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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Tournaments"”.
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Essays on Dynamic Tournaments
<p>This dissertation studies dynamic tournaments and their economic and managerial implications from two different perspectives. The first half focuses on the optimal timing of information release when a tournament uses a feedback scheme, while the other half investigates the impact of the use of …
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Tournaments in the public sector
… schemes. The empirical literature on Tournaments has been grown. However, many studies use no appropriate data. This paper provides the first empirical evidence on three key assumptions in these models using a special case surrounding the incentives for workers in public sector. The …
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Upset Paths and 2-Majority Tournaments
<p>In 2005, Alon, et al. proved that tournaments arising from majority voting scenarios have minimum dominating sets that are bounded by a constant that depends only on the notion of what is meant by a majority. Moreover, they proved that when a majority means that Candidate A beats Candidate B …
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REALIZING TOURNAMENTS AS MODELS FOR K-MAJORITY VOTING
… In this thesis we show that all acyclic tournaments can be realized as 2-majority tournaments. Further, we develop methods to realize certain quadratic residue tournaments as <em>k</em>-majority tournaments. Thus, each tournament within these classes of tournaments is a model for a …
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Tournaments With Forbidden Substructures and the Erdos-Hajnal Conjecture
… version, where undirected graphs are replaced by tournaments and cliques and stable sets by transitive subtournaments. This dissertation addresses the directed version of the conjecture and some problems in the directed setting that are closely related to it. For a long time the conjecture was …
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An Experimental Investigation of Learning and Knowledge Sharing in Tournaments
… persists between the high and low performers, tournaments become less effective in motivating employees because high performers become complacent and low performers give up. Prior research suggests that learning and knowledge sharing are two behaviours that can improve employees' skills and …
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An Experimental Study of Tournaments and Contracts: A Principal's Perspective
Three types of incentive systems that have been modeled in the literature are the tournament, the Holmstrom team contract, and the dichotomous contract. The objective of the present study is to determine experimentally which of these contracts principals perceive to be superior to the others under …
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Soccer and CO2: air travel at international football tournaments from 1990 to 2024
… Championships hosted between 1990-2024. These tournaments required qualifying teams to travel to a host country and attract tens of thousands of supporters to stadiums throughout the host country. The supporter of teams and players travel across the host nation during their stay in the …
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Brand Associations of Minor Hockey Tournaments: Understanding the Rep Hockey Parents' Perspective
Tournaments and other hockey-related activities have been calculated to be a significant driver of tourist dollars for many regions across Canada. The competition to attract teams to participate in tournaments, which benefit the tournament organizers and the communities in which they reside, is …
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Biological Impacts and Uses of Black Bass Competitive Fishing Tournaments on Large Lake Systems
… populations. Competitive fishing, in the form of tournaments, has become an important part of recreational fisheries, and is common on large waterbodies including the Great Lakes. Black Bass, Micropterus spp., are top predators and among the most sought after species in competitive …
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A comparison of teams-games-tournaments (TGT) and traditional classroom methods in high school biology
… Would high school students playing teams-games-tournaments have greater academic achievement in a high school biology course than students in classes using traditional classroom methods? Would high school students in TGT classes have greater retention of knowledge after a delayed period of time …
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The relationship between performance (tournament progression), daily stress and perceived exertion in male participants of professional squash tournaments
… but also due to the short duration of the tournaments, which places a lot of pressure on the participants to do well. Stress in sport has been shown to be a critical component in the performance of an individual athlete as well as in team sports. Stress in sport may be categorised as …
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Injury incidence and severity at the South African Rugby Union (SARU) Youth Weeks Tournaments: a four year study
… Rugby Union (SA Rugby) hosts four local youth tournaments annually to for local rugby talent: Craven Week under-13, Grant Khomo under-16, Academy Week under-18 and Craven Week under-18. Injury data were collected from the four SARU Youth Week Tournaments between 2011 and 2014. These data were …
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The Impact of title sponsorship on customer-based brand equity: an evaluation of seasonal soccer tournaments in South Africa
… into title sponsorship of short-term tournaments to gain a competitive edge. The mere association by means of name sharing as title sponsors is not strong enough to alter what consumers see, hear, feel, and think of the brand. Thus, brands have to employ brand experiences that are …
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Epidemiology and risk factors for illness in athletes participating in sport tournaments or competitions - a specific focus on Rugby Union
… significantly interfere with training, during tournaments or at competition time. The incidence of illness in sports varies in different sporting codes and across different tournaments and competitions. The Super Rugby competition is a particularly demanding 16-week tournament among countries …
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Abacus-Tournament Models of Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
… weighted combinatorial objects called abacus-tournaments. We then apply these models to give combinatorial proofs of properties of Hall-Littlewood polynomials. For example, we show why various specializations of Hall-Littlewood polynomials produce the Schur symmetric polynomials, the …
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Sport-related Concussion Incidence and Mechanism of Injury in Male and Female Players at the South African Youth Week Rugby Tournaments: 2011-2018
… to 2018 South African Rugby Union Youth Week Tournaments respectively. Specific objectives: a) To determine the incidence of SRC among boys U13-U18 and girls U16-U18 players; b) To describe SRC mechanism of injury in boys U13-U18 and girls U16-U18 players; c) To determine if a difference in …
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Evaluating Projections and Developing Projection Models for Daily Fantasy Basketball
… by participants in competitive FanDuel DFS tournaments. Lineups produced by the machine learning models are also evaluated in the same manner.</p> <p>This work experiments with several machine learning techniques including automated machine learning and notes the top model developed was …
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