Internet-based self-management offers an opportunity to achieve better asthma control in adolescent

Background: Internet and short message service are emerging tools for chronic disease management in adolescents, but few data exist on the barriers to and benefits of internet-based asthma self-management. Our objective was to reveal the barriers and benefits perceived by adolescents with well-controlled and poorly controlled asthma to current...

Distributed information and group decision-making: Effects of diversity and affect

Organizations tend to rely on small groups rather than individuals when important decision have to be made, based on the assumption that groups possess a broader range of informational resources and more diversity of insights than individuals. However, research on group decision-making shows that groups often fail to use effectively group...

On the passage of time: Temporal differences in video-mediated and face-to-face interaction

This paper examines team work over time in video-mediated non-collocated and traditional face-to-face same-room teams. In a longitudinal between-groups design, 22 three-person teams were tested in 4 1-h test sessions at 2-week intervals. A paper-folding task was designed for the experiment that had the potential to induce differences in team...

A generic assessment tool for evaluating C2 exercises

The management of an airforce base in the Netherlands stated the need to obtain a clear insight into the process of command and control (C2), with the objective of assuring the quality of the output of C2. In this respect, the following questions are relevant: (1) whiotes as described in the C2 chapters of the NATO's Shape Tactical Evaluation...