A Case for Regulating Gamified Investing

The Case for Investing in Typhoid Vaccines

Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to: Dr. W. Abdullah Brooks Scientist, Infectious Diseases Unit Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division ICDDR,B GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000 Bangladesh Email: [email protected] Fax: +880-2-8826050 Typhoid fever is a major cause of morbidity, with an estimated global incidence of 21,650,974 newcases, and 216,510 deaths, as of 2000 (1). C...

The Case for Investing in Young People

Gamified Training for Cyber Defence

This work considers training needs for cyber defence and discus the gamification of training. The use of game play mechanics will be considered with a special emphasis on strategies to encourage users to engage in desired secure behaviours. The use of games and game play mechanics has been shown to be able to make the training more engaging. Serious games may as well help increase motivation am...

Gamified CAPTCHA

The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has been widely used as a technique that will allow a machine to distinguish between input from a human and that of another machine. The security of current CAPTCHA methods is not sufficient to protect against advanced modern malware. This paper focuses on applying gamification, the use of game elements in ...

On Stochastic and Worst-case Models for Investing

In practice, most investing is done assuming a probabilistic model of stock price returns known as the Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM). While often an acceptable approximation, the GBM model is not always valid empirically. This motivates a worst-case approach to investing, called universal portfolio management, where the objective is to maximize wealth relative to the wealth earned by the best...