691 research outputs found
An investigation into pricing anomalies and the influence of information processing constraints on forecasts derived from sports betting markets
No full textThis thesis is made up of three separate papers, all of which explore how decision makers discount information in simplified financial markets where participants’ behaviour can be easily segmented. Overall, this thesis provides a valuable contribution to the existing knowledge of pricing anomalies in betting markets by identifying uncharted research niches and adopting novel applications. The first paper explicitly examines how legacy information affects the accuracy of probability forecasts, utilising data from a low liquidity sports betting market where the demographic of bettors is predominantly homogeneous. The findings are important as they shed new light on the ability of participants to discount older information, especially as increasing amounts of past performance information are processed. The second paper explores the influence of order effects in horse race betting markets which are generally ranked from highest to the lowest quality of contenders. Researchsuggests the way information is presented can impact how effectively information is processed by individuals. This paper finds evidence of order effects in relation to more favoured contenders which has serious implications for the most widely researched phenomena in betting markets, that is, the favourite-longshot bias. The third paper takes a novel twist on a commonly employed benchmark model to focus purely on market makers’ ability to frame accurate opening price odds. Paper three directly tests whether public information plays a role in price movements over the duration of betting. In particular, the findings challenge the current consensus in the literature
Differences in career paths and attributes of pharmacists completing a community pharmacy residency program (CPRP)
No full textObjective: To determine any differences in career paths and career attributes of pharmacists who have completed a PGY1 community pharmacy residency program (CPRP) as compared to those that have not completed a PGY1 CPRP.
Methods: A web-based survey evaluating various aspects of community pharmacists’ careers was distributed to 274 CPRP graduates in addition to a random sample of 7,376 community pharmacists. The survey contained 32 questions evaluating various career attributes. Questions that assessed level of agreement were on a 6-point Likert-type Scale (1=strongly disagree; 6=strongly agree).
Results: A total of 353 participants completed the survey, with 224 indicating that they had not completed a CPRP. Pharmacists who completed a CPRP responded that they spend significantly more time on patient care services, teaching, and research, and spend less time dispensing medications compared to those that have not completed a CPRP. Compared to those that did not complete a CPRP, CPRP graduates were less likely to agree that current level of workload negatively impacts job performance, motivation to work, job satisfaction, mental/emotional health, and physical health.
Conclusion: Pharmacists completing a CPRP noted significant differences in their current employment and job responsibilities. Additional expansion and education regarding the importance of CPRPs should be considered.Ulbrich, Timothy R.; Adams, Alex; Bright, David R.; Sullivan, Donald L.; Schnur, Evan; Bess, D. Todd; Owen, James; Bradley-Baker, Lynette. (2014). Differences in career paths and attributes of pharmacists completing a community pharmacy residency program (CPRP). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/172020
Crime, Genes, Neuroscience and Cyberspace
No full textThis book applies Owen’s unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour, with an emphasis on cybercrime. Moving beyond challenges which confront contemporary criminological theorizing such as: the stagnation of critical criminology, the relativistic nihilism of the ‘cultural turn’, posthumanism, and virtual criminology, the author codifies and ‘applies’ the latest version of the framework to the study of crime, both in and out of cyberspace.
Drawing upon evolutionary psychology, behavioural genetics and the philosophy of Heidegger, he introduces new terms such as ‘Neuro-Agency’ and notions of Embodied Cognition into criminological theorizing. Adopting a soft compatibilist approach to free-will, and Realist ontology, Owen’s meta-theoretical focus provides a new direction for criminological theorizing, in particular in the direction of the conceptualization and prediction of cyber violence. Exciting and timely, this book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of criminology, law, sociology, social policy, psychology, philosophy, policing and forensic investigation
Why is there proportionately more enrollment in private schools in some countries?
No full textThe proportion of students enrolled in private rather than public schools varies greatly among countries. The author tries to explain (1) the systematically higher proportion of enrollment in private schools in developing countries than in developed countries, at the secondary level, and (2) the seemingly random variation across countries within a given level of education and stage of development. The author argues that differentiated demand and nonprofit supply - both of which stem from cultural heterogeneity, especially religious heterogeneity - are the major explanations for variations in the proportion of private education within a given stage of development and educational level. By contrast, the author hypothesizes that the proportionately heavy enrollment in private secondary schools in developing countries stems from limited public spending, which creates an excess demand from people who would prefer to use the public schools but are involuntarily excluded and pushed into the private sector. Limited public spending on secondary education, in turn, is modeled as a collective decision which is strongly influenced by the numerous families that opt for many children, and that consequently can only afford to invest small amounts in each child, in developing countries. The results of regressions that determine private-sector size recursively and simultaneously with public educational spending are consistent with these hypotheses.Economic Theory&Research,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Gender and Education,Inequality,Environmental Economics&Policies
When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investsment of Equity-Dependent Firms
No full textWe use a simple model to outline the conditions under which corporate investment will be sensitive to non-fundamental movements in stock prices. The key cross-sectional prediction of the model is that stock prices will have a stronger impact on the investment of firms that are “equity dependent†– firms that need external equity to finance their marginal investments. Using an index of equity dependence based on the work of Kaplan and Zingales (1997), we find strong support for this prediction. In particular, firms that rank in the top quintile of the KZ index have investment that is almost three times as sensitive to stock prices as firms in the bottom quintile. We also verify several other predictions of the model.
