PURPOSE This study evaluated the effect of remote voluntary contractions(RVC) on concentric isokinetic knee extensor and flexor peak torque, rate of torque development, power, and work, the activation of the affected muscles, and gender differences therein. METHODS Eleven men and 12 women were evaluated with EMG and isokinetic dynamometry during knee extension and flexion tests in RVC and bas...

We live in times of anthropogenic climate crisis. Or do we? This essay shows how “humanity” is a thoroughly modern fetish forged the bloodbath militarized accumulation and conquest after 1492. To say that Anthropos drives crisis implicates historical actor does not exist. But reality different. Humanity nothing. Specific groups humans make history – empires, classes, religious institutions, arm...

Notes on Thick-Tailed Distributions of Wealth Lester D. Taylor University of Arizona* One of the best-known empirical regularities in economics is the ‘Law of Pareto’, according to which the upper tails of the distributions of income and wealth are described by the relationship, P(u > x) = Ax α , for income and wealth levels (x) greater than some value x0 and α < 2. However, despite its ubiquit...

Widespread expectations of first-mover advantages contributed to the rush of market entry during the early growth phase of the Internet sector. After the shakeout, however, such beliefs came into question. This study assesses the magnitude and sources of firstmover advantages in 46 Internet markets, based on data for more than 200 publicly traded entrants. The findings show a large premium in s...

Abbreviations: FN: Fieller-type Intervals Applied on The Observed Proportions; BM: Binomial MOVER-R-Wilson Method After Summing-Up Observed Counts Across Replications; LOD: Asymptotic Method on The Log-Scale, Accounting for Overdispersion via Residual Variation; FOD: Fieller-Bailey-Type Interval Accounting For Over dispersion Via Residual Variance; LBB: Delta Method on The Log-Scale Under The B...

One of the major concerns in the power sector is the day-today increasing power demand but the unavailability of enough resources to meet the power demand using the conventional energy sources. Energy is the prime mover of economic growth and is vital to the sustenance of a modern economy .Future economic growth crucially depends on the long-term availability of energy from sources that are aff...

Without contracting or repetition, purely self-regarding agents will not trade. To what extent can social preferences, such as altruism or a concern for fairness, generate efficient bilateral exchange? I analyze a simple exchange game: A purely self-regarding first mover transfers some amount of a commodity to a second mover. Then the second mover, who has social preferences defined over materi...