means of representing physical performance and may help coaches to organize and monitor specific preparations of teams participating in these type of competitions (CM); additionally, the results indicate the importance of considering the ACC, DEC and MP measurements in the analysis of physical performance of young players, instead of using only measures related to total distance covered and distances covered at different speeds

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:18:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andre Sanchez de Souza.pdf: 3360327 bytes, checksum: 2b1692e875cbdaa95e09a2161ece4fca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aimed to investigate if a variation in the attempt in which information and description response are required correlates with pertormance in a matching to sample task. This was proposed in arder to understand specifically the influence over performance in a matching to sample task, produced by the variation in the attempt in which information and description responses were asked. The amount of solicitations was held constant for ali the subject groups. The present study fits in a series of studies that investigated the relationship of self verbal description of behavior and the possible changes in non-verbal performance that may occur. Fifty undergraduate students were divided in 5 experimental groups. Each subject was exposed to the contingencies of matching to sample task individually, in 40 attempts to match the comparison stimulus (card containing number "10" or letter "A") to the model stimulus (cards colored green or red, respectively). In some attempts, subjects were asked to inform if they were aware of the choose options reinforced in the experiment. The information responses consisted of a click on the button of a computer mouse over two available squares that contained the words YES and NO. After that, the description response was asked. It consisted of writing down in scraps of paper how they were doing to solve the experimental problem. The scraps of paper were numbered for later identification of the subjects. The experimental groups differed in the attempts in which information and description responses were asked. Four of the groups received the same amount of opportunities to inform and describe during the experiment (10), and one group was asked to inform and describe just once. In agreement with previous studies in this area, the study suggests: 1) Verbal requests may improve performance in non-verbal tasks. 2) The amount of requests is an important variable. A higher amount of requests may produce a better performance. 3) The attempt in which requests are asked may alter pertormance in the description, information and non-verbal tasks. The higher is the number of attempts of previous exposition before the requests, the better is the pertormance in the non-verbal task; and higher quantities of "YES" responses to information task and correct contingencies descriptions are obtained / o objetivo deste estudo foi o de verificar se uma variação na tentativa em que a resposta de informação e descrição é solicitada tem relação com o desempenho em uma tarefa de escolha conforme o modelo. Com este objetivo, a proposta foi de avaliar a influência específica da tentativa na qual a solicitação de informação e descrição sobre o desempenho na resolução de problemas, mantendo constante a quantidade de solicitações feitas para a maioria dos grupos. O presente estudo se enquadra em uma série de trabalhos que tinham em comum a tentativa de esclarecer as relações entre descrições verbais do próprio desempenho e possíveis alterações de:es decorrentes no desempenho não verbal. Contou com cinqüenta estudantes universitários como participantes distribuídos em cinco grupos experimentais. Cada participante foi exposto às contingências de emparelhamento conforme o modelo individualmente, em 40 tentativas de emparelhamento da figura modelo (cartas com número 10 ou cartas com a letra A) com sua figura de comparação (cartas de cor verde e cartas de cor vermelha, respectivamente). Em determinadas tentativas foram solicitadas respostas de informação a respeito de "saber ou não" que condições de escolha eram reforçadas. A resposta de informação consistiu num clique do mouse sobre quadrados que continham as palavras "SIM" e "NÃO". Em seguida, foi solicitada a resposta de descrição sobre como realizar a tarefa, que foi escrita em tiras de papel numeradas para posterior identificação. Os grupos se diferenciaram em relação à tentativa nas quais respostas de informação e descrição eram solicitadas, sendo que quatro grupos tiveram o mesmo número de oportunidades de informar e relatar durante o experimento (10) e um grupo teve apenas uma oportunidade de informar e relatar. Sugere-se, portanto, a partir da literatura da área até o momento, e dos resultados deste estudo que: 1) solicitações verbais podem melhorar o desempenho em tarefas não verbais. 2) a quantidade dessas solicitações é uma variável relevante. Uma quantidade maior de solicitações pode produzir um melhor desempenho. 3) a tentativa nas quais as solicitações são introduzidas também alteram o desempenho nas descrições verbais, respostas de informação e tarefa não-verbal. Quanto maior o número de tentativas de exposição prévia antes da introdução das solicitações, melhor o desempenho na tarefa não verbal, e maior a quantidade de respostas de informação "SIM" e de relatos corretos de contingências são obtidos

