Maximizing Engagement in Mobile Health Studies

Engagement and mobile listening

This research explores the effect of mobile listening on factors that have been proposed to determine enjoyment of audiovisual fictions: identification with characters, perceived realism, presence and transportation. A quasi-experimental research with 2 × 2 factorial design where the independent variables were listening condition (moving and stationary) and two different horror audio narratives...

Strategic Philanthropy: Maximizing Family Engagement and Social Impact

Maximizing Barrier Coverage Lifetime with Mobile Sensors

Sensor networks are ubiquitously used for detection and tracking and as a result covering is one of the main tasks of such networks. We study the problem of maximizing the coverage lifetime of a barrier by mobile sensors with limited battery powers, where the coverage lifetime is the time until there is a breakdown in coverage due to the death of a sensor. Sensors are first deployed and then co...

Health Departments’ Engagement in Emergency Preparedness Activities: The Influence of Health Informatics Capacity

Background Local health departments (LHDs) operate in a complex and dynamic public health landscape, with changing demands on their emergency response capacities. Informatics capacities might play an instrumental role in aiding LHDs emergency preparedness. This study aimed to explore the extent to which LHDs’ informatics capacities are associated with their activity level in emergency preparedn...

ترجمه بخشی از کتاب "critical readings in translation studies"

چکیده در دنیای پیچیده ی امروز، تغییرات زیادی در زندگی بشری در حال وقوع اند و شاهد رقابت های بسیار فشرده ی جوامع در دستیابی به فناوری برتر و قدرت بیشترهستیم. به نظر می رسد که فرد وجامعه مجبورند به طریقی در وضعیت خویش دگرگونی ایجاد کنند تا از قافله ی علم، فناوری، و پیشرفت عقب نمانند. رشته مطالعات ترجمه نیز از این قاعده مستثنا نیست. علی رغم وسعت روز افزون پژوهش در این حوزه و میان رشته ای بودن مطال...