Background: Communication is a human skill that can develop through learning and teaching, Although, this is an integral component of clinical activities of physicians, still the dominant attitude in medical education is biological. There is a little attention to communication skills in formal medical education program. The aim of this study was to determine communication skills and professiona...

Developers of communication software must confront recurring design challenges involving robustness, efficiency, and extensibility. Many of these challenges are independent of the application-specific requirements. Successful developers resolve these challenges by applying appropriate design patterns. However, these patterns have traditionallybeen locked in the minds of expert developers or bur...

Developers of communication software must confront recurring design challenges involving robustness, efficiency, and extensibility. Many of these challenges are independent application-specific requirements. Successful developers resolve these challenges by applying appropriate design patterns. However, these patterns have traditionallybeen locked in the minds of expert developers or buried wit...

Racial and ethnic differentials in marriage are large and may contribute to maintaining inequalities. Previous research identifies economic factors, particularly low levels of employment stability and earnings, as important contributors to depressed marriage rates among blacks. Yet group differences in employment and earnings do not offer sufficient explanations for race and ethnic variation in...

The quality of communication between spouses is widely assumed to affect their subsequent judgments of relationship satisfaction, yet this assumption is rarely tested against the alternative prediction that communication is merely a consequence of spouses' prior levels of satisfaction. To evaluate these perspectives, newlywed couples' positivity, negativity, and effectiveness were observed four...

Cyberphysical systems (CPSs) are physical and engineered systems, whose operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled, and integrated by a computing, control, and communication core. We propose Cyberphysical-system-on-chips (CPSoC), a new class of sensor-actuator rich MPSoC, that additionally couple on-chip and cross-layer sensing and actuation to enable self-awareness within the observe-de...

This study investigates self-disclosure in the novel context of online dating relationships. Using a national random sample of Match.com members (N = 349), the authors tested a model of relational goals, self-disclosure, and perceived success in online dating. The authors’findings provide support for social penetration theory and the social information processing and hyperpersonal perspectives ...

A fundamental dimension along which all social and personal relationships vary is closeness. The Unidimensional Relationship Closeness Scale (URCS) is a 12-item self-report scale measuring the closeness of social and personal relationships. The reliability and validity of the URCS were assessed with college dating couples (N = 192), female friends and strangers (N = 330), friends (N = 170), and...