Prospective Analysis of the Mobile Health Information Systems in China

With the rapidly growing economy in the past few decades, people of China (mainland) are now enjoying increasingly more economic benefits than ever before. Of many growing technologies, mobile devices, especially cell phones, have been gaining popularity throughout the country. According to the latest statistics in 2007, more than one third of Chinese have cell phones. In addition to the basic uses of voice communication, cell phones have many other promising applications. Particularly, as a pervasive technology, mobile devices offer a great opportunity to deliver health information directly to people with an affordable cost. This paper analyzes the potential of mobile health information systems in China. This prospective analysis will be conducted from four important perspectives: technology, market demand, business model, and government policy

Application of Cognitive Load Theory in Programming Teaching

Modern e-learning tools offer great potential for instructors to develop innovative pedagogies. Based on the cognitive load theory, this research proposes an information technology supported pedagogy to teach mobile programming. With the proposed methodology, students record their hands-on programming exercises when learning from worked examples. As an effective approach to improve learning performance, this method can also be applied in other similar teaching scenarios

Existential Subjective Violence in A Lie of the Mind

A Lie of the Mind (1985) is the last play of family quintet written by Sam Shepard (1943-2017), a contemporary American playwright. Human beings’ existential problem has been revealed through the theme of violence and psychological mechanism of characters’ subjective violence in this modern tragedy. Through the representation of subjective violence, which is epitomized by Jake, Mike and Baylor, Shepard points out modern people’s existential despair, an impossibility and impotence of self-affirmation, the futility of finding the meaning of existence. While providing women’s paradigm of reasonable means of reaction towards violence in locating one’s selfhood, Shepard brings out the possibility of love, courage and freedom as a way of asserting one’s existence.