background : managers’ communication skills are one of the most important topics in educational sector of universities of medical sciences and may have considerable effect on faculty members and employees. this study was performed to determine the level of communication skills (verbal, listening, feedback) of the heads of department of faculties and its relation with some demographic variables....

environmental communication is the information transfer between sources and recipients of through communication channels. the aim of this study is to investigate the process and its challenges in iran. target populations for this study consisted of state environmental experts in the department of environment (n=184), data was collected using the questionnaire tools. results revealed that enviro...

conclusions knowledge, attitude and performance of the communication skills of health staff are improper and it would lead to not using the communication skills to establish perfect communication with patients, so it seems that it is necessary to make the training courses during the service for health staff about communication skills and observing on performing the acquired skills. patients and...

Routing and data aggregation are two important techniques for reducing communication cost of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). To minimize communication cost, routing methods can be merged with data aggregation techniques. Compressive sensing (CS) is one of the effective techniques for aggregating network data, which can reduce the cost of communication by reducing the amount of routed data to t...

Components from different sources are often non-interoperable. This is often due to data mismatches. This paper presents an XML-based approach to the data adaptation problem. It covers serialization of objects to XML, their transformation with XSLT, as well as deserialization, i.e., parsing and reconstruction of the transformed objects. We statically analyze classes to generate specific documen...

We propose an ambient communication system that modulates the reverberance applied to music with a single variable in order to communicate non-musical information to the listener. In order to assess the effectiveness of such a system, psychoacoustic tests of four subjects’ ability to discriminate changes in reverberant decay time (RDT) were conducted. Results indicate that human listeners are a...