The paper proposes that Language Awareness cannot be fully developed if it rests on a view of language from within. The proposal made here is that language is always one of a number of semiotic (communication/representational) modes in use in any act of communication, and that language may not be the central mode. The relations which language contracts have effect language ‘itself’. The fact th...

Major companies, especially banks, invest in interactive distance learning replacing face-to-face training. Research has shown learning gains are mostly due to a shift in instruction. In this study, a WBT about currency management of a major German bank was examined. The communicational features of the WBT comprise a discussion forum, note taking, and automatic messaging of questions and answer...

The aim of this large-scale study was to understand the technology acceptation of learning management systems (LMS) by secondary school teachers and to investigate the instructional use of LMS, distinguishing between informational use and communicational use. The predictive model further includes: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective norm, personal innovativeness in the domai...

Computer Aided Systems Engineering (CASE) envirorunents are pushed into market place daily. Novel features are being added to them, and the area is growing rapidly. However, we lack a more profound understanding of the relationhips between CASE envirorunents and systems development process in general. In this paper we try to make some preliminary steps to bridge this gap. We propose a general f...

BACKGROUND In recent years in China, the tense physician-patient relationship has been an outstanding problem. Empathy is one of the fundamental factors enhancing the therapeutic effects of physician-patient relationships and is significantly associated with clinical and academic performance among students. METHODS This cross-sectional study used the JSPE-S (The Student Version of the Jeffers...

Nowadays the reliability of the logistics in Supply Chain (SC) is realized as an important factor in order to provide high quality of service to customers. The trend of globalization and the development of the communicational technique led to the needs of the high quality of logistics service and the complexity of supply chain. In fact, the better service that customers require, the more import...

This article starts from the concept of Communicational Metropolis, proposed by Massimo Canevacci, connecting it to studies Lev Manovich, which explain a growing influence software in our society. With these pillars, reflection is presented on conception softwarized communicational metropolis that emerges use applications for mobile communication devices. These media have become central providi...