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Background: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are the subject of a growing body of research with the potential to positively impact public and ecological health. However, to effect positive change, findings must be communicated beyond the scientific community. Objective: We sought to (a) evaluate the relationships between communications strategy, media attention, and scholarly citations of PFAS research and (b) offer guidance for researchers and communications professionals who would like to publicize future work and increase its impact. Methods: We analyzed 273 peer-reviewed epidemiological studies on PFAS human health impacts with publication years 2018–2020, as collected by a pre-existing database. We investigated whether a press release was issued, open-access status, abstract and press release readability, timing of publication and press release distribution, journal impact factor, study type and sample size, statistical significance of finding(s), number of scholarly citations, and the Altmetric Attention Score (a measure of media attention). Discussion: Of papers reporting a statistically significant association with health harm, those with a press release received 20 times more media attention (as assessed by Altmetric scores) than those that did not. However, only 6.2% of all papers and 7.8% of significant papers issued one. Among papers with a press release, media attention was positively correlated with better abstract and press release readability and speed in issuing the press release. Scholarly citations were positively correlated with media attention, presence of a press release, and open-access status. Conclusion: Most papers with significant findings on PFAS are published without a press release and receive little or no media attention. This reduces the likelihood that important research is reaching the public and decisionmakers who can translate science into action. Issuing a press release and receiving media attention also appear to increase scholarly citations. We provide recommendations for authors to increase the reach and impact of future papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2020, the world witnessed the coronavirus outbreak, a significant public health crisis threatening human well-being and garnered global attention. The Credibility of media sources and the accessibility of information became pivotal not only in terms of conceptual understanding but also for safeguarding public health. A triad of stakeholders comprising scientists, medical professionals, journalists, and ordinary citizens, all occupying distinct roles, formed a multifaceted and interactive landscape for health information dissemination. The role of the media was instrumental in simplifying complex aspects of the pandemic for the general public, fostering a better comprehension of the situation, and promoting a rational response while discouraging panic. This study analyses selected social media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and delves into information visualization strategies and distinctive attributes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Green gas is an attractive option for a local energy transition to combat climate change, notably in rural communities. As local initiatives require local acceptance, the study used a questionnaire methodology to capture opinions and intentions toward green gas in a panel of rural respondents (N= 403) and evaluated the green gas message framing to help improve communication strategies. This survey experiment used four frames in a 2 × 2 setup: an energy value core frame of responsibility for nature versus autonomy and a focus frame emphasizing the collective (i.e., the community) versus the individual (i.e., the household). Our findings highlight that the association with sustainability proves vital for a positive assessment of green gas, but its affordability is an issue. Moderated mediation analysis showed that subjective knowledge moderates between frames and intentions toward green gas: responsibility for nature contributes significantly, but only in the collective focus frame. These results are valuable in creating effective communication strategies about green gas adoption in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Debriefing has been widely used as part of simulation-based education (SBE) to promote reflective thinking and prepare students for real clinical practice. This study examined a real debriefing transcript to identify its structure and gain insight into communication strategies used by the participants. The sample included an extended debriefing session in which a debriefer and undergraduate students, who participated in a critical care nursing simulation, engaged in a self-reflection phase. Adopting discourse analysis approaches, the analysis revealed how this interaction unfolds. The analysis also unveiled an asymmetric relationship during the debriefing that positioned the debriefer in a position of power and interactional dominance, and placed students in a passive role. Interactional features such as the use of open-ended questions, silent pauses, and informative feedback were identified as effective communication strategies to support the interaction; however, to achieve efficient self-debriefing, debriefers in this setting are encouraged to balance the use of questions to avoid restraining students from engaging and producing extended turns. Moreover, debriefers need to establish a safe environment that optimizes students' involvement in self-reflection. This study recommends the use of other debriefing techniques to minimize the dominance of the debriefer during the interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study examined the comparative assessment of destination image according to the perception of COVID-19 and travel risk among international students. The online survey was administered to 786 international students enrolled in universities in Korea. Cluster analysis was performed, and three distinct clusters were identified based on risk perception. Destination image attributes were generated into four underlying dimensions: social environment, tourist environment, destination environment, and imagery, using the exploratory factor analysis. A revised Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) method was utilized to assess the destination image of Korea and used to compare the expected performance of the attributes on each cluster. In addition, a revised IPA grid of each cluster was presented to unveil the satisfaction attributes of the destination image and suggest communication strategies. This study provides practical insights to destination marketers and organizations to design marketing strategies for international students. Further practical and theoretical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The stated reflections were built upon the systematization of the teaching experience in the courses: Workshop I and II: Local Organization and Construction of Citizenship of the School of Social Work of the University of Costa Rica, during the period 2021-2022. Objective: This article aims to expose the main challenges of the virtualization of community processes and identify the main strategies for learning and strengthening the Social Solidarity Economy. Method and technique: Since the course that frames the teaching experience focuses on Participatory Action Research, the reflections respond to the result of a process of systematization of experiences during the period described. Results: The experience lived in the course during the years 