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Baseball

open access: yes, 2021
Bonnie Lou Risby, Jean Franklin
openaire   +1 more source

Club Activity, Study Groups, and Academic Achievement: A Nationwide Study of Japanese Medical Students' Extracurricular Life

open access: yesJournal of General and Family Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Student involvement in extracurricular activities (ECAs) possesses multiple benefits and has attracted substantial interest in medical education. Most studies on ECAs have been conducted in Western contexts, and findings on the association between ECAs and academic achievement are mixed.
Hirohisa Fujikawa   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting woodpecker damage in utility infrastructure in the southeastern United States using species distribution modeling

open access: yesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 90, Issue 4, May 2026.
Predicting areas of wildlife damage can reduce long‐term costs. We developed and tested models of the geographic distribution of damage by woodpeckers to utility infrastructure and delineated areas of greater importance. Abstract Predicting areas of wildlife damage to human development has the potential to reduce long‐term costs associated with ...
Hannah C. Wright   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Survival in a Declining Industry: The Case of Baseball Cards [PDF]

open access: yes
The baseball card industry provides a case study of survival in a declining industry. The case study shows how manufacturers have varied their strategic behavior in response to changes that have occurred within the industry in the last 20 years.
Arthur Zillante
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Life and Science With Dr. Matthew Platz

open access: yesJournal of Physical Organic Chemistry, Volume 39, Issue 5, May 2026.
Photochemical processes are utilized for treatment of blood products to prevent transfusion transmitted diseases. My work with Matt Platz focused on exploring methods to treat blood to prevent disease transmission. These efforts led to understandings resulting in new products utilized over the past 20 years demonstrated to improve blood safety ...
Raymond P. Goodrich
wiley   +1 more source

Attending to Preservice Teachers' Assets: Beliefs and Practices for Supporting Expansive Sensemaking in Elementary Science

open access: yesScience Education, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 756-779, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Preservice elementary science teachers' beliefs and practices influence the kinds of adaptations they make to curriculum materials and the extent to which they are able to enact justice‐oriented science lessons. Through this qualitative study, we explored the beliefs and practices of five focal preservice teachers through an analysis of their ...
Jessica Bautista, Elizabeth A. Davis
wiley   +1 more source

Baseball and society in the Caribbean

open access: yesNWIG, 1994
[First paragraph] The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic. Rob Ruck. Westport CT: Meckler, 1991. x + 205 pp. (Cloth n.p.) Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba. Tom Miller.
Andrew Zimbalist
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The Effects of Freewriting on L2 Writing Fluency, Emotions, and Perceptions Among Secondary EFL Learners

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1771-1781, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Freewriting is a writing technique where individuals write continuously for a set time without editing or revising. This study examines its effects on English as a foreign language (EFL) writing fluency, emotions, and learner perceptions among 149 Korean 8th‐grade students. Over ten weeks, students participated in eight five‐minute freewriting
Yi Seul Choi, Minkyung Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Tilting the Playing Field: Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance [PDF]

open access: yes
It has traditionally been argued that the organizer of a sports league would prefer more competitive balance to the level that emerges in a noncooperative equilibrium.
Stefan Szymanski
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Multiple Changepoint Detection for Non‐Gaussian Time Series

open access: yesJournal of Time Series Analysis, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 465-484, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article combines methods from existing techniques to identify multiple changepoints in non‐Gaussian autocorrelated time series. A transformation is used to convert a Gaussian series into a non‐Gaussian series, enabling penalized likelihood methods to handle non‐Gaussian scenarios.
Robert Lund   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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