Communication Events Research Articles

A multimodal understanding of the role of sound and music in gendered toy marketing.

Literature in music theory and psychology shows that, even in isolation, musical sounds can reliably encode gender-loaded messages. Musical material can be imbued with many ideological dimensions and gender is just one of them. Nonetheless, studies of the gendering of music within multimodal communicative events are sparse and lack an encompassing theoretical framework. The present study attempts to address this literature gap by employing a critical quantitative analysis of music in gendered toy marketing, which integrated a content analytical approach with multimodal affective and music-focused perceptual responses. Ratings were collected on a set of 606 commercials spanning a ten-year time frame and strong gender polarization was observed in nearly all of the collected variables. Gendered music styles in toy commercials exhibit synergistic design choices, as music in masculine-targeted adverts was substantially more abrasive-louder, more inharmonious, and more distorted-than in feminine-targeted ones. Thus, toy advertising music appeared deliberately and consistently in line with traditional gender norms. In addition, music perceptual scales and voice-related content analytical variables explain quite well the heavily polarized affective ratings. This study presents a empirical understanding of the gendering of music as constructed within multimodal discourse, reiterating the importance of the sociocultural underpinnings of music cognition. We provided a public repository with all code and data necessary to reproduce the results of this study on github.com/marinelliluca/music-role-gender-marketing.

Double adaptive event-triggered strategy for leader-following group consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems in cooperative–competitive networks

This article investigates adaptive event-triggered control for leader-following group consensus of hybrid heterogeneous multi-agent systems (HMASs) composed of single- and double-integrator agents under cooperative–competitive relationships. By using fully distributed control protocol and adaptive protocol, the leader-following group consensus can be achieved without global information. Additionally, a novel adaptive double dynamic event-triggered mechanism (DDETM) is proposed, in which two independent adaptive event-triggered conditions are devised to maintain events of communication and updates of controllers. Furthermore, adaptive parameters and internal dynamic variables are employed to reduce the number of triggers and exclude Zeno phenomenon. By utilizing Lyapunov stability theory, some sufficient conditions are acquired for the leader-following group consensus of the HMASs. Finally, simulation examples are given to prove the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Linguistic Acceptability

Abstract: This article is about linguistic acceptability, and in this article, linguistic acceptability is treated as a synonym of textual acceptability. This article has as fundamental objective to understand the factors that contribute to the establishment of linguistic acceptability, and to continue this study, the starting question was the following: What are the factors that contribute to the establishment of linguistic acceptability? Therefore, to answer this question, the line of bibliographical research was adopted as a methodology in order to understand the different perspectives linked to this theme in order to understand and comprehend the determining conditions that contribute to textual acceptability in a given communicative event. In this way, it is understood that this article can substantially contribute to raising awareness among potential speakers of a language about the essential criteria that guarantee textual acceptability, but also about its relevance in the language teaching and learning process. Thus, in view of the above, it is concluded that textual acceptability is characterized by the ability of the receiver to attribute a certain meaning to the linguistic sequences produced by his interlocutor, there are several criteria that must be mobilized, relevant for example for linguistic knowledge, sociolinguistic knowledge and pragmatic knowledge, that is, the learner of a given language must simultaneously master linguistic conventions and sociocultural conventions on the use of language within the speaking community

Defining Unique Features of Discourse in Club of Funny and Inventive: A Study of Humor in KVN Performances

This article focuses on identifying the distinctive characteristics of discourse within the "Club of the Funny and Inventive" (Russ. KVN). The primary material for this study consists of team performances from the KVN television show. Attention is given to the challenge of defining the concept of discourse, along with a review of major approaches to its interpretation. It is demonstrated that humorous performances in KVN can be analyzed within the existing scientific paradigm as a communicative figure comprising three components: "reality – text – discourse," as well as being viewed as a specific communicative event. The authors examine the ontological characteristics of humor, highlighting its basis in contradiction and its sociocultural nature. Functions such as communication, socialization, identification, and differentiation facilitated by humor are described. The relevance of this research is underscored by the significance of KVN as a cultural phenomenon in shaping and developing humorous discourse as a whole. The article posits that KVN can be regarded as a distinct variety of humorous discourse due to its thematic and stylistic coherence. It is suggested that the specific characteristics and conditions governing KVN lead to the emergence of traits similar to those found in institutional discourse. The novelty of this study lies in articulating the antinomic characteristics of KVN discourse, concluding that their existence is intrinsically linked to the foundational contrast inherent in humor itself.

