Academic Articles & Research Papers

Futures of Communication: Communication Studies∼Creativity

This paper proposes that applying models from within creativity research to the discipline of communication will provide innovative ways of examining communication that pushes current knowledge of cultural production beyond established rese...

Knowledge linkage structures in communication studies using citation analysis among communication journals

Aproximación pragmática a los conceptos de acto de habla y de acción comunicativa

Resumen La pragmática es la disciplina lingüística que estudia el lenguaje en su uso y en la acción en que ocurre. Aquí se evidencia una clara relación entre acción y lenguaje, por cuanto el uso del lenguaje en la comunicación se con...

Sociotechnical Privacy. Mapping the Research Landscape

While it is extraordinarily difficult to theoretically specify privacy, in the last 100 years or so (social) psychology, philosophy, communication studies, economics, and, to a lesser degree, also sociology and anthropology, provided attemp...

Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Platforms in Local Energy Markets

This review explores Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Energy Trading Platforms in Local Energy Markets, drawing insights from three key studies. These markets, using P2P trading, efficiently distribute electricity within communities. Research assesses P2...

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...

Systematic Literature Review of the Use of Computational Intelligence in the Routing and Spectrum Assignment Problem in Elastic Optical Networks

Abstract Elastic optical networks (EONs) have characteristics that meet the growing demand for current and future bandwidth, such as 5G and Internet of Things. In EONs, connections must have a route and a spectrum slice available between th...

Improving communication skills in the Southeast Asian health care context

The aim of these two PhD thesis are to develop a guideline on doctor-patient communication skills based on cultural characteristics of Southeast Asian context and to develop communication skills training for nurses to enhance their contribu...

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...

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...

Spatio-temporal analysis of childhood vaccine uptake in Nigeria: a hierarchical Bayesian Zero-inflated Poisson approach

Abstract Background Globally, child mortality and morbidity remain a serious health challenge and infectious diseases are the leading causes. The use of count models together with spatial analysis of the number of doses of childhood vaccine...

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...

MAPPING RICE CROPPING SYSTEM IN THE LOWER GANGETIC PLAIN USING LANDASAT 8 (OLI) AND MODIS IMAGERY

The Indo-Gangetic basin is one of the productive rice growing areas in South-East Asia. Within this extensive flat fertile land, lower Gangetic basin, especially the south Bengal, is most intensively cultivated. In this study we map the ric...

ASPECTOS CLÍNICOS, EPIDEMIOLÓGICOS E LABORATORIAIS DE PORTADORES DE TUBERCULOSE PULMONAR E EXTRAPULMONAR PROVENIENTES DE SERVIÇOS PÚBLICOS DO ESTADO DE PERNAMBUCO

Introdução/objetivo: A tuberculose (TB) mantém-se como um grave problema de saúde pública, sendo a principal causa de morte por doença infecciosa antes da COVID-19. Em 2022, foram notificados 78.057 novos casos de TB no Brasil, destes, 5.14...

Teleparallel Minkowski Spacetime with Perturbative Approach for Teleparallel Gravity on a Proper Frame

A complete perturbation theory suitable for teleparallel gravity is developed. The proposed perturbation scheme takes into account perturbations of the coframe, the metric, and the spin-connection, while ensuring that the resulting perturbe...

Patient-Reported Continued Benefits in Patients Treated with Pexidartinib for Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor Based on a Real-World Study in the United States

Category: Other Introduction/Purpose: Tenosynovial giant cell tumors (TGCT) are neoplastic, inflammatory lesions that arise within the synovium and can be locally aggressive. Patients with TGCT frequently experience pain and joint swelling,...

Prevalence and determinants of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction Hypertensive disorder of pregnancy is the second commonest causes of maternal death globally. Different public health studies were conducted on hypertensive disorder of pregnancy which presented inconsistent result. Therefore, ...