Browsing by Subject "communication"
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An Expectation States Approach to Examining Medical Team Information Exchange
(2013-07-30)This project is the first step in a long line of research that will examine the impact of status on information exchange in small groups of medical professionals. Specifically, we employ the expectation states theory and ... -
Becoming a Professional: Examining Professional Development Practices of Communication Doctoral Students
(2012-10-19)Higher education is currently facing a number of challenges that are leading doctoral students to seek employment outside of the traditional research-focused institution. With students looking for different jobs, professional ... -
Can High School Educators Bridge the Gap?: The Role of Teachers and Counselors in Improving Minority Students' Perceptions about Higher Education via Effective Message Construction
(2016-08-01)The central aim of this thesis is to explore the types of messages that high school educators construct and whether or not they are appropriate for minority student groups. Appropriate in this instance is assessed by whether ... -
Channels and sources used to gather equine-related information by college-age horse owners and enthusiasts
(2009-05-15)This thesis identifies the equine-related topics that are important to Texas college-age horse owners and enthusiasts and the channels/sources they use to get equine-related information. Little research has focused on this ... -
Communicating for Creative Success in Remote Collaborative Work
(2014-01-16)This thesis investigated how technological communication tools contribute to creative success within the speci c domain of animation production. Research indicates that communication is one of the most important factors ... -
Communication among Agricultural Policy Influencers: A Delphi Study
(2015-05-12)Agricultural policy affects the agricultural industry in its entirety. It affects everything from the type of food that is grown to how it is processed and distributed. Agricultural policy influencers impact the development ... -
Effective science communication to children via a health-related Web site
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study assesses one Web site, Veggie-mon.org. This Web site aims to effectively communciate health information to children, resulting in user learning and an intent to change health behavior. Fourth- through eighth-grade ... -
An examination of the relationship among patient factors, patient-physician interaction, and utilization of health services in adults with diabetes
(2009-05-15)In this study, patient-physician interaction, patient socio-demographic factors, health literacy, sources of care, and use of diabetes-related health services, were examined to assess the relationships to patients’ ... -
Experimental Characterization of the Propagation of Acoustic Waves in Pipe Strings
(2015-07-13)This thesis explores the propagation of acoustic waves in pipe strings by designing a series of experimental procedures to characterize their behavior. It describes in detail four sets of experiments that were used to ... -
Exploring Generational Differences in Communication Styles and Work Values Among Teachers in South Texas
(2018-06-26)This research explored the generational differences in communication styles and work values that exist among teachers in a South Texas school district. The study used responses from a survey that asked teachers their ... -
Improved Connectivity using Hybrid Uni/Omni-Directional Antennas in Sensor Networks
(2008-05-27)Connectivity in sensor networks is an important metric that describes the capability of networks to be able to report sensed information. The ability of member nodes to communicate with each other and collectively report ... -
Informal and formal channels of communication preferred and used in the adoption of ranching practices by livestock producers in the state of Nuevo Leon of northeastern Mexico
(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This descriptive research was undertaken to investigate the preferred channels of communication used in the adoption of livestock production practices by ranchers in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo Le??n. The ... -
Investigating the Relation Between Stress and Marital Satisfaction: The Interaction Effects of Dyadic Coping and Communication
(2013-07-30)This study examined the role that communication and coping skills play in the relation between stress and marital satisfaction in a community sample of 119 married, heterosexual couples in Italy. Hierarchical regression ... -
Making the Shift: Supporting World Language Teachers in Moving to a Communicative Curriculum
(2015-11-20)Within the context of a public school district at the middle and high school levels, this study investigates the problem of world language teachers struggling to shift their instructional practice to promote communicative ... -
Managing the Yellowstone River System with Place-based Cultural Data
(2011-10-21)This project aims to create new research tools within the human dimensions (HD) of the natural resources field to improve environmental policy decision making. It addresses problems that arise from the recent trend towards ... -
A Meta-Analytic Review of Family-Implemented Social and Communication Interventions for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities: References Included in the Analyses
(2016-02-02)This study presents a meta-analysis of single-case experimental research on family-implemented interventions for improving the social and other communicative behaviors of individuals with developmental disabilities (DD). ... -
Motherhood, Media and Reality: Analyzing Female Audience Reception of Celebrity Parenthood as News
(2012-10-19)The growing cultural commodity of celebrity news and its increasing focus on celebrities' families is examined by this project to determine what consequence communications about celebrity pregnancy and parenthood have on ... -
Participants' Perspectives of Training Experiences: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
(2010-07-14)Perceptions concerning training and development continue to appear in practitioner literature; however, the fact that those perceptions are not explored in HRD literature is a problem. The purpose of this study was to ... -
Promoting Blood Donation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Role of Culture and Interventions
(2013-12-13)Inadequate blood donation is a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the influence of culture and communication on blood donation in Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular focus on Ghana. ... -
Redefining Entrepreneurship: The Discursive Constructions and Dialectics of Women's Sole-Proprietorship, Business-Ownership and Direct Sales Business-Ownership
(2014-08-11)This study examines the discursive constructions of women entrepreneurs related to their roles as sole-proprietors, business-owners and direct sales business-owners as well as the communicative contradictions experienced ...