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From Amateurism To Open Markets: The Ncaa's Reckoning With Antitrust Lawsuits, Jesse Giffin

William & Mary Business Law Review

Throughout the 2000s the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) has been the subject of many high-profile antitrust lawsuits regarding the financial restrictions imposed on student athletes. The aftermath of some of the most recent decisions has given athletes new ways to earn compensation while competing in college athletics. In House v. NCAA, another historic antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA, the Court for the Northern District of California was tasked with deciding whether student athletes can be paid directly for their athletic performance. By comparing these NCAA antitrust lawsuits with other blockbuster antitrust cases such as the Microsoft antitrust case, …

Through The Lens Of Natural Selection: Understanding The Development And Adoption Of Legal Forms Of Business Organization, Brent J. Horton

William & Mary Business Law Review

This Article makes three contributions to the scholarship on the development and adoption of legal forms of business organization (LFBO). First, this Article examines how Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection (i.e., variation, selection, and inheritance) can provide an overarching framework that can integrate previous theories of LFBO evolution propounded by Hurst, Blair, Hansmann, Kraakman, and Squire.

Second, Hurst, Blair, Hansmann, Kraakman, and Squire focused primarily on the evolution of joint stock companies and corporations during the American Industrial Revolution. This Article uses the lens of natural selection to explain the development and adoption of more recent forms of business …

Changing Duress: Giving Heirs Of Holocaust Victims An Easier Path To Recover Their Predecessors' Property, Jonathan M. Woolston

William & Mary Business Law Review

As claimants continue to come forth asserting claims for artworks their predecessors owned before the Holocaust, they run up against difficulties in trying to reclaim the property. While oftentimes it is not difficult to negotiate an informal return of property due to the immense public pressure and stigma on Nazi-looted works, more complex cases arise when artworks were sold to finance escape from the impending horrors of the Holocaust. In these situations, claimants face much greater difficulties in reclaiming the artworks. For one, the doctrine of duress prevents contracts from being voided if that duress was not applied by a …

Vultures, Bryan M. Kluever, Lee A. Humberg, Scott C. Barras

Wildlife Damage Management Technical Series

Fact sheet about vultures including information about human--wildlife conflicts, the vulture roost, affects on livestock, structures, human health and safety, identification of damage, management methods, legal considerations, and economics. Also included is an overview of the species.

Characterization Of Sediment Loads And Size Distribution In Nebraska Roadway Runoff, Bruce I. Dvorak, David M. Admiraal, Pavel Shrestha

Nebraska Department of Transportation: Research Reports

The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) must manage sediment, and pollutant loads from roadway runoff to meet stormwater regulations. The SAFL Baffle, a hydrodynamic separator used by NDOT, depends on reliable estimates of total suspended solids (TSS) and particle size distribution (PSD). However, limited data exists for Nebraska roadways. In this study stormwater runoff was monitored at four NDOT-maintained sites, two in Lincoln and two in Beatrice, over 1.5 years to characterize TSS and PSD and to evaluate SAFL Baffle performance using the SHSAM model. Results showed large variability across sites and seasons. Median TSS ranged from 158 to 580 …

26 Conference - Advancing Manufacture Of Cell And Gene Therapies ​Ix, John Moscariello, Corinne Hoesli, Bruno Marques

Advancing Manufacture of Cell and Gene Therapies IX [2026]

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A Runtime-Adaptive Transformer Neural Network Accelerator On Fpgas, Ehsan Kabir, Jason D. Bakos, David Andrews, Miaoqing Huang

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Transformer neural networks (TNN) excel in natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV) without relying on recurrent or convolutional layers. However, they have high computational and memory demands, particularly on resource constrained devices like FPGAs. Moreover, transformer models vary in processing time across applications, requiring custom models with specific parameters. Designing custom accelerators for each model is complex and time-intensive. Some custom accelerators exist with no runtime adaptability, and they often rely on sparse matrices to reduce latency. However, hardware designs become more challenging due to the need for application-specific sparsity patterns. This paper introduces ADAPTOR, a …

The Religious Groups Of Mecca And Medina In The Sixth And Seventh Centuries Ce, Ilkka Linstedt

Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series

Ancient and modern urban centres have been important loci for encounters between individuals of different identities. In this article, I present Mecca and Medina as multi-religious towns in the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods of the sixth and seventh centuries ce. Mecca was a very small town, but the Kaaba shrine there served as a regional pilgrimage site that drew people from different faith communities. Medina was a larger settlement with a significant Jewish population. Jews, Christians and others (‘pagans’) lived in both towns. Some of these ‘others’ had also adopted some of the basic ideas of monotheism, although they …

M 221.01: Introduction To Linear Algebra, Emily F. Stone

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

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Hth 475e.01: Legal And Ethical Issues In Health And Exercise Professions, Charles G. Palmer

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

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M 584.01: Topics In Combinatorics And Optimization - The Probablistic Method, Cory T. Palmer

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

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M 225.01: Introduction To Discrete Mathematics, Esmaeil Parsa

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

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M 462.01: Theoretical Big Data Analysis, Javier Perez-Alvaro

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Kin 441.01: Seminar In Sport Psychology, Melanie L. Mcgrath

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Nutr 441.01: Nutrition For Sport And Exercise, Charles L. Dumke

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 151.01: Precalculus, Esmaeil Parsa

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Stat 342.01: Probability And Simulation, Jakob B. Oetinger

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 491.01: The Geometry Of Surfaces, Eric B. Chesboro

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Hhp 525.01: Advanced Biomechanics, Matthew W. Bundle

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 121.01: College Algebra, Apala Mandal

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 567.01: Advanced Big Data Analytics Projects, Javier Perez-Alvaro

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Kin 447.01: Professional Writing In Integrative Physiology, Melanie L. Mcgrath

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Kin 483.00: Exercise, Disease And Aging, Ron Michalak

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 118.01: Mathematics For Music Enthusiasts, Mark Kayll

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Kin 106.01: Foundations Of Exercise Science Lab, Melanie L. Mcgrath

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

Kin 205.01: Foundations Of Integrative Physiology And Athletic Training, Melanie L. Mcgrath

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 307.01: Introduction To Abstract Mathematics, Elizabeth A. Gillaspy

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 591.01: The Geometry Of Surfaces, Eric B. Chesboro

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 522.01: Advanced Algebra Ii, Nikolaus Vonessen

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.

M 133.01: Geometry And Measurement For Elementary School Teachers, Frederick Peck

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2026-2030

No abstract provided.