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The Internet, the new mobile devices and cloud storage are changing the way in which people deal with information; we still need great storage capacity and information readers but we also value ubiquity and data synchronization between the different devices that we are using. Access has become more important than storage. The web as a tool is leading to the obsolescence of digital media that are just 20 years old and boosts the multimedia possibilities of paper, an analog medium that facilitates the relationship between people and mobile devices. We go through some of the experiences carried out in the Muskiz public library exploring the new multimedia possibilities of paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at introducing the Kalman's filter to science and engineering undergraduate students by means of a simple experiment. It consists in the free fall of an umbrella equipped with a mobile phone from a height of a few-meters. Using the data provided by the accelerometer embedded in the phone, it is shown that the use of the Kalman filter allows determining the terminal velocity without the need of performing multiple repetitions of the experiment. Three methods for finding the covariance matrix of the control vector are tested, and their results are compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reconstructs and analyzes the tensions raised in a high school in La Plata from a series of actions taken by "pro-life" groups in 2018 in order to oppose the implementation of Comprehensive Sexual Education (ESI). Based on a set of interviews conducted with some of the intervening actors, the analysis of institutional documents and different secondary sources (such as journalistic articles, publications on digital social networks and photographic and audiovisual images produced through mobile phones), the paper explores the disputes regarding the ways of conceiving the religious in contemporary societies, particularly in relation to educational processes and the realization of reproductive and non-reproductive sexual rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

this study aims to understand the uses of digital technologies in thesis writing from the perspective of students of a Master's degree in Education. In this exploratory qualitative research, in-depth interviews were conducted with five students. Each researcher read the transcripts and generated codes and themes; then the codes were compared and the transcripts coded in NVivo in order to obtain a single set of categories, comprising: digital resources, ict, master's degree writing and training, electronic devices, digital-analog articulation. According to the analysis, the laptop and the computer are presented as central devices, although the cell phone is also used. The thesis students, by means of electronic devices and digital resources, seem to prepare suitable writing based on what they initially put down on paper, in a recording or a digital file. Thus, with regard to research and writing, some analogical practices are still in place, although there is a clear shift from paper-based practices to the use of digital tools and online resources. Finally, intentional training in academic writing during the research process would make it possible to verify the nexus between writing and technological mediation as a more implicit issue in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sets out the objective of formulating mechanisms that promote free competition in the mobile telephony market in the member countries of the Pacific Alliance (Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru). This proposal is based on the principles of regional governance to start from the criteria of a political-legal order to generate more significant degrees of socioeconomic integration and commercial transparency. The research was exploratory with hermeneutical reasoning within the framework of the documentary review, analyzing the main concepts and benefits represented by the adoption of better conditions of free competition and regional governance. The main results express a proposal focused on the consolidation of an inter-parliamentary commission for commercial monitoring that gives greater recognition to the integration agreements of the presidential summits, through sector studies and democratic participation protocols that benefit all the players in the mobile phone market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term webtoon comes from the composition of web and cartoon and it starts to be used in 2000. Based in some way on the popularity of paper comics in South Korea, Daum website launched a webtoon service in 2003 for the first time. This work analyses the peculiarities of the Korean webtoon, specifically its verticality, adapted especially to mobile phones, and its transmediality, which facilitates the adaptation of these comics to other formats such as movies, TV series, novels, games, animation, etcétera. A list of the numerous webtoon adaptations to various media is collected, as well as the more detailed explanation of one of the paradigmatic webtoon in Korea: Misaeng. Webtoon's brief history in the domestic market and its vigorous expansion to the global market since 2013 (encircled within the popular Korean wave Hallyu) are explained. The strategies of the major webtoon companies (Naver, Daum, Kakao, and Lezhin) are briefly shown. The near constant growth in all parameters studied shows the vitality of the webtoon industry already in the global market, also with numerous works available in Spanish language. By approaching webtoon's authors and readers we aim to get a little closer to the phenomenon of webtoon and its success, especially among young people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The urban growth and development strategies of the cities are defined in their urban planning. Since its inception, one of the main objectives of the municipal GIS of Cáceres was to make urban planning more accessible to all users. In 2016, a complicated transformation of the current Municipal General Plan, approved in March 2010 on paper, was carried out for its publication in the local SDI. The necessary mechanisms were defined to ensure that its GIS version and the