«Si hasta fechas recientes la seducción aparecía con una cara ambivalente (por un lado remitía a lo que tiene de engaño, por otro, a la admiración que provoca), asistimos ahora a su legitimación como forma deseable de la comunicación social. Ya no se trata de que alguien quiera seducir, sino de que todos quieren ser seducidos, sin que la base falsa o tramposa sobre la que puede estar construida...

The issues that need to be addressed by research in multiagent systems include communication, coordination, coherence, uncertainty, organizational structure, planning, and knowledge representation. Our work addresses communication, coordination, and coherence, and, as we show in the following sections, our methodology allows the multiagent system to dynamically organize its structure and proble...

Bangladesh is in a precarious position in relation to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Rates are currently low compared to the rest of the South Asian region, and the disease is relatively confined to small, high-risk populations--mainly injection drug users (IDUs) and commercial sex workers. Yet if steps are not taken quickly to keep the epidemic in check, it could easily spread to the general populatio...

Adult cochlear implant candidates' abilities to cope with communication breakdown were assessed using the Communication Strategies Task (CST). Forty adult cochlear implant candidates with acquired hearing losses and 10 adults with normal hearing served as subjects. Appropriateness of responses to the CST were rated by 10 certified speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Seventy-six perce...

Risk communication on the health effects of radon encounters many challenges and requires a variety of risk communication strategies and approaches. The concern over radon exposure and its health effects may vary according to people's level of knowledge and receptivity. Homeowners in radon-prone areas are usually more informed and have greater concern over those not living in radon-prone areas....

• To become familiar with central elements of patient–physician communication • To understand how these communication styles and behaviors contribute to the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered medical care • To understand how various types of communication can influence patients’ satisfaction, health behaviors, and health outcomes • To learn about specific communication strategies, inclu...

this study aims to examine the strategies utilized by eleven postgraduate students in an efl university context in their attempts to acquire the textual practices of their discipline. first- and second-year ma students, one ph.d. student as well as individuals who had completed their ma programs in tefl took part in interviews in order to elicit the strategies they used when they endeavored to ...