Recent literature models leadership as the process of communication where the rhetorical signals of leaders facilitate followers’ coordination. While studies exist that explored the effects of leadership in experimental settings, there remains a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of informational tools in real political environments. Using quantitative text analysis of federal and ...

We have created a system that identifies musical keywords or themes. The system searches for all patterns composed of melodic (intervallic for our purposes) repetition in a piece. This process generally uncovers a large number of patterns, many of which are either uninteresting or only superficially important. Filters reduce the number or prevalence, or both, of such patterns. Patterns are then...

This study aimed to describe (1) the prevalence of informational needs in surgically treated women with vulvar neoplasia during the first week after hospital discharge, (2) associations between informational needs and age, type, disease stage and the extent of surgery and (3) additional informational needs. This convergent parallel designed mixed-methods study was conducted in eight hospitals a...

Considering that the movements of complex system entities take place on continuous, but non-differentiable, curves, concepts, like non-differentiable entropy, informational non-differentiable entropy and informational non-differentiable energy, are introduced. First of all, the dynamics equations of the complex system entities (Schrödinger-type or fractal hydrodynamic-type) are obtained. The la...

study of the limit-point concept [16]. Which factors could dictate the introduction of a topology for a given system of informational formulas? In informational cases, different kinds of reasonable topologies, corresponding intuitive ideas what an understanding, interpretation, conception, perception and meaning should be, are coming to the consciousness, that is, into the modeling foreground. ...

Educators have increasingly turned to social media for their instructional, social, and emotional needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In order see where support professional development would be needed how educational community interacted online, we sought use existing Twitter data examine potential educators’ networking discourse patterns. Specifically, this mixed-methods study explores educat...

Speech understanding in noise is affected by both the energetic and informational masking components of the background noise. In addition, when the background noise is everyday speech, the relative contributions of the energetic and informational masking components to the overall difficulties in understanding speech are unclear. This study estimated informational masking effects, in conversatio...

BACKGROUND Many patients who undergo weight loss (bariatric) surgery seek information and social support in online discussion forums, but the vast amount of available information raises concerns about the impact of such information. A secure online discussion forum was developed and offered to bariatric surgery patients. The forum was moderated and allowed contact with peers and health care pro...

abstract background: participation of woman in decision-making processes is one of the key indicators of an appropriate relationship between a woman and the health care professionals. this study aimed to recognize the factors facilitating respect for woman’s decision-making in spontaneous birth. materials and methods: this paper employed a meta-synthesis on articles published in four biomedical...