OBJECTIVE To determine whether provision of vaccine-health-literacy-promoting information in text message vaccine reminders improves receipt and timeliness of the second dose of influenza vaccine within a season for children in need of 2 doses. METHODS During the 2012-2013 season, families of eligible 6-month through 8-year-old children were recruited at the time of their first influenza vacc...

To determine whether an AIDS prevention mass media campaign influenced risk perception, self-efficacy and other behavioural predictors. We used household survey data collected from 2,213 sexually experienced male and female Kenyans aged 15-39. Respondents were administered a questionnaire asking them about their exposure to branded and generic mass media messages concerning HIV/AIDS and condom ...

The prevalence of social media has resulted in spikes of data on the Internet which can have potential use to assist in many aspects of human life. One prospective use of the data is in the development of an early warning system to monitor consumer Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs). The direct reporting of ADRs by consumers is playing an increasingly important role in the world of pharmacovigilance...

This document proposes the definition of a multipart/sip-id media type, according to the rules defined in RFC 2048. This media type is intended to be carried by the session invitation protocol messages, when these messages are used to route calls between Internet Telephony domains. 1. Motivation There have been proposals to use the "session invitation protocol" to route calls between Internet T...

OBJECTIVE To summarise published empirical research on culturally targeted anti-tobacco media messages for Indigenous or First Nations people and examine the evidence for the effectiveness of targeted and non-targeted campaigns. METHODS Studies were sought describing mass media and new media interventions for tobacco control or smoking cessation in Indigenous or First Nations populations. Stu...

Many of multimedia applications in distributed systems should transmit continuous audio/video across networks when clients request. Typically, messages for continuous media in packet-switched networks are split into periodic, different sized packets with deadlines. Since clients request different typed services, traffic streams are heterogeneous. Furthermore, since the continuity of continuous ...

BACKGROUND Healthy lifestyle promotion in mass media is a very important way to diminish cardiovascular diseases morbidity and mortality. Effectiveness of healthy lifestyle promotion can, among others, depend on people's attitudes towards it. AIM To characterise the Pole's attitudes towards healthy lifestyle promotion in mass media and identify their socio-demographic predictors. METHODS A ...

influence of media messages History and Orientation The two-step flow of communication hypothesis was first introduced by Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet in The People's Choice, a 1944 study focused on the process of decision-making during a Presidential election campaign. These researchers expected to find empirical support for the direct influence of media messages on voti...