Doing the Business? Newspaper reporting of the business of football

This research draws upon a growing interest within media sociology in the ways in which news is shaped by information flows between sources; it focuses on how the media, and newspapers in particular, report on the business aspects of the UK football industry. Media interest in the workings of the City and issues of corporate governance extend beyond the conventional business pages to encompass the sports pages, commentary and even editorializing. The case study in this article centres on the Scottish club, Celtic, and serves to illustrate how public interest in sport can help illuminate aspects of how financial news is produced and reported in the print media. The article argues that much of the growing and complex business side of the game goes largely unreported and that there is evidence of an over-reliance on celebrity sources by journalists and a lack of knowledge or experience among sports reporters in reporting business stories

The Photosynthetic Action Spectra of the Phytoplankton and Their Role in Governing Spatial and Temporal Distribution: A Numerical Modeling Approach

In the present study a numerical modeling approach is employed to examine the role of division spedific differences in photosynthetic action spectra in governing the relative size of diatom and dinoflagellate carbon synthesis along various marine light regime gradients. A radiative transfer model taking into account both Rayleigh and Mie atmospheric optical properties is employed to define the light regime incident on the sea surface. The hydrospheric light regime is defined by an exponential decay model with a correction for diffuse back scatter. Taken together, the atmospheric and hydrospheric models define the spectral composition and intensity of light in the sea as a function of solar altitude and depth. This permits the simulation of realistic spectral gradients along various temporal and spatial dimensions of the marine environment: diurnal, seasonal, vertical, and latitudinal. A spectrally sensitive model of photosynthesis is employed to determine the rates at which carbon compounds are synthesized a t various points along these gradients. The ratio (between dinoflagellate and diatom carbon synthesis is determined by taking into account differences in division specific photosynthetic action spectra

A Middle Pueblo II Production Zone for Shivwits Ware Ceramics: Implications for Understanding Settlement Patterns and Socio-Environmental Responses on the Shivwits Plateau

The distribution of ceramics from upland regions in Northern Arizona into Southern Nevada is one of the many curiosities concerning the Virgin Branch Puebloan culture. From the Shivwits Plateau, it is more than 100 kilometers to the Moapa Valley, yet Shivwits Wares make up a sizeable proportion of sherds found at many lowland sites. These networks appear to reach their height in the Middle Pueblo II period and then collapse sometime around AD 1150. The reason for this is not yet fully understood; however, research performed on the southern end of the Shivwits Plateau concerning landscape usage and settlement placement suggests that the collapse of the distribution networks is coincident with possible changes in subsistence strategies. These changes coincide with climate anomalies that occur prior to the secession of Puebloan culture traits in the region

Confirmation of TDM Capabilities in Modeling Compartmentalized WAG EOR

Data-Driven Reservoir Modeling (DDRM), commonly referred to as Top-Down Modeling (TDM), is a relatively new and cutting-edge approach to the traditional numerical reservoir modeling and simulation techniques. DDRM uses artificial intelligence and machine learning in tandem to construct full-field models using measured data instead of calculations that refer to equations derived from averaged values and type curves. TDM allows all of the measured data from a field to be combined and used towards generating predictions of the production on a well by well basis for a specific field. Due to TDM not using the traditional physics-based approach, it is subjected to a plethora of criticisms within the industry. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to confirm the capabilities of TDM versus data synthetically generated using a Numerical Reservoir Simulator (NRS). To do this, the fluid flow through porous media will be modeled via the use of a traditional NRS; this way, everything is known about the reservoir in question. The data generated will then be exported and used towards the construction of the TDM. To complete the proposed objectives of this thesis, an application will be used to aid in the development of a TDM. All of the data used in order to develop and history match the TDM will have been generated via the NRS; this is done to confirm the abilities of TDM forecasting existing wells behavior. Once the TDM has been constructed; the forecast data will be compared to that from the NRS to validate the ability of the TDM