2021 and 2022 evidenced great challenges in the approach to the daily life of the people linked to San Antonio de Escazú, however, the key to establishing trust and guaranteeing commitment in the community processes was the construction of distance communication strategies according to their living conditions. Conclusions: The virtualization of community processes caused transformations in the approach and construction of links with the population. In this context, strengthening the Social Solidarity Economy represented a challenge for the organizations within the local space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, the researcher addressed the role of the media in managing global conflict. This is done by identifying what conflict management is, what is the role of the media in managing this conflict, what are the factors that must be analyzed and which affect the effectiveness of the conflict management efforts, and what are the strategies and communication methods used in conflict management efforts . The study aimed to identify the concept of conflict communications, its means, and its various capabilities, especially in light of the communications revolution, and to benefit from the experiences of the developed countries on this concern. The impact of demographic, ethnic, cultural, and ideological variables affecting conflict management was also identified, as well as the role of the media in global conflict management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If in recent years the European Union (EU) has had to face complex and multifactorial "poly-crises" (such as Brexit, refugees or the euro), the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has been an unprecedented event on a global scale with important implications at all levels. Indeed, it has reinforced public health issues aimed at protecting the population as nodal elements of the policies implemented by this organization. This research aims to analyze the different organizational communication strategies on Twitter implemented by the main EU institutions during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, in order to examine the presence of this exceptional milestone. This study has been carried out using an eminently quantitative methodology, based on a content analysis to quantify the different variables and indicators established for the publications of the official profiles of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Council. The proposed categories focus on exploring their predominant thematic areas, as well as main purposes/attributed functions. In the light of the results obtained, it is concluded that the vaccination campaign is a milestone with a considerable volume of publications by all profiles. However, among the attributed functions, the distribution of aseptic information has been predominant, which is why it is discussed whether these institutions have sufficiently taken advantage of the possibilities offered by the digital environment of Twitter for the dissemination of the European message. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2022 presidential election in Brazil involved two radically different candidates but with broad similarities in their populist discourse and communication strategies. The electoral campaign and the results polarized the country between the supporters of the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, and the incoming one, Lula da Silva. This article analyzes the two television debates that took place in the second round of the presidential election in October. The interventions of the candidates have been studied using the methodology of critical discourse analysis applied by Hawkins (2010). The goal is to discover the degree of populism present in the candidates' discourse in the two debates studied. The results show evidence of the highly populist nature of the discourse of the two leaders in both television events. This characteristic, as well as other important aspects of the campaigns and the narrow margin of Lula's eventual victory, may explain the level of polarization evident in the country. It may also be the reason behind the rejection of the election results by the followers of Bolsonaro and their protest against the change in president. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women working in masculine organizational contexts face a challenge of balancing (1) access to power by co‐opting masculine discourse in ways that risk reinforcing it, with (2) challenging and resisting practices that privilege masculinity. In this manuscript, we address one communication strategy for navigating that challenge: The denial/acknowledgment paradox in which women explicitly deny that gender affected their experience, but also describe the many ways it affected their experience. To do so, we examined transcripts of interviews with 11 women candidates who ran in the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates election in the United States and demonstrated this paradoxical communication strategy. Our analysis offers five different structures of the denial/acknowledgment paradox and shows how four of those structures engage what we call an "enthymematic narrative" of victimhood. Ultimately, we argue that (sur)facing the enthymematic narrative amplifies the generative potential of the denial/acknowledgment paradox and suggest that (sur)facing enthymematic narratives should be taken up more broadly as a strategy for organizational and social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The value of experiential lab work can be measured by its ability to transform a student's self-identity related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Successful experiences help students shed notions of self-incompatibility with STEM and can often motivate a research career as they develop as a scientist. However, students of diverse and underrepresented populations, such as the d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH), may or may not reap these same benefits given the potential for isolation in lab settings. We conducted two surveys aimed at capturing the perspectives of students who are DHH who worked in a lab as part of an undergraduate research or internship experience and those of non-signing advisors who oversaw advisees who are DHH. Students and advisors were asked to provide strategies that they used to facilitate communication access and to rank the perceived effectiveness of those strategies. Students placed a strong emphasis on the benefits of sign language and interpreting while advisors valued written communication. For the majority of experiences, both groups indicated that advisors were actively engaged with students' training and that the experiences themselves were rewarding and productive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anthropomorphism is a widely used communication strategy—especially popular to promote food products. The current research examines the novel idea that food anthropomorphism negatively affects consumption—reducing consumption amount and deteriorating consumption experience. I argue and show that this negative effect occurs because anthropomorphizing grants the food product the perceived capacity to feel pain, which negatively affects consumption because it increases perceived immorality of consumption. In support of this process, I demonstrate that this negative effect manifests only among warm‐hearted (vs. cold‐hearted) consumers and in consumption (vs. purchase) decisions. Doing so not only extends anthropomorphism theory by providing a more nuanced understanding of how consumers respond to food anthropomorphism, but also allows to formulate managerial guidelines for the implementation of this strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the potential for philosophers, humanists, and intellectuals to engage in the field of philosophy within the digital era, using digital tools and platforms to reach diverse audiences and address real-life problems. It explores concept of digital-culture public intellectual action, focusing on how stoic pragmatists can adapt their communication strategies to include aesthetic and visual elements in order to effectively convey philosophical, ethical.and cultural narrative.

