Communication Research Articles

Modeling multi-beam radio channel

In this work, a simulation model of a radio channel with fading is implemented for use 
 in research of the multipath channel, as well as for assessing the noise immunity of transmission, recep-tion and processing systems in modern and future mobile communication and radio access networks. Formalization of mathematical models of a radio channel with fading, including the Rayleigh amplitude distribution, uniform phase distribution and a given Doppler spectrum, made it possible to visualize 
 the time-frequency and probabilistic characteristics of a radio channel with fading. The implementation 
 of the procedures for delaying and attenuating copies of signals in a multipath radio channel made it pos-sible to reproduce scenarios of flat and frequency selective fading, which are widely used in practice in assessing the noise immunity of signals with given frequency and time characteristics.

A new mobile application of agricultural pests recognition using deep learning in cloud computing system

Agricultural pests cause between 20 and 40 percent loss of global crop production every year as reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Therefore, smart agriculture presents the best option for farmers to apply artificial intelligence techniques integrated with modern information and communication technology to eliminate these harmful insect pests. Consequently, the productivity of their crops can be increased. Hence, this article introduces a new mobile application to automatically classify pests using a deep-learning solution for supporting specialists and farmers. The developed application utilizes faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) to accomplish the recognition task of insect pests based on cloud computing. Furthermore, a database of recommended pesticides is linked with the detected crop pests to guide the farmers. This study has been successfully validated on five groups of pests; called Aphids, Cicadellidae, Flax Budworm, Flea Beetles, and Red Spider. The proposed Faster R-CNN showed highest accurate recognition results of 99.0% for all tested pest images. Moreover, our deep learning method outperforms other previous recognition methods, i.e., Single Shot Multi-Box Detector (SSD) MobileNet and traditional back propagation (BP) neural networks. The main prospect of this study is to realize our developed application for on-line recognition of agricultural pests in both the open field such as large farms and greenhouses for specific crops.

커뮤니케이션 만족이 종업원 인게이지먼트와 친사회적 서비스 행동에 미치는 영향

Since prosocial service behavior of MOT employee has a positive impact on both internal and external part of the organization, it is an important challenge for service companies to explore the motivator factors. This research addresses to investigate the relationships among communication satisfaction(S), employee engagement(O), and prosocial service behavior(R) based on SOR Model. To this end, we designed a research model and analyzed it through a structural equation model. As the results of the test, it was found that there were positive relationships among communication, engagement, and prosocial service behavior. The results of the study can imply the importance of interpersonal communication to improve performance through voluntary actions of service providers. In addition, it can be used as basic evidence in preparing plans to promote prosocial service behavior of service providers through communication satisfaction and enhanced engagement.

Possibilities of using modern communication technologies in patrol policeman's work

Introduction. Police officer's communicative readiness is made up of their knowledge, skills and abilities as well as their skills in using modern communication technologies. Aim. To substantiate the role of communicative competence and modern communication technologies in the work of patrol police. Results. The author discusses the components of communicative competence and their role in the work of patrol police as well as analyzes the communicative readiness of patrol police officers and the main factors in the development of their professional competence. Conclusions. Using certain state-of-the-art communication techniques, patrol officers can avoid most conflicts and remain stress-resistant in their work.

Perkembangan Teknologi Komunikasi dan Sumbangannya kepada Pentadbiran British dan Masyarakat di Negeri-Negeri Selat 1902-1938

