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Sunk or Dunk?: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Sunk Cost Fallacy in Professional Basketball
Hailey DiCicco
Jan 01, 0001
This project is divided into two sections. The first section is a comparison between the NBA and WNBA, using performance metrics from game statistics. Using performance characteristics, an empirical analysis was used to...
Published by: Ursinus College
How to Overcome Life's Biggest Challenges: A Humor Portfolio
Hailey Clark
Jan 01, 0001
There's a gap in the market when it comes to advice on how to solve some of the random and niche problems life throws at us, like how to convince your family the cursed amulet you won't take off isn't controlling you and how to...
Published by: Ursinus College
The Accuracy and Validity of the Simplified Pairs Method of Comparative Judgement in Highly Structured Papers
Comparative judgement (CJ) is often said to be more suitable for judging exam questions inviting extended responses, as it is easier for judges to make holistic judgements on a small number of large, extended tasks than...
Hoop Dreams: An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Professional Basketball
Hailey DiCicco
Jan 01, 0001
The gender wage gap is a very prominent point of discussion in the professional world, but in the sports world, it has taken the spotlight in recent years. One sport that has seen discussion and debate over salary differences is...
Published by: Ursinus College
Religion, Mindfulness, and Resilience as Strategies to Cope With Anxiety
This study examined mindfulness, resilience, and anxiety in adults adhering to either traditional or progressive, more flexible, faith beliefs. Participants (n = 98) were college students (64% Caucasian; 85% women) with a mean...
Published by: Winthrop University
IPR Policy Brief - Climate change regulation
Regulators’ efforts to shape business responses to climate change centre on the development of CO2 markets. These are designed to deliver significant CO2 emission reductions at the lowest possible cost to industry. However, the...
Published by: University of Bath
Preserving organizational trust during disruption
How is organizational trust preserved during times of disruption? We address this question, building on the concept of active trust which views trust as an ongoing accomplishment constituted by reflexive actors. Drawing on a...
IPR Policy Brief - Climate change regulation
Regulators’ efforts to shape business responses to climate change centre on the development of CO2 markets. These are designed to deliver significant CO2 emission reductions at the lowest possible cost to industry. However, the...
Published by: University of Bath
Preserving organizational trust during disruption
How is organizational trust preserved during times of disruption? We address this question, building on the concept of active trust which views trust as an ongoing accomplishment constituted by reflexive actors. Drawing on a...
Food Program Creates Learning Opportunity for Local Students
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Quick Facts Special education major Hailey Martin helped create and implement an exciting new element for the students' CBI called the "Farm Raiser" program. The group typically makes eight deliveries each Wednesday to different...
Published by: Winthrop University
An ultraluminous X-ray source powered by an accreting neutron star.
The majority of ultraluminous X-ray sources are point sources that are spatially offset from the nuclei of nearby galaxies and whose X-ray luminosities exceed the theoretical maximum for spherical infall (the Eddington limit)...
Exploring the Validity of Comparative Judgement
L Chambers, E Cunningham
May 11, 2022
When completing a comparative judgment (CJ) exercise, judges are asked to make holistic decisions about the quality of the work they are comparing. A key consideration is the validity of expert judgements. This article...
Characterizing optimal sampling of binary contingency tables via the configuration model
Jose Blanchet, A Stauffer
Mar 01, 2013
A binary contingency table is an m × n array of binary entries with row sums r = (r1,..., rm) and column sums c = (c1,..., cn). The configuration model generates a contingency table by considering ri tokens of type 1 for each...
Characterizing optimal sampling of binary contingency tables via the configuration model
Jose Blanchet, A Stauffer
Mar 01, 2013
A binary contingency table is an m × n array of binary entries with row sums r = (r1,..., rm) and column sums c = (c1,..., cn). The configuration model generates a contingency table by considering ri tokens of type 1 for each...
Mini-Cog for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias within a primary care setting.
BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are becoming increasingly common with the aging of most populations. The majority of individuals with dementia will first present for care and assessment in primary...
Adjusting for cross-cultural differences in computer-adaptive tests of quality of life.
PURPOSE: Previous studies using the WHOQOL measures have demonstrated that the relationship between individual items and the underlying quality of life (QoL) construct may differ between cultures. If unaccounted for, these...

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