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Reflections [Complete Issue : Third Quarter 2002], Sigma Theta Tau International, Janice Post-White, Eleanor Sullivan, Barbara Goll-Mcgee, Sharon Divitto, Karlene M. Kerfoot, Roy Simpson, Rosemary Bryant, Georgia L. Narsavage, Rachel Difazio, Galina Perfiljeva, Barbara La Valleur

Sigma Past Publishing - Reflections Magazine

Publishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.

RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.

Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.

Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present

Feature Articles in this Issue:

Sustaining Hope in Individuals and Nations

In a Woman's …

Quality Of Referral Letters To Abha Psychiatric Hospital, Asir Region, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Hasan S. Al-Amri, Khalid S. Al-Gelban

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explore the quality of referral letters from different health institutions to Abha Psychiatric Hospital, the only psychiatric center in Asir region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS: In this descriptive study, a total of 582 consecutive referral letters to Abha Psychiatric Hospital, during the first half of 1998, were evaluated for the components that are supposed to be found in the consentient referral letter to a psychiatric service. Each letter quality was indicated as good or poor according to the used scale. RESULTS: Thirty-six percent of the referral letters were poor. The clinical information relating to …

Compliance With Appointment And Medications In A Pediatric Neurology Clinic At A University Hospital In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Eiad A. Al-Faris, Hamza M. Abdulghani, Awad H. Mahdi, Mustafa A. Salih, Ahmad G. Al-Kordi

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: The objectives of the study are to estimate the rate of epileptic patients’ compliance with appointments and medications in a pediatric neurology clinic. Also to study the factors associated with non-compliance and to determine the parents’ perceived reasons for non-compliance with appointments. METHODS: It is a prospective study in which 147 epileptic children who attended the neurology clinic during the first 12-months of the study period were included. Patients were recruited into the study after their parents were interviewed using a detailed questionnaire; their compliance with appointments was monitored prospectively over at least a one year from their recruitment …

Online Payment System / Chuah Wee Heong, Wee Heong Chuah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Online Payment System is a web based online transaction system for E-commerce. Online Payment System is designed to be easy to use, yet provide all the functionality and secrecy needed to efficiently conduct an online transaction. It enables customer to conduct the transaction efficiently and safely by encrypting all processes in the website. A shopping cart function will provide users more convenient, where they can check the item in their shopping cart and finalized the item before they checked out and make payment. The system will also provide a link to customer account where they can check their account in …

System For Analyzing Medical Data / Saravanabavan Ramasamy, Ramasamy Saravanabavan

Student Works (2000-2009)

This project can be defined as a stand-alone system, which attempts to integrate with Healthcare Information System to communicate the outside and inside flow of information in hospitals and provide the functions common for all applications. This web-based Medical Data Analysis System allows all range of users, using Internet Explorer web browser to view the graphical output from the patient's data and gaining mild information about the top ten diseases ranked in Malaysia or specifically University Malaya Medical Center. On the other hand, it allows the authorized user to update the latest patent medical data and diseases name as time …

Rekabentuk Antaramuka Pengguna Bagi Jadual Waktu I / Norfaqurah Zulkafli, Zulkafli Norfaqurah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Rekabentuk Antaramuka Pengguna bagi Jadual Waktu I ini adalah satu kaedah merekabentuk paparan penjadualan di atas talian di mana kesemua pengguna sistem dapat mencapai dan membuat semakan dari mana-mana kawasan dengan hanya mengakses Internet di lokasi mereka berada. Rekabentuk antaramuka ini dijangka dapat membantu pelajar, pensyarah, pihak pentadbiran dan kakitangan Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat menyemak jadual waktu untuk mengetahui aktiviti mingguan fakulti, jadual waktu kuliah atau membuat tempahan bilik tanpa perlu melalui prosedur secara manual yang digunakan pada masa sekarang di Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat, Universiti Malaya. Ia memberi garis panduan kepada pelajar semasa membuat penyusunan …

Library Online Request For Purchasing Reading Material System / Too Ser Ing, Ser Ing Too

Student Works (2000-2009)

Library Online Request for Purchasing Reading Material System (LORS) is a web-based application where lecturers from University of Malaya (UM) can make their requisition for purchasing reading material to tile main library via the Internet. For the past few years, the requisition for purchasing reading materials has been done manually. Due to the inconvenience and time-consuming problems, it is worthy for us to develop a library online request service. The development of LORS is anticipated to include the use of Information Technology. LORS is mainly divided into 2 sections, which are user section and administrator section. User section is a …

Longwood University Catalog 2002-2003, Longwood University

Undergraduate Catalogs

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Mobile Home Security With Gprs, Duy Nguyen

Theses : Honours

This thesis presents the results of an honours project on the development of a security system for use on mobile devices. Mobile Home Security (MHS) is a prototype system that aimed to fully investigate a potential use of the wireless high-speed technology General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in transmitting video from a static location. This thesis Mobile Home Security with GPRS describes in detail the design and developmental stages for the system. The research focused on the sending of video from a security capture device over a high speed radio network. The first stage of the research involved the design …

What Makes It Into The News: A Close Look At How News Sources At 6pr And 720 Abc Radio Influence News Selection, Angela Businoska

Theses : Honours

One of the roles of journalists today is to select the newsworthy stories from the endless amount of information which flows into their media organisation's newsroom. So, what is news and how do journalists decide what makes it and what docs not, in the news each day? Past and present research on this topic has thus far attempted to provide a formula, or consistent approach to the news selection process. To date, these newsroom studies have often been based at an international level, with results primarily originating from interviews with journalists themselves. This suggests that there are still many aspects …

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Revising Public Speaking Theory, Content, And Pedagogy: A Review Of The Issues In The Discipline In The 1990'S, Nancy Rost Goulden

Basic Communication Course Annual

Literature from the 1990's calling for revision of basic course public speaking theory and pedagogy is examined, summarized, and organized. Discussion of sources that shape and maintain public speaking theory provides background for the reports of journal articles and conference papers categorized under (1) overall perspectives that influence theory, (2) basic theory of what characteristics constitute effective speaking, (3) appropriate course content, and (4) appropriate pedagogy.

