A Proposed Chaotic-Switched Turbo Coding Design and Its Application for Half-Duplex Relay Channel by Tamer H. M. Soliman, Fengfan Yang, S. Ejaz

“…Both reliability and security are two important subjects in modern digital communications, each with a variety of subdisciplines. …”
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LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: DYAD AND UNITY by A. L. Semenov, V. I. Ershov, D. A. Gusarov

“…Projecting such a position on the verbal behavior, the authors highlight the leading role of culture in the process of producing a speech act played when choosing the individual models of behavior on the basis of the knowledge of the communicative situation. Based on F. Mayor`s opinion that culture unites rather than divides people, the authors note the presence of universal and unique linguoethnic elements in the cultural knowledge of the representatives of various ethnic groups which determine the degree of similarities and differences in the ways of expressing knowledge in different languages. …”
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Investigating Saudi university medical students’ English language difficulties: a needs analysis study by Mohammed Alrashed, Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif

“…The English language instruction provided to the students studying medicine could be reformed through giving more attention to improving their productive language skills and helping them communicate fluently using target medical terminology.…”
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Medizinischer Fachwortschatz in deutschsprachigen Kinderwunschforen by Hanna Stypa

“…This article focuses on the fertility forum, a type of online forum in which mainly women who need medical assistance to become pregnant can communicate with each other. The fertility forum has so far received little attention in linguistic research, although its specific nature makes it worthy of linguistic analyses from different perspectives. …”
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The Changing World Order and US-China Maritime Power Contestation in the Indo Pacific by Muhammad Zubair Cheema, Lubna Sunawar

“…To counter U.S. presence in Southeast Asia and address strategic maritime vulnerability of her Sea Lines of Communications (particularly in South China Sea), China has embarked upon an ambitious military modernization plan coupled with initiation of mega economic projects in Asia. …”
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The Shipwreck of the Airship “Dirigibile Italia” in the 1928 Polar Venture: A Retrospective Analysis of the Ionospheric and Geomagnetic Conditions by B. Zolesi, M. Pezzopane, C. Bianchi, A. Meloni, Lj. R. Cander, R. Tozzi

“…This paper aims at giving a retrospective analysis of the ionospheric and geomagnetic conditions of that epoch in order to explain the HF radio communications problems encountered by the survivors. …”
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A certificateless aggregate signature scheme for security and privacy protection in VANET by Eko Fajar Cahyadi, Tzu-Wei Su, Chou-Chen Yang, Min-Shiang Hwang

“…In the vehicular ad hoc network, moving vehicles can keep communicating with each other by entering or leaving the network at any time to establish a new connection. …”
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Digitalized Optical Sensor Network for Intelligent Facility Monitoring by Esther Renner, Lisa-Sophie Haerteis, Joachim Kaiser, Michael Villnow, Markus Richter, Torsten Thiel, Andreas Pohlkötter, Bernhard Schmauss

“…In this paper, we propose a solution for the digitalization of an optical fiber sensor system realized by the Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) protocol and the Internet of Things (IoT) platform Insights Hub. …”
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Learning English in the ‘shadow’: Patterns and implications of English private tutoring in Vietnam by Lan Thi Huong Nguyen, Thao Vu

“…However, despite the prevalence of private tutoring, the research findings revealed a modest impact of such tutoring on student academic performance, evidenced by over 75% of the students reporting slight improvement in their communicative skills. Irrespective of academic achievement levels and backgrounds, private tutoring has been a widespread and normalised educational practice, reflecting the nature of social and educational competition. …”
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Intelligent Beam-Hopping-Based Grant-Free Random Access in Secure IoT-Oriented Satellite Networks by Zhongliang Deng, Yicheng Liao

“…This research presents an intelligent beam-hopping-based grant-free random access (GFRA) architecture designed for secure Internet of Things (IoT) communications in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks. …”
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MODERNISING SITE-BLOCKING MECHANISM IN PROTECTING COPYRIGHT OWNERS CONTENT AGAINST DIGITAL PIRACY IN MALAYSIA by Mohd Syaufiq Abdul Latif, Nazura Abdul Manap, Nabeel Mahdi Althabhawi

“…Malaysia has incorporated site-blocking mechanisms under section 263 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 and section 43C(2) of the Copyright Act 1987 to combat this issue. …”
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Physical activity and erectile dysfunction: a systematic review by Camila Araujo, Melissa Souza, Aline Fernandes, Andreia Pelegrini, Alexandro Andrade, Adriana Guimarães

“…ED appeared to be associated with different factors related to men’s lifestyle, particularly their level of education, non-communicable chronic diseases, body mass index and age. …”
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URO: urología relevante y objetiva. Narrativa transmedia para la prevención del cáncer urológico by Ismael Cardozo-Rivera, Herney A. García-Perdomo

“…In addition, a web repository that would allow uniting all the proposals of the project. Fifty-one communicative products were made. Instagram had follower accounts and interactions that allowed the platform to be evaluated positively. …”
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La vulnérabilité d’un territoire, un héritage complexe à révéler : démonstration à travers l’étude géohistorique du risque d’inondation en Val d’Orléans (France) by Sylvain Dournel

“…These embankments also had the effect to slow down the communications between the river and the valley, to confine the river bed and to make its access more complex. …”
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The Internet Use for Health Information Seeking among Ghanaian University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study by Benedict Osei Asibey, Seth Agyemang, Augustina Boakye Dankwah

“…The use of Internet to communicate with young people in relation to their health must therefore be explored. …”
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Latest news from the bonobos: Pan paniscus myths and realities by David Beaune

“…This review describes the most recent findings: bonobos, chimpanzees, and humans ought to be part of the same genus (Homo or Pan) according to our genetics. bonobos have impressive cognitive ability to communicate with lexigram and sign-language, solve problems and use tools. …”
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Pronunciation Anxiety, Pronunciation-Related Views and Pronunciation Learning Actions of EMI and English Major Students by Esther Gómez Lacabex, Hanne Roothooft

“…However, we also observed significant differences between the groups as the English major students tended to view pronunciation learning as a discipline, while the engineering students saw it as a communicative skill. The English majors also exhibited more pronunciation anxiety, specifically fear of ridicule and worry of making mistakes. …”
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Roles for Exosomes in the Pathogenesis, Drug Delivery and Therapy of Psoriasis by Yuchao Chen, Huazhen Liu, Yuming He, Bin Yang, Weihui Lu, Zhenhua Dai

“…Therefore, investigation into the mechanisms underlying intercellular communications mediated by exosomes in skin lesions likely helps design drugs for therapy of psoriasis. …”
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Trigonometric Regression for Analysis of Public Health Surveillance Data by Steven E. Rigdon, George Turabelidze, Ehsan Jahanpour

“…Even though assumptions of normality, independence, and stationarity are typically violated in the biosurveillance data, statistical process control (SPC) charts adopted from industry have been widely used in public health for communicable disease monitoring. But, blind usage of SPC charts in public health that ignores the characteristics of disease surveillance data may result in poor detection of disease outbreaks and/or excessive false-positive alarms. …”
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Defining the Structure of Physical Education Lessons in Secondary Schools: A Didactic Problem and Its Solutions by Yurij Vaskov

“…The study focuses on the components of communicative competence and the assessment of its levels. …”
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