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Concussed: Unintended Consequences of the Guardian Cap Mandate in the NFL
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Guardian Caps are padded shells worn over American football helmets to cushion impacts and reduce concussion risks. In 2022, the NFL mandated their use for specific position groups during preseason practices, later expanding this requirement. While the league praised the Caps for enhancing player safety, skeptics argue they may promote riskier
Kerianne Lawson Rubenstein, Todd Nesbit
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Homecoming queen bringing the football to the referee to start the football game
Homecoming queen presents football to referee to begin homecoming ...
Central Methodist University, Smiley Memorial Library
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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
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article introduces the concept of excluded participation to examine how inclusion and exclusion are negotiated in real time within a Danish fifth‐grade classroom. Using a micro‐sociological framework, particularly the work of Erving Goffman, the study focuses on the case of Anders, a student whose participation is symbolically recognized yet ...
Jørn Bjerre
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Impact of video assistant referee on portuguese football: Studying the effect on different game dynamics [PDF]
Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Data Science and Advanced Analytics, specialization in Business AnalyticsThis study investigates the effects of the Video Assistant Referee on Portuguese top-tier ...
Gonçalves, Diogo Ferreira
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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 +6 more
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Respect: Results of a pilot project designed to improve behaviour in English football
, 2009 The research on which this article reports arose from recognition by The English Football Association (FA) that poor behaviour in affiliated football was having widespread and deleterious effects on the game, at every level, including a loss of about 7 ...
Pitchford, A +2 more
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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A referee of Arlington\u27s Lamar High School Viking football
Lamar High School Vikings football team, referee motioning a goal, 09-28-1979https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_arlingtoncitizenjournalnegatives/1377/thumbnail ...
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Choose, Compose, Contemplate: Semantic Theorizing in Management Research
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract By analysing life stories through a reflexive semantic theorizing process, this article introduces an alternative to many conventional coding‐based qualitative analysis techniques. Rather than relying on coding techniques that often strip narrative data of its context and nuance, following the proposed approach helps preserve the richness and ...
Lakshmi Balachandran Nair, Fabien Moreau
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