This keynote address begins with a discussion of the difference between words and action, directed specifically to the practitioner's task of meeting the communication needs of children and youth with severe disabilities. Brief overviews of current perspectives and practices are provided, considering such areas as how communicative acts are defined and understood and the need for inclusionary e...

The timely communication of radiological findings is important for patient care. When imaging reveals abnormalities that require urgent action, or shows significant unexpected findings, the usual methods of communication may not be reliable enough to ensure that those responsible for clinical care of the patient act promptly. These guidelines suggest methods for improving communication in these...

The communicative action theory of Habermas has been discussed and used within the research community of Language Action Perspective. The concept of validity claim is considered to be an important contribution. In his theory, Habermas has formulated three validity claims to be universal in communication: The claims for truth, rightness and truthfulness. A theoretical inquiry into the validity c...

Structures in organisations to a certain extent consist of language. This becomes obvious when analysing social media. Contrary to verbal speech, computer-mediated communication is non-volatile. However, in some respects communication on social media platforms resembles face-to-face communication. This calls for close analyses of this kind of communication in relation to organisational behaviou...

BACKGROUND Due to the multidimensionality of emerging health and societal issues, there is an increased necessity for coordinated action, that is, action in which organizations and clients in two or more sectors work together to jointly achieve an outcome. Coordinated action creates opportunities for exchanging activities, expertise, skills and resources. However, the different disciplines are ...

According to the DSM-V, the diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder" requires the presence of at least three symptoms in the category of "deficit of social communication" and at least two in that of "repetitive behaviors." Children with autism, therefore, show a large deficit area of social communication, and most scholars agree that the lack of empathy figures prominently among these disorders....

In this paper we propose a simple method to evaluate the impact of fading and inter-piconet interference on Bluetooth performance. We consider in detail the joint effect, on packet error statistics, of interference produced by adjacent Bluetooth piconets and fading. Hence, we illustrate the proposed method by investigating the potential performance tradeoff among the different radio packet form...

Guarded actions are changes with preconditions acting as a guard. Guarded action models are multimodal Kripke models with the valuations replaced by guarded actions. Call guarded action logic the result of adding product updates with guarded action models to PDL (propositional dynamic logic). We show that guarded action logic reduces to PDL. keywords Dynamic epistemic logic, logic of communicat...