What characterizes the language of people who have known one another for a long time? In the US one thinks of groups of friends, leaning in towards one another, smiling broadly, and finishing one another’s sentences in their eagerness to contribute to the conversation. The details may differ from culture to culture, but the fact of differences between groups of friends and groups of strangers s...

regarding the role and importance of paradigm of evidence based practice and its remarkable impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical services and healthcare, development of an integrated system seems necessary in order to manage dispersed data and ensure using evidence in clinical decision making, thus the aim of this study was designing a model for implementing national system of...

In the exploratory study reported here, we tested the efficacy of an intervention designed to train teenagers with Möbius syndrome (MS) to increase the use of alternative communication strategies (e.g., gestures) to compensate for their lack of facial expressivity. Specifically, we expected the intervention to increase the level of rapport experienced in social interactions by our participants....

introduction: the purpose of this study was determine the application of knowledge management among the staff members of central, faculty, and hospital libraries at tabriz university of medical sciences (tabriz, iran), based on hissig model. hissig model consists of four processes including knowledge creation, storage, sharing, and application. methods: this descriptive survey included all of t...

This study is a corpus-assisted investigation concerning the functions of the formulaic sequence just kidding and its variants (e.g., only kidding, just joking, JK) in spoken and written American English. We identified 1200 instances of this phrase from multiple corpora representing a range of modalities (Contemporary Corpus of American English, Global Web-Based English corpus, The Santa Barbar...

This study aims to identify the types of moves and politeness strategies used in online corporate apology (OCA) Arabic, posted on customers’ complaints/negative reviews Twitter. Additionally, compares Arabic with English, Japanese, Chinese explore cross-cultural similarities differences OCA. Following growth social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, various studies have focus...

Previous studies have indicated that situational context impacts the rapport experience (e.g., F. J. Bernieri, J. S. Gillis, J. M. Davis, & J. E. Grahe, 1996; N. M. Puccinelli, L. Tickle-Degnen, & R. Rosenthal, 2003). The authors designed the present study to further document the behavioral and experiential predictors of dyadic rapport and to evaluate dyadic rapport experiences when contributio...

INTRODUCTION Physician rapport with patients is described as a vital component of relationship-centered care, but rapport-building communication behaviors may exceed boundaries and instead indicate patronizing behavior toward patients with disabilities. This paper addresses the types of communication behaviors and contexts for interpreting when rapport building extends beyond boundaries toward ...

Ce rapport technique peut-être repéré par auteur et par titre dans le catalogue de la Bibliothèque : SUMMARY Mapping software features to the code that implements them is an important activity for program comprehension and software reengineering. In this paper, we present a novel automated approach to locate features in source code based on static analysis and model checking. This approach focu...