BACKGROUND Concerns that Internet gambling has elevated the prevalence of problem gambling have not been substantiated; however, evidence suggests a subgroup of Internet gamblers do experience higher rates of gambling harms. Greater overall involvement in gambling appears to be predictive of harms. The purpose of this study was to examine differences between Internet gamblers with a single or m...

Institute of Public Health Distribution Department SE-120 88 Stockholm Fax +46 8 4498811 [email protected] www.fhi.se R 2009:20 ISSN 1651-8624 ISBN 978-91-7257-661-2 R 20 0 9:20 This report reviews the academic literature on social, economic and cultural research on gambling. The objective is to sum up what the literature says about the motives people have for gambling and the factors that influence ...

For many decision problems with uncertainty, triangular intuitionistic fuzzy number is a useful tool in expressing ill-known quantities. This paper develops a novel decision method based on zero-sum game for multiple attribute decision making problems where the attribute values take the form of triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers and the attribute weights are unknown. First, a new value ind...

There is an insufficient understanding of consumer attitudes towards Internet gambling, which contributes to difficulties in developing policies to encourage the use of regulated online gambling sites. This research aimed to generate knowledge about consumer attitudes towards online gambling, specifically concerning the issues of player protection, regulation, and responsible gambling. An onlin...

ISSN 0085-7130 ©Telenor ASA 2007 Background Humans have practised gambling at all times. The archaeologists have made excavations in prehistoric sites and found large numbers of roughly dice-shaped bones. Different types of games, sports events, other types of events and gambling are connected because it has always been challenging to make bets on different outcomes of a game. Experiences and s...

We introduce a method of decomposing a p-player normal form game into 2p simultaneously-played component games, each distinguished by the set of “active” players whose choices influence payoffs. We then prove that a normal form game is a potential game if and only if in each of the component games, all active players have identical payoff functions, and that in this case, the sum of these share...

The notion of persistently optimal strategy in gambling theory is analogous to that of subgameperfect equilibria in game theory. We prove the existence of persistently -optimal strategies for the players engaged in a nonleavable stochastic game with finite state space.

Higgs Domino Island is a game application or online that can be downloaded and played easily on smartphone android phone. Like games in general, this offers many variations of users choose enjoy. However, the requires players to have chips (a certain amount value) able enjoy various types application. This study uses qualitative methods understand social phenomena. The results showed necessity ...