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Supplement versus Supplant: A case study of the effect of internet lottery sales on traditional lottery sales
In 2012, the first state lottery began to sell its product over the internet. The additional digital delivery method represents a new era for a product that has been in the market for over three decades. Permitting a potentially competing delivery method for the same product presents an opportunity …
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The Lottery Colonel Blotto Game with Draws
<p>This study presents a novel exploration of the lottery Colonel Blotto game. This adaptation introduces the possibility of draws or ties, moving beyond the traditional winner-take-all framework. The inclusion of the possibility of a draw allows for a more realistic depiction of contests where …
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Lottery Scheduling in the Linux Kernel: A Closer Look
<p>This paper presents an implementation of a lottery scheduler, presented from design through debugging to performance testing. Desirable characteristics of a general purpose scheduler include low overhead, good overall system performance for a variety of process types, and fair scheduling …
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The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: On Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
In this thesis, I show that, from an early point in training, typical neural networks for computer vision contain subnetworks capable of training in isolation to the same accuracy as the original unpruned network. These subnetworks—which I find retroactively by pruning after training and rewinding …
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Lottery and stride scheduling : flexible proportional-share resource management
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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House prices and school choice: evidence from Chicago's magnet schools proximity lottery
Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 95381 on 2018-11-11T10:15:45Z.
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Playing to win : democratic deliberation, planning, and politics in Toronto's civic lottery
… of the Toronto Planning Review Panel, a "civic lottery" initiative begun in fall 2015 by the City of Toronto Planning Division intended to cover a broad spectrum of city planning topics over the course of multiple years. I present initial analysis of not only what the Panel looks like in …
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The effect of a lottery-based incentive program on employee absenteeism patterns and attitudes
… of this study was to explain the effect of a lottery-based incentive program on employee absenteeism. Based on a review of the relevant literature, seven variables were examined: (1) past attendance behavior; (2) employee liking for the lottery program; (3) employee perceptions of the …
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The relationship between traditional student success variables with retention of the Tennessee Lottery Scholarship Program
… indicators and retention of the Tennessee lottery scholarship after 24 attempted semester hours. There were two primary research questions: • Research Question 1 (RQ1): Does a relationship exist between lottery scholarship retention (LSR) and any single or combination of student progression …
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The Impact of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery on College Choice and Completion of Adult Students
… supported a referendum to legalize a state-run lottery to support college scholarships. The Arkansas General Assembly passed a law in 2009 that detailed administration and procedures of the lottery, and students first received scholarships (branded as the Academic Challenge Scholarship) in fall …
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EVALUATING A PERFORMANCE-BASED LOTTERY CONTINGENCY IN A RESIDENTIAL EDUCATIONAL SETTING TO INCREASE STAFF/RESIDENT INTERACTION
… across classrooms was used to determine if a lottery contingency was able to increase direct care staff/resident interaction. Overall, results indicate that a lottery contingency can be successful in increasing the amount of interaction in classrooms between direct care staff and residents in …
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Framework for a lottery-based incentive scheme and its influence on commuting behaviors : an MIT case study
… cash prize, or a chance to enter a grand lottery draw. This thesis reviews the research literature to explain the influence of lottery schemes on behaviors and modifies a theoretical model to suggest how equilibrium mode choices can be influenced by lotteries. A general framework to design …
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Essays on public policy and consumer choice : applications to welfare reform and state lotteries
… consumption? Second, does consumer demand for lottery games respond to expected returns, as maximizing behavior predicts, or do consumers appear to be misinformed about the risks and returns of lottery gambles? Analyses of multiple sources of micro-level gambling data demonstrate that lottery …
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Patterns of revenues for public elementary and secondary school education derived as a result of state lotteries: a case study of Michigan and New York
… was to analyze and to describe the effects of lottery revenue on the earmarked function of public elementary and secondary education in Michigan and New York. In order to update lottery information and provide the necessary background data for this study, the current status and performance of …
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Economic Analysis of State Lotteries in the United States
… In many cases, states establish separate lottery agencies to administer and promote the games. One statutory duty of many lottery agencies is to maximize the net revenue of the games, hence, all agencies engage in advertising. There is however constant pressure from state legislatures to …
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Understanding the impact of gambling with special reference to Thailand
… that the number games, such as the government lottery, the underground lottery, are popular among old gamblers whereas football betting is popular for adolescents. In the past, most casino customers were old gamblers, but at present the number of young gamblers who participate in casino has …
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Effects of risk aversion on value of information in two-action decision problems
… shows that if two decision makers accept the lottery without the information, then the more risk averse decision maker will value the perfect information higher than the less risk averse one. Conversely, if two decision makers reject the lottery without the information, then the less risk …
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