This article focuses on the political communication of the peasant movement in Colombia and the dispute over the meanings of their struggles using internet social networks. Analyzes some of the most significant moments of the protests of peasants since the beginning of the 20th century. The disputes about the meaning of their struggles are described. Specifically talks about the communication practices and strategies mediated by internet social networks, the expansion of the public sphere, the dynamics of communication in the modes of organization and participation, and the corresponding disputes over the meaning of their struggles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media has gained significant influence in shaping communication strategies for the public sector in the modern era. Governments across the globe are embracing these platforms to actively interact with the public, promoting transparency and trust. This article focuses on the adoption of social media in the public sector of Bangladesh. Most government agencies in Bangladesh are found to utilize social media to varying extents, with Facebook being the dominant platform. However, these social media accounts primarily function as traditional one-way communication channels with limited civic engagement. Additionally, numerous government websites contain non-functional or incorrect social media links, thus hindering effective social media communication through these sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current jamming strategy generation in communication relies on prior information or has a slow learning rate. To overcome these drawbacks, an intelligent strategy generation algorithm is proposed. This paper first creates a jamming strategy space which has three dimensions: jamming power, modulation, and duty cycle. Then, a communication jamming reward function is constructed and its property of continuity is proved. The proof of continuity provides the theoretical basis for optimization. Then, the local boundedness of the reward function in the strategy space is demonstrated. Finally, an intelligent algorithm for jamming strategy generation in communication is introduced based on the multiarmed bandit framework. Compared with the current algorithm, the new one can significantly improve the optimization speed by enlarging its exploring area from one point to a certain region. Simulations show that, by using the regional exploration, this algorithm can explore much more jamming strategies compared with the existing methods in the equal training cycles, and learn the optimal jamming strategy faster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recovery from a disaster is always a difficult process. But what happens when a second disaster befalls the library soon after the recovery from one is completed? In February and May 2020, the Ensor Learning Resource Center suffered this fate. Because of deferred maintenance and lack of oversight, large scale leaks caused major damage to the same area of the building twice in three months. Recovering from a disaster, especially as part of a larger organization, is never easy with pitfalls aplenty, but it can be done if you are patient and work within (and sometimes, without) your organization. This column focuses on efforts, communication & leadership strategies, and provides advice for those who may ever find themselves in this situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vision is a primary and motivating sense. Early visual experience derived from the external world is known to have an important impact on the development of central visual pathways, and not surprisingly, visual impairment constitutes a risk factor for overall development. In light of the role of vision in early brain development, infants and young children with visual impairment should be thus entitled to early and effective visual intervention programmes. In this review, we discuss early visual interventions in infants and young children with visual impairment, focusing on their contents and outcomes. We defined a PICO format to critically review different models with a particular focus on parent‐mediated and therapist‐mediated approaches. We consider protocols that involved direct manipulation or improvement of the infants' visual inputs or were based on behavioural strategies and communication towards infants with visual impairment. We also provide an overview of the effectiveness of these protocols. A total of nine intervention protocols were selected for the purposes of this review. Substantial agreement regarding the importance of promoting the enrichment of infant environments, and more specifically in the context of active play that engages the whole family, has been reported in most of the studies. However, there is no clear agreement on methodological aspects, including clinical population characteristics, outcome measures, length of treatment and follow‐up programmes. Further high‐quality, carefully designed and adequately reported studies are needed in order to improve the clinical efficacy of these approaches to treating infants with visual impairment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication is a fundamental feature of animal societies and helps their members to solve the challenges they encounter, from exploiting food sources to fighting enemies or finding a new home. Eusocial bees inhabit a wide range of environments and they have evolved a multitude of communication signals that help them exploit resources in their environment efficiently. We highlight recent advances in our understanding of bee communication strategies and discuss how variation in social biology, such as colony size or nesting habits, and ecological conditions are important drivers of variation in communication strategies. Anthropogenic factors, such as habitat conversion, climate change, or the use of agrochemicals, are changing the world bees inhabit, and it is becoming clear that this affects communication both directly and indirectly, for example by affecting food source availability, social interactions among nestmates, and cognitive functions. Whether and how bees adapt their foraging and communication strategies to these changes represents a new frontier in bee behavioral and conservation research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Society associates palliative care with "death" or "end of life", which cause them fear and anxiety. In Spain, the media worsens the misunderstanding by depicting a wrong picture of palliative care. Educational innovation for university students may serve as an alternative communication strategy. Care and Society is a university course designed by and for students from non-health degrees to help disseminate the palliative care message. The first year of the Teach-Inn Pal project aims to evaluate the effects of the course and to identify areas of improvement. Objective: To present an evaluation to determine if the course can work as a campaign to refocus the public opinion on