The arrival of Internet offers both opportunities for incremental efficiency gains and complete industry redefinition presenting new value propositions and hence leading to the emergence of new businesses and industries. One particular case is that of the horizontal portal industry, with consistently the most visited sites on the Web. Nevertheless, and despite the ongoing concentration of the m...

Patients who travel abroad for medical treatment do so for a variety of reasons. The elite from developing countries seek treatments not available in their own countries. Thus private hospitals in India are seeing an influx of patients from Bangladesh and the Gulf. Patients from the United States seek treatments that cost five to 10 times in their own country. And, as public-funded health insur...

In this study, we examine the impact of the Napster decision on RIAA sales. We also present a brief introduction to copyright law and DMCA. We compare RIAA sales to DVD and entertainment software sales, both before and after the Napster decision. Analysis of variance showed no differences in sales growth before Napster; that is, all industries showed similar growth. After Napster, however, RIAA...

Miarka, B, Vecchio, FBD, Camey, S, and Amtmann, JA. Comparisons: technical-tactical and time-motion analysis of mixed martial arts by outcomes. J Strength Cond Res 30(7): 1975-1984, 2016-The aim of this study was to compare time-motion and technical-tactical analysis between paired outcomes and rounds of mixed martial arts (MMA) matches. The sample consisted of 645 rounds of MMA competition pai...

Individuals with a previous experience of dominance are likely to be dominants in further encounters. To test this effect, individuals with a previous experience of dominance are used for the experiments. One way to obtain such individuals is to let opponents «self-select»: encounters between pairs of more or less equivalent opponents are staged and one selects ex post facto the dominant and su...

In a recent paper Samek-Lodovici and Prince (1999) show: (i) that all the potential winners (harmonically unbounded candidates) can be determined in a ranking independent way, and (ii) that this set of potential winners is finite in number. However, they did not consider the influence of sympathetic constraints (McCarthy, 1999, 2003) on their results. These constraints can promote perpetual los...