The proposed article is devoted to the analysis of characteristic features popular science communication in digital media environment. current models scientific are analyzed, key trends modern society identified — mediatization and digitalization, which set specifics popularization today. mediatized forms testify unfolding process growing involvement communications implementation activities. al...

Smart environments are becoming a reality in our society and the number of intelligent devices integrated in these spaces is increasing very rapidly. As the combination of intelligent elements will open a wide range of new opportunities to make our lives easier, final users should be provided with a simplified method of handling complex intelligent features. Specifying behavior in these environ...

Cancer patients can obtain information about their illness through a variety of media sources. Therefore, it is important to know how medical journalists treat cancer-related issues; to that end, we sent self-administered questionnaires to 364 journalists in 82 organisations who had reported on medical issues for the Japanese media, asking for their reasons for reporting on cancer-related issue...

O nce upon a time, about 6,000 years ago, early tribesmen drove a herd of gazelles into a dead-end canyon in Syria and slaughtered them. All that remained for modern anthropologists were bones from the animals’ lower limbs.1 A copious amount of meat must have been harvested and rapidly consumed—perhaps as part of a religious ceremony with numerous participants—given that era’s lack of refrigera...

The Problem: As the use of intelligent environments expands, the ability for people to communicate with others in geographically distant environments is becoming more and more necessary. In order to create a rich collaborative experience, high-resolution video and audio should be broadcast among locations to allow others to see the people communicating from remote locations. Also, the state of ...

Health care professionals usually receive professional education in ethics, but the half million hospice volunteers in the United States may receive only brief training that is limited to confidentiality and the volunteer role. The purpose of this study was to explore ethical issues hospice volunteers confront in their work. Interviews with 39 hospice volunteers were conducted, audio recorded, ...

Aim The aim of this study was to determine the level of awareness and knowledge of glaucoma and the proportion of people with glaucoma among participants of a 1-day urban eye outreach programme. Methods The study was a cross-sectional survey. Data, collected by means of a structured questionnaire, included participants' demographic details, and awareness, knowledge and ocular status as regard...

In this paper, we consider models of filter banks with variable time-frequency resolution, adapting to signal properties and human perception. The application of the proposed methods to image and audio denoising is demonstrated.