This paper constitutes a unique micro-level exploration of the relation between game outcome uncertainty and the behavior of highly committed season ticket holders of a major Bundesliga soccer team. Specifically, we look at 3,113 season ticket holders attending all 17 home games in the 2012-13...

The intelligent textiles industry uses the results of a wide range of scientific research fields which are multidisciplinary and cover the so called „key enabling technologies”. For the moment there are only a few countries generating and using this knowledge with impact on competitiveness,...

The impact of the dialogue between cultures can meet national and "internal" dimensions and features or even regional and "external” ones. In order to grasp all the dimensions of this paradigm shift, it is important to try understanding the concepts of and interactions between culture,...

In order to invest there are some incentives needed, including among them, certainly, the ones discussed and analysed in the scientific literature such as: specific earning chances (expectations) of each participant (wage, profit, dividend, budget revenue, etc.), potential investor’s general...

The article looks at the possible role of measurement in a quantum-mechanical description of physical reality. The widely spread interpretations of quantum phenomena are considered as indicating an apparent connection between conscious processes (such as observation) and the properties of the...

The objective of this paper is to present and describe a teaching tool for linguistics students who are learning English, a tool which furthers their linguistic education at the same time as it gives them some challenging experience with reading practice with the kinds of tests they will...

The impact of the dialogue between cultures can meet national and "internal" dimensions and features or even regional and "external” ones. In order to grasp all the dimensions of this paradigm shift, it is important to try understanding the concepts of and interactions between culture,...

In order to invest there are some incentives needed, including among them, certainly, the ones discussed and analysed in the scientific literature such as: specific earning chances (expectations) of each participant (wage, profit, dividend, budget revenue, etc.), potential investor’s general...

No plano das políticas públicas é evidente a necessidade de se estabelecer um novo olhar sobre o patrimônio cultural da ciência e tecnologia brasileiro cujos valores histórico, cultural, científico e tecnológico serão mais amplamente reconhecidos na medida de um maior...

The results of the previous fMRI study of the word frequency effect in Russian (Malutina et al., 2012) contradict the results obtained from fMRI studies of English speakers. Two reasons for such inconsistency may be either task specificity (tasks involving verbs vs. tasks involving nouns) or...