Customer Satisfaction Analysis: Factors Enhancing Purchase Decisions in Higher Education Institution

Higher education institutions face numerous obstacles, including severe rivalry. Higher education institutions must innovate to address these difficulties. The primary goal of this study is to investigate and analyze the elements that influence customer satisfaction and purchase decisions in higher education institutions. This research used quantitative methodologies, with questionnaires distributed to 385 students at one of Indonesia's institutions. The data will be processed using path analysis and correlational analysis with SEM-PLS in the SmartPLS software. The study's findings indicate that customer experience had positive and significant impact on customer satisfaction and purchase decisions (p < 0.05). Communication quality and event marketing positively and significant impacts customer experience and purchasing decisions (p < 0.05). Customer satisfaction significantly affects purchasing decisions (p < 0.05). Higher education institutions must focus on the elements that influence consumer satisfaction and purchase decisions. This can be accomplished through excellent quality communication and appealing marketing strategies.

Topology sensing of FANET under missing data

The topological structure of a flying ad hoc network (FANET) is crucial to understand, explain, and predict the behavior of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. Most studies focusing on topology sensing use perfect observations and complete datasets. However, the received signal dataset, being non-cooperative, commonly encounters instances of missing data, causing the performance of the existing algorithms to degrade. We investigate the issue of topology sensing of FANET based on external observations and propose a topology sensing method for FANET with missing data while introducing link-prediction methods to correct the topology inference results. First, we employ multi-dimensional Hawkes processes to model the communication event sequence in the network. Subsequently, to solve the problem in which the binary decision threshold is difficult to determine and cannot be adapted to the application scenario, we propose an extended multi-dimensional Hawkes model suitable for FANET and use the maximum likelihood estimation method for topology inference. Finally, to solve the problem of the low accuracy of inference results owing to missing data, we perform community detection on the observation network and combine the community detection and inference results to construct a mixed connection probability matrix, based on which we perform topology correction. The results of the analysis show that the topology sensing method proposed in this study is robust against missing data, indicating that it is an effective solution for solving this problem.

Talking to children in Tsotsil Mayan: Interactional formats in child-directed communication across multigenerational caregivers

Research on the acquisition of Mayan languages has shown child-directed communication (CDC) to be low in frequency. Nevertheless, long-term linguistic-anthropological research with the Tsotsil Mayan in Southern Mexico has documented episodes in family life when children engage in interactional routines or interactional formats (IFs) with their multigenerational caregivers. These interactions are sequentially organized communicative acts (verbal and nonverbal) that call forth specific responses from the child in turn-taking episodes (e.g. muts’o la sate ‘close your eyes’, chibat, uto ‘say, good-bye’). This study analyzes IFs in four communicative events involving four children (11–17 months; M = 15) each from multigenerational families with a household average of 7.75 members. Three research questions are addressed: What types and functions of IFs characterize CDC experienced by Tsotsil children? How do IF types distribute across specific communicative events? How do IF types distribute across multigenerational caregivers? The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods. IFs were classified on the basis of their pragmatic function: directive, prompting, teasing, referential, regulatory, and evaluation. The six IF types and their relative frequencies reveal core language socialization practices among the Tsotsil Mayan of the study. Quantitative analysis makes clear a significant association between IFs and event, and IFs and caregivers’ CDC. A central finding is that non-parental input from multigenerational caregivers (i.e. grandmothers and sisters) is a more significant source of CDC than parental input.

