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Virpi Oksman Ville Ollikainen Elina Noppari Carlos Herrero Antti Tammela 《Multimedia Systems》2008,14(2):105-114
Recently, mobile TV has been launched in several countries. While mobile TV integrates television contents into mobile phones,
the most personal of communication devices, it becomes interesting to know how this feature will be used throughout the day
and in varying contexts of everyday life. This paper presents empirical results on the use of mobile TV with different delivery
mechanisms and both quantitative and qualitative results on how end-users prefer to use mobile TV contents in different situations.
The data is based on ongoing empirical research in Finland in 2006 and 2007. The mobile TV services under study included both
news and entertainment contents, and were tested in 3G, DVB-H and Wi-Fi networks using different delivery paradigms: broadcast,
on-demand and download. To explore the use of different delivery methods and content consumption, we have developed a mobile
TV service protoype, called Podracing. The analysis shows that users appreciated up-to-date information and information-rich
media forms and contents especially for mobile news delivery. There was high demand for only the latest news on mobiles. The
real-time property was considered important. Most of the users looked at the headlines or followed the news several times
a day – much more often than the traditional TV and news prime times would allow. 相似文献
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Fouquereau Evelyne; Fernandez Anne; Fonseca Antonio Manuel; Paul Maria Constan?a; Uotinen Virpi 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》2005,20(3):524
The main aim of this study was to assess perceptions of and satisfaction with retirement among 1,686 recently retired people from 6 European Union countries. The authors compared their responses to a set of questions taken from the Retirement Satisfaction Inventory (F. J. Floyd et al., 1992). The first significant result was that Belgian, British, Finnish, French, and Spanish retirees all expressed very similar assessments of life satisfaction, whereas Portuguese retirees expressed a lower level of satisfaction. The 2nd result was that the major determinants of overall satisfaction in the 6 countries were (a) health and resources and (b) anticipated satisfaction. Finally, the data revealed that cultural background only accounted for a limited amount of variance in overall satisfaction with retirement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) 相似文献
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Sari Kujala Virpi RotoKaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila Evangelos KarapanosArto Sinnelä 《Interacting with computers》2011,23(5):473-483
The goal of user experience design in industry is to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty through the utility, ease of use, and pleasure provided in the interaction with a product. So far, user experience studies have mostly focused on short-term evaluations and consequently on aspects relating to the initial adoption of new product designs. Nevertheless, the relationship between the user and the product evolves over long periods of time and the relevance of prolonged use for market success has been recently highlighted. In this paper, we argue for the cost-effective elicitation of longitudinal user experience data. We propose a method called the “UX Curve” which aims at assisting users in retrospectively reporting how and why their experience with a product has changed over time. The usefulness of the UX Curve method was assessed in a qualitative study with 20 mobile phone users. In particular, we investigated how users’ specific memories of their experiences with their mobile phones guide their behavior and their willingness to recommend the product to others. The results suggest that the UX Curve method enables users and researchers to determine the quality of long-term user experience and the influences that improve user experience over time or cause it to deteriorate. The method provided rich qualitative data and we found that an improving trend of perceived attractiveness of mobile phones was related to user satisfaction and willingness to recommend their phone to friends. This highlights that sustaining perceived attractiveness can be a differentiating factor in the user acceptance of personal interactive products such as mobile phones. The study suggests that the proposed method can be used as a straightforward tool for understanding the reasons why user experience improves or worsens in long-term product use and how these reasons relate to customer loyalty. 相似文献
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Virpi Lahtela 《国际水资源开发杂志》2003,19(2):279-293
The Senegal River is located in West Africa in the Sudano-Sahelian zone. The river has faced various development schemes since the early 1970s, which have not brought the desired results. Many problems stem from the overall lack of economic and human development and weak institutional settings. Droughts and ethnic complexities add to the problem. The environment and local population have continuously been exposed to negative changes. The river developers face a difficult task when choosing the development options for the future. Taking into account all the stakeholders and variables, and adding to these the external demographic and natural challenges, the development actions require weighing complex multiform and interconnected issues. An objective analysis of the development plans is needed in order to avoid repeating past mistakes and to acquire harmonious end results. 相似文献
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The Measurement of Business Intelligence 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Based on a literature review, this article identifies and assesses measurement approaches for two different purposes: determining the value of BI and managing the BI process within an organization. 相似文献
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The main objective of this paper was to examine the overall moisture behaviour of an in situ cast concrete ground slab during the initial drying period of the fresh concrete from casting to flooring. This article describes and evaluates various methods to measure moisture levels in concrete slabs in order to decide if flooring can be attached. The most accurate method is verified against measurements and compared with calculations. Many of the methods only consider the surface moisture content of the slab and do not consider the moisture condition deep in the slab. According to performed laboratory tests and FE modelling, moisture content of the slab surface is not a reliable indicator of the overall moisture conditions of the slab. Residual moisture deep in the slab has a major effect on the moisture distribution at the slab cross-section after flooring. The only reliable method to determine the moisture conditions in a new concrete ground slab before flooring is to measure the moisture content at the equivalent depth of the slab. It reliably predicts the ultimate moisture content at slab/flooring interface after flooring. A ground slab is drying in two directions: towards the indoor air by evaporation from the slab surface, and towards the cooler subsoil layers by diffusion. The significance of drying downwards increases after the flooring assembly. 相似文献
