The continuously and rapidly changing landscape in the fields of communications, Internet and social media make it imperative for professionals to better understand the role of Information and Communication Technologies and their impact on everyday activities. Several frameworks have been proposed in order to capture various dimensions of social media and measure their impact on people's social...

The term ‘unconference’ is a generic term for a virtual debate between professionals, who are seen as equals regardless of status, culture and nationality. The unconference mode of informal learning has recently been modified by professional educators in a version called a MirandaMod, started in 2007 by members of MirandaNet, a professional organisation founded in 1992. In these events a wide r...

Libraries depend on ethical principles more than any other institution because library services are essentially humanoriented. Most national ethical principles for librarians are represented as professional ethic codes. Each of them eventually consolidates the ideology, the paradigm of national library services. Comparative analysis of national library ethic codes indicates the intellectual fre...

in this paper, we consider a cooperative cognitive radio network in which there is an ofdm primary link and multiple single carrier secondary links.the primary link is required to maintain its secrecy rate above a predefined threshold. if the secrecy rate requirement is not satisfied, the secondary system help primary link to maintain its secrecy rate requirement. in doing so, the secondary trans...

OBJECTIVE 1. Selecting the key problems in medicine--I. Diagnostic problems, II. Didactic and training problems of medical education, III. Economical problems, IV. Communications technologies problems, V. Psychological problems, VI. Social problems, VII. Strategic problems. 2. Outline ways to optimal solution of these problems. METHODS Innovative intellectual approach to medical diagnostic de...

This study explored the professional development experiences of 28 practicing teachers in 10 Chicago suburban schools involved in a two-year technology supported Problem-Based Learning curriculum development effort. Asynchronous computer-mediated communications (CMC) were featured as teacher communication tools of the project. The computer-mediated discourse produced by the teachers was compare...

The article presents the results of analysis process expansion and diversity communication channels in university environment, which is relevant from standpoint achieving goals sustainable development field education. It shown that one most accessible open channels, modern students are actively involved, channel environmental communications. They have many manifestations, corresponds to excepti...

organizations are networks of unites and individuals enhancing organizational performance through cooperation and synergy. it is achieved by developing meaningful and purposeful communications of unites and individuals .thus, it is essential to make organizational communications efficient in order to achieve organizational purposes. in this essay, we examined the variables and factors affecting...

In this paper, the foundations of professional ethics in occupational health care is described and discussed. After an introduction reminding of the global developments of world economy, communications and trade and reference to cultural and social developments, reference is given the four basic ethical criteria of biomedical ethics of beneficence ("doing good"), non-malfeasance (avoidance of h...

civil liability in electronic communications is one the most important issues of information and communications technology (ict) law. civil liability may be arisen from different causes such as copyright and trade mark infringement invasion of privacy and defamation. when discussing civil liability, two different civil liability systems may be considered: direct and indirect civil liability. in...