A Failure to Communicate

A failure to communicate . . .

public view science as an inaccessible and arcane religion, whose unusual rituals and unintelligible pronouncements conspire to exclude them. Scientists are trained to answer questions precisely and completely. We are comfortable with uncertainty and, when we are at our best, present each side of an intellectual controversy with balance and nuance. Unfortunately, we have reached a point in the ...

Double-bind hypothesis and failure to communicate.

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

ICU Rounds: "What We've Got Here Is Failure to Communicate".

ZHOUPI, a unique and highly conserved bHLH transcription factor, controls both endosperm breakdown and embryonic surface formation during Arabidopsis seed development. We have demonstrated that these two processes are distinct, and that ZHOUPI regulates embryonic surface formation via a signaling pathway mediated by the subtilisin-like serine protease ABNORMAL LEAF SHAPE1, and the receptor-kina...

Learn to Communicate and Communicate to Learn

Thinking of a computer as an educational tool emphasizes a solitary interaction between the learner and the computer. A tool is something that is applied to an object in order to change it, and this usually implies a single user working on a single object or project. While tools are an important aspect of an educational experience, the tool metaphor can isolate individual learners from each oth...