The Development of the Communication Technology and Its Contributions to the British Administration and Society in Straits Settlements 1902-1938 ABSTRACT A communication system is an important element in facilitating the administration as well as providing communication facilities to the local community. The economic development and changes in the British administration system in the Straits Settlements led the British administration to introduce a modern communication system in the Straits Settlements to facilitate the transmission of information. Most of the previous research on communication is focusing on the development of the transportation system as compared to the communication system. Hence, the objective of this study is to identify the efforts taken by the British in developing communication technology in the Straits Settlements dan its contributions to the administration and the local community. The methodology used for this study is qualitative. The analysis is based on the historical method by making primary sources the main source of analysis. Among the files that were referred to are colonial files CO273 Colonial Office: Straits Settlements Original Correspondence and CO275 Colonial Office: Straits Settlements Sessional Papers. This research shows that there are various efforts taken by the British in the Straits Settlements to develop a perfect and efficient communication system. This includes efforts to improvise the telephone and telegraph facilities by upgrading existing cables of communication. The telephone and telegraph cables were added all over the Straits Settlements which subsequently widened the network of communication to the other Malay States. Wireless technology was also introduced in Singapore and Penang to provide communication that is modern and sophisticated during that era. The transformation in the communication system in the Straits Settlements has contributed to the smooth running of the administration as well as bringing social and economic benefits. Keywords: Communication technology, British administration, Straits Settlements, social service, disseminating information.

Les stéréotypes culturels dans Une année chez les Français de Fouad Laroui

This paper deals with the linguistic representation of cultural stereotypes that greatly influence the interaction of French and Moroccan cultures in the novel A Year with the French (2010) by Fouad Laroui, a Moroccan-Dutch French-language writer, as the multicultural and autobiographical character of his work makes this text a particularly interesting and credible study material. We are going to put under analysis the linguistic means used to translate the stereotyped view of each culture by the other and the representation of autostereotypes and heterostereotypes. Finally, we will define the impact of these stereotypes on the communicative behaviour of the representatives of the two cultures in question, in particular their way of either becoming more enclosed in their own identity or, on the contrary, of overcoming differences and finding common ground.

CBS DP를 통한 자폐스펙트럼장애 영유아와 언어발달지연 영유아의 의사소통 행동 특성에 대한 메타분석

목적 : 본 연구는 ASD 영유아와 DLD 영유아의 의사소통 행동에 대한 국내외 연구를 포함하여 체계적인 문헌 검토를 실시하고, 객관적으로 의사소통 행동 특성의 하위분류인 의사소통 행동빈도와 의사소통 기능에 대해 분석하였다. 방법 : ASD 및 DLD를 대상으로 의사소통 행동 및 의사소통 기능을 비교한 연구들을 KISS, DBpia, KyoboScholar, RISS, PsycINFO, Academic Search Complete, ERIC 데이터베이스를 이용하여 수집하였다. 선정한 10개의 검색어를 통해 1차 검색한 결과, 총 2,204편의 논문이 검색되었고, 선정 및 제외기준에 따라 총 8편의 문헌을 분석대상으로 선정하였다. 결과 : ASD 영유아와 DLD 영유아의 의사소통 행동 특성에 대한 연구는 ASD, DLD와 통제집단을 비교한 연구가 가장 많았다. 메타분석 결과 첫째, ASD 영유아 집단은 일반영유아집단에 비해 의사소통 빈도 및 기능이 낮은 수행을 나타냈다. 둘째, DLD 영유아 집단은 일반영유아집단에 비해 의사소통 기능 및 빈도가 낮게 나타났다. 셋째, 의사소통장애 집단 간의 의사소통 행동 특성을 비교한 결과, 전체적으로 ASD가 낮은 수행을 나타냈다. 의사소통 기능 유형에 따른 분석 결과, ASD 영유아는 DLD 영유아에 비해 사회적 상호작용과 공동주의에서 낮은 수행을 보였으나, 행동통제에서는 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 결론 : ASD영유아와 DLD영유아의 의사소통 행동의 변별적 차이를 확인하여, ASD 영유아의 조기 발견에 의미 있는 정보를 제공할 것으로 보인다. 본 연구에서는 CSBS DP를 사용한 연구로 한정지어 살펴보았으므로, 추후 포괄적으로 평가도구를 선정하여 살펴 볼 것이 요구된다.

