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Examining Factors Affecting Consumers’ Daily Fantasy Sports and Sports Betting Participation: Comparing Motivation and Perception of Skill Versus Luck
No full textWith the Supreme Court lifting the federal ban on sports betting, dominant Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) operators including DraftKings and FanDuel have entered the sports gambling market and operate in legalized states in the United States. These providers of both DFS and sports betting are making efforts to better understand the characteristics of both DFS and sports betting consumers and develop effective marketing strategies to target each consumer segment. This research investigates the differences in motivation to participate and perception of skill vs. luck between DFS and sports betting participants. 934 adults (sports betting = 434, DFS = 500) were recruited from CloudResearch. The results from this study indicate that DFS and sports betting participants exhibited differences in their level of motivation with respect to entertainment and social interaction whereas they did not differ in terms of the motivation for financial gain and perception of skill vs. luck. The findings from this research provide meaningful insights that DFS and sports betting participants may be regarded as two independent consumer segments
Reassessing Policy Responses to Irregular Migration in Receiving Democracies: A Process-Tracing Analysis of Transactional Migration Governance
No full textThis policy brief analyzes the growing use of transactional migration agreements (TMAs) by receiving democracies—bilateral arrangements that exchange financial or diplomatic concessions for the external enforcement of migration control. While politically expedient, TMAs often generate long-term strategic liabilities: they reduce state control over enforcement outcomes, expose receiving states to coercive leverage by partner states, and weaken normative commitments to transparency and rights protection. Using analytic process tracing and formal modeling, this paper identifies four recurring mechanisms by which TMAs evolve into systems of asymmetric dependence. It then evaluates three alternative policy frameworks—Exit Doctrine, Legal Category Reform, and a Structured Conditionality Regime—against five criteria: policy durability, administrative implementability, normative capital preservation, responsiveness to structural drivers, and political feasibility. Among them, the Structured Conditionality Regime offers the most viable path forward: it aligns with current executive priorities by tying cooperation to measurable outcomes, limiting open-ended aid commitments, and restoring control over migration enforcement without requiring multilateral consensus
The K-12 Education Workforce in Nevada, 2024
No full textThis fact sheet presents data on the share of workers in the K-12 education workforce in Nevada. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Query System provides data on the amount of employment in all job sectors at the state and metropolitan statistical area (MSA) levels. This fact sheet focuses on employment and wage data for the State of Nevada, the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV MSA, and the Reno, NV MSA as of May 2024
Researcher Risks: A Typology for Qualitative Risks to Researchers in Communication Studies
No full textDiscussions of risk in qualitative research tend to focus on risks to research participants. However, qualitative researchers also face risks—or uncertainties with potential for harm—because they serve as the research instrument. Communication researchers are uniquely suited to problematize the meaning of risk and extend theory about what risk is by noting that risk is subjective and communicatively constructed, both in qualitative methods and in research contexts. We create a typology of five risk contexts that pose a danger to researchers: crisis, disruptive, vulnerable, emotionally risky, and ethically fraught contexts. For each context, we define the risk, propose representative examples, and critically discuss proposed coping strategies. By doing so, we make three key contributions to scholarship on qualitative methods in communication research: (1) we explore how communication concepts of temporality, care, and resilience can be extended via discussion of researcher risks; (2) we show that researcher risk is ongoing, fluid, and constantly evolving; and (3) we argue that risk management strategies must include collective support that embraces the extended temporality of researcher risk
Legislative Transparency and Self-Government: Nevada and First Amendment Application
No full textWith the rise in political tension in the United States, the call for transparency from elected officials has reached an all-time high. While the role of American democracy is to promote a sense of participation from constituents, the lack of information regarding policy decisions has exempted the public from the halls of the legislature. This policy brief examines legislative transparency in Nevada through the concept of self-government theory. Despite a 1994 constitutional amendment to require publicly accessible legislative committee meetings, exemptions from Open Meeting Law and statutory exemptions continue to limit public access and further the divide between the government and its constituents. Drawing comparisons on transparency models in Florida and California, this report highlights structural gaps in Nevada’s accountability model, while proposing a series of reforms to promote public notice requirements, transparency mediation, removal of legislative exemptions, and control the influence of lobbyist disclosure rules. These recommendations will allow Nevada to align its legislative proceedings with reinvigorated civic participation, public trust, and democratic efficacy
Cultural Capital Skill Development in Undergraduate Kinesiology Curriculum