palliative care and share the preliminary results of the pilot study. Methodology: A prospective Participatory Action Research study. University students enrolled in the course (n = 29) are invited to test and redesign the palliative care message. Knowledge and empathy will be measured throughout the learning process. Afterwards, qualitative, thematic, inductive analysis of the course material will be carried out. This study is registered on the ISRCTN Registry under the name "Can a university course help communicate palliative care?" (Registration number: ISRCTN10236642). Discussion: This study is part of a doctoral thesis. Education is used as a creative outlet, allowing rapid testing of multiple tools to create ambassadors of palliative care that may reframe the public opinion. Conclusion: The understanding of students about palliative care changed, the overall impression of the experience was positive, and students were also able to explain palliative care to people with little or no experience in the topic. However, to determine if they became ambassadors the results of the mid-term assessment are required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: In prior research, we identified and prioritized ten measures to assess research performance that comply with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, a principle adopted worldwide that discourages metrics-based assessment. Given the shift away from assessment based on Journal Impact Factor, we explored potential barriers to implementing and adopting the prioritized measures. Methods: We identified administrators and researchers across six research institutes, conducted telephone interviews with consenting participants, and used qualitative description and inductive content analysis to derive themes. Results: We interviewed 18 participants: 6 administrators (research institute business managers and directors) and 12 researchers (7 on appointment committees) who varied by career stage (2 early, 5 mid, 5 late). Participants appreciated that the measures were similar to those currently in use, comprehensive, relevant across disciplines, and generated using a rigorous process. They also said the reporting template was easy to understand and use. In contrast, a few administrators thought the measures were not relevant across disciplines. A few participants said it would be time-consuming and difficult to prepare narratives when reporting the measures, and several thought that it would be difficult to objectively evaluate researchers from a different discipline without considerable effort to read their work. Strategies viewed as necessary to overcome barriers and support implementation of the measures included high-level endorsement of the measures, an official launch accompanied by a multi-pronged communication strategy, training for both researchers and evaluators, administrative support or automated reporting for researchers, guidance for evaluators, and sharing of approaches across research institutes. Conclusions: While participants identified many strengths of the measures, they also identified a few limitations and offered corresponding strategies to address the barriers that we will apply at our organization. Ongoing work is needed to develop a framework to help evaluators translate the measures into an overall assessment. Given little prior research that identified research assessment measures and strategies to support adoption of those measures, this research may be of interest to other organizations that assess the quality and impact of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Undocumented youth engage in advocacy efforts to improve their social conditions. Deploying an expanded definition of advocacy communication, this study (a) examined the heterogeneity of undocumented collegestudents' advocacy communication by identifying profiles of undocumented college students based on their participation in various advocacy communication strategies and (b) examined how these advocacy profiles are associated with health (i.e. anxiety, depression, and self-rated health). Latent profile analysis of 1277 California undocumented, mostly Latina/o/x, college students identified four profiles.Frequent advocators had lower levels of self-rated health and higher levels of anxiety and depression than infrequent advocators. Media advocators reported higher levels of anxiety and depression than infrequent advocators. Finally, organizational advocators reported lower levels of anxiety than media advocators and frequent advocators. Our study advances research on the relationship between advocacy communication and health. We provide suggestions that university staff and programs can take to support undocumented students' advocacy efforts and health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to examine the characteristics of mediatized political communication in a hybrid media system, in which the social media accounts of political leaders play an increasingly important role. Firstly, the phenomenon of mediatization and its main aspects in relation to the mass media system are described. Subsequently, the concepts of disintermediation and new forms of mediation specific to social platforms are discussed. The analysis shows that disintermediation does not lead to the end of mediatization, but emphasizes the need to support the mass media logic based on the intertwining of entertainment and a social logic built on online content capable of triggering the creative potential of digital media. In particular, it is highlighted how politicians now prioritize social media over traditional media, assuming the role of social opinion leaders. The analysis of the posts published on the "ellyesse" Instagram account in the period from 4 December 2022, the date of the announced candidacy for the party secretary, to 26 February 2023, the day of the primaries in which he won against all odds, reveals a tendency towards the remediation of traditional content accompanied by innovative use of digital images, aimed at creating a sense of immediacy in interaction with the public. Furthermore, the use of codes typical of mass media mediatization is observed, but in a context where they change their meaning and assume a new communicative function. All these aspects reinforce the idea that social media, in a relationship of complementarity and interdependence with mass media, orient political communication towards the selection and repetition of a coherent set of identity traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research report measures changes in China's public diplomacy after a May 2021 collective study session of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo. The session examined the country's global communications strategy and fuelled speculation about what might change in China's external communications, particularly with regard to its "wolf warrior" diplomats. Combining hand-coding and quantitative text analysis, we develop and validate a measure of "wolf warrior diplomacy" rhetoric and apply it to over 200,000 tweets from nearly 200 institutional, media and diplomatic Twitter accounts. Using a difference-in-difference research design, we evaluate if the session led to a noticeable change in the tweets of diplomats based in OECD countries. After the announcement, PRC diplomats in the OECD moderated their tweets in comparison to non-OECD diplomats, but we do not detect a major re-orientation of PRC communication strategies. These findings have relevance for scholars of Chinese foreign policy, nationalism and public diplomacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many people with aphasia (language impairment post-stroke) want to know their prognosis for recovery, yet current understanding of their experience of receiving prognoses is limited. Such insight is necessary to inform clinical practice in formulating and delivering aphasia prognoses, especially given the psycho-emotional distress and secondary adverse effects on recovery associated with conversations about prognosis. We sought an in-depth understanding of the perspectives of people with aphasia in relation to receiving prognoses post-stroke, with the aim of informing an evidence-based approach to aphasia prognostication in clinical practice. Semi-structured interviews, facilitated by communication support strategies, were conducted one-to-one with eight people with aphasia (ranging from mild to very severe) 3–12 months post-stroke. