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Adding Tournament to Tournament: The Interactive Effect of Team and Individual Incentives
… theory (SIT), I find that when a between-team tournament exists, individuals are likely to exert greater effort, compared to when there is no such tournament. However, inconsistent with the joint maximization Nash equilibrium predictions from the model, I find that a within-team tournament has …
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The Medieval Tournament: Chivalry, Heraldry and Reality. An Edition and Analysis of Three Fifteenth-Century Tournament Manuscripts
… a primary source for the study of the medieval tournament as well as many other aspects of the elite culture of late-medieval Burgundy, England, and France. It is composed of fourteen different texts called items. This edition comprises a transcription of over 50,000 words of text in three …
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A quantitative analysis of sports tournament designs
… optimal designs andfairness in sports tournaments. We propose a number of tournament metrics that can beused to measure the success of sporting contests or tournaments, and describe how thesemetrics may be evaluated for a particular tournament design. Our principal metric isbased on …
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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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TOURNAMENT-WINNING STRATEGY FOR ITERATED OPTIONAL PRISONER'S DILEMMA
… 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 strategy that we claim is …
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Culture and the Sweet 16 Boys Basketball Tournament
… of the Kentucky Boys Sweet 16 Basketball Tournament. </p>
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Modeling the NCAA Tournament Through Bayesian Logistic Regression
… College Basketball that compete in the NCAA Tournament, such as seeding teams on an S-curve, and the Pomeroy and Sagarin ratings, simplifying the process of choosing winners to a comparison of two numbers. Rather than creating a rating system, we analyze each matchup by using the difference …
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Asymptotic analysis of lattices and tournament score vectors.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1979.
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Tournament bass fishing: Commodification in a serious leisure activity
Using the dynamic social world of tournament bass fishing as a backdrop, this research combined qualitative and quantitative research methods in a grounded theory approach for the study of commodification, serious leisure and the relationship between these two important social phenomena. …
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Tournament based task allocation in a parallel MIS algorithm
This paper explores the use of a tournament data structure for task allocation and dependency tracking in a parallel Maximal Independent Set (MIS) algorithm as a way to reduce contention in counter updates and improve runtime. The tournament data structure adds a noticeable overhead to the …
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Modeling the winning seed distribution of the NCAA basketball tournament
… (NCAA) men's division I college basketball tournament is an annual competition that draws widespread attention in the United States. Estimating the outcome of each game is a popular activity undertaken by numerous websites, fans, and more recently, academic researchers. There has been a …
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Modeling and analyzing the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament
… Association (NCAA) Men's Division I Basketball Tournament is an annually held basketball tournament between top universities throughout the United States. Along with attracting tens of millions of viewers, the event has become increasingly ingrained in popular culture, with millions attempting …
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Evolution, performance, persistence and tournament aspects of U.S. closed-end funds
… persistence of CEF performance, and the tournament aspects of within-calendar-year performance. The number and dollar investment in CEFs with various investment objectives are studied. The change in investment in funds with particular investment objective(s) is also studied for the …
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Batch value function tournament for offline policy selection in reinforcement learning
… The recently proposed Batch Value Function Tournament (BVFT) algorithm for batch learning offers some nice properties and can be applied to the model selection problem. In this thesis, we propose several changes to the original algorithm for adaptation to the task of offline model selection. …
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Injury in elite rugby players during the Super 15 Rugby tournament
… demanding 16-week Southern Hemisphere tournament. In this tournament, 15 teams compete and play international level matches every week, which may be associated with an even higher risk of injuries. The main objectives of this dissertation were 1) to review the epidemiology and risk …
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Approach-iron play in high performance golf: From testing to tournament play
… steel retractable tape measure during actual tournament play. All four measures investigated in the study showed a good level of agreement with known distances and reported low root mean square errors of prediction. In the fourth study, a systematic review of development and assessment methods …
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Using Tournament-Based Assignments to Motivate Students in Introductory Computer Science Courses
… compatible with the framework can be used in tournaments in which multiple strategies can compete to see which one is most effective. This allows a tournament to be added to any game-based assignment with minimal additional effort. To test the effectiveness of our framework, it was used to …
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Incidence of injuries and associated factors at the senior inter provincial field hockey tournament
… men's and women's inter provincial field hockey tournament. Objectives The specific objectives of the study were to determine (at the 2018 men's and women's senior field hockey seven-day inter provincial tournament in South Africa): • the incidence of injury amongst players; • the burden of …
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