background and objectives: effective nurse-physician communication is essential for provision of high quality clinical care. research into nurse-physician communication is a new field in iran, and the importance of the issue calls for further investigation. in response to this necessity, this study aimed to assess nurses’ perception of nurse-physician communication in teaching hospitals affilia...

It is a common assumption that the effectiveness of a persuasive communication is, at least in part, a function of the extent to which its content is learned and retained by its audience. This assumed learning-persuasion relation is based on a reasonable analogy between the persuasive communication and an informational communication such as a classroom lecture. In the lecture, it is by definiti...

T he first edition of the Handbook of Communication Science included a chapter that focused on definitions and fundamental questions about interpersonal communication (Cappella, 1987). In this handbook's second edition, I continue this tradition. In the sciences, definitions of central concepts (and the models these imply) are core theoretical equipment. Differences in opinion about definitions...

Based on the ABC model, which postulates that behavior (B) is a product of the interaction between attitudinal variables (A) and contextual factors (C), we studied the influence of social context on the effects of consideration of future consequences (CFC) within the framework of decision making about a pro-environmental behavior. The role of the external situation on the relationship between C...

COMMUNICATION "Every cultural pattern and every single act of social behaviour involves communication in either an explicit or implicit sense"(Edward Sapir)-Communication is culture, culture is communication ROMAN JACOBSON ON COMMUNICATION: " meaning resides in the total act of communication. It is not a stable, predetermined entity which passes, untrammeled, from sender to receiver "-depending...

In many tasks related to reasoning about consequences of a logical theory, it is desirable to decompose the theory into a number of components with weakly-related or independent signatures. This facilitates reasoning when the signature of a query formula belongs to only one of the components. However, an initial theory may be subject to change due to execution of actions affecting features ment...

In this paper we consider updates that are specified as rules and consider simple knowledge bases consisting of ground atoms. We present a translation of the rule based update specifications to extended logic programs using situation calculus notation so as to compute the updated knowledge base. We show that the updated knowledge base that we compute satisfies the update specifications and yet ...