Channel systems at the distal limits of submarine fans show variability in channel size and bifurcation patterns. This information is useful in constraining channel properties in static reservoir models, e.g. the mean and range of values typical for channel dimensions, sinuosity, and branching angles. Criteria were evaluated that might help discriminate between deltas and submarine fans based o...

Using qualitative interviews with lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual female Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) fans, I argue that the (perceived) large lesbian attendance at WNBA games enables the construction of a lesbian community by lesbian and bisexual fans in a site qualitatively different from traditional locations of lesbian community. Because the WNBA is not an explicitly l...

Celebrity and fandom have been studied extensively in real life. However, with more and more celebrities using social media, the dynamics of interaction between celebrities and fans has changed. Using data from a set of 57,000 fans for the top followed celebrities on Twitter, we de ne a wide range of features based on their Twitter activity. Using factor analysis we nd the most important factor...

Objective: This article tested whether hockey fans’ selfdetermined and non self-determined motivation for engaging in derogatory behaviors against an outgroup team predicted the frequency of these behaviors, fans’ psychological well-being, and the quality of their social identity as a fan of their team. The two psychological theories we employ in the current research (i.e., self-determination t...

Despite recent high impacts of disease in the ocean, quantitative studies of diseases in natural marine populations lag far behind terrestrial systems. Transmission processes are poorly known in relatively open marine systems. We studied infection of sea fans Gorgonia ventalina by the fungus Aspergillus sydowii. To assess detectability and mechanisms of secondary transmission of the fungus, we ...

Berntsen’s social identity model of flashbulb memory was applied to recall of the 2008 Lafayette–Lehigh (‘The Rivalry’) football game, which Lehigh won. Consistent with Berntsen’s theory, Lehigh fans found the game to be more emotional and therefore rehearsed the event more frequently. They also remembered the factual details of the game more accurately than did Lafayette fans, particularly tho...

In order to examine the detailed attachment structure held by fans of a talking toy character (Primopuel), the contents of fan letters sent to a toy company were analyzed. Using our content classification system (Matsumoto et al, 2003, 2004), 51 fan letters were analyzed in terms of attachment. Based on the results of factor analysis, we argue that attachment is one of the factors that (a) evok...

This study explores fans’ identification and enduring involvement of professional baseball in Taiwan; it discusses the research objectives through investigating the relationships with different demographic variables of the subject, such as age, gender, marital status, educational attainment, parenthood status, and monthly income, by the application of questionnaire survey approach. The investig...

We propose a high dimensional classification method that involves nonparametric feature augmentation. Knowing that marginal density ratios are the most powerful univariate classifiers, we use the ratio estimates to transform the original feature measurements. Subsequently, penalized logistic regression is invoked, taking as input the newly transformed or augmented features. This procedure train...