This paper studies how national sentiment in the form of either a perception or a loyalty bias of bettors may affect pricing patterns on national wagering markets for international sport events. We show theoretically that both biases can be profitably exploited by bookmakers by way of price adjustment (odds shading). The former bias induces bookmakers to shade odds against the domestic team, th...

This paper presents a synthesisable VHDL model for a generalised multiplier capable of performing multiplication of both sign-magnitude and two’s complement operands. The multiplier is testable with a constant number of test vectors irrespective of operand word-lengths thereby reducing automatic test generation, simulation and testing times. The model has been used successfully for generating m...

BACKGROUND There is little information regarding lay-people's representations of influenza and influenza-like illness in their day-to-day lives. An insight into these views may aid our understanding of community attitudes regarding official recommendations for its prevention. METHODS This was a qualitative research. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted with 40 French partici...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common chronic inflammatory disease causing joint damage, disability, and reduced life expectancy. Highly effective drugs are now available for the treatment of RA. However, poor adherence to drug regimens remains a significant barrier to improving clinical outcomes in RA. Poor adherence has been shown to be linked to patients' beliefs about medicines w...

The purpose of the present study was to test the factorial and discriminant validity of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R), a measure of illness representations based on Leventhal, Meyer and Nerenz’s Self-Regulation Theory, in a cervical screening context using confirmatory factor analysis. Six hundred and sixty women, who had attended a colposcopy clinic and were invited to r...

‎For a homogeneous spaces ‎$‎G/H‎$‎, we show that the convolution on $L^1(G/H)$ is the same as convolution on $L^1(K)$, where $G$ is semidirect product of a closed subgroup $H$ and a normal subgroup $K $ of ‎$‎G‎$‎. ‎Also we prove that there exists a one to one correspondence between nondegenerat $ast$-representations of $L^1(G/H)$ and representations of ...

background: chronic illnesses are by definition long lasting and without a definitive cure. in iran, like in many other developing countries, chronic diseases are not merely diseases of the elderly. they also affect a much higher proportion of people during their prime working years and more so than in the developed countries. therefore, it is essential to understand the factors influencing the...

This article investigates the boundary work of young people who disclose personal experiences mental health illness and trauma in a reality TV series. The programme focus features group therapy sessions led by professional psychologist, supplemented video diaries. Combining disclosure theory with media sociological perspectives, analyses how boundaries are drawn, negotiated or trespassed produc...

Consider the semidirect product group H ×? K, where H and K are two arbitrary locally compact groups and K is also abelian. We introduce the continuous wavelet transform associated to some square integrable representations H ×? K. Moreover, we try to obtain a concrete form for admissible vectors of these integrable representations.