In Search of Equilibrium – How Regulatory Changes Impact the Gambling Industry in Poland

The so-called Polish “gambling affair” of 2009 resulted in the adoption of a new Act on Gambling. The regulation significantly changed the legal environment in Poland. It was also the starting point of what we identified as the search of equilibrium - a number of further legislative changes aimed at creating a sustainable environment for gambling. Some market segments became delegalized, some monopolized, and others liberalized. The Polish Ministry of Finance and the parliament tried to find the right balance between consumer protection, business growth, and government revenue. A goal that is still to be achieved. This article examines the changes in the Polish gambling law and their impact on the industry. We review the development of regulation and explain the rationale behind it. We then analyze how it influenced the activities of entities active or willing to enter the gambling market. Furthermore, we assess if the regulator reached his intended goal. We also present the state of the gambling industry in Poland and analyze its development over the past ten years. Finally, we take a look at the most crucial challenges and issues that impact the gambling market in Poland. The research aims at showing how uncertainty and frequent regulatory changes influence the behavior and performance of business entities. We want to demonstrate how important it is for regulators to engage in a dialogue with market participants in the process of creating a sustainable market environment for gambling

Aperiodic order and spherical diffraction, II: Translation bounded measures on homogeneous spaces

We study the auto-correlation measures of invariant random point processes in the hyperbolic plane which arise from various classes of aperiodic Delone sets. More generally, we study auto-correlation measures for large classes of Delone sets in (and even translation bounded measures on) arbitrary locally compact homogeneous metric spaces. We then specialize to the case of weighted model sets, in which we are able to derive more concrete formulas for the auto-correlation. In the case of Riemannian symmetric spaces we also explain how the auto-correlation of a weighted model set in a Riemannian symmetric space can be identified with a (typically non-tempered) positive-definite distribution on $\mathbb R^n$. This paves the way for a diffraction theory for such model sets, which will be discussed in the sequel to the present article.Comment: Formerly part of arXiv:1602.08928. Completely revised and extended versio

Software Acquisition Improvement in the Aeronautical Systems Center

In the past 20 years, over 150 recommendations have been made to improve software systems development by organizations such as the Defense Science Board, National Research Council and the U.S. General Accountability Office. It has been discovered that many of these recommendation have remained unimplemented. This research had the purpose of confirming the application of these previous recommendations to improve software acquisition in the Aeronautical Systems Center. This was accomplished through interviews with 20 software practitioners in the acquisition community and the review of relevant literature. Through the analysis of the interviews and literature, this research was able to confirm that many of the recommendations have been applied in programs throughout ASC