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‘High-Stakes’ Security: Current and Emerging Trends in Casino Gaming Cybersecurity
No full textAlongside the digital evolution of the casino gaming industry, cybercrimes have emerged as a prominent threat to gaming businesses across the entire world. With the growing frequency of high-profile cyberattacks against major casino resorts and casino operators, the gaming industry has responded by implementing innovative cybersecurity strategies and resources to prevent and mitigate potential future assaults. This paper aims to examine cyber events in the gaming industry, how the industry has responded by enhancing its security posture, and what experts in the industry prioritize as security topics for future research. To accomplish this, a literature review was first performed to establish a foundation of literature on cybersecurity in the hospitality industry. Following this, secondary data analysis was conducted to identify gaming companies that have previously fallen victim to cybercrimes, the manner of intrusion, and the common security exploits used. Interviews with gaming industry experts were then conducted to determine which cybersecurity topics were perceived as especially salient to the current and future developments to gaming cybersecurity technologies and processes
Improved Open Access Support through a Popular Open Access Fund
No full textThis paper describes results of a 2023 survey of authors who applied to University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Open Article Fund, a fund that supports article processing charges (APCs). The survey sought feedback about the fund’s impact, value, and award criteria as well as opinions on other open access topics. Results show that the fund has had a positive impact on open access uptake and opinions of open access. Respondents reported that they participate in other open publishing activities and believe that most publications should be made open access. The results suggest opportunities for better strategic connections between the fund and other open access outreach efforts
Library Post Partnerships: A Solution to Increase Access to Public Library Facilities in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area
No full textResource deserts are areas with residential populations that lack access to public amenities. Current standards in the field of Library and Information Sciences recommend a two-mile buffer zone around public libraries in order to ensure access and use of facilities. In the Las Vegas metropolitan area, multiple library deserts can be identified overlapping with areas designated for community development. This research shows that public libraries provide resources that can improve community metrics, notably educational and vocational outcomes, but that many neighborhoods in the region lack access to a facility. Increasing the distribution of public libraries as they are currently architecturally designed is an ideal goal, but can neither match the current need for community development nor be implemented at the rate of population growth. Instead, alternative solutions to expand public library facilities, while maintaining access to indoor spaces, materials, and staff, are explored. The concluded best practice would be to explore library post partnerships, which are public/private space-sharing agreements with organizations located in library deserts. Library post partnerships would decrease the costs of expansion and facility maintenance, strengthen community relationships, and reach patrons who may not otherwise access library services. The issue of library deserts is not unique to one city, however, and becomes more salient as resources for public amenities are influenced by economic and political shifts. The proposed policy solution is foundational to creating a model for increasing library access in the Las Vegas metropolitan area and beyond
Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant
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Men in Higher Education in Nevada, 1993-2023
No full textThis fact sheet compares enrollment, graduation, and earnings data for men and women that enrolled in the seven institutions of higher learning in the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) between 1993 and 2023. This fact sheet further focuses on how male enrollment and graduation shares have changed with time. The data are derived from the American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM) report, “Men in higher education: A national data tool,” which includes data for all fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia. This fact sheet focuses on institution-level data for seven public NSHE institutions: the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Nevada State University (NSU), the College of Southern Nevada (CSN), Western Nevada College (WNC), Great Basin College (GBC), and Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
Animal-Assisted Ministry and Multispecies Sociality in a Christian Therapy Dog Organization
No full textAnimal-assisted ministry is a specialized application of the human-canine bond that transforms the expression of Christian identity for human participants. This practice expands the sociality of both humans and dogs in a multispecies society. Therapy dogs used in animal-assisted ministry are social subjects who become entangled with human social problems in various facets of human-dominated society that would otherwise be inaccessible to nonhumans. Their capacity to comfort people experiencing anxiety enhances the therapeutic character of their handlers, underscoring the fact that Christian ministry is inherently a form of therapy. These dogs are simultaneously endowed with symbolic connotations that increase Christian believers’ feeling of closeness to God when interacting with them. The recently growing popularity of animal-assisted ministry operations in the United States is a reflection of the elevated social status accorded to dogs via contemporary pet culture
“I Am Sorry for Being Abusive”: The Moderating Roles of Leaders’ Apologies on Subordinates’ Reactions to Abusive Supervision
