This paper presents data describing the latency of the onset of pathological gambling (PG) in a large sample (N = 180) of men and women seeking treatment at the Rhode Island Gambling Treatment Program (RIGTP). The current study replicates the findings of Breen and Zimmerman (2002), and confirms that involvement with computerized gambling devices, such as video slots and video poker, is associat...

We review several competing chaining methods to estimate the supremum, the diameter of the range or the modulus of continuity of a stochastic process in terms of tail bounds of their two-dimensional distributions. Then we show how they can be applied to obtain upper bounds for the growth of bounded sets under the action of a stochastic flow.

We consider a financial market with a savings account and a stock S that follows a general diffusion. The default of the company, which issues the stock S, is modelled as a stopping time with respect to the filtration generated by the value of the firm that is not observable by regular investors. We assume that the stock price and the value of the firm are correlated. We study three investors w...

Genetic information is transferred through biological processes studied at different levels of granularity. Focusing on the continuity and change of genetic information and its phenotypic expression thus yields a cross-cutting theme in biology. The inspiring aim of this work is to integrate this theme into the knowledge base of an electronic biology textbook. The paper describes first steps in ...