This article reviews international literature on the demand for professional sport. The first
part presents a conceptual framework for understanding the sources and determinants of the …

In this article, we reiterate the characteristics that make the rainbow color map a poor choice,
provide examples that clearly illustrate these deficiencies even on simple data sets, and …

Aims To identify the predictors of attempts to stop smoking and the predictors of quit attempt
success in adult general population samples. Methods We performed an electronic search of …

We consider an electron moving in the field of a one-dimensional infinite chain of identical
potentials separated by regions of zero potential, the lengths s of these regions being …

I am quite confident that the conception of giftedness set forth in this chapter differs significantly
from those found in the other chapters of this book in that the conception I advance is no …

In the summer of 1944, my grandmother, Beatrice Hanson, put on a pale, eggshell-colored
gabardine dress with big gold buttons down the side, a huge pancake-black hat, and elbow-…

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a photosynthetic adaptation that facilitates the uptake
of CO 2 at night and thereby optimizes the water-use efficiency of carbon assimilation in …

Options are financial instruments that depend on the underlying stock. We explain their non-Gaussian
fluctuations using the nonextensive thermodynamics parameter q . A generalized …

Aims To document accurately the amount of quitting, length of quit attempts and prevalence
of plans and serious thought about quitting among smokers. Design We used longitudinal …

Background: There is increasing recognition that the two measures in the Heaviness of
Smoking Index (HSI), time to first cigarette of the day (TTFC) and daily consumption (cigarettes …