This study investigates the factors influencing the oral communication strategies of technological university students in Taiwan. Ninety-eight sophomore students of Lunghwa University of Science and Technology participated in it. Nakatani’s Oral Communication Strategy Inventory (OCSI) (2006), along with the demographics and English learning backgrounds of students, was used to collect data. Des...

This paper investigates communication strategies for interconnecting heterogeneous parallel systems. As the speed of processors and parallel systems keep on increasing over the years, electronic interconnections like HIPPI and FDDI are reaching their limit to provide heterogeneous parallel computing environment. This paper explores the suitability of the emerging passive star-coupled optical in...

Because a significant proportion of real-life L2 communication is problematic, L2 learners might benefit from instruction on how to cope with performance problems. Such instruction could include the specific teaching of’ communication strategies, which involve various verbal and nonverbal means of dealing with difficulties and breakdowns that occur in everyday communication. Opinions on the tea...

Parent-child communication about sex is an important proximal reproductive health outcome. But while campaigns to promote it such as the Parents Speak Up National Campaign (PSUNC) have been effective, little is known about how messages influence parental cognitions and behavior. This study examines which message features explain responses to sexual communication messages. We content analyzed 4 ...

Development of skills in science communication is a well-acknowledged gap in graduate training, but the constraints that accompany research (limited time, resources, and knowledge of opportunities) make it challenging to acquire these proficiencies. Furthermore, advisors and institutions may find it difficult to support graduate students adequately in these efforts. The result is fewer career a...

This paper explores the communication and choice strategies of agents in a matching game, where agents are uncertain about their payoffs, and payoffs of each agent depend on and are partly known to the potential partner. Business examples of such decisions include mergers, acquisitions, distribution channel partners, as well as manufacturing and brand alliances. When communication is informativ...

This paper presents the development of a wireless communication system, the Long Range Identification Tag, built and tested in Heriot Watt University. The design commences in Spin, a high level model checking tool optimized for the verification of distributed systems. The abstract software model is synthesized automatically to HDL (Verilog/VHDL) and subsequently downloaded to the targeted FPGA ...