O objetivo do presente trabalho foi elaborar um modelo formal de descrição do jogo em esportes coletivos de invasão e instanciar o modelo a um esporte particular, o basquetebol, com a formalização de suas classes de comportamento ofensivos e defensivos. A estratégia foi modelada como um sistema dinâmico discreto. Este modelo tem como elemento lógico fundamental a regra de ação, que descreve as decisões de um jogador. As regras de ação também são usadas para a especificação da transformação de um estado e, consequentemente, da sequência de transformações de estados em um grafo representativo de uma estratégia. As propriedades estruturais, que são requisitos para uma estratégia eficiente, foram introduzidas na modelagem estratégica através de um conjunto de delimitadores (i.e., fases do jogo, tipos de conexões entre os nós por fase, regras de conexão, e regiões estratégicas), que especializam a definição da estratégia excluindo aquelas que não atendem aos requisitos dos delimitadores. O conjunto restante é denominado modelo da estratégia (ESTM). A formalização do ESTM apresentada neste trabalho estabelece uma metodologia para descrever, desenhar e avaliar a estratégia de uma equipe de um ECI. De maneira integrada à formalização da estratégia, a dinâmica do jogo foi modelada e a relação entre as estratégias desenhadas para duas equipes oponentes e a dinâmica do jogo foi apresentada. As estratégias atuam como bases de dados acessadas para subsidiar as decisões dos jogadores de uma equipe e permitir que eles atuem coletivamente durante as diferentes circunstâncias da oposição. A relação entre as estratégias desenhadas para duas equipes e a oposição no jogo entre estas equipes pode ser formalizada como um caso particular de sistema dinâmico, no qual dois sistemas dinâmicos discretos, representados pelas estratégias das equipes, e um sistema dinâmico contínuo, representado pelo jogo, são integrados por fluxos de controle e dados. Após formalizado o sistema dinâmico que representa a relação entre estratégia e oposição, no contexto do jogo, os elementos desse sistema foram decompostos, de forma hierárquica, levando em conta os principais módulos funcionais que compõem o fenômeno. Por fim, é apresentado o processo de validação das classes de comportamentos ofensivos e defensivos do jogo, constituídas por um conjunto limitado de dinâmicas individuais, grupais e coletivas, das quais a comissão técnica pode se valer para elaborar a estratégia da equipe, definir os conteúdos de treinamento, assim como selecionar aqules, dentre eles, cujo desempenho deverá ser avaliado no jogo. O modelo proposto constitui uma contribuição original à pedagogia dos esportes coletivos de invasão, tanto pelos avanços imediatos no entendimento das características estruturais desses esportes quanto pelos possíveis desdobramentos tecnológicos, que podem igualmente contribuir no processo de ensino-aprendizado nos mais diversos níveis competitivos / The aim of this study were: a) to develop a formal model to describe the game in invasion team sports (ITS) and instanciate the model to a particular sporte, the basketball; b) to validate classes of offensive and defensive behaviors in basketball. The strategy of ITS was modeled as a discrite dynamics system. This model has as a logical fundamental element named action rules, which describes the decisions of a player. The action rules are used to specify the transformations within a state and, consequently, the sequence of transformations of the states in a graph that representes the strategy of a team. The structural properties, pre-requisetes of an efficient strategy, were introduced in the model through a set of delimeters (i.e. game phases, types of connections between nodes per phase, rules of connections, and strategic regions) that specialize the the definition of strategy excluding those that do not posses the pre-requesites of the delimeters. The remaining set is defined as the strategy model. The strategy model formalized herein stablishes a metodology to describe, draw and evaluate the strategy of an IST team. Furthermore, match dynamics were modeled and integrated to the strategy model. The strategy constitute a data base which is assessed to support the team pleayers decisions and allow a collective behavior. The relationship between the strategy and the opposition in a match may be formalized as a particular familty of dynamic systems in which two discrete dynamical systems represented by the two strategies of the opposing teams, and a continuous dynamical system, represented by the match, are integrated by control and data fluxes. Once the model was constituted, its elements were hierarchicaly decomposed, considering the main functional models of the phenomenon. Finally, it is preseted the validation process of the possible offensive and defensive behaviors in a match, which are delimeted by a limited set of individual, group, and team dynamics. This set of behaviors may be used by the coaching staff to elaborate the team strategy, to define the training contentes, to determine how performance is going to be evaluated. The proposed model is an original contribution to the pedagogy of ITSs due to the increased understanding of the structural characteristics of these sports and the possible technological improvements that may be implemented in the teaching process at different competitive levels