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data, yielding two over-arching themes: (1) How would you know without knowing me?; (2) I need to know, but I don't want to know. Our findings illustrate issues of mistrust within the patient–clinician relationship, and complex emotions relating to hope and post-stroke adjustment. The present insight into the lived experience of receiving aphasia prognoses highlights the need for focused consideration of personal definitions of normalcy, measures for fostering trust, and the role of prognostic uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teams composed of human and machine members operating in complex task environments must effectively interact in response to information flow while adapting to environmental changes. This study investigates how interpersonal coordination dynamics between team members are associated with team performance and shared situation awareness in a simulated urban search and rescue (USAR) task. More specifically, this study investigates (1) how communication recurrence affected and reflected coordination dynamics between a USAR robot and human operator when they used different communication strategies, and (2) how these dynamic characteristics of the human–robot interpersonal coordination were associated with the team performance and shared situation awareness. The USAR interpersonal coordination dynamics were systematically characterized using discrete recurrence quantification analysis. Results from this study indicate that (1) teams demonstrating more flexibility in their coordination dynamics were more adaptive to changes in the task environment, and (2) while robot explanations help to improve shared situation awareness, revisiting the same communication pattern (i.e., routine coordination) was associated with better team performance, but did not improve shared situation awareness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A novel targeted multi-agent communication model based on deep metric learning (DMLTarMAC) is proposed in this paper. The nonlinear relationship between the internal state of an agent and the received message is described by the deep metric learning (DML) module in DMLTarMAC. Compared with the scheme using a linear relationship, DMLTarMAC can improve the accuracy and effectiveness of the receiver's attention. In order to reveal the advantage of the proposed DMLTarMAC, it is evaluated in cooperative and competitive multi-agent tasks with different difficulty levels and environment settings. The experimental results show that DMLTarMAC outperforms the benchmarks, especially in challenging settings. Furthermore, the ablation experiments demonstrate that agents' communication and behavior strategies are effective and intuitive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most essential elements of environmental protection is an appropriate policy towards carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS). On the one hand, these technologies are being dynamically developed. Still, on the other hand, we often encounter social resistance to change and new technologies, which is one of the main barriers to their implementation. This research examined public acceptance and awareness of Indonesia's CCUS technologies. Five hundred respondents completed an online survey representing Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Bekasi, and Tangerang. The study found that the respondents had more favourable feelings towards carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) than CO2 capture and storage (CCS), perceiving CCU as more innovative, necessary, cost-effective, secure, environmentally friendly, and beneficial to regional and national economies than CCS. However, in Indonesia, most respondents did not embrace the development of CCUS technology due to a lack of knowledge and fear, which can lead to violence. The results indicate that an individual's awareness of perceived risks and the ability to safeguard the environment are crucial to their acceptance of CCUS technology. These findings contribute to understanding the public perception of CCUS technologies in Indonesia and can help to develop effective communication strategies to improve public understanding and acceptance of CCUS initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite growing attention to electoral brands, political scientists have largely remained "color blind," neglecting parties' chromatic choices. Moreover, scholars dedicated limited attention to how party organizations converge on the use of similar structures and communication strategies, thereby engaging in a process of institutional isomorphism. We seek to simultaneously fill both gaps by examining the logos of more than 300 parties in 35 democracies during the latest political elections. Our findings show that a strong relationship exists between ideology and the use of certain color hues: left-wing party logos mainly display hues at the red end of the color spectrum, while blue hues prevail among right-wing parties. Likeminded parties' chromatic isomorphism, however, is moderated by country and party-specific factors. Notably, the correlation between color hue and ideology is stronger in Western Europe and among older parties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates two accounts of political propaganda in autocratic regimes. One argues that propaganda's content does not matter substantively and that propaganda is mostly a signal of the regime's overwhelming power over citizens. A second argues that propaganda is substantively meaningful: autocrats may communicate strategically either by attracting attention through highlighting the regime's strengths or by distracting attention away from the regime's malperformance. Using nearly 135,000 North Korean state-generated news articles between 1997 and 2018 we show that North Korea systematically adjusted its communication strategies following the leadership transfer from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Quality of care is increasingly assessed and incentivized using measures of patient-reported outcomes and experience. Little is known about the association between measurement of clinician communication strategies by trained observers and patient-rated clinician empathy (a patient-reported experience measure). An effective independent measure could help identify and promote clinician behaviors associated with good patient experience of care.Questions/purposes: (1) What is the association between independently assessed clinician communication effectiveness and patient-rated clinician empathy? (2) Which factors are associated with independently assessed communication effectiveness?Methods: One hundred twenty adult (age > 17 years) new or returning patients seeking musculoskeletal specialty care between September 