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Showing 1 to 20 of 21500 for “"communication"”.
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Apparatgeist and Mobile Communication: Considering Interpersonal Communication Practices
<p>Mobile communication is embedded into our daily life increasing our connection to social networks. The development of mobile communication occurred during the second half of the twentieth century and has become domesticated into everyday life. One consequence of the widespread adoption of mobile …
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All-to-all communication with low communication cost
In an all-to-all broadcast, every user wishes to broadcast its message to all the other users. This is a process that frequently appears in large-scale distributed systems such as voting and consensus protocols. In the classic solution, a user needs to receive n messages and n signatures where n is …
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Deconstructing communication
… the philosophical foundation underlying modern communication theories as they have been developed in the Anglo-American tradition since the early part of this century. It is divided into two parts. The first part begins with a critical analysis of Husserl's theory of intersubjectivity (Chapter …
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The science communication environment: biotechnology researchers' discourse on communication
Communication is problematic for biotechnology because biotechnology uses or changes life processes, which leads us to question ourselves and our definitions of life — it is controversial. Yet, communication is crucial for engagement and understanding among research scientists and the wider …
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Void communication : a method of communication for the future
… to exist without new modes of technological communication -cellular phones, global positioning systems, portable computers, Youtube TM and Skype TM- our relationship to the world around us transforms into a series of impersonal contact-less transactions. These technologies simultaneously …
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Resilient Communication : A New Crisis Communication Strategy for Homeland Security
Current crisis communication plans and guidance at all levels of government focus almost exclusively on communication during a crisis, rather than a comprehensive approach that also addresses the timeframe well before and well after a disaster. Furthermore, existing crisis communication strategy …
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An optimized hardware architecture and communication protocol for scheduled communication
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Learning communication policies for decentralized task allocation under communication constraints
Multi-UAS teams often operate in ad-hoc communication networks where blind application of consensus algorithms perform poorly because of message intensive nature of such algorithms. Important messages can get lost due to interference or collisions with other messages, and the broadcasting of less …
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Terahertz wireless communication
… thesis is to explore Terahertz (THz) wireless communication technology. More specifically the objective is to develop and characterize several THz communication systems and study the effect of atmosphere propagation through fog droplets and dust particles on THz communications. For …
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Essays on Communication
… philosophy and biology is the nature of communication. Early accounts of communication tended to focus on just one side of the communicative divide – the speaker side or the receiver side – and took as their starting point the case of human language. Animal communication, historically, …
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Communication: Subordinate-Superior
Not so long ago communications was largely a physical phenomenon. It had to do with sending and receiving sounds. Also, communications between people was taken for granted and not regarded too important. Typical cliches included: children are to be seen not heard; and superiors were the bosses and …
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Relationships and Communication
… in modern societies. Chapter two analyzes firms' communication strategies in a market where consumers face attention constraints, and discusses regulation that can protect consumers from exploitation. Chapter three studies communication and coercion in the presence of an altruistic relationship, …
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Silent Communication Device
<p>Oral communication has constituted as a necessary aspect of how people interact with one another, but there are always situations where this form of communication can create distractions, irritation, or even danger. Take for example, a student in a laboratory who needs to communicate effectively …
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Securing encrypted communication
… in the effort to enhance the security of communication, there are still many open challenges. This dissertation looks at two open problems: providing key transparency in secure messaging apps in an attempt to detect targeted wiretaps, and securing the initial contact for journalists. We …
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Universal semantic communication
Is meaningful communication possible between two intelligent parties who share no common language or background? We propose that this problem can be rigorously addressed by explicitly focusing on the goals of the communication. We propose a theoretical framework in which we can address when and to …
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Understanding Symbolic Communication
We quantitatively study the emergence of symbolic communication in humans with a communication game that attempts to recapitulate an essential step in the development of human language: the emergence of shared abstract symbols in order to accomplish complex tasks. In our experimental setup, a …
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Tower as communication
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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