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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"means of communication"”.
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Other means of communication
… H------- F-----), see also Yale Union, "A series of I-- H------ F----- exhibitions," July 2012-July 2013 in Portland, Oregon, accessible online at yaleunion.org; "A brief history of pop, v., with or without out," pgs. 35-44 (persuasive images): "Color will pop with realism"; "In or on the …
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Evaluation of Blissymbolics as a Means of Communication for the Deaf-cerebral Palsy Population
<p>The purposes of this study are:</p> <ol> <li>To present the deaf-cerebral palsied population with a more functional means of communication.</li> <li>To test the validity of using a non-vocal means of communication, Blissymbolics, when other more traditional methods of teaching communication …
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The Writing is the Wall: Expanding the Means of Communication with Multimodal Approaches to Teaching Composition
<p>As the paradigm of communication shifts into the digital realm, it seems only logical that instructors’ pedagogical approaches to teaching writing should shift as well. Though there is still much merit to teaching tradition approaches to composition, are there more modern methods that could be …
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Mountains, Molehills and Mediation: Exploring the Affordances, the Drawbacks and the Facilitation of Presence Via Face-to-Face Communication and Texting
… is facilitated via texting and face-to-face communication. Face-to-face communication is considered to be the preferred means of communication among many scholars due to its sensorial, co-present, human-based means of exchanging physical and social presence.Texting is but another form of …
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Komunikacijos priemonės radijo stotyje Žinių radijas /
The aim of this work was to view it not as the means of communication but the organization seeking its profit. The main task was to analyze the main possible means of communication on radio stations and their effectiveness on the radio station „News Radio“. After having interviewed the …
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Reviving Stone: Architecture for Living
… and wood, are inspired by the indigenous barns of the area. Architecture can be a means of communication, it can speak to us. I chose to design a residence that speaks of the past yet is one that lives in the present.
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An examination of coordination among friends and strangers from a coordination theory perspective
… mobile social coordination, there is a field of study known as outeraction, the communicative processes used by people to manage future interactions. It is an important area of research because it identifies how informal interactions support complex collaboration between individuals and …
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Influence of social media networks on corporate communication strategies
This study examined the use of social media networks for corporate marketing and communication by United States based companies. The researcher surveyed marketing, advertising, communications and sales professionals of nearly 80 companies and conducted in-depth interviews with four corporate …
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Lloyd's open form 1980 and 1990: born of necessity, has it succeeded?
In earlier shipping days, salvage services were often provided to vessels and maritime properties in danger at sea by individual acts. This was done without salvage contract between the parties. The recent availability of instantaneous means of communication and especially motor driven vessels has …
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PERCEPTION & ROLE OF 3-D VISUALIZATIONS IN PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE SCENIC BYWAY'S VIEWSHED PROTECTION & VISUALIZATION PROJECT
The use of sophisticated visualization tools and methods, in particular 3-D modeling, has seen a considerable rise in planning throughout the last decade due to continued advancements in 3-D technology, computer hardware, and the internet. The rapid increase in the use of 3-D visualization is …
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PERCEPTION & ROLE OF 3-D VISUALIZATIONS IN PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE SCENIC BYWAY'S VIEWSHED PROTECTION & VISUALIZATION PROJECT
The use of sophisticated visualization tools and methods, in particular 3-D modeling, has seen a considerable rise in planning throughout the last decade due to continued advancements in 3-D technology, computer hardware, and the internet. The rapid increase in the use of 3-D visualization is …
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Illustrations in school textbooks
… in school textbook. The main concern of this work is to examine the effectiveness of illustrations in textbooks. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction to the topic, followed by a review of the relevant research on the subject in Chapter 2. In the third part, the contents of two textbooks …
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Wattpad as an Online Medium for Contemporary Folklore
… focuses its discussion within the discipline of folklore by identifying Wattpad.com as a contemporary medium of online folkloric content. Wattpad provides its users with a text-based—and sometimes multimodal—means of communication via its interface that mimics traditional communication as we …
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Evidence of Old English Sound Changes in Chaucer
One of the most interesting features in the whole field of English is the study of that "glorious and imperial mongrel, the English Language." Imperial in the sense that it consists of a dominant strain which is the result of a fusion of various languages; and glorious because it is not only the …
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Improving performance of a GSM-based speech recognizer
[page 73 missing] Communication between human beings is important and the most effective way of passing information. Humans are also able to communicate with machines for instance, computers, where keyboards and typing are the means of communication. Most people can speak but not everyone can read …
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Physical education for students with spina bifida : mothers' perspectives
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of mothers’ perspectives of their children’s experiences in inclusive physical education. It describes the value mothers placed on physical education, the meaning they ascribed to their children’s physical education experiences, the role of the …
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The effect of different modes of communication for the deaf student on verbal achievement
… and primarily communicated with either the use of Sign Language, Cued Speech, or the Oral Method. The purpose of the study is to give an overall picture of how each method impacts the hearing-impaired learner.</p> <p>The sample of this study was hearing impaired males and females over the age of …
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O olhar dos professores da educação infantil com relação ao desenho
This research refers to the understanding of teachers of early childhood education as the educational work of the same, as the importance they attribute to the design and the development of design and their respective phases. The main objective was to identify the perception that educators have …
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The role of social media in cultural relations: an analysis of whether the British Council's social media strategy coheres with the organisation’s core purpose
… that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) would be reducing the annual grant given to the British Council, the organisation announced it would increase its virtual presence. This thesis examines the organisation’s new social media strategy and evaluates whether it is aligned …
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