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In Search of the Optimal Mode for Mobile Phone Surveys in Developing Countries. A Comparison of IVR, SMS, and CATI in Nigeria

Survey Research Methods, 2019
Mobile phone surveys are increasingly prevalent in low- and middle-income countries. The main modes include computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI), interactive voice response (IVR), and short message service (SMS, or text messaging).
Charles Q Lau, Alexandra Cronberg, Leenisha Marks, Ashley Amaya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Online and telephone access to general practice: a cross-sectional patient survey

BJGP Open, 2021
Background: Improving access to primary health care in the UK has focused on the use of telephone and online access, but little is known about how awareness of and use varies between different patient groups.
Carol Bryce, Matthew DL O'Connell, Jeremy Dale, Martin Underwood, Helen Atherton   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of management of type 2 diabetes mellitus through telephone consultation during COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos Nigeria

Current Medical Issues, 2021
Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the impact of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) lockdown on the clinical outcome of patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) attending a primary care Diabetes Clinic in Lagos State, Nigeria, in terms of ...
Oluwajimi Olanrewaju Sodipo, Adekunle Ibrahim, Olamide Esther Oluwatuyi, Oludaisi Adeshina Oduniyi, Sekinat Odunaye-Badmus, Olufunmilayo Adeleye   +5 more
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MMW-AQA: Multimodal In-the-Wild Dataset for Action Quality Assessment

IEEE Access
Action quality assessment (AQA) is a task for assessing a specific action quality in videos. Since existing AQA datasets provide only two-dimensional (2D) video data captured from fewer viewpoints, existing AQA methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs)
Takasuke Nagai, Shoichiro Takeda, Satoshi Suzuki, Hitoshi Seshimo   +3 more
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Long term Follow up Study of Phone Contacts in Catalonia

European Psychiatry, 2022
We’ll present the Catalan experience of follow up by phone contats of suicide attempters, and the results up to 10 years. We develop a Suicide Prevention Program that started with the EAAD project in 2008 in a 0,5 M people catchment area, later ...
D. Palao Vidal, I. Parra, A. Cebrià Meca, M. Guinovart, R. Gracia   +4 more
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Lack of motor prediction, rather than perceptual conflict, evokes an odd sensation upon stepping onto a stopped escalator

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014
When stepping onto a stopped escalator, we often perceive an odd sensation that is never felt when stepping onto stairs. The sight of an escalator provides a strong contextual cue that, in expectation of the backward acceleration when stepping on ...
Hiroaki eGomi, Takeshi eSakurada, Takao eFukui   +2 more
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A temporal window for estimating surface brightness in the Craik-O’Brien-Cornsweet effect

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
The central edge of an opposing pair of luminance gradients (COC edge) makes adjoining regions with identical luminance appear to be different. This brightness illusion, called the Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet effect (COCe), can be explained by low-level ...
Ayako eMasuda, Ayako eMasuda, Junji eWatanabe, Masahiko eTerao, Masahiko eTerao, Akihiro eYagi, Kazushi eMaruya   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Highly nitrogen-vacancy doped diamond nanostructures fabricated by ion implantation and optimum annealing

APL Materials, 2020
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond photonic nanostructures have attracted much attention as efficient single photon emitters and quantum bits.
Hisashi Sumikura, Kazuyuki Hirama, Katsuhiko Nishiguchi, Akihiko Shinya, Masaya Notomi   +4 more
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Feasibility and Tolerability of Performing Portable MRI for Neurological Disorders in an Outpatient Neurology Clinic: A Prospective Cohort

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Accessing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be challenging, especially for underserved patients, which may lead to disparities in neurological diagnosis. Method This mixed‐methods study enrolled adults with one of four neurological disorders: mild cognitive impairment or dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiple sclerosis ...
Maya L. Mastick, Nomin Enkhtsetseg, Joseph Sadok, Matheus Mochetti, Annabel Sorby Adams, Jennifer Guo, Cristina Trapaga Hacker, Isabella Gomez Hjerthen, Seungwon Lee, Siddharth Satish, Andrew S. Ham, Justin Hill, Denis Balaban, Kevin Kyle, Rebecca L. Gillani, Marcelo Matiello, Aleksandar Videnovic, Eric C. Klawiter, W. Taylor Kimberly, Farrah J. Mateen   +19 more
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A Prospective Study of Individuals at Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Informs the Design of Primary Prevention Studies

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective In multiple sclerosis, the optimal time for deploying a therapeutic intervention is before the central nervous system is damaged; given the success of trials treating the earliest stage of MS, the radiologically isolated syndrome, developing primary prevention strategies is an important next challenge.
Amy W. Laitinen, Ceren Tozlu, Tina Roostaei, Fatoumata Diallo, Kaho Onomichi, Jiyeon Son, Zongqi Xia, Philip L. De Jager   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source