Nationality as a Stigma: The Drawbacks of Nationality (What Do I Have to Do with the Book-Burners?)

Do NBA Fans Discriminate Against Race Or Nationality?

Previous work found evidence that the racial composition of NBA teams was positively correlated with the racial composition of their metropolitan market areas during the 1990s. This paper finds continued evidence of this relationship in the 2000s, with an accompanying attendance boost from the incorporation of white players on teams located in whiter areas. There is also evidence that white pla...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

'What I Fail to Do Today, I Have to Do Tomorrow': A Logical Study of the Propagation of Obligations

We study logical properties that concern the preservation of future directed obligations that have not been fulfilled yet. Our starting point is a product of temporal and deontic logics. We investigate some modifications of the semantics of the product in order to satisfy propagation properties, without losing too much of the basic properties of the product. We arrive at a semantics in which we...

What do muscles have to do with lipoproteins?

We ell-trained endurance athletes have average high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) concentrations 20 mg/dl or 4050% higher than those of sedentary men.1-3 Triglyceride levels characteristically are 20% lower in these athletes, and low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC) may be 5-10% less.12 Since skeletal muscles neither secrete nor directly catabolize lipoproteins, what links muscu...

The New Mathematic Curriculum: What the teachers do?

The aim of this study was to increase understanding of how to change theoretical and practical knowledge of primary school teachers. The research approach was qualitative. The data were collected through focus group interviews. The sample size was obtained after the saturation phase including 25 teachers. The data were analyzed using content /thematic analysis. Two techniques were used for incr...