Results 171 to 180 of about 26,486 (268)

Spending Money on a Free Game: Finding the Key to Loot Box Consumer Protection Issues [PDF]

This Essay seeks to provide readers with a holistic consideration of the consumer protection issues surrounding loot boxes. Section I discusses the role of loot boxes in the video game industry, how they became a hot topic, and a look into class action ...
Dubur, Alex
core   +1 more source

Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐Imagining the Epistemic Possibilities of GPT for Public Administration Research in Competitive Settings

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is desirable for the public sector. Yet understanding what and how some innovation projects survive and thrive in a competitive landscape—or public sector innovation—is often challenging. The challenges not only rest in the invisibility of the features of an innovation to human eyes but also in the lack of their accessibility for ...
Yanto Chandra, Jianxiang Tan
wiley   +1 more source

Is Less More? Field Evidence on the Impact of Anti‐Bribery Policies on Employee Knowledge and Corrupt Behavior

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Companies increasingly adopt internal norms to enhance compliance with legal rules. However, the rapid growth in volume and complexity of such internal rules may obstruct employee knowledge and understanding of such internal rules, and therefore also their compliance.
Nils Köbis, Sharon Oded, Anne Leonore de Bruijn, Shuyu Huang, Benjamin van Rooij   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trustable environments are highly appreciated for regulatory performance, but difficult to emerge. A condition for making trust work is to accept vulnerability, and this holds both for stakeholders and agencies in public governance. Trust‐related vulnerability can be understood as a dynamic perception of potential harm derived from entering ...
Jacint Jordana, Juan Carlos Triviño‐Salazar   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competing Under Oath: Can Honesty Pledges Reduce Cheating in Competitive Environments?

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People frequently compete with one another for awards, benefits, contracts, positions, or roles. One of the regulatory challenges in these contexts lies in preventing people from making dishonest claims to win such competitions. Honesty pledges, asking people to commit to ethical behavior ex ante, have been found to reduce cheating under non ...
Ronit Montal‐Rosenberg, Eyal Peer, Yuval Feldman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Escape Body: A Gamified Problem‐Based Learning Project in Primary Education

School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Young learners' lack of motivation to study scientific‐related subjects nowadays is a topic of concern in our society. This study followed a quasi‐experimental design with a predominantly quantitative methods approach, complemented by qualitative data, to investigate how the combination of gamified and problem‐based learning could influence ...
Sergio Tirado‐Olivares, Maria Navío‐Inglés, Javier del Olmo‐Muñoz, Rosa M. Toledano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Order of first-play in simulated versus monetary gambling. [PDF]

J Behav Addict, 2023
Russell AMT, Hing N, Newall P, Greer N, Dittman CK, Thorne H, Rockloff M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hackathons in Statistics and Data Science Education and Experiences from ASA DataFest

Teaching Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Data hackathons provide a platform for students to work with real and challenging data, allowing them to practice both technical and transferable skills, such as data wrangling, visualization, modeling, effective communication, and teamwork. This level of active learning is difficult to achieve in a typical classroom setting.
Serveh Sharifi Far, Vanda Inácio, Ozan Evkaya, Amanda Lenzi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The principles of systems biology

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Physiological interpretations of Systems Biology have made many advances since the Principles of Systems Biology were first published in this journal in 2008. Those advances show that the main principle, Biological Relativity, is a logical necessity since no system can exist without the form of the system.
Denis Noble, Reine Bourret
wiley   +1 more source