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Studying the impact of gambling advertising in sport on the normalization of gambling and gambling behaviors Ghent University

Bram Constandt
Department of Movement and Sports Sciences, Department of Communication Sciences

This research project encompasses two parts:

(1) A systematic literature review of existing research on the impact of sport sponsoring by gambling companies.

(2) Two experimental studies on respectively the impact of shirt sponsoring and billboard sponsoring by gambling companies in sport.

The relationship between gambling sponsorship and the normalization and prevalence of gambling (GAMSPON) Ghent University

Liselot Hudders
Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law, Department of Communication Sciences, Department of Movement and Sports Sciences

There is great concern about the rise in gambling participation and problematic gambling behaviour due to the presence, visibility, strong promotion and general normalization of gambling in society. Gambling advertising is regarded as an important contextual factor contributing to gambling and, subsequently, problematic gambling behaviour. In Belgium, an almost complete ban on gambling advertising with transitional measures was recently ...

Unveiling the Antarctic basement by sampling ice field moraines Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vinciane Debaille, Philippe Claeys
National Institute of Polar Research, Université libre de Bruxelles, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Chemistry, FORMER_Analytical, Environmental & Geo-Chemistry
A thick layer of ice currently hides from view and samples about 98% of the basement lithologies that compose the Antarctic continent. Only a few outcrops are exposed and, albeit intensively studied, only provide a scarce and disparate window into the Antarctic geological history. Understanding this history is however of primary importance to address not only fundamental problems of modern geosciences (such as the mechanisms of continental crust ...