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During COVID-19, the traditional educational landscape witnessed the rapid and unprecedented adoption of modern communication methods to facilitate remote learning and academic interactions. Various online education platforms have enriched content de...

Relatively recently, internal communication received little attention from theorists, since they focused on external communication. The importance of internal communication is seen as the taker of responsibility for all internal exchanges of informat...

This study examined communication practices in an upper primary school, focusing on interactions among students, teachers, and parents, as well as the role of digital communication in shaping these relationships. The study used a mixed-methods design...

This article focuses on methods for designing heuristic models within the paradigm of systems theory and in the disciplinary context of intercultural communication. The main question arises from the striking observation that common language is insuff...

We implemented a concurrent triangulation mixed-methods evaluation of an air pollution data report-back to study participants in Chelsea, Massachusetts. We aimed to determine whether the report-back was effective in the following three ways: engageme...

The Community and Civil Research Group of Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) investigated sustainable community activities in Hungary and abroad to identify local responses to global challenges. Using qualitative research methods, f...

Community-Engaged Research (CER) often involves partnerships between academic or professional researchers and community organizers. Critical CER and organizing each aim to mobilize people and resources to produce actionable knowledge in order to buil...

The potential devastation that a nuclear accident can cause to public health and the surrounding environment demands robust emergency preparedness. This includes gaining a greater knowledge of citizens’ needs in situations involving radiation r...

The traditional Internet has many security problems. It is difficult to guarantee the authenticity, integrity, and synchronization of message transmission, and it lacks a message-traceability mechanism, which is caused by its performance-oriented des...

Traditional network communication methods lack endogenous security mechanisms, which is the root cause of network security problems, e.g., spoofing identity and address forgery. This paper proposes a secure communication method based on the message h...

Social media is a vital platform for policy communication, yet research rarely integrates content and structural features to evaluate communication effects multidimensionally. This study proposes a convergent framework combining text mining and socia...

To explore experiences with and views of general practitioners (GPs) on a physician communication training method in primary care and its applicability and implementation in daily practice, we performed a semi-structured qualitative study of GPs’ exp...

From a clinical perspective, effective and efficient communication is part of a strategy to ensure doctors are providing high-quality care to their patients. Despite the positive impact of effective doctor–patient communication on health outcomes, li...

Underwater optical communication has emerged as an essential tool for exploring oceanography and marine resources for underwater vehicles or robots in recent years. Current techniques mostly rely on the paradigm of intensity modulation and direct det...

Background: Health education is a vital component of preventative care; however, rural Filipino adults often face structural, linguistic, and access barriers to obtaining reliable health information. Designing equitable and culturally relevant health...

Computer simulation of continuous chaotic systems is usually performed using numerical methods. The discretization may introduce new properties into finite-difference models compared to their continuous prototypes and can therefore lead to new types...

The new museum movement of the twentieth century has driven the development of the form and function of museums around the world. Museums began to be actively open to the public, and some new concepts of museums, such as eco-museums and community mus...

Focusing on the potential risks involved in the entire process of developing and creating Future Communities for old and renovated developments, a Future Community evaluation system for life-cycle management was constructed, featuring ten aspects. Th...

It is anticipated that future communication systems will involve the use of new technologies, requiring high-speed computations using large amounts of data, in order to take advantage of data-driven methods for improving services and providing reliab...

In order to construct an efficient on-site communication network for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in Korea, the high-speed power line communication (HS PLC), wireless smart utility network (Wi-SUN), and ZigBee modems are currently being...

The rapid advancement of underwater wireless communication technologies is critical to unlocking the full potential of marine resource exploration and environmental monitoring. This paper reviews recent progress in three primary modalities: underwate...

This study developed indicators of age-friendliness for communities in Taiwan that conform to international standards by referring to the World Health Organization Checklist of Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities and Taiwan’s existing ind...

The application mode of army mobile communication networks is closely related to combat mission and application environment. Different combat missions and application environments result in different network structures and different service prioritie...

In an era marked by swift technological advancements and an escalating emphasis on collaborative learning, understanding effective methods and technologies for sharing knowledge is imperative to optimize educational outcomes. This study delves into t...

With the complexity of the future battlefield and the increasing demand for multi-domain operations, the importance of air–sea cross-domain communication networks is rising. Communication technology connecting air and sea faces many challenges:...

Background: Current evaluation tools are inadequate for assessing the impact of small-scale interventions, such as farmer’s markets or community meal programs, on fruit and vegetable consumption. This study analyzes the pilot data of a novel to...