No full textDrawing on cognitive dissonance theory, this dissertation examines how sustained and episodic abusive supervision and leader apologies affect subordinates\u27 service innovative behaviors. Three studies were developed to test the moderating role of abusive leaders’ apologies and the mediating role of rumination and working memory. Study 1 uses a 2 (abusive supervision: low abusive supervision vs. high abusive supervision) × 2 (leader apology: no apology vs. apology) between-subject scenario-based quasi-experiment and examines the direct interactive effect of abusive supervision and leader apologies on subordinates’ service innovative behavior. Study 2 extends the model from Study 1 by testing subordinates’ rumination as a mediator between abusive supervision and service innovative behavior and the moderating role of leader apologies with a one-month time-lagged survey. Study 3 investigates the research model by focusing on one-time episodic leader abuse behaviors, specifying the nature of leader apologies, and measuring actual subordinate behaviors. Sincere and insincere apologies were tested as two boundary conditions moderating the effect of episodic abusive supervision on the service innovative behavior via subordinate’s working memory. A 2 (abusive supervision: low abusive supervision vs. episodic abusive supervision) × 3 (leader apology: no apology vs. insincere apology vs. sincere apology) was adopted. The research findings and implications are discussed
A Novel Game-Based Assessment of Risk-Taking Propensity: Development and Psychometric Evidence
No full textRisk-taking propensity is defined and measured in different ways across the literature, resulting in assessment issues related to construct validity (Bran & Vaidis, 2020). Multimethod assessment approaches can bolster construct validity by capturing more facets of risk-taking propensity (Meyer et al., 2001). Risk-taking propensity is assessed through self-report questionnaires (Zhang et al., 2019), which exhibit good test-retest reliability (Frey et al., 2017) and predictive validity (Beauchamp et al., 2017), and behavioral tasks (Aklin et al., 2005), which are less psychometrically sound, lacking convergent validity and test-retest reliability (Frey et al., 2017). Guided by evidence-centered design principles (Mislevy, 2013), a novel game-based assessment of risk-taking propensity may mitigate the current shortcomings of behavioral tasks. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a well-fitting model and good reliability of the in-game instrumental risk-taking items. The in-game scores weakly correlated with the self-report measure of instrumental risk-taking, but did not have significant correlations with a set of related variables (e.g., financial risk-taking or general risk-taking propensity). The in game instrumental risk-taking scores were predictive of real-world risk-taking behaviors, both in isolation and when modeled with the self-report scores. The in-game assessment is tenable for use in a multimethod approach of measurement in research designs. With dual consideration of both assessment design and game design, game-based assessments can be developed and validated for use in future research
Highways to Hell: How the Intersections of Cinema, Rock Music and the Resurgence of Evangelicalism Influenced the 1985 Senate Hearing on Rock Music
No full textThe Senate hearing on the “Contents of Music and the Lyrics of Records, held on September 19, 1985, was as much a popular culture event as a public airing of concerns about explicit content in music. Much has been written about the significance of the Parents’ Music Resource Center (PMRC), the Senate hearing and the issues it engaged in, and how it colored conversations about censorship of the arts, the effectiveness of rating systems to police popular media and the effects of media on children’s behavior and development. The thesis will explore aspects of formative trends that influenced the PMRC’s presentation in 1985, specifically film, rock music and the resurgence of a public evangelical campaign convinced it had found a new mode of satanic influence bent on corrupting children’s morals and degrading the nation
Let’s Be Real: How Do Inclusive Practice Changes Affect the Employees’ Authenticity and Intention to Stay in The Hospitality Industry?
No full textWith recent political changes in the United States, diversity and inclusion has become a widely discussed topic as the restriction in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives of the Federal Government has resulted in organizations revising their diversity management policies (Cerullo, 2025; The White House, 2025). This calls for investigating how this organizational shift – both in expansion and retraction of inclusive practices – can affect the employees. Therefore, this study explores how the changes in inclusive practices in organizations can affect employee outcomes in the hospitality industry, such as their authenticity at work, intention to stay with the organization, and quality of work-life. Furthermore, the impact of employees’ authenticity at work on intention to stay and quality of work-life was explored. Lastly, the mediation effect of authenticity at work on the relationship between inclusive practices and employee outcomes is also investigated. Results obtained through an online survey showed that the expansion of inclusive practices increase hospitality employees’ intention to stay and quality of work-life, while it was shown not to have an impact on their authenticity at work. However, it was identified that employees’ higher authenticity at work enhances their intention to stay and quality of work-life, while it was shown that authenticity at work does not mediate the relationship between inclusive practices, intention to stay, and quality of work-life. The findings of the study expand what is known in the hospitality diversity literature by investigating the effect of changes in organizational inclusive practices and suggest hospitality organizations refrain from retracting them