Marketing and advertising online sports betting: a problem gambling perspective

In this article, online sports betting is explored with the objective of critically examining the potential impact on problem gambling of the emerging product features and advertising techniques used to market it. First, the extent of the issue is assessed by reviewing the sports betting prevalence rates and its association with gambling disorders, acknowledging the methodological difficulties of an unambiguous identification of what exactly constitutes sports-related gambling today. Second, the main changes in the marketization of online betting products are outlined, with specific focus on the new situational and structural characteristics that such products present along with the convergence of online betting with other adjacent products. Third, some of the most prevalent advertising master narratives employed by the betting industry are introduced, and the implications for problem gamblers and minors are discussed

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Privatisation performance in major European countries since 1980.

The weight of academic research and popular opinion is now decidedly in favour of the proposition that privately-owned firms are more efficient and more profitable than state-owned firms, and the multilateral aid agencies that "count" in the developing world (particularly the World Bank) firmly advise countries to reduce the size of their state sectors. The limited empirical evidence that exists suggests that non-privatising reform measures, such as price deregulation and market liberalization, can improve the efficiency of SOEs, but it is far from established that these reforms would be even more effective if coupled with privatisation. This research investigates performance of both private and state-owned enterprises through looking at results since the outbreak of the intensive privatisation programmes in Europe at the beginning of the 1980s. Many theories like the property rights theory, the principal agent theory, the Austrian school of economics and the public choice school stress the superiority of privately-owned over state-owned companies without addressing how corporate performance should be measured in light of their analysis. In other words, those theories point to the effectiveness of private firms compared to state-owned while the measurement of performance remains underdeveloped. Quite apart from how different theories of (the benefits of) (private) ownership are related to empirical outcomes, there are problems with standard measures of corporate performance, such as total factor productivity, for example, in light of the Cambridge Critique. Because of these problems, another method, factor analysis, has been used for measuring corporate performance on a sample of private and public firms. Our overall empirical study results indicate that corporate performance is characterised by two characters: size and profitability. In most of the statistical exercises (total of 42 cases) size and profitability were the main characteristics although in some cases ownership was added to those characters but as a separate factor without any relation with the variables representing size and profitability. Our finding undermines the arguments stressed by the theories in favour of private ownership that this is a major distinguishing aspect of corporate performance

The association between child gender and observed maternal responsiveness in mothers of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

The present study examined the relationship between child gender and observed maternal responsiveness in mothers of 6-10 year old children with ADHD. Fifty-seven mother-child dyads participated in a 25-minute observed parent-child interaction comprised of both structured and unstructured tasks. Observed interactions were coded for overall and dimensional categories of maternal responsiveness. Results indicated that mothers of boys and mothers of girls with ADHD did not differ on either overall levels of responsiveness or individual dimensions of responsiveness (e.g., control, affect, etc.). However, responsiveness did vary as a function of child age and maternal race/ethnicity, with mothers of younger children and Caucasian mothers displaying higher levels of responsiveness. Implications and future directions are discussed

The Unfinished Business of State-owned Enterprise Reform in the People’s Republic of China

This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People’s Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE profitability in the early 1990s. The oil industry serves to illustrate industry-specific SOE reform trends as well as the latest reform developments. Until today, a stable, successful, long-term arrangement of state ownership has remained elusive. SOE reform is incomplete as long as a number of fundamental governance issues are not resolved. But these are difficult to resolve in the context of Party-controlled state-owned enterprises

Vendor Interoperability Through MDL

ITC/USA 2011 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Seventh Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2011 / Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NevadaDescribing data formats has gone a long way in providing a common thread for moving test programs from one test range to another without incurring massive code rewrites. The introduction of the IRIG 106-93 standard provided the Telemetry Attributes Transfer Standard (TMATS) to achieve interoperability between the test article and ground processing system. The integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry (iNET) Metadata Description Language (MDL) extends the concept to include descriptions of the equipment configuration and setup. This MDL declarative language is both vendor neutral and vendor customizable (where needed) and extends interoperability down to the individual components of the instrumentation system. This paper describes the current state of MDL and its use across intended vendor lines.International Foundation for TelemeteringProceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection