Using a panel of 9292 UK manufacturing firms over the period 1993-2003, we explore the links between firms’ financial health and their export market participation decisions. We find that exporters exhibit better financial health than non-exporters. Yet, when we differentiate between continuous exporters and starters, we see that this result is driven by the former. Starters generally display lo...

Let G be a finite group of even order v. Does there exist a 1−factorization of Kv admitting G as an automorphism group acting sharply transitively on vertices? If G is cyclic and v = 2, for t ≥ 3, then the answer to the previous question is known to be negative by a result of A.Hartman and A.Rosa (1985). For several large families of groups of even order constructions have always been found thu...

The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in physical parameters produced during an in-season resistance training (RT) program and detraining phase in 12 top TVP competing in the elite Portuguese league. Moreover, differences in the adaptive responses between players who played most of the times (starters: S) and players that were mainly used as substitutes (non starters: NS) were an...

Background: This study’s aim was twofold: (i) to compare starters and non-starters on a professional soccer team in terms of variations training intensity indexes across season, calculated through total distance, sprint accelerations (Acc), decelerations (Dec) (ii) analyse the relationship between for each playing status. Methods: Nineteen players (age, 29.4 ± 4.4 years; height, 1.8 0.1 m; body...

the study of the sentence and its divisions has been always a cause of difference in syntactical viewpoints among the ancient and modern arab grammarians. ibn hesham sees three divisions for the arabic sentence: the noun sentence, the verb sentence and the adverb sentence. the adverb sentence in his view is that in which a time or place adverb or a prepositional phrase is the predicate proceede...

NCAA soccer features different substitution rules compared to FIFA-sanctioned matches, with a greater availability of players who can enter the game. This could influence the physiological characteristics of the field position starters (ST) and non-starters (NST) within a collegiate women's team, which has not been previously analyzed. Thus, 22 field players from the same Division I women's soc...

The selection of yeasts intended as starters for table olives is a complex process, including a characterization step at laboratory level and a validation at lab level and factory-scale. The characterization at lab level deals with the assessment of some technological traits (growth under different temperatures and at alkaline pHs, effect of salt, and for probiotic strains the resistance to pre...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the weight loss efficacy of a novel mobile platform delivering the Diabetes Prevention Program. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS 43 overweight or obese adult participants with a diagnosis of prediabetes signed-up to receive a 24-week virtual Diabetes Prevention Program with human coaching, through a mobile platform. Weight loss and engagement were the main outcomes, evaluated...