Academic Articles & Research Papers

Primary health care challenge for nursing professionals: a narrative review

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Carry out a narrative review of scientific literature on nursing professionals training in primary health care (PHC), which allows us to know the challenges facing the renewal of this strategy. METHODS Review of the l...

Modeling a High Concentrator Photovoltaic Module Using Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems

Currently, there is growing interest in the modeling of high concentrator photovoltaic modules, due to the importance of achieving an accurate model, to improve the knowledge and understanding of this technology and to promote its expansion...

Microwave Photonic Techniques in Phase-Noise Measurements of Microwave Sources: A Review of Fiber-Optic Delay-Line Methods

Microwave photonics has recently come to the forefront as a valuable approach to generating, processing, and measuring signals in high-performance domains such as communication, radar, and timing systems. Recent studies have introduced a ra...

“Like a small trip back to the GDR”? East German evaluations of the television serial Weissensee and its authenticity in a dynamic discourse landscape

In this article, I take the example of the historical German television fiction success Weissensee and ask how East Germans have read and judged the way this serial constructed their past more than a decade after its television premiere. Th...

Ei saa me läbi “Pragmaatika” korpuseta. Korpuspragmaatika ja pragmaatikakorpus

Within the project “Pragmatics above grammar: Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in Estonian registers and text types” (PRG341) we are studying the expression of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in different written and spoken registers o...

The Role of Capoeira in Improving Motor and Social Skills in Children with Autism

Background: Children with Autism often face motor, sensory and communicational challenges that can hinder their participation in meaningful physical and social activities. This study explores the potential of Capoeira to support their devel...

What types of tobacco control public service advertisements work for Chinese adolescents? A mixed-methods study

Introduction Adolescent tobacco use has become a serious global public health problem, and effective tobacco control public service advertisements (PSAs) are crucial for reducing adolescent smoking rates. The study aims to employ a mixedmet...

Practical Recommendations for Supporting a Systems Biology Cyberinfrastructure

Projects in the life sciences continue to increase in complexity as they scale to answer deeper and more diverse questions. They employ technologies that generate increasingly large ‘omic’ datasets and research teams regularly include exper...

Implementing media literacy in the classroom

Social networks use a variety of models from the spectrum of web technologies. These tools were designed for entertainment and communication purposes, and the most commonly used among students are the social media tools. Knowing this, teach...

Physiotherapy for injured workers in Canada: are insurers’ and clinics’ policies threatening good quality and equity of care? Results of a qualitative study

Abstract Background In recent years, significant efforts have been made to improve the provision of care for compensated injured workers internationally. However, despite increasing efforts at implementing best practices in this field, some...

Interpersonal communication regarding pregnancy-related services: friends versus health professionals as conduits for information

Abstract Background Social network characteristics influence a wide range of health behaviors but few studies examine the relationship between social network characteristics and pregnancy-related outcomes. Methods Using a baseline survey fr...

Digital Voice: Technology as a Tool of Oppression and Liberation in Christina Dalcher’s Vox

Digital feminism combines feminism and digital tools; the core purpose of digital feminism is to demonstrate how women utilize the internet as a platform to share issues and promote empowerment. This study focuses particularly on the two ma...

The Basics of Communication Studies

Most chapters begin with and conclude with Summary, For More Information, Review Questions, and Works Cited. 1. Why Study Communication? Definition of Communication Models of Communication Essential Parts of Communication Communication in C...

Public Scholarship in Communication Studies

Defined broadly as the engagement of scholars with nonacademic publics, public scholarship encompasses a variety of approaches to academic work. Each approach pushes academic work beyond the confines of the ivory tower and takes it into the...

AS Communication Studies: The Essential Introduction

Introduction Part I - Studying Communication 1. Studying 2. Communication Part II - Effective Communication Part III - Texts and Meaning in Communication 1. Communication as Text 2. Texts and Meanings 3. Decoding and De-coding 4. Words and ...

Transgender Communication Studies

Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents th...

Globalisation, Imperialism & Communication Studies:

This article is orientated towards a contextual reading of the MacBride Report. This suggests that the Report can be fruitfully read as “socially situated” (shaped by its essentially political rather than scholarly role) and it also implies...

Subject–method topic network analysis in communication studies

The problem of hegemony: Rereading Gramsci for organizational communication studies

The purpose of this essay is to reread the concept of hegemony “against the grain” of interpretations currently dominant in communication studies generally, and in critical organizational communication studies specifically. I argue that the...

Scholarly Communication of Communication Studies

Scholarly communication (sometimes called “scientific communication”) refers to studies of the dissemination of knowledge through scholars' activities including memberships in professional organizations, hiring practices, and academic publi...