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Title: ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
Author: Basalik, Debra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...

Title: Architectural and mobility management designs in internet-based infrastructure wireless mesh networks
Author: Zhao, Weiyi
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Communication
Description: Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have recently emerged to be a cost-effective solution to support large-scale wireless Internet access. They have numerous applications, such as broadband Internet access, building automation, and intelligent transport...

Title: Attribution Theory and Apology Discourse in the Context of Medical Errors
Author: Hartsell, Haley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology, Health education
Description: Communication scholars have investigated medical error and apology discourse over the last 20 years. However, despite the previous research on this topic, little is known about what factors (i.e., controllability, emotional response, and error sev...

Title: Building the Leaders of the Future: A Communication Perspective on College Student Leadership Programs
Author: De Jesus Cesar Bezerra Alonso, Vanessa
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: While leadership communication has been the focus of interest for communication scholars in the last 20 years, no work has been done to understand the conceptualizations of leadership and its implications for the communication discipline in the hi...

Title: Communicative Needs of Patients who Experience Miscarriage: Understanding Healthcare Communication and Reproductive Self-efficacy
Author: Lacci-Reilly, Kandice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Communication, Health services administration
Description: Miscarriage, defined as pregnancy loss in the first 20 weeks of gestation, is a profound and individualized experience. It is estimated to occur in up to one in four pregnancies, resulting in approximately one million miscarriages annually in the ...

Title: Crowd Control: Organizing the Crowd at Yelp
Author: Askay, David
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, World Wide Web--Study and teaching
Description: This dissertation investigates how businesses are able to align the collective actions of a disconnected crowd with the strategic goals of the organization. I examined this questions within the context of the business review website Yelp through a...

Title: Dietary Disclosure: Constitutive Rhetoric of Identities in Altruistic and Egoistic Veg*anism
Author: Caddell, Mackenzie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Despite the rise in popularity of vegan and vegetarian (veg*an) diets and the emergence of social media activism, ethical philosophies related to meat abstention and veg*an identities remain stigmatized in Western societies. The recent popularity ...

Title: Electronic Multitasking During Workplace Meetings: Why Do Employees Do It?
Author: Williams, Eleanor
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Employees are increasingly engaging in electronic multitasking during workplace meetings, as the proliferation of technology is on the rise. Though electronic multitasking is common and potentially harmful to meeting effectiveness because it distr...

Title: FUZZIER CONSTRUCTS IN CONTENT ANALYSIS: RATINGS FROM THE CROWD VS. TRADITIONAL EXPERTS
Author: Moffit, Miles
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The task of rating (or "coding") text data as a component of qualitative content analysis remains a time-consuming process. Advances in crowdsourcing platforms have presented novel opportunities to outsource this work away from the desks of academ...

Title: Fast and Energy-Efficient Mobility Management in Mobile Edge Computing Networks
Author: Wang, Haoxin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Computer engineering
Description: The prevalence of computation-intensive and latency-sensitive mobile applications, such as mobile augmented reality (MAR) and autonomous driving, has an utmost effect on resource-limited mobile clients. Mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed to b...

Title: INGREDIENTS OF MAKING ONLINE ACTIVITY BETWEEN REMOTE GRANDPARENT AND GRANDCHILDREN SUCCESSFUL
Author: Sarwar, Saquib
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Information technology
Description: Grandparents and grandchildren share a special bond. Their relationship grows through communication, activities, and taking care of each other. But when they are separated, they fail to nurture the relationship for lack of connectedness and commun...

Title: INTERNAL ACTIVISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY: A CASE STUDY OF THE NBA’S REACTION TO THE NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTESTS IN SPORTS
Author: Kelly, Corey
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Public relations scholarship, especially in recent years, has witnessed a growing call for studies that investigate how activists engage in public relations. There are still few studies on internal activism, despite its promise for new insights an...

Title: MLB's Neocolonial Practices in the Dominican Republic Academy System
Author: Gentile, Patrick
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Major League Baseball (MLB) has operated in the Dominican Republic for many years in order to find cheap labor that is refined and shipped to the United States, with goals that a few players will develop into great players. Once a player is signed...

Title: Me, Myself, and Depression: Identity Construction and Depression
Author: Thomas, Rachael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Mental health
Description: In this narrative autoethnography, I write about and analyze my experiences with depression in order to understand how my identity is socially constructed within that context. Through thematic analysis, I use Goffman's (1963) identity theory as a ...

Title: NOVEL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PLANAR ANTENNAS WITH GOVERNABLE CIRCULAR POLARIZATION
Author: Thakar, Dip
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Communication
Description: This document is an explicit and an exclusive account on two antennas. This literatureis an attempt to solve some of the challenges for planar antennas in the frequencyindependent class and exploit the radiative nature of narrow band patch antenna...

Title: Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...

Title: PROMOTING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT THROUGH MANAGERS' STRATEGIC USE OF MEETINGS
Author: Allen, Joseph
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology, Industrial, Business
Description: Employee engagement is a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that researchers suggest is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption in work activities. Employee engagement is heavily marketed by HR consultants and recently rec...

Title: PUNISHMENTS, PRISONERS, & PRAGS: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF MALE PRISONER RAPE ON HBO’S OZ
Author: Burns, Myasia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: This analysis examines the symbolic rape narratives of Oz and the cultural contexts in which they exist. It confronts visual images of male rape within the show to uncover considerations of masculinity, sexuality, and gender identification in a pr...

Title: Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
Author: Culletto, Gordon
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Rhetoric
Description: President Barack Obama described December 14, 2012 saying, "it continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency." That morning, a gunman stormed through the doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and began opening fire on childr...

Title: Professionalization through socialization: Student conceptualizations of internships
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2007
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: Research suggests that internships lead beneficial outcomes for students, universities, and organizations (e.g., Eyler, 1992; Knouse & Fontenot, 2008), yet a large body of internship research is devoid of a theoretical basis. Previous research tha...