It always has been good to be home but not quite like this year. Credit better rest, a familiar routine, knowledge of a ballpark intricacies, a roster customized to maximize those intricacies, what have you. Simply, playing at home is an advantage.
Home teams in 2008, however, are winning 58.0 percent of their games, more three [...]
Running a pro sports franchise seems simple compared with running a retail empire. The Atlanta Falcons, with about 200 employees, generate an estimated $185 million in annual revenue. Home Depot, with 350,000 employees, generates about $80 billion.
But recent events suggest football team may be tougher to run.
“In certain ways, it is,” said Arthur Blank, the [...]
Running a pro sports franchise seems simple compared to running, say, a retail empire. The Atlanta Falcons, with about 200 employees, generate an estimated $185 million in annual revenue. Home Depot, with 350,000 employees, generates about $80 billion.
But recent events suggest that maybe the football team is tougher to run.
“In certain ways, it is,” said [...]
Running a pro sports franchise seems simple compared to running, say, a retail empire. The Atlanta Falcons, with about 200 employees, generate an estimated $185 million in annual revenue. Home Depot, with 350,000 employees, generates about $80 billion.
But recent events suggest that maybe the football team is tougher to run.
Rich Addicks / AJCArthur Blank, who [...]
For many people, happiness may be more of learned trait than a natural tendency.
Research on gratitude exercises in young children is limited, but studies of adults have shown that small interventions can have a measurable influence on happiness. Gratitude journals, letters and other practices — such as naming three good things and identifying and using [...]
Neurotic people are more likely to die from cardiovascular disease. Being extroverted, however, protects people from dying from respiratory illness.
Neuroticism is a proclivity toward worry and emotional ups and downs. A mortality study of almost 5,500 people showed that risk of death from cardiovascular disease climbed as a person’s level of neuroticism rose.
Extraversion, a tendency [...]
The first bottleneck was said to be plant breeders’ tendency to use only a few parent soybeans from Asia, called landraces, to build the genetic base of U.S. soybean in the 1930s and 1940s. The second bottleneck was breeders’ use of a small group of elite varieties as parents [...]
Learning how to control and tailor the assembly of nanoparticles, which have dimensions on the order of billionths of a meter, could potentially lead to applications ranging from more efficient energy generation and data storage to cell-targeted systems for drug delivery.
Mathew Maye is a chemist in Brookhaven’s newly opened Center for Functional Nanomaterials. [...]
Although as many as half of parents of children with autism report concerns about their child’s developmental progress before the first birthday, the disorder is usually not diagnosed until age 3 or 4, according to background information in the article. Earlier identification of autism offers the possibility of early intervention, which holds promise for [...]
Although research has shown some correlation between exposure to media violence and real-life violent behavior, there has been little direct neuroscientific support for this theory until now.
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center%26rsquo;s Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Research Center have shown that watching violent programs can cause parts of your brain that suppress aggressive [...]