Communication and Common Interest

Medicinal Uses and Pharmacological Actions of Five Commonly Used Indian Medicinal Plants: A Mini-Review

Man depends heavily on various plant species for his survival. Indian traditional system of medicine is based on empirical knowledge of the observations and the experience over millennia and more than 5000 plants are used by different ethnic communities in India. During the last few decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of medicinal plants and their traditional use in diffe...

Short communication: Determination of total mercury in common carp, Cyprinus carpio, large scaled barb, Barbus grypus, tiger tooth croaker, Otolithes ruber and from surface waters in Khuzestan, Iran

Inter and Intra-Organizational Communication: The Facilitation Approaches to Strengthen and Sustain Rural Development Management in Portugal

The study describes and evaluates inter-organizational communication and relationships involving rural development management of community lands within specific perimetros florestais in Portugal. The research design is an exploratory research study approach that collected information with a mail questionnaire, interviews and information gleaned from community land association meetings and an in...

Science Communication, A review on Importance, History, and Its Models

The article is an extended version of a talk on the issue given in Half-Day Seminar on the Complications of Scientific Publications held by Iranian Academy of Sciences, on July the ninth of 2019. Apparently, science communication, an old tradition and once very popular according to the literature reviewed, is not well advanced along with the magnificent scientific progress happened during the l...

Social Value of Information and Optimal Communication Policy of Central Banks

Monetary policy as a tool for expectations management is believed to be most effective if it can coordinate the beliefs and expectations of the economic agents. The optimal communication policy is in an environment where central bank announcements are common knowledge and abundant information is complete transparency. The above conclusion is altered in the more realistic situation where economi...

Common Knowledge of Language and Communication Success∗

When David Lewis [19] introduced common knowledge, he used it as a key ingredient in his account of language as a convention. We ask how essential higher orders of knowledge of language are for communication success. We find that in common-interest communication games higher-order failure of knowledge of language, while potentially resulting in suboptimal language use at any finite knowledge or...