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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"text messaging"”.
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A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging
This thesis reports a study using a corpus of text messages in English (CorTxt) to explore linguistic features which define texting as a language variety. It focuses on how the language of texting, Txt, is shaped by texters actively fulfilling interpersonal goals. The thesis starts with an overview …
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Text Messaging as Adjunct to Community Based Weight Management Program
… the study was to evaluate the effect of tailored text messages on body weight change in overweight and obese adults in a community based weight management program. A secondary aim was to detect behavioral changes in the same population. The study design was quasi-experimental with pre and posttest …
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Text messaging: a catalyst for change in socio-cultural values
<p>"This research focuses on how text messaging as a communicative medium impacts the interpretation of all reality, especially the representation of cultural values. The research findings move the text messaging discussion away from its impact in education and toward a solution to the problem of …
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An exploratory study of parents’ experiences of their teenagers’ text messaging
… integral part of their daily communication, with text messaging being one of their preferred modes of social interaction. Researchers across the globe have studied various facets of this phenomenon but he main focus has been on this mode of communication in peer relationships. From a family …
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Getting the message: Using parental text messaging to increase learner attendance
… of two treatment groups received simple weekly text messages providing them with information about their children's attendance in the previous week. Learners whose parents received text messages attended on average 5.6%-6.1% more after-school sessions than the control group (p<0.01), after …
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Adult Texting in Context : Exploring Norms for Mature Users of Text-Messaging Technologies.
… online survey exploring the patterns of adult text-message use was completed by 150 traditional college age young adults ages 18-24 and 171 adults ages 25-68. Because youth traditionally are among the first group to adopt new communication technologies, much research has been conducted among …
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Mobile phone text messaging for improving the uptake of vaccinations : a systematic review
The research undertaken for this MPH dissertation examines the effectiveness of SMS as an intervention to promote vaccination. Part A is the research protocol, which outlines the background and the process of this research. This study utilizes systematic review methods based on those of the …
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Identification Of Differences Between Information Communicated By Text Messaging And Voice Message On Feedback
… modifying effect of communication via voice or text on a cellular phone as it relates to the effects of feedback on future performance, self-efficacy, and perceived face validity. Previous literature has established an effect of positive feedback enhancing future performance and self-efficacy, …
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A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Alcohol Consumption in Adolescents From Historical Text Messaging Data
… network, to capture the semantic content of text messages sent by adolescents during high school, and encode this semantic content as numeric vectors. These vectors effectively condense the text message data into highly leverageable inputs to a logistic regression classifier in a matter of …
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Exploring the Effects of Text Messaging on the Spelling Skills of Ninth and 12th Grade Students
<p>Text messaging has been criticized for a perceived negative impact on spelling skills of students and its increasing appearance in formal school papers. This paper presents a study of the effects of text messaging on the spelling skills of ninth and 12<sup>th</sup> grade students at a U.S. high …
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The cost and cost-effectiveness of a text-messaging based intervention to support management of hypertension in South Africa
… management in South Africa within the context of a text messaging-based intervention (StAR* study) conducted in an urban public-sector clinic in Cape Town. The StAR* study is a community randomized trial that investigated the effect of adherence support via short messaging service (SMS) on …
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SMS text messaging as a means of increasing recall of therapy goals in brain injury rehabilitation and clinical research portfolio
… was used to test the efficacy of sending SMS text messages to patients with a traumatic brain injury as a means of improving their recall of rehabilitation goals. Eleven participants were recruited from two community based rehabilitation centres and were sent text messages relating to three …
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Solving a social dilemma using behaviourally framed text messaging to increase school fees contribution in public schools in South Africa
… in Cape Town, South Africa, to test whether text messages can improve the fee-payment behaviour of parents. Parents who were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups received a monthly behaviourally framed message reinforcing the affective and financial benefits of education. Included …
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Nutrition Enhancement in Early Psychosis (Neep): A Feasibility Trial of Enhanced Nutrition with Text Messaging and a Dietary Tracking Mobile Application
… as well both automated and personalized text-messages). Given the pilot nature of the study, all participants (N=15) received the intervention. Feasibility was assessed through different metrics related to recruitment and adherence to the dietary tracking application, as well as …
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An exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of using text messaging as a tool for self-report data collection in psychological research
Short Message Service (SMS) has immense potential for self-report data collection because it makes use of mobile phones that people already own, and allows researchers to communicate with participants regardless of physical location. Though interest in the possibilities of SMS as a tool for …
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An exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of using text messaging as a tool for self-report data collection in psychological research
Short Message Service (SMS) has immense potential for self-report data collection because it makes use of mobile phones that people already own, and allows researchers to communicate with participants regardless of physical location. Though interest in the possibilities of SMS as a tool for …
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Exploring the experiences and use of text messages to enhance health behaviours and self-management in South Asian patients
… understand the use and experiences of whether text-messaging in the South-Asian (SA) community enhances positive health behaviours, and self-management through the Florence (FLO) text messaging system. It also examines socio-cultural factors contributing to self-management, patient activation …
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Computerized Automated Reminder Diabetes System (CARDS) : using web and wireless phone technology to improve diabetes compliance
… computer technologies utilizing e-mail or SMS text messaging reminders can help overcome adherence barriers to optimal glycemic control in patients with diabetes. Text messaging on cellular phones, in particular, has become a popular communications tool among adolescents and young adults. We …
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