The increase in population, accompanied by an increase in the availability of travel opportunities have kindled the interest in understanding how people make use of the space around them and their opportunities. Understanding the travel behaviour of individuals and groups is difficult because of two main factors: the travel behaviour’s wide coverage, which encompasses different research areas, ...

This article aims to rebuild, from a specific case such as the analysis of Diary tour in Sweden, Norway and Russia, 1827 with letters by Lady Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor, way which social group belonging nineteenth century, nobility, offered written form, our formula diary interspersed letters, one basic dimensions its exis- tence society: time, organization different facets that time has been rec...

In diary studies, people provide frequent reports on the events and experiences of their daily lives. These reports capture the particulars of experience in a way that is not possible using traditional designs. We review the types of research questions that diary methods are best equipped to answer, the main designs that can be used, current technology for obtaining diary reports, and appropria...

Mobile device-based diary studies have potential as contextual data capture methods that address the limitations of the traditional paper-based diary method. While there have been a number of studies that demonstrate the power of the mobile device-based diary approach, there is less known about participants’ experience of such studies. This paper presents three cases of mobile data capture to b...

OBJECTIVE The Pediatric Asthma Diary was developed and validated to assess efficacy of interventions in children with asthma. DESIGN, PATIENTS, AND SETTING Diary validation was performed in a three week, prospective study of 106 children aged 6-14 years with asthma. Children were classified at baseline as either stable (requiring no additional asthma treatment) or new onset/worse (requiring e...

BACKGROUND Cohort studies conducted in low-income countries generally use trained fieldworkers for collecting data on home visits. In industrialised countries, researchers use less resource intensive methods, such as self-administered structured questionnaires or symptom diaries. This study compared and assessed the reliability of the data on diarrhoea, fever and cough/cold in children as obtai...

Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908) wrote a diary named Azamukazaru no Ki (Diary Without Deceit) over the course of five years. not only gained large audience, but has also been recognized as “Shūyō Sho” (self-cultivation work) in process repeated reprints, which have included new material. However, this text received sufficient attention prior studies, and often serves merely reference material for stu...

Little is known about why some people experience greater temporal fluctuations of relationship perceptions over short periods of time, or how these fluctuations within individuals are associated with relational processes that can destabilize relationships. Two studies were conducted to address these questions. In Study 1, long-term dating partners completed a 14-day diary study that assessed ea...

This commentary discusses 4 issues relevant to interpretation of A. S. Green, E. Rafaeli, N. Bolger, P. E. Shrout, and H. T. Reis's (2006) article: (a) Self-reported compliance in medical settings has generally been substantially higher than verified compliance, suggesting that this is not a rare phenomenon; (b) none of the studies reported in Green et al. explicitly verified paper diary compli...

Students’ failure in an academic course is usually considered as a common phenomenon in theeyes of instructors. Luckily, in recent years some scholars have attempted to reconsider the issuetrying to investigate students experience and perceptions on their academic success and failure.Taking attribution theory as their theoretical framework, these scholars have tried to shed li...