Minor league baseball PR guidelines: techniques for first year class A teams

The purpose of this thesis was to accumulate information relative to the various public relations practices, methods and procedures utilized by the 60 Class A Minor League Baseball teams and to determine the extent of common public relations elements. Although the 60 teams are located in different markets, results of interviews and surveys of the teams led the author to conclude that some current practices are common among them. Phone interviews were conducted with four practitioners to determine a preliminary list of items important to a Minor League Baseball promotional campaign. From that list a survey was created and mailed out to all 60 Class A Minor League Baseball teams. Within the survey, each team was asked to rank ten aspects of a Minor League Baseball promotion in terms of weighted importance to determine areas of focus for the manual. More in-depth open-ended questions followed allowing practitioners to further explore areas mentioned in the ranking section or those left out by the author. Through the mentioned research, it was determined that each team uses similar techniques to communicate with its various audiences. Each team stresses the family entertainment and relative low-cost of the sport itself as the main focuses of their annual public relations campaigns. And each team, though not on the same monetary scale as the Major League clubs, has firmly cemented a foundation of fans to make Minor League Baseball a major deal in their markets

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Acid Mine Drainage Pollution in the West Branch Schuylkill and Upper Schuylkill River, Schuylkill County Pennsylvania: A Case Study and Recommendations for the Future

Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a huge environmental problem in Luzerne and Schuylkill Counties due to the mining of anthracite coal in the region. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, through water quality data, has developed a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for all streams and rivers in the state. The West Branch Schuylkill River and the Upper Schuylkill River are two areas where AMD has had an effect on the water quality. For this study, I am using the data from PADEP to determine if the remediation actions have had an effect on the West Branch Schuylkill River and Upper Schuylkill River, or if it is too soon to tell. For both of these streams, data were collected by PADEP from 1996 through 2003; the data consist of the pH of the water, the concentration of iron, aluminum, and manganese expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/L), and the percent reduction needed to maintain good water quality standards. Through tables and graphs, the most affected sites along the rivers are made known, and these are the sites that are high priority for remediation. Recommendations are made for the sites along the rivers that are a high priority for remediation, mainly the mine discharges. If the sources of pollution are controlled, then future generations will not have to deal with the effects of AMD on the rivers and their environments

The Effects of Mood and Stress on Cardiovascular Responses

The "reactivity hypothesis" posits that elevations in cardiovascular reactivity may increase the risk of developing adverse cardiovascular events over time. Negative emotions and stress may exacerbate cardiovascular reactivity, as represented by increases in blood pressure and heart rate responses. However, prior studies have reported mixed results. Therefore the primary goal of the present study was to examine the effects of stimuli intended to elicit either sadness (negative mood induction) or mental stress (stressor tasks) on blood pressure and heart rate responses, in particular, when placed alongside each other in one experimental paradigm. One hundred and six participants were randomized to one of four conditions: Mood Induction (Sad or Neutral) Only or Mood Induction (Sad or Neutral) plus Stressor Tasks. Continuous measures of heart rate and blood pressure were collected, in addition to periodic self-report measurements of sadness and perceived stress. It was first hypothesized that participants in the Mood Induction plus Stressor Task conditions would exhibit greater blood pressure and heart rate responses than the participants in the Mood Induction Only conditions. It was also hypothesized that the elicitation of a negative emotion would not predict significant increases in blood pressure and heart rate. Third, it was hypothesized that the elicitation of a negative emotion would not affect the relationship between the stressor tasks and blood pressure and heart rate. Finally, it was hypothesized that males would exhibit greater blood pressure responses than female participants. Data were analyzed using reactivity scores in a series of statistical analyses. Results supported several of the hypotheses, confirming that certain stressor tasks significantly increase blood pressure and heart rate responses. Findings also provided evidence that a negative mood induction is associated with significant increases in blood pressure and heart rate responses, even though these responses may not be unique to this specific negative emotion. Implications for future work, including clinical applications, are discussed

