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Showing 1 to 20 of 506 for “"Winning"”.
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Winning Silver
The search for mineral deposits is a time consuming, risky and very expensive process. Applying new models and methods provides a competitive advantage in the search for mineral deposits because an explorationist can quickly evaluate potential targets and eliminate areas without good potential for …
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Winning an Independence Achievement Game.
… from which to choose. In this thesis, we present winning strategies for some paths.</p>
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Argument quality in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting
… presented by journalists in Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. Journalists strive to inform citizens about the way their world is, was, and will be. These claims about the world are descriptive arguments, which can be accepted or rejected based on the quality of their reasons and evidence. …
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Why Do Banks Participate in a FDIC Failed Bank Auction? A study on both winning and non-winning bidders’ performance
The recent Global Financial Crisis provides a great opportunity to study banking mergers, especially ones with failed targets and government assistance. In our study, we adopt multiple approaches to study two main questions. First, we are interested to learn if mergers lead to real economic …
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TOURNAMENT-WINNING STRATEGY FOR ITERATED OPTIONAL PRISONER'S DILEMMA
… utilizes simulation techniques to determine winning strategies for IOPD tournaments in a variety of initial conditions. Machine learning techniques are used to iteratively improve upon the winning strategy, culminating in a single undefeated strategy. The outcome of this study is a single …
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Winning at Pokémon Random Battles Using Reinforcement Learning
Pokémon battling is a challenging domain for reinforcement learning techniques, due to the massive state space, stochasticity, and partial observability. We demonstrate an agent which employs a Monte Carlo Tree Search informed by a actor-critic network trained using Proximal Policy Optimization …
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The Emotional Intelligence of Award-Winning Fitness Industry Professionals
… of this study was to investigate if award-winning fitness professionals with careers as fitness instructors, personal trainers, and program directors demonstrate higher emotional intelligence than non-award winning fitness professionals as measured by the Emotional Competency Inventory …
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Melvin Calvin : Nobel-Winning chemist and SETI scientist wannabe
Melvin Calvin spent more than a decade answering one longstanding question in biochemistry: how did plants use carbon dioxide to manufacture carbohydrates in photosynthesis? This research earned Calvin a Nobel Prize-an honor that catapulted him to international fame, secured him spots on …
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Leadership Characteristics In South Carolina High-Poverty, Award-Winning Schools
… retention, and school culture within Award-Winning High-Poverty schools?</p> <p>The following research methods were used: teacher survey, principal interviews, teacher focus groups, and document review. Questions on the teacher survey addressed the principals' influence on the prevalence of …
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Social class depiction in selected award-winning children's narrative fiction
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Winning the peace: the British in occupied Germany, 1945-1948.
This thesis examines the contribution made by twelve important and influential individuals to the development of a policy of physical and economic reconstruction, political renewal and personal reconciliation in the British Zone of occupied Germany in the first three years after the end of the …
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Modeling the winning seed distribution of the NCAA basketball tournament
… 1985 and proposes several models to capture the winning seed distribution in each round. The Exponential Model estimates the winning probability of each team by modeling the time between a team's successive winnings in a round as an exponential random variable. The Exponential Model estimates a …
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Winning Well: Civil Resistance Mechanisms of Success, Democracy, and Civil Peace
<p>Several recent studies indicate that revolutions of non-violent civil resistance lead to more democratic and peaceful political transitions than either violent revolutions or elite-led political transitions. However, this general trend has not been disaggregated to explain the many prominent …
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Winning at All Costs?: The Weight-Control Behaviors of Student Athletes
The purpose of this study was to explore student athletes' weight-control behaviors. Data consisted of student athletes' responses to a modified version of the Michigan State Weight-Control Survey (Dummer, Rosen, Heusner, Roberts, & Counsilman, 1987). Specifically, the study was designed to explore …
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Forecasting the Next Winning Stock: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models
Stock price prediction is a common and complex problem due to the high volatility of financial markets. This master’s thesis presents a new approach to stock price forecasting by reformulating the problem as a multiclass classification task. The main objective is to predict which stock will yield …
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The art and science of winning: professional cricket coaching as transdisciplinary practice
… of performance, into the overarching design of 'winning' performance for individuals and teams. The system was centred both on the individual performer and the team, coaching them to set clear, precise performance goals, with the aim that they would go on to proactively take responsibility for …
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Using Box-Scores to Determine a Position's Contribution to Winning Basketball Games
… skills for each position are most conducive to winning. Knowing which skills to develop for each position could help coaches optimize each player's ability by customizing practice to contain drills that develop the most important skills for each position that would in turn improve the team's …
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Winning the competitive edge in the DRAM market : a system dynamics analysis
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1998.
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