No full textTopics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology Volume 6: Issue 1, Article 2, 2025. Specialization within Kinesiology and related fields over the past 20 years has led to the prioritization of technical skill development. This specialization leaves limited availability of resources for the development of Cultural Capital (CC) skills in undergraduate kinesiology and kinesiology-related curricula. The purpose of this study was to examine how seven Experiential Learning Activities (ELAs) influence CC skill development in an undergraduate kinesiology practicum course. An interpretive qualitative action research design was applied to investigate five senior undergraduate kinesiology students’ experiences. The study concluded: (a) six of the seven ELAs improved CC skills specific to kinesiology-related professions (KRPs) including adaptable communication, active listening, interpersonal relationship skills, confidence, and self-awareness in all five participants; (b) reviewed literature confirms said skills are regarded as valuable CC skills in KRPs. Therefore, the use of ELAs should be considered as a tool to help prepare students for professional opportunities and success; (c) due to the value placed on CC skills in KRPs, the ELAs have utility in kinesiology curriculum. Based on these conclusions, five recommendations are made in the areas of practice, future research, and theory: (a) Courses focusing on kinesiology-related experiences such as internships and practicums may not solely lead to CC skill development and should; therefore consider the inclusion of ELAs to further foster such development; (b) the inclusion of mentors and consistent access to kinesiology-related professionals can provide helpful guidance throughout such activities; (c) future researchers should consider examining the same or similar ELAs in kinesiology-related courses with larger enrollment sizes; (d) kinesiology-related educators may consider only using a select number of the ELAs instead of all seven; (e) this action research should be replicated using the CC framework in different kinesiology-related settings such as physical therapy, and/or athletic training environment
Social Jetlag Alters Markers of Exercise-Induced Mitochondrial Adaptations in the Heart
No full textSocial jetlag (SJL) represents the behavioral misalignment of sleep and wake times on work days and free days, and potently disrupts the circadian rhythm. SJL affects up to 70% of the population worldwide and is associated with increased risk for many cardiometabolic diseases. Animal models of acute SJL have shown disruption in locomotor activity and expression of clock genes in select tissues, its impact on the heart remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of prolonged SJL (6 weeks), on activity rhythms, and the impact on exercise-induced adaptations in the heart. Male mice (n = 40, C57BL6) were assigned to a control light:dark (LD) cycle or SJL schedule (4-hour shift on weekends) for 6 weeks. Mice in each condition were further divided into voluntary exercise (EX) or sedentary (SED) groups. SJL resulted in significant shifts in the onset of physical activity in both sedentary (SJL-SED) and exercised (SJL-EX) mice on weekends, and exercise accelerated the speed of re-entrainment to the weekday schedule. Exercise induced myocardial hypertrophy in both CON-EX and SJL-EX groups. While there were no changes in mitochondrial content, SJL decreased expression of mitochondrial fusion proteins MFN1 and OPA1, and inhibited exercise-induced increases in MFN2. Taken together, these findings suggest that exercise hastens re-entrainment to the weekday schedule under SJL, but that SJL disrupts exercise-induced alterations to mitochondrial fusion/fission dynamics in the heart. Further investigation of cardiovascular function is warranted and will enable the development of strategies to prevent the effects of SJL on the heart
The “Presentation Log Report”: A Project Workflow That Supports Notes, Annotation, and Editing, From Project Inception to Final Presentation
No full textMy “presentation log report” practice repurposes presentation software to serve the function of the research report with the flexibility to transform a logbook into a final report. This practice is (1) accessible to students, (2) supports workforce skills, (3) models workflow stages, and (4) is resistant to Gen AI abuse. Using my Google Slides project template, students thoroughly log details of each project stage and then “collapse” this log into a final report. Presentation slides are ideal for structuring report sections and visual documentation of resources and data. Slides can be shared, supporting collaboration and peer review, and students can practice visual design skills to show the hierarchy of information—what’s more and less important—in their research writing. My template requires that students annotate their project resources with callouts, highlights, and captions, a process that encourages them to engage meta-cognitively with resources and is difficult to sidestep with current Gen AI tools.https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1218/thumbnail.jp
Oh, the Lessons You\u27ll Teach! Bringing Dr. Seuss Into Graduate Field Work
No full textTeaching Practice and the Need It Addresses Incorporated classic Dr. Seuss children\u27s literature into graduate Educational Policy and Leadership field experience coursework. Used one story per class session to guide discussions and activities. Connected themes from four Dr. Seuss books to students’ real-world work on school improvement initiatives. Literature supported students’ year-long capstone projects, helping themhttps://oasis.library.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1216/thumbnail.jp
Real-World Applications: Strategies to Inspire Students to Learn Calculus and Differential Equations Through Modeling
No full textKey elements of strategy to inspire students include: Pre-Class Preparation; Historical Context (Starting each lecture with a brief historical overview to provide relevance and context to the material); Interactive Real-Life Problem Solving (Discussing the main concepts of the lecture and collaboratively solving challenging problems); Proof Techniques (Demonstrating mathematical methods used to prove key statements from the current lesson); Real-Time Feedback.https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1219/thumbnail.jp