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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"in-tournament"”.
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"""America's sweetheart,"" Chris Evert: Celebrity femininity and tennis in postmodern America"
… the most significant cultural figures to emerge in late twentieth century America. Her storied career has produced a ubiquitous image that remains highly visible within culture. As an ""American sweetheart,"" Evert draws her meaning as a sign for national/gendered identity largely from the …
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Essays in applied microeconomics : signaling, marriage hazard rates, and ability sorting
This dissertation consists of three independent empirical examinations of the effects of information and earnings on individual behavior. The first essay examines the effects of information about the quality of previous performance on contemporaneous performance evaluation. I adapt a model of …
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Statistical models for match prediction and decision making in sport
In this study, we investigate models for the prediction of match outcome. Thesemodels are then used to aid decision-making. In particular, we consider battingstrategy in test cricket. This model provides decision support for a team that is aimingto set a target at declaration. We also develop a …
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Local tournaments and in-tournaments
… arcs and cycles of length two is called a local tournament if the set of in-neighbors as well as the set of out-neighbors of every vertex induces a tournament. In claiming adjacency only for vertices that have a common out-neighbor, this class can be further generalized to the class of …
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Approach-iron play in high performance golf: From testing to tournament play
… low score depends upon well-developed abilities in each of the recognised on-course skill components (driving the ball off the tee, hitting approach-iron shots, hitting short-iron shots and putting). Despite approach-iron play being considered perhaps the most important and definitely the most …