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The New South Wales club gaming industry has existed for nearly forty years since the introduction of slot machines in …
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responses, also known as gaming responses. The existence of these responses, however, is difficult to demonstrate in practice … because this behaviour is typically hidden from the researcher. We present a simple model showing that one can identify gaming … measure has been activated. Our hypothesis is that gaming takes place if this correlation decreases with activation. Using …
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Much attention has focused recently on using student test scores to evaluate public schools. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 requires states to test students and evaluate each school's progress toward having all students meet or exceed state standards. Under the law, however, schools only...
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On 25 August 1998 the Treasurer referred Australia’s gambling industries for inquiry and the provision of an information report within 12 months of receiving the reference.The Commission was requested to provide an information report on the economic and social impacts of Australia’s gambling...
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caps. A proposal is put forward to explore the use of on-site gaming in arenas in order to provide additional revenues for …
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In this article we describe reinforcement learning, a machine learning technique for solving sequential decision problems. We describe how reinforcement learning can be combined with function approximation to get approximate solutions for problems with very large state spaces. One such problem...
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This dissertation empirically investigates the effects of the gaming industry on a local economy, specifically housing … Vegas' relatively unrestricted gaming industry has on surrounding home prices and sales and analyzes the specific forces and … effects of the performance of a locale's gaming industry on the surrounding residential real estate market. This study …
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casino properties the bulk of gaming revenues are derived from slot machines. It is therefore imperative for casino operators …
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Experiential learning efforts in the 1950s mimicked the logistic operational gaming of World War II; the results were … encouraging. Subsequently, funded research efforts over three decades focused on gaming phenomena. Computers permitted more … sought to employ gaming for developing strategic plans. Many gaming projects, national and international, presented the …
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This paper examines herding behavior among Hong Kong investors using announcements of the opening of new casinos in Macau. The results show that there is a difference in the herding behavior toward these “Macau concept” stocks before and after the change in investment sentiment regarding...
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