Laser-induced acoustic communication is a highly adaptable cross-medium technique that combines the advantages of optical transmission through air and acoustic transmission underwater. However, poor signal stability at high repetition frequencies cur...

Background/Objectives: Due to their work and lifestyle, many members of the university faculty, as well as administrative staff and students, are at risk of developing health problems. These risk factors can be assessed to find out their contribution...

The main feature of grassland degradation is the change in the vegetation community structure. Hyperspectral-based grassland community identification is the basis and a prerequisite for large-area high-precision grassland degradation monitoring and m...

In order to cope with the rapidly aging society and the Chinese traditional idea of old-age care, community home-based care has become a major mode of care for the aged in China, and the construction of communities suitable for the aged has also beco...

Deep-space optical communication and ranging technologies have attracted much attention for satellite-to-earth and moon-to-earth exploration. In integrated communication and ranging scenarios, non-integer oversampling factors are employed to improve...

OpenMOC-HEX, a neutron transport calculation code with hexagonal modular ray tracing, has the capability of domain decomposition parallelism based on an MPI parallel programming model. In this paper, the optimization of inter-node communication was s...

This systematic review underscores the significance of learning communities as fertile grounds for skill development across diverse contexts. Furthermore, it reviews and theoretically evaluates several commonly used strategies, methods, and supports...

Social media (SM) use and the burden on healthcare systems have concurrently increased, with the latter resulting in longer wait times and higher costs. As a result, more people seem to use social media to access health information (HI). This study e...

Resilience is the concept that emphasizes change and adaptation and focuses on the capacity to absorb shocks and still maintain function. How can an Indigenous community assess the resilience of the tribe when it is affected by an array of obstacles?...

In the context of China’s community governance, as a result of the insufficient willingness and ability of residents to participate, most communities have formed a “strong political–weak social” governance structure, which lim...

This study used expert interviews and the DEMATEL method to explore the influencing factors affecting the evaluation of the good and cognitive response of video communication and visual perception in social media and for the benefit of facilitation o...

Refugees often face significant barriers to healthcare access and integration, contributing to poor health outcomes. Although perceptions of health are known predictors of self-reported health status, little is known about how refugees themselves con...

There are wireless networks in which typically communications are unsafe. Most terrestrial wireless sensor networks belong to this category of networks. Another example of an unsafe communication network is an underwater acoustic sensor network (UWAS...

The communication tower is a lifeline engineering that ensures the normal operation of wireless communication systems. Extreme wind disasters are inevitable while it is in service. Two dimension-reduction (DR) probabilistic representations based on p...

This article presents the first-year results of a project that aimed to explore the feasibility of using a braille display and a smartphone in society to improve face-to-face communication for a person living with deafblindness, using a simulated com...

The selection of insulation materials during the renovation of enclosure structures in old communities significantly impacts project quality, cost, and carbon emissions. Many insulation materials currently in use only meet energy-saving standards as...

In this paper, a device-to-device (D2D) communications multiple-metric scenario for resource allocation and pairing is studied. To improve the D2D connection stability, a fuzzy method based on the data rate and battery levels of potential D2D pairs i...

This study assessed the impact of planting techniques and short-term organic additions on soil quality, enzyme activity, and bacterial community composition. Biochar (BC) amendment substantially enhanced the ACE, Chao 1, and Shannon indices in direct...

Global action plans to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are the subject of ongoing discussion between experts. Community pharmacists have a professional responsibility to tackle AMR. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge of antibiotic resis...

Community-based chronic disease prevention programs can have long-term, broad public health benefits. Yet, only 40 to 60% of evidence-based health programs are sustained. Using established frameworks and evidence-based tools to characterize sustainab...

Aboveground biomass (AGB) of shrub communities in the desert is a basic quantitative characteristic of the desert ecosystem and an important index to measure ecosystem productivity and monitor desertification. An accurate and efficient method of pred...

In Burkina Faso, there is lack of awareness of antibiotic use at the community level. This study aims to generate information on the commonly used antibiotics along with the reasons for which they have been used in rural Burkina Faso. The drug bag me...

Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting is widely applied for indoor positioning due to the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure present in most indoor spaces (home, work, leisure, among others) and the widespread usage of smartphones everywhere. It corresponds...

Background: Although advances in neonatal care over the last two decades have improved survival among extremely preterm infants, neurodevelopmental disabilities remain a major concern with substantial uncertainty regarding long-term outcomes. Prognos...