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Objective Grammar is a key element of language knowledge and a factor in predicting language learning and success. Early diagnosis of grammatical errors in children before entering school is very important. So far, no tool has been designed to evaluate the Azerbaijani language grammar comprehension in Iran. The present study aims to design the Azerbaijani language grammar comprehension test for Iranian children aged 4-6 along and assess its validity. Materials & Methods This is a mixed-method (qualitative-quantitative) study. After searching in various databases and reviewing available articles, 42 grammatical structures of the Azerbaijani language were extracted, of which 8 were removed after preliminary examination by experts. Then, 204 items were formulated for the remaining 34 grammatical structures. To determine the content validity, the test was sent to 11 experts in the field of Azerbaijani language grammar to evaluate the items. According to their opinions, two more suitable items were selected from among four items for each grammatical structure and included in the initial version for the pilot study. The initial test version was conducted on 30 children aged 4-6 years with normal language development. Results After calculating the content validity ratio (CVR), two grammatical structures were removed, and 32 structures with 128 items having CVR≥0.59 remained. After calculating the content validity index (CVI), the items with CVI≥0.79 were selected. The initial version had 32 grammatical structures and 64 items. None of the items were removed in the pilot phase, and only 10 items were modified. The CVR and CVI of the test were 0.91 and 0.87, respectively, indicating good content validity. Conclusion The Azerbaijani language grammar comprehension test has good content and face validity and can be used to evaluate the grammar comprehension of children with Azerbaijani language aged 4-6 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective Cerebral palsy is a group of movement disorders caused by damage to one or more regions of the developing brain. Therapists use different treatment approaches for children with cerebral palsy. It is important to pay attention to the priorities of the parents of these children because they spend most of the time with their children and are fully aware of their needs. The present study aims to investigate the treatment priorities of parents of children with cerebral palsy. Materials & Methods In this scoping review study, a search was first conducted in national and international databases, including SID, PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, OT Seeker, and the Bank of Medical Theses of the country. The articles focused on the treatment priorities of parents of children with cerebral palsy and published in English or Persian from 2000 to 2022 were included. The review studies published in other languages were excluded. After assessing the found articles based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 12 articles were finally selected for the review. Results The parents of children with cerebral palsy have different priorities. Teaching elf-care skills to the child was one of their most important priorities, which is not dependent on the age and level of gross motor function in children. Other important priorities were mobility and having complete information about treatment services. It seems that all the mentioned priorities are related to each other and paying attention to each one requires checking other priorities. Conclusion The priorities of the parents of children with cerebral palsy are broad and unique. Not all of these priorities are dependent on the age and severity of disability in the children, and can be different per child. It seems necessary to pay attention to the treatment priorities of the parents of these children in the rehabilitation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Previous investigations focused on web 2.0 communication in Spanish universities reach contradictory conclusions, although they agree on the existence of problems in their use of social networks. The present work delves into this field, expanding the limits of the number of universities, social networks and statistical analyses of prior studies. A descriptive quantitative research is carried out using multiple linear regression models with the aim of explaining and predicting the number of followers and reactions that universities obtain on social networks based on independent variables. Thereby, the communication of the 83 Spanish universities on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube is analysed for 14 weeks. The results show that the exposed regression models manage to predict a fundamental part of the followers that Spanish universities have on Facebook and Twitter networks, and a more discreet part on Instagram. Likewise, the regression models manage to predict a significant part of the weekly interaction that universities achieve on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Finally, they moderately explain the interaction per post on Instagram and Twitter. On YouTube the models do not work, so other variables should be investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The MAAS Global (Maastricht History-taking and Advice Scoring List) is an internationally widely-used instrument in under- and postgraduate medical education. The focus is on the assessment of medical communication and clinical skills. The assessment tool, which has also been used in Germany since 2015, has a high-quality design (e.g. comprehensible structure, appropriate complexity), good psychometric properties and is very user-friendly. An update of MAAS Global, MAAS 2.0, was published in March 2021 with a new and greater focus on context and the formative. Method: The revised version of the MAAS 2.0 assessment sheet was translated into German with the authors' permission. Open questions were discussed with the revision process project manager. Results: The revision was carried out with a view to focusing on the patient's frame of reference, removing ambiguities identified previously while using MAAS Global, and closer alignment with the underlying Calgary-Cambridge model. Furthermore, the scale used for the evaluation was