INTRODUCTION Generating a nationally representative sample in low and middle income countries typically requires resource-intensive household level sampling with door-to-door data collection. High mobile phone penetration rates in developing countries provide new opportunities for alternative sampling and data collection methods, but there is limited information about response rates and sample ...

Despite the widespread use of mobail phones in Iranian students, psychological and behavioral effects of addiction to it and its consequences have not been investigated yet. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between cell phone dependency with psychological disorders and academic burnout among nursing and midwifery students. In this study, 169 students were chosen through s...

Background: The use of a cell phone when driving has been recognized as a type of distraction worldwide. Addictive tendency to use technology, including cell phone use while driving may be a substantial problem for drivers and increasing risk of accidents. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of drivers’ addiction to use a cell phone while driving.  Materials and Methods...

This paper provides a flexible framework for email recruitment and telephone interview for studying dispersed groups, virtual organizations, and distributed communities whose work, interaction, and communication are primarily mediated by communication technologies. We argue that under the appropriate conditions, telephone interviewing can yield high quality data, thus it be considered a product...

BACKGROUND As a matter of routine, midwives in Sweden have spoken with women about their experiences of labour in a so-called 'postpartum consultation'. However, the possibility of offering women this kind of consultation today is reduced due to shortage of both time and resources. The aim of this study was to explore the occurrence, women's requirements of, and experiences of a postpartum cons...

In the autumn of 1980 Oerek Walcott toured Wales as the recipient of the Welsh Arts Council's International Writer's Prize. This interview was conducted during that visit. Interviewer: Ned Thomas. This journal article is available in Kunapipi: http://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol3/iss2/7

today, mobile phone as one of manifestations of new communication technology plays an important role in human individual and social life and it is included an inseparable part in their daily relations so that we can claim that life is impossible without it for many of people or at least it doesn't have any desirability. the influence of mobile phone applications in life different matters, ...

This article aims to find out the factors that cause unregistered marriages, process, and legal consequences of divorce from marriages have been legalized at Religious Court class IB Pariaman. The problem is focused on which a real in society, especially area Courts To approach this problem, research method used sociological juridical, namely field studies obtain primary data law will be analyz...

In this paper we assess the potential of rich tactile notifications on mobile phones. Many mobile phone users use vibration output for various types of notification on their phone. Currently, tactile output in phones is limited to one single actuator that can potentially present patterns based on different vibration intensities over time. To explore the possible design space, we conducted exper...