Academic Articles & Research Papers

Editorial: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 11: sustainable cities and communities. A sociological perspective

The International History of Communication Study

An indepth treatise on the history of human communication with archival interviews and research of those who have studied it as an intrical part of the social sciences. (Amazon.com)...

Subject–method topic network analysis in communication studies

Post-Truth and Critical Communication Studies

Abstract While the periodizing concept “post-truth” (PT) initially appeared in the United States as a key word of popular politics in the form “post-truth politics” or “post-truth society,” it quickly appeared in many languages. It is now t...

Treatment adherence: A Concept Analysis Using the Walker & Avant Method

Jian Tang,1 Pimpaporn Klunklin,2 Sumalee Lirtmunlikaporn,2 Yanan Wang3 1Department of Infectious Diseases, The Affiliated Hospital, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University...

Hypothesis-driven methods to augment human cognition by optimizing cortical oscillations

Cortical oscillations have been shown to represent fundamental functions of a working brain, e.g. communication, stimulus binding, error monitoring, and inhibition, and are directly linked to behavior. Recent studies intervening with these ...

Evaluation of students' mental and social health promotion educational programs: A systematic review

INTRODUCTION: Various programs are implemented internationally to promote the mental and social health of the students in schools. This study systematically reviewed and categorized all resources, indicators, and criteria for evaluating men...

Household food security, food hygiene practices and their interaction on self-reported health among pregnant women in the Bono region of Ghana: a population-based cluster survey

Abstract Background Food security and food hygiene practices can negatively influence health. Poor food hygiene and food insecurity risk poor health. Studies have investigated the direct associations of food security and food hygiene practi...

Real-time perioperative communication technologies for reducing family anxiety: a systematic review

Family members often experience anxiety during the intraoperative period because of uncertainty regarding surgical progress and the patient’s condition. Real-time perioperative communication technologies, including mobile applications, auto...

Investigating Undergraduate Students’ Learning Styles and Preferences in English as a Second Language: The Case of a Public University in Ghana

This study examines selected undergraduate students’ learning styles and preferences at a public university in Ghana. These participants were Level 100 students pursuing the Bachelor of Information Technology programme. The study sought to ...

Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country - a Case Study from Uzbekistan

Participatory research has in recent years become a popular approach for problem-oriented scientific research that aims to tackle complex problems in a real management context. Within the European Union project NeWater, stakeholder processe...

Satisfaction Rate from the Communication Skills of Family Physicians in Rural Health Centers at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Since that one of the basic points in the competences of physicians, is the communication skill to carry out their professional duties properly, several studies suggest that manyphysicians can not communicate to th...

Barriers faced by people with disabilities in mainstream sports: a systematic review

IntroductionDespite advances in inclusive policies and social awareness, the participation of people with disabilities (PwD) in mainstream sports remains limited due to numerous barriers. This systematic review seeks to identify and critica...

Transmission of β-lactamases in the pork food chain: A public health concern

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a risk for public health that requires management in a One Health perspective, including humans, animals, and the environment. The food production chain has been identified as a possible route of transmissi...

Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems With Piecewise Continuous Time-Varying Topology

This paper studies the consensus of multi-agent systems with piecewise continuous time-varying topology. The agents are assumed to have identical first-order linear dynamics, which their underlying communication topology is piecewise contin...

The Communication Studies Researcher and the Communication Studies Indexes

The existence of widely available large, multi-subject, online databases calls into question the necessity for small, discipline-specific indexes to support research. This study attempts to determine whether the online Communication Studies...

THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES

This article charts the vast multiplicity of phenomena that can be brought under the ‘communication’ umbrella. The author denies that these can be integrated within a framework of communication regarded as a discipline in its own right. He ...

Historical Institutionalism in Communication Studies

New institutionalism is a collection of institutionalist theories, including historical institutionalism, sociological institutionalism, and rational choice institutionalism. This article focuses on historical institutionalism in communicat...

The effect of cropping pattern on the profitability of liquid fertilizer usage in dry season vegetable production in the Southern Guinea savannah zone of Nigeria

Liquid fertilizers in dry season vegetable production are applied using different cropping patterns with little or no empirical evidence on which pattern is the most profitable. This study, therefore, investigated the effect of cropping pat...

Advanced Combination Localization Algorithm Based on Trilateration for Dynamic Cluster Network

Dynamic cluster network localization requires taking the following factors into consideration: 1) the localization time of network nodes; 2) the communication load among all cluster nodes, and; 3) the presence of the abnormal distance measu...