INTRODUCTION Primary care (PC) is the provision of universally accessible, integrated, person-centred, comprehensive health and community services. Professionals active in primary care teams include family physicians and general practitioners (FP/GPs). There is concern in Slovenia that the current economic crisis might change the nature of PC services. Access, one of the most basic requirements...

Locality might prohibit Alice and Bob from using quantum entanglement to transmit information superluminally, but it does not prevent them from either reducing the communication required for some problems, or playing impossible games requiring no communication at all. Accordingly, we will review the polynomial method for determining quantum communication complexity lower bounds. We will also re...

This study investigates the communicational role that iconic hand gestures (see McNeill 1985) play in everyday talk. When we talk about iconic gestures, we are referring to very special sorts of hand movements, which most people produce unconsciously, and which seem to convey meaning associated with the content of spontaneous speech. Iconic gestures must be distinguished from all other types of...

BACKGROUND Psychological distress is one of the most common psychological symptoms in elderly cancer patients. However, many of these patients do not receive any treatment for distress management. Therefore, we aimed to assess the effect of a communication program on the psychological distress of elderly cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This two-group clinical trial with a before and af...

Different approaches have investigated the syntax and semantics of agent communication languages. However, these approaches have not indicated how agents should dynamically use communications. Instead of filling this pragmatics gap, most approaches have mainly focused on the structure of dialogues even though developers are more interested in agents capabilities of having useful automated conve...

One of the most important problems in the development of communicational augmentative systems is that they lack mechanisms to support their necessary adaptation and evolution. The objective of these systems is to help individuals with temporal or permanent communication problems to communicate, and we therefore expect them to be able to change according to the progress obtained and to the new d...

digital and information technologies are fundamental factors for all organizations which carry out organizational and social activities levels and it causes to change the nature of business. create what is a type of entrepreneurship that is extracted from the concept of entrepreneurship. digital and information technology is one of electronic style of this creation. therefore, it can be said th...

the purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between rate of internet use and the type of its use with academic performance of the students in islamic azad university of zanjan. to reach this goal, in addition to theoretical studies and investigating research literature, data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. experts approved the validity of the questionnaire and t...