Information reification: fake news about Covid-19 on the website of the Brazilian Departament of Health by Rodrigo Silva Caxias de Sousa, Patricia Valerim

“…It argues that different forms of disinformation were constituted into reified communicative processes. The study emphasizes the emergence of a disinformation production circuit whose logic is the trivialization of informational practices manifested through fake news. …”
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Word wall media in teaching vocabulary to junior secondary school students: teacher’s practices, benefits, and challenges by Syamsul Huda, Windhariyati Dyah Kusumawanti

“…The word wall media could help junior secondary school students familiarize themselves with vocabulary, motivate them to elevate vocabulary acquisition, foster them in reading and writing, and encourage them to communicate in English. The application of word wall also benefited the EFL teacher in designing vocabulary teaching and learning that suited the students’ language target and managed the class in a more engaged way. …”
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Performance Analysis of Buffer-Aided FSO Relaying with an Energy Harvesting Relay by Chadi Abou-Rjeily

“…This energy is accumulated in an energy buffer in order to enable the relay–destination communications. Moreover, buffer-aided (BA) relaying is considered where the relay is equipped with a data buffer for storing the incoming packets. …”
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Enacting efficient markets: The performativity of quantitative easing by Dylan Cassar

“…While pre-crisis performativity relied on central bankers’ communicative framing of market expectations, QE is performative via the ontological shaping of financial markets, driven by epistemic models. …”
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Robust and Energy-Efficient Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Network by Juan Feng, Baowang Lian, Hongwei Zhao

“…In REEDG, data gathering is executed by a data transmitting chain which is composed by a series of virtual grids. Each grid communicates only with its neighbor grid and takes turns transmitting the information to the base station. …”
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Soundscapes and Affective Resonance in (Neo-)Victorianism by Rosario Arias

“…Sound and voice have been invoked in neo-Victorian criticism since its beginning, and we have utilised the notion of the author as medium: for example, the medium’s ability to communicate with the dead has been used as metaphor for the dialogue between past and present, and the author functioning as a medium partaking of the world of the dead and world of the living, thus connecting and embodying the disembodied voices of the dead. …”
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THE TRANSLATION OF SALADIN AL AYYUBI: A STUDY OF METHODS, CLARITY, AND AUDIENCE RESPONSE by Oktaviona Eka putri Gunawan, Syihabuddin Syihabuddin, Hikmah Maulani

“…The researcher found five out of eight Newmark methods used in the translation, namely (1) word-by-word method; (2) semantic method; (3 free method; (4) literal method; and (5) communicative method. The level of intelligibility in the Arabic - Indonesian subtitles of Saladin Al-Ayyubi movie shows that 19% of the text is at a low level of legibility, 59% of the text is at a medium level of legibility, and 22% of the text is at a high level of legibility. …”
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A Large-Scale Network Data Analysis via Sparse and Low Rank Reconstruction by Liang Fu Lu, Zheng-Hai Huang, Mohammed A. Ambusaidi, Kui-Xiang Gou

“…With the rapid growth of data communications in size and complexity, the threat of malicious activities and computer crimes has increased accordingly as well. …”
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Designing a Cocreated Intervention with African American Older Adults for Hypertension Self-Management by Kathy D. Wright, Carolyn H. Still, Lenette M. Jones, Karen O. Moss

“…The primary stressors identified by the group that influenced their blood pressure self-management were as follows: (a) measuring blood pressure and using home blood pressure monitors; (b) difficulty communicating with family and friends; (c) sleep management and pain at night; and (d) healthy eating. …”
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Difficulties in Learning English by EFL Students in Turkey by Demet Özmat, Nuray Senemoğlu

