Unlike the one-way communication of paper surveys and written letters, elderly patients have turned to social media because they want to enter into a meaningful dialogue with their local services.

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Still, contractors look far nimbler at solving myriad problems than civil servants, who are still hampered, for example, by rules ordering that all official communication be done on paper (e-mails will not do).

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Carnival has transitioned much of what used to be paper-only communication over to the Net.

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Some years later, Claude Shannon (also of Bell Labs) would consolidate many of the prevailing ideas on the subject in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" which would reference the work of Nyquist significantly.

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Lai Oso, Professor of Mass Communication and expert in media and society will deliver a paper on "New Voices: Media Freedom Helping to Transform Societies".

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With the proliferation of computer-based communication, one might have thought that the amount of physical paper sent through the postal service would decline, but it seems to have increased, at least from my perspective.

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One bondholder blames the shock not on operating foul-ups but on communication problems: Solo could have shaped expectations by explaining cyclical bumps in the business (paper plates sell better in the summer) to investors.

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