September 2022
80 studies entered the index this month.
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Bad Beat: Florida Sports Betting and the Erosion of Fundamental Principles Underlying Indian Gaming Law
The rapid expansion of sports betting in the United States has created a host of novel challenges for courts as they grapple with emerging technologies and unfamiliar laws. The new legal frontier has already run headlong into provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) …
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Adopting An Affordability Approach to Responsible Gambling and Harm Reduction: Considerations for Implementation in a North American Context
The proliferation of gambling opportunities worldwide, including continuous online gambling, has generated concern over how to protect individuals and families from harm caused by excessive spending. In response, researchers and operators have worked with big data to develop risk-identification models to identify indicators of problem gambling …
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The Role of Law Enforcement Officers in Eradicating Online Gambling
Online gambling is a form of cybercrime that has experienced rapid growth along with advances in information and communication technology in Indonesia. This phenomenon not only impacts the legal aspects but also creates social and economic problems in society …
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Recovery from Gambling Disorder: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
Gambling disorder is highly prevalent, and harms individuals, families, interpersonal relationships, and society. However, the efforts to treat and recover from a gambling disorder are insufficient …
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Penerapan Hukum Pidana Materil Terhadap Tindak Pidana Perjudian Online Jenis Togel Online Di Nagari Cupak Oleh Polres Solok Arosuka
The progress of the times is followed by the increasingly sophisticated information technology, behind the convenience and convenience of internet services, deviant behaviors are born by utilizing advanced technology as a tool to achieve goals by committing crimes …
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Mixup gamblers+: Learning interpolated pseudo “uncertainty” in latent feature space for reliable inference
We introduce Mixup Gamblers+, a method for building a deep learning classifier capable of self-evaluating the reliability of inference results. In the proposed method, samples with high uncertainty are generated virtually through data interpolation in the feature space embedded by the deep learning model, and the classifier is trained to detect them …
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Gambling and fiscal security
The gambling industry is one of the fastest growing. Gambling is associated with illegal activities such as money laundering, tax evasion, drug distribution, terrorist financing and others that directly affect the national security of each country …
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Escapism and Excessive Online Behaviors: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in Finland during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Excessive online behaviors refer to harmful or disproportionate use of digital network applications. Such behaviors are likely to be associated with escapist motives. Our aim was to analyze whether escapism predicts excessive gambling, excessive gaming, and excessive internet use over time …
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The Potential of N-acetyl Cysteine in Behavioral Addictions and Related Compulsive and Impulsive Behaviors and Disorders: a Scoping Review
Purpose Of Review: Behavioral addictions (also termed disorders due to addictive behaviors) contain impulsive and compulsive features and have been shown to involve glutamate dysregulation. N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a well-tolerated cysteine pro-drug and antioxidant, may reduce addictive behaviors by restoring glutamate homeostasis …
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Recovery capital in action: How is gender understood and employed by men and women recovering from gambling disorder?
Gender is a multidimensional construct that differentiates males and females according to its meanings in different socio-cultural contexts. Recovery capital (RC) describes the internal and external resources individuals employ and/or have access to when overcoming addictions. Negative RC refers to elements that hinder recovery …
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Commercial Provision of Zero House-Edge Gambling Products
In commercial gambling, the odds of winning are against the gambler. Roulette is a good game to demonstrate this principle with. A roulette wheel has the numbers from 1 – 36 that the wheel can land on, and a successful stake of £1 on one of these numbers will pay-off £36 (including the return of the stake) …
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Assessing the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine lotteries: A cross-state synthetic control methods approach
Vaccines are the most effective means at combating sickness and death caused by COVID-19. Yet, there are significant populations within the United States who are vaccine-hesitant, some due to ideological or pseudo-scientific motivations, others due to significant perceived and real costs from vaccination …