Le détecteur interférométrique d'ondes gravitationnelles Virgo est en phase de mise au point, il devrait atteindre une sensibilité lui permettant de prendre des données scientifiques dès la deuxième moitié de l'année 2006. La préparation à l'analyse de ces données est en cours et le mémoire traite de plusieurs aspects :<br />- Un environnement d'analyse, VEGA, a été mis au point. Il permet à un utilisateur physicien d'accéder et de gérer les données provenant de Virgo, de développer un code d'analyse spécifique, de disposer d'outils de traitement du signal et de manipuler et visualiser des données dépendantes du temps. L'ensemble est intégré et basé sur ROOT.<br />- Un ensemble de pages web a été développé permettant l'affichage de données de contrôle en quasi temps-réel. Il tire parti de VEGA pour la création des graphiques.<br />- Un algorithme de tessellation d'un espace de paramètres a été développé dans le cadre des recherches de signaux provenant de la coalescence de binaires d'objets compacts (étoiles à neutrons ou trous noirs). Ces recherches utilisent communément des méthodes d'extraction de signal par filtrage optimal qui rendent nécessaire l'utilisation d'un grand nombre de calques (formes d'onde théoriques) dans un espace de paramètres. La tessellation de cet espace détermine les calques qui seront utilisés. Le mémoire traite également des performances de l'algorithme observées lors de son utilisation dans la collaboration Virgo, ainsi que ses possibles extensions.

<p>In this project-collaboration between Växjö University and Sideum company- a matchmakingportal is designed. This portal’s purpose is to ease the communication betweenVäxjö university’s students who are interested in doing their final thesis/project in anenvironment outside the university and companies which have some appropriatethesis/projects for these students and would like their projects to be done by them.There are different kinds of users that have different roles on this portal. The majorusers are students and companies which take the most advantage of this website.Once a student registers her name and completes her profile, she will receive emailscontaining information about uploaded projects on the portal by companies, which aresuitable according to what she already has mentioned in her profile. She can also searchherself to find her desired project as soon as companies upload their projects on the portal.On the other hand companies can search to find students who meet their requirements.Administrators of the portal are able to do match-making between students andcompanies. They access to every part of the portal and have right to edit, delete, change,upload, making reports and supervise the system.Other groups are guests of system. Guests are users of the system who are not registeredyet, they will not receive any email about uploaded thesis/projects on the portal but theycan search for them, themselves.</p>

“History matching” (model calibration, parameter identification) is an established method for determination of representative reservoir properties such as permeability, porosity, relative permeability and fault transmissibility from a measured production history; however the uniqueness of selected model is always a challenge in a successful history matching. Up to now, the uniqueness of history matching results in practice can be assessed only after individual and technical experience and/or by repeating history matching with different reservoir models (different sets of parameters as the starting guess). The present study has been used the stochastical theory of Kullback & Leibler (K-L) and its further development by Akaike (AIC) for the first time to solve the uniqueness problem in reservoir engineering. In addition - based on the AIC principle and the principle of parsimony - a penalty term for OF has been empirically formulated regarding geoscientific and technical considerations. Finally a new formulation (Penalized Objective Function, POF) has been developed for model selection in reservoir history matching and has been tested successfully in a North German gas field. / „History Matching“ (Modell-Kalibrierung, Parameter Identifikation) ist eine bewährte Methode zur Bestimmung repräsentativer Reservoireigenschaften, wie Permeabilität, Porosität, relative Permeabilitätsfunktionen und Störungs-Transmissibilitäten aus einer gemessenen Produktionsgeschichte (history). Bis heute kann die Eindeutigkeit der identifizierten Parameter in der Praxis nicht konstruktiv nachgewiesen werden. Die Resultate eines History-Match können nur nach individueller Erfahrung und/oder durch vielmalige History-Match-Versuche mit verschiedenen Reservoirmodellen (verschiedenen Parametersätzen als Startposition) auf ihre Eindeutigkeit bewertet werden. Die vorliegende Studie hat die im Reservoir Engineering erstmals eingesetzte stochastische Theorie von Kullback & Leibler (K-L) und ihre Weiterentwicklung nach Akaike (AIC) als Basis für die Bewertung des Eindeutigkeitsproblems genutzt. Schließlich wurde das AIC-Prinzip als empirischer Strafterm aus geowissenschaftlichen und technischen Überlegungen formuliert. Der neu formulierte Strafterm (Penalized Objective Function, POF) wurde für das History Matching eines norddeutschen Erdgasfeldes erfolgreich getestet.

