Communication processes

Use of coherent light sources in industrial appHcations has led to the field of photodynamic therapy as a photochemically based medical technology (9—11). The apphcation of photochemistry to information storage and communication processes is expected (12) (see Information storage materials Resist materials). 

A. Sloley, personal communication. Process Consulting Services, Houston, Tex., Aug. 25, 1995. 

Various findings together suggest that organotins may have an effect at the level of the cell membrane and/or cytoskeleton, resulting in disturbances of inter-and intracellular communication processes, which are of crucial importance to thymocyte maturation (Pieters et al., 1994a). 

Videoconferencing can be a key component that facilitates the communications processes between the clinical trial entities, and it can be integrated as a part of a network system [15],... 

From Strunk s point of view, such texts were less than desirable for several major reasons. First, the medicine they offered students had little to do with the communication process itself second, it had little to do with current practice and third, taking the medicine was so difficult that the cure created more distress in the patients than did the disease itself. 

It is conceivable that such rather unspecific modulatory signals obtain more specific significance in the communication process. A striking example is that of the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes (24). 

Receptors are proteins that are crucial to body s communication process. Majority of these are embedded in cell membranes (Fig. 16.4). Receptor proteins are embedded in the ceU membrane in such a way that their small part possessing active site projects out of the surface of the membrane and opens on the outside region of the cell membrane (Fig. 16.4). 

Table 8 1 An example of participants that could be involved in the risk communication process for pesticides...

The communication process is also affected by all these other variables. Sometimes, there are things you have observed or ideas you have come up with that you just do not know how to communicate properly or that are communicated in a distorted form. Sometimes, this is caused by social inhibitions about frank discussion of things that are taboo sometimes, it results from the fact that scientific communication is so overwhelmingly confined to words and that words are not adequate to... 

SECM instrumentation (see footnote 1). Nevertheless, the use of a shear force system adds another level of complexity to the experiment because the mechanical properties of the UME, the sample, and the entire setup become important and have to be optimized. Shear force systems have been used to investigate electrode arrays [22,114,116] and detect metabolic activity of living cells [115] or following cell-cell communication processes [112] by the group of Schuhmann. 

Rohrmann, B. 2000. A socio-psychological model for analyzing risk communication processes. Australasian J. Disaster Trauma Studies [online]. Available http //www.massey. ac.nz/ trauma/issues/2000-2/rohrmann.htm [accessed April 21, 2006]. 

Dynamic Social representations are changing systems of knowledge. Individuals influence and create changes in social representations but so do larger communication processes such as the media. 

When one metal ion is used as a donor for sensitizing the emission of a second accepting metal ion, the characteristic lifetimes r of their excited states, which are related to their deactivation rates by r = k l, are affected by the metal-to-metal communication process. This situation can be simply modeled for the special case of an isolated d-f pair, in which the d-block chromophore (M) sensitizes the neighboring lanthanide ion (Ln) thanks to an energy transfer process described by the rate constant k 1 ". In absence of energy transfer, excited states of the two isolated chromophores decay with their intrinsic deactivation rates kxl and kLn, respectively, which provides eqs. (32) and (33) yielding eqs. (34) and (35) after integration ... 

The majority of the known cuticular lipid constituents that function in chemical communication processes are hydrocarbons (Howard and Blomquist, 1982 Blomquist and Dillwith, 1985 Howard, 1993 Nelson and Blomquist, 1995). Most oxygenated lipids that function as pheromones are not part of the surface lipids but are secretory products of specialized glands (Tamaki, 1985 Am et al, 1986 Morgan and Mandava, 1988). Many of the compounds in pheromones are short-chain unsaturated aldehydes, ketones and acetate esters of short-chain (C10-C14) unsaturated alcohols. Those short-chain lipids (biological activity have been reviewed elsewhere (Blomquist and Dillwith, 1985 Tamaki, 1985 Lockey, 1988 Blomquist et al., 1993 Jurenka and Roelofs, 1993 Howard, 1993). 

The position of exposure and uncertainty assessment in the risk communication process... 

An open and sincere comprehensive risk communication process led by the facility manager creates a better-informed public that is able to understand real risks (vs. perceptions) and is likely to respond effectively in case of an actual emergency. 

Risk communication aiming at consumer trust depends on a positive appraisal of the competence, fairness, and social responsibility of the partners in the communication process. Without such a positive appraisal, risk communication is bound to fail. 

It took 3 weeks for electricity to be restored to our entire community. Many lessons were learned, not only by our hospital, but by the community as well. As a community, we now have a redundant communication process, we have developed a Joint Communication Center, we have updated the Emergency Response Plan to emphasize coordination between agencies, and we have developed a Citizen Corp organization for better emergency planning. 

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