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  • Simply Simulation: What a Birth Simulator Says About the Birthing Process

    Creator:
    Nevin, Fiona K.
    Abstract:
    Modern technology has provided many new opportunities in medicine, one of which is improved learning through simulation. One of the newest incarnations of robotic simulation dolls is the Victoria S2200 produced by Gaumard scientific company. With the recent surge of technological advancement in simulation dolls there has been little research...
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    degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech Communication, History of Science, and

  • Comparing organizational theory to practice : using communication to describe a consensual organization

    Creator:
    Lang, Sabrina A.
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    The overarching purpose of this study is to examine the communication implications of a self-proclaimed consensual organization (IT) within a classical organizational environment. The literature review of relevant theory and research covers both hierarchical and consensual organizations viewed via the classical, human relations, and system perspectives. The researcher compares organizational...
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    of the employee and his progressive development; 3) the unification of this science and trained

  • Visual Imagery On Social Media: Increasing Power Through The Use of Photographs on Social Media

    Creator:
    Green, Julia M. (Julia Michelle)
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    Scholars promote the ability of visual imagery to have a number of political campaigning benefits such as influencing opinions and attitudes and encouraging vibrant, striving democracy while improving the quality of public knowledge and opinion. However, previous research on this subject has failed to identify how presidential candidates display their...
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    imagery to have a number of political campaigning benefits such as influencing opinions and attitudes

  • Metaphor and Bias : An In-Depth Look at CNN and Fox News Channel

    Creator:
    Duncan, Sara R.
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    This study links together two very complicated, but very important subjects: media bias and metaphor. More specifically, this study investigates whether or not examining a media outlet's use of metaphor is an effective methodology for investigating media bias. Using cluster analysis, I identified the source metaphors most commonly used on...
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    not been published in any academic journal as of yet, and therefore lacks academic credibility

  • The effects of rise-time and frequency on the auditory brainstem response using high-frequency tone-bursts

    Creator:
    Gray, Pamela S.
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    The effects of rise-time and frequency on the auditory brainstem response were studied in six normal hearing adults. Stimuli were high-frequency gated tone-bursts with center frequencies of 8, 10, 12, and 14 kilohertz (kHz). Examined rise-times were .1, .25, .5, and 1.0 milliseconds (msec). Duration was maintained at 2 msec....
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    The Effects of Rise-Time and Frequency on the Auditory

  • Fish Tales: Salmon Stories, 1945-1980

    Creator:
    Finley, Carmel
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    Approximately $1 billion a year is spent on salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Spending has escalated, yet the number of wild runs placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act has increased, creating social and political controversy. For more than 100 years, salmon management in the Pacific Northwest has...
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    Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in History, Political Science, and Speech Communication

  • The rhetorical dynamics of culture : an interdisciplinary approach to a synthesis between rhetoric and culture

    Creator:
    Tobey, Toni K.
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    The frame of reference for understanding the rhetorical significance of cultural acts lies in the identification and explication of the diversity of theories which encompass sociological and anthropological definitions of culture. The paradigms presented in this thesis range from unilinear evolution, biological and environmental determinism, materialism, historical ethnology and reductionism...
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    approach to a synthesis between rhetoric and culture AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Toni K. Tobey for the

  • Al Gore Jr. and the Rhetoric of Self-Disclosure

    Creator:
    Palmer, Scott Aaron
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    Senator Al Gore Jr. was elected Vice-President of the United States on November 3, 1992. During many of his public speeches, Gore utilized a speaking style that differed radically from the style he used in other political campaigns of his life. This style, which will be called the "rhetoric of...
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    Studies in the co-departments of Speech Communication, Speech Communication, and Political Science

  • Children and the communication of values through significant emotional events

    Creator:
    Biddle, Ronald Lon
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    This study addresses how parents communicate with their children about Significant Emotional Events (SEEs). A SEE is an experience that is so mentally engaging as to cause an individual to consider, examine, and possibly change one's initial values or value system. It examines parent's goals, concerns, and values related to...
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    Children and the communication of values through significant

  • Cooperation and Coordination Between Interdependent Organizations : Job Training Partnership Agencies and Oregon Employment Division Local Offices

    Creator:
    Bober, Pete
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    The Oregon Employment Division (ES) and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) funded agencies frequently provide employment and training services to the same populations, resulting in increased demands to coordinate the two systems efforts and avoid duplications of service. This study examined coordination between local ES offices and JTPA agencies in...
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    organizations : job training partnership agencies and Oregon employment division local offices AN ABSTRACT OF