General Communication Research Articles

Overview Equipment Safety Traditional Motor Boats at Tigaras Harbor Regency Simalungun North Sumatra Province

Ferry port Tigaras is in the district Simalungun Province Sumatra North is one harbour crossing on Lake Toba to to Island Samosir . Equipment safety passenger on traditional motorboat is things to do filled with all ships operating at the ferry port Tigaras at the moment To do cruise good from life jacket, lifebouy , rocket parachute, tools extinguisher fire and rope discharge 30 m. Study this aim for knowing a lot traditional motor boats that have not been complete equipment safety and quantity percentage tool safety met above traditional motorboat on the track Tigaras-simanindo.For Methodology research used is observation directly in the field , interviews , library / documentation. Analysis used is analysis in the form of Gap Analysis as comparison Among existing state with secured situation. Based on Regulation Director General Communication Land Number : 3424/AP.402/DRJD/2020 About River And Lake Ships. Based on analysis the obtained conclusion that traditional motorboat on the track Tigaras-Simanindo not yet complete equipment safety in accordance with regulations governing and for Level of compliance tool safety on board traditional operating on the lake track Tigaras-Simanindo namely Life Jacket 35%, Life bouy 6%, Firefighter 0% fire , 100% for rope waste 30 m all boat already equips and 33% for Rocket Parachute.

ПОБУДОВА КОМУНІКАЦІЙНОГО ПРОЦЕСУ В ОРГАНІЗАЦІЇ

The concept of communication and communication process, structure of communication process areconsidered; generalized communication barriers, principles of building a communication system in the organization; proposed recommendations for improving the efficiency of communication processes.

Social status in the modern intercultural communications

The purpose of the article is to theorize the features of the communicative process in accordance with the social status of the individual and identify its specifics in the context of cross-cultural communication. Research methodology. A typological method was used to identify the characteristic features of social status; method of system analysis and synthesis, as well as the method of culturological analysis, which contributed to the consideration of social status as an important factor in the culture of communication in general and intercultural communication in particular, etc. Scientific novelty. The social status of the individual is studied and its components (career, income, lifestyle, age, etc.) are analyzed in the context of influencing the features of intracultural and intercultural communicative process; features of self-identification of social status by representatives of different countries are revealed; features of language etiquette as a functional-semantic universal in the context of marking social relations established within the communicative process are considered; the correspondence of the level of intercultural communication to the social role and social prestige of the individual is clarified. Conclusions. Social status as a concept and phenomenon combines the most important socio-economic and socio-psychological characteristics. In the process of intercultural communication, social status, together with the absolute and relative ratios of age, gender, degree of closeness, tone of communication or the degree of adherence to etiquette norms of communicators are among the factors influencing the choice of communication. The study found that the level and features of the communicative act in the process of intercultural communication are most influenced by socio-psychological aspects, such as social role and social prestige. Self-identification of social status in different countries has national-specific features and directly depends on social prestige (for example, Americans and Ukrainians) and the social system (British). In the XXI century. Due to the dynamic intensification of international contacts, communication between representatives of different cultures and social statuses is intensified, which, in the context of interpenetration and mutual adaptation of cultural norms and standards of behavior, affects the transformation of etiquette norms of interethnic communication. At the present stage, the representation of the social status of the individual in the context of self-expression and the formation of their own identity plays an important role. Some elements of intercultural communication become part of the image of the individual, so he can change the perception of belonging to a certain social status, forming the necessary perception of the interlocutor. Key words: social status, social role, social prestige, intercultural communication, etiquette.

The pattern and use of Twitter among dental schools in Saudi Arabia.

