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Search results for "mothers calls" (24)
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Managing Separation Anxiety through communication
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average length of loca call is 2mns in USA
According to the CTIA's semi annual wireless industry survey, in the USA the average length of a local call is2minutes and 3 seconds. It has gon...
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The role of private communication in accidents
The two accidents we analyse...
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Analysing accidents : when an air traffic controller chats with a friend
On the 8th of...
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The democratisation of intimacy
Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends. Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...
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15$ fine to students using their cellphone in school
No calls, no texting, no surfing the Web. If they slip up and are caught, they better be prepared to pay the price: confiscation of their cell phone until they pay a $15 fine. After the second offense, their parent must come in to pay the $15. School...
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When voice is preferred to text (rarely)
Although text seems to be preferred in most interactions essentially because of its asynchronous nature, there are topics and discussions that can only be done orally and synchronously. When there is a complex issue, a certain level of disagree...
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Calling from the factory floor
Greg is bulgarian and has been living in Manchester for 3 years, he followed his older brothers and a sister who had moved to the UK in the late nineties. He recently moved into a flat with his girlfriend who also comes from Bu...
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The role of cultural representations in the diffusion of innovation
In the 1980's a wave of research in cognitive science examined the role of preconceptions, in the form of naive theories and mental models, in shaping our understanding of the world (Gentner & Stevens, 1983, McClosky 1983, ). Research on naïve p...
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Internet Usage in Africa - Somalia
Since 1991, Somalia has been living without national institutions. Recent presidential elections by a transitional Parliament will hopefully lead to a democratic normalization. In ...
