The Cyclicality of Mark-Ups and Profit Margins for the United Kingdom: Some New Evidence

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Macallan ◽  
Stephen Millard ◽  
Miles Ian Parker
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals House-edge information yields lower subjective chances of winning than equivalent return-to-player percentages: New evidence from support forum participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip W.S. Newall ◽  
Lukasz Walasek ◽  
Elliot A. Ludvig ◽  
Matthew J. Rockloff
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Average Cost ◽  
Edge Information ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Evidence

Information messages that communicate the average cost of play are a helpful consumer protection tool in gambling. In Australia and the United Kingdom, cost of play information is typically communicated via the “return-to-player” statistic, e.g., “This game has an average percentage payout of 90%.” Through a sample recruited through a gambling support forum (n = 49), this paper reports how house-edge information (e.g., “This game keeps 10% of all money bet on average”) is associated with lower perceived chances of winning, as opposed to equivalent return-to-player information. Accordingly, this study also extends the literature on optimal gambling messaging to a group of support forum users.RésuméLes messages destinés à renseigner les joueurs sur le coût moyen des activités de jeux de hasard constituent une mesure de protection du consommateur utile. En Australie et au Royaume-Uni, cette information est habituellement transmise sous forme de statistique précisant le « taux de retour », par exemple : « Ce jeu a un taux de retour de 90 %. » Cette étude montre, sur la base d’un échantillon recruté au sein d’un forum de soutien aux joueurs (n=49), que les messages axés sur la marge de profit des maisons de jeu (par ex. « La maison conserve en moyenne 10 % des sommes misées  ») ont une incidence négative sur la perception des chances de gagner, contrairement aux messages sur le taux de retour. Nos conclusions ajoutent aux connaissances sur la nature des messages à adresser aux membres des groupes de soutien aux joueurs.

scholarly journals Minimum Wages and the Gender GAP in Pay: New Evidence from the United Kingdom and Ireland

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 514-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Bargain ◽  
Karina Doorley ◽  
Philippe Van Kerm
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Evidence

Scholarship of Practice: Making Occupation-Focused, Theory-Driven, Evidence-Based Practice a Reality

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 260-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty Forsyth ◽  
Lynn Summerfield Mann ◽  
Gary Kielhofner
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Outcomes Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Practice Knowledge ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Practice Framework ◽  
New Evidence

National and local policies require the profession to provide evidence on which practice is based. This paper illustrates an approach to meeting the expectations of these policies. Specifically, it describes the development of the United Kingdom Centre for Outcomes Research and Education (UKCORE). UKCORE was developed within a ‘scholarship of practice’ framework, which supports the development of robust partnerships between academia and practice whereby academic knowledge influences practice and practice knowledge influences academia. Within the partnership, all academic participants (educators, researchers and students) and practice participants (clinicians, clients and administrators) are called ‘practice scholars’ and are focused on practice scholarship. UKCORE was founded in London in 2001 in order to support the delivery of existing evidence into occupational therapy practice while simultaneously supporting practice to engage in generating new evidence for occupational therapy practice. This article provides an overview of the academic and practice changes that have been put into place. The changes are designed to support the development of practice that is occupation focused, theory driven and evidence based.

Franklin’s men and their families: New evidence from the Allotment Books

Polar Record ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Lloyd-Jones
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Northwest Passage ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
National Archives ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Local Levels

AbstractA rich seam of scientific research has been opened by the recent location of both shipwrecks from the disastrous 1845 Franklin northwest passage expedition. Even more than the forensic study of any human remains, the contents of Her Majesty’s Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror have already begun to illuminate the day-to-day lives of Victorian sailors in the Arctic. Yet many hitherto unexamined but informative documents have survived too, both in the British National Archives and at local levels throughout the United Kingdom, which also enable us to focus upon those men, their work and families, thereby gaining a far better understanding of their meticulously planned but ultimately doomed voyage. This article examines the previously ignored Royal Navy Allotment Books and cross-references them with other contemporary records, such as censuses and parish registers, to give us new insights into the backgrounds of the crews of HMSs Erebus and Terror.

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