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Poverty and Casino Gambling in Buffalo [PDF]

, 2011
The Buffalo Creek Casino will exacerbate Buffalo’s poverty. Casinos, especially urban casinos, attract many gamblers living at or near the poverty line, and problem or pathological gamblers often fall from the middle class into poverty.
Magavern, Sam, Mulé, Elaina
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Reconceptualizing Repatriation as the Power to Decide

Museum Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Repatriation in Canada is highly situational, with relatively few regulations in place to assist Indigenous communities in returning their cultural belongings home, let alone to protect their rights as stewards. This paper provides a public policy analysis of repatriation regulations in Canada, with special attention paid to the situation they
Rebecca L. Bourgeois, Kisha Supernant, Neha Gupta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative attraction of Anopheles quadriannulatus and Anopheles arabiensis to humans estimated by comparing their relative abundance in samples of mosquito larvae and adults collected across an ecologically heterogeneous landscape in southern Tanzania Utafiti wa kulinganisha mvuto wa mbu aina ya Anopheles arabiensis na Anopheles quadriannulatus kwa binadamu katika mandhari yenye mazingira mbalimbali kusini mwa Tanzania

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Light and barrier traps near human activity selectively captured more Anopheles arabiensis, indicating a strong attraction to humans and explicit bias in adult sampling methods. Traps placed in open glades away from humans captured species proportions similar to larval samples, suggesting reduced sampling bias in those settings. Visits by entomological
Deogratius R. Kavishe, Katrina A. Walsh, Rogath V. Msoffe, Lily M. Duggan, Lucia J. Tarimo, Fidelma Butler, Nicodem J. Govella, Emmanuel W. Kaindoa, Gerry F. Killeen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Cognitive Variables in the Iowa Gambling Task

Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento, 2010
The objective of this work was to analyze the influence of cognitive and personality variables in the Decision Making (DM) construct, evaluated by the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT).
Marino D., Julián C., Díaz F., Hugo M., Ponce J., Guillermo, González G.,María L.   +3 more
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Bittersweet memories and somatic marker hypothesis: adaptive control in emotional recall facilitates long-term decision-making in the Iowa Gambling Task. [PDF]

Front Neurosci, 2023
Singh V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gambling addiction and life meaning

, 1999
Addictive Gambling has plagued mankind for thousands of years. However, it has only recently been studied extensively. One proposed cause for addiction, which has been used in studying alcohol and drug abuse, is a lack of meaning in the addict\u27s life.
Plesh, Andrew Bohdan
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Seeing the forest through the trees: improving decision making on the Iowa gambling task by shifting focus from short- to long-term outcomes [PDF]

, 2013
Melissa T. Buelow, Bradley M. Okdie, Amber L. Blaine   +2 more
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Risk Behavior, Decision Making, and Music Genre in Adolescent Males [PDF]

, 2009
The effects of music on risk behavior and decision-making are still unknown. Previous studies have linked music with risky behaviors such as drinking. Evidence shows that performance and decision-making on certain tasks can be altered by the presence of ...
Hampton, Joseph E.
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Multiple Logics in Performance Management of Collaborations for Sustainability: An Integrative Review

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governing arrangements involving public, private, and third‐sector actors are increasingly initiated to tackle sustainability challenges. Their value creation relies on the collective efforts of diverse stakeholders, but actors adhering to different institutional logics have divergent opinions on what collaborative value creation should ...
Elina Vikstedt, Jarmo Vakkuri
wiley   +1 more source

Getting even: chasing behavior, decision-making, and craving in habitual gamblers

BMC Psychology
Background Dysfunctional decision-making and intense craving represent pivotal aspects across all addictive behaviors, notably evident in gambling addiction where these factors significantly shape chasing behavior—continuing gambling to recoup losses ...
Marina Cosenza, Mariagiulia Sacco, Maria Ciccarelli, Barbara Pizzini, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Giovanna Nigro   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source