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Novelty Effects of New Facilities on Attendance at Professional Sporting Events [PDF]
We investigate the possibility that new facilities affect attendance - the "novelty effect" - in professional baseball, basketball, and football from 1969-2001 by estimating the parameters of a reduced form attendance model. Our results indicate a strong,
Brad R. Humphreys, Dennis Coates
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This study evaluated resources designed for community sport coaches, which aimed to increase awareness and knowledge of type 1 diabetes within community sport settings. The developed resources improved participating coaches' knowledge and confidence surrounding T1D management and exercise, and were perceived to be informative, trustworthy, acceptable ...
Rachel J. Lim +7 more
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Abstract Objective While some studies have shown that exercise reduces the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), there is limited evidence on whether aerobic or resistance exercise is more beneficial. This study aimed to examine the rate of GDM according to the type of exercise during early pregnancy.
Takaki Tanamoto +3 more
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Compelling private sport speech
Abstract The intermingling of sport and political speech has become increasingly poignant. Although basketball star Michael Jordan has now clarified that his famous statement that “Republicans buy sneakers, too” was made in jest when asked about why he did not make political statements, Michael Jordan was well within his rights to avoid the political ...
Thomas A. Baker III +2 more
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Major League Baseball and Globalization: The World Baseball Classic [PDF]
In addition to generating initial profits, the WBC has positioned MLB to be the leader in growing the game of baseball and the commercial aspects of the sport throughout the world. As baseball grows, and more importantly as the American brand of baseball
Chad, McEvoy +3 more
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This article reviews and compares popular methods, some old and some recent, that produce time series having Poisson marginal distributions. The article begins by narrating ways where time series with Poisson marginal distributions can be produced.
Jiajie Kong, Robert Lund
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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Images Assisting Wor[l]ds: Black History Murals in South and West Philadelphia
ABSTRACT Black history murals are often understood as examples of state or corporate obfuscation of racial inequality, sometimes known as “artwashing”; or, conversely, as “insurgent” political interventions. Focusing on murals in historically Black neighborhoods in South and West Philadelphia, this article instead highlights the processual, but no less
Gareth Millington +1 more
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Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco [PDF]
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the ...
Gould, Eric D., Kaplan, Todd R.
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The Crooked Pictures in Our Heads: Partisan Cable Coverage of Congress
ABSTRACT Objectives Partisan cable networks such as Fox News and MSNBC have the potential to polarize their audiences through a wide array of coverage choices. This study examines one of them: the choice of which members of the US House of Representatives to cover on each network.
Adam J. Schiffer
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