ObjectiveTwitter as a social media platform has revolutionized the way we interact with others and receive information. The presence of dental schools in Twitter facilitates the engagement of students, educators, dental professionals, and the community. Given the explosive popularity of Twitter as a social media platform and its potential use in the areas of education and branding, the questions of why and how dental schools use these services warrant comprehensive research. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze the pattern and use of Twitter as a social media platform for dental schools in Saudi Arabia.MethodsThe tweets were extracted within the timeframe from July 15, 2019, to July 15, 2020. The Twitter data collected included: full text content, the count of retweets, quotes, replies and likes. Extracted tweets were categorized into five main themes: news and announcement, dental professional communication, general communication, oral health education, and promoting participation. Tweets in each main theme were further categorized according to the dental schools’ academic roles namely; education, research and community service. In addition, tweets were classified according to originality of the tweet, language used, nature of the tweet and the use of hashtags and mentions. Descriptive analysis presented in the form of frequency tables with percentages and mean (SD) as well as graphical presentation of the pattern and use of Twitter for Saudi dental schools in the form of bar, pie and line charts. Categorical data were analyzed using chi square test, while continuous data were analyzed using ANOVA. Statistical significance was set at p ≤ 0.05.ResultsA total of 15 Saudi dental schools with Twitter accounts were included in the analysis. King Saud University (KSU) had the largest number of followers with 17,200. Within the time frame of this study, a total of 1,889 original tweets from dental schools were found. Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) had the highest number of posted tweets (n = 647, 34.3%). The distribution of tweets was highest in September 2019 (n = 239) and lowest in July 2020 (n = 22). Majority of the tweets (81.9%) belonged to five out of the 15 dental schools. News and announcements were the most tweeted thematic subject with 1,034 tweets (55%). While community service was the most tweeted academic role with 803 tweets (42%). The top five active dental schools’ performance for both thematic and academic role classifications were significantly different based on the chi square test (p < 0.001).ConclusionThis study highlights the importance of Twitter as a social media platform, in dental education especially when it comes to presence and branding for dental schools. Twitter is a helpful platform to expose dental schools to the community, this can be seen by their academic achievements as well as their active role with community service.

The influence of interdependence and a transparent or explainable communication style on human-robot teamwork.

Humans and robots are increasingly working together in human-robot teams. Teamwork requires communication, especially when interdependence between team members is high. In previous work, we identified a conceptual difference between sharing what you are doing (i.e., being transparent) and why you are doing it (i.e., being explainable). Although the second might sound better, it is important to avoid information overload. Therefore, an online experiment (n = 72) was conducted to study the effect of communication style of a robot (silent, transparent, explainable, or adaptive based on time pressure and relevancy) on human-robot teamwork. We examined the effects of these communication styles on trust in the robot, workload during the task, situation awareness, reliance on the robot, human contribution during the task, human communication frequency, and team performance. Moreover, we included two levels of interdependence between human and robot (high vs. low), since mutual dependency might influence which communication style is best. Participants collaborated with a virtual robot during two simulated search and rescue tasks varying in their level of interdependence. Results confirm that in general robot communication results in more trust in and understanding of the robot, while showing no evidence of a higher workload when the robot communicates or adds explanations to being transparent. Providing explanations, however, did result in more reliance on RescueBot. Furthermore, compared to being silent, only being explainable results a higher situation awareness when interdependence is high. Results further show that being highly interdependent decreases trust, reliance, and team performance while increasing workload and situation awareness. High interdependence also increases human communication if the robot is not silent, human rescue contribution if the robot does not provide explanations, and the strength of the positive association between situation awareness and team performance. From these results, we can conclude that robot communication is crucial for human-robot teamwork, and that important differences exist between being transparent, explainable, or adaptive. Our findings also highlight the fundamental importance of interdependence in studies on explainability in robots.

Open science in China: Openness, economy, freedom & innovation

Taking credit for digitalization and platformization, China has initiated its open science infrastructure implementation and made an effort to focus on open access (OA) journals and data sharing over the past two decades. With the continuous development need, issues and concerns have caught in attention, including data accessibility, research transparency, general population awareness and communication of science, public trust in science, and scientific research and innovation efficiency. This paper has unfolded the maze of open science stance in China and elaborated on its current economy, openness and freedom extents, and future innovation potential towards a global open science community, within depth and scope of both the Chinese and Western scholars’ interpretations.

