What Implications Can Be Made From the Interactions Between Finances and Violations for Division 1 Men\u27s Basketball Schools?

The purpose of this study was to find out what types of schools violated as well as the implications these violations had on internal finances. This research was practical and important because of it suggested possible motive for schools that want to increase revenue or win percentage. The NCAA could use this information to narrow their efforts on possible violators through the use of trends. Athletic departments could use this information to anticipate future violations and stop them before they occur. What was already known was that schools that win, generate a larger profit than those who don’t. The method used for the conclusions that were drawn was recording the means, number, and standard deviation of the total violations and win percentage while violating. This same procedure was done for the total violations and net profit during violations. The means were compared between the win percentages before violating and during violation. The means were also recorded for net profit while violating. Although it was impossible to say what motivates schools to violate, the study was still able to run reports on the variables. Teams with lower win percentages committed more violations. Similarly, teams with lower profits commit more violations. Another important conclusion that was made was that teams that commit violations improve their win percentage. The final conclusion made was that while some of the schools were losing money before or after violating, no schools on average lost money in the years they were violating

Molecular Hydrogen in the Lagoon: H2 line emission from Messier 8

The 2.12 micron v=1-0 S(1) line of molecular hydrogen has been imaged in the Hourglass region of M8. The line is emitted from a roughly bipolar region, centred around the O7 star Herschel 36. The peak H2 1-0 S(1) line intensity is 8.2 x 10E-15 erg s-1 cm-2 arcsec-2. The line centre emission velocity varies from -25 kms in the SE lobe to +45 kms in the NW lobe. The distribution is similar to that of the CO J=3-2 line. The H2 line appears to be shock-excited when a bipolar outflow from Herschel 36 interacts with the ambient molecular cloud. The total luminosity of all H2 lines is estimated to be ~ 16 Lsun and the mass of the hot molecular gas ~9 x 10E-4 Msun (without any correction for extinction).Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures (1 in colour). Submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, December 200

The Demand For Wet Fish in Great Britain

Conventional empirical demand systems normally take prices to be exogenous, and determine the quantities demanded. Although this is logical for the individual consumer, at the market level the aggregate quantity traded may be exogenously determined, while the price vector changes to ensure the markets clear. It is suggested that this alternative scenario is particularly attractive for foodstuffs, and especially for wet fish, the commodity under consideration. An empirical analysis of the demand for wet fish in the UK using both the direct and indirect Translog models suggest that in this market, quantities are determining prices rather than the other way round. Furthermore, the two models provide widely different estimates of consumer preferences. This would suggest that more attention should be paid to the direction of causality in markets when undertaking formal demand analysis.inverse demand systems, wet fish, causality, Demand and Price Analysis, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Population connectivity among Dry Tortugas, Florida, and Caribbean populations of mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis), inferred from multiple microsatellite loci

Determining patterns of population connectivity is critical to the evaluation of marine reserves as recruitment sources for harvested populations. Mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis) is a good test case because the last known major spawning aggregation in U.S. waters was granted no-take status in the Tortugas South Ecological Reserve (TSER) in 2001. To evaluate the TSER population as a recruitment source, we genotyped mutton snapper from the Dry Tortugas, southeast Florida, and from three locations across the Caribbean at eight microsatellite loci. Both Fstatistics and individual-based Bayesian analyses indicated that genetic substructure was absent across the five populations. Genetic homogeneity of mutton snapper populations is consistent with its pelagic larval duration of 27 to 37 days and adult behavior of annual migrations to large spawning aggregations. Statistical power of future genetic assessments of mutton snapper population connectivity may benefit from more comprehensive geographic sampling, and perhaps from the development of less polymorphic DNA microsatellite loci. Research where alternative methods are used, such as the transgenerational marking of embryonic otoliths with barium stable isotopes, is also needed on this and other species with diverse life history characteristics to further evaluate the TSER as a recruitment source and to define corridors of population connectivity across the Caribbean and Florida

Measuring the Cost-effectiveness of Conservation Auctions Relative to Alternate Policy Mechanisms

The principle motivation for using price-discriminating conservation auctions is that they are expected to be significantly more cost-effective than fixed-price mechanisms. This paper measures cost effectiveness for tenders from two rounds of the Auction for Landscape Recovery in Western Australia relative to counterfactual fixed-price mechanisms. If we assume that the bid equals the compliance cost, the auction gives a significant cost saving over fixed-price mechanisms. If instead we assume that bids include an element of rent, fixed-price mechanisms can be more cost effective than the auction. The significance of these results is that a fixed price scheme may achieve a similar level of cost effectiveness to a conservation auction, when one or more of the following apply: compliance costs do not vary significantly between producers, auction bids have a significant element of rent and the auction incurs a significant additional administrative cost.Auctions, conservation, bio-diversity, Environmental Economics and Policy, Q57,

What sort of standard candle is Orion for studying molecular hydrogen line emission in galaxies

The total shocked and fluorescent molecular hydrogen 1-0 S(1) line luminosities from Orion have been measured to be about 2.5 solar luminosity and about 2.0 solar luminosity, respectively. The implications for using Orion to study the interstellar medium in galaxies is discussed

Capturing Preference Heterogeneity in Stated Choice Models: A Random Parameter Logit Model of the Demand for GM Food

Analyses of data from random utility models of choice data have typically used fixed parameter representations, with consumer heterogeneity introduced by including factors such as the age, gender etc of the respondent. However, there is a class of models that assume that the underlying parameters of the estimated model (and hence preferences) are different for each individual within the sample, and that choices can be explained by identifying the parameters of the distribution from which they are drawn. Such a random parameter model is applied to stated choice data from the UK, and the results compared with standard fixed parameter models. The results provide new evidence of preferences for various aspects of the UK food system, particularly in relation to GM food but other environmental and technical aspects also. Indications of how random parameter models might be developed further are discussed on the basis of these results.random parameter logit, choice modelling, GMOs, food safety, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Taylor Rules, McCallum Rules and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

term structure, monetary policy, Taylor rule

Decision-making in a Social Welfare Context

This paper presents analysis of the decision-making strategies adopted by respondents when confronted with potential environmental policy options that include changes in both aggregate levels of welfare and equity in distribution. The analysis is based on the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate intergenerational distribution preferences. Non-linear welfare functions are employed within a conventional conditional logit framework. The heuristics employed by respondents in the stated preference context provide valuable insights into the application of welfare principles by respondents in determining trade-offs between the potential changes in the well-being of different generations.Intergenerational Equity, Distribution, Choice Modelling