How do science communicators take their audiences’ perspective?

How Do Scientists Reach Their Target Audience? Academic and Popular Science Articles in Nutrition

The aim of the current study was to investigate frequencies of interactional metadiscourse markers in English academic research and popular science articles in nutrition. A total of 60 English articles published in three popular databases and four academic journals were analyzed for interactional metadiscourse markers, including hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers and self-me...

How Do Global Audiences Take Shape? The Role of Institutions and Culture in Patterns of Web Use

This study investigates the role of both cultural and technological factors in determining audience formation on a global scale. It integrates theories of media choice with theories of global cultural consumption and tests them by analyzing shared audience traffic between the world’s 1000 most popular Websites. We find that language and geographic similarities are more powerful predictors of au...

Do psyhiatric out-patients take their drugs?

It is common clinical experience that there are patients who do not take the drugs prescribed for them. Less is known of the frequency with which this occurs, but a number of studies have indicated that the failure rate may be surprisingly high-up to 50% (Benstead and Theobald, 1952 ; Haler, 1952; Mohler et al., 1955 ; Simpson, 1956 ; Dixon et at., 1957; Luntz and Austin, 1960). The present stu...

Why patients do not take their medication.

How do caregivers know when to take their child for immunizations?

BACKGROUND Childhood vaccinations help reduce and eliminate many causes of morbidity and mortality among children. The objective of this study was to compare 4:3:1:3:3 (4+ doses of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccine, 3+ doses of poliovirus vaccine, 1+ doses of measles-containing vaccine, 3+ doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine, and 3+ doses of hepatitis B vaccine) co...