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Exploring the Profile of Online Gamblers: Key Factors and the Role of Smartphone Addiction in Long‐Term Gambling Engagement

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid expansion of online gambling has significantly impacted the gambling industry. However, concerns have arisen regarding how psychosocial factors and excessive smartphone use influence user behavior on online gambling platforms, which has highlighted the need for broader and long‐term studies. More nationally representative studies are
Hazal Dilan Erdem   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sexual Recidivism Rates of Women Are Still Low: An Updated Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesCriminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Compared to men, women are less likely to sexual offend. Previous reviews found low rates of sexual recidivism among women. The last published meta‐analysis was based on studies from before 2010. Aims Conduct an updated meta‐analysis of the sexual recidivism rates of women returned to the community.
R. Karl Hanson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alessandro Valignano and the Restructuring of the Jesuit Mission in Japan, 1579-1582 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
When Alessandro Valignano arrived in Japan in 1579, the Society of Jesus had been working in the country for thirty years. However, despite impressive numbers and considerable influence with the feudal lords, the mission was struggling.
Hoey, Jack B, III
core   +1 more source

Supporting New Faculty at Community Colleges Through Mentoring Circles

open access: yesNew Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although community colleges work to support faculty at all stages, it is especially important for colleges to support new faculty, who may be both new to the institution and new to teaching. Many colleges rely on dyad mentoring models where new faculty mentees are assigned one mentor, often a senior faculty member in the department.
Susan Altman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

T‐calibration in semi‐parametric models

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article relates the calibration of models to the consistent loss functions for the target functional of the model. Correctly specified models are calibrated. Conversely, we demonstrate that if there is a parameter value that is optimal under all consistent loss functions, then a model is calibrated.
Anja Mühlemann, Johanna Ziegel
wiley   +1 more source

Rezultati i posljedice barbarskih osvajanja bosanskohercegovačkih prostora [PDF]

open access: yesHistorijska Misao, 2016
At the end of the 4th century, first ever intrusions of Barbarian peoples in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian area emerged. They were mainly of robbing and vandalising character.
Bego Omerčević, Mersiha Imamović
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6. Rome: The Barbarians

open access: yes, 1958
North of the Rhine and Danube Rivers there lived people known to the Romans as Germans, and often called the barbarians. One of the meanings of the word barbarian refers to people who are uncivilized in the sense that they are primarily pastoral and ...
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
core  

Stilicho, Radagaisus, and the so-called 'Battle of Faesulae' (406 CE) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In 405 CE, an enormous barbarian confederation led by a certain Radagaisus invaded Italy. The western Roman generalissimo Stilicho managed to overcome them near Florence in 406.
Wijnendaele, Jeroen
core   +2 more sources

A novel construction approach for the pore structure model principally focuses on the controllable roundness of rock particles

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
Particle rounding effects comparison of different methods: (a), (b), and (c) are the rounding results using the B‐spline curve method with different R; (d), (e), and (f) are the results of vertex rounding substitution method with different rounding radii.
Jiabin Dong   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coherent Forecasting of Realized Volatility

open access: yesJournal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The QLIKE loss function is the stylized favorite of the literature on volatility forecasting when it comes to out‐of‐sample evaluation and the state of the art model for realized volatility (RV) forecasting is the HAR model, which minimizes the squared error loss for in‐sample estimation of the parameters.
Marius Puke, Karsten Schweikert
wiley   +1 more source

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