International sports will have to strengthen their efforts to exclude persons with morals in conflict with their sports. IOC and FIFA should mirror their top ambitions in athletic and financial areas by similarly leading ambitions to serve human mankind more generally. To encounter critiques...

Wir berechnen einen neuartigen internationalen Maßstab für pharmazeutische Innovationskraft, indem wir uns auf die weltweiten medizinischen Durchbrüche und die dort zitierten Patente konzentrieren. Diese Berechnungsweise ist (über den Bereich der Lebenswissenschaften hinaus) bedeutsam, weil...

This paper is the first test of differences between age-related reductions in the performance of men and women. The assumption that men age faster is obvious, because men's life expectancy is generally lower. In addition to other studies on age-related reduction in human performance, this paper...

This paper examines the probability of the success of city bid campaigns on the basis of quantified determinants for a total of 48 bids for the Summer Olympic Games between 1992 and 2012. Using a model comprising the distance of sporting venues from the Olympic Village, local temperatures and...