Fielding the quality of communication questionnaire to persons with cognitive impairment and their family in primary care: A pilot study.

The quality of communication (QOC) questionnaire has been widely used to assess foundational aspects of patient-clinician communication about end-of-life (EOL) care. However, this instrument has never before been fielded with primary care patients who have cognitive impairment and their caregivers, a population with unique communication needs. We report on baseline data from a completed pilot study and ongoing efficacy trial of advance care planning involving dyads of primary care patients ages 80 and older with cognitive impairment and their family care partners. Two QOC subscales assessed ratings of general communication and EOL care communication from 0 ("worst") to 10 ("best"). Due to challenges piloting the EOL subscale, we integrated skip logic to improve cognitive accessibility and measurement precision. Participants were first asked whether EOL communication occurred (yes/no); those responding affirmatively were subsequently asked to rate communication. We report experiences with EOL subscale adaptations from our ongoing trial (NCT04593472). Using the original instrument in our pilot (13 dyads), mean patient and family general communication ratings were similar (9.65 and 9.60, respectively), but EOL ratings diverged (4.23 and 5.88, respectively), and "Don't Know" comprised 5% of patient and 32% of family responses. Interviewers reported patient and family participants expressed confusion when asked to rate EOL communication behaviors that had not occurred. Using the adapted instrument in our efficacy trial (43 dyads), EOL communication behaviors were most often reported as not having occurred (76% of patient and 73% of family responses across all items). Mean patient and family EOL subscale ratings were similar (2.23 and 2.26) and responses of "Don't Know" were minimal (<1%). The original QOC EOL subscale involves rating conversations that rarely occur in primary care but are important for older adults with cognitive impairment. Subscale adaptations may reduce confusion and response uncertainty and improve measurement accuracy.

Hierarchical Cooperative Control of Connected Vehicles: From Heterogeneous Parameters to Heterogeneous Structures

As one of the typical applications of connected vehicles (CVs), the vehicle platoon control technique has been proven to have the advantages of reducing emissions, improving traffic throughout and driving safety. In this paper, a unified hierarchical framework is designed for cooperative control of CVs with both heterogeneous model parameters and structures. By separating neighboring information interaction from local dynamics control, the proposed framework is designed to contain an upper-level observing layer and a lower-level tracking control layer, which helps address the heterogeneity in vehicle parameters and structures. Within the proposed framework, an observer is designed for following vehicles to observe the leading vehicle's states using neighboring communication, while a tracking controller is designed to track the observed leading vehicle using local feedback control. Closed-loop stability in the absence and presence of communication time delay is analyzed, and the observer is further extended to a finite time convergent one to address string stability under general communication topology. Numerical simulation and field experiment verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

A consistent definition of cultural safety within Australian health professional education: a scoping review

This scoping review aims to explore how cultural safety is defined in the Australian literature with health professional learners in clinical interactions. It maps how the components of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency definition of cultural safety align with this evidence. Databases were systematically searched for original, peer-reviewed research that included Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, health professional learners who were eligible for registration in Australia, teaching and assessment. Many elements of cultural safety lacked Indigenous input and had no patient involvement. General consultation and communications skills were key components of culturally safe interactions. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency consensus statement on cultural safety provides a consistent definition for teaching and learning cultural safety within health professions in Australia. The findings suggest that developing an approach for cultural safety requires incorporation of Indigenous voices, patient-centred care metrics, patient feedback, learner self-assessment and attitude measures.