modified and now uses a formative evaluation range without graderelated classification. Conclusion: With the content reorientation of MAAS Global to MAAS 2.0, and the associated focus on frame of reference, context, the formative, the revision presented here sets new priorities for future evaluations in the context of under- and postgraduate medical education and the assessment of medical patient communication in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Dealing with medical uncertainty is an essential competence of physicians. During handovers, communication of uncertainty is important for patient safety, but is often not explicitly expressed and can hamper medical decisions. This study examines medical students' implicit expression of uncertainty in different sequences of clinical reasoning during simulated patient handovers. Methods: In 2018, eighty-seven final-year medical students participated in handovers of three simulated patient cases, which were videotaped and transcribed verbatim. Sequences of clinical reasoning and language references to implicit uncertainty that attenuate and strengthen information based on a framework were identified, categorized, and analyzed with chi-square goodness-of-fit tests. Results: A total of 6358 sequences of clinical reasoning were associated with the four main categories "statement", "assessment", "consideration", and "implication", with statements occurring significantly (p<0.001) most frequently. Attenuated sequences of clinical reasoning occurred significantly (p<0.003) more frequently than strengthened sequences. Implications were significantly more often attenuated than strengthened (p<0.003). Statements regarding results occurred significantly more often plain or strengthened than statements regarding actions (p<0.0025). Conclusion: Implicit expressions of uncertainty in simulated medical students' handovers occur in different degrees during clinical reasoning. These findings could contribute to courses on clinical case presentations by including linguistic terms and implicit expressions of uncertainty and making them explicit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective Cerebral palsy refers to a group of postural and movement disorders that limit movements and can be related to a non-progressive disorder in the developing brain. The international classification of disability emphasizes the child's functional abilities and routine performance. Some classification tools have been developed to describe and evaluate child's functions in daily activities such as walking, manipulating objects, and everyday communication. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between classification systems (gross motor function, manual ability, communication function, and eating and drinking ability) in children with cerebral palsy. Materials & Methods This study was performed by cross-sectional correlation method and of descriptive analytical type. Children with cerebral palsy aged 12-144 months were recruited by convenience sampling from patients referred to clinics and public and private rehabilitation centers in Tehran and Arak cities, Iran, in 2019-2020. After completing the demographic information questionnaire by the child's primary caregiver, the gross motor function classification system (GMFCS), manual ability classification system (MACS), Communication function classification system (CFCS), and eating and drinking ability classification system (EDACS) were completed by a child therapist. Results In the present study, 154 children with a Mean±SD age of 49.45±32.22 months participated. also, 87 children (56.5%) were boys, and 67(43.5%) were girls. According to GMFCS, the highest percentage distributions at levels II and IV were 31.2% and 26%, respectively. In other words, more than 57% of children were distributed in these two levels. According to MACS, the distributions of the highest percentages at levels II, III, and IV were 28.6%, 22.1%, and 20.8%, respectively. In other words, more than 70% of the children were distributed in these three levels. According to EDACS, the distribution of almost all levels was equal except the V level, with 4.3% having the lowest percentage. According to CFCS, the distribution of the highest percentage at levels V and IV was 23.5%. In examining the relationship between functional systems, significant relationships were observed in all cases: MACS and GMFCS, r=0.672; CFCS and GMFCS, r=0.581; EADCS and GMFCS, r=0.593; CFCS and MACS, r=0.555; EADCS and MACS, r=664; EADCS and CFCS, r=0. 547 (P<0.01). Conclusion It seems that children with more motor function limitations show more limitations in other performance classification systems, too. Of course, the number of studies in this field is limited and needs further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Aim: Assessments of practical clinical competencies pose a challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reports about OSCE stations admin- istered online show that, despite technical feasibility and acceptance, there is a lingering desire for in-person assessments. Barriers and challenges must therefore also be identified in regard to the future in- tegration of digital competencies into the curriculum. Based on a study investigating the feasibility and acceptance of an online OSCE anamnesis station and the descriptions given by students, simulated patients and examiners of the challenges and limitations, we make re- commendations for necessary future adaptations to anamnesis training and testing in the context of telemedicine. Method: We surveyed students after completion of an OSCE anamnesis station, adapted to the telemedical setting, that was administered as an alternative assessment to 149 students via Zoom ®. Using semistructured interviews, we analyzed the resulting challenges and limitations as seen by all of the participants. Results: We confirm the existence of good technical and organizational feasibility, positive learning experiences through feedback, the acquis- ition of clinical competencies, and a high acceptance of this format as an alternative assessment during the pandemic. Using the semi-struc- tured interviews, it was also possible to analyze additional categories that identify necessary adaptations of this type of format. Conclusion: Adaptation of the