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Nottingham Trent University
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About: Nottingham Trent University is a education organization based out in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 4702 authors who have published 12862 publications receiving 307430 citations. The organization is also known as: NTU & Trent Polytechnic.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the recent concerns about video game "addiction" have been based less on scientific facts and more upon media hysteria, and they conclude that the most likely reasons that people play video games excessively are due to either ineffective time management skills, or as a symptomatic response to other underlying problems that they are escaping from, rather than any inherent addictive properties of the actual games.
Abstract: This paper argues that the recent concerns about video game "addiction" have been based less on scientific facts and more upon media hysteria. By examining the literature, it will be demonstrated that the current criteria used for identifying this concept are both inappropriate and misleading. Furthermore, by presenting four case studies as examples it will be demonstrated how such claims of video game addiction can be inaccurately applied. It is concluded that the most likely reasons that people play video games excessively are due to either ineffective time management skills, or as a symptomatic response to other underlying problems that they are escaping from, rather than any inherent addictive properties of the actual games.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide new insights into the factors that facilitate or impede knowledge transfer and examine the impact of knowledge transfer on cross-border acquisition performance, and develop a conceptual framework incorporating the mediating effect of national cultural distance, organizational culture differences, and employee retention.
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TL;DR: This study provides the first analysis ever made of a representative national sample of Internet gamblers and suggests that the medium of the Internet may be more likely to contribute to problem gambling than gambling in offline environments.
Abstract: This study provides the first analysis ever made of a representative national sample of Internet gamblers. Using participant data from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey (n = 9,003 adults aged 16 years and over), all participants who had gambled online, bet online, and/or used a betting exchange in the last 12 months (n = 476) were compared with all other gamblers who had not gambled via the Internet. Overall, results showed a number of significant sociodemographic differences between Internet gamblers and non-Internet gamblers. When compared to non-Internet gamblers, Internet gamblers were more likely to be male, relatively young adults, single, well educated, and in professional/managerial employment. Further analysis of DSM-IV scores showed that the problem gambling prevalence rate was significantly higher among Internet gamblers than among non-Internet gamblers. Results suggest that the medium of the Internet may be more likely to contribute to problem gambling than gambling in offline environments.
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TL;DR: In the age of mass media, the political economy of media and communication has engaged with political economy concepts in a rather limited way as discussed by the authors, which was mostly concerned with the ownership of means of communication.
Abstract: In the age of mass media, the political economy of media and communication has engaged with political economy concepts in a rather limited way. It was mostly concerned with the ownership of means o...
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TL;DR: A comparative analysis of the evolution of the technical efficiency of commercial banks in India and Pakistan during 1988-1998, a period characterized by farreaching changes in the banking industry brought about by financial liberalization is provided in this article.
Abstract: This paper provides a comparative analysis of the evolution of the technical efficiency of commercial banks in India and Pakistan during 1988–1998, a period characterized by far-reaching changes in the banking industry brought about by financial liberalization. Data Envelopment Analysis is applied to two alternative input–output specifications to measure technical efficiency, and to decompose technical efficiency into its two components, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. The consistency of the estimated efficiency scores are checked by examining their relationship with three traditional non-frontier measures of bank performance. In addition, the relationship between bank size and technical efficiency is examined. It is found that the overall technical efficiency of the banking industry of both countries improved gradually over the years, especially after 1995. Unlike public sector banks in India, public sector banks in Pakistan witnessed improvement in scale efficiency only. It is also found that banks are relatively more efficient in generating earning assets than in generating income. This is attributed to the presence of high non-performing loans. In addition, it is found that the gap between the pure technical efficiency of different size groups has declined over the years.
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David L. Kaplan | 177 | 1944 | 146082 |
Paul Mitchell | 146 | 1378 | 95659 |
Matthew Nguyen | 131 | 1291 | 84346 |
Ian O. Ellis | 126 | 1051 | 75435 |
Mark D. Griffiths | 124 | 1238 | 61335 |
Tao Zhang | 123 | 2772 | 83866 |
Graham J. Hutchings | 97 | 995 | 44270 |
Andrzej Cichocki | 97 | 952 | 41471 |
Chris Ryan | 95 | 971 | 34388 |
Graham Pawelec | 89 | 572 | 27373 |
Christopher D. Buckley | 88 | 440 | 25664 |
Ester Cerin | 78 | 279 | 27086 |
Michael Hofreiter | 78 | 271 | 20628 |
Craig E. Banks | 77 | 569 | 27520 |
John R. Griffiths | 76 | 356 | 23179 |