Post-COVID Insurance Purchase Intention: The Roles of Referral, Agent Characteristics, Influencer Credibility, Plan Value, and Trust by Agatha Jane Kristabel, Serli Wijaya, Ferry Jaolis

“…Primary data was collected through a survey of 181 respondents who did not have an insurance policy but had seen the content of the insurance company’s marketing communications presented by influencers. Using SEM-PLS to analyze the primary data, the study found that agent characteristics and influencer credibility directly affect an insurance brand’s consumer trust and purchase intention. …”
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Laser Writing of GaN/Ga2O3 Heterojunction Photodetector Arrays by Pengxiang Sun, Xun Yang, Kexue Li, Zhipeng Wei, Wei Fan, Shaoyi Wang, Weimin Zhou, Chongxin Shan

“…Abstract Photodetectors play a crucial role in converting light signals into electrical signals and have significant applications in various fields such as communications, imaging, and sensing. However, the fabrication of a photodetector is a complex process that involves precise control of surface preparation, lithography, and deposition techniques. …”
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Prawa i godność człowieka we współczesnej bioetyce by Wojciech Bołoz

“…It enables people of different civilizations to communicate with understandable ethical language. In the world constantly undergoing global processes, it is of great value. …”
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THE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY RESOURCES OF THE UNION STATE OF RUSSIA AND BELARUS by K. P. Borishpolets

“…The practice of the Union State of Russia and Belarus (USRB) is characterized by a wide range of public initiatives to increase the public attractiveness of the bilateral integration project. It communicates with a broad international environment and thereby creates a positive image for the Russian-Belarusian partnership. …”
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A Web-Based Programme for Person-Centred Learning and Support Designed for Preschool Children with Long-Term Illness: A Pilot Study of a New Intervention by Anna-Lena Hellström, Agneta Simeonsdotter Svensson, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Margaretha Jenholt Nolbris

“…The children found it interesting to communicate with their web teacher using SKYPE. The story about Max and Sara served as a good basis for discussion, and development was found in the learning process. …”
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Updating the Content of Higher Education in the Context of Modern Sociocultural Trends by E. E. Shishlova

“…The dynamic structure of the hidden education content is revealed, which includes communicative and subject components and which made it possible to determine the directions of its update by the sociocultural aspect. …”
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DAYA TARIK DESTINASI WISATA ALAM & BUDAYA PADANG FULAN FEHAN KAB. BELU NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR by Asfira Rachmad Rinata, Herru Prasetya Widodo, Mariela Gradiana Loe

“…Furthermore, (3) the brand launch and introduction stage: communicating the vision through promotion through electronic media, online media, and social media, (4) the brand implementation stage in collaboration with the local community (LMDH) and the government. …”
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Alterations of the Murine Gut Microbiome with Age and Allergic Airway Disease by Marius Vital, Jack R. Harkema, Mike Rizzo, James Tiedje, Christina Brandenberger

“…Furthermore, our results show that the composition of the gut microbiota changes with pulmonary allergy, indicating bidirectional gut-lung communications.…”
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Fine-Grained Support of Security Services for Resource Constrained Internet of Things by Hyo Jin Ban, Jaeduck Choi, Namhi Kang

“…Several standard organizations related to IoT technologies recommend using the CoAP over DTLS protocol stacks for enabling secure communications between resource constrained things. In general DTLS, a cipher suite required to support specific security service should be negotiated between the CoAP client and server in the process of performing the DTLS handshake protocol. …”
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Analysis of V2V Messages for Car-Following Behavior with the Traffic Jerk Effect by Tenglong Li, Fei Hui, Ce Liu, Xiangmo Zhao, Asad J. Khattak

“…To this end, this paper investigates the change in the traffic jerk effect between inactive and active vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications based on field experimental data. Data mining results show that the correlation between the jerk effect and the driving behavior increases by 50.6% on average when V2V messages are received. …”
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Classification, Mechanisms of Action, and Therapeutic Applications of Inhibitory Oligonucleotides for Toll-Like Receptors (TLR) 7 and 9 by Petar S. Lenert

“…The innate arm also communicates this message with more specialized adaptive forces represented by pathogen-specific B cells and T cells. …”
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RPRep: A Robust and Privacy-Preserving Reputation Management Scheme for Pseudonym-Enabled VANETs by Jin Wang, Yonghui Zhang, Youyuan Wang, Xiang Gu

“…The other is that they may violate location privacy because they assume every vehicle communicates with a unique ID. Our research particularly investigates the robustness against these tactical attacks, as well as the preservation of privacy by integrating trust management with the pseudonym technique. …”
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An Efficient Key Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks by Dahai Du, Huagang Xiong, Hailiang Wang

“…Due to the inherent characteristics of wireless communications, WSNs are more vulnerable to be attacked than conventional networks. …”
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Geographic Information System-Based Framework for Sustainable Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Logistics Operations by Jonathan Agoo, Renz Joshua Lanuza, Jonathan Lee, Paul Anthony Rivera, Neil Oliver Velasco, Marielet Guillermo, Arvin Fernando

“…This includes scheduling, communications, and the inventorying of the shipment status of goods. …”
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UAV-Aided Data Delivery Scheme Based on Opportunistic Virtual Intersections for Smart Transportation Networks by Wei Li, Xianxing Liu, Xiaoyong Ma, Xianwei Wang, Yi Zhou

“…We introduce a novel concept called “opportunistic virtual intersections”, at which UAVs can communicate with ground vehicles, and assist to deliver data packets. …”
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The case for weak null in English by Andrew Tollet

“… The concept of the null article in English was originally developed as a means of explaining the apparent paradox that singular nouns with the same surface form, namely the non-presence of a grammatical article, are used in quite different communicative situations. Null has been described as the most definite form in the English article system, standing in direct contrast to zero at the opposite end of a scale. …”
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English language students’ productive and receptive knowledge of collocations by Begagić Mirna

“…There have been numerous studies in L2 acquisition research that investigated how the knowledge and use of collocations at different levels of proficiency affect learners’ communicative competence and language performance. Moreover, it seems important to mention that most of the studies investigating the collocational knowledge of students learning English as their L2, indicated students’ poor performance (Fayez-Hussein 1990; Aghbar 1990; Bahns and Eldaw 1993; Stubbs 2002; Wray 2002; Nasselhauf 2005; Ozaki 2011). …”
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Analyse contrastive de la progression thématique dans les écrits d’étudiants francophones et sinophones by Tatiana Aleksandrova, Qianyun Li

“…Rhetorically, these divergences reflect distinct approaches to handling the subject within the paragraph, leading to varied communicative dynamics. Thus, the results offer interesting perspectives for understanding meaning construction from an intercultural point of view.…”
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Implementation of lightweight intrusion detection model for security of smart green house and vertical farm by Jun-Ho Huh

“…Jpcap library was used to capture transport packets which were then classified using typical communications protocols. The packet headers were subjected to analysis and the results were stored in database for later applications.…”
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Effect of cooperative learning strategy on students’ acquisition and practice of scientific skills in Biology by Hanadi Chatila, Fatima Al Husseiny

“… Recent research findings have shown that cooperative learning improves students’ thinking skills as it allows them to communicate actively with each other (Johnson, Johnson and Smith, 2014). …”
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