СЪДЪРЖАНИЕТО НА КН. 1 ЗА 2021 Г. НА СПИСАНИЕ „БЪЛГАРСКИ ЕЗИК“ / ISSUE 1/2021 OF BALGARSKI EZIK

Issue 1/2021 of Balgarski ezik features three papers dealing with research presented at the Scientific Forum on Research Approaches in Bulgarian Lan¬guage Teaching (2019) organised by the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the last five years. Katya Charalozova’s paper titled The Category of Verb Aspect. Metho-do¬logical Perspectives in Teaching Aspect in Bulgarian Schools Abroad discusses methodological aspects of teaching the category of aspect to students in Bul¬ga¬rian schools abroad from the standpoint of interpreting verb aspect as a semantic category. The author addresses the consistent representation of knowledge and the ways of introducing perfective and imperfective verbs and their forms in the different tenses. Luchia Antonova-Vasileva discusses The Need for Selection and Adaptation of Texts for People Studying Bulgarian Literature Abroad and presents success¬sful examples of adapted editions of works of literature for the purposes of lan¬guage teaching. The author proposes a model for text adaptation for the purpo¬ses of teaching Bulgarian language and literature to Bulgarians living abroad and illustrates it with an excerpt from Ivan Vazov’s novel Under the Yoke. The paper by Reni Manova and Elena Hadzhieva is dedicated to Intercul¬tural Communication and Equality between the Participants in the Dialogue in Bulgarian. On the basis of analysis of the peculiarities of intercultural commu¬nication as an exchange of culturally conditioned information between people from different cultures, the authors conclude that the significant stock of know¬ledge about the foreign culture and the skills to apply specific communicative behaviours adapted to the host culture are of crucial importance. Mariyana Tsibranska’s paper The World of Nuns according to Lexical Data compares data on female monasticism in two types of sources – hagiographic works and canon law – in order to bring monastic everyday life in the focus of cultural conceptology and the study of the diachronic linguistic picture of the world. Everyday life at the monastery is presented by means of specific ranges of concepts (mental constructs) and the respective linguistic nominations. The paper Is there a Pomak Dialect in Bulgaria? by Georgi Mitrinov pre¬sents a critical look at a study by Emel Balakchi titled The Rhodope Dialects. Their Richness and Magic. By adducing compelling linguistic arguments, the author disproves Balakchi’s attempt at representing the Rhodope dialects as Po¬mak dialects. Using numerous examples, Georgi Mitrinov demonstrates the lack of scientific competence and objectivity of the study under consideration in presenting the characteristic features of the Bulgarian Rhodope dialects. In her article The General Designations for a Female Relative in the Bulga¬rian Language Presented as Heteronymic Rows Tsvetelina Georgieva presents in a structured way the designations for female relatives excerpted from the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Bulgarian Family and Kinship Lexis. Using an onomasiological approach, the author argues convincingly that the names for female relatives in Bulgarian are heteronyms and not synonyms.

Асистивні технології як допоміжні засоби організації навчання осіб з вадами зору

The current problem of accessibility of information and communication technologies remains a priority when discussing the rights of people with special needs. Modern communication and information processing devices assume that the user has the ability to see, hear, speak and feel. As a result, people with physical, sensory, and cognitive impairments are unable to access and use computers due to limited human-machine interfaces that do not allow for change. Therefore, the main focus in world practice in the development of technology for people with special needs is focused on those aspects that provide constructive solutions that allow for alternative data representation and the ability to work with input and output devices. To solve this problem, assistive technologies are being developed. Based on the above, the aim of the article was to analyze the features of the use of assistive technologies in the organization of the educational process for the visually impaired. To achieve it, we used the method of analysis of scientific works of scientists and national standards of Ukraine. The article discusses assistive information technologies, which are special software or hardware designed to increase the availability of communication information for people with visual impairments. Analyzing the scientific work of scientists, we concluded that today in Ukraine there is no single conceptual and terminological apparatus to identify tools to empower people with special educational needs. To do this, scientists use a number of terms: "assistive technologies", "auxiliary or compensatory technologies". It is investigated that the necessary condition for successful training of visually impaired people is the creation of material and technical resources and the use of assistive technologies. It is established that in the organization of educational activities of persons with visual impairments is taken into account, above all, the safety and sustainability of the subject-spatial environment. The authors propose a classification and analyze the main assistive technologies used in the organization of training for people with visual impairments. The main approaches to improve the effectiveness of technology in the organization of the educational process of people with visual impairments are proposed.

ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PERILAKU KOMUNIKASI PETANI KELAPA DI KABUPATEN INDRAGIRI HILIR

The role of two-way development communication (convergence) is important so that coconut farmers can obtain information and determine the right farming technology towards farming management which is increasingly advanced in increasing the capacity of coconut farmers. Convergence to increase the capacity of farmers can be achieved well if there is an understanding between farmers in the process. For this reason, it is necessary to have good communication in farming activities between fellow farming actors. This study aims to: (1) To describe the communication elements of coconut farmers in Indragiri Hilir Regency, (2) to describe the communication behavior of coconut farmers in Indragiri Hilir Regency, (3) to analyze the factors which influence the communication behavior of coconut farmers in Indragiri Hilir Regency. . The method used in this research is a survey method. The population of this study consists of people who work as independent farmers, being members of farmer group, and having participated in extension activities and being included as inhabitants in Keritang and Reteh Districts, Indragiri Hilir Regency. The sampling in this study is carried out by purposive sampling with a total sample of 140 farmers. The results of the study illustrate that all variables influence coconut communication behavior in Indragiri Hilir Regency. But the differences are the direction of the relationship and the level of significance. The factor that positively and significantly influences farmer behavior in Indragiri Hilir Regency is the variable of communication media.

Impact of the design of visual communication supports on social interaction by individuals with Down syndrome

Many individuals with developmental disabilities have difficulty using speech as their primary method of communication. These individuals often use visual communication technologies that produce speech when symbols (letters, icons) are typed or selected. When an external aid is used to assist with message preparation, it is called aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The current report illustrates how the design of AAC displays can influence both the efficiency of visual attention to the displays, and also the rate and flexibility of communication produced by three young adults with Down syndrome while using these displays. We designed three versions of AAC displays that prior laboratory research has indicated would influence efficiency of visual attention. These displays were then each used to support communication during a storybook reading interaction between individuals with Down syndrome and a trained communication partner. Visual attention was measured via mobile eye-tracking technologies, and communication behavior was recorded via video camera. Greater efficiency of visual attention and more frequent and flexible communication was observed when the AAC display was optimally designed. The results illustrate the value of eye-tracking technologies for examining communication behavior using AAC.

Psikologi Komunikasi dalam Pendidikan Islam

Communication psychology is described as a science that seeks to describe, predict, and control mental and behavioral events (behavior) in communication. The educational problem that is often neglected in educational activities is that it does not pay attention to the psychological aspects of interacting between individuals, more precisely on the psychological aspects of communication. Educators and students often experience boredom in study and work, boredom, laziness, and loss of motivation are psychological symptoms that are often approached by people who are studying or working. This symptom to some degree will affect learning and work outcomes. Gives birth to a class crisis, a loss of motivation and a loss of excitement. The research method used in writing this article is descriptive-qualitative. The descriptive-qualitative approach is used to study the psychology of organizational communication in the perspective of Islamic education. The concept of communication psychology in the perspective of Islamic education must be based on a teacher-student relationship that is full of love and affection, love and affection, openness, freedom, honesty, sincerity and sincerity, religion, family atmosphere, and not in an atmosphere of power.