2019 and January 2020 consented to video recording of their visit followed by completion of questionnaires rating their perceptions of providers' empathy levels in this prospective study. Patients who had operative treatment and those who had nonoperative treatment were included in our sample. We pooled new and returning patients because our prior studies of patient experience found no influence of visit type and because we were interested in the potential influences of familiarity with the clinician on empathy ratings. We did not record the number of patients or baseline data of patients who were approached, but most patients (> 80%) were willing to participate. For 7% (eight of 120 patients), there was a malfunction with the video equipment or files were misplaced, leaving 112 records available for analysis. Patients were seen by one provider among four attending physicians, four residents, or four physician assistants or nurse practitioners. The primary study question addressed the correlation between patient-rated clinician empathy using the Jefferson Scale of Patient Perceptions of Physician Empathy and clinician communication effectiveness, independently rated by two communication scholars using the Liverpool Communication Skills Assessment Scale. Based on a subset of 68 videos (61%), the interrater reliability was considered good for individual items on the Liverpool Communication Skills Assessment Scale (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] 0.78 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.75 to 0.81]) and excellent for the sum of the items (that is, the total score) (ICC = 0.92 [95% CI 0.87 to 0.95]). To account for the potential association of personal factors with empathy ratings, patients completed measures of symptoms of depression (the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System depression computerized adaptive test), self-efficacy in response to pain (the two-item Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire), health anxiety (the five-item Short Health Anxiety Inventory), and basic demographics.Results: Accounting for potentially confounding variables, including specific clinicians, marital status, and work status in the multivariable analysis, we found higher independent ratings of communication effectiveness had a slight association (odds ratio [OR] 1.1 [95% CI 1.0 to 1.3]; p = 0.02) with higher (dichotomized) ratings of patient-rated clinician empathy, while being single was associated with lower ratings (OR 0.40 [95% CI 0.16 to 0.99]; p = 0.05). Independent ratings of communication effectiveness were slightly higher for women (regression coefficient 1.1 [95% CI 0.05 to 2.2]); in addition, two of the four attending physicians were rated notably higher than the other 10 participants after controlling for confounding variables (differences up to 5.8 points on average [95% CI 2.6 to 8.9] on a 36-point scale).Conclusion: The observation that ratings of communication effectiveness by trained communication scholars have little or no association with patient-rated clinician empathy suggests that either effective communication is insufficient for good patient experience or that the existing measures are inadequate or inappropriate. This line of investigation might be enhanced by efforts to identify clinician behaviors associated with better patient experience, develop reliable and effective measures of clinician behaviors and patient experience, and use those measures to develop training approaches that improve patient experience.Level Of Evidence: Level I, prognostic study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communicative health plays an important role in the well-being of a person with or without a disability. The aim of the article is to describe the communicative interaction that occurs between a group of caregivers and the people which they take care to identify their perceptions focus on their communicative health. This is descriptive research. 12 informal caregivers participated and they completed a survey based on the communication strategies used in interactions with the people who they take care. The results show that the interaction between the caregiver and the person who they take care. This is characterized by the presence of different communicative intentions, the use of verbal and non-verbal code, the passive role of the person with disabilities, and the active role of the caregiver. In the discussion the authors introduce the criteria to take into account when someone is talking about communicative health in people with disabilities. The study shows the signs that account for communicative health evidenced in the caregiver-person dyad who is cared for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bantering can serve as an important strategy for relationship management. Guided by Multiple Goals Theory (MGT), politeness, and relational power, this study examines banter as a playful means to signal the desire for a possible relationship and/or to reinforce a sense of self. Specifically, this study examines responses to banter during initial interactions after an affiliative tease. A total of 623 participants read two hypothetical interactions involving a banter and/or a non-banter response. Respondents then completed measures about their affiliative responses, facework intentions, perceived similarity, power, and communication satisfaction. Results indicated banter was a significant influencer on affiliative responses and less facework management. Perceived similarity mediated the relationship of perceived power and communication outcomes in the context of banter. Results provided support for Multiple Goals Theory for initial interactions. Future research on banter as a communication strategy is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the development of high-performance computers, it is necessary to develop efficient parallel algorithms in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In this study, a novel parallel communication strategy based on asynchronous and packaged communication is proposed. The strategy implements an aggregated communication process, which requires only one communication in each iteration step, significantly reducing the number of communications. The correctness and convergence of the novel strategy are demonstrated from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. And based on the real vehicle CHN-T model with 140 million meshes, a detailed performance comparison and analysis is performed for the novel strategy and the traditional strategy, showing that the novel strategy has significant advantages in terms of scalability. Finally, the strong scalability and weak scalability tests are carried out separately for the CHN-T model. The strong scaling efficiency can reach 74% with 10.5 billion meshes and 256,000 cores. The weak scaling parallel efficiency can reach 90% with 10 billion meshes and 179,000 cores. This research work has laid an important foundation for the development of the fast design of aircraft and cutting-edge numerical methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a way of managing the growing volume and complexity of information that circulates today, graphic representations are increasingly used to add meaning to the information presented in the media, through efficient communication design. The visual culture itself, driven by technological evolution, has been redefining the forms of communication, which is why contemporary visual communication represents a great impact on society. This article presents the results and the comparative analysis of four Iberian press publications, focusing