Craig Sharp is Professor of Sports Science at the School of PE and Sport at Brunel University / UK. He is author and co-author of a wide variety of publications about Sports, Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology and Immunology. In 1998 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Sports Science at the University of Stirling, and to UK Athletics Doping Policy Committee. Craig Sharp ran crosscountry for Scot...

This article develops a socio-economic model that analyzes the doping decision of professional athletes. In their evaluation of whether to use performance enhancing drugs athletes consider not only costs and benefits (through rank improvement) but also approval by their fellow athletes. Peergroup approval is modeled as a lagged endogenous variable depending on the share of doping athletes in th...

A series of 122 phase BaFe2−xNixAs2 (x = 0, 0.055, 0.096, 0.18 and 0.23) single crystals was grown by the self-flux method and a dome-like Ni doping dependence of the superconducting transition temperature was discovered. The transition temperature T on c reaches a maximum of 20.5K at x = 0.096, and it drops to below 4K as x > 0.23. The negative thermopower in the normal state indicates that th...

Although the issue of doping an substances is one of the very popular scientifi c topics in the world, these kinds of research are very rare in Croatia. Th is paper looks at some aspects of using doping and substances in sport and discusses the reasons which have been considered to be fundamental for the growth of this problem lately, based on the professional and scientifi c experience of the ...