Communication abilities in children with hearing loss – views of parents and daycare professionals

IntroductionToday, children with hearing loss (HL) are diagnosed and fitted with hearing devices at an early age. However, HL may still influence their communicative development. Thus, we need up-to-date research on how children perform in their everyday environments, such as at home or daycare. This study provides an overview of the communication abilities of early-diagnosed children with HL reported by parents and daycare professionals. The first aim of the study is to compare the results of children with bilateral hearing aids (BiHAs) or bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) with those of children with normal hearing (NH) and with each other. The second aim of the study is to compare the views of the two respondents, parents and the daycare professionals. In addition, the effects of gender and nonverbal intelligence quotient (IQ) on the responses are explored. MethodsThe participants, aged 4;0–6;9, were 25 children with BiHAs, 29 children with BiCIs, and 64 children with NH. The Finnish version of the Children's Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-2) was used to assess the communication skills of the participants. ResultsGroup and nonverbal IQ had a significant effect on the General Communication Composite (GCC) score. Both groups of children with HL had poorer GCC scores than the children with NH, apart from the respondent. The BiHA-group had significantly lower scores than the NH-group on Speech, Syntax, Semantics, and Coherence subscales. The BiCI-group had significantly lower scores than the NH-group across all subscales of the CCC-2. The parents rated the participants significantly higher than the daycare professionals in Speech and Social Relations. In contrast, the daycare professionals rated the participants higher than the parents in Coherence, Inappropriate Initiation, Stereotyped Language, and Use of Context. Furthermore, gender influenced Coherence, Nonverbal Communication, Social Relations, and Interests, for which the girls performed better than the boys. The nonverbal IQ had an effect on Syntax, Semantics, and Use of Context, for which higher nonverbal IQ was associated with better performance. ConclusionsOn average the children with HL had poorer communication skills than the children with NH. Pragmatic difficulties were more common in the BiCI-group than in the BiHA-group. The respondents were not completely unanimous, which may be because of the different demands of different environments.

Early developmental concerns in 22q11.2 deletion and duplication carriers

Background22q11.2 deletions (22qDEL) and duplications (22qDUP) are among the most common copy number variants (CNVs) associated with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Little is known about the earliest developmental features of 22q11.2 CNVs and whether developmental delays are detected in early childhood. This study primarily aimed to assess general development and social communication in 22q11.2 CNV carriers age 5 and under. MethodParticipants included parents of children age 5 and under with a reported genetic diagnosis of 22qDEL (N = 63) or 22qDUP (N = 30). In addition to questions addressing clinical and intervention information, two standardized parent questionnaires—the Ages & Stages Questionnaires, Third Edition (ASQ-3) and the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile Infant/Toddler Checklist (ITC)—screened for developmental and social communication delays, respectively. ResultsDevelopmental delay and speech and/or language delay were the most commonly reported NDD diagnoses among young 22q11.2 CNV carriers, with prevalences at 19% and 17%, respectively. In the vast majority (91%) of 22q11.2 CNV carriers, parents reported concerns in at least one developmental domain, with 71% reporting global developmental concerns. 70% of parents of 22q11.2 CNV carriers age 2 and under also reported social communication concerns. ConclusionsThe high prevalence of reported developmental concerns in both CNV groups reinforces the need for close monitoring of early neurodevelopment in 22q11.2 CNV carriers with regard to both developmental delays and autism risk.

Communication skills in psychiatry for undergraduate students: A scoping review.

Communication skills are paramount in all areas of medicine but particularly in psychiatry due to the challenges posed by mental health patients and the essential role of communication from diagnosis to treatment. Despite the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in different medical specialties, particularly in primary care settings, communication skills in psychiatry and their training are not well studied and are often not included in the undergraduate medical curriculum. Our paper explores the relevance of teaching communication competencies in psychiatry for undergraduate medical students. Our work focused on reviewing the methods for teaching communication skills to undergraduate students in Psychiatry. Eleven studies were selected to be included in this review. We found considerable heterogeneity among methods for teaching communication skills but also some common elements such as the use of simulated patients and providing feedback. This review has identified two models: the Calgary–Cambridge interview model and the Kolb cycle-based model. However, most studies still lack a theoretical background model. We believe that the inclusion of communication skills training in medical curricula is fundamental to teaching medical students general communication skills but also specific training on establishing adequate communication with psychiatric patients. However, more research is needed to determine the best method for training but also regarding its translation to patient care and cost-effectiveness.

