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Local tournaments and in-tournaments
… can be further generalized to the class of in-tournaments. Hence local tournaments and in-tournaments are generalizations of tournaments in such a way that the general adjacency of vertices is transferred to only those pairs of vertices that share a local property. In this thesis we study the …
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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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Close to regular multipartite tournaments
… properties in close to regular multipartite tournaments. A multipartite tournament is an orientation of a complete multipartite graph. The statements in this thesis depend on how much a multipartite tournament differs from being regular. Chapters 2 to 4 consist of several results about cycles …
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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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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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Hamiltonian cycles in certain graphs and out-arc pancyclic vertices in tournaments
… jump graphs. In the second part of this thesis, tournaments are considered . Yao, Guo and Zhang conjectured that each k-strong tournament contains k vertices whose out-arcs are pancyclic. They proved that this is true for k=1. In this thesis, the conjecture is also verified for k=2, 3. Yeo found …
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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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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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