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<p class="Abstract">Beam wandering is the main cause for major power loss in laser communication. To analyse this prerequisite at our environment, a 155 Mbps data transmission experimental setup is built with necessary optoelectronic components for the link range of 0.5 km at an altitude of 15.25 m. A neuro-controller is developed inside the FPGA and used to stabilise the received beam at the centre of detector plane. The Q-factor and bit error rate variation profiles are calculated using the signal statistics obtained from the eye-diagram. The performance improvements on the laser communication system due to the incorporation of beam wandering mitigation control are investigated and discussed in terms of various communication quality assessment key parameters.</p><p class="Abstract"> </p>

Lebensqualität in europäischen Großstädten.

Purpose – This study aims at a better understanding of communication quality and how it can be measured in the municipal context. A previously developed instrument for measuring communication in municipalities was tested and evaluated. Design/methodology/approach - The instrument draws on the balanced scorecard of Kaplan and Norton and quality control procedures as utilised by the European Foundation of Quality Measurement. For municipalities, communication quality can be defined as the degree to which communication contributes towards the effectiveness of municipal policy and how it strengthens the relationship between citizens and municipal organisations. Three communication functions are given, and for each function seven quality criteria, for example responsiveness, are defined. The latter serve as an umbrella for several indicators that are assessed on a Likert scale. The results for four municipalities in the Netherlands are presented and compared, and the instrument is evaluated. Findings – The Corporate communication scores were relatively high while the Policy communication scores were low. Of the quality criteria, Accessibility and Publicity scored high and Responsiveness low. The instrument has mainly been developed on the basis of auditor and self-assessment, as municipalities have, as yet, few facts and figures with which to support the assessment. The measurement instrument needs to be integrated in the organisation's planning cycle, as reflection on the results can help in implementing improvements in quality. The measurement process stimulates dialogue on communication quality and the priorities to be set for communication policy. Research limitations – The study is based on four cases. The instrument needs to be tested across a range of governmental-level organisations. Practical implications - Municipalities can use this instrument to improve the added value of communication. Originality/value - A detailed description of the results of applying an instrument, such as the present one, developed for assessing communication quality, has not yet been published. ; peerReviewed

Aeronautical communication networks play a decisive role in the aviation industry, enabling real-time data exchange between various systems such ground stations, air traffic control and aircraft. Making sure that both requirements – high-quality-service and security – are met is mandatory to guarantee the efficiency, safety and reliability of aeronautical operations. This paper will go through a comprehensive inquiry of the quality of service and security of aeronautical communication and the relationship between them. The main focus of this paper is the security of aeronautical communications. The paper will examine the main types of aircraft communication types and will describe the cyber threats and the security measures applicable in order to mitigate the threats accordingly.

Book publishing and broadcasting are both now big businesses, and they therefore demonstrate the striking extent to which culture has become a commodity, its production subject to the same forces, interests, and motives as govern the production of all other commodities. As the cultural industries have moved from handicraft to mass production, they have fallen under the sway of corporate business, which has learned that one way to make maximum profits is to cultivate and cater to all the frailties and weaknesses in human nature. The result is a cultural output which has turned into its opposite. In the age of monopoly capital, of limitless manipulation of the individual in the interest of corporate profits, the notions of individual dignity and responsibility, the concepts of freedom, justice, and honor, are often little more than obsolete residues of outlived ideologies generated by earlier social orders. Adapted from the source document.

The article reports the findings of an exploratory study of commu nication in quality circles. It is generally accepted in the literature that quality circles improve communication in organizational set tings, yet no specific research has been conducted that explains how communication is improved This study was conducted to in vestigate that question and to provide hypotheses to be tested in fu ture communication studies. Multiple methods of data collection and analysis were used to produce findings that would address how quality circle participation affects communication, as per ceived by members themselves. A survey designed for the study in cluded the communication portion of Likert's Profile of Organizational Characteristics and ten open-ended questions asking about participant's personal experiences in quality circles. Analysis of the data revealed that quality circle participation had positive effects on perceived individual power/influence, commu nication with superiors, subordinates, and to some degree, with peers. Among the areas of organizational communication not af fected by quality circle participation were opportunities for ad vancement, belonging/acceptance by others, and tangible rewards.

Contemporary issues and methods. Challenges to legal translators in institutional settings / Susan ¿arcevic -- Corpora in institutional legal translation: small steps and the big picture / Lucja Biel -- Comparative law and legal translation as partners in knowledge communication: frames as a descriptive instrument / Jan Engberg -- Translation quality in law- and policy-making and implementation. Towards a more structured approach to quality assurance: DGT's quality journey / Ingemar Strandvik -- The skills required to achieve quality in institutional translation: the views of EU and UN revisers / Anne Lafeber -- Legal terminology consistency and adequacy as quality indicators in institutional translation: a mixed-method comparative study / Fernando Prieto Ramos and Diego Guzmán -- Comparing multilingual practices in the EU and the Canadian legal systems: the case of terminological choices in legislative drafting / Agnieszka Doczekalska -- Legal-linguistic profiling as translation aid: the example of EU agency / Colin Robertson -- Translating hybrid legal texts for science and technology institutions: the case of cern / Mathilde Fontanet -- Translation and multilingual case-law. The impact of multilingualism on the judgments of the EU Court of Justice / Susan Wright -- A corpus investigation of translation-generated diversity in EU case-law / Aleksandar Trklja -- Specificities of translation at the European Court of Human Rights: policy and practice / James Brannan -- Comparative interpretation of multilingual law in international courts: patterns and implications for translation / Fernando Prieto Ramos and Lucie Pacho Aljanati

Previous research has found elevated levels of psychological distress (i.e., post-traumatic stress, depressive and anxiety symptoms) among veterans. Existing theory and evidence show how psychological distress is associated with marital disruptions. Only a few studies, however, have tested the link between psychological distress and couple communication quality in military couples, most of which were cross-sectional and employed self-report measures. The current study investigated whether psychological distress predicts changes in observed communication quality across one year in 228 couples consisting of male service members, who were deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan, and their non-deployed female partners. Psychological distress was indicated by self-reported post-traumatic stress disorder, depressive, and anxiety symptoms. Communication quality was assessed using observed couple interactions. The results of an actor-partner interdependence model showed that men's psychological distress predicted men's lower communication quality at one year after accounting for baseline communication quality. Women's psychological distress did not predict their communication quality, and each partner's psychological distress did not predict changes in their partner's communication quality over time. Consistent with previous findings on civilian populations, our findings highlight the long-term effects of psychological distress among service members on their communication behaviors with their intimate partners, and emphasize the importance of targeting psychological symptoms of service members following deployment to war.