In politics now, everybody is trying to figure out twenty-first-century means of achieving the nineteenth-century goal of establishing face-to-face relationships between political parties and voters.
By establishing face-to-face meetings between the end-users and the medical engineer and by giving the medical engineer an active role in carrying out the usability tests and the focus groups, pre-conditions for an improved dialogue between the key actors could be created.
Moreover, programs like Skype allow them to reach suppliers and customers around the world, establishing face-to-face relationships with a minimum of expense and breath-taking immediacy.
In our experience, writing directly to them or, better yet, establishing face-to-face contact (showing up at a meeting to make a statement, or scheduling an appointment with a staff member) are the most effective ways to communicate.
Retention of mentors in the programme reflected their ability to overcome difficulties encountered in establishing face-to-face contact, understanding the concept of mentoring, building relationships through offering practical friendship, sharing problems with professionals and being flexible in time availability.
The online course, which begins every February, is in addition to three other established face-to-face courses that the organisation runs, which have attracted more than 2,000 students since 1990.
This is not much time to establish face-to-face rapport, demonstrate product-market fit and raise capital.
The ability to establish face-to-face, physical, relationships in a rich social environment is paramount to our happiness and individual well-being [2 4].
Therapists follow an established face-to-face CBT protocol [ 39] that contains the components referred to above.
We previously published a nation-wide population-based prevalence study in our country bridging Asia and Europe and the gold-standard of headache diagnosis established by face to face personal interview and examination by physicians were applied in this first study [14].
A continuous exchange of information between FP and endocrinologists was established across face to face meetings, mail or phone contact.
