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Relationship Between Promotions and Attendance at Rochester Red Wings Games
The purpose of this research was to determine which, if any, promotions offered by the Red Wings had a stronger impact on motivating fans to attend games. The research question for the study focused on determining what relationship exists between promotional activities and attendance at Rochester Red Wings games. In the past, various studies have been done on broader motivational factors for minor league baseball attendance and the impact of specific promotional categories on MiLB attendance. The most important conclusions drawn from these studies were that promotions held on weekday games were more significant in raising attendance numbers, post-game fireworks were generally the most popular promotion as well as the most significant in increasing attendance, and merchandise giveaways typically had a positive and slightly less significant relationship with attendance.
To understand what relationship existed between promotions and attendance at Red Wings games, a survey with questions on various demographics and perceptions of promotional activities was distributed amongst the email database the organization possesses, and to their Facebook and Twitter followers. The sample was comprised of 3,173 individuals, who indicated that concessions discounts, fireworks, and wearable giveaways were the most influential promotions in regards to their motivation to attend games. The study also showed that those who attended 4-10 or 11-20 games on average were more influenced by promotions, the influence of promotions generally decreased with age, and women were more influenced by promotions than men. The results of this study will be valuable to the Red Wings organization when theyâre creating promotion schedules in the future, as they now have ample information on how multiple different types of groups of individuals who have attended their games are influenced by the variety of promotional activities they offer
The role of Si impurities in the transient dopant segregation and precipitation in yttrium-doped alumina
Y-doped alumina was sintered at 1500 degrees C for 10 h under ultra-clean experimental conditions without experiencing any abnormal grain growth. The yttrium was fairly homogeneously distributed at the grain boundaries, with a mean value of (Gamma) over bar (Y) = 5.5 at nm(-2). The Y-Al-O precipitates in the clean, Y2O3-doped alumina specimen were the YAP (YAlO3) phase, whereas only the YAG (Y3Al5O12) phase was present in the Y2O3-doped alumina samples contaminated with SiO2. The excess concentrations of Y and Si atoms at the grain boundaries that, at the same time, provoke the formation of structurally complex YAG precipitates and abnormal grain growth were both estimated to be at 4-5 at nm(-2). The compositions of the triple point pocket phases found in the region of the exaggeratedly grown alumina grains indicate the presence of alumino-silicate bulk liquids at the sintering temperature
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Hand geometry field application data analysis
Over the last fifteen years, Sandia National Laboratories Security Systems and Technology Center, Department 5800, has been involved in several laboratory tests of various biometric identification devices. These laboratory tests were conducted to verify the manufacturer`s performance claims, to determine strengths and weaknesses of particular devices, and to evaluate which devices meet the US Department of Energy`s unique needs for high-security devices. However, during a recent field installation of one of these devices, significantly different performance was observed than had been predicted by these laboratory tests. This report documents the data analysis performed in the search for an explanation of these differences
Chiral fermions and anomaly cancellation on orbifolds with Wilson lines and flux
We consider six-dimensional supergravity compactified on orbifolds with
Wilson lines and bulk flux. Torus Wilson lines are decomposed into Wilson lines
around the orbifold fixed points, and twisted boundary conditions of matter
fields are related to fractional localized flux. Both, orbifold singularities
and flux lead to chiral fermions in four dimensions. We show that in addition
to the standard bulk and fixed point anomalies the Green-Schwarz term also
cancels the four-dimensional anomaly induced by the flux background. The two
axions contained in the antisymmetric tensor field both contribute to the
cancellation of the four-dimensional anomaly and the generation of a vector
boson mass via the Stueckelberg mechanism. An orthogonal linear combination of
the axions remains massless and couples to the gauge field in the standard way.
Furthermore, we construct convenient expressions for the wave functions of the
zero modes and relate their multiplicity and behavior at the fixed points to
the bulk flux quanta and the Wilson lines.Comment: 30 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, clarifying remarks adde
Rational F-Theory GUTs without exotics
We construct F-theory GUT models without exotic matter, leading to the MSSM
matter spectrum with potential singlet extensions. The interplay of engineering
explicit geometric setups, absence of four-dimensional anomalies, and realistic
phenomenology of the couplings places severe constraints on the allowed local
models in a given geometry. In constructions based on the spectral cover we
find no model satisfying all these requirements. We then provide a survey of
models with additional U(1) symmetries arising from rational sections of the
elliptic fibration in toric constructions and obtain phenomenologically
appealing models based on SU(5) tops. Furthermore we perform a bottom-up
exploration beyond the toric section constructions discussed in the literature
so far and identify benchmark models passing all our criteria, which can serve
as a guideline for future geometric engineering.Comment: 27 Pages, 1 Figur
Moduli backreaction and supersymmetry breaking in string-inspired inflation models
We emphasize the importance of effects from heavy fields on supergravity
models of inflation. We study, in particular, the backreaction of stabilizer
fields and geometric moduli in the presence of supersymmetry breaking. Many
effects do not decouple even if those fields are much heavier than the inflaton
field. We apply our results to successful models of Starobinsky-like inflation
and natural inflation. In most scenarios producing a plateau potential it
proves difficult to retain the flatness of the potential after backreactions
are taken into account. Some of them are incompatible with non-perturbative
moduli stabilization. In natural inflation there exist a number of models which
are not constrained by backreactions at all. In those cases the correction
terms from heavy fields have the same inflaton-dependence as the uncorrected
potential, so that inflation may be possible even for very large gravitino
masses.Comment: 29 pages, 1 figure, comments added, subsection 2.3 added, published
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Crossover inhibition generates sustained visual responses in the inner retina
In daylight, the input to the retinal circuit is provided primarily by cone photoreceptors acting as band-pass filters, but the retinal output also contains neuronal populations transmitting sustained signals. Using in vivo imaging of genetically encoded calcium reporters, we investigated the circuits that generate these sustained channels within the inner retina of zebrafish. In OFF bipolar cells, sustained transmission was found to depend on crossover inhibition from the ON pathway through GABAergic amacrine cells. In ON bipolar cells, the amplitude of low-frequency signals was regulated by glycinergic amacrine cells, while GABAergic inhibition regulated the gain of band-pass signals. We also provide the first functional description of a subset of sustained ON bipolar cells in which synaptic activity was suppressed by fluctuations at frequencies above âŒ0.2 Hz. These results map out the basic circuitry by which the inner retina generates sustained visual signals and describes a new function of crossover inhibition
The endocannabinoid system controls food intake via olfactory processes
Comment in Sensory systems: the hungry sense. [Nat Rev Neurosci. 2014] Inhaling: endocannabinoids and food intake. [Nat Neurosci. 2014]; International audience; Hunger arouses sensory perception, eventually leading to an increase in food intake, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. We found that cannabinoid type-1 (CB1) receptors promote food intake in fasted mice by increasing odor detection. CB1 receptors were abundantly expressed on axon terminals of centrifugal cortical glutamatergic neurons that project to inhibitory granule cells of the main olfactory bulb (MOB). Local pharmacological and genetic manipulations revealed that endocannabinoids and exogenous cannabinoids increased odor detection and food intake in fasted mice by decreasing excitatory drive from olfactory cortex areas to the MOB. Consistently, cannabinoid agonists dampened in vivo optogenetically stimulated excitatory transmission in the same circuit. Our data indicate that cortical feedback projections to the MOB crucially regulate food intake via CB1 receptor signaling, linking the feeling of hunger to stronger odor processing. Thus, CB1 receptor-dependent control of cortical feedback projections in olfactory circuits couples internal states to perception and behavior
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