Sentence examples for on a communicative from inspiring English sources

We found that pregnant women are at times required to take on a communicative role to facilitate coordination.

Based on the results of this study, we recommend a number of measures that could help improve interprofessional coordination and thereby minimize the necessity for pregnant women to take on a communicative role in support of coordination, as outlined in Figure  1.

The purposes of punishment on a communicative account are both to convey the state's condemnation of the action and to lead the offender to repent her action and to reform her conduct.

On a communicative conception of punishment, the state aims to engage with the offender in a moral dialogue so that she appreciates the moral reasons she has to follow the law.

Having pregnant women take on a communicative role in situations where they might not fully be able to do so is not only problematic in the setting of Dutch midwifery and obstetrics, but in the entire health care sector.

The nature of the understandings and expectations that carers bring, and the skills that they possess, can impact strongly on the outcome of a communicative encounter.

The emoticon is included as a communicative tool used on every major online chat program distributed today.

We illuminate variations in this boy's use of language as a communicative and meaning-making tool across these activity settings, finding that he drew on a broader set of communicative tools in interactions with his father at home, including multi-modal communicative strategies, than he did in a similar activity in school.

Furthermore, syllables may derive from cycles of rhythmic opening and closing of the jaw involved in chewing, sucking, and licking, which take on communicative significance as lip smacks, tongue smacks, and teeth chatters (MacNeilage, 1998).

Scott said today that he was willing to work his fourth season as coach of the Nets without a contract extension and that he would modify his coaching methods to be more hands-on and communicative with players.

To zebra finches and other group-living birds, however, short-range contact calls do not constitute background sound but rather on-going communicative behavior that needs to be monitored in order to increase survival [10], [33].