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Patience is a virtue: Exploiting behavior bias in gambling markets
No full textWe examine the influence of bettor behavior in sports gambling markets and the resulting creation of exploitable betting opportunities for patient bettors. Specifically, we build on past research on behavioral bias as a predictor of bettor behavior and explore how this behavior can result in market inefficiencies. Using data from National Football League games taking place between 2007-2019, we find that bettor decision-making is erroneously influenced by recent performance of teams. This bias creates profitable betting opportunities for those less subject to recency bias, and are surprisingly greater for the more prudent, patient bettor. Our findings conf irm the need for additional research examining the influence of psychology and behavioral biases on individual decision making and how these factors can influence market efficiency.Journal Articl
A review of Stillman’s Anthology, Dwight Waldo: Administrative theorist for our times
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Sevil, Hakki Erhan
No full textAssistant Professor
PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
MS Mechanical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology
BS Mechanical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology
Dr. Sevil is the PI of the Sevil Research Group at UWF. His research interests include robotics, guidance and path planning of unmanned vehicles, fault detection and isolation, data-driven detection & estimation, computer vision for mobile robots, bio-inspired & evolutionary computational methods, distributed behavior for multi-agent systems.
ORCiD: 0000-0002-8333-342X
ResearcherID: ABI-3246-202
Academic optimism and enabling school structure: Predictors of professional learning communities
No full textOrganizational properties of schools can explain why some schools are successful and others are not. We explored the role of enabling school structures and academic optimism, comprised of teacher trust in clients, collective efficacy, and academic emphasis, in the development of professional learning communities (PLCs). Both of our hypotheses were confirmed via correlational analysis and structure equation modeling about the relationships of enabling school structures and academic optimism in the development of PLCs, our outcome variable. These
empirical findings validate the importance of enabling school structures as an antecedent to the development of PLCs and contribute to organizational theory about school structure and health. School districts should consider the role of academic optimism and enabling school structures in relationship to developing PLCs.Journal ArticleFinal article publishedThe manuscripts in Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2021) have been peer-reviewed, accepted, and endorsed by the International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership as significant contributions to the scholarship and practice of school administration and PK-12 education
Visually communicating the life and afterlife of Nicolaus Maniacutius through the medieval reproduction of his text, Ad incorrup
No full textThis research project originated as a faculty-student research collaboration with Dr. Marie--Thèrése Champagne. The research is a component of Champagne's book project, tracing the circulation of one text throughout Europe over about 150 years in the High Middle Ages. The text, Ad incorrupta pontificium nomina conservanda, was written by Nichlaus Maniacutius, a 12th century Cistercian scholar from Rome. The text is devoted to preserving the 'proper' naming and lineage of the Catholic popes. Dr. Champagne has spent years locating surviving copies of Ad incorrupta, revealing that the manuscripts are multiple sites across Europe.
Last spring, a small group and I began this project, attempting to reflect the, then sixteen, now twenty versions of Maniacutius's text through legend symbols and an accurate contour map of Europe to be used on an ArcGIS story map
Exploring marine phage hunting in the greater Pensacola Beach area
No full textA bacteriophage (often referred to as a “phage”) is a type of virus that infects bacteria. Specific phage strains only infect specific bacterial species. Phages can have two types of life cycles:
• Lytic phages force a host cell to quickly replicate the virus, which causes the cell to lyse.
• Temperate/lysogenic phages mostly follow the lysogenic cycle, which does not result in the immediate death of the host
Worth the hype?: Analyzing Centella asiatica components in skincare using solid phase micro-extraction (SPME) and gas chromatography-mass spectro
No full textIn recent years, many cosmetic companies have released trendy “cica” skincare products claiming to have pseudo-pharmaceutical effects due to Centella asiatica.
The volatile characteristic components of sample of C. asiatica leaves can be monitored in the headspace of sample vials using SPME fibers to extract and GCMS to identify.
The sesquiterpenes, monoterpenes, and monoterpenoids detected in the leaf sample can be used as the basis of comparison.
The fewer of these components found in the skincare products, the less pertinent the “cica” label and the less justifiable the price
Comparing body size of Kemp’s Ridley, Loggerhead and Green sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico via stereo-video cameras
No full text•A standard distribution of straight carapace lengths for each species of sea turtle doesn’t exist.
•Using a stereo-video cameras (SVC) to create a 3D model of the turtles.
•Body measurements and frequency at each reef can be determined from data collected
Sanctuary cities and counties for the unborn: The use of resolutions and ordinances to restrict abortion access
No full textSanta Rosa County in Florida is the first county in Florida to be designated as a pro-life sanctuary. Florida joins other states--including Illinois, New Mexico, Texas, North Carolina, and Utah--in passing resolutions and ordinances declaring localities as sanctuaries for the unborn. Some localities declare life begins at conception, ban abortion services (including access to emergency contraception), classify abortion as murder with malice aforethought, label pro-choice organizations as criminal enterprises, and create civil causes of action against abortion providers and those who assist women in obtaining an abortion. Most of the localities that have enacted the ordinances and resolutions have small populations and do not have abortion clinics. This article examines the sanctuary movement at the local level across the United States. It discusses the intersection of romantic paternalism with reproductive jurisprudence, the emergence and proliferation of TRAP laws, and the resolutions and ordinances making up the sanctuary movement.Journal ArticleFinal article publishe
Theme-based book review: Government capacity and capability
No full textGovernment capacity and capability are not only a matter of public rhetoric. Government capacity may be seen when government can “do what it wants to do” (Gargan, 1981, p. 656). Capacity has been tied to policy, resource and program management, but capacity is not exclusively a matter of management. Government capability is evidenced by institutions that “respond effectively to change . . . make decisions efficiently, effectively (i.e., rationally) and responsively, [and] . . . manage conflict” (Bowman & Kearney, 1988, p. 343). Arrangements within institutional structures help organizations to move beyond simple static capacity to kinetic movement in realization of government’s goals; in this respect, accountability, coordinating ability, staffing and resources may point to capability (Bowman & Kearney, 1988). Still,
government institutions frequently have difficulty translating capacity into realized performance (Manning & Holt, 2014). Capacity and capability have context-specific characteristics. Efforts to impose systems and capacities out of context, as mimetic isomorphism, can fail (Frumkin & Galaskiewicz, 2004; Pritchett et al., 2013). Public sector enterprises are constrained by a variety of factors, from within and outside the organization; some factors are overt, but others may be difficult to identify, borne of individual and group limitations that inform the human condition.
This themed book review looks at four recent books that on some level address government capacity and capability – what can be expected and gotten from the public administration enterprise. The books include The Three Ages of Government: From the Person, to the Group, to the World, by Jos C.N. Raadschelders; A Modern Guide to Public Policy, edited by Giliberto Capano and Michael Howlett; Transportation and the State: Governing the Public Domain, by Hans Keman and Japp J. Woldendorp; and The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps, by Meghan Elizabeth Kallman.Book ReviewJournal ArticleFinal article publishe