We study how the seat value perceived by consumers attending an event in a theater/stadium, depends on the location of their seat relative to the stage/field. We develop a measure of seat value, called the Seat Value Index, and relate it to seat location and consumer characteristics. We implement our analysis on a proprietary dataset that a professional baseball franchise in Japan collected fro...

Most crimes in America require that the defendant have mens rea, Latin for "guilty mind." However, mens rea is not legally required for strict liability crimes, such as speeding, for which someone is guilty even if ignorant or deceived about her speed. In 3 experiments involving participants responding to descriptive vignettes, we investigated whether the division of strict liability crimes in ...

In most paradigm militaries of the world, there seems to be an expectation for ageneral write and publish his or her biography as soon possible after retirementfrom active duty – a type ‘first duty’ in retirement. These biographies are often criticalfor militaries, much like medical, law clerical professions, grow their bodyof knowledge empower next generation soldiers. For armed forces general...

. J.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt Law School; Ph. D. Candidate in Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University. . McKnight Land-Grant Professor & Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota; Executive Director of Education and Outreach, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. . Coauthors listed beyond the second author are listed alphabetically by last name. . Harrison Foundati...

Everyone who has reached the age of discretion is, unless the contrary is proved, presumed by law to be sane and to be accountable for his actions. This is the doctrine of mens rea. ‘Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea’  the deed does not make a man guilty unless his mind is guilty. This is the fundamental basis of English law. For to make a man liable to imprisonment for an offence that he...

the aim of this study was to examine the economic position of stadiums and professional sport teams on index of income of those people in related jobs. this study was application in terms of the goal and the method was description-library-analysis. statistical population consisted of all employees in related jobs in 8 big cities in iran that had a football team in premier league in 2010-2012. s...

The research aims to identify the reasons for growing phenomenon of violence in stadiums United Arab Emirates take necessary measures curb violent actions. As problem study, it is represented several that cause football hooliganism Emirates. study uses many approaches highlight among them are descriptive and analytical approach inductive clarify some concerned with problem. reached results, mos...

Purpose – Integrating several streams of theoretical reasoning such as social identity theory, congruity theory and the customer gratitude approach, the purpose of this paper is to develop a model of the antecedents and consequences of sponsor-stadium fit and examine the hypothesised relationships. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from professional football spectators in a non-...

MENS is a bio-inspired model for higher level cognitive systems; it is an application of the Memory Evolutive Systems developed with Vanbremeersch to model complex multi-scale, multi-agent self-organized systems, such as biological or social systems. Its development resorts to an info-computationalism: first we characterize the properties of the human brain/mind at the origin of higher order co...