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Who Is The American League Mvp On A Per Dollar Basis?, Patrick Decker

Honors Projects in Mathematics

This study will look at the value of MLB players in the American League on a per dollar basis. It will be based on the 2011 statistics and will use a linear regression model to create a value for each player. The value will be based on a variety of statistics based upon position. For all players: age, team wins, and years in the league will be accounted for. For field players: games played, hits, runs, doubles, triples, home runs, runs batted in, walks, strike outs, stolen bases, on base percentage, slugging percentage, fielding percentage and errors will be accounted ...

Perceptions Of Hunting Among Recreation, Parks, And Tourism Administration Students At Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Matthew Cole

Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration

Hunting is a form of recreation that is also used as a wildlife management strategy. In recent years the sport of hunting has come under fire resulting in heated debate over how it should be regulated. This debate is driven by the way people perceive hunting and these perceptions are influenced by many factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of hunting and the factors that influence these perceptions amongst Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration (RPTA) students at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. A questionnaire was distributed in three RPTA courses. RPTA students perceive hunting in ...

Emotions, Violence And Social Belonging: An Eliasian Analysis Of Sports Spectatorship, Paddy Dolan, John Connolly

Articles

This paper examines the development of different forms of spectator violence in terms of the socio-temporal structure of situational dynamics at Gaelic football matches in Ireland. The nature of violent encounters has shifted from a collective form based on local solidarity and a reciprocal code of honour, through a transitional collective form based on deferred emotional satisfaction and group pride, towards increasing individualization of spectator violence. This occurs due to the shifting objects of emotional involvement. As the functional specialization of the various roles in the game is partially accepted by spectators, the referee becomes the target of anger. Violence ...

Re-Theorizing The “Structure–Agency” Relationship: Figurational Theory, Organizational Change And The Gaelic Athletic Association, John Connolly, Paddy Dolan

Articles

This article illustrates how the figurational sociology associated with Norbert Elias provides an alternative theoretical framework for explaining the relationship between, ‘individualorganization- society’ and organizational change, and in so doing transverses what is conceived as a false dichotomy between structure and agency. Through an historical case study of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland, the ‘individual-organization-society’ relationship is conceptualized as overlapping figurations and organizational change is explained as figurational dynamics—the shifting social interdependencies between the individuals and groups comprising an organization, between that organization and other organizations, between social groups on a higher level of integration and competition. In ...

A Quantitative Analysis Of Collegiate Athletic Involvement And Academic Achievement Among Sport Management Students, Christopher Amos

Masters Theses

Within the last several decades, more attention has been focused on the academic success of college athletes. It has been documented from several studies that high school athletes perform better academically than their non-athlete peers (American Sports Institute, 1995; Brand, 2007; Dilley-Knoles, Burnett, & Peak, 2010; Foltz, 1992; Fox, Barr-Anderson, Neumark-Sztainer, & Wall, 2010; Slear, 2005). However, at the collegiate level, this heightened academic achievement trend among student-athletes is not so clear. Lapchick often releases data regarding graduation rates among a select group of highly achieving teams in certain sports but not much exists in the way of a comparison of academic achievement by using student ...

The Effects Of A Back-Belt On Lumbar Disk Deformation During Stoop Type Lifting, Mark Debeliso, Trish Sevene, Kent J. Adams, Chad Harris, Michael Climstein, Joseph M. Berning

Health Sciences & Medicine papers

Low-back pain and injury are responsible for a major portion of lost workdays and injury compensation claims. The use of back support belts has been forwarded as a counter measure towards reducing low-back injuries in the industrial setting.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine if a back support belt relieves stresses encountered by the lumbar spine during stoop type lifting and potentially reduce the risk of injury.

METHODS: Twelve male participants (49.7±3.7 years) performed two sessions of stooped type lifting with a loaded milk crate (11.5 kg), at 4 repetitions per minute, for ...

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting agenda and minutes for May 2013 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.

Building A Taxonomy Of Player Types And The Effects On The Self And Interaction Between Players, Kyle Yim

Graduate Research Symposium (GCUA)

This paper conducted a literature review of current research examining fantasy football participants. Fantasy football has become popular in recent years due the attention from the media, most notably sports shows providing more coverage of fantasy football. Theories that have examined fantasy football include gambling theory, and uses and gratifications. Motivational types also provide categories to describe players. Additionally this theory also provides a method to measure these players called the Motivational Scale for Fantasy Football Participation (MSFFP). Thus the purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore the literature in fantasy sports; propose to build taxonomical categories for serious ...

Cedarville College/Urbana College Football Game Scores, Cedarville University

Archives Guides

No abstract provided.

Cedarville College Footbal Team Records, 1896-1953, Cedarville University

Archives Guides

No abstract provided.

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting agenda and minutes for October 2012 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting agenda and minutes for September 2012 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting agenda and minutes for August 2012 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting agenda and minutes for July 2012 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.

Moxley, Frank Otha, 1908-2004 (Sc 950), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 950. Letter written by Bowling Green High Street basketball coach Frank Otha Moxley to his basketball players as they prepared for their participation in the state basketball tournament where they could become the first black team to win the state championship.

What Are You Willing To Change To Promote Your Patients' Oral Health? Find Out How Motivational Interviewing Can Help You Help Your Patients, Don Morrow, Clive S. Friedman, Jennifer D. Irwin

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

Interview Of Helen Gidjunis, Helen Gidjunis, Paula Gidjunis

All Oral Histories

Interview topic: Mrs. Helen Gidjunis is a life-long resident of Philadelphia. The majority of her life she spent growing up in the shadow of La Salle College – now University. She moved to Uber Street in 1934, while La Salle’s groundbreaking occurred on February 29, 1928 at its fourth and current location at 20^th Street and Olney Avenue. She has observed the neighborhood change for seventy-nine years. When she married in 1949, she moved one street west to 20^th Street. She has been her block captain for many years and still retains that position and as such has ...

Interview Of Peter J. Finley, Ph.D., Peter J. Finley Ph.D., Meghan Bassett

All Oral Histories

Peter J. Finley Sr. was born an only child to parents John J. Finley and Margaret Francis Dunn in 1931, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He grew up in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia. Peter attended St. Francis Xavier School for grade school, La Salle Prep School afterwards—located at 1240 North Broad Street at the time—and La Salle College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1953. Peter’s connection to La Salle began early in his childhood; his father, John J. Finley, was in the College’s graduating class of 1924. Peter earned a master ...

Ua12/5 Housing & Residence Life, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Finding Aids

Records created by and about Housing & Residence Life and programs.

Ua80/1 Meeting Minutes, W Club

University Organizations

Meeting agenda, minutes and treasurer's report for April 2013 meeting of the W Club Board of Directors.