Diplomado de Profundización CISCO Prueba de Habilidades Prácticas CCNP

El presente trabajo, a través de varios escenarios y pasos, tiene como objetivo construir una red y realizar la configuración básica de los dispositivos y el direccionamiento de las interfaces empleando protocolos de STP y de configuración VLAN, propios de una red convergente. Se emplean comandos IOS de configuración avanzada para configurar VRF y las rutas estáticas en ambientes LAN y WAN y, estos escenarios son evaluados para garantizar el correcto funcionamiento, los estados de enlace y condiciones de seguridad, para identificar problemas en la conmutación y el enrutamiento para lograr un desempeño eficiente y una adecuada conectividad de la red. Al finalizar todos los pasos, se pretende dar acceso a los dispositivos que pertenecen a las diferentes VLAN sin comunicarse entre ellas, con lo que se valida la efectividad de la configuración multi-VRF de la red.This paper, through several scenarios and steps, aims to build a network and perform the basic configuration of devices and routing of interfaces using STP and VLAN configuration protocols, typical of a convergent network. Advanced configuration IOS commands are used to configure VRF and static routes in LAN and WAN settings, and these scenarios are evaluated to ensure correct operation, link status and security conditions, to identify problems in switching and routing for efficient performance and proper network connectivity. At the end of all the steps, it is intended to give access to the devices belonging to the different VLANs without communicating between them, thus validating the effectiveness of the multi-VRF configuration of the network

Vision-based sensor for three-dimensional vibrational motion detection in biological cell injection

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is an infertility treatment where a single sperm is immobilised and injected into the egg using a glass injection pipette. Minimising vibration in three orthogonal axes is essential to have precise injector motion and full control during the egg injection procedure. Vibration displacement sensing using physical sensors in ICSI operation is challenging since the sensor interfacing is not practically feasible. This study proposes a non-invasive technique to measure the three-dimensional vibrational motion of the injection pipette by a single microscope camera during egg injection. The contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CHALE) method and blob analyses technique were employed to measure the vibration displacement in axial and lateral axes, while the actual dimension of the focal axis was directly measured using the Brenner gradient algorithm as a focus measurement algorithm. The proposed algorithm operates between the magnifications range of 4× to 40× with a resolution of half a pixel. Experiments using the proposed vision-based algorithm were conducted to measure and verify the vibration displacement in axial and lateral axes at various magnifications. The results were compared against manual procedures and the differences in measurements were up to 2% among all magnifications. Additionally, the effect of injection speed on lateral vibration displacement was measured experimentally and was used to determine the values for egg deformation, force fluctuation, and penetration force. It was shown that increases in injection speed significantly increases the lateral vibration displacement of the injection pipette by as much as 54%. It has been demonstrated successfully that visual sensing has played a key role in identifying the limitation of the egg injection speed created by lateral vibration displacement of the injection pipette tip

Strawberry Ripeness Assessment Via Camouflage-Based Data Augmentation for Automated Strawberry Picking Robot

Vision-based strawberry picking and placing is one of the main objectives for strawberry harvesting robots to complete visual servoing procedures accurately. Occlusion is the main challenge in strawberry ripeness detection for agriculture robots. In this study, strawberry ripeness detection was proposed using a camouflage-based data augmentation strategy to simulate the natural environment of strawberry harvesting conditions. Yolov4, Yolov4 tiny and Yolov4 scaled, and their traditional data augmentation and camouflage-based data augmentation derivatives were used to find out the effect of camouflage-based augmentation technique in overcoming the occlusion issue. Then the results were mainly evaluated based on mean Intersection over Union (IoU), F-1 score, average precision (AP) for ripe and unripe strawberries and frame per second (fps). Yolov4 tiny with camouflage-based data augmentation technique has demonstrated superior performance in detecting ripe and unripe strawberries with 84% IoU accuracy ~99% AP for ripe and unripe strawberries at an average of 206-fps, satisfying the agriculture strawberry harvesting robot operation need. The performance of the suggested technique was then tested successfully using a dataset termed the challenge dataset in this study to demonstrate its performance in a complex and occluded strawberry harvesting environment. Camouflage-based data augmentation technique helps to increase the detection procedure of ripe and unripe strawberries toward autonomous strawberry harvesting robot