Structure of the Video Game Dependence Test, relationship with playing, sex differences and typology gambling dependence in a Colombian sampleAbstract: The objective this study was to analyze factorial structure psychometric properties Test (TDV; Cholíz & Marco, 2011) sample, its ability predict weekly game time, as well by sex. TDV completed sample 738 participants aged from 16 38 years. c...

This paper discusses two conventions pertaining to the study of computer game addiction that are rarely discussed. Traditionally when addictions are assessed, it is not customary for the researcher to be concerned with whether or not the addiction causes harm; or in other words: whether the addiction adds more to the overall life quality than it subtracts. Similarly, it is not customary to ask ...

AIMS To investigate gambling expenditure and its relationship with socio-demographics, health-related correlates and past-year gambling behaviour. DESIGN Cross-sectional population survey. SETTING Population-based survey in Finland. PARTICIPANTS Finnish people aged 15-74 years drawn randomly from the Population Information System. The participants in this study were past-year gamblers wit...

On October 13, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcementAct (UIGEA)of2006asanattachment to theSecurity andAccountability for Every Port Act of 2006. UIGEA is the first federal regulation specific to the online gaming industry. In this article, we examine the impact of UIGEA and its subsequent interpretation (through administrative rulemaking andDepartment o...

Network throughput and energy conservation are two conflicting important performance metrics for wireless sensor networks. Since these two objectives are in conflict with each other, it is difficult to achieve them simultaneously. In this paper, a joint duty cycle scheduling and energy aware routing approach is proposed based on evolutionary game theory which is called DREG. Making a trade-off ...

The linear quadratic zero-sum dynamic game for discrete time descriptor systems is considered. A method, which involves solving a linear quadratic zero-sum dynamic game for a reduced-order discrete time state space system, is developed to nd the linear feedback saddle-point solutions of the problem. Checkable conditions, which are described in terms of two dual algebraic Riccati equations and a...

This article takes a rhetorical approach to the rise of gambling in America, and in particular the growth of the game of poker, as a means to explore larger changes to America’s collective consciousness that have resulted in an increased acceptance of gambling. I contend that the rise of the risk society has resulted in significant alterations to the mythology that binds Americans together. I e...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Adolescent Internet gambling is associated with concomitant addictive behaviors. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of Internet gambling practices, its impact upon psychosocial development and to evaluate the association between gambling practices and Internet addictive behavior among Cypriot adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in a convenienc...

This short paper describes a surprising connection between two previously unrelated topics: the probability of winning certain gambling games, and the invariance of certain measures under pointwise multiplication on the circle. The former has been well-studied by probabilists, notably in the book of Dubins and Savage (1965). The latter is the subject of an important and well-studied conjecture ...