Football--United States; College sports--United States; Sports spectators--United States--Attitudes; Sports spectators--United States--Psychology; Consumer behavior--United States
Recently, some college football programs have experienced unsustainable attendance growth, increases in revenue discrepancies, stagnant "revenue growth", and increased operating costs (Brown, 2009; Fulks, 2009; Fullerton & Morgan,...
Residential buildings account for a large portion of total energy consumption in the United States. Residential energy usage can be dramatically reduced by improving the efficiency of building envelope systems. One such method is to incorporate...
Naja kaouthia is a significant species because it feeds primarily on agricultural pests, causes human mortality, and is commercially exploited. Understanding the life history and demography of harvested populations is essential to providing...
This thesis is a methodological analysis of fire locations in Canadian provinces
from 2001 to 2010. The research presented in this thesis highlights the dominant fire
types for each province. Accurately locating active fires and burned area is...
Fatigue--Diagnosis; Reaction time--Testing; Physical fitness for women; Women athletes--Physiology
Accumulated fatigue experienced during the competitive season can be detrimental to
athletic success. The purpose of the study was to identify a performance test that best correlated
with markers of fatigue in an attempt to detect accumulated...
Ground-level ozone forecast models were developed for the following middle and small metropolitan areas in Kentucky: Ashland, Bowling Green, Owensboro, and Paducah. These models were nonlinear regression models, based on models previously developed...
Ozone forecast models using nonlinear regression (NLR) have been successfully applied to daily ozone forecast for seven metro areas in Kentucky, including Ashland, Bowling Green, Covington, Lexington, Louisville, Owensboro, and Paducah. In this...
Horse farmers make yearly decisions concerning the management of feeding horses. These decisions are affected by the cost to grow hay, the cost to buy hay, the cost associated with selling hay, the expected crop yield under various weather...
Acting; Eno, Will, 1965---Characters--Man; Eno, Will, 1965- Flu season
This thesis examines my work on the role of Man in the University of Louisville's 2011 production of Will Eno's The Flu Season directed by James Tompkins. It is composed of three primary chapters: rehearsal process, character development, and...
The Chautauqua movement has been called "culture under canvas" and "the university of the people." What began as a training camp for Sunday School teachers on the shores of Lake Chautauqua in western New York State in the...
Theaters--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville (Ky.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
A child is considered by some psychologists to pass through on its way to manhood the stages through which the race has passed on its way to civilization. If this is true of a single man, might it not equally be true of a community of men? Have not...
The aim of this study was to determine if playing 5 soccer matches in 4 weeks after 8 weeks of strength, conditioning and soccer training further improves aerobic and anaerobic performances. Ten college soccer players (20.1 ± 1.2 yr) completed...
Football teams--Ratings and rankings; Ranking and selection (Statistics)
A new method to rank football teams with the concepts associated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) and Graph theory is developed in this thesis. A set of games is interpreted as a graph, in which every vertex represents a team, and every...
Women's United Soccer Association; Women soccer players--History; Soccer for women; Professional sports
The purpose of this study is to examine the creation and demise of the WUSA, and to establish the league as a social movement organization (SMO) within the context of the rich body of social movement literature. In explaining the rise and fall of...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 32. No. 45. but is actually Vol. 32. No. 49. There is a crease across the center of page one that...
For more than a hundred million years, male plethodontid salamanders have
utilized non-volatile, proteinaceous courtship pheromones to regulate female mating
receptivity and promote mating success. These pheromones - which are delivered...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 32. No. 3. but is actually Vol. 33. No. 4. There is a crease across the center of page one that...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 32. No. 14. but is actually Vol. 33. No. 19. There are tears across the center of each page. The...
School yearbooks; Schools; Students; Alumni & alumnae; University of Louisville--Students; University of Louisville--Alumni and alumnae; Student organizations; Universities & colleges; College students; University of Louisville--Sports
Athletic cleated shoe failures are commonplace to competitive-level ultimate
frisbee players. Currently, there are no athletic cleated shoes designed for the sport of
ultimate frisbee; players generally choose between football or soccer cleated...