Coverage of Protest Stories in Tweets of International News Agencies: A comparative Analysis on Kashmir and Hong Kong Protests

In April 2019 Hong Kong government introduced an extradition bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China. The introduction of the extradition bill resulted in an eruption of mass level peaceful protests across Hong Kong, which turned out to be more violent later on. On the other side, the protests in Kashmir erupted out after the Modi led Indian government revoked the special autonomous status of Kashmir on the 5th of August, 2019. A sudden and momentous decision to eliminate article 370 enrage the Kashmiri people being deprived of their rights resulting in massive protest across the valley. In the context of modern information and communication systems, the present study is designed to examine the protest paradigm in the international news coverage of Kashmir and Hong Kong's recent protests in tweets of international news agencies. Theoretically, the study takes roots from protest paradigm and international news flow. Methodologically, we employed content analysis method. Firstly, content analysis of purposively selected tweets of four international news agencies, AFP, AP, Reuters, and Xinhua, was performed. Secondly, we used visualization technique to examine the framing of international protests by employing news framing, and protest paradigm. Findings reveal that Protest paradigm is supported in context of international disputes due to the vested interests of global powers as well as the dominated agenda of international news agencies.

Email Marketing: The Most Important Advantages and Disadvantages

This paper focuses primarily on the role of Email marketing and E-commerce. Email marketing is one of the most modern means and marketing methods in the world. Modern information and communication technologies also facilitate the circulation and sending of electronic messages with the highest quality and accuracy. In addition, Email marketing campaigns help to increase the sale of products in electronic shops and to target customers efficiently and legally. However, despite the benefits of Email marketing, there are also many negatives that constitute a real obstacle to promotion and marketing via this messaging system. This study focuses on discussing the most important advantages and disadvantages of Email marketing and analyzing the success factors of this marketing by avoiding these disadvantages and benefiting from all these advantages.

Strategic analysis of the commercial bank activities on the basis of a balanced scorecard

The purpose of the article is to develop theoretical approaches to strategic analysis of the activities of commercial banks based on a balanced scorecard and gap analysis. The adaptation of this method to the peculiarities of the available operational, accounting and statistical information has been made. The empirical base of the study is the data of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, data of statistical and accounting reports of a commercial bank. Also, when compiling the balanced scorecard, the strategic plan for the development of the organization of the banking sector of the Republic of Belarus is initially used for the corporate business line. The strategic analysis procedure involves assessing the four main business processes of the organization (finance, customers, internal business processes, personnel and development), based on comparing the target value of each of the indicators with the current value, and setting an assessment. An important element of building a balanced scorecard and, at the same time, the first stage of gap analysis (GAP analysis) is to identify gaps between the assessment of the prospects' tasks and their target value (100%), as well as formulate proposals for their elimination. As a result of the strategic analysis of a commercial bank, the prospects for the development of the organization were considered, problem areas in business processes were identified, negative gaps between the target and actual indicators were classified by their types. As a result of the analysis of the balanced scorecard and the analysis of gaps, the necessary measures were identified to achieve the strategic goals of a commercial bank for the next year, and conclusions were drawn about the need to increase interaction with the client in the digital environment through modern information and communication technologies: chat bots, digital products, online design, online presentations, etc.

Динамика особенностей межличностной коммуникации супругов с длительным стажем брака в период самоизоляции

The article presents the results of testing the hypothesis about changes in the nature of interpersonal communication between spouses in conditions of self-isolation, determined by the dynamics of destructive communicative attitudes and behavior style in conflict situations. 30 married couples with 15 years of family life experience were examined. Data obtained at the very beginning of restrictions and after a three-month period of self-isolation were compared. It is noted that the interpersonal communication of the spouses over the past three months has become more intense, tense, aggressive and conflicted. The spouses managed to intensify and maintain the usual system of implementing destructive attitudes in interpersonal communication, as well as the stylistic features of behavior in conflict situations, but they did not manage to prefer cooperation to compromise: compromise was and remains the dominant strategy of behavior of each of the spouses in the conflict. It is shown that during the three-month period of self-isolation, wives became somewhat detached from reality, while their husbands became significantly more realistic, but also significantly more openly violent. Attention is drawn to the need for further scientific research of this problem, as well as improving the practice of psychological support for families in situations of this type.