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"Death drive" scientifically reconsidered: Not a drive but a collection of trauma-induced auto-addictive diseases
Over the last 102 years, a lot of discussion was being held about the psychoanalytic conception of the "death drive," but still with inconclusive results. In this paper, we start with a brief review of Freud's conception, followed by a comprised overview of its subsequent support or criticisms …
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Surprisingly high prevalence rates of severe psychological distress among consumers who purchase loot boxes in video games
Loot boxes are randomised rewards available in some video games, often purchasable for real-world money. Loot boxes have been likened to conventional forms of gambling and may satisfy legal requirements to be considered bona fide gambling in some jurisdictions …
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Loot boxes use, video gaming, and gambling in adolescents: Results from a path analysis before and during COVID-19-pandemic-related lockdown in Italy
Loot Boxes (LBs), i.e., virtual items embedded within video games with numerous features reminiscent of gambling, are increasingly widespread among adolescents. LB use is associated with problem gambling in youth, but few studies have been conducted on the association between LB use and gambling behavior considering adolescents …
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Gaming und Einflüsse von Gambling
Ausgehend von der Tatsache, dass Gaming bei einem Großteil der Bevölkerung Anklang findet, wird sich im Artikel den Einflüssen des Gambling auf den Bereich des Gaming genähert. Um die Überschneidungen in Gänze zu verstehen, müssen zwei Bereiche analysiert werden …
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The different role of trait empathy and state social exclusion empathy on subsequent feelings about gambling outcome：Evidence from event-related potentials and time-frequency decompositions
Empathy plays an essential role in determining how we understand and respond to others' emotional experiences. Previous studies have mainly focused on the influencing factors of physical pain and monetary loss empathy, as well as on their effects on subsequent feelings …
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Problematic Gambling Behavior in a Sample with Substance Use Disorder: The Role of Attachment Style and Alexithymia
Abstract Gambling disorder is a high comorbid disorder in substance abusers which conjunct appearance is related to worse symptomatology and evolution. Nevertheless, the research on the risk factors that may explain this comorbidity is scarce …
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Predicting Risky Decision Making (Odds Selection) in Regular Soccer Gamblers from Nigeria using Cognitive Tasks Combined with Non-Cognitive Measures
As real time soccer gambling is becoming a game of choice for many Nigerian youths, there is need to examine some predictive factors that could account for risky decision making in the population …
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Individual differences and predictors of general awareness in problem gambling
In Canada, up to 3% of individuals have or are at risk of gambling disorder. Among these individuals, a lack of awareness of their problem gambling is a common barrier to treatment and negatively affects treatment adherence …
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Cryptocurrency trading and its associations with gambling and mental health: A scoping review
Background And Aims: The volatile and 24/7 nature of the cryptocurrency market allows traders to engage in speculative trading patterns closely resembling gambling. Its potential for harm and financial loss warrant investigation from a public health perspective …
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Resolving Legal Complexities and Paving the Way Forward for the Fantasy Sports Industry in India
Fantasy Sports has found its place amongst gamers in India. Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG), India estimates that the fantasy sports industry has the potential to attract Foreign Direct Investment of more than Indian Rupee (INR) 100 billion over the next few years and generate 1.5 billion online transactions by 2023 …
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The Longitudinal Association of Childhood and Adolescent Television Viewing with Substance Use Disorders and Disordered Gambling in Adulthood up to Age 45
Abstract Excessive leisure-time television viewing in childhood has been associated with a range of poorer outcomes in adulthood and may represent an early form of addictive disorder …
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Self-exclusion from gambling: A toothless tiger?
While there is evidence for self-exclusion (SE) as an individual-level harm reduction intervention, its effects on reducing harm from gambling at the population level remain unclear …
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Bored Boys Bet: Predictors of Sports Gambling Behavior by University Students during the COVID-19 Lockdown
A state of emergency was declared on March 27, 2020 in the province of Manitoba due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For three months, the population of Manitoba was confined to their homes; social contact was restricted to grocery shopping, medical appointments and medical prescription purchases.
