Does Time Spent Playing Video Games Crowd Out Time Spent Studying?

Title : Hours Spent Playing

Predicting Time Spent with Physician

The goal of this project is to predict how much time a physician should be spending with a patient, given the patient’s injury, referral status, and other reported, nonidentifiable medical information. This may be used as an additional factor for measuring and predicting physician efficiency alongside existing methodology. We implement linear regression and a variety of classification technique...

The more time spent on listening, the less time spent on prescribing antibiotics in general practice.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the variation between primary care centres (PCCs) with regard to prescribing antibiotics and to investigate whether the variation can be explained by factors related to patient satisfaction and to socio-demographic characteristics of the populations in the catchment areas of the PCCs. METHODS The frequency of prescription of antibiotics by GPs at the PCCs was used as the ...

Relevance of Time Spent on Web Pages

What is the intention of an online visitor? This is one of the most valuable pieces of information for an online service provider. In the case of a real-world shop, customers have the ability to explicitly express what they are looking for. However, on the web, the intention is hidden and can only be partially revealed from implicit indicators in the traces users leave behind while they browse ...

Associations between Parental and Friend Social Support and Children's Physical Activity and Time Spent outside Playing

The purpose of this study was to examine the structural validity of a parent and a child questionnaire that assessed parental and friends' influences on children's physical activity and investigate the associations between the derived factors, physical activity, and time spent outside. Children (N = 154, mean age = 11.7) and 144 of their parents completed questionnaires assessing parental and f...