This study is a survey of administrative divisions involved in tobacco programs in Canadian public health units. It aims to identify correlates of public health units' contacts and collaborations with external agencies, as predisposing factors in their capacity to innovate. Heads of 124 divisions involved in tobacco control completed a questionnaire about their budgets, staff, and management pr...

This document shortly summarizes the main concepts that will be presented in deliverable D6.2. The issue of coordinated beamforming design for distributed multi-user MIMO systems using FBMC/OQAM is investigated. New methods are developed to alleviate the dimensionality constraint imposed on the number of antennas in state-of-the art solutions. Both cases of full coordination and partial coordin...

The ever-expanding use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is especially significant to professional education in relatively isolated nations such as Taiwan. Interaction with university faculties outside the country would vastly improve the Taiwanese education of architects, for example, and this is sufficient reason for the full implementation of ICTs in architectural scho...

Research in agricultural communications is not guided by a national research agenda. Therefore, the substantial body of produced from scholars working discipline represents scattered efforts. We conducted content analysis journal articles published Journal Applied Communications between 2000 and 2019 to identify themes that establish discipline’s scholarly base. Through an examination n = 259 a...

This paper was inspired by the authors’ personal experience of using social media systems over the last two years. During that time both authors have used a range of public, private and hosted social media systems for their professional activities and well as for personal use. They and other colleagues are convinced that a unified approach to social media systems can benefit the communications ...

The College of Human Environmental Sciences (CHES) is composed of three departments—Design, Housing and Merchandising; Family Relations and Child Development; and Nutritional Sciences—and the School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration. Each science-based program focuses on the reciprocal relationship between people and their natural, constructed or social environments. Graduates pursue profe...

We would like to draw your readers’ attention to an innovation information and communications technology project from the Otago region of New Zealand. The School of Nursing and School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand saw potential to work with an existing local organisation (OtagoNet) that was using video conferencing for high school educational purposes within the rural ...

Following reflection by a member of the healthcare team relating to a particularly difficult situation where communication between the healthcare professional, patient and family was felt to be challenging, there was a general consensus of interest in how we communicate, best practice methods and training opportunities. In order to look at the communication practice, skills and training within ...

MANAGED CARE IN MICHIGAN (lathy Smillie, president, Marketing Resources Unlimited, a healthcare marketing firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, received her managed care communications training when she served as director of sales and marketing for MCARE, the managed care organization owned by the University of Michigan (U-M), Ann Arbor. Of her work in managed care, Smillie points out that it "was one o...