Exploring Communication in Ways That Allow Individuals to Understand One Another

Employers increasingly recognize strong communication skills as the most critical competence among employees and job applicants. Recent research from the Pew Research Centre indicates that since 1980, there has been an 83 percent increase in employment in jobs requiring more vital social skills, which the report describes as "interpersonal, communications or management skills." Indeed, the general public perceives communication skills as critical to succeeding in the job marketplace, with 85 percent of Pew surveyed saying that writing and communications training is crucial in today's economy. Workers were asked about the skills they rely on most in their jobs, and good written and spoken communications skills ranked at the top. This paper aims to help one tailor communication strategies in an approachable fashion by delivering them professionally and effectively

Sexual Knowledge, Experiences, and Pragmatic Language in Adults With and Without Autism: Implications for Sex Education.

Autistic adults have similar levels of desire for sexual and romantic relationships as their non-autistic peers. However, autistic adults are less likely to be in relationships and have less dating experience. We compared sexual knowledge, experiences, and pragmatic language ability in a community sample of young adults with (n = 27, mean age = 22.11) and without autism (n = 122, mean age = 19.47). Receipt of sex education and sexual knowledge did not differ between groups. However, autistic adults had significantly fewer partnered experiences and impaired pragmatic language. Within both groups, pragmatic skill predicted accurate sexual knowledge above and beyond general communication abilities. Findings suggest that sex education for autistic adults must address the social communication component of healthy romantic and sexual relationships.

Mental health-related internet use by people with a diagnosis of chronic psychiatric disorder, attending community mental health centres.

There is little information on Internet use for obtaining mental health information among individuals with chronic psychiatric disorders, who are receiving services from community mental health centres (CMHCs). To investigate the mental health information-seeking behaviour of individuals with chronic psychiatric disorders who attend CMHCs. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study. The data was collected by questionnaire (structured interview format) (n=135 participants). The collected data were analysed with descriptive statistics and chi-square test. It was found that 75.6% of the participants used the internet to search for information about mental health problems. Although the information retrieved from the internet was frequently or occasionally shared with the mental health team (19.6% and 40.2% of the participants, respectively), general online communication with professionals was rare (93.1% of the participants had not contacted mental health professionals). Most participants looked for information about their mental health on the internet. Therefore, mental health professionals should consider how to facilitate professional-patient therapeutic communication, with acknowledged Internet use by individuals with chronic psychiatric disorders.

Distributed Nash Equilibrium Seeking for Aggregative Games With Directed Communication Graphs

One key factor affecting the distributed Nash equilibrium (NE) seeking in aggregative games is the unbalanced communication structure for multiple players. Although some results on seeking NE over undirected or weight-balanced graphs were established, how to address the distributed NE seeking problem over general directed communication graphs is still an outstanding challenge. This paper addresses the NE seeking problem for a class of aggregative games with general directed communication graphs. To achieve this objective, two new kinds of distributed discrete-time NE seeking algorithms are developed for aggregative games over fixed digraphs and time-varying digraphs, respectively. In particular, motivated by the heavy-ball method in optimization studies, a momentum term is introduced to the update law of the players’ actions and it is numerically verified that this momentum term accelerates the convergence of the proposed algorithms. For both strongly connected fixed graph and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$B$ </tex-math></inline-formula> -strongly connected time-varying graph, it is theoretically proved that the actions of players will converge to the NE of aggregative games for the case of decreasing step-size implemented by the proposed NE seeking algorithms if the cost functions and the aggregation of players satisfy some certain conditions. Finally, the developed NE seeking algorithms are applied to the energy consumption control of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which demonstrates the effectiveness of the theoretical results.

