Pregnant women who fear or experience HIV-related stigma may not get care for their own health or medications to reduce perinatal transmission of HIV. This study examined factors associated with anticipating and experiencing HIV-related stigma among 1777 pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics in rural Kenya. Women were interviewed at baseline, offered HIV testing and care, and a sub-se...

hypermedia, multimedia, ubiquitous computing, mobility In this position paper we describe an emerging area of research that we believe will have significant impact in the areas of personal mobility and digital media. Our term for this research area is “ubimedia”, a concatenation of ‘ubiquitous computing’, and ‘physicallylinked hypermedia’. We note that the structure of media is evolving from st...

Does compassion feel pleasant or unpleasant? Westerners tend to categorize compassion as a pleasant or positive emotion, but laboratory compassion inductions, which present another's suffering, may elicit unpleasant feelings. Across two studies, we examined whether prototypical conceptualizations of compassion (as pleasant) differ from experiences of compassion (as unpleasant). After laboratory...

This paper presents a mobile system that supports young students learning history at an archaeological site. It adopts gameplay as a novel and effective technique particularly suited for learning through mobile systems (mlearning). From a technological point of view, the main novelty of our system is its slim architecture. Minimal investments are required because the system runs on the students...

There have been several studies which have tried to clarify the neural mechanisms of fatigue sensation; however fatigue sensation has multiple aspects. We hypothesized that past experience related to fatigue sensation is an important factor which contributes to future formation of fatigue sensation through the transfer to memories that are located within specific brain structures. Therefore, we...

How were the concepts of observer and user in architecture urban planning transformed throughout 20th 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how mutations means representation relate to significance city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's fascination with perspective, Team Ten's interest humanisation urbanism, Constantinos Doxiadis Adriano Olivetti's...

Introduction The presence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms has been found to be associated with an increased risk of persisting neck pain and disability in motor vehicle crash (MVC) survivors with whiplash injuries. The findings are mixed as to which PTSD symptom(s) best predicts recovery in this population. Objectives The aims were (1) to explore the factor structure of the ...