Excursion to Wimbledon and Putney, Saturday afternoon, May 5th, 1888

Friday 1 May and Saturday 2 May

Sealants in dentistry: outcomes of the ORCA Saturday Afternoon Symposium 2007.

Sealants are a successful tool in caries prevention, but their role in preventive strategies after the caries decline has to be discussed. A survey of paediatric departments across Europe revealed that indications for pit and fissure sealants vary considerably, both nationally and internationally. Evidence for effectiveness of sealants in controlling caries in posterior teeth implies that seala...

Frequency and types of foods advertised on Saturday morning and weekday afternoon English- and Spanish-language American television programs.

OBJECTIVE To describe food advertised on networks serving children and youth, and to compare ads on English-language networks with ads on Spanish networks. DESIGN Analysis of television food advertisements appearing on Saturday morning and weekday afternoons in 2005-2006. A random sample of 1,130 advertisements appearing on 12 networks catering to Spanish-language, children, youth, Black yout...

Minimax Play at Wimbledon

We use data from classic professional tennis matches to provide an empirical test of the theory of mixed strategy equilibrium. We Þnd that the serve-andreturn play of John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras and others is consistent with equilibrium play. The same statistical tests soundly reject the assumption of equilibrium play in experimental data, including the data from Barry ...

Putney to Mortlake: on the Microfoundations of Endogenous Agency

The purpose of this work is to systematically develop a micro-level understanding of endogenous agency in a highly institutionalized, stable setting as a basis for a general institutional theory of action. Using an ethnographic account of Cambridge’s 2007 season preparations for the annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race we examine endogenous agency in an environment where extant institutional t...