Background and Objectives: Effective communication between managers and staff is a prerequisite to organization success. Cultural competence is key to effective communication. The aim of this study was to survey cultural competence in managers of selected hospitals.   Methods: Twenty teaching hospital managers and four private hospital managers of senior level participated in the study. Data ...

in this paper, we study wsn design, as a multi-objective optimization problem using ga technique. we study the effects of ga parameters including population size, selection and crossover method and mutation probability on the design. choosing suitable parameters is a trade-off between different network criteria and characteristics. type of deployment, effect of network size, radio communication...

    This study investigates the relationship between extraversion/introversion personality dimension and the use of strategic competence (SC) in oral referential communication by Iranian EFL learners. Referential communication refers to a kind of guided communication in which the referents (or topics) are given to the speakers to convey their meanings to the listeners. 50 sophomore English stud...

In this paper we propose a communication benchmark suite: BTU(Bits To the User). In the BTU benchmarking process, the vendor supplies a workstation running a UNIX operating system, we install our benchmark program and connect the workstation to a testbed, consisting of blackboxes, which emulates a LAN/WAN environment. The benchmark run will submit the workstation to a carefully designed combina...

The effect of organizational communication structure on performance is studied using a project selection framework in which heterogeneous, rational agents can reject or accept projects. A hierarchy performs better than a polyarchy in tough environments, whereas the reverse holds in friendly environments. Hierarchies can be too strict from a social welfare point of view. Indeed, if the value of ...

The primary objective of cooperation in cognitive radio (CR) networks is to increase the spectrum access efficiency and improve the network performance. However, Byzantine adversaries or unintentional erroneous conduct in cooperation can lead to destructive behavior of CR users that can decrease their own and others’ performances. This work presents a dynamic solution for cooperation reliabilit...