on the formal aspects of the newspapers and the space they dedicate to the different communicative elements. For this, two Portuguese and two Spanish newspapers were selected. The results indicated that the newspapers show a similarity in the use of graphic solutions, which corroborates a visual trend in communication design. The results also reveal that Spanish newspapers are more careful with graphic consistency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: This project aimed to optimize communication strategies to support family communication about familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and improve cascade testing uptake among at-risk relatives. Individuals and families with FH provided feedback on multiple strategies including: a family letter, digital tools, and direct contact. Methods: Feedback from participants was collected via dyadic interviews (n = 11) and surveys (n = 98) on communication strategies and their proposed implementation to improve cascade testing uptake. We conducted a thematic analysis to identify how to optimize each strategy. We categorized optimizations and their implementation within the project's healthcare system using a Traffic Light approach. Results: Thematic analysis resulted in four distinct suggested optimizations for each communication strategy and seven suggested optimizations that were suitable across all strategies. Four suggestions for developing a comprehensive cascade testing program, which would offer all optimized communication strategies also emerged. All optimized suggestions coded green (n = 21) were incorporated. Suggestions coded yellow (n = 12) were partially incorporated. Only two suggestions were coded red and could not be incorporated. Conclusions: This project demonstrates how to collect and analyze stakeholder feedback for program design. We identified feasible suggested optimizations, resulting in communication strategies that are patient-informed and patient-centered. Optimized strategies were implemented in a comprehensive cascade testing program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The expansion of the Internet, especially social media, enables political actors to address voters directly. However, on social media, where user interactions factor into the algorithmically determined relevance of messages and, in turn, their spread, political actors have to use communication features that entice users to interact with their messages. Taking mediatization theory as a starting point, I transferred assumptions about accommodation into the domain of social media. By conducting a content analysis of Facebook posts made by members of the Bundestag, the German Parliament, from 2010 to 2015, I analyzed whether political actors had adapted their communication to social media logic and more often used message features previously demonstrated to increase the number of interactions. Among the results, politicians had increasingly used message features that had previously raised the number of interactions, including new technical opportunities and social affordances on Facebook, whereas their use of established communication strategies had remained relatively stable. At the individual level, politicians with higher status were more likely to incorporate successful strategies, which suggests that accommodation is constrained by available resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strategies for improving the explainability of artificial agents are a key approach to support the understandability of artificial agents' decision-making processes and their trustworthiness. However, since explanations are not inclined to standardization, finding solutions that fit the algorithmic-based decision-making processes of artificial agents poses a compelling challenge. This paper addresses the concept of trust in relation to complementary aspects that play a role in interpersonal and human–agent relationships, such as users' confidence and their perception of artificial agents' reliability. Particularly, this paper focuses on non-expert users' perspectives, since users with little technical knowledge are likely to benefit the most from "post-hoc", everyday explanations. Drawing upon the explainable AI and social sciences literature, this paper investigates how artificial agent's explainability and trust are interrelated at different stages of an interaction. Specifically, the possibility of implementing explainability as a trust building, trust maintenance and restoration strategy is investigated. To this extent, the paper identifies and discusses the intrinsic limits and fundamental features of explanations, such as structural qualities and communication strategies. Accordingly, this paper contributes to the debate by providing recommendations on how to maximize the effectiveness of explanations for supporting non-expert users' understanding and trust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Influencers are the main source of disseminated health-related content, and this content is also more accepted by the population compared to content disseminated by health institutions. The objective of this study is to determine the communication strategies and content that generate more engagement with users who follow health and pharmacy topics. We analysed six Instagram accounts of Spanish influencers related to science and health communication with more than 30,000 followers. We evaluated user interaction metrics, the type of content shared, and calculated the degree of engagement based on the number of followers and interaction with the content. The accounts with the highest degree of engagement, such as @Farmacia_enfurecida with 166,000 followers, an engagement of 3.7% of likes per publication and 0.91% in comments, are accounts with a smaller number of followers. Communication techniques such as health product sweepstakes are the most effective in achieving user interaction. Engagement is a determining variable in the impact of health-related content dissemination and is not necessarily linked to a greater number of followers; the profiles that use a greater number of reels and infographics are those with a higher engagement value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous literature on airline crises has largely ignored low-responsibility crises. The purpose of this study is to explore the underlying mechanism of airlines utilizing secondary crisis response strategies to rebuild their reputations during low-responsibility crises. Extending the situational crisis communication theory, the study develops a research framework and conducts three empirical studies with a multi-method design to test the proposed hypotheses. The results demonstrate that an enhancing response strategy is more effective than a bolstering response strategy in evoking more Twitter likes and higher booking intentions. An enhancing response strategy is especially powerful for travelers low in need for cognition or those with a higher level of other-orientation. The effect of the secondary crisis response strategy on travelers' booking intentions was mediated by the airline's reputation. These findings provide airlines with valuable insight into the development of successful social media communication strategies when handling low-responsibility crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a context in which opportunities for oral interaction are limited (English as a foreign language courses at a Saudi tertiary institution), we carried out an action research project evaluating the introduction of computer-mediated spoken language tasks with a group of intermediate learners. Although