Published in Journal of pain and symptom management
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in visitation restrictions across most health care settings, necessitating the use of remote communication to facilitate communication among families, patients and health care teams. To examine the impact of remote communication on families' evaluation of end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Retrospective, c...
Published in Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
Effectively communicating with parents about children's obesity risk is of critical importance for preventive medicine and public health. The current study investigates the efficacy of communications focused on two primary causes of obesity: genes and environment. We compared parental feeding responses to messages focused on (i) genetics alone, (ii...
Published in BMC Family Practice
BackgroundChina has more ascertained cases of diabetes than any other country. Much of the care of people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in China is managed by GPs and this will increase with the implementation of health care reforms aimed at strengthening China’s primary health care system. Diabetes care requires effective communication between physi...
The literature considers that right-wing populism is opposed to democracy (against its institutions or values). Nevertheless, it seems undeniable to me that right-wing populist parties claim, in their speeches, the notion of "democracy". I propose to study its meaning and mobilization. In more detail, I believe that the definitions of the term "dem...
Published in Systematic Reviews
BackgroundPeople living with dementia (PLWD) are at significant risk of developing urinary and/or faecal incontinence and are also at risk of functional incontinence or being labelled as being incontinent. Despite the growing population of PLWD and importance of continence care, little is known about the appropriate management, organisation, and in...
Published in European Geriatric Medicine
Purpose The aims of this study were to describe communication experiences while wearing a mask during COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, to identify possible mask-related barriers to COVID-19-adapted communications and to investigate whether the ABC mnemonic (A: attend mindfully; B: behave calmly; C: communicate clearly) might address these. Methods This s...
Recent evidence suggests that language processing is well-adapted to noise in the input (e.g., spelling or speech errors, misreading or mishearing) and that comprehenders readily correct the input via rational inference over possible intended sentences given probable noise corruptions. In the current study, we probed the processing of noisy linguis...
Published in Environmental geochemistry and health
While fundamental research into key mechanisms and interactions is important, the practical investigations that scientists also undertake have additional considerations, since the results are applicable in the real world but need disseminating in a way that reaches the intended audience. Worldwide, rapid population growth produces multiple pressure...
This thesis will discuss the design, simulations and measurements of a powerline communication system that utilizes FSK modulation in order to transfer information from a transmitter to a receiver at a baud rate of 1kbps, in order to reach the requirement of having an effective data rate of at least 6bps. This system is designed specifically to be ...
The cities of the 20th and 21st century have gone through an era of unbridled expansion, seizing an immeasurable amount of land and resources from across the globe. To secure a resilient and sustainable urban environment, the city is forced to revisit its networks, systems and land-use. Especially with the growing trend of urbanization. One of thes...
