In sports literature and reporting the ‘contract-year effect’ has been treated as anything ranging from an old wives tale to a well-established fact. We note many instances of players’ play falling off after landing a huge contract. In this paper we analyze the effect of being in the final year of the contract on player performance (as measured by the NBA efficiency index and using PER rating f...

the purpose of this study was to examine various factors influencing spectators' attendance in professional soccer games in tehran. this research was a descriptive survey. the questionnaire used in this study was developed by green (1995), hansen and gauthier (1989), kaskey (1999), schofield (1983) and zhang et al. (1995) in order to examine factors affecting spectators' attendance in...

In this paper, we use game theory to describe the emergence of self-organization and consequent pattern formation through communicative cooperation in Bacillus subtilis colonies. The emergence of cooperative regime is modelled as an n-player Assurance game, with the bacterial colonies as individual players. The game is played iteratively through cooperative communication, and mediated by exchan...

The data of 35 years from 1980 to 2014 were analyzed to study the effect of genetic and non-genetic factors viz. period of calving, season of calving as fixed effect and sire as random effect on the reproduction trait (age at first calving) of Kankrej cattle maintained at Livestock Research Station, S.D. Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar, Gujarat. The least square mean of age at first ...

introduction: computer games have attracted remarkable attentions in general publics with different cultures and their effects are subject of research by cognitive neuroscientists. in the present study, possible effects of the game fifa 2015 on cognitive performance, hormonal levels, and electroencephalographic (eeg) signals were evaluated in young male volunteers. methods: thirty two subjects ...

cooperation is the foundation of many protocols in wireless networks. without cooperation, the performance of a network significantly decreases. hence, all nodes in traditional networks are required to cooperate with each other. in this paper, instead of traditional networks, a network of rational and autonomous nodes is considered, which means that each node itself can decide whether to cooper...