When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity-Dependent Firms
No full textWe use a simple model of corporate investment to determine when investment will be sensitive to non-fundamental movements in stock prices. The key cross-sectional prediction of the model is that stock prices will have a stronger impact on the investment of firms that are 'equity dependent' - firms that need external equity to finance their marginal investments. Using an index of equity dependence based on the work of Kaplan and Zingales (1997), we find strong support for this prediction. In particular, firms that rank in the top quintile of the KZ index have investment that is almost three times as sensitive to stock prices as firms in the bottom quintile. We also verify several other predictions of the model.
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
University of Nebraska College of Medicine Class of 1974
No full textMarch 31st, 1974 - Jon Quinn Taylor
May 26th, 1974 - Alfred Aflatooni, Forrest Bollo Allen, Judith Bieniek Allen, Charles R. Anderson, Steven Craig Andrews, Dean Lowell Antonson, Gerald Lee Baker, James Justin Bane, Kimball Parker Barnes, Gregory Vernon Bart, Craig Alan Bassett, Michael Drew Bates, Thomas James Beasley, Eugene Belogorsky, Philip Clarke Blum, Roger Carl Brainard, Bernard Alison Burton, Melvin Allen Campbell, Junette Rae Carlson, Mark Luther Carlson, Ronald Arthur Christensen, Terry Roberts Clementson, Ronald Leslie Coleman, Harmon Oakley Conner, Jr., James Curtis Connors, Hull Alden Cook, Joel Thomas Cotton, Joy L. Andres Crossman, Raymond McCague Crossman, III, Rodney Robert Czaplewski, Timothy Michael Daley, David Howard Dempsey, Pham Doanh, Thomas Emmons Dunbar, III, Michael lee Egger, Devera M. Elcock, Evan John Evans, David Hillman Filipi, Anthony George Fink, William Louis Fink, James Charles Freudenburg, Margaret Kathleen Fritz, Richard Herbert Fritz, Jon Michael Fusselman, Mary Marcella Gatewood, Edward Erwin Gatz, Dennis Paul Goeschel, Barbara Jean Thompson Golden, Gary Richard Goodman, William Gordon Hamilton, Michael John Hanich, Doyle D. Hansen, Cleve Hart Hartman, James Louis Hatch, Robert James Henderson, Douglas Lee Hortmeier, Fran M. Weinheimer Houghton, Harlo Dennis Hove, Edward Paul Huigens, James Yumyin Hung, Fred Dominic Hunker, Philip Gail Itkin, Uldis Janis Jansons, Murray Douglas Joe, Norris David Johnson, Paul Steven Johnson, Lloyd Edward Jones, David Allan Katz, Timothy C. Klammer, Virgil Ernest Knackstedt, Camilla Rae Kochenderfer, John Dale Kugler, Kent W. Lehman, Robert F. LeVeen, Ramon LeRoy Lewis, Philip Karl Lind, Theodore Daniel London, Earl Alvin Lorenzen, James E. Madsen, Kristine Melby McCulloch, Harry Edward McFadden, Philip Walter Meyer, Patrick Dennis Mullen, Louis Lee Munoz, Mickey Calvin Myrick, James Douglas Nelson, Dennis Michael Nitz, Byron Joseph Oberst, James Lloyd Omel, Stanley Irwin Ostrow, Rodney Romine Paragas, Gary Dean Penner, Roger Jay Pentzien, Clair L. Pettinger, James Michael Plate, Robert S. Proffitt, Harold Michael Pumphrey, Douglas K. Reilly, Floyd Oval Ring, Jr., Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Brian Charles Rogers, Kent A. Rogers, Scott G. Rose, John Michael Sadaj, Bruce Alfred Sayles, Harry Emory Salyards, Jr., Mary Phyllis Shannon Salyards, Stanley Joseph Scheurman, Jr., Rick Jerome Schiebinger, John Lee Schiffbauer, Gregory Scott Sears, Alan Stanley Seifer, Robert William Shreck, Gerald Blake Simons, Beth Ann Brooks Slovek, Richard William Slovek, Jr., David Alan Smith, Marc J. Sorkin, James Henry Stageman, Jr., Roger Allen Stark, John Robert Steenbarger, Joseph Rudy Stock, Judith Kay Stoewe, Ann Marie Windle Taylor, Craig Cummings Taylor, Richard Melvin Tempero, A. Nicholas Terry, Jr., Burton Lee Thomsen, Mark Allen Tompkins, Thomas Floyd Tonniges, Stephen Donald Torpy, Robert Eugene Tuma, Joseph Philip Vacanti, Linda Reid Van Leeuwen, Harry Bruce Vogt, Timothy Owen Wahl, Steven F. Webster, David Bruce Woodham, William Roger Zimmer
September 27th, 1974 - Jack David Hornbyhttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/comclass/1054/thumbnail.jp
A presumptive pigovian tax on gasoline : analysis of an air pollution control program for Mexico City