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Pharmacological interventions for the treatment of disordered and problem gambling
Pharmacological interventions for disordered and problem gambling have been employed in clinical practice. Despite the availability of several reviews of the efficacy of pharmacological interventions for disordered or problem gambling, few have employed systematic search strategies or compared different categories of pharmacological interventions …
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Y ve Z Kuşağına Ait Oyuncuların Dijital Oyunlardaki Şans Paketlerine İlişkin (Loot Box) Değerlendirmelerini Tespit Etmeye Yönelik Bir Araştırma: FIFA Ultimate Team Örneği
Bu çalışmada, Dijital oyunlardaki şans paketleri (loot box ) kavramına yönelik Y ve Z Kuşağındaki oyuncuların değerlendirmelerini öğrenmek amaçlanmıştır …
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Behavioral Biases in Daily Fantasy Baseball: The Case of the Hot Hand
Despite mixed evidence, sport participants and fans heavily believe in the existence of the hot hand. Prior literature examining NBA and NFL betting markets found betters were biased towards hot teams …
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Separating problem gambling behaviors and negative consequences: Examining the factor structure of the PGSI
There is some uncertainty on how to best conceptualise and measure problem gambling and debate as to whether it is helpful to differentiate the behavioral features of problematic gambling from the negative consequences of gambling …
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Development and validation of a prediction model for online gambling problems based on players' account data
Abstract Background and aims Gambling disorder is characterized by problematic gambling behavior that causes significant problems and distress. This study aimed to develop and validate a predictive model for screening online problem gamblers based on players' account data …
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Yetişkinlerde kumar bağımlılığı ile ilişkili sosyodemografik değişkenlerin incelenmesi
The aim of this study was to examine gambling addiction in terms of some demographic variables.Method: The data of the study were collected electronically through Google Form. Survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was preferred in the study …
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Kumar oynama bozukluğu tanısı olan hastalarda problemli kumar oynama şiddet endeksi Türkçe versiyonunun psikometrik özellikleri
The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Problematic Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) in a study group consisting of participants with and without a diagnosis of pathological gambling disorder.Method: Data were collected from 539 individuals, 60 of whom were diagnosed with gambling disorder …
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In search of lower risk gambling levels using behavioral data from a gambling monopolist
Abstract Background and aims Lower-risk recommendations for avoiding gambling harm have been developed as a primary prevention measure, using self-reported prevalence survey data. The aim of this study was to conduct similar analyses using gambling company player data. Methods The sample ( N = 35,753) were Norsk Tipping website customers …
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The modulation of acute stress on model-free and model-based reinforcement learning in gambling disorder
Abstract Background and aims Experiencing acute stress is common in behavioral addictions such as gambling disorder …
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Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose
Gambling on Development frames economic development prescriptions, “recipes,” and outcomes in countries along the lines of the elite bargaining approach popularised by the World Bank in the World D...
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Fenomena Judi Online Higgs Domino Dikalangan Mahasiswa Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 di Kota Tanjungpinang
Gambling is a societal disease that affects all levels of society, including students in Tanjungpinang City. In the midst of a pandemic, all systems of people's lives have changed from offline to online, including in this research the gambling that hit students in Tanjungpinang City …
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Psychometric properties of the Jonsson-Abbott Scale: Rasch and confirmatory factor analyses
Measuring and assessing the different aspects of gambling behavior and its consequences is crucial for planning prevention, treatment, and understanding the development of at-risk and problem gambling. Studies indicate that instruments measuring problem gambling produce different results based on the characteristics of the population assessed …
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How do Gambling Providers Use the Social Network Twitter in Germany? An Explorative Mixed-Methods Topic Modeling Approach
Abstract This study examines the social media activities of gambling providers in Germany, focusing on the platform Twitter. A collection of 34.151 tweets from 13 Twitter accounts was made, representing casinos, sports betting, state lotteries, social lotteries and lottery brokers …
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Do You Gamble? Gambling Behavior, Problem Symptoms, and Self-Awareness among Social Workers and Other Mental Health Providers
Purpose To explore the personal gambling behavior and problem symptoms of social workers and other mental health providers to gauge their level of self-awareness, an important prerequisite to identifying and assisting clients who gamble.Method A survey was conducted with a convenience sample of 2,317 social workers and other mental health providers.Results …
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The Nexus Between Gambling Tax and the Gross Domestic Product in Kenya
This study seeks to assess the relationship between the tax rates imposed on each sub-sector, i.e. betting tax, lottery tax, gaming tax and prize competition tax, and the gross domestic product. The target population for this study include all licenced gambling operators in Kenya …
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Interactive Effects of Problem-Gambling Severity, Gender and Alcohol Consumption on Electronic Gaming Machine Behaviour
Abstract While comorbidity of problematic alcohol and gambling use is well established, much less is known about the way in which alcohol consumption while gambling interacts with problem-gambling severity and other individual differences …
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GamReg Sweden-Protocol for a systematic cohort data collection for improved clinical knowledge in specialized gambling disorder treatment
Gambling disorder is the first non-substance-related addiction which is recognized as a diagnostic entity and assessed in treatment settings. However, in many clinical settings, assessment, and structured treatment for this condition is severely under-developed, and treatment seeking in many settings is low …
