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Trial Participants’ Perceptions of the Impact of Ecological Momentary Assessment on Smoking Behaviors: Qualitative Analysis

JMIR mHealth and uHealth
BackgroundEcological momentary assessment (EMA) is an increasingly used tool for data collection in behavioral research, including smoking cessation studies.
Elizabeth R Stevens, Rina Li, Grace Xiang, Rachel Wisniewski, Sidney Rojas, Katherine O'Connor, Olivia Wilker, Mahathi Vojjala, Omar El-Shahawy, Scott E Sherman   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Climate‐Friendly Food Production: The Role of Production Method Information and Social Norms

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo, Tove Christensen, Sigrid Denver, Marilena Gemtou, Spyros Fountas, Søren Marcus Pedersen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Short Message Service Intervention for Improving Infant Feeding Practices in Shanghai, China: Planning, Implementation, and Process Evaluation

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2018
BackgroundAlthough mobile health (mHealth) has been widely applied in health care services, few studies have reported the detailed process of the development and implementation of text messaging (short message service, SMS) interventions ...
Jiang, Hong, Li, Mu, Wen, Li Ming, Baur, Louise A, He, Gengsheng, Ma, Xiaoying, Qian, Xu   +6 more
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Video and Text‐Based Supplemental Health Information and Consumer Willingness to Pay for Nutrient‐Enhanced Eggs

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutritional information is very important in the food choices of consumers. However, when they are too scientific or technical, they have the potential to confuse consumers, resulting in information asymmetry and dissuading them from making beneficial choices.
Edeoba W. Edobor, Michael J. Best, Anita R. Best, Ondulla T. Toomer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vertical Price Transmission in Food Markets: New Evidence From Meta‐Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of empirical research has examined price dynamics along the food supply chain, yet findings remain heterogeneous and often conflicting. This study conducts a meta‐analysis of 140 studies, totaling 652 observations, to examine (1) the reported presence of asymmetric price transmission and (2) the reported direction of price ...
Sushan K C, Xiaoli Etienne, Andres Trujillo‐Barrera   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A practical electrodialysis model for accelerating system development

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Empirical optimization of electrodialysis (ED) is dependent on repetitive experiments with incremental adjustments, which is cost prohibitive at scale. While models can reduce the costs associated with optimization and scale‐up, existing ED models are limited in application to specific use cases and tend to be developed for the exploration of ...
Smith Pittman, Douglas Fankell, Jason C. Quinn, Kenneth F. Reardon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparison Between Impact of a Health Education Program Using In-situ Training and Text-Messaging on Lifestyle and Blood Pressure in Military Personnel at Risk of Hypertension

آموزش بهداشت و ارتقاء سلامت ایران, 2019
Background and Objective: A basic intervention to reduce prevalence of the disease is educating healthy lifestyle particularly for those who are at risk.
Mohsen Saffari, Hormoz Sanaeinasab, Hojat Rashidi-Jahan, Mohammad-hassan Hajijafar-Namazi, Mojtaba Sepandi, Mohammad Samadi, Esfandiar Azad-Marzabadi   +6 more
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Accelerating Primary Screening of USP8 Inhibitors from Drug Repurposing Databases with Tree‐Based Machine Learning

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This study introduces a tree‐based machine learning approach to accelerate USP8 inhibitor discovery. The best‐performing model identified 100 high‐confidence repurposable compounds, half already approved or in clinical trials, and uncovered novel scaffolds not previously studied. These findings offer a solid foundation for rapid experimental follow‐up,
Yik Kwong Ng, Sharon Ai Er Lam, Wei Chun Lim, Hannah Hui Min Toh, Shi Jun Ang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Text messaging, pragmatic competence, and affective facilitation in the EFL context: A pilot study

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010
Since text messaging is a widely popular method of communication among young people, the paper tries to investigate whether it might have some practical application in the EFL classroom.
Madeline Haggan
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The effectiveness of text message-based self-management interventions for poorly-controlled diabetes: A systematic review

Digital Health, 2017
Background Poorly controlled diabetes leads to debilitating complications at a significant cost to health systems. Text messaging is an ideal platform for the delivery of self-management interventions to patients with poorly controlled diabetes due to ...
Rosie Dobson, Robyn Whittaker, Leila Pfaeffli Dale, Ralph Maddison   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source