Neutron radiation detectors are an integral part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) efforts to detect the illicit trafficking of radioactive or special nuclear materials into the U.S. In the past decade, the DHS has deployed a vast network of radiation detection systems at various key positions to prevent or to minimize the risk associated with the malevolent use of these materials. The greatest portion of this detection burden has been borne by systems equipped with 3He because of its highly desirable physical and nuclear properties. However, a dramatic increase in demand and dwindling supply, combined with a lack of oversight for the existing 3He stockpile has produced a critical shortage of this gas which has virtually eliminated its viability for detector applications. A number of research efforts have been undertaken to develop suitable 3He replacements; however, these studies have been solely targeted toward simple detection cases where the overall detection efficiency is the only concern. For these cases, an insertion of additional detectors or materials can produce reaction rates that are sufficient, because the neutron spectral response is essentially irrelevant. However, in applications such as safeguards, non-proliferation efforts, and material control and accountability programs (MC&A), a failure to use detectors that are spectrally matched to 3He can potentially produce dire consequences. This is because these more difficult detection scenarios are associated with fissile material assessments for 239Pu and other actinides and these analyses have almost universally been calibrated to an equivalent 3He response. In these instances, a “simple” detector or material addition approach is neither appropriate nor possible, due to influences resulting from the complex nature of neutron scattering in moderators, cross sections, gas pressure variations, geometries, and surrounding structural interference. These more challenging detection cases require a detailed computational transport analysis be performed for each specific application. A leveraged approach using adjoint transport computations that are validated by forward transport and Monte Carlo computations and laboratory measurements can address these more complex detection cases and this methodology was utilized in the execution of the research. The initial task was to establish the fidelity of a computational approach by executing radiation transport models for existing BF3 and 3He tubes and then comparing the modeling results to laboratory measurements made using these identical devices. Both tubes were 19.6 cm in height, 1-inch in diameter, and operated at 1 and 4 atm pressure respectively. The models were processed using a combination of forward Monte Carlo and forward and adjoint 3-D discrete ordinates (SN) transport methods. The computer codes MCNP5 and PENTRAN were used for all calculations of a nickel-shielded plutonium-beryllium (PuBe) source term that provided a neutron output spectra equivalent to that of weapons-grade plutonium (WGPu). Once the computational design approach was validated, the adjoint SN method was used to iteratively identify six distinct plug-in models that matched the neutron spectral response and reaction rate of a 1-inch diameter 3He tube with a length of 10 cm and operating at 4 atm pressure. The equivalent designs consist of large singular tubes and dual tubes containing BF3 gas, 10B linings, and/or 10B-loaded polyvinyl toluene (PVT). The reaction rate for each plug-in design was also verified using forward PENTRAN and MCNP5 calculations. In addition to the equivalent designs, the adjoint method also yielded various insights into neutron detector design that can lead to additional designs using a combination of different detector materials such as BF3/10B-loaded PVT, 10B-lined tubes/10B-loaded PVT, etc.