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Initial Public Offerings of Ballplayers

As a field study of choice under uncertainty, we examine baseball teams' investments in amateur players. Though most prospects fail to deliver any return on their multi-million dollar signing bonuses, returns on the minority who succeed easily offset these losses: the expected annual yield on the median first-round draftee is 33 percent. However, the pattern of returns is inconsistent with market efficiency. Yields are lower for high schoolers than collegians (27 percent vs. 43 percent), lower for pitchers than position players (24 percent vs. 41 percent), decline for later round long-shots, and may be negative under competitive bidding.Market efficiency; Bounded rationality; Prospect theory; Winner’s curse

A Comparison of Dietary and Caloric Restriction Models on Measures of Body Composition and Physical Performance in Young Mice

Background: In recent years, time-restricted feeding, alternate day fasting, and the Daniel Fast have garnered attention as potential dietary interventions to combat obesity. Objective: To compare the effects of various dietary models on measures of body composition and physical performance in male C57BL/6 mice. Methods: 60 young C57BL/6 male mice were assigned to a diet of time-resticted feeding, alternate day fasting, the Daniel Fast, caloric restriction, a high-fat diet, or a standard rodent chow for 8 weeks. Body composition and run time to exhaustion were determined. Results: Compared to the high-fat ad libitum grounp, all groups displayed significantly less weight and fat mass gain and non-significant changes in fat free mass. Additionally, although not statistically significant, all groups displayed greater run time to exhaustion, relative to the high-fat ad libitum group. Conclusion: The Daniel Fast, time-restricted feeding, and alternate day fasting may improve body composition and physical performance as compared to a hight-fat diet

Solidarity Activism, Campaigning and Knowledge Production: Challenging Refugee Inc. The Case of G4S and Corporate Asylum Markets.

Activist research is a powerful tool to resource popular education and mobilisation in social movements. Since 2012 I have been researching and campaigning alongside tenants in asylum housing contracted to G4S, the world’s largest private security company, in Yorkshire and the North East of England. Data collected from fighting housing cases and from discussions with asylum tenants has been the basis for campaign articles published on https://www.opendemocracy.net/ and the Institute for Race Relations news http://www.irr.org.uk/; for reports, press releases and written evidence and briefings for the Westminster Parliamentary Home Affairs and Public Accounts Committee investigations into asylum housing in 2013 and 2014

Imperfect Printed Enamel Surfaces: Interpreting Marks of Eighteenth-Century Midland Craftsmanship

Eighteenth-century ceramic and enamelware manufacturers recognised that printing provided a means of applying identical decoration to three-dimensional surfaces thereby speeding up production. The process, transfer printing, used a flexible paper carrier to ‘transfer’ wet ink from a flat engraved copper plate to the irregular surface of an object. Whilst the ceramics industry is writ large within the grand narrative of eighteenth-century transfer printing, the methods used by the enamelling trade are little known. Using craftsmanship-framed analysis of printed enamel boxes in Wolverhampton Art Gallery, this article will consider their printed surfaces in order to understand the technical and tacit skills developed by Midland eighteenth-century printers and decorators. Analysis of these artefacts provides, for the first time, a more comprehensive understanding of the modes of making the prints, their application, and the problems encountered