People on the Move

People on the move.

Nutrition and migration: people on the move.

Following the success of the first workshop at Edinburgh the chairwomen had proposed an informal workshop on the important topic of nutrition and migration. One objective was to raise and discuss issues of concern to nutritionists who work with people facing acute food shortages. The other was to consider how best to determine the extent of, and appropriate response to, such crises. About fifty...

Workspaces that move people.

Few companies measure whether the design of their workspaces helps or hurts performance, but they should. The authors have collected data that capture individuals' interactions, communications, and location information. They've learned that face-to-face interactions are by far the most important activity in an office; creating chance encounters between knowledge workers, both inside and outside...

Protecting People on the Move through Virtual Personal Security

Ensuring personal safety for people on the move is becoming a heightened priority in today’s uncertain environment. Traditional approaches are no longer adequate in meeting rising demands in personal security. In this paper, we describe VIRTUAL PERSONAL SECURITY, a research prototype that demonstrates how technologies, such as ubiquitous surveillance cameras, location-aware PDAs and cell phones...

The Effect of Teachers' Follow-up Move Approach (F-move) on Iranian EFL Learners' Conversation Quality

The present paper investigated the effect of teacher’s follow‐up move approach on Iranian EFL learners’ conversation quality. Ninety students were selected in a senior high school in Poldokhtar, Iran. Through an oral test sixty out of ninety students whose scores were between one standard deviation (SD) above and below the mean were selected as the participants of the study. Then they were divi...