The authors investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural distance, and disparities in economic prosperity. To this end, the authors analyse 2,012...

Die rasante Entwicklung der Computer- und Messtechnologie in den letzten Jahren und die damit einhergehende Steigerung der Möglichkeiten zur Datengewinnung und Datenspeicherung hat dazu geführt, dass die Kluft zwischen der Menge verfügbarer Daten und dem Verständnis dieser Daten immer...

Daten über Straßenverkehrsunfälle (im folgenden Unfalldaten genannt) dienen im Allgemeinen der Ursachenanalyse als Grundlage des sogenannten Driver Improvements, der Evaluierung von Sicherheitstechnik des Kraftfahrzeugs und der verkehrssicheren Straßengestaltung. In der Bundesrepublik werden...

Jährlich sterben etwa 1,2 Millionen Menschen weltweit im Straßenverkehr, weitere 50 Millionen werden zum Teil schwer verletzt [10]. Auch Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist davon betroffen, und es ist dringend erforderlich, diese Anzahl zu reduzieren. Ein Weg dorthin ist die Analyse gespeicherter...

In this paper we investigate how the expulsion of a player influences the outcome of a football match. Common sense implies a negative impact for the affected team. However, an old football myth suggests that such an expulsion might also be beneficial since it increases the team spirit as well...

In view of the finding that debtors are likely to be more obese than nondebtors, we investigate whether interpersonal differences in body mass are, as in the case of debt behavior, related to those in time discounting and time discounting anomalies. The effects of time discounting on body mass...

The article analyses the potentialities and challenges facing the creation of a human rights system of indicators. The analysis focus on seven fundamental points. Starting with a discussion on the differences between human rights indicators and social indicators, the author presents the...

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university" and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a "baseline" happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have shown that genes play a significant role in...