The Special Judo Fitness Test (SJFT) has become the test most widely used by coaches and physical trainers for assessment of competitors' judo-specific physical aptitude and training programme prescription. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the SJFT performance indices and both maximal aerobic power and the level of blood lactate concentrations in female judo ath...

The outbreak of the Panic of 1907 occurred following a series of scandalous revelations about the investments of some prominent New York financiers, resulting in widespread runs on trust companies throughout New York City. The connections between the trust companies that came under severe strain during the crisis, and their client firms, may have transmitted the financial crisis to nonfinancial...

This paper examines the time structure of the effects of R&D activities on firm growth. The main questions are whether R&D activities come together with firms’ growth in the subsequent periods and how this relationship depends on other characteristics of the firms, such as size and industry. In addition, we study the relationship between R&D effects and the autocorrelation dynamics of firm grow...

This paper explores the extent to which the UK tourism industry has accepted the increased standards of performance under the new Disability Discrimination Act. The research utilises the mystery shopper technique to request basic information from two hundred and ten randomly selected companies from various sectors of the tourism industry. The request stated that the mystery shopper is visually ...

More than 1000 years ago Alcuin of York proposed a classical puzzle involving a wolf, a goat and a bunch of cabbages that need to be ferried across a river using a boat that only has enough room for one of them. In this paper we study several generalizations of this problem, called River Crossing problems, involving more items and more complicated incompatibilities. Our study is made from an al...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether financial ties to one drug company are associated with favourable results or conclusions in meta-analyses on antihypertensive drugs. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Meta-analyses published up to December 2004 that were not duplicates and evaluated the effects of antihypertensive drugs compared with any comparator on clinical end points in adults. Fi...

Oracle Corporation, the world’s second largest software company, is the leading supplier of software for enterprise information management. The company has two major businesses-one providing the lowest cost information technology infrastructure and another offering business and competitive advantage through high-value applications Oracle is one of the first software companies to implement its m...