The aim of this study is to assess the status of strategic thinking among directors of private sport clubs in Shiraz city based on Goldman model. The methodology used here is descriptive-analytic and data are collected through literature studies and survey. The target population of the study included all private sport clubs offering more than three types of sports (90 clubs) and the samplin...

In the 1960s, scientists were conquering improbable frontiers: the moon was about to be walked upon; the brain cracked open. Neuroscientists were discovering that the secrets of the visual cortex could be broken with single-cell recordings and new anatomical tracing techniques, revealing an extraordinary organization: columns of cells responsive to only one eye; single cells tuned to a specific...

Free Access Cumulative Subject Index Book Editor(s):Irwin Goldman, Irwin Goldman University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 18 November 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119874157.indsub AboutPDFPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShareShare a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWe...

In a paper published in the previous issue of Population Studies , Zhongwei Zhao questions the uniqueness of a mortality pattern first identified by Goldman (1980) and subsequently redefined by the United Nations (1982). As originally formulated by Goldman, the Far Eastern pattern is characterized by ‘excessively high’ death rates among older men relative to death rates among both younger men a...

Most methods for estimating the rate of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution per site define a site as a mutational opportunity: the proportion of sites that are synonymous is equal to the proportion of mutations that would be synonymous under the model of evolution being considered. Here we demonstrate that this definition of a site can give misleading results and that a physical definiti...

Early and accurate diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) in patients who present to the Emergency Room (ER) complaining of chest pain is an important problem in emergency medicine. A number of decision aids have been developed to assist with this problem but have not achieved general use. Machine learning techniques, including classification tree and logistic regression (LR) methods, have the...

We consider the problem of learning a certain type of lexical semantic knowledge that can be expressed as a binary relation between words, such as the so-called sub-categorization of verbs (a verb-noun relation) and the compound noun phrase relation (a noun-noun relation). Speci cally, we view this problem as an on-line learning problem in the sense of Littlestone's learning model [Lit88] in wh...