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Exploring The Psychosocial Impact Of Botulinum Toxin Type-A Injections For Individuals With Oromandibular Dystonia: A Qualitative Study Of Patients' Experiences, Nada Elhayek

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This study explored the psychosocial impact of BoNT-A injections for OMD and explored how participants judge the success of this treatment. Eight participants with OMD participated in a single semi-structured interview. Phenomenological methods were used to analyze the interview data into themes. Two themes and six subthemes emerged from the analysis of the data. The first theme, Botox has changed me and my experiences, explored the participants’ perspective of receiving BoNT-A injections and its psychosocial impact. The second theme, What communication is like for me, explored the psychosocial impact of BoNT-A on speech production and participation. Our results …

The Effect Of Perceived Role Suitability On Prestige, Dominance, Performance, And Communication., Lynden Jensen

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The pursuit of social rank is pervasive across societies and cultures. Previous studies have identified two distinct avenues for attaining social rank: prestige and dominance. While prestige (communication of skill/ability) and dominance (communication of superiority) are crucial to interpersonal interactions, it is unclear how people communicate prestige or dominance and how such communication affects team performance. To investigate these ideas, 206 individuals participated in a cooperative dyadic building task. A computer randomly assigned dyad members to one of two roles—builder (who handled and placed model pieces) and instructor (who directed the builder's actions). Additionally, using a false feedback paradigm, a …

Multimodal Dissertations: Opportunities For Multimodality In Higher Education, Annie Tran

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multiliteracies, multimodality, higher education, technology, communication, dissertations, graduate education

In an era when communication and higher education are rapidly changing, there is much to learn about multimodality and the dissertation. For example, how can multimodality be used to forward an argument or inform research in a dissertation? How is technology changing the format of the dissertation? And how might multimodality and technology change the experience of composing a dissertation? This study addresses dissertations and the problem of understanding how research can be argued, represented, and presented in multimodal ways, and considers the lived curriculum of Ph.D. graduate students. My work …