Search results for "internet"

Changes in quality of life, strength and heart rate variability after 4-weeks of supervised online burpees training during the covid-19 quarantine in…

2022

In order to maintain physical fitness during the COVID-19 quarantine, we designed a short-term intervention with one body-weight exercise – burpees. Thus, the aim of this study was to understand level of feasibility and potential benefits of our protocol to different variables in young adults during the COVID-19 quarantine. An online 4-week intervention was administered to 13 young adults (age 22.5±1.39 years, weight 71.8±10.1 kg). The main phase of each session consisted of burpees, a calisthenics body-weight exercises. The training was administered daily. Data regarding quality of life (QoL), body composition, posture, heart rate variability (HRV), cardiovascular health, and strength were…

Tailoring feedback in online assessment: Influence of learning styles on the feedback preferences and elaborated feedback effectiveness

2008

Design of feedback is a critical issue of online assessment development within Web-based Learning Systems (WBLSs). This paper examines the potential possibilities of tailoring the feedback that is presented to a student as a result of his/her preferences and responses to questions of an online test with respect to the individual learning styles (LS). The paper briefly reviews the main types of feedback that can be presented during online assessment and discusses the challenges in authoring and tailoring of feedback in WBLSs. We report the results of some recent experiments organized as online assessment of students through multiple-choice quizzes in which students were able to request diffe…

Online platforms to teach Nutrition Education to children: a non-systematic review.

2016

espanolIntroduccion: la obesidad infantil es actualmente considerada un problema a nivel global. La educacion nutricional (EN) ha sido identifi cada como un factor para prevenir el sobrepeso y la obesidad en los ninos. Durante los ultimos anos se ha incrementado el interes en metodos novedosos para ensenar este conocimiento a los ninos, especialmente a traves del uso de Internet. Objetivo: revisar y analizar la evidencia disponible con respecto a los programas de EN dirigidos a ninos a traves del uso de Internet. Resultados: se identifi caron 3 formatos para transferir EN a ninos a traves del uso de Internet: plataformas disenadas para comunicarse con otros ninos o con profesionales, plataf…

Determinants of vaccine hesitancy and effectiveness of vaccination counseling interventions among a sample of the general population in Palermo, Ital…

2020

Counteract vaccine hesitancy is a public health priority. Main objectives of the cross-sectional study conducted were to evaluate knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding vaccination issues, to estimate the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy and to estimate the effectiveness of vaccination counseling on community advocacy in a sample of general population. An anonymous validated questionnaire was administered in April 2017 at the main shopping center of Palermo and was followed by tailored vaccination counseling interventions. To estimate the effectiveness of the interventions four main connection parameters to the vaccinarsi.org website were evaluated, in the two months before and after …

A framework for evaluating Internet-of-Things platforms: Application provider viewpoint

2014

Widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) applications assumes a sustainable ecosystem of firms creating, distributing, and using these applications. Such an ecosystem often forms around a platform that implements commonly used functionality and offers it to the members of the ecosystem for creating applications and services. In IoT, such a platform may be materialized in a form of a cloud platform that supports the management of connected devices, and the development and use of the applications based on them. A number of cloud platforms targeting IoT applications are available in the market; to prosper, they need to assist the providers of the IoT applications in designing and develo…

Changes in customers behavior shopping online during Covid-19 pandemic.

2021

Mūsdienās interneta veikalu skaits pieaug katru dienu, jo to var izveidot praktiski ikviens. Ar e-komerciju nodarbojas gan jau esoši fiziski veikali, gan jauni uzņēmuma dibinātāji. Arī patērētāji arvien biežāk izvēlas iepirkties internetā, jo tas ir vieglāks un ērtāks iepirkšanās veids. Tā var ietaupīt gan laiku, gan dažkārt arī naudu. Bakalaura darbā tiek pētīta Covid-19 globālās pandēmijas ietekme uz Latvijas un pasaules interneta veikalu pircēju paradumiem. Temata aktualitātes pamatā ir Covid-19 pandēmijas izraisītās sekas, jo pandēmijas laikā cilvēkiem tiek ieteikts un dažkārt pat liegts atrasties ārpus mājas, taču vēlme iepirkties ir saglabājusies, līdz ar to, alternatīva ir iepirkšanā…

Arte digitalizado y arte digital: las manifestaciones artísticas en la era digital

2003

Analizamos las potencialidades que el medio digital ofrece al campo de la creación, constatando la aparición de nuevas obras más interactivas, abiertas y dinámicas y de un nuevo tipo de espectador más activo. Destacamos las repercusiones que este medio está ejerciendo en el mundo de los museos y las galerías que están apostando, en algunos casos, por incorporar estas obras a sus espacios expositivos y al mercado del arte. Reseñamos la importancia de Internet y el surgimiento del net-art, así como de la Realidad Virtual y el Arte evolutivo. (A)

2020

Critical evaluation skills when using online information are considered important in many research and education frameworks; critical thinking and information literacy are cited as key twenty-first century skills for students. Higher education may play a special role in promoting students' skills in critically evaluating (online) sources. Today, higher education students are more likely to use the Internet instead of offline sources such as textbooks when studying for exams. However, far from being a value-neutral, curated learning environment, the Internet poses various challenges, including a large amount of incomplete, contradictory, erroneous, and biased information. With low barriers t…

Money Invested on Shopping Online and Payment Methods Used: Findings by Recent Survey

2021

Within development of telecommunication, e-commerce is rapidly replacing traditional shopping as well as offering new ways to pay for goods. Payment is one of the main phases of buying decision process and it is crucial to e-commerce, because there is a big possibility that consumer will abandon the shopping cart if preferred payment method is not available. Not only flexible payment options can help company to attract and retain customers, but it also can ensure that company get paid more quickly. The aim of the research is to find out how much money Latvian customers invest when shopping online and which payment methods they use to pay for the purchase on internet in Latvia. Research meth…

Scanning and deep processing of information in hypertext: an eye tracking and cued retrospective think-aloud study

2016

When students solve problems on the Internet, they have to find a balance between quickly scanning large sections of information in web pages and deeply processing those that are relevant for the task. We studied how high school students articulate scanning and deeper processing of information while answering questions using a Wikipedia document, and how their reading comprehension skills and the question type interact with these processes. By analyzing retrospective think-aloud protocols and eye-tracking measures, we found that scanning of information led to poor hypertext comprehension, while deep processing of information produced better performance, especially in location questions. Thi…