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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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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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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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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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Spartan Daily, March 6, 1951 [PDF]
, 1950 Volume 39, Issue 102https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/11524/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer +11 more
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin +3 more
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Preventing lower‐level gambling harms: Shifting from individual‐ to system‐frame approaches
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Gambling‐related harm is not concentrated solely among individuals meeting criteria for problematic or disordered gambling. Tackling harm at a population level is essential to reducing the total burden of harm and preventing escalation to more severe harms.
Robert M. Heirene
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Reference Point Dependence for Specification Bias from Quality Upgrading [PDF]
This paper argues that whether estimates of the welfare cost of natural or artificial trade barriers that do not discriminate by quality are subject to positive or negative specification bias when using models which do not explicitly recognize quality ...
Eric Hutton, John Whalley
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