No full textWithout continuous monitoring of emissions, a pollution control agency needs to evaluate abatement options itself. Apart from making activities cleaner, it should also stimulate reductions in the level of activity in polluting sectors. The author develops an analytical framework to show that a tax on a variable input, such as gasoline, is useful for this purpose. It encourages individuals and firms to sacrifice trips when they would prefer those sacrifices to those of higher spending on abatement. The instrument exploits privately held information about which trips can be saved at a low social cost. Other weaknesses of a program based on indirect instruments - as opposed to one induced by a theoretically conceived pollution tax - remain. One of these is that the agency may have poorer information than individuals and firms about the status of vehicles and the effectiveness of individual abatement options. Such an information gap - which could be bridged by a true pollution tax - is abstracted from the analysis. The author shows that the tax rate that belongs in a cost-effective pollution control program is independent of the price elasticity of demand for the polluting good. But the higher the demand elasticity, the higher are the costs of not including a presumptive tax on the polluting good in the tool kit of the pollution control agency. The author estimates the cost savings available when an optimal gasoline tax is included in an otherwise well-composed program, appropriately accounting for the welfare costs ofdemand consumption. He shows that the targeted emission reductions can be obtained at 11 percent lower costs, saving 350 million a year. After recent price increases, implicit tax rates in Mexico City are higher than suggested by the author's analysis. Higher rates may or may not be justified due to the benefits of demand conservation not accounted for in the analysis.Energy and Environment,Pollution Management&Control,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Transport and Environment
Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose
No full textABSTRACT
Tom Schwanda
Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose
This thesis examines the theology and piety of Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664), a moderate Lancashire Puritan minister. More specifically it raises the question about the nature of his spiritual practices and whether they reflect what Bernard McGinn calls the “mystical element” of Christianity? This research is distinctive since Ambrose has never been the primary focus of research. There are six chapters to this thesis.
Chapter 1 examines the definition of three key terms: “mysticism”, “Puritanism”, and “Puritan mysticism” and then substitutes “contemplative-mystical piety” for McGinn’s mystical element since this language is more familiar to the Reformed community. A review of the literature reveals the prevalence of contemplative-mystical piety within mainstream Puritanism. Chapter 2 explores the biblical and theological foundations of union with Christ, which the Puritans often called spiritual marriage. Contrary to common perception, the Puritans encouraged intimacy and sexual enjoyment in their godly marriage that they often perceived as a reciprocal relationship with their spiritual marriage. The third chapter creates a contemplative biography of Ambrose through his diary entries and examines his relationship with God and his neighbor through his annual retreats, the struggles of his soul, serving as a physician of the soul, times of public fasting and worship, and the significance of specific places or environment to his piety. Chapter 4 narrows the focus to Ambrose’s teaching on meditation and contemplation. The influence of Bernard of Clairvaux is clearly evident as Ambrose contemplatively looks at Jesus throughout all the manifestations of Jesus’ life. The fifth chapter considers Ambrose’s use of ravishment and examines the nature, dynamics and benefits of this ambiguous term of delight and enjoyment. The final chapter moves from the seventeenth-century to the present and inquires whether Ambrose’s contemplative-mystical piety can guide contemporary Reformed Christians. That requires an examination into the resistance of Karl Barth as well as the more receptive possibility of retrieval through Herman Bavinck. This work concludes with seven principles from Ambrose to encourage those who are members of the Reformed tradition
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