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Evaluation of the Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of Online Gambling Disorder Questionnaire
There is a limited number of instruments to measure online gambling disorder among the Turkish population. Online Gambling Disorder Questionnaire is a 5-point Likert-type, self-report tool that evaluates problematic online gambling frequency and duration …
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Estimation of Behavioral Addiction Prevalence During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Purpose Of Review: The COVID-19 pandemic changed people's lifestyles and such changed lifestyles included the potential of increasing addictive behaviors …
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Content and Effectiveness of Web-Based Treatments for Online Behavioral Addictions: Systematic Review
Very few people seek in-person treatment for online behavioral addictions including gaming and gambling or problems associated with shopping, pornography use, or social media use …
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Plus a Serious Game as a Complementary Tool for a Patient With Parkinson Disease and Impulse Control Disorder: Case Report
Impulse control disorders (ICDs) are commonly developed among patients who take dopamine agonist drugs as a treatment for Parkinson disease (PD). Gambling disorder and hypersexuality are more frequent in male patients with PD, with a prevalence over 4% in dopamine agonists users …
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Exposure Therapy for Gambling Disorder: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Abstract Purpose of Review Cognitive behaviour therapy is the gold standard for the treatment of gambling disorder. Obstacles remain regarding its efficacy, namely relapses and difficulty in implementing cognitive restructuring for some clients …
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Positive fortune telling enhances men's financial risk taking
Fortune telling is a widespread phenomenon, yet little is known about the extent to which people are affected by it-including those who consider themselves non-believers. The present research has investigated the power of a positive fortune telling outcome (vs. neutral vs. negative) on people's financial risk taking …
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Prevalence and comorbidity in a Swedish adolescent community sample - gambling, gaming, substance use, and other psychiatric disorders
This study investigates a broad spectrum of psychiatric disorders, substance use disorders, gambling, and internet gaming disorders in Swedish 18-year-old boys and girls with the aim of estimating the prevalence of disorders and comorbidity. Methods: We used a two-phase design with screening to detect candidates for clinical interviews …
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Geospatial Cognitive Networking Protocols and Sensing Algorithms for 5G NR Beamforming
Although 5G New Radio (NR) has created new opportunities for cognitive radio networks, its increased physical layer security and flexibility limit the usefulness of traditional cognitive detectors such as energy and blind control channel algorithms …
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Sports betting around the world: A systematic review
Abstract Background and aims This systematic review examines whether sports betting behaviors differ among and between sports bettors in different countries, evaluates psychosocial problems related to sports betting behaviors and how problems may vary by country, and lastly, summarizes the current regulatory guidelines for sports betting …
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Gambling Associated Risk-taking Behaviors Correlate with Emotional Regulation and the Iowa Gambling Task but not Wisconsin Card Sorting
It is not known why some novice gamblers eventually develop Gambling Disorder while most do not …
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Does IQ predict engagement with skill‐based gambling? Large‐scale evidence from horserace betting
Abstract We examine how measured intelligence, referred to as IQ, predicts a consumer's decisions on whether to participate in online horse wagering, how much to spend on those bets, and which horserace betting products to consume …
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Assessing potential brief screening questions for use within different social care-related contexts to identify individuals experiencing gambling-related harms: A scoping review
Gambling-related harms are increasingly recognised as public health concerns internationally. One response is to improve identification of and support for those affected by gambling-related harms, including individuals who gamble and those close to them, 'affected others' …
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Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Psychiatric Comorbidities With Gambling Disorder in 12 Clinical Settings in Japan
This study investigated the occurrence rate of psychiatric disorders comorbid with gambling disorder, and their clinical significance in the severity of gambling disorder using a retrospective cross-sectional design …
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Measuring loot box consumption and negative consequences: Psychometric investigation of a Swedish version of the Risky Loot Box Index
Loot boxes are products in videogames that is earned by playing a video game or by buying them. Loot boxes has similar mechanisms as a lottery and there is an ongoing debate if loot boxes are gambling. However, to understand the potential harm of loot boxes valid instruments are needed …
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Gambling disorder in minority ethnic groups
Although the data on racial/ethnic associations with gambling disorder are limited, studies suggest that ethnicity may have associations with both symptom severity and psychosocial impairment linked to gambling disorder …
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Gambling Disorder and Stigma: Opportunities for Treatment and Prevention
Purpose Of Review: Gambling disorder is among the most stigmatized mental health problems. More research is needed to understand the mechanisms that underlie this stigma and the effects of stigma-reduction interventions …
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Assessing the bets advertised on Twitter by gambling operators and gambling affiliates – an observational study incorporating simulation data to measure bet success
This study assessed bets advertised on Twitter by betting operators and affiliates, as well as their success. Bets advertised by 10 Twitter accounts were tracked over two weeks. Information recorded included: bet odds, bet type, number of times advertised, and bet success …
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To Tax or Not To Tax: Why Won't the Supreme Court Answer the Question?