the students were confronted with multiple challenges ranging from unfamiliarity with educational technology, through recurrent bandwidth issues, to their own limited linguistic repertoires, they showed themselves able to participate in discussion with increasing facility and levels of responsibility for conversation management. In this paper, we focus on the communication strategies (CS) which they deployed to achieve this. While CSs were not the subject of explicit instruction, the students showed themselves able to draw on their repertoires and on the strategies implicitly modelled by their instructor over the six weeks of speaking activities using the SpeakApps platform. We examine what these strategies were: change in CSs over time; CS use in different conversational configurations (teacher-led group discussion; student-led group discussion and peer-peer pair discussion); impacts of the audio-only nature of discussion on CS choice. The paper points to promising directions for future practice and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the adoption of digital channels to support business continuity following the outbreak of Covid-19. The population of the study comprised small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as tourism service providers in the City of Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa. The study employed a quantitative approach and collected data using a self-administered questionnaire. The sample frame was 100 tourism SMEs registered with the Gauteng Tourism Authority, and the sample consisted of 65 business owners selected using purposive sampling. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics. The results show that SMEs have adopted a variety of digital channels such as Skype, MS Teams, Zoom, emails, and so forth. Most of the respondents have shown skills in using digital channels such as Skype, MS Teams, Zoom, emails, and more. The most common applications, such as Skype, MS Teams, Zoom, and emails were used very effectively. The pandemic has substantially increased the diffusion and adoption of collaboration platforms to maintain business productivity and creativity. By linking the workforce beyond the limitations of location or workstation, digital channels allow workers to build communities of interest and collaborate while supporting business continuity. This study targeted only tourism SME service providers in the City of Tshwane. It would have been ideal to include SMEs in other provinces as well, but this would have required more time and resources, which the researcher simply did not have. Therefore, future studies should include SMEs from other provinces to understand how they are using digital channels to support business continuity following the outbreak of Covid-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, COVID-19 healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and risk management became major challenges facing hospitals. Using evidence from a research project, this commentary presents: 1) various communication and information strategies implemented by four hospitals and their staff in Brazil, Canada and France to reduce the risks of COVID-19 HAIs, and how they were perceived by hospital staff; 2) the flaws in communication in the hospitals; and 3) a proposed agenda for research on and action to improve institutional communications for future pandemics. By analyzing "top-down" strategies at the organizational level and spontaneous strategies initiated by and between professionals, this study shows that during the first waves of the pandemic, reliable information and clear communication about guidelines and health protocols' changes can help alleviate fears among staff and avoid misapplication of protocols, thereby reducing infection risks. There was a lack of a "bottom-up" communication channel, while, when making decisions, it is crucial to listen to and fully take into account staff's voices, experiences, and feelings. More balanced communication between hospital administrators and staff could strengthen team cohesion and lead to better enforcement of protocols, which in turn will reduce the risk of contamination, alleviate the potential impacts on staff health, and improve the quality of care provided to patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Green gas is an attractive option for a local energy transition to combat climate change, notably in rural communities. As local initiatives require local acceptance, the study used a questionnaire methodology to capture opinions and intentions toward green gas in a panel of rural respondents (N= 403) and evaluated the green gas message framing to help improve communication strategies. This survey experiment used four frames in a 2 3 2 setup: an energy value core frame of responsibility for nature versus autonomy and a focus frame emphasizing the collective (i.e., the community) versus the individual (i.e., the household). Our findings highlight that the association with sustainability proves vital for a positive assessment of green gas, but its affordability is an issue. Moderated mediation analysis showed that subjective knowledge moderates between frames and intentions toward green gas: responsibility for nature contributes significantly, but only in the collective focus frame. These results are valuable in creating effective communication strategies about green gas adoption in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article created a consumer and an academic mindfulness dictionary to better understand consumers', academics', and marketers' perceptions of mindfulness. A consumer survey and text mining methods were used to create the consumer dictionary, and an extensive review of mindfulness definitions was used for the academic dictionary. The consumer dictionary described mindfulness more in terms of affect and resulting outcomes, while the academic dictionary was more cognitive and process‐oriented. The dictionaries were then applied to marketers' communications from a database of 883 company descriptions that were classified as mindful. The results showed that marketers used more terms from the consumer dictionary than the academic dictionary. The article discusses the potential for consumers to be vulnerable to marketers' communication strategies, characterized as McMindfulness and mindful washing, that can impact consumers' well‐being and brand relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The wide use of social networks by the population has led to the emergence of influencers. Within the gastronomy sector there are two types of digital opinion leaders: foodies and those concerned with healthy food. To compare the communication that these two profiles types carry out on Instagram, a content analysis of 339 publications made by the most important gastronomic instagramers in Spain is performed. The results show that their communication strategies differ and that the followers of the healthy profiles are the most active and interactive ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The visual and interactive content that TikTok allows makes it a perfect ally for fashion brands. This study aims to analyse how Zara uses TikTok as a digital communication tool through three objectives: the evaluation of trends, the influence of Zara's communication strategy on TikTok and the identification of the degree of engagement that the user has with the brand. The results show that Zara makes a great communicative effort, creates strategic content and the degree of engagement generated between the brand and its public is solid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]