Concern about the growth in adolescent problem behaviours (e.g. delinquency, drug use) has led to increased interest in positive youth development, and a surge in funding for ‘after school programs.’ We evaluate the potential of youth sport programs to foster positive development, while decreasing the risk of problem behaviours. Literature on the positive and negative outcomes of youth sport is...

The present paper revisits the path by which Coase came to set down result now generally known as theorem in his 1960 article. I draw on both published record and archival resources an effort clear away some of mist and, it will emerge, dispel mythology. As good traditional story is—thanks no small part Stigler’s hyperbole—the reality is far more interesting, for what tells us about Coase’s our...

The concept of a collector-distributor lane system, as part of a regional arterial street improvement program is introduced. Such a system can improve operational aspects of certain urban arterial streets by provision of a transitional space between through-traffic streams and entering-exiting streams. Facilities for which this concept is most applicable, are arterial streets along which develo...

Color Transparency studies have been since long suggested as a means to study the occurrence and relevance of small size hadronic configurations, predicted within QCD to dominate exclusive scattering processes, by monitoring the passage of hadrons through the nuclear medium at large four momentum transfer, Q. The validation through experiments of this picture – the dominance of short separation...