Deeply impressed with Ronald's performance and popularity, they urged him to run against the state's Democratic governor, Pat Brown, whose vigorous eight years in office were by then running out of steam.
"Performance or popularity is not what we're optimizing for.
In other words, can performance explain popularity and fame and if so, to what extent?
In its last set of accounts, Manchester United admitted that its "revenue streams are driven by the performance and popularity of our first team".
Here we aimed to quantify the relationship between performance and popularity in an area where these two quantities can be individually measured.
To address the degree to which performance determines popularity, we reconstructed the number of Wikipedia visits (W t)) for all ranked professional male tennis players between 2008 and 2015 (Figure 1(B)), together with their time-dependent history of achievements on the field (supplementary material S3 in Additional file 1).
This work thus incorporates ClustalW as the built-in alignment tool of PALM owing to its stable performance and popularity.
The selection is based on a number of properties: i) reported performance, ii) popularity determined by the number of citations, iii) recency, iv) availability of implementation, as well as v) problem relevance.
For less accomplished players we observe deviations from the performance-predicted popularity, suggesting that in this case visibility can be manipulated by exogenous events or personal attributes outside of the scope of sports performance.
Brazil's strong economic performance and the popularity of its outgoing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is reflected in a widely shared sense of progress.
