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How can the potential harms of loot boxes be minimised?: Proposals for understanding and addressing issues at a national level. [PDF]
J Behav Addict, 2022 Macey J +4 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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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. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Primi C +4 more
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Loot boxes - a gambling attraction?
, 2022 The purpose of this study was to uncover the motivations for loot box purchases, and to discover potential similarities between motivation for loot box engagement and gambling engagement. The motivation for the study was to contribute to fill the research gap on the subject.
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A cautious approach to public policy and loot box regulation
Addictive Behaviors, 2020 Researchers are making progress toward determining some of the psychological implications of video game loot boxes, yet the literature still has a long way to go before it can provide a sound basis for policy recommendations. Despite this limitation, however, early studies of loot boxes and addictive behavior frequently suggest some form of loot box ...
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the concept of non‐understandable in psychotherapy, based on the author's own play therapy with a boy with mild ASD (autism spectrum disorder). ASD is considered to belong to an area beyond comprehension, as psychotherapy is often deemed ineffective for it.
Toshio Kawai
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Revista de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais da UNIPARNo presente artigo abordamos a questão das loot boxes (caixas de recompensa virtual) em jogos eletrônicos utilizados por crianças e adolescentes, e examina os desafios e implicações regulatórias sob a Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) no Brasil.
Elan Fernando Campelo dos Santos +1 more
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Saw mark analysis is an important component of forensic anthropology, particularly in cases of postmortem dismemberment. While stereomicroscopy remains the benchmark for evaluating kerf features, recent advances in imaging technologies offer new opportunities for documenting and interpreting bone trauma.
Pieter D. de Wet +4 more
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The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad +2 more
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