Information and communication technologies are the most recent scientific achievements of mankind's ability seems to have much to offer society and are expected to be useful in solving the problems of human society. Many around the world believe that accelerates the process of adjustment in the exchange of knowledge and information through information and communication technologies a vital role...

Background: Clients visiting methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinics frequently relapse during the course of treatment. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between family communication patterns and resiliency and craving for drugs through the mediatory role of difficulty in cognitive emotion regulation among clients being treated by methadone. Methods: It was a descri...

This research examines how communication patterns within or between teams support problem solving in design and engineering projects. We compare four different perspectives for their effectiveness on performance: the heavyweight project manager perspective, the internal communication perspective, the external communication perspective and the gatekeeper perspective. We also propose that project...

Communication between cells is realized by exchange of biochemical substances. Due to internal organization of living systems and variability of external parameters, the exchange is heavily influenced by perturbations of various parameters at almost all stages of the process. Since communication is one of essential processes for functioning of living systems it is of interest to investigate con...

What motivates firms to develop Internet-enabled interfirm communication? We draw upon the work of Alavi et al. (2005–2006) and propose that the use of the Internet in interfirm communication is influenced by a firm’s firm orientation and its internal communities of practice. Based on data collected from 307 international trade firms in the Beijing area, we find that Internet-enabled interfirm ...

In a multihop wireless network, each node has a transmission radius and is able to send a message to one of its neighbors (one-to-one) or all of its neighbors (one-to-all) that are located within the radius. In a broadcasting task, a source node needs to send the same message to all the nodes in the network. In this paper, we propose to reduce the communication overhead of broadcasting algorith...

We study internal compression of communication protocols to their internal entropy, which is the entropy of the transcript from the players’ perspective. We provide two internal compression schemes with error. One of a protocol of Feige et al. for finding the first difference between two strings. The second and main one is an internal compression with error ε > 0 of a protocol with internal ent...