Firewood consumption and marketing in Knoxville

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the possibilities of expanding present fireplace wood markets or of developing new markets for such a product. Reference to Table II indicates that total fuelwood consumption and per capita consumption have both declined from 1950 to 1965. A closer look at the data reveals that the decrease in consumption has progressed at a decreasing rate. Since fireplace wood constitutes only a part of the total fuelwood produced and consumed, it is difficult to make valid inferences from Table II. Nevertheless, when the substitution of oil, gas, coal, and electricity for fuelwood, in the home and in industry is recognised, at least some part of the decreasing rate of decline in fuelwood consumption must be attributable to the growth of substantial fireplace wood markets in the metropolitan areas. In Tennessee approximately 65 per cent of the total output of hardwood fuelwood is from roundwood, with the remainder being derived from by-products of timber processing plants. It is expected that an increasing proportion of the total volume of fuelwood consumed in Tennes-see will come from by-products rather than from roundwood. If such expectations become a reality, the reduced demand for roundwood fuelwood will adversely affect the application of timber stand improvement practices to Tennessee\u27s forest resources. Development of new fireplace wood markets and expansion of existing markets may be a possible alter native to the increased use of mill residues as a source of fuelwood. In Tennessee, with its large volume of low-quality hardwoods, the opportunity for expansion of the fireplace wood market as a means of utilising low-quality trees would appear to be promising. Such markets may be expected to be more prevalent in the large metropolitan centers than in the smaller urban and rural communities, due to a larger volume of new residential construction and the lack of accessibility to sources of “free” fireplace wood which are often present in smaller, less urban-ised areas. On the assumption that such an expectation is valid, the present study was conducted in the Knoxville urbanised area

The identification and evaluation of managerial behavior

The efficient combination of land, labor, capital, and manage-ment resources in agricultural production requires the specification of the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of these resources. A limiting factor affecting efficient resource combinations is a greater lack of knowledge of the characteristics of one of the resources relative to the other resources. In agricultural production this limitation is imposed by the inability to specify the characteristics of the manage-ment resource. The present study had as its broad purpose the specification of relevant mental processes involved in the operation of a farm business. The specific objectives of the study were; (1) to isolate, from ob-servable and relevant management behavior of farm operators, basic mental processes explaining such behavior; and (2) to analyze the rela-tionship of variations in such processes to variations in managerial performance criteria. Factor analysis was used with respect to the first objective, and regression analysis was used with respect to the second objective. Data were collected from a random sample of 123 commercial farm operators located in the Elk River Watershed. The data consisted of 100 descriptive items of observable behavior of farm operators. The items were designed to indicate the extent to which the operators exhibited such behavior in managerial processes, A factor analysis of the observed behavior of farm operators indicated that 11 processes accounted for the behavior. This analysis indicated that (1) observation and analytical ability, (2) off-farm activity participation, (3) self initiative, (4) systematization of farming operations, (5) attitude toward physical labor, (6) communi-cation with off-farm environment, (7) use of market information as a criterion of operational adjustments, (8) verbal communications ability, (9) detail mindedness, (10) community influence, and (11) orientation toward farming as an occupation, are processes involved in carrying on the managerial operations of a farm business. Scores were computed indicating the extent to which each of the 110 farm operators exhibited each of the 11 processes. A correlation analysis indicated that (1) observation and analytical ability, (2) self initiative, (3) low value placed on physical labor, (4) high degree of communication with total environment, and (5) verbal co- munications ability, were all significantly and positively related to years of education. This relationship was suggestive of the mental nature of the processes identified. The analysis also indicated that age was significantly and negatively related to (1) a low value placed on physical work, and (2) a high value placed on farm management as a professional business occupation. Experience as a farm operator was negatively related to detail mindedness but positively related to community influence on farming operations. A regression of returns to management, net farm income, and size of operation on the 11 processes resulted in the processes explaining 12 percent, 17 percent, and 42 percent, respectively, of variations in these criteria of managerial performance. The regression analyses indicated that (1) observation and analytical ability, verbal communications ability, and orientation toward farm management as a professional occupation, were among the more important processes affecting managerial performance, with a positive relationship being suggested; and (2) that participation in off-farm activities was nega-tively related to managerial performance. The findings of the study, although inconclusive without addi-tional validation, supported the initial hypotheses of the study which stated that: (1) basic mental processes relevant to the management function of the commercial farm operator can be isolated from observ-able behavior of farm operators; and (2) variations in such processes will explain some part of the variation in managerial performance of farm operators

When Our Words Return

The title to this interdisciplinary collection draws on the Yupik Eskimo belief that seals, fish, and other game are precious gifts that, when treated with respect and care, will return to be hunted again. Just so, if oral traditions are told faithfully and respectfully, they will return to benefit future generations. The contributors to this volume are concerned with the interpretation and representation of oral narrative and how it is shaped by its audience and the time, place, and cultural context of the narration. Thus, oral traditions are understood as a series of dialogues between tradition bearers and their listeners, including those who record, write, and interpret

When Our Words Return

The title to this interdisciplinary collection draws on the Yupik Eskimo belief that seals, fish, and other game are precious gifts that, when treated with respect and care, will return to be hunted again. Just so, if oral traditions are told faithfully and respectfully, they will return to benefit future generations. The contributors to this volume are concerned with the interpretation and representation of oral narrative and how it is shaped by its audience and the time, place, and cultural context of the narration. Thus, oral traditions are understood as a series of dialogues between tradition bearers and their listeners, including those who record, write, and interpret.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1069/thumbnail.jp