We investigate the relationship between a student’s affect and how he or she chooses to use a simulation problem-solving environment, using quantitative field observations. Within the environment studied, many students were observed gaming the system (cf. Baker et al, 2004), while few students engaged in off-task behavior. We analyze which affective states co-occur with gaming the system, and w...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Research suggests that excessive online gaming may lead to symptoms commonly experienced by substance addicts. Since games are particularly appealing to children and adolescents, these individuals may be more at risk than other groups of developing gaming addiction. METHODS Given these potential concerns, a literature review was undertaken in order (i) to present the class...

Over time, the US sports gaming industry has progressed dramatically beyond what the US anti-gaming law drafters envisioned. The result is a system of mostly antiquated laws controlling modern industry causing confusion across the board. This discussion, therefore, intends to shed light on the US sports gaming legal framework, including analysis of the preeminent US laws that regulate the sport...

Hellström, C. 2015. Adolescent Gaming and Gambling in Relation to Negative Social Consequences and Health. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1131. 80 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9316-5. The aims of the thesis were to study relationships between the effects of online gaming and gambling and negative social conse...

OBJECTIVE To examine energy expenditure and cardiovascular responses in children during seated and active gaming. DESIGN Comparison study. SETTING Children's Exercise Laboratory, University of Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Eighteen children (aged 6-12 years) recruited from local primary schools. MAIN EXPOSURE Active and seated computer games played by all participants. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES...

From Facebook groups and online gaming clans, to social movements and terrorist cells, groups of individuals aligned by interest, values or background are of increasing interest to social network researchers (Snow et al., 1980; Zheleva et al., 2009). In particular, understanding the structural and dynamic factors that influence the evolution of these groups remains an open challenge (Palla et a...

Public interest and acceptance of casino gaming as a recreational activity has resulted in a proliferation of gaming locations. The spread of gaming locations and the acceptance of gaming as a legitimate leisure activity may be explained from a marketing perspective through diffusion theory. Gaming could see continued revenue growth and participation or, like lotteries, it could face saturation...

Over time, the US sports gaming industry has progressed dramatically beyond what the US anti-gaming law drafters envisioned. The result is a system of mostly antiquated laws controlling modern industry causing confusion across the board. This discussion, therefore, intends to shed light on the US sports gaming legal framework, including analysis of the preeminent US laws that regulate the sport...

In the aftermath of the Paris Agreement, there is a crucial need for scientists in both thermal physiology and climate change research to develop the integrated approaches necessary to evaluate the health, economic, technological, social, and cultural impacts of 1.5°C warming. Our aim was to explore the fidelity of remote temperature measurements for quantitatively identifying the continuous re...

A significant challenge in modern clinical medicine is that despite the existence of genetic therapies, lack of techniques to deliver them to the body remains a major roadblock. Viral vectors, benign vehicles for therapeutic delivery produced by removing the reproductive and virulence capacities of wild-type viruses, address this obstacle [1]. Unfortunately, if there is no naturally-occurring v...