8159 Single Nuclei RNA-Sequencing Reveals Novel Cellular Diversity in Human Neck Adipose Tissue

Abstract Disclosure: H. Camara: None. S.D. Kodani: Employee; Self; Hoxton Farm. S. Yang: None. V. Efthymiou: None. K. An: None. A. Gupta: None. F. Shamsi: None. A. Streets: None. M.E. Patti: Advisory Board Member; Self; Fractyl Laboratories. Consulting Fee; Self; AstraZeneca, Hamni, MBX Biosciences. Grant Recipient; Self; Dexcom. Y. Tseng: Consulting Fee; Self; LyGenesis. Other; Self; BioHaven. Adipose tissue plays a crucial role in maintaining metabolic health. It fulfills distinct functions through two types of fat: white adipose tissue (WAT), the primary site of triglyceride storage, and brown adipose tissue (BAT) along with related beige fat, specializing in thermogenic energy expenditure. Despite the scarcity of BAT in humans, these thermogenic adipocytes efficiently utilize glucose and triglycerides and act as an endocrine organ by secreting batokines. Hence, increased BAT activity is associated with improved metabolic health in humans. In adults, thermogenic adipose tissue is localized in deep neck planes, exhibiting a gradient from white to beige/brown from superficial to deep layers. Mounting evidence suggests the diverse cell types within the adipose tissue and their dynamic interactions play an important role in its versatile functions. To understand the cellular compositions of human adipose tissue and directly compare the differences between human BAT vs. WAT, we collected 30 paired samples of superficial, intermediate and deep human neck adipose tissue from 15 participants who underwent anterior cervical discectomy fusion or thyroid surgery and subjected the frozen tissues to single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq). The integration of the samples yielded 41,337 good-quality nuclei. As expected, white adipocytes (WAd) were the dominant cell type, comprising 38% of the total cells captured. Further analysis of the WAd cluster revealed increased expression of brown adipocyte-associated genes, such as EBF2 and COBL, and enrichment of oxidative phosphorylation pathway score in cells from deep neck samples, indicating increased thermogenic potential. Bona fide brown adipocytes (BAds), marked by the expression of PPARGC1A, were predominantly located in the deep neck samples (>80%) but comprised less than 2% of the dataset. Despite their low numbers, cell-cell communication analysis by CellChat predicted that BAds account for most of the communication events within this niche, highlighting their endocrine importance. snRNA-seq also captured non-adipocyte cells, including adipocyte progenitors, smooth muscle, immune, Schwann and neuron-associated cells. Among these, a novel Neuron-Associated Cell-1, marked by the expression of CNTNAP2, emerged as the second most abundant in the dataset (∼10% of total). Another neuron-associated cell population marked by expression of DNAH11, though less abundant (∼1%), was enriched in deep neck samples, potentially regulating the high levels of thermogenic potential in this region. Taken together, the identified subpopulations and their gene expression profiles offer new insights into the tissue's role in metabolic regulation. This knowledge could be pivotal for developing targeted therapies for obesity and related disorders. Presentation: 6/1/2024

Analysis of Expressive Illocutionary Act Found in Night School Movie

Abstract Language is an important aspect of communication that is used to interact, speak, and express feelings. Expressive speech acts are typically the facets of speech acts commonly employed in communication. This study examines the significance of expressive illocutionary acts in human communication, focusing specifically on the Night School movie. This study applies a qualitative descriptive approach. In this study, the concept of expressive illocutionary acts proposed by Searle (1979) is used as a theoretical framework that guides the investigations carried out. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the various expressive illocutionary acts performed by the characters in the Night School movie. The findings reveal six types of expressive illocutionary acts: thanking, apologizing, congratulating, wishing, attitude, and greeting. Through the application of pragmatics, the study offers insights into the interpretation and understanding of the communicative events within the film, highlighting the importance of expressive illocutionary acts in conveying emotions and shaping interpersonal dynamics. This research contributes to the broader field of pragmatics and provides a framework for analyzing expressive illocutionary acts in film. Keywords: pragmatics, expressive illocutionary act, night school movie

