This paper analyzes the net impacts of college football games on the sales tax revenues and taxable sales of four mid-sized cities in Texas. The paper addresses the question in the title, but also asks whether state policy makers might be justified in encouraging schools in their state to play one another based on the local economic impact those games will have. In general, our evidence suggest...

The establishment (1) of the structure of sphingosine as a 1,2-hydroxyamine, C&H27. CH=CH . CHOH . CHNHn. CH20H, has prompted a study of its formation in nervous tissue from compounds involved in the biosynthesis of ethanolamine (2, 3). It was found that glycine is incorporated into carbon atoms 1 and 2, probably by way of serine, which was found to be the most effective precursor of the same p...

The key events in herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections are (i) replication at a portal of entry into the body modeled by infection of cultured cells; (ii) establishment of a latent state characterized by a sole latency-associated transcript and microRNAs (miRNAs) modeled in murine peripheral ganglia 30 d after inoculation; and (iii) reactivation from the latent state modeled by excision and in...

BACKGROUND Opportunistic Mycobacterium avium typically causes disease in immunocompromised patients and in some groups of apparently healthy individuals. The high virulence of some bacterial lineages increases the disease risk. High-resolution molecular genotyping studies of M. avium clinical isolates demonstrated that some genotype patterns were more prevalent than others, suggesting that clos...

In 2015, over 7 million Japanese citizens donated a total of ¥165,291,021,000 (approximately 1.5 billion USD) to municipalities in which they did not live in using the “Furusato Nouzei” system, which was developed as a means to revitalize rural areas in the country (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications). In this paper, I examine this system in two ways. First, I predict the amount of...

Genetic and phenotypic virulence markers of different categories of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli were investigated in 106 strains of enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) serogroup O86. The most frequent serotype found was O86:H34 (86%). Strains of this serotype and the non motile ones behaved as EPEC i.e., carried eae, bfpA and EAF DNA sequences and presented localised adherence to HeLa cells. Se...

Similar to ruminants, swine have been shown to be a reservoir for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), and pork products have been linked with outbreaks associated with STEC O157 and O111:H-. STEC strains, isolated in a previous study from fecal samples of late-finisher pigs, belonged to a total of 56 serotypes, including O15:H27, O91:H14, and other serogroups previously associated wi...