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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"communication ability"”.
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Clinical Simulation Experiences in Nursing Schools: Senior Student Nurses' Empathetic Communication Ability
… the nation. The study looks at the empathetic capability scores of senior nursing students who have completed five semesters of course work with hospital and simulation lab hours embedded in courses. Background: Empathy is defined as a cognitive attribute that involves understanding a patient’s …
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The translation of Controlling Coach Behavior Scale (CCBS) from English to Icelandic and evaluation of psychometric properties of the Icelandic version
… between the athlete´s assessment of coach communication ability and the total score of the Icelandic version of CCBS. These results underpin the convergent validity of the scale. The most interesting finding is that athletes in individual sports rank their coaches higher in communication …
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Motion Coordination for Mobile Robotic Networks With Visibility Sensors
… have a range-limited visibility sensor, and no communication ability is required. The algorithm is designed using the notions of robust visibility, connectivity-preserving constraint sets, and proximity graphs. We rigorously establish the correctness of the algorithm and we illustrate through …
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VNC Service on Bluetooth Wireless Network
… Bluetooth wireless technology provides efficient communication ability for pocket size devices, for which power consumption is critical. Built-in security features may serve as substitute for application level security. Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol (SDP) provides information of …
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iMOST: Intelligent Motion-Sensing Approaches for Tracking Emotion
… for any help or how to ask for help. The lack of communication ability decreases the quality of life and endangers the life of those members.The purpose of iMOST (Intelligent Motion-Sensing Approaches for Tracking Emotion) is to track the caretaker’s emotion in time by harnessing lightweight gait …
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The impact of care-related factors on the communication skills and wellbeing of looked after and adopted children
… the severity and specificity of language and communication difficulty in a population of Looked After and Adopted Children and the association between these difficulties and several care-related factors, mental health and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). 68% of a sample of 57 children …
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Does Infants' Socially-guided Attention Uniquely Predict Language Development?
… language (current), emerging communication abilities at 16- and 17-month-old (time 1); expressive/receptive language (subsequent) at 18- 19-month-old (time 2). Infants' sustained attention was measured by their attention control to a central stimulus in the presence of a …
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Intonation Perception In Elderly And Young Adult Subjects
… and the extent to which this problem affects the communication ability of these individuals are poorly understood. Most studies use isolated sentences which unlike natural discourse indicate no contextual information. Consequently, it is unclear whether the intonation processing problems for the …
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Changing small group interaction through visual reflections of social behavior
… shares information without mediating the group's communication. By presenting visualizations to the group of individual levels of participation and turn-taking behavior, the technology aims to augment the group's communication ability, by making it more aware of imbalances. A series of dynamic …
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Exploring teachers' perceptions on the impact of students' social skills on academic achievement: a case study
… skills in recent years. Students' social skills, communication ability, and general academic achievement have all been significantly impacted by these changes. Using an interpretivist qualitative case study approach for detailed insights into the teachers' perspectives, this study attempts to …
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An Examination of Love and Marital Satisfaction in Long-Term Marriages
… Compromise, faith/religion, forgiveness, communication (ability to talk things through and resolve conflict), spending time together, and sharing common interests were common themes identified among the couples as being the "key" to their enduring marriage. Other aspects of positive …
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StoryScape : fun technology for supporting learning, language and social engagement through story craft
… persons and 1-in-42 boys. Challenges related to communication form a core characteristic of the ASD condition. Literature suggests the single most important prognostic indicator for young children diagnosed with ASD is communication ability. Yet, engaging children diagnosed with ASD in …
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Digital Control for Power Factor Correction
… (PFC) converter. The development of the telecommunications industry and the Internet demands reliable, cost-effective and intelligent power. Nowadays, the telecommunication power systems have output current of up to several kilo amperes, consisting of tens of modules. The high-end server …
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Instructional Design Implications for Non-native English Speaking Graduate Students: Perceptions on Intercultural Communicative Competences and Instructional Design Strategies for Socially Engaged Learning
… Communicative Competence (ICC) is an important ability that they need to consider. It assesses attitude, skills, knowledge, adaptability, flexibility, and communication ability with culturally different people. Researchers in Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) have suggested that …
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Examining multimodal communication during social interactions: studies of minimally verbal autistic children and adolescents
Difficulties in communication during social interactions are a feature of the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Little is known about the communication abilities of minimally-verbal (MV) individuals, which comprises one-third of autistic individuals. Natural language sampling (NLS) …
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Advanced microprocessor based intelligent relay for multifunction protection system
… system with the required speed, accuracy and reliability. The availability of microprocessor at economic cost has allowed a new concept of multi-function in the field of protection relays. The digital multi-function protective relay has capability of providing multi-tasking, multi-digital relaying …
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Deployment Policies to Reliably Maintain and Maximize Expected Coverage in a Wireless Sensor Network
… time to restore any loss in network coverage and communication ability resulting from sensor failures. Over the course of several deployment actions it is important to consider the cost of maintaining the WSN in addition to any desired performance measures such as coverage, connectivity, or …
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Connectivity, throughput, and end-to-end latency in infrastructureless wireless Networks with beamforming-enabled devices
… situations with temporary, localized demand for communication ability. These networks are composed of wireless communication devices that autonomously form a network without the need for pre-deployed infrastructure such as wireless base-stations and access points. Significant research and …
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An Examination of Headset, Hearing Sensitivity, Flight Workload, and Communication Signal Quality on Black Hawk Helicopter Simulator Pilot Performance
… not as well known. Previous research has studied communication ability in helicopter cockpit noise under different headsets, but there are not conclusive data on the combined effects of degraded speech intelligibility due to noise and flight workload under the headset technology currently …