Single-Cell Cortical Transcriptomics Reveals Common and Distinct Changes in Cell-Cell Communication in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) cause significant neuronal loss and severely impair daily living. Despite different clinical manifestations, these disorders share common pathological molecular hallmarks, including mitochondrial dysfunction and synaptic degeneration. A detailed comparison of molecular changes at single-cell resolution in the cortex, as one of the main brain regions affected in both disorders, may reveal common susceptibility factors and disease mechanisms. We performed single-cell transcriptomic analyses of post-mortem cortical tissue from AD and PD subjects and controls to identify common and distinct disease-associated changes in individual genes, cellular pathways, molecular networks, and cell-cell communication events, and to investigate common mechanisms. The results revealed significant disease-specific, shared, and opposing gene expression changes, including cell type-specific signatures for both diseases. Hypoxia signaling and lipid metabolism emerged as significantly modulated cellular processes in both AD and PD, with contrasting expression alterations between the two diseases. Furthermore, both pathway and cell-cell communication analyses highlighted shared significant alterations involving the JAK-STAT signaling pathway, which has been implicated in the inflammatory response in several neurodegenerative disorders. Overall, the analyses revealed common and distinct alterations in gene signatures, pathway activities, and gene regulatory subnetworks in AD and PD. The results provide insights into coordinated changes in pathway activity and cell-cell communication that may guide future diagnostics and therapeutics.

Communication Practices for Families With Languages Other Than English in US Neonatal Care Units.

The lack of provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) to families with languages other than English (LOE) is a highly modifiable driver of health care inequities. In a nationally representative sample of level 2 to 4 US NICUs, we examined patterns and predictors of communication practices for families with LOE and ascertained clinical leaders' beliefs about barriers to CLAS provision. We surveyed clinical leaders from 500 randomly selected US NICUs. Responses were weighted by the number of eligible NICUs per region and nonresponse rates. Outcomes included: consistent parental language documentation (≥75% of the time versus <75%) and consistent professional interpreter use (in-person or remote interpretation ≥75% of the time versus <75%). We used logistic regression to examine the associations of predictors (region, hospital characteristics, and the proportion of racial and ethnic minority and families with LOE served) with outcomes. The overall response rate was 34%. A total of 63% of NICUs collected parental language data consistently, and 41% used interpreters consistently. Patterns of interpreter use varied by service hours and type of communication event. Teaching status, highest level of neonatal care, and larger NICU size were associated with consistent language documentation. Only a larger NICU size was associated with consistent interpreter use. Barriers to CLAS provision included untimely access to interpreter services and suboptimal quality of certain interpretation modalities. Implementation guidance, accountability for compliance with existing mandates, and interventions tailored to the NICU context are needed to reduce linguistic disparities.

Caregiver and child perspectives of wellbeing in school-age children with childhood apraxia of speech

Purpose Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a communication deficit that impacts a child’s overall quality of life, including their academic and social interactions, yet few studies have investigated the impact from the child’s perspective. Using The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework, we examined the children’s and caregivers’ perspectives on the impact of CAS on their overall wellbeing. Method Survey data were collected from 32 child-caregiver dyads for children ages 9–17 years with CAS. Items elicited responses along a 5-point scale to examine the perceived impact of children’s speech impairments using the framework, including impact on communication, interpersonal interactions/relationships, and major life events. Result Results from non-parametric statistical analyses revealed: (a) caregivers reported a significantly greater impact than children across individual ICF domains; (b) child responses were not significantly correlated with their caregiver’s responses or with the child’s age, gender, or severity indicators; and (c) both caregivers and children indicated the domain of communication was impacted more than other domains. Conclusion Results suggest a potential disconnect in the perceived impact of CAS between the caregiver and child. Recommendations include facilitating a dialogue between the child-caregiver dyad and considering treatment goals that address wellbeing.

Speaking Up and Being Heard: The Importance of Functional Communication and Discourse Principles in Aphasia Intervention.