An efficient distributed algorithm for economic dispatch considering communication asynchrony and time delays

The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) to power grids has fostered the emergence of advanced control technologies for energy management. This study focuses on distributed solutions to economic dispatch considering asynchrony and non-ideal communications. A distributed consensus-based algorithm is developed for general directed networks, where heavy-ball momentum is incorporated into the algorithm design to accelerate convergency. Subsequently, an asynchronous version is proposed based on a general asynchronous communication model with unpredictable, non-uniform, and bounded time delays. Without a global clock in conventional synchronous distributed algorithms, distributed generators (DGs) are allowed to exchange information through local communications at any moment and use out-sync information to execute new updates. Simulations are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm and verify its robustness against time delays.

Approximate Message Passing for Channel Estimation in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided MIMO Multiuser Systems

Channel estimation is one of the main challenges for implementing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system with a large number of antennas at the base station (BS) because RIS is equipped with many passive reflective elements without active transmitting/receiving and signal processing abilities. In this paper, we focus on the channel estimation in a general RIS-aided multi-user mmWave communication system. Specifically, a novel two-phase channel estimation scheme consisting of on-line and off-line phases is proposed to estimate the BS-RIS channel, RIS-user channel, and BS-user channel, respectively. Inspired by the characteristics of few scatterers in mmWave communication systems, the antenna domain channels are converted into the virtual angular domain channels by using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix. Thus, the estimation problem can be formulated as a compressed sensing (CS) problem, and solved by using efficient vector approximate message passing (VAMP) algorithm with expectation-maximization (EM) to learn unknown parameters and obtain the estimates simultaneously. Simulation results show that, the above algorithm with two choices of prior distributions in the proposed mmWave RIS-aided multi-user system has fast convergence speed and desirable estimation performance.

The role of electronic medical records in improving health care quality: A quasi-experimental study.

The Teleprimary Care—Oral Health Clinical Information System (TPC-OHCIS) is an updated electronic medical record (EMR) that has been applied in Malaysian primary healthcare. Recognizing the level of patient satisfaction following EMR implementation is crucial for assessing the performance of health care services. Hence, the main objective of this study was to compare the level of patient satisfaction between EMR-based clinics and paper-based clinics.The study was a quasi-experimental design that used a control group and was conducted among patients in 14 public primary healthcare facilities in the Seremban district of Malaysia from May 10, to June 30, 2021. Patient satisfaction was assessed using the validated Short-Form Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire, which consisted of 7 subscales. All data were analyzed using the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 21.A total of 321 patients consented to participate in this study, and 48.9% of them were from EMR clinics. The mean score for the communication subscale was the highest at 4.08 and 3.96 at EMR-adopted clinics and paper-based record clinics. There were significant differences in general satisfaction and communication subscales, with higher patient satisfaction found in clinics using EMR.With the utilization of EMR, patient satisfaction and communication in delivering healthcare services have improved.

Sextual Relationships: Is Sexting a Relationship Enhancer in Intimate Partner Relationships?

ABSTRACT Introduction Humans have expressed erotic desires with written words for millennia, and sexting has become one of the newest ways of expressing these desires. A few scholars have investigated the association between sexting and satisfaction within a relationship, and this study seeks to add to the ongoing literature. Previous studies have demonstrated a significant relationship between sexting and relationship/sexual satisfaction. Objective Sexting and attachment styles have also been studied showing that each attachment style utilizes sexting in different ways. This study examined relationships between sexting and (a) sexual satisfaction, (b) relationship satisfaction, (c) sexual communication, and (d) general communication. Methods A convenience sample of 465 adults completed an anonymous online survey discussing their intimate partner relationship. Results This study found that the frequency of sexting had a positive association with all relationship outcomes. It was also found that individuals who were more securely attached sexted less frequently. Whereas higher levels of sexual communication and general communication predicted higher sexting frequency. Conclusions This study explored the positive impact sexting can have on these important relationship constructs. This research provides clinicians and educators alike with reliable data that can assist them with informing adult clients on ways they can utilize sexting in a meaningful and positive way. Disclosure No