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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"rule changes"”.
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Effects of Railway Labor Act Election Rule Changes on Voter Participation and Unionization Activity
… railroad employees certify a union. New election rules require the majority of ballots cast be in favor of unionization to install a collective bargaining entity. This differed from the previous procedure which required the majority of a craft or class of laborers vote in favor of unionization. …
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Effect of Rule Changes Occurring Between 2003 and 2016 on Head Impact Frequency and Brain Strain Magnitude In North American Professional Ice Hockey
… National Hockey League (NHL) has made several rule changes to the game (Marek, 2015; National Hockey League Official Rules 2010–11, 2010; National Hockey League Official Rules 2011–12, 2011; National Hockey League Official Rules 2014-15, 2014). Frequency and magnitude are needed to examine …
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Convergence and Divergence: Comparative Analysis of Procedural Rule Changes of the Hong Kong and Singapore International Arbitration Centers within the Framework of Neo-Institutional Theory
… literature, there is convergence of procedural rules among these centers. Sabharwal and Zaman (2014), for example, claim increasing convergence of procedural rules among all the major arbitration centers. Similarly, Sharma (2021) proposes that this convergence helps build the international …
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The Red Thread Web: a case study of the uses and gratifications parents adopting a child from China discovered in the Rumor Queen blog
… seek sources of information about the CCAA's rule changes. Many people turned to the www.chinaadopttalk.com website--more commonly known as the Rumor Queen. This dissertation utilizes case study research strategy and employs several qualitative research methods to investigate the broad topics …
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Taxes and Product Market Outcomes: Asymmetric Effects of Tax Cuts on Winners v. Losers
… share. The evidence is consistent with tax rule changes affecting product markets and product market competition, and the effects vary based on tax status of the competitors.
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Observational Analysis of Injury in Youth Ice Hockey: Putting Injury into Context
This study examines injury in competitive bodychecking and non-body checking youth ice hockey in male and female leagues in Ontario and Quebec. This study consisted of three parts: (1) quantifying the amount of injuries; (2) document situational factors in which hockey injuries occur; (3) observe …
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High school counselor knowledge of NCAA regulations for prospective student-athlete transition to college
… class of 2016) and gives an overview of academic rule changes within the national governing body. The enhanced academic eligibility rules increase minimum GPA and test score as well as mandates strict core course requirements, prioritizing the role of a high school counselor in the entire process. …
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The Physical and Physiological Demands of Taekwondo Training and International Competition
… of taekwondo in the aftermath of an evolution of rule changes over the last 19 years. The entry of taekwondo to the Olympic games in 2000 brought a spotlight and visibility to the sport that put pressure on the governing body to refine the rules and make it more exciting for spectators. As a …
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What makes a successful sparing Taekwondo athlete?
… sparring Injury Report Form; and effect of rule changes on profile and injuries to name a few. Conducting this thesis has helped me to reflect on the shortcomings of my previous investigations and realize the future directions of research in these areas.
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Mitigation of Different Network Attacks and Optimization in Software Defined Network
… routing in an SDN switch is controlled by the rules installed in it or provided by the controller. The SDN switches have limited capacity for the rules and the performance dramatically drops when the number of stored rules is higher. To prevent the link congestion due to regular traffic and …
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Creating An Integrated Opioid Policy For Multi-State Hospice Practices: Improving Opioid Compliance And Patient Safety
… and breakthrough pain. Due to opioid regulatory changes over the past few years, there has been more confusion than clarity among the hospice & palliative care practitioners prescribing opioids for EOL pain management. Healthcare practices across the country are realigning their policies to the …
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Constituting games : an analysis of game rules and game-processes.
… examples of activities governed by formal rules. Drawing upon ethnomethodology and figurational sociology, this project provides an analysis of the constituting of games and identifies the inadequacies of this conventional formalist wisdom. Applying and elaborating upon Garfinkel's work, …
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Application of Digital Forensic Science to Electronic Discovery in Civil Litigation
<p>Following changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2006 dealing with the role of Electronically Stored Information, digital forensics is becoming necessary to the discovery process in civil litigation. The development of case law interpreting the rule changes since their enactment …
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Profiling elite male squash performance using a situation awareness approach enabled by automated tracking technology
… squash had not been well documented since recent rule changes (scoring and tin height). Rallies were split into four ball-in-play duration categories using the 25th (short), 75th (medium), 95th percentiles (long) and maximum values. The frequencies of shots played from different areas of the court …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… claiming. Variation in incentives comes from rule changes to the Social Security benefit calculation, in addition to the age difference between spouses and the relative strength of the wife's labor force history. I find while husbands are responsive to their own benefit incentives, they are …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance
… items before the 2019 lease accounting rule changes in ASC 842 – hence they are important sources of “unmeasured” asset and liability. The first chapter argues that leasing is an important mechanism for mitigating credit constraint-induced capital misallocation, yet this channel has been …
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Class, commercialism and community in the originsand development of northern Rugby Football Union, 1857-1910.
… version of rugby union and initiate the rule changes which created a new sport, expand to other countries and develop a distinct ideology. This allowed the sport to become almost exclusively identified with the working classes and opened the door to the predominance of working class …
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Learning from expert advice framework: Algorithms and applications
… uses a time varying multiplicative weight update rule. This update rule changes the weight of an expert based on his relative performance compared to the average performance of available experts at the current round. We prove the convergence of our algorithm to the best expert, defined in terms of …
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Understanding the decision-making process of coaches and high-performance staff on player training and game availability in the National Rugby League (NRL) men
… League commission has recently made significant rule changes to speed the game up (e.g. six again call to keep play flowing), resulting in high-performance managers’ having to develop stronger, faster, and more conditioned athletes. An additional evolutionary challenge for elite coaches has been …
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