content-based training for all of the participants and a targeted revision of the checklists, e.g., regarding com- munication techniques in a telemedicine setting, is required due to the effects of the online format on communication and interactions between students and simulated patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective The first years of life are particularly important because vital developments occur in all development domains including motor, cognition, communication, and social-emotional. Early detection of developmental delays is essential in planning for early intervention. This study aims to standardize the score of bayley scales of infants and toddlers development-third edition (Bayley-III) for Iranian samples aged 1-42 months. Materials & Methods Participants included 1700 children divided into 17 age groups of 100 children. The normative information was based on a national sample representative of Iran's population for infants aged 1-42 months based on the 2011 national population and housing census. For each age group, the total raw scores of each Bayley-III subscale (cognition, receptive communication, expressive communication, fine motor, and gross motor) were converted to scaled scores with a Mean±SD of 10±3. The composite scores (cognition, language and motor domains) were obtained by summing up the scaled scores. The composite scores were scaled to a metric with Mean±SD of 100±15 ranged 40-160. Growth scores (ranged 200-800, with a Mean±SD 500±100), percentile ranks (ranged from 1-99, with 50 as the mean and median), and developmental age equivalent were also determined. Confidence intervals for all five subscales were also determined. To compare the development level of the US children (norm samples) and Iranian children, their mean raw scores in five subscales were compared for finding the difference in scores. Results The Bayley-III was performed on 1744 children aged 0-42 months, including 908 (52.1%) girls and 836 (47.9%) boys. In comparing the development level of Iranian and US children, it was found that the mean scores were significantly different in 28 age groups (P<0.05). In seven age groups, the US children's scores were higher (age groups <6 months), and in 21 age groups, the scores of Iranian children were higher (age groups >6 months). Conclusion For early detection and intervention of children with developmental delays, a test with a normalized score should be used in Iran. Using the US norm-based scores in Iranian children leads to inaccuracy in the early detection of children with developmental delays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To explore the experiences of student nurses in their family, social, academic and work contexts in times of COVID-19. Method: The study has a hermeneutical interpretive approach, guided by the technology-assisted focus group technique, which allowed the interaction and free expression of the participants. A methodological guide was used with five questions directed by the moderator and collection of field notes. Grounded theory was applied as a method of analysis of the narrative corpus. Results: the demands of the pandemic and the intersections of emerging roles are found to run through the body; economic capitals turn to and fro; and academic training is perceived as incomplete between absences and support networks. Conclusion: young students have little capital to advance in the transition of life trajectories during the pandemic. Due to the intersection between his studies in exclusive virtuality, emerging family and economic demands, suffer physical, mental and relational alterations; on the other, they consider their learning in this modality insufficient. However, the pedagogical sensitivity of some teachers, the spirituality and the support of the State, are evaluated by them as relevant supports that allow them to adapt to these changes and overcome obstacles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper will conduct a comparative analysis of engagement strategies in Al Jazeera's Arabic and English channels. Methodological triangulation is used through literature review, content analysis, in-depth interviews and non-participant observation. We study the channels' policies as seen in two turning points: the formation of the engagement strategy in 2016 and the team restructuring in 2018. Engagement is no longer just a marketing strategy to turn the audience into a key player in content production. Platformization and the search for a comprehensive, international strategy emerge as challenges for the coming years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Democratic transformations in Ukraine are fundamentally and progressively making changes in the sphere of education and life of the younger generations. The training of students of creative professions needs a special humanistic transformation. During the period of acquiring professional competencies in higher educational institutions, future actors need a pedagogical direction of their educational activity, based on democratic and humanistic principles of pedagogy of cooperation. It is this approach that will contribute to the discovery and realization of the abilities and talents of young people. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. In the process of students preparing for stage skills, the considerable achievements of domestic and foreign classical and modern theater and film schools, innovative techniques of choreographic art are now used, such as M. Kropyvnytskyi, V. Nemyrovych- Danchenko, O. Dovzhenko, K. Stanislavskyi, O. Kovalenko, O. Merlianova, O. Tarantseva and others. Target setting. Theatrical pedagogy, as a creative level of the pedagogical activity, contains many components that ensure high effectiveness of pedagogical efforts of the teacher and creative successful mastery of professional competencies by students. I consider it worthy of researching the teaching style of the teacher, which determines the effectiveness of any methods and techniques of teaching by the teacher and teaching by the student. The statement of basic materials. This study examines the advantages and disadvantages of the main 3 styles of teaching: authoritarian, democratic, liberal. To find out their relevance from the students' point of view, they are asked to choose the style