The sand-dwelling octopus Macrotritopus defilippi was filmed or photographed in five Caribbean locations mimicking the swimming behavior (posture, style, speed, duration) and coloration of the common, sand-dwelling flounder Bothus lunatus. Each…
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The purpose of this article is to discuss the media effects approach broadly, to point out limitations the traditional approach imposes on the field, and to discuss a mix of attributes approach with a focus on the study of new technologies for the…
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Arcsine or angular transformations have been used for many years to transform proportions to make them more suitable for statistical analysis. A problem with such transformations is that the arcsines do not bear any obvious relationship to the…
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Joel cites it to define single and double loop learning in his proposal
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One key to understanding the contours of late modernity is to examine workers' allocations of time to their organizations. In this article, I frame workplace time commitments as the outcome of two forces: individuals' efforts to portray a positive…
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We have used Papanek's 1985 revised edition rather than the original one of 1972 because he made a number of changes from one edition to another, and we wanted to draw on his most current thinking. For a discussion of Papanek's concept of socially…
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Raymond Williams was a prolific cultural commentator and historian and his writing on communications technology provides a particularly relevant framework for understanding contemporary information-society innovations. Williams sought to distinguish…
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This is a sequel to my paper, Searching for a (Post)Foundational Approach to Philosophy of Science, which appeared in an earlier issue of this Journal Ginev 2001, Journal for General Philosophy of science 32, 2737. In the present paper I continue to…
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Mass media campaigns have long been a tool for promoting public health. How effective are such campaigns in changing health-related attitudes and behaviors, however, and how has the literature in this area progressed over the past decade? The…
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The use of new technologies is growing in virtually all areas of health communication, including consumer, patient, and provider education; decision and social support; health promotion; knowledge transfer; and the delivery of services. Many…
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The purpose of the current study was to conduct a 10-year systematic review of HIV/AIDS mass communication campaigns focused on sexual behavior, HIV testing, or both (1998-2007) and to compare the results with the last comprehensive review of such…
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Te geologic record provides constraints on the rates, amplitudes, and mechanisms controlling globally averaged (eustatic) and relative (eustatic plus subsidence/upliſt) changes of sea level on various time scales. On geological time scales, global…
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Patient-centered care has received new prominence with its inclusion by the Institute of Medicine as 1 of the 6 aims of quality. Seven attributes of patient-centered primary care are proposed here to improve this dimension of care: access to care,…
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In the global war of ideas, the United States finds itself facing a systems problem that cannot be solved by simply delivering the right message. The question is not how can we construct a more persuasive message? Rather it is what kind of reality…
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FinFET is the most promising double-gate transistor architecture to extend scaling over planar device. We present a high-performance and low-power FinFET module at 25 nm gate length. When normalized to the actual fin perimeter, N-FinFET and P-FinFET…
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In the Persistent World of the cyberspace formed by MMORPG, realistic conversations between game characters play an important role so that players can be immersed in the game. However, this conversation between game characters in MMORPG has been…
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Examines the use of e-mail in communications between physician and patient. Case of 67-year-old retired man who instead of calling his physician, e-mails him with questions about his various medical conditions and medications; The patient's point of…
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The conventional view is that most individuals with autism or pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) have no significant motor impairments but do have severe intellectual disabilities. These assumptions impact the nature…
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Whereas prices serve to allocate many resources in market economies, there remain vast reservoirs of unpriced resources to be managed. Business management and strategy concerns the creation, evaluation, manipulation, administration, and deployment…
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Most nucleosomes are well-organized at the 5' ends of S. cerevisiae genes where "-1" and "+1" nucleosomes bracket a nucleosome-free promoter region (NFR). How nucleosomal organization is specified by the genome is less clear. Here we establish and…
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