Many individuals who have no or limited experience of using electronic communication technologies (ECTs), e.g. telephone, fax, voice, and e-mail are concerned that media like e-mail are a limited, if not poor, way of communicating, and that they cannot replace face-to-face communication. Reports on research examining how relatively sophisticated ECT users use ECTs to communicate, and how electr...

Effective communication is a hallmark of safe patient care. Challenges to effective interprofessional communication in maternity care include differing professional perspectives on clinical management, steep hierarchies, and lack of administrative support for change. We review principles of high reliability as they apply to communication in clinical care and discuss principles of effective comm...

Using a knowledge-based approach we adjust a knowledgebased algorithm for multi-agent communication for the process of cooperative problem solving (CPS). The knowledge-based algorithm for multiagent communication [1] solves the sequence transmission problem from one agent to a group of agents, but does not fully comply with the dialogue communication involved during a CPS process. A property of...

the study examined the role of information communication technologies in extension delivery of agricultural transformation agenda (ata) of nigeria.  the objectives were to: examine the agricultural extension delivery of ata; identify icts relevant in agricultural extension and application of ata; examine roles of icts in extension of ata and identify constraints to the use of icts in extension ...

Counterfactual quantum communication is unique in its own way that allows remote parties to transfer information without sending any message carrier the channel. Although no travels channel at time of successful transmission, it impossible transmit faster than speed light, thus an carrier. In this paper, we address important question What carries counterfactual communication? and optimize resou...

Background Arctic residents can be exposed to a wide range of contaminants through consumption of traditional (country) foods (i.e. food from wild animals and plants that are hunted, caught or collected locally in the Arctic). Yet these foods provide excellent nutrition, promote social cohesion, meet some spiritual needs for connectedness to the land and water, reinforce cultural ties, are econ...

The iPad and other mobile technologies provide powerful new tools to potentially enhance communication for individuals with developmental disabilities, acquired neurogenic disorders, and degenerative neurological conditions. These mobile technologies offer a number of potential benefits, including: (a) increased awareness and social acceptance of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)...

Research in health communication shows communication to be an important aspect of successful health-care. Moreover, training courses which provide feedback have been shown to improve health professionals' ability to conduct successful interviews. This article describes a rating instrument which was developed in order to facilitate teaching and assessing the communication aspects of health-care ...

The goal of a flexible communication framework is to allow dynamic customization of complex communication protocols without compromising the overall system performance. However, the communication protocols provided in successful middleware frameworks are usually tailored to specific and/or static requirements are not suitable for dynamic environments. In dynamic environments, applications must ...

Accurate and complete communication between human stakeholders is critical to the successful development of any engineered system. This is particularly significant in the case of safety-critical systems, where incomplete or incorrect communication has the potential to cause great harm. There have been many attempts to address communication in engineering, including the development of formal spe...