that helps them to more successfully master the professional competencies of stage skills. Since the democratic style was chosen by the vast of students majority, the further transformative experiment was carried out by the efforts of teachers convinced of the expediency of this style, who habitually adhered to it in working with students. The focus of their attention and activities are: to adhere to the subject - the subject interaction in teaching students acting and choreography; apply all methods, technologies, trainings, adhering to the specified interaction; to organize the teacher's partnership with students, respectively, to use verbal and non-verbal techniques of theater pedagogy, positive emotional means of expression; conduct all training exercises so brightly that students have fun with them. Conclusion. As a result of teachers' adherence to a democratic style of interaction with students, their level of attitude to this style has increased. In the control experiment, only a few students appeared - supporters of other styles of interaction. The nature of the interaction between students and teachers has also changed positively: their business relations have become less formal, not tense, emotionally colored. There were more positive emotions in communication, interested in supporting acting achievements, cheering for the success of each student. Thus, the introduction and constant maintenance of a democratic style of interaction between teachers and students in the process of educational theatrical activities confirmed its positive impact on the development of stage skills in students and the overall creative atmosphere in the student group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: Design and validate two scales of sexual communication with the partner in men who have sex with men, which together evaluate five components of communication, content, extension, style, time and context. Methodology: It was divided into two phases, the first to develop the items that make up each scale, and the second to obtain their psychometric properties. 200 men participated in the first phase and 1,190 men participated in the second phase, in both cases with an active sexual life, single and who reported having sex with men, half of them diagnosed with hiv and whose route of infection was through sexual contact. The strategy of modified natural semantic networks was applied to obtain the main ones defined for the stimuli: sexual themes and sexual communication with the partner, based on the results, the items were designed to form two scales. In both phases, the application was carried out in a clinic specialized in the care of people with hiv. Results: The results of the validation show evidence of construct validity (efa and cfa) and concurrent validity, as well as good internal consistency indexes (α, ω) in each scale showing adequate psychometric properties. Conclusions: It is necessary to evaluate communication considering all its components, for which culturally valid instruments such as the scales presented in this research are required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper compares some of the first websites launched by architectural offices in the second half of the 1990s. The study reveals, firstly, the main constraints posed by the World Wide Web to the public dissemination of architects' production and, secondly, the two strategies that would rule the online communication of architecture ever since. On the one hand, corporate offices like SOM or Foster and Partners understood the new medium as a tool that would facilitate the dissemination of the office's identity. To harvest this potential, their work had to be published online in a succinct, interactive, and stable fashion by means of photographs and renderings. On the other hand, emergent offices such as MVRDV and Snøhetta decided to use the new medium to push the boundaries of their work and to test new techniques of representation and graphic expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This document shows that working holistically with children of basic education from interdisciplinarity is a contribution to the problems of insecurity and violence. The field of action focused on the culture of peace with informal instruments in the formality of a reality, and especially communication mechanisms such as drawing and interviewing, part of the action research process, lead us to work to raise awareness and to promote the culture of peace with proposals adjusted to a reality and social context, which can be a pillar to establish long-term strategies for our children as actors in a culture of peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ethics occupies a central role both in the traditional teachings and expressions of the Millennial Schools of Strategic Thought, as well as in the business environment applied to the reality of the 21st century. From the anthropological foundations (Melé and Cantón, 2015) it would be found both rooted in the "anthropological foundations of business management" [1], and in the expressions of anticipation, collaboration and creativity (Garrido and Mintzberg, 2019) that "base the persistence of strategic themes throughout the story told "[2]. Regarding this, Cortina (2013) reminds us that people "can be more or less moral according to certain codes, but they all have some moral stature" [3], which is very important when we consider two great Schools of Strategic Thought such as the Eastern and Western, as when we explore the millenary essence of strategic teaching and find a fundamental coincidence with ethics in "the search for excellence" (Melé, 2012). In them lie the sources to approach a question as important as it is inadvertent: is ethics the ultimate limit of strategy? