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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Mobile phone ownership"”.
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Appropriation of maternal mHealth interventions by rural-based healthcare clients who do not own mobile phones: the case of Malawi
… interventions are bedevilled by inequalities in mobile phone ownership. For example, in Sub-Saharan Africa, women are 13% less likely to own a mobile phone than their male counterparts. In Malawi, male mobile phone ownership is at 44.9%, while for females is at 37.7%. As a result, some maternal …
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Does engaging with an interactive adherence intervention improve time in therapeutic range compared to receiving an education intervention alone, among patients anticoagulated with warfarin in Cape Town, South Africa?
… were associated with higher TTR; adjusted for mobile phone ownership, anticoagulation indication and engagement with the interactive component of the adherence intervention. In 47% of telephonic interactions, participants requested assistance with systems challenges to anticoagulation care. …
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How walking forward influences people's emotional response to and memory for stimuli viewed on a mobile phone
Thanks to the increased percentage of mobile phone ownership and wireless Internet access, our engagement with media has become more and more mobile. We commonly see people using their cell-phones when they are walking on the street, riding on a bus, or even driving in a car. However, we don’t know …
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Validation of the use of short message service (SMS) as a training tool for anaesthetic nurses
… have limitations, and mLearning (the use of mobile telephones to facilitate education) has proven equivalent or superior to traditional teaching methods in several settings. Despite very high levels of mobile phone ownership amongst healthcare workers in Africa, this form of educational …
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Crowd sourcing energy poverty data in South African informal settlements: the opportunity of mobile phone technology
… Despite the poverty of informal settlements, mobile phone ownership is high in these areas. This research aims to explore the potential and applicability of a digital data collecting systems using a mobile application that is accessible on entry-level mobile phones with basic internet access …
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Location based citizen reporting : a case study of a road hazard reporting system
Mobile phone ownership is approaching 90% of the population in the United State and most of developed countries. Among the developing countries, it's estimated that 1 billion mobile phone users will come on-line within a year. Mobile phones penetrated our society and daily lives, and unlike any …
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Framing Empowerment: Representation and Reception of Mobile Technology and the Female Figure in INGO Advertising
Mobile for Development (M4D) is a type of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) project which aims to close the ‘digital divide’ by placing mobile phones in the hands of global South users, where there may be existing gaps in ownership and access. These efforts position …
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Fashion in an Age of Transindividual Disruption: Feeling the fashion milieu through fashion media and mobile phone technology
In an era where mobile phone ownership among UK young adults (16-24) reaches nearuniversal penetration (99% as of 2024), this thesis interrogates the complex interrelationship between mobile technology, fashion media consumption, and user affect. The research originates from observations at the …
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Determinants of gender disparities in financial inclusion: insights from Tanzania
… but not access to formal financial accounts and mobile money accounts. Being a woman decreases the likelihood of saving while increasing the likelihood of borrowing at a formal financial institution by 17% and 2% respectively. Gender disparities in financial inclusion in Tanzania are caused by …
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Using mobile phones to support learning : a case of UCT first year female science students in the Academic Development Programme
… based learning. In contrast to computer access, mobile phone ownership is pervasive and ownership is not socially differentiated in the South African context. This study therefore sought to explore the use of mobile phones to support learning by first year female science students in an extended …
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Developing and Testing Smartphone Game Applications for Physical Activity Promotion in Adolescents
… approach to promote physical activity is through mobile technology such as a mobile phone. Since mobile phone ownership is relatively high (77%) and there is no digital divide by race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status, mobile phones may be suitable for physical activity promotion. Few studies have …
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Climate Change and Seed Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana
… in semi-arid Ghana include village remoteness, mobile phone ownership, accessibility to credit, and access to tractor plowing services. The results further show that seed security is often disrupted by factors other than climate change, including ethnic conflicts, farmer-herder conflicts, and …
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Factors associated with pregnant women's participation in a mHealth intervention in Timor-Leste
Background: Mobile health (mHealth) programs have become increasingly popular as a method of harnessing the power of technology to improve health, yet there remains a deficit of rigorous analyses to determine the uptake and effectiveness of these initiatives. This study aims to contribute to a …
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Identifying socio-cultural determinants to access : implications for e-governance in the water & sanitation sector
… which can be accessed using internet enabled mobile phones. However, despite high rates of mobile phone ownership in Cape Town, little is known about how people use them. It is important to know how people use mobile phones in order to gauge whether e-Governance initiatives are accessible to …