Gaming Law ReviewVol. 26, No …
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The Prevention of Adolescent Problem Gambling Through Probabilistic Reasoning: Evidence of the Intervention’s Efficacy
Abstract Preventive efforts are necessary to reduce the risk for problem gambling among adolescents, especially among more at-risk youth. However, only a small proportion of the preventive initiatives implemented in the field of adolescent problem gambling are based on robust theoretical models and have been evaluated in their efficacy …
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Online Gambling Phenomenon: Law & Society
The gambling phenomenon has been happening for a long time. Development of science and technology causes new ways to commit crimes. One of the crimes that occur is online gambling. This can happen due to facilities and media that make it easier for people to access sites and applications that have elements of gambling …
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Moral incongruence and addiction: A registered report
Diagnostic guidelines for compulsive sexual behavior disorder note that moral distress related to sexual behavior is not sufficient to receive the diagnosis …
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Manipulation and (Mis)trust in Prediction Markets
Markets are increasingly used as information aggregation mechanisms to predict future events. If policymakers and managers use markets to guide policy and managerial decisions, interested parties may attempt to manipulate the market in order to influence decisions …
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How Do Industry-Funded Alcohol and Gambling Conferences Frame the Issues? An Analysis of Conference Agendas
There is a growing evidence base that unhealthy commodity industries (including alcohol and gambling) promote industry-favorable framings of product harms and solutions. These framings adopt a focus on the individual while overlooking broader influences and solutions …
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Health and health-related behaviours in refugees and migrants who self-identify as sexual or gender minority - A National population-based study in Sweden
To examine health and health-related behaviors in migrant and refugee individuals who identify as sexual or gender minority, and in comparison to their heterosexual peers. Methods: The study included 168,952 individuals (aged 16-84 years, males: 45·9%, sexual or gender minorities: 3·1%) who answered the Swedish National Public Health Survey in 2018 and 2020 …
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Gambling in Canada During the Pandemic: 6 Months After the National COVID Lockdown
ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic on gambling and problem gambling in Canada …
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Gambling and Gambling Problem Perception Questionnaire as a tool to evaluate professionals' attitudes towards problem gamblers and training programmes in Japan
To develop and measure the psychometric properties of the Gambling and Gambling Problem Perception Questionnaire (GGPPQ); a scale to evaluate professionals’ attitudes towards people with problem gambling in the Japanese context. Data collection: We held 12 workshops in Japan targeted at mental health professionals who consult people with gambling problems …
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GAMBLING IN MALAYSIA: ISSUES, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Gambling is a normal activity among many non-Muslim Malaysians, and especially the ethnic Chinese Malaysians (CM). In this paper, we asked 60 Malaysian youths if they had gambled before and 78.3% (N=47) had replied ‘yes’. This showed that gambling is quite an acceptable cultural behaviour but that it can lead to more serious repercussions if uncontrolled …
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Double or nothing: push and pull factors of casinos in Europe
Gambling tourism is a subject that has been gaining a lot of interest and notoriety over the last two decades. Push and pull factors have for long been the backbone of tourism studies and this research seeks to expound on this theory within the area of casinos …
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Brandt's Rants
Figure: EP life, humor in medicine, Las VegasFigureAs the saying in poker goes, “It's better to be lucky than good.” This sometimes holds true in the emergency department too. Emergency physicians occasionally figure out what is wrong by accident. Going with our gut instinct despite mountains of evidence often leads us to the correct answer …
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Adaptive strategies in Kelly’s horse races model
Abstract We formulate an adaptive version of Kelly’s horse model in which the gambler learns from past race results using Bayesian inference. We characterize the cost of this gambling strategy and we analyze the asymptotic scaling of the difference between the growth rate of the gambler and the optimal growth rate, known as the gambler’s regret …