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay discusses the relation between knowledge, comprehension and culture, identifies the epistemological and intersubjective roots in the notion of comprehension and stresses some of the bonds between the studies on culture and comprehension as a method. Based on Montaigne's, Medina's, Morin's and others' critique of the fragmentation of scientific knowledge, the paper charts the path treaded by several authors who have contributed for the concept of comprehension as a method to link, unite, gather lore and knowledge. In dialogue with scholars of several fields, i.e. Arendt, Buber, Campbell, Weber, Popper, Latour and Bakhtin, we present the dialog between different practices of knowledge as a way for knowing, communicating and participating in cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay discusses the relation between knowledge, comprehension and culture, identifies the epistemological and intersubjective roots in the notion of comprehension and stresses some of the bonds between the studies on culture and comprehension as a method. Based on Montaigne's, Medina's, Morin's and others' critique of the fragmentation of scientific knowledge, the paper charts the path treaded by several authors who have contributed for the concept of comprehension as a method to link, unite, gather lore and knowledge. In dialogue with scholars of several fields, i.e. Arendt, Buber, Campbell, Weber, Popper, Latour and Bakhtin, we present the dialog between different practices of knowledge as a way for knowing, communicating and participating in cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a theoretical-methodological proposal for the training of communication professionals developed at the Observatory of Audiovisual Quality at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Based on empirical research with university students and communication professionals (Borges & Silva, 2019) and the studies of Ferrés and Piscitelli (2015) on media competence; Scolari (2016; 2018a) on transmedia literacy, we developed a proposal for training students to produce content for multiplatforms. We produce audiovisual and sound series on the communication channels of the Observatory of Audiovisual Quality (2020) that show a set of new skills and provide new perspectives on subjects, technologies, communication, and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the dynamic concept of "neighborhood", we understand that "community communication" gives us the tools to make visible the practices and actions that make the territory itself. There and with empirical basis in the case of FM "Los Coihues", located in the Villa Los Coihues neighborhood of the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, we understand that community radios generate and enhance spaces and practices of citizen participation, in this particular case with a view to generating "identities". We will observe how in the very action of the station, strong community ties are developed at the same time that the identity perspective is made explicit as key for this space in citizen key. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the radio communication practices of ALER, its historical construction, the approach and accompaniment to communities and subalternized sectors of Ecuador, Latin America and the Caribbean; From a qualitative approach and a non-probabilistic sampling, semi-structured interviews were conducted with local and international managers, a matrix was built to review the discourse present in the sound narratives of the flagship programs and see what the social contribution is from the contents. ALER has been an icon in the conceptualization of communication and popular radio, its work allowed the organizational development, and subsequent political recognition of indigenous, Amazonian and Afro-descendant leaders and communities. However, what is popular and community is underestimated, since the biggest challenge is competing with content that goes viral easily without a major content proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article maps the main historical traditions and contemporary debates in the field of alternative and community communication in the European and US contexts, and compares these research frameworks with Latin American theory with the aim of finding similarities and differences. Based on comparative research and critical literature review, this work raises the need for building bridges between European research and the long tradition of Latin American studies in order to strengthen an interdisciplinary and interregional dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates and verifies how Leonidas Proaño used alternative communication oriented to social change of Ecuador's indigenous communities in: collective actions; broadcast in traditional media (written and spoken); popular education; and, application of rigorous methods of information collection. A mixed, qualitative and quantitative methodology was used through documentary review, critical speech analysis and interviews. There were 2.482 content from five print media, 389 scripts from the radio show Today and Tomorrow, 72 speeches and four books from the period between 1938 and 1988. Of these, 1,295 documents were linked to the subject-matter of the study, in 327 editions of prints, 85 radio broadcasts, 72 speeches and other texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the memory of the event of the radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds on Radio Quito in 1949. It takes as its axis Leonardo Páez's novel, Los que siembran el viento (1982), a work that should be thought of as an archive that It helps us to understand the events narrated by the creative-communicator himself, who also exposes the libretto -apparently lost-, by which he tries to redeem himself from the socio-historical weight that such broadcast entailed. The libretto included in the novel, its narrative, its effects and what it makes to infer regarding the social and political life of the moment are examined. On the other hand, Quito's social behavior and lack of discernment in front of an entertainment program are denoted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this study is to examine how the different types of risks (terrorism, accident, crime, health, catastrophes) that tourists face contributes to the perception of final risk on destinations. Likewise, the paper analyzes the moderating effect of destination in the causal relationships established between the types of risks and the perceived risk. For this, two groups of destinations are compared: Europe (Canary Islands, Spain) and Latin America, with the destinations of Brazil and Colombia. The work was carried out through online surveys through a company specialized in the potential markets of Germany and the United