The paper presents new, absolute measurements of the thermal conductivity of binary mixtures of nitrogen with four monatomic gases, He, Ne, Ar and Kr. The measurements have been performed at 27.5°C as a function of density within the pressure range 0.9–17 MPa. The experimental data have an...

The paper presents new absolute measurements of the thermal conductivity of the five noble gases at a nominal temperature of 27.5°C and over a range of pressures. Measurements were made in a transient hot-wire apparatus whose design and operational equations have been published earlier. These...

This paper describes a symbolic manipulator control language, WAVE. WAVE resembles a computer machine language and has been used for performing such tasks as a the assembly of a “Model T” water pump, the block manipulation needed to solve the “Instant Insanity” puzzle, bruch caligraphy,...

The determinants of the total number of bets placed on games from three on-line sports books are analyzed for the 2008‐9 NCAA basketball season. Betting volume depends on television coverage, temporal factors, the quality of the teams, and the expected closeness of the contest. Our results...

We examine 330,857 trades of prediction market contracts, the values of which are based on against-the-spread outcomes of NFL games, and find the presence of a significant reverse favourite-longshot bias. Surprisingly, the timing of this bias is identical to that observed in traditional...

We examine whether point shaving is widespread in NCAA college basketball by comparing bet and game outcomes with those in professional sports. Results suggest that unusual patterns previously suspected to be indicators of point shaving are ubiquitous throughout sports and unlikely to be caused...