This article acknowledges Audrey Holland's influence on aphasiology as it specifically relates to the emergence of a strengths-based perspective on the everyday communication of people with aphasia. We explore a historical perspective, as well as current ways in which everyday communicative events are approached in both clinical and research practice. The term "functional communication" is synonymous with Audrey's work, with linguistically-based discourse analysis and therapy both viewed as natural companions and extensions of the concept within aphasiology. Audrey's focus on the interactional side of communication and psychosocial impacts of aphasia, as well as her expertise in analysis and measurement, contributed to the coalescing of impairment-based and social communication approaches, encompassing a true sense of humanity and connectedness. Her application of these in international contexts was also noteworthy. In this article, we hope to capture principles of aphasia management that underpin current clinical practice, and also move beyond the traditional clinic context to consider aphasia groups that have had such a key role in promoting successful social communication by and with people with aphasia. We suggest future directions to further promote the principles advocated by Audrey Holland in assisting people with aphasia to move forward with confidence with their conversation partners, friends, and communities.

Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings

How does agency emerge eventfully in processes of organizational becoming? This article aims to address this question by developing a process theory of agency based on Gilbert Simondon’s philosophical writings on individuation as a communicative phenomenon and Brian Massumi’s writings on affect. This theory views agency as an affective force, expressed as a communicative event, that governs the transition from one process of individuation to another, producing an enhanced ability to act and potentially leading to a collective process of transindividuation that is essential to organizational becoming. In turn, this article not only offers novel theoretical as well as methodological insights for organizational research, but also highlights researchers’ ethical responsibilities toward those whose individuation is precarious and who may not be able to partake in certain processes of organizational becoming.

The Communicology of a Blank Paper, a Void That Expresses

In this paper I attempt to trace the semiotic path of meaning experience from “nothing” into “something”. Traditional communication studies are problematic in 1. focusing on the message to the effect of ignoring the communicators; 2. choosing to overlook how yet-to-be signs acquire meanings in the communicative moments; and 3. tending to assume a “natural science” attitude toward the studied phenomenon so that embodied consciousness is either sidetracked or psychologized. Taking communicology as both the theory and methodology, I first describe the semiotic network in which blank paper, a nonconventional sign, acquires its signness in a specified communicative event. Then, I look inward to the relation of consciousness and embodiment. Finally, I argue that communication is such a life-world moment wherein non-expression is collectively constituted as a form of expression.

Localization and detection of underwater acoustic communication signals using convolutional recursive neural networks

Abstract This paper employs a multi-task neural network (UWAELD) to simultaneously perform the Underwater Acoustic Communication Event Detection (UACED) and direction-of-arrival (DOA) mission. Typically, the UACED and DOA tasks are executed separately, as the UACED task is identified through time-frequency analysis, while the DOA task is identified through the amplitude and phase differences of the signal, making it very difficult to jointly perform both tasks. To overcome this, we utilize a logarithmic spectrogram for time-frequency analysis and stack the normalized eigenvectors obtained by processing the signal covariance matrix. We ultimately evaluate the network’s feasibility using simulation data and lake test data, utilizing acoustical signals measured in actual experiments. Finally, for the UADCED task, the error rate is only 6%, with an F1 score of 0.83; for the DOA task, the localization error is only 1.72°, with a localization recall score of 0.87. Additionally, for the DOA task, we employ the classical MUSIC algorithm to demonstrate the network’s superiority.

Code-Switching Used in Indonesian-Japanese Interpersonal Communication: A Sociolinguistics Study

This research analyzed code-switching used during interpersonal communication events between Indonesian and Japanese native speakers who understand both languages. This sociolinguistic analysis examines the phenomenon of code-switching based on socio-cultural and socio-situational. In this study, the data were collected using questionnaires and interviews. Findings have found that several factors underlie code-switching in interpersonal communication: the ability of language participants, speakers' shifting moods and wills, conversational topics, speakers' sense of solidarity, speakers' incapacity to use linguistic codes, and speakers' propensity to use the idea that a first-learned vocabulary (cognitive primacy). The purposes of code-switching in a conversation are to facilitate communication, strengthen the bond between the speaker and the speaking partner, respect one another's cultural backgrounds, facilitate discussion, enhance foreign language proficiency, and serve as a reminder to speakers to address specific topics or provide an answer to a question.

