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MLB Rule IV Draft: Valuing Draft Pick Slots
… the Net Present Value (NPV) in dollar terms of draft pick slots in the Major League Rule IV Draft. In order to accomplish this, the cumulative performance of players selected in each slot within the draft was evaluated and brought to the Present Value of the time they were selected using a …
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A Peacetime Military Draft: Do We Need It?
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Drafting errors and decision making theory in the NBA draft
… recent influx of available data with regards to draft-eligible players and NBA teams investing more resources into scouting than ever before, NBA decision makers still struggle to consistently evaluate talent and select productive players (Berri et al., 2010) in the draft. In this paper, I …
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Mining NHL Draft Data and A New Value Pick Chart
For every hockey player, getting drafted to the NHL is a dream come true, but the real goal is to reach 160 games played (GP). A simple model is fit to NHL draft years 1998 to 2009 with an aim at predicting the proportion of players who will play 1 or 160 games. For individual players drafted …
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Draft Environmental Impact Report: City of Clearlake General Plan Update
<p>The City of Clearlake in northern California initiated its first general plan update in 2012.The City decided to do an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the general plan update in order to fulfill the California Environmental Quality Act’s (CEQA) requirements.The author wrote the Agriculture …
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Drafting Errors and Decision Making Theory in the NBA Draft
… recent influx of available data with regards to draft-eligible players and NBA teams investing more resources into scouting than ever before, NBA decision makers still struggle to consistently evaluate talent and select productive players (Berri et al., 2010) in the draft. In this paper, I …
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Peace Makers or Draft Dodgers: Haredi Resistance to Israeli Military Conscription
<p>The <em>haredim</em> in Israel are an ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious group who uphold the most conservative of Jewish laws. Instead of serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as all other Israelis do, the <em>haredim</em> are exempted from the IDF's policy of universal conscription. This …
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The design of a hydraulic draft gear for railway passenger cars
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1922
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Draft of a zoning ordinance for the city of Waltham, Massachusetts
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture and City Planning, 1947.
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Head augmentation in hydraulic turbines by means of draft tube ejectors
The use of draft tubes with annular injection was investigated with respect to low-head applications. A numerical model was developed and refined to fit the data from two laboratory test models. The latter model was a laboratory scale hydropower system which demonstrated 20-31 per cent head …
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Selling Tradition: Impression Management and Draft Animal Agriculture of a Mississippi Farmstead
<p>This thesis is a case study of a family of farmers in Mississippi’s Piney Woods who use horse-drawn equipment to grow crops. This practice is notable in the context of a larger agricultural system that prioritizes mechanization (particularly the use of tractors). The production style and their …
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Stuarts Draft High School: Quantitative Study Evaluating the Ninth-Grade Transition Program
… Careers and Technology (A.C.T.) class at Stuarts Draft High School , a yearlong ninth-grade transition program designed for at-risk students that was first implemented in 2003. The A.C.T. program was designed to provide ninth-grade at-risk students with the skills necessary for making a successful …
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Why I Killed the Draft Horse: The Golden Bough, Robert Frost, and "Progress"
… absence of criticism on Robert Frost's "The Draft Horse" suggests that it is a challenge to Frost scholarship. This reading views Frost's strange and neglected poem as a return to a monomyth offered by James Frazer's hugely influential <em>The Golden Bough</em>. In "The Draft Horse," Frost …
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Administrative Draft: Sea-Level Rise & Climate Adaptation Plan for the City of Carpinteria
… and intensity. The intent of this administrative draft is to provide a foundation for future development of a <strong>Climate Adaptation Plan, </strong>a starting point for the City’s climate initiatives. This administrative draft consists of background information on Carpinteria, a preliminary …
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Performance tests and cooling effect distribution of the V.P.I. forced draft cooling tower
Test data of forced draft cooling towers is all too meager, and that available is, in many instances, incomplete. It is the opinion of the authors that putting cooling tower design on a rational basis can be brought about only by two methods. Either complete and intensive study of all existing …
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Gentille Alouette, Short Fiction, and Selections: A Draft: Chapters of a Novel in Progress
<p>The plot of my novel in progress, Gentille Alouette, follows a sixteen-year-old female poltergeist named Alouette Tansy as she navigates her complicated relationship with her mother, Rhododendron “Rho” Tansy. Alouette is a violent entity, born out of her mother’s long simmering and manifested …
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Oil and Paper: Ownership, Economic Development, and Iraq's 2007 Draft Oil and Gas Law
The 2007 Draft Oil Law's parliamentary collapse demonstrates that Iraqi legislation must settle the issue of ownership prior to determining foreign investment rules. The draft law has been criticized by western academics for its economic benefits to international oil companies, but in Iraq the law …
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A comparative analysis between the Companies Act 1995 and the European Union draft Fifth Directive
… on this matter by introducing the European draft Fifth Directive. This draft was proposed in 1972 followed by several amendments. The aim of this directive is to create an even playing field for all public companies within the European Union regarding workers' participation, the directors' …
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