“…Results of semi-structured interviews showed that the most common difficulties experienced by students were insufficient communicative practice in textbooks, insufficient use of visual and audio instruments in the classrooms, insufficient practices of listening and speaking abilities, lack of language learning teaching strategies, low self-confidence, crowded classrooms and disciplinary problems.…”
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The Factors Affecting Grade Progress in Language Proficiency of Undergraduate Medical Students by Aivar L. Surji, Hannah K. Surji, Soma Hassan Hussein, Aziza Kavlu

“…Language Proficiency is necessary to communicate and comprehend educational concepts. Consistent language practice and routine is essential to maintain growth; hence, an abundant number of breaks can be a hindrance to reaching proper proficiency. …”
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Rethinking maternal healthcare for the 21st century in the United States by Vishwani PERSAUD-SHARMA

“…Comparative global country analysis reveals effective methods that need to be communicated in U.S. legislation for maternal care standardization and sustenance. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Tumor Lysis Syndrome in a Patient with Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma: Case Report and Literature Review by Danica Maria Vodopivec, Jose Enrique Rubio, Alessia Fornoni, Oliver Lenz

“…All reports (case reports, brief reports, letters to editor, correspondence, reviews, journals, and short communications) identified through these searches were reviewed and included.…”
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EFL teachers’ attitudes towards online learning in Palestinian high schools during the COVID-19 pandemic by Mohammed Farrah, Israa Othman Zalloum

“…Results also demonstrate that online learning developed students’ communicative competence. Moreover, the study has portrayed that both high and primary school EFL teachers had positive attitudes towards online learning as it offered many opportunities for teachers and their students. …”
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Exploring the Role of Mass Media in Enhancing Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Activities in Bosomtwe District, Ghana by Anthony K. Appiah, Enoch K. Tham-Agyekum, Fred Nimoh, John-Eudes A. Bakang, Fred Ankuyi

“…Farmers agreed that the high cost of purchasing mass media tools and insufficient capital to buy them were the main constraints they faced in effectively using mass media to communicate among themselves. Farmers need to be trained and educated to make good use of other mass media tools to strengthen information flow.…”
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Electronic Structure and Room Temperature of 2D Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors in Bilayer MoS2-Doped Mn by Sintayehu Mekonnen Hailemariam

“…It is also found that two dopants in different layers of BL MoS2 communicate ferromagnetically. In addition to this, the detail investigation of BL MoS2 and its counterpart of monolayer indicates that interlayer interaction in BL MoS2 affects the magnetic interaction in Mn-doped BL MoS2. …”
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Whatsapp Addiction Affecting Students at Politeknik Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin by Noor Rulhanim Binti Mohamad Ariffin, Norhafiza Binti Idris

“…The existence of various social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp as medium to communicate became widely used because the internet is accessible to anyone regardless of place and time. …”
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KAB Newsletter Issue 5 (Apr - Jun 2023) by Sempungu, Godfrey J., Ocan, Johnson, Saturday, Alex

“…There are no words to describe how appreciative I am of the indefatigable team of contributors, most of whom hail from the Communications, Branding and Marketing department. You all make this newsletter such a worthwhile source of information. …”
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ZSM-Based E2E Security Slice Management for DDoS Attack Protection in MEC-Enabled V2X Environments by Rodrigo Asensio-Garriga, Pol Alemany, Alejandro M. Zarca, Roshan Sedar, Charalampos Kalalas, Jordi Ortiz, Ricard Vilalta, Raul Munoz, Antonio Skarmeta

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Effect of Incessant Strike Actions on the Academic Performance of University of Ibadan Medical Students by Uzendu Ezinne, Babatunde Ademusire, Chibuzo Makata, Nnaemeka Ozonta, Kenechukwu Okeke, Hope Abu, Immanuella Yisa, Tobi Ogunleye, Toluwanimi Adeyanju, Oluwasomidoyin Bello

“…It has become an adopted lingua franca for the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to effectively communicate their demands in Nigeria. Using a cross-sectional study design, we investigated the impact of strike actions on the academic performance of fifth- and sixth-year medical students at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. …”
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