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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Communication mode"”.
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Joint Effects of Communication Mode and Consensus on Virtual Team Decision Quality
… decision tasks. In addition, teams in virtual communication environments will produce higher quality decisions and attain the assembly effect (synergistic decisions) less often than face-to-face teams on complex decision tasks. Mostly undergraduate students from business courses (N = 358) …
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The Effects of Human-Computer Communication Mode, Task Complexity, and Desire for Control on Performance and Discourse Organization in an Adaptive Task
<p>The present study examined how different communication patterns affected task performance with an adaptive interface. A Wizard-of-Oz simulation (Gould, Conti, & Hovanyecz, 1983) was used to create the impression of a talking and listening computer that acted as a teammate to help participants …
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Seeing through the screen, are interpersonal judgements more accurate in a face-to-face or computer-mediated context?
In view of the many computer-mediated communication technologies currently available to people, it is important to understand how using these technologies affects interpersonal judgements. Pairs of previously unacquainted students participated in the present study. One pair member was assigned to …
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Systematic review of speech and language intervention for young children with cochlear implants : a guide for speech language pathologists
… of SLPs are not educated as to the various modes of communication that can be used with children with CI as they learn spoken language. The focus of this review is to provide SLPs with an evidence-based resource to guide their decision-making regarding appropriate communication mode for …
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Process optimization in drug discovery
… see in their drug discovery process by improving communication between organizations. In particular, I suggest that the company could benefit in cycle time and quality by designing and following more robust lateral processes and by moving their communication mode closer to integrative problem …
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Office designing and planning for knowledge workers
… work, which required more concentration and communication than ever before. Responding to this trend, user behavior studies became more emphasized in the office design process – a successful office design should be a holistic system consisting of users, furniture, and space. In this paper, …
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The effect of technology upskilling on the quality of life of elderly people in Iran : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
… people is an important issue with digital communication becoming the predominant communication mode. The effect of using social media apps on the elderly people’s Quality of Life in developing countries including Iran is an important area to address, to understand what future interventions …
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Enhancing the efficiency and security of NB-IoT: from battery depletion to energy optimization
… energy expenditure without entirely disrupting communication. To evaluate their effectiveness, we developed simulations in both virtual and physical environments and made them publicly available for future research. Additionally, this thesis proposes EDT+ (Early Data Transmission Plus), a new …
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Facilitators and barriers in academic assessment of learners with hearing impairment: a case of examinations council of Zambia
… on use of written standard British English as a communication mode, time limitation, and lack of qualified specialist Hearing Impaired teachers to set test items and mark examinations as well as handling invigilation related challenges of examinations. Arising from these findings the study …
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Factors that contribute to low literacy achievement among grade seven(7) pupils with hearing impairment in Lusaka District, Zambia
… to hearing impaired children related to the communication mode of deaf children which is usually visual rather than auditory.Quantitative data was collected through comparative test examinations administered to pupils (both hearing and non-hearing) and was analysed using SPSS in order to …
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Facilitators and barriers in academic assessment of learners with hearing impairment: a case of examinations council of Zambia
… on use of written standard British English as a communication mode, time limitation, and lack of qualified specialist Hearing Impaired teachers to set test items and mark examinations as well as handling invigilation related challenges of examinations. Arising from these findings the study …
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Analysis of the individualized education programs for students with deafness/hearing impairment and learning disabilities
… services began, parental participation, and communication mode. Procedural components and instructional components of the IEPs were initially examined using a specialized scoring guide. Presence or absence of items related to federally mandated requirements in the Individuals With …
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Language and Identity Management Across Media: A Communities of Practice Study of a Greek-Cypriot Student Society in Britain
… vis-a-vis the Society have an impact on communication practices and identity construction. Questions underlying such analysis are: A. In what ways do participation and engagement inform identity articulations related to community membership? B. In what ways are community, identities and …
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Relational Processes in Support-Related Communication Among Young Adults with Cancer
… their social support networks among different modes of communication [(face-to-face vs. technology-related (e.g., text message, social media)] remains poorly understood. Questionnaire data from 45 young adults with cancer combines these two separate but related literatures of support-related …
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Izinselelo ezibhekene nabafundisi bolimi lwesiZulu olungolwebele ezikoleni zamabanga athe thuthu KwaZulu-Natali
… of instruction. It is not treated as a valuable communication mode. The majority of learners in South African Schools are taught through the medium of English which is not their home language. This has caused learners to despise isiZulu and going to the extent of developing an attitude that they …
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Online persuasion: the influence of message cues and source characteristics
… growth in internet usage for personal communication over the last 10 years (Madden & Zickuhr, 2011) little is known of the online interpersonal persuasion process. Whilst some psychological research has been undertaken in this area, the findings are somewhat contradictory (e.g. Di …
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Wireless Full-Duplex: From Practice to Theory
… in the same band. Ideal wireless full-duplex communication can double the spectral efficiency compared to the traditional half-duplex communication. In this dissertation, we study the challenges in realizing full-duplex communication. We tackle the challenges from two different perspectives: …
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Coexistence of Vehicular Communication Technologies and Wi-Fi in the 5 and 6 GHz bands
… bands. In the last two years alone, the Federal Communications Commission in the US has added more than 1.2 GHz of spectrum in the pool of unlicensed bands. Wi-Fi networks are likely to be the biggest beneficiaries of this spectrum. Such abundance of spectrum would allow massive improvements in …
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Physically constrained maximum likelihood (PCML) mode filtering and its application as a pre-processing method for underwater acoustic communication
Mode filtering is most commonly implemented using the sampled mode shape or pseudoinverse algorithms. Buck et al [1] placed these techniques in the context of a broader maximum a posteriori (MAP) framework. However, the MAP algorithm requires that the signal and noise statistics be known a priori. …
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Physically constrained maximum likelihood (PCML) mode filtering and its application as a pre-processing method for underwater acoustic communication
Mode filtering is most commonly implemented using the sampled mode shape or pseudoinverse algorithms. Buck et al placed these techniques in the context of a broader maximum a posteriori (MAP) framework. However, the MAP algorithm requires that the signal and noise statistics be known a priori. …