İNFORMASİYA TEXNOLOGİYASINDAN İSTİFADƏNİN DİDAKTİK MƏZMUNU

Didactic Content of using Information Technologies Summary The study defines education as a system in which the main participants in the educational system are teachers, students, the educational contingent and the learning environment. If we can create the ability and training to use ICT in these core activities, then it can be argued that the necessary work to develop them in the teaching and educational system has been done. We see that the role of ICT in improving the quality of education is great. Key words: didactic content, information and communication technologies, information society, activities and events, student-centered

The Relationship Between Language and The Creation of Ethnic Identities of Tai Loei in The Northeastern of Thailand

This research paper aims to study the relationship between language and the ethnic identity formation process of Tai Loei people in northeastern Thailand by applying the study of language and identity framework as the key concepts for analysing the language data of Tai Loei people used in daily communication and the Tai Loei language data contained in written documents. The study results showed that 1) the characteristics of the sound of Loei ethnic groups have syllable structures as follows: (1) CVT, 2) CVCT, 3) CV:T, 4) CV:CT, 5) CVVT, 6) CVVCT, and 7) CCV:CT.The phonemes of Tai Loei appear in 3 phonemes, which are consonant phonemes, vowel phonemes, and tone phonemes. However, the researcher found that the end of the word, according to Thai grammar, is an adverb such as “Na,” while Tai Loei uses the words “Ko” and “Unneaw”. As for the issue of the ethnic identity of the Tai Loei people, the history of the city is found in relation to the Tai Loei ethnic language, traditions, and cultures, which contain myths, tales, and stories. The ethnic identity of the Tai Loei people was found to be 1) the ethnic group name “Tai Loei,”The name of goods and services with the expression of the ethnic identity of Tai Loei people 3) The naming of the Red Cross Festival and the expression of ethnic identity of Tai Loei people. In terms of communication ethnography in the comedy show in Isan (speak Tai Loei), the communication events of ethnic groups in the social space are observed. The communication content and the sequence of the speech in terms of the presentation of Tai Loei representations in the cultural society from the traditions, language, and media interestingly show the dimension of the relationship between language and the establishment of the ethnic identity of Tai Loei people in the Thailand area.

Discourse on the Extended Meaning of Shahada: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach

The existence of God is an extraordinary occurrence that presents a challenge for the limited human intellect to comprehend. Hence, arriving at that conviction necessitates unwavering trust and belief. In Islam, the affirmation of this conviction must be expressed in two lines known as the shahada. In addition to this paranormal event, the language structure pertaining to the two words found in the shahada includes the term أشهد (ashhadu), which translates as ‘I testify’. This statement assumes that the person testifying had prior knowledge of God’s existence, despite the fact that it is supernatural and challenging to ascertain. Why is the word أشهد (ashhadu) included in both sentences of the shahada? This essay seeks to examine the semantic significance of the linguistic expression realised in the proclamation of the two sentences of the shahada, specifically focusing on the word أشهد (ashhadu). This analysis will be conducted within a cognitive-pragmatic or sociocognitive framework. Typically, the cognitive pragmatics method considers not just the semantic meaning of a statement but also the pragmatic meaning of an utterance. During a speech or communication event, both of these meanings are consistently present as an individual intellectually constructs a representation of the context and scenario. The context encompasses not just tangible objects but also intangible aspects, for instance psychological and cognitive factors, including beliefs and knowledge. The findings obtained by this study indicate that the sentence أشهد (ashhadu), in addition to its semantic meaning of ‘I testify’, also possesses a pragmatic-psychological significance in the form of a linguistic texture (zauqullughoh) that may be experienced by the speaker. This may possibly offer psychological encouragement to individuals when they begin to self-explore or engage with their originator.