BACKGROUND Although there are several similarities in terms of their equipment and the way they are performed, the social perception and public attitudes towards electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and electric cardioversion (ECV) is entirely different. The aim of this study was to assess and compare the information on Hungarian Internet sites on ECT and ECV with respect to their depiction and acce...

It is widely accepted that chemical processing protocols for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) must be optimized for each different organism or tissue type for a particular research need. While processing conditions have been established for many tissues, there are some organisms and tissue types that are not well preserved with standard protocols and aren’t represented in current literatu...

Emotions are increasingly inferred linguistically from online data with a goal of predicting off-line behavior. Yet, it is unknown whether emotions inferred linguistically from online communications correlate with actual changes in off-line activity. We analyzed all 886,000 trading decisions and 1,234,822 instant messages of 30 professional day traders over a continuous 2 year period. Linguisti...

During the last decade several standards for Mobile telecommunications have been developed. The best known is without any doubt the Global Standard for Mobile Communications (GSM) which is operational in many countries, both within and outside Europe. It is now the most successful standard for mobile communications. Also the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) was successfully i...

Few industries have experienced a degree of cha nge that equals the profound transformations that are now rocking the publishing industry. These changes, brought on by new developments in science and technology, are global in scale. There are three main driving forces behind this progress. The first is computing power. The second force, data communications and networking, has become commonplace...

Conflicts are an integral part of communications, both interpersonal and professional, it can be constructive destructive. It depends on many factors, primarily the participants’ proneness to conflict empathy. The presented scientific problem is important because empathy for resolving professional conflicts reducing their conflict, еру peculiarities penitentiary service employees’ training. art...

Both “actions” and “interactions” are micro-operations that can be aggregated from a system’s perspective. Whereas “actions” operate historically, “interactions” provide the events with “meaning” from a hindsight perspective. Luhmann’s sociology of communication systems adds to the approach of symbolic interactionism the question what global dimensions of communication mean for local interactio...

In this article, we examine the conceptual models that help us understand the development and sustainability of scholarly and professional communication forums on the Internet, such as conferences, pre-print servers, field-wide data sets, and collaboratories. We first present and document the information processing model that is implicitly advanced in most discussions about scholarly communicat...

INTRODUCTION National competent authorities (NCAs) for medicines coordinate communication relating to the safety of medicines in Europe. The effectiveness of current communication practices has been questioned, particularly with regard to reaching general practitioners (GPs). OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess current European NCA safety communication practices and to investigate E...

For any discipline to be regarded as a professional undertaking by which its members may be treated as true “professionals” in a specific area, practitioners must clearly understand that discipline’s history as well as the place and significance of that history in current practice as well as its relevance to available technologies and artefacts at the time. This is common for many professional ...