Organizational Value of Social Responsibility in Sport: Creating a Conceptual Framework

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a growing phenomenon in the corporate world, and with its growth comes related research. One of the biggest questions surrounding CSR as a part of business plans is whether it has verifiable benefits to the firm. Businesses typically make decisions based on what is best for the firm, so to inquire about the benefits of CSR is natural. Existing literature supports the monetary benefits of CSR as well as identifies non-monetary outcomes that are beneficial to the firm. Amongst the corporate markets that CSR has inhabited, the sport market is unique in its inherent marketing capability due to the enormous viewership and celebrated public status. Literature examining the benefits of CSR in the sport market is sparse in comparison to general business or other specified markets. This project aimed to review and analyze existing literature on the benefits of CSR in both the sport market and general business, and in turn build a conceptual framework of the benefits of CSR to a sport organization. Through the review of ten articles, both empirical and theoretical in design, concepts were found that outlined the beneficial nature of CSR to a business. These findings and concepts were then theoretically related to business concepts typically unique to sport organizations, and a new framework of benefits unique to sport was built

Discrete Lie Advection of Differential Forms

In this paper, we present a numerical technique for performing Lie advection of arbitrary differential forms. Leveraging advances in high-resolution finite volume methods for scalar hyperbolic conservation laws, we first discretize the interior product (also called contraction) through integrals over Eulerian approximations of extrusions. This, along with Cartan's homotopy formula and a discrete exterior derivative, can then be used to derive a discrete Lie derivative. The usefulness of this operator is demonstrated through the numerical advection of scalar fields and 1-forms on regular grids.Comment: Accepted version; to be published in J. FoC

A Delphi Analysis of Cooperative Purchasing in Southern Illinois

A preliminary study of Cooperative Purchasing, in Southern Illinois school districts, was conducted using the Delphi technique. A group of school personnel with Cooperative Purchasing experience was secured from the prescribed geographical area. These people, the experts, were asked to respond to a three round Delphi survey. The experts were to formulate their opinion from their own experiences and by reviewing the composite results of the previous Delphi round. The experts reached a consensus of opinion on the Positive Delphi question. Ninety-eight percent of those surveyed stated that Lower Prices was the primary concern of a purchasing cooperative. The Negative Delphi question produced different results. No clear consensus of opinion was reached. However, the experts did rank Need for an Administrator plus other labor at the top of their Negative Delphi List

A Population Study of the Cave Beetle Neaphaenops tellkampfi (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in Mushroom Cave, Hart County, Kentucky

A two year census of the cave beetle Neaphaenops tellkampfi (Coleoptera, Carabidae) was conducted in Mushroom Cave, Hart County, Kentucky. Three methods were used to estimate populations of this beetle. A rise in population in certain areas of the cave was shown to occur in Mid-winter. The population as reported is felt to represent a portion of a much larger population which migrates toward the cave entrance beacuse of food shortages in winter with a summer movement back into deep cave habitat when the eggs of Hadenoecus subterraneus are plentiful

A Delphi Analysis of Cooperative Purchasing in Southern Illinois

A preliminary study of Cooperative Purchasing, in Southern Illinois school districts, was conducted using the Delphi technique. A group of school personnel with Cooperative Purchasing experience was secured from the prescribed geographical area. These people, the experts, were asked to respond to a three round Delphi survey. The experts were to formulate their opinion from their own experiences and by reviewing the composite results of the previous Delphi round. The experts reached a consensus of opinion on the Positive Delphi question. Ninety-eight percent of those surveyed stated that Lower Prices was the primary concern of a purchasing cooperative. The Negative Delphi question produced different results. No clear consensus of opinion was reached. However, the experts did rank Need for an Administrator plus other labor at the top of their Negative Delphi List

L0 Project: Monitoring H1 Triggers with SpaCal

We have built a VME module using H1’s ADC and BaBar TDC interfaced to H1’s 29K processor. It is used to monitor SpaCal trigger, energy sums and trigger elements, by reading up to 130Kevents/s. The timing resolution is found to be surprisingly good ( »1ns) for energy sum signals. The performances under various beam conditions are shown, including a first study of the “hotspot” counters designed as a veto against e-beam background