An Examination of How Much Product Extensions Play A Role In Fandom

Executive Summary The purpose of this study was to determine if product extensions played a role in fandom so sport organizations could see what extensions they could use to gain more fans, generate revenue, and enhance their relationships with their fans. This research was important because sport organizations could use the product extensions that play a role in fandom to enhance their relationships with their fans. It was known that the development of fandom, product extensions, and the growth of sport programing along with the plethora of options for fans to use have been examined and researched individually. The method to draw conclusions were made by the testing results of a likert scale survey that was created of a list of product extensions asking the participants what extensions make the sport fan more of a fan of their favorite team. The survey was on a scale from 1 to 5. The survey was administered through twitter and emailed to a list of individuals at a private Division III university who are involved in sport. It was found that product extensions did not play a huge role in fandom. It was also found that out of the list of product extension variables team merchandise, gameday tv programming, and team specific social media accounts played the biggest role in fandom. It was important to do this research because there were many product extensions that played no role in fandom and some that played a great deal. Sport organizations were able to use the product extensions that played a role in fandom consistently and kept them updated while getting rid of and not spending as much time and money on the ones that did not play a role in fandom

Oneness Pentecostalism, the Two-Minds View, and the Problem of Jesus's Prayers

Even thirty years after Thomas Morris wrote The Logic of God Incarnate, there are some claims that Morris makes that require examination in analytic Christology. One of those claims is a concession that Morris gives to modalists near the end of the book, where he says that the two-minds view he has defended can be used to provide a consistent modalistic understanding of Jesus’s prayer life. This view, he says, blocks the inference from the fact that Jesus prays to the Father to the additional claim that Jesus and the Father are numerically distinct. I argue that Oneness Pentecostals can appropriate central concepts from The Logic of God Incarnate as Morris suggests, and further that this means Oneness Pentecostals should abandon the claim that Jesus believes he just is the Father. Once Oneness Pentecostals abandon this claim, they can give a possible explanation of how it is that Jesus relates to the Father in prayer even though he just is the Father

Global cycle properties in graphs with large minimum clustering coefficient

The clustering coefficient of a vertex in a graph is the proportion of neighbours of the vertex that are adjacent. The minimum clustering coefficient of a graph is the smallest clustering coefficient taken over all vertices. A complete structural characterization of those locally connected graphs, with minimum clustering coefficient 1/2 and maximum degree at most 6, that are fully cycle extendable is given in terms of strongly induced subgraphs with given attachment sets. Moreover, it is shown that all locally connected graphs with minimum clustering coefficient 1/2 and maximum degree at most 6 are weakly pancyclic, thereby proving Ryjacek's conjecture for this class of locally connected graphs.Comment: 16 pages, two figure

Gotta Be This or That / music by Sunny Skylar; words by Sunny Skylar

Cover: photo of Benny Goodman; Publisher: Harms Incorporated (New York)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sharris_e/1072/thumbnail.jp

Abortion Attitudes in Cook County post Dobbs V. Jackson

A project of the Cook County Community Survey Project, Skylar\u27s report details the social demographics associated with abortion access in Cook County in the wake of the Dobbs V. Jackson decision

Measuring Fertilization in Populations of Sea Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus): Developing and Testing Methods in the Laboratory and Field

Most marine organisms are broadcast spawners, releasing their sperm and eggs into the water column. Methods of measuring in situ fertilization have proven successful with a few model species, which are reviewed in my introductory chapter. However, many commercially exploited species, such as the sea scallop Placopecten magellanicus, have been neglected. Sea scallop populations have greatly increased from fishing closures, but the mechanism behind this response is uncertain, particularly in regard to fertilization. In this dissertation I developed a methodology of measuring fertilization success and spawning events of P. magellanicus, tested it in laboratory and field settings, and developed a novel genetic probe to detect and quantify scallop gametes. Chapter 2 describes laboratory experiments and field results from our development of nylon mesh chambers used to measure fertilization success (percent of eggs fertilized) in situ. In dilution-series experiments, maximum fertilization success occurred at sperm concentrations \u3e107 sperm ml–1 . Between 8 and 24 h at ambient temperature, egg viability fell to zero. Sperm half-life shortened from 2 h to 9 min when sperm concentrations diluted by 10-fold from 107 cells ml–1 to 106 cells ml–1 . Flume trials demonstrated chamber artifacts: fertilization was lower inside the chamber than outside, and the effect was greater at higher flow rates, but chamber orientation to flow had no effect on fertilization. Increasing the numbers of eggs tended to reduce fertilization success. In dockside tests, a 30-fold difference in spawner numbers had a significant effect on fertilization success. In Chapter 3, I analyzed video surveys of scallop aggregations on western Atlantic fishery grounds to determine whether population density, degree of aggregation, and shell size were correlated with fishing closures. Based on these data, I created experimental benthic populations to measure fertilization success in situ. Fertilization success in these experiments did not vary significantly across a 10-fold difference in population density, a result which was inconsistent with the outcome predicted by a current fertilization model. This likely underscores the extreme variability in fertilization success in the field that is not captured by models. In Chapter 4 I developed and tested a genetic probe (Pmag_304F) and primer set (Pmag_282F, Pmag_492R) to detect and quantify P. magellanicus gametes in the water column. I used a TaqMan fluorescent probe and primer set to target the intergenic spacer region (ITS) in the scallop genome. To verify this probe works on scallop gametes, I tested it on replicate sperm dilution series. This method may be applied to field samples to detect and quantify spawning events for this species and other important invertebrates. This dissertation presents empirical data on the relationship between spawner abundance and fertilization success in P. magellanicus, evidence for a possible component Allee effect, some form of compensation at low densities and the development of two methods to detect spawning events in the field. These new tools and data improve our understanding of a previously poorly studied aspect of scallop reproduction, and may provide insight into their resilience to fishing pressure

Lasting Memories of Veterans

Throughout this project I interviewed veterans who reside in nursing homes. The purpose of the interview was to gather their individual stories and publish them on a website. As well as help offset the negative impacts of COVID-19 within nursing homes. Publishing the stories within a website was our way of ensuring that they will not be forgotten when they pass away. Leaving a lasting memory on the world

A Campus Connected: An Analysis of University Outdoor Spaces

The purpose of this research is to analyze the evolution of outdoor renovations on East Tennessee State University’s campus by examining the effects these renovations have had on students and faculty, and then using this data to propose possible successful renovations to the remainder of the University Commons project. To complete this project, data was obtained through East Tennessee State University administrative faculty interviews, surveys of students residing in campus resident halls, and observations. By examining the impact on behavior, designers and developers are then able to successfully determine the factors that aid in positively influencing human behaviors. Design suggestions were then proposed for the future development of Ross Drive, Pride Walk, and the second phase of the University Commons