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Showing 1 to 20 of 2251 for “"messages"”.
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Hanging messages : using context-enhanced messages for just-in-time communication
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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“AMERICANS ALL?” – MESSAGES IN MINIATURE
A small white-collar project of the Works Progress Administration project called the Museum Extension Project (MEP) operated in the latter half of the 1930s in at least twenty-four states including Indiana. A product of this visual aid program was the twelve-inch miniature figure dressed in …
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Maternal memorable messages in understanding femininity.
The messages a mother communicates to her children play an important role in the attitudes they develop toward their own self-identity and toward their mindsets concerning femininity (Bem, 1983; Colaner & Rittenour, 2015; Fromme & Eccles, 1996; Golombisky, 2001; Green, 2003; Heisler & Morrison, …
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Characterizing epistemic messages in the classroom
… this question by identifying the epistemic messages about learning that one teacher communicates to his students about the kind of ideas that deserve space in the classroom. A theoretical construct, epistemic messages are the implicit messages a teacher sends about the nature of knowledge …
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Making meaning of media messages: How women interact with the messages in direct-to-consumer antidepressant advertisements
… the ways in which the public interacts with the messages related to depression and its treatment in DTC antidepressant ads shown on television. Six semi-structured focus groups of 1-2 hours, with 4-6 female participants per group were conducted. Within each group, 2-3 DTC antidepressant ads were …
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An Exploration of College-Related Memorable Messages
<p>This research explored how memorable messages and formal (official) university messages work together to inform and influence students’ college choices. Recognizing the ways in which university-constructed and other memorable messages influence students’ choice of college could potentially help …
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The Collective Communication of Social Choice Messages
… defined as social interaction mediated through messages whose production involves a collectivity. The focus of analysis is on social choice messages, messages that prescribe or proscribe the behavior of members of that collectivity. The theory developed here is used to describe the social choice …
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Etherthreads : an infrastructure for location-based messages
… application. A user can send or receive messages based on their current location, thereby increasing the relevance of the messages to the user's current context and activities. The messages are organized into threads, which embody a subject matter, a set of possible senders and a set of …
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Tailoring Messages within the Stages of Change
… support is found for the use of tailoring messages to create behavior change.
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Internalization of Race Messages Among Mixed Race Individuals
… friends, community, and society, to identify messages received within these contexts. How messages influence both their understandings of mixed race identity and how they racially identify themselves was also examined. Mixed race identity development was found to follow an ecological …
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Institutionalization of anti-obesity messages in Chilean schools
… in the institutionalization of anti-obesity messages in Chilean education. At the school level, institutional theory (IT: DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) guided the analysis of the process by which mandatory (law) and nonmandatory (health campaign) anti-obesity messages were taken up in three types …
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Scheduling real-time messages in packet-switched networks
… the problems that arise in scheduling real-time messages in a packet-switched network that has multiple schedulers and has limited buffer space. In our development of the schedulers and the mechanisms for synchronization between the schedulers, we address the following issues: the complexity of …
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Interruptions : using activity transitions to trigger proactive messages
The proliferation of mobile devices and their tendency to present information proactively has led to an increase in device generated interruptions experienced by users. These interruptions are not confined to a particular physical space and are omnipresent. One possible strategy to lower the …
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Street media : ambient messages in an urban space
Ambient street media are the media of our everyday lives in cities. Manifested in bits and fragments on the surfaces of the streetscape, these media often escape our notice - tuned out as visual clutter or dismissed as unimportant. Yet, attentive viewing and analysis reveal much about the local …
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Contextually driven messages about gender : an ethnographic study on messages concerning traditional gender behaviors within work, education, romantic relationships, friendships, and exercise
<p>This thesis focuses on messages concerning gender that are communicated within contemporary U.S. society. Research consisted of twelve ethnographic interviews with students between the ages of nineteen and twenty-seven from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Society is ever …
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Mixed messages: assessing communication in architectural education and practice
The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of communication in both the academic and professional architecture communities. The author addressed (a) whether profession-specific communication skills are part of any National Architectural Accrediting Board-accredited U.S. undergraduate …
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Supportive Messages Perceived and Recevied in a Therapeutic Setting
… in individual's perception of supportiveness of messages received, the network support available to them, changes in uncertainty and self-esteem. Finally, how these variables predict commitment to recovery was examined. Results showed no relationship between strength of network at time 1 and the …
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Terezin variations : codes, messages, and the summer of 1944
This thesis examines the final musical compositions of Pavel Haas, Hans Krása, Gideon Klein, and Viktor Ullmann through the lens of variations form. These four instrumental works were written in the Terezín concentration camp in the summer of 1944, when the Nazi propaganda campaign promoting …
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