The dominant theme for change calls for a new theoretical perspective of effective speaking rejecting emphasis on traditional speech behaviors and supported by changes in attitudes and pedagogy, characterized by flexibility, openness, reliance on …

Common Sense In The Basic Public Speaking Course, Calvin L. Troup

Basic Communication Course Annual

The foundation of the basic public speaking course ought to be questioned and modified to better meet the needs of students today. More specifically, public speaking courses must offer more than technique. Students must be introduced to the historical context that both models effective public discourse and has also contributed to the framework of the American public forum. This article offers some common sense ideas about what the public forum ought to be. Implementation of these ideas, among other things, will serve to enrich the substance of the course, introduce the central role of rhetoric in American history, culture, and …

Extending Learning Opportunities In The Basic Communication Course: Exploring The Pedagogical Benefits Of Speech Laboratories, Stephen K. Hunt, Cheri J. Simonds

Basic Communication Course Annual

This study asked 527 students enrolled in a basic communication course to evaluate the efficacy of a speech lab in relation to speech requirements stipulated by their instructors. In addition, the researchers examined the scores of 435 student speeches to determine if students who visited the lab earned higher grades compared to students that did not visit the lab. Results showed that (a) most instructors require their students to visit the lab before at least one speech, (b) the vast majority of students perceive the help they receive in the lab to be very useful, and (c) students who visit …

Communication Apprehension And Basic Course Success: The Lab-Supported Public Speaking Course Intervention, Karen Kangas Dwyer, Robert E. Carlson, Sally A. Kahre

Basic Communication Course Annual

This study examined a lab-supported public speaking course as an intervention for helping reduce overall and context communication apprehension (CA) for high and moderate CA students. In addition, this study queried whether actual lab usage was related to CA reduction and to course grade for those students. Results showed that the lab-supported public speaking course helped high and moderate CAs significantly reduce overall CA and CA in public speaking, group discussions, meetings and interpersonal conversation contexts.

There was no difference in reduction of CA level between high and moderate CAs who utilized the speech lab and those who did not. …

An Examination Of The Speech Evaluation Process: Does The Evaluation Instrument And/Or Evaluator's Experience Matter?, Karen Anderson, Karla Kay Jensen

Basic Communication Course Annual

Speech evaluation forms are a useful and necessary tool of any communication course with a public speaking component. The continued investigation of how such forms are created and used is beneficial to students and teachers. In this study, raters from various experience levels graded two speeches using a combination of four evaluation forms, half of which included directions. Raters then responded to questions regarding the forms they just used.

Results indicate that experience level and form type influence the speech grade given. Additionally, raters' responses regarding the forms reveal how they view the use of forms in the speech evaluation …

Listening Treatment In The Basic Communication Course Text, Laura A. Janusik, Andrew D. Wolvin

Basic Communication Course Annual

Numerous studies have indicated that listening is instrumental for academic and professional success, and most students receive listening instruction only in the basic communication course. This study analyzed the treatment of listening in the 17 most widely used basic communication course textbooks. The majority of the textbooks did devote at least one chapter to listening; however, the treatment was generally light, atheoretical, and lacked substantive listening scholarship.

D/Deafness And The Basic Course: A Case Study Of Universal Instructional Design And Students Who Are D/Deaf In The (Aural) Communication Classroom, Julia R. Johnson, Susan M. Pliner, Tom Burkhart

Basic Communication Course Annual

The primary purpose of this essay is to suggest ways to create a universally inclusive curriculum, which, by definition, addresses the learning needs of all students, including students with disabilities or, in this case, students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Presented with the opportunity of having a d/Deaf students in a public speaking class, we reflect on the accommodations made, the assumptions inherent in an inclusive classroom, and the ideology of ableism. Because d/Deafness is as much a cultural identity as an auditory condition, we also address how to create safe learning environments for diverse student populations through the use …

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Basic Communication Course Annual Vol. 14

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The Carrier's Liability For Breach Of The Contract Of Carriage Of Goods By Sea Under Turkish Law, Hakan Karan

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

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Trusted Autonomy, Michael N. Huhns, Duncan A. Buell

Faculty Publications

We describe how agents are the right building blocks for constructing trustworthy systems. Robust software and trusted autonomy represent the future for agent technology and software engineering.

Weaving A Computing Fabric, Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stevens, John W. Keele, Jim E. Wray, Warren M. Snelling, Greg P. Harhay, Randy R. Bradley

Faculty Publications

As sources of information relevant to a particular domain proliferate, we need a methodology for locating, aggregating, relating, fusing, reconciling, and presenting information to users. Interoperability thus must occur not only among the information, but also among the different software applications that process it. Given the large number of potential sources and applications, interoperability becomes an extremely large problem for which manual solutions are impractical. A combination of software agents and ontologies can supply the necessary methodology for interoperability.