Academic Articles & Research Papers

Brauchen wir die Grippemittel Tamiflu und Relenza?

Lately, several press releases as well as a parliamentary inquiry questioned the effectiveness of the neuraminidase inhibitors (NAI, oseltamivir and zanamivir) in concerns of therapy of influenza. However, in combination with the unfortunat...

Modeling and analysis for dynamical Doppler shifts on terahertz communication signals propagating in inhomogeneous hypersonic plasma sheath

Previous studies have shown that terahertz (THz) signals could penetrate hypersonic plasma sheaths. Thus, it is considered to be a potential solution to the “blackout” problem. Nevertheless, although previous studies have systematically rev...

Introduction to Social Media, Activism, and Organizations

Social media have become increasingly pervasive. However, the literature on social movements and social media has not fully grasped just how much social media have fundamentally changed the landscape of organizational communication, ranging...

Social Justice Mathematics and Public Health Equity: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Literacy in Health Decision-Making

Background: Public health decision-making increasingly requires individuals to interpret numerical information such as risks, probabilities, treatment benefits, and epidemiological trends. However, disparities in quantitative literacy may c...

Effects of women’s economic empowerment interventions on antenatal care outcomes: a systematic review

Objectives Early and adequate antenatal care (ANC) has been shown to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality globally. Increasing evidence suggests that women’s economic empowerment (WEE) is a critical factor that may influence uptake of AN...

[Comment] Hospitalization experiences and post-traumatic stress in inflammatory bowel disease: opportunities for change

[Introduction] Medical trauma related to IBD (IBD-PTS) affects approximately 25% of patients and is associated with poor outcomes. Prior studies identify common hospitalization experiences as potentially traumatic but have not measured risk...

The Evanescent Bouquet of Individual Bear Fingerprint

The evanescent and invisible communication carried by chemical signals, pheromones, or signature mixtures or, as we prefer, the pheromonal individual fingerprint, between members of the same species is poorly studied in mammals, mainly beca...

Communication Studies

After 100 years of disciplinary evolution, communication studies has matured into multidisciplinary scholarly inquiries, a diversified curriculum, and complex academic units. Academics in the United States have played a primary role in deve...

Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies

The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies has provided students and the general public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing communications since 1984. In this 9th edition...

De-westernizing Communication Studies: A Reassessment

The goal of this special issue is to revisit the terms of the debate about the “de-westernization” of communication studies and related issues such as the globalization, internationalization, cosmopolitanism, and indigenization of academic ...

Introduction to Communication Studies

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell New...

Participatory Democracy as a Space of Political Struggle

The article describes the process of formation of representative democracy as a specific framework within which generated conditions for certain forms of political struggle. The political struggle is an essential attribute of parlamentarism...

The effect of Ethical leadership on life Satisfaction and well-being by Mediation of job Satisfaction: The case of Private Hospitals in Mashhad city

Abstract In recent years, organizations have shown a growing interest in creating and promoting ethical leadership and leader’s effectiveness (Elci et al, 2012: 291). The reason for the recent time increasing importance of ethical leadershi...

Qualidade percebida e seus impactos sobre a satisfação, confiança e lealdade: um estudo com varejistas eletrônicos de serviços de download gratuito

Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar a opinião dos consumidores quanto à qualidade dos serviços oferecidos por sites de download gratuitos na internet e verificar qual a influência na lealdade, satisfação e confiança para com os sites. A...

Analisa Kebijakan Penerapan Sistem Merit dalam Penempatan Lulusan Politeknik Ilmu Pemasyarakatan dan Politeknik Imigrasi

Berdasarkan sistem merit penempatan lulusan Politeknik Ilmu Pemasyarakatan (Poltekip) dan Politeknik Imigrasi (Poltekim) harus pada jabatan dan pekerjaan yang tepat sesuai dengan kompetensi dan kebutuhan organisasi. Penempatan yang tepat da...

Evaluating Urban–Rural Disparity of Public Facilities Provision in Chengdu–Chongqing: An Equity Index Approach with Multi-Source Data

Urban–rural public facility disparity is a systemic challenge that reflects dysfunctional feedback loops within and across social and technical subsystems. Traditional administrative-unit-based analyses cannot capture such systemic alignmen...

Diagnosis of Teleworking in Argentina during the Pandemic: Application of the Telework Efficiency Index

Present the most significant findings that were obtained within the framework of the Support Program for Teaching Researchers “PROAPI2021” of the Secretariat of Research and Technological and Institutional Linkage of the National University...

Penguatan Kedudukan Pemasyarakatan dalam Sistem Peradilan Pidana Terpadu melalui Fungsi Pelayanan Tahanan

Perubahan sistem pemasyarakatan ditandai dengan disahkannya Undang-Undang Nomor 22 Tahun 2022 Tentang Pemasyarakatan. Salah satu hal yang diatur adalah mengenai pelayanan tahanan sebagai salah satu fungsi pemasyarakatan. Pengaturan ini tent...

Planificarea urbană între coerența unității și gestionarea diferențelor

City plans are grounded in analysis of local condition and contain a vision of an urban future that the citizens, local elected officials, planning staff and consultants consider desirable. Urban plans vary greatly in approach, content, sop...

Editorial: Institutional adaptation and transformation for climate resilience