In the last round of FIFA World Cup group stage, games for which outcome does not affect selection qualified teams are played with little enthusiasm. Furthermore, a team that has already may take into account other factors, such as opponents it will face in next stage competition so that, depending on results groups and scheduling winning game be its best interest. Even more critically, there s...

Although an increasing number of literature indicate the positive impact of sponsoring major sports events or themed competitions, few studies have examined how a match-fixing scandal occurring in the most popular and national professional sports impacts the stock abnormal returns of the parent company and sponsor. Using event study method with content analysis, this study focused on the spillo...

Scale Effects on Oscillatory Control-Surfeoe Derivatives-By-A. Y/. Moore Aerod.ynsmlcs Division NPL The limited evidence availahle concerning scale effects on Control-surface derivatives suggests a general tendency for in-phase hinge-moment derivatives to increase when Reynolds number increases but to decrease sharply when boundary-layer transition is artificially fixed. Damping (in-quadrature)...

the increasing and unlimited cases of burdensome dowries beyond the husband's solvency, leading finally to the enforcement of dowry and divorce, had led some commentators to fix a certain maximum for dowry. the authors, in this article, intend to find a proper theory to resolve this matrimonial problem through reviewing the earlier and later islamic jurisprudents’ opinions. although according t...

[When s 45A was added to the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) in 1977, price-fixing became illegal per se. Since then a large number of cases have been brought successfully, with much higher pecuniary penalties being ordered in recent times. Following the recommendations of the Dawson Committee, new legislation is likely to be passed in 2005 that recognises the need for even higher pecuniary pena...

Analytic methods for Abelian projection are developed. A number of results are obtained related to string tension measurements. It is proven that even without gauge fixing, abelian projection yields string tensions of the underlying non-Abelian theory. Strong arguments are given for similar results in the case where gauge fixing is employed. The methods used emphasize that the projected theory ...

Let (Φ,M) be an effective smooth action of (Z2) k on an n-dimensional smooth closed connected manifold having a finite fixed set. One can associate to this action a regular graph of valency n. If the action is nonbounding one uses this graph to obtain a lower bound for the number of fixed points. Furthermore, this result is applied to a general nonbounding (Z2) -action fixing a finite fixed set...

We have constructed the most general gauge fixing term for the SU(2) Yang-Mills theory, which leaves the global U(1) gauge symmetry intact (i.e., the most general Maximal Abelian gauge). From the viewpoint of renormalizability, we point out the importance of an additional gauge fixing parameter that is not included in the ordinary gauge fixing term with the global SU(2) gauge symmetry. By requi...