To inform the development of recommendations to facilitate learning of skilled doctor-patient communication in the workplace, this qualitative study explores experiences of trainees and supervisors regarding how trainees learn communication and how supervisors support trainees' learning in the workplace. We conducted a qualitative study in a general practice training setting, triangulating vari...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of information and communication technology on the structure of social networks. three major questions have been considered. first, how far does the combination of adolescent social links tend to be heterogeneous and how much is this change related to social and technological factors? second, does this alternation affect the power of adolescen...

Abstract- Communication has become inevitably part of our day to day activities, in academic, business, banking, and other sectors. It has therefore become so important to implement good and efficient communication system. A reference point according to this research is the wireless sensor networking (WSN) system, and most important thing in communication is to be free from interference, attenu...

This article endeavors to investigate the role of social networks in contributing to the quality of life of an elder and middle-aged Deaf population. In particular, it poses the question of whether a certain network composition (deaf and hearing network persons) provides positive resources to improve quality of life and attempts to identify moderating and mediating connections between social ne...

This paper presents an Asynchronous Team Algorithms (ATeam) implementation, in a parallel heterogeneous asynchronous environment, to optimize the design of reliable communication networks given the set of nodes an possible links. The proposed Team combines parallel genetics algorithms (GA), with different reliability calculation approaches in a network of personal computers, proving good experi...

Millions of small heterogeneous computers are poised to spread into the infrastructure of our society. Though mostly inconspicuous today, disguised as nothing more than PIM (personal information management) computers, these tiny processors will eventually pervade most aspects of civilized life. The one thing holding them back from being everyone's portal to the new electronic society and the ac...

Topology construction and topology maintenance are significant sub-problems of topology control. Spanning tree based algorithms for topology control are basically transmission range based type construction algorithms. The construction of an effective backbone, however, is indirectly related to the placement of nodes. Also, the dependence of network reliability on the communication path undertak...

this paper deals with the problem of user-server assignment in online social network systems. online social network applications such as facebook, twitter, or instagram are built on an infrastructure of servers that enables them to communicate with each other. a key factor that determines the facility of communication between the users and the servers is the expected transmission time (ett). a ...

Social network sites (SNSs) are new communication channels with which people can share information. Social networks are also connected to gaming. Hence, gaming is quickly becoming one of the most popular categories of applications on SNSs. The goal of this project is to gain insight into the factors that affect user intention to use a social network games. The present study uses an extended tec...