264 research outputs found
Exploring User Acceptance of a Text-message Base Health Intervention among Young African Americans
Information technology has been used in diverse ways. It has been used in both the public and private sectors to reduce costs and increase satisfaction. Technology may also be instrumental in improving individuals’ healthy behaviors. For instance, statistics suggest that technology-based interventions may promote healthy sexual behaviors; however, few studies have explored willingness to participate in technology-mediated interventions. In this study, we use the diffusion of innovation theory to identify factors that influence one’s intention to use a text-message service to receive sexual health information. The results indicate that technology diffusion factors rather than risk beliefs and privacy concerns impacted participant\u27s intention to use a text-message intervention. The findings of this study have significant implications for innovative uses of technology to promote health. Mobile-health interventions that are easy to use and that provide more benefits than other interventions are most likely to be adopted. However, these interventions should seek to maximize privacy protections and communicate clearly about these protections
Revised Academic Hardiness Scale Factor Structure in College Students
The construct of academic hardiness has gained attention in recent literature as an antecedent of successful academic performance and enrollment in higher education. Although academic hardiness scales have been validated for use with elementary and high school students, none have been examined in college students. The current study investigated the factor structure of the Revised Academic Hardiness Scale using two college student samples. Exploratory analyses found a five-factor structure in a sample of 454 students at a large university. Confirmatory analyses indicated adequate to good model fit for this solution in a sample of 160 students at a small college
Galactic and Magellanic Evolution with the SKA
As we strive to understand how galaxies evolve it is crucial that we resolve
physical processes and test emerging theories in nearby systems that we can
observe in great detail. Our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearby
Magellanic Clouds provide unique windows into the evolution of galaxies, each
with its own metallicity and star formation rate. These laboratories allow us
to study with more detail than anywhere else in the Universe how galaxies
acquire fresh gas to fuel their continuing star formation, how they exchange
gas with the surrounding intergalactic medium, and turn warm, diffuse gas into
molecular clouds and ultimately stars. The 21-cm line of atomic
hydrogen (HI) is an excellent tracer of these physical processes. With the SKA
we will finally have the combination of surface brightness sensitivity, point
source sensitivity and angular resolution to transform our understanding of the
evolution of gas in the Milky Way, all the way from the halo down to the
formation of individual molecular clouds.Comment: 25 pages, from "Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre
Array", to appear in Proceedings of Scienc
A Grounded Qualitative Analysis of the Effect of a Focus Group on Design Process in a Virtual Internship
A key component associated with the development of an entrepreneurial mindset is the ability to understand customerneeds and consider this when developing a product. This study sought to understand whether the inclusion of a customerfocus group as part of a virtual internship created any differences in the design processes of sophomore engineeringstudents (114 students). The Nephrotex virtual internship requires that students design a dialysis membrane by optimizinga selection of four components: membrane polymer, polymerization process, processing surfactant, and carbon nanotubepercentage. We found that sophomores who engaged in a focus group during the virtual internship Nephrotex showed(statistically) equal focus on cost versus technical measures of design performance during the focus group. Despite this,design cost was lower in the section that participated in a focus group, with no decrease in product quality. This indicatesthat customer voice may be an important factor in decreasing product cost. We also found that sophomore studentsprioritized their interviewing of customers within the focus group towards end users, such as the patient and nephrologist.Qualitative analysis of sophomore responses demonstrated that they found utility in the focus group (30% of participants)but did not necessarily believe that the customers had useful knowledge of the relevant design attributes (17% ofparticipants). Such realizations may have contributed to the equivalent quality and decreased costs associated with thedesigns of sophomores who participated in a focus group
The Lantern Vol. 2, No. 1, December 1933
• Petition • Keep it Burning! • Jes\u27 Before Christmas • Noel: Translation from Theophile Gautier • A Young Jew Meets Jesus • Book Review: Little Man, What Now? • Book Review: Thunder and Dawn • Continuity • La Veille de Noel (Reflexions d\u27un Provincial) • Noel Sceptique par Jules LaFargue • Horizon • Winter Night • Linoleum Cutshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1001/thumbnail.jp
Wildfire smoke and athletic events : understanding public concerns, experiences, and preparedness
21 pagesThe increasingly longer
and more severe wildfire smoke events in the Pacific
Northwest are likely to occur during outdoor athletic
events. We investigated wildfire smoke concerns,
air quality communication preferences, and protective
action behaviors among sporting event attendees
through a survey created by our interdisciplinary research
team from the UO. This report presents survey
results and implications for improving communication
and protocol for air quality and smoke during
future outdoor athletic events.Funding for this study was provided by the University of Oregon
A new method for spatially resolving the turbulence driving mixture in the ISM with application to the Small Magellanic Cloud
Turbulence plays a crucial role in shaping the structure of the interstellar
medium. The ratio of the three-dimensional density contrast
() to the turbulent sonic Mach number () of
an isothermal, compressible gas describes the ratio of solenoidal to
compressive modes in the turbulent acceleration field of the gas, and is
parameterised by the turbulence driving parameter:
. The turbulence driving parameter ranges
from (purely solenoidal) to (purely compressive), with
characterising the natural mixture (1/3~compressive, 2/3~solenoidal) of the two
driving modes. Here we present a new method for recovering
, , and , from observations on galactic
scales, using a roving kernel to produce maps of these quantities from column
density and centroid velocity maps. We apply our method to high-resolution HI
emission observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) from the GASKAP-HI
survey. We find that the turbulence driving parameter varies between and within the main body of the SMC, but the median value
converges to , suggesting that the turbulence is overall driven more
compressively (). We observe no correlation between the parameter
and HI or H intensity, indicating that compressive driving of HI
turbulence cannot be determined solely by observing HI or H emission
density, and that velocity information must also be considered. Further
investigation is required to link our findings to potential driving mechanisms
such as star-formation feedback, gravitational collapse, or cloud-cloud
collisions.Comment: 20 pages, 16 figures, accepted to MNRA
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