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Compared to without video assistant referee: does video assistant referee monitoring have an impact on the Chinese Super League?

BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
Background Even though the Chinese Super League (CSL) introduced Video Assistant Referees (VARs) in the 2018 season, it did not intervene in every game.
Bo Zhang, Mingyuan Lin, Delihai Qi, Liqing Zhang, Pei Deng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Anthem Protests, MAGA, and BLM on NFL Attendance

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick first took a knee during the San Francisco 49ers' final preseason game. The protest quickly became league‐wide, and inspired similar actions by players in the WNBA, NWSL, NBA, college football and other professional sports.
Oskar Harmon, Jungbin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Game Changers: Leadership Lessons From Popular Sport Icons

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 25-31, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores leadership lessons that can be drawn from popular sport icons. These lessons reveal how athletes leverage their status to drive social change or how they inspire others through performance‐based practices that align with effective modern‐day leadership skills.
S. Lynn Shollen, Maylon Hanold
wiley   +1 more source

Credit‐Driven Adaptive Grouping for Refined Cooperative Multi‐Agent Reinforcement Learning

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy heterogeneity is crucial for achieving sophisticated coordination in complex collaborative tasks, which has emerged as one of the key challenges in multi‐agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in recent years. Notably, the grouping paradigm has made remarkable progress in addressing policy heterogeneity.
Yirui Liu, Xueqiang Gu, Caiming Zheng, Xin Xu, Zhangling Wang, Wanpeng Zhang, Yixing Lan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large‐Scale Applications of Plasma Technologies: Progresses and Challenges

High Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Plasma technologies convert electrical power into energetic electrons, ions, reactive species, radiation and heat, thereby breaking through the bottleneck of purely thermal or chemical routes and bringing impressive changes to our world. This roadmap reviews the progress and challenges of plasma technologies from a large‐scale and application ...
Pankaj Attri, Liuyang Bai, Dmitry Batomunkuev, Xueke Che, Guoxing Chen, Zhitong Chen, Wei Cui, Liguang Dou, Zhi Fang, Yangyang Fu, Fausto Gallucci, Yiming Guo, Bangdou Huang, Yinghong Li, Sirui Li, Hua Liang, Liangliang Lin, Dingxin Liu, Xiangyang Liu, Xinpei Lu, Ruonan Ma, Lanlan Nie, Guanghui Niu, Yuge Ouyang, Tao Shao, Jing Sun, Yong Tang, Xin Tu, Sergey P. Vashchenko, Hang Wang, Xianjie Wang, Anke Weidenkaff, Yun Wu, Haohan Xie, Shaojun Xu, Zongxian Yang, Fangli Yuan, Cheng Zhang, Hao Zhang, Jishen Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Yejian Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Zhibo Zhang, Peng Zhao, Shicheng Zhao, Linlin Zhong, Renwu Zhou, Zhenhua Zhou, Xi Zhu, Yifei Zhu, Haohua Zong   +51 more
wiley   +1 more source

Team photo - Vic West F.C. Division Three Women, Division Champions (Promoted to Division Two), 1999-2000

, 1999
A team photo of the Victoria West Football Club.
Victoria West Football Club, Victoria West Athletic Association   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Views from the Inside: Reflections on the Modern Hospital

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract There's a constant refrain in the press, on social media and from populist politicians that the NHS is dying on its feet. How accurate is this picture? This article takes a behind‐the‐scenes look at daily life in a modern, big city hospital. The Queen Elizabeth is now the biggest workplace in Birmingham.
Jon Bloomfield
wiley   +1 more source

Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source

The reckoning: ethnographic explorations of the ending of a friendship Règlement de comptes : explorations ethnographiques de la fin d'une amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
wiley   +1 more source

“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
wiley   +1 more source