negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching a joint agreement about differing needs or ideas. for successful negotiations, both parties should come to the negotiating table with having done some serious thinking about the barriers to and complexities of cross- cultural communications. there are four phases in negotiations: relationship building, inform...

in this paper, we discuss the ways that communication accommodation theory (cat) can be a useful framework for understanding and diagnosing interactional issues in interpersonal and intergroup conflict situations. we argue that the theory’s construct of attuning strategies provides a multidimensional view of mutual adjustment, leading to insights relevant to successful versus unsuccessful confl...

This paper summarises the results of several studies of individual differences among users navigating in virtual environments. These differences relate to performance of navigational tasks, and the degree of sense of presence experienced by the users. The individual differences addressed in this paper refer primarily to personality and demographic factors. The possibility of improving the desig...

The digital repository of the AIDS Information Exchange Centre was established in August 1990 by the WHO Regional Office. The establishment of this digital repository was in response to the tremendous need of the Region for accurate and culturally-adapted information and to exchange experiences, particularly in the field of prevention and control and health promotion for HIV/AIDS and sexually t...

The digital repository of the AIDS Information Exchange Centre was established in August 1990 by the WHO Regional Office. The establishment of this digital repository was in response to the tremendous need of the Region for accurate and culturally-adapted information and to exchange experiences, particularly in the field of prevention and control and health promotion for HIV/AIDS and sexually t...

in according to the simplicity of the lattice boltzmann method’s(lbm) algorithm and its benefits, it has been used as a successful method in computational fluid dynamics in the last decades. in this paper, lbm was used to simulate the flow over a cylinder. to analyze the application of lbm in simulation curved surface, different methods to compute drag coefficient were used. these methods are: ...