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Coarse-grained fill or drainage layers beneath heated slab-on-ground structures are warm and moist throughout the year. According to the in situ measurements, the relative humidity of the fill layer is high at RH ≈100%. High relative humidity of the fill layer is not a sign of an un-functional drainage or capillary break layer, but a natural boundary condition for a slab structure adjacent to the moist subsoil. Due to the favourable conditions, microbe growth is very common in fill layers. Fungal or bacterial growth, in general, was detected in 98% of the test specimens taken beneath the ground slabs of heated buildings. Indicator species, either fungal or bacterial, were detected in 79% of the specimens. Yet, no moisture damage related to the ground floors was ever detected or recorded in the test buildings. The high microbe concentration in the fill layer beneath ground slabs is not a sign of moisture damage, but a natural state of the moist and warm fill layer. 相似文献
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Taisa Venäläinen Ursula Schwab Jyrki Ågren Vanessa de Mello Virpi Lindi Aino-Maija Eloranta Sanna Kiiskinen David Laaksonen Timo A. Lakka 《Lipids》2014,49(5):467-479
Plasma fatty acid (FA) composition is known to be an indicator of dietary fat quality, but the associations of other dietary factors with plasma FA composition remain unknown in children. We investigated the cross-sectional associations of food consumption with the proportions of FA and estimated desaturase activities in plasma cholesteryl esters (CE) and phospholipids (PL) among children. The subjects were a population sample of 423 children aged 6–8 years examined at baseline of The Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) Study. We assessed food consumption by food records and plasma FA composition by gas chromatography. We used linear regression models adjusted for age, sex, physical activity and total energy intake to analyze the associations. A higher consumption of vegetable oil-based margarine (fat 60–80 %) was associated with a higher proportion of linoleic and α-linolenic acids in plasma CE and PL. A higher consumption of high-fiber grain products was related to a lower proportion of oleic acid in CE and PL. The consumption of candy was directly associated with the proportion of palmitoleic and oleic acid in plasma CE. The consumption of vegetable oil-based margarine was inversely associated with estimated stearoyl-CoA-desaturase activity in plasma CE and PL and the consumption of candy was directly related to it in plasma CE. The results of our study suggest that plasma FA composition is not only a biomarker for dietary fat quality but also reflects the consumption of high-fiber grain products and foods high in sugar among children. 相似文献
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Liuliu Du Virpi Leivo Tadas Prasauskas Martin Tubel Dainius Martuzevicius Ulla Haverinen‐Shaughnessy 《Indoor air》2019,29(4):686-697
We assessed 45 multifamily buildings (240 apartments) from Finland and 20 (96 apartments) from Lithuania, out of which 37 buildings in Finland and 15 buildings in Lithuania underwent energy retrofits. Building characteristics, retrofit activities, and energy consumption data were collected, and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) parameters, including carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), formaldehyde (CH2O), selected volatile organic compounds (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX), radon, and microbial content in settled dust were measured before and after the retrofits. After the retrofits, heating energy consumption decreased by an average of 24% and 49% in Finnish and Lithuanian buildings, respectively. After the retrofits of Finnish buildings, there was a significant increase in BTEX concentrations (estimated mean increase of 2.5 µg/m3), whereas significant reductions were seen in fungal (0.6‐log reduction in cells/m2/d) and bacterial (0.6‐log reduction in gram‐positive and 0.9‐log reduction in gram‐negative bacterial cells/m2/d) concentrations. In Lithuanian buildings, radon concentrations were significantly increased (estimated mean increase of 13.8 Bq/m3) after the retrofits. Mechanical ventilation was associated with significantly lower CH2O concentrations in Finnish buildings. The results and recommendations presented in this paper can inform building retrofit studies and other programs and policies aimed to improve indoor environment and health. 相似文献
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Drug‐Loaded Multifunctional Nanoparticles Targeted to the Endocardial Layer of the Injured Heart Modulate Hypertrophic Signaling 下载免费PDF全文
Mónica P. A. Ferreira Sanjeev Ranjan Sini Kinnunen Alexandra Correia Virpi Talman Ermei Mäkilä Brianda Barrios‐Lopez Marianna Kemell Vimalkumar Balasubramanian Jarno Salonen Jouni Hirvonen Heikki Ruskoaho Anu J. Airaksinen Hélder A. Santos 《Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)》2017,13(33)
Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death globally. Severe myocardial ischemia results in a massive loss of myocytes and acute myocardial infarction, the endocardium being the most vulnerable region. At present, current therapeutic lines only ameliorate modestly the quality of life of these patients. Here, an engineered nanocarrier is reported for targeted drug delivery into the endocardial layer of the left ventricle for cardiac repair. Biodegradable porous silicon (PSi) nanoparticles are functionalized with atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), which is known to be expressed predominantly in the endocardium of the failing heart. The ANP–PSi nanoparticles exhibit improved colloidal stability and enhanced cellular interactions with cardiomyocytes and non‐myocytes with minimal toxicity. After confirmation of good retention of the radioisotope 111‐Indium in relevant physiological buffers over 4 h, in vivo single‐photon emission computed tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging and autoradiography demonstrate increased accumulation of ANP–PSi nanoparticles in the ischemic heart, particularly in the endocardial layer of the left ventricle. Moreover, ANP–PSi nanoparticles loaded with a novel cardioprotective small molecule attenuate hypertrophic signaling in the endocardium, demonstrating cardioprotective potential. These results provide unique insights into the development of nanotherapies targeted to the injured region of the myocardium. 相似文献