The Impact of Social Media on the Freedom Movement in Indian held Kashmir

The contemporary phase of the youth-led freedom movement in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) is not confined to the armed rebellion by the Kashmiri youth but is also coupled with a non-violent approach using social media against the atrocities and human rights violations such as systematic torture, rape, extrajudicial killing, and prisoner abuse, by the committed by the Indian armed forces. Victims' stories have been well-documented and 're-packaged for the world community through social media. The freedom movement went through various phases throughout history, and the most recent phase was introduced in 2016 after the brutal killings carried out by the Indian armed forces that included Burhan Muzaffar Wani, a youth-icon and a freedom fighter who used social media as a communication tool. The use of modern communication technologies like social media ensures that the narrative of the people of Kashmir regarding the freedom from the illegal occupation of Kashmir and suppression by Indian security forces would spread all around the world. This paper applies social movement framing analysis to this contemporary freedom movement in IHK to better understand the ways in which it is being re-defined by activists through exposure and affiliation to other transnational protest movements and re-framed in a manner that stresses the universal applications of contemporary human rights mobilizations.

Особенности работы со студентами азиатского культурного профиля, обучающимися в России

The relevance of this topic is due to the need for socio-cultural adaptation of international students studying in Russian universities in general and students from Asia in particular. The purpose of this article is to consider the features of such adaptation of students from the Asia-Pacific Region (belonging to the Asian cultural profile) and China in particular. In the article, the author considers several issues. The first problem is the isolation of international students, which is aggravated by the insufficiently thought out policy of their resettlement in hostels, and information and cultural support on the territory of the Russian Federation. The author proposes measures to neutralize such omissions in administrative work, for example, various options for the institution of mentoring. The article also provides an overview of such an urgent problem as the use of modern communication channels not only to maintain operational contact with international students, but also for the purpose of their cultural and political adaptation. The author suggests some recommendations on the peculiarities of using social networks in working with students from Asia in general and from China in particular.

Evaluation of Communication and Safety Behaviors During Hospital-Wide Code Response Simulation.

To understand the baseline quality of team communication behaviors at our organization, we implemented institution-wide simulation training and measured the performance of safety behaviors of ad hoc teams in emergent situations. Clinicians participated in 2 interprofessional video-recorded simulation scenarios, each followed by debriefing. Using a standardized evaluation instrument, 2 reviewers independently evaluated the presence or absence of desired team safety behaviors, including escalating care, sharing a mental model, establishing leadership, thinking out loud, and identifying roles and responsibilities. We also scored the quality of sharing the mental model, closed-loop communication, and overall team performance on a 7-point scale. Discordant reviews were resolved with scoring by an additional reviewer. A total of 1404 clinicians participated in 398 simulation scenarios, resulting in 257 usable videos. Overall, teams exhibited desired behaviors at the following frequencies: escalating care, 85%; sharing mental models, 66%; verbally establishing leadership, 6%; thinking out loud, 87%; and identifying roles and responsibilities, 27%. Across all reviews, the quality of the graded behaviors (of 7 points) was 2.8 for shared mental models, 3.3 for closed-loop communication, and 3.2 for overall team performance. In a simulation setting with ad hoc teams, there was variable performance on completing safety behaviors and only a fair quality of graded communication behaviors. These results establish a baseline assessment of communication and teamwork behaviors and will guide future quality improvement interventions.

The use of multilingualism in excursion classes in biology (on the example of the greenhouse of the children's and youth center for ecology and tourism)

Education is an area of social and cultural human’s life, which is made becoming spiritually mature, highly moral person, able to defend the universal, common cultural values. Education is impossible without accomplishment, and accomplishment should be targeted. Multicultural component in the educational system of any educational institution at the moment is vital, especially in our multinational country. A special place in the education of children and adolescents take humanities, and in particular the study of foreign languages by children. At the present stage in the conditions of intercultural communication is becoming increasingly common model of multilingual education. In this regard, the fundamental purpose of education should be training people in the new model of development of the international community based on universal, global values, the formation skills in children and teens to communicate and interact with representatives of neighboring cultures and in space. Educational institutions not only provide the necessary general and professional knowledge, but also to translate socio-cultural values form the patterns of behavior and skills of intercultural communication, contribute to the formation of an international, multi-cultural identity of the individual.