Kingdom. The analysis was carried out using a model of structural equations (SEM) to prove the causal relationships raised. Although the perception of safety and protection and its influence on the behavior of tourism is important for the promotion and management of tourism activities, its empirical analysis has received limited attention among researchers. The results of this work show interesting practical and academic conclusions for business organizations and the promotion of tourist destinations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Amid global changes, this research intends to examine how luxury fashion brands can leverage this channel for brand communication and how they do it now. For this, we carried out a content analysis of the photos posted by 20 brands selected according to age, relevance, and digital activity criteria. The study period comprises six months (July-December 2017) to collect data during "normal" and intense periods. The integrating corpus of 6,977 posts was coded using the same code that included variables related to contents and formal questions. The results indicate that luxury fashion brands have not yet designed specific strategies for Instagram. We note little difference between the content they publish. Most share the same pattern: they exhibit the brand in similar spaces (usually at events or with neutral backgrounds), the characters often embody one or two archetypes, and images are often inexpressive. Brands do not take advantage of Instagram's ability to stimulate participation and create community neither; only 3.7% of the total sample do so. In brief, luxury fashion brands on Instagram have not yet developed attractive communication that holds followers' attention and actually builds the brand to engage the interested audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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After ten years, drawing indiscriminately the neighborhoods of Valencia, for no other reason than to observe and represent every corner of the city, we finally decided to use the communicative capacity of drawing as a tool to reclaim El Cabanyal’s negletic state of abandonment, that has been going through for many years, regardless its political burden. After setting this goal and analysing the morphological and social history of this neighborhood, we decided to travel the streets and rooftops of El Cabanyal, talk to its people, and draw, in situ, those different spaces, shapes, colors, atmospheres ... giving rise to dozens of drawings that immortalize the (still alive) remains of this urban ecosystem. Paper-shaped witnesses sketched with latent architectures, persecuted and threatened by oblivion that will accompany us during the course of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cardiovascular disease is the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, which generates social and economic burden. Poor adherence to cardiovascular medication is associated with multiple risks. Objective: To describe the category “Establishing the dialogic bond that relieves from the aesthetic pattern.” Materials and Methods: A qualitative study based on Corbin and Strauss’ theory was conducted with twelve participants. Data were collected using in-depth interviews. In the analysis, texts were line-by-line coded and codes were labeled, which gave rise to subcategories and categories. Then the data were examined on a theoretical basis and categories were integrated and refined. Results: ‘Establishing the dialogic bond that relieves’ is composed by the subcategories ‘experiencing an environment of affection and confidence for learning: creating empathy’ and ‘establishing connections of care that provide satisfaction and build positive feelings of the dialogic encounter.’ Discussion: Establishing the dialogic bond that relieves is part of aesthetic knowledge as one of the patterns of knowledge described as “the art of nursing” that was identified by Carper. It is characterized by being intangible and does not go beyond the context of each individual’s personal experience. Conclusions: The dialogic bond that relieves is a genuine encounter that allows creative nurse-patient interaction, experienced through words and gestures that expand the consciousness of human beings experiencing coronary heart disease and requiring chronic treatment to control the disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of group counseling using poetry on university students' empathy level. The Scale of Dimension of Interpersonal Relationship Empathy Subscale was used to identify participants' empathy level. In order to examine participants' ideas about group counseling process and sessions Group Counselling Assessment Form and a journal of sessions were also used. There were 16 group members in each experiment and control group. Participants were undergraduate students at Cukurova University. Quantitative data were analyzed by using SPSS 22 packet program to find out the effects of group counseling with poem on the empathy level. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis method. Results showed that group counseling had a positive and significant effect on university students' empathy scores and this effect was permanent during the time. Qualitative results of the study also supported this result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article proposes a reflection about the notion of time and its relation to the media based on the complex thinking paradigm and the transdisciplinary perspective. Departing from reflections about literary and cinematographic narratives, our objective is to examine how the notion of time mediates the concept of comprehension of space/time as well as of the aesthetic perception of the world between order and chaos. We relied on the dialogue between science and narrative and on modern physics for concepts of time, order and chaos. Our conclusions point to three ideas: 1) the constant remembrance of catastrophe is an obsessive intimate theme which presents itself through an artistic and mediatic narrative; 2) the expression of catastrophic obsession partially satisfies the current humanity's affection for horror and 3) the imaginary of catastrophe traverses time and space, being transdisciplinary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]