Previous research has adapted the use of economic production functions to estimate scoring teams in professional sports. Most these studies have focused on male team sports, most notably, US baseball, basketball, and association football. This study adds literature by utilizing a new distinctive data set shooting statistics from 88 men’s 38 women’s NCAA water polo contests for United States’ co...

Methane emissions from sheep and cattle production have gained increasing profile in the context of climate change. Policy and scientific research communities have suggested a number of technological approaches to mitigate these emissions. This paper uses the concept of co-production as an analytical framework to understand farmers’ evaluation of a ‘good animal’. It examines how technology and ...

yeast has been a very helpful organism for centuries, especially with respect to fermentation of sugars and production of bread. however, for an even longer time, yeast has been a distant relative of humans having diverged from a common ancestor, about one billion years ago. more than one third of the yeast genes have human counterparts, despite this evolutionary distance. yeast and human ortho...