original paper version were the same, and to manage future modifications, ensuring the consistency at any moment of the WMS services offered. The result can be seen on two viewers, one for mobile phones and the other one available in the official app of the City Council, called «Cáceres View». Due to this work, technicians and professionals can consult the urban plans and obtain urban planning files directly on their mobile devices in real time, without the need to carry out the consultation in person at the municipal offices. Likewise, in the last three years, and thanks to the coordinated work of the Urban Planning and Planning services, all urban planning documentation has been rescued and inventoried since 1961, for its digitization, georeferencing and publication in the local SDI. This is what we call the "Archeology of Urban Planning of Cáceres", which allows the geographical and urban situation of a specific parcel of the municipality to be analyzed at any time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces part of the results of an investigation that aimed to analyze, from a socio-pedagogical perspective, the conflict and coexistence strategies between students and teachers of secondary schools in Buenos Aires City. From a qualitative methodology, through classroom observations and interviews with students and teachers from two secondary schools, we analyzed the meanings and practices they construct around different uses of cell phones in the classroom. We found meanings and practices linked to students' boredom or lack of interest, negotiations between teachers and students, and manners of regulating their use by the latter. Although cell phones generate conflictive situations and constitute a challenge to manage coexistence in school classes, we conclude that their presence in classrooms is not necessarily the cause but rather the expression of tensions inherent to the relational dynamics of contemporary secondary schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological progress has captured students' attention to the extent that they are particularly absorbed by their mobile phones, computers, and some others similar tools. Thus, teachers must take advantage of this situation and consider how hybrid genres such as instant messaging currently influence new generations. What It is sustained in this paper is the potential advantage that the use of instant messaging, through the WhatsApp Messenger application, may have as a pedagogical resource within High School classroom, and more specifically, in 3rd year of ESO literature classes. Genre hybridity is considered to support this hypothesis, despite reticence that several linguists have about such distinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In orienteering and by extension in physical education we learn to locate ourselves on a map to get where we want. We are moving in an increasingly technological world and the use of mobile phones in teenagers is increasing. The main objective of this study was to compare and evaluate the influence on the use of a geolocation mobile application on a final performance in a school orienteering course, using three different types of maps. A student satisfaction survey was administered at the end of the activity performed. The type of maps used were: paper orienteering map, digitized orienteering map and digitized orthophoto map, the latter two georeferenced in a mobile application. The results show that using smartphone resulted in significantly better times, as well as a higher level of satisfaction, than doing it without digital support. This could be because the geolocation pointer facilitates decision-making during the race and thus would improve the total time. We therefore conclude that the use of the located base application during school orienteering course is more efficient and motivating than the use of traditional maps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A systematic review was carried out to identify microorganisms reported as contaminating. Publications were included between 2008 and 2018, using keywords like "health workers" and "cell phone", among others. Research and review of articles. The papers quality is evaluated through the checklist STROBE. Twenty-one articles were analyzed. In all studies, the presence of contamination in the cell phones of health workers was identified, with a median of 84.3%, highlighting the presence of Staphylococcus aureus (85.7%) and Escherichia coli (61.9%). It is concluded that the use of cell phones in the hospital environment by health workers is a potential source of transmission of microorganisms of clinical interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the approaches that is arising more and more in the field of education, and more specifically in the foreign language field, is mobile phone assisted learning. The aim of this paper is to investigate, through a questionnaire survey divided into 4 parts, the actual use of mobile phones by 40 Ourense campus (University of Vigo, Spain) students, their attitudes and the problems they face. The most significant findings show that in order to integrate the mobile device successfully into the teaching-learning process, this should be accompanied by specific training of users, encouraging the use of the tool and favouring attitudes, because if the end users are not convinced of its success, this will result in a high probability of failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is the way to conceive and develop the uses of argument in an ad for an antiwrinkle cream, a luxury product, a washing machine, a mobile phone, a computer, a perfume, a sanitary towel or a condom essentially the same or different? How does advertising reason? Does the taboo have any repercussion on the argumentative strategies used by advertisers when promoting a product? In order to answer these questions, we will focus on the arguments used in advertising as a whole and particularly on those normally used for some uncomfortable products (or 'unmentionable' ones) such as feminine hygiene products (sanitary towels and tampons) and prophylactics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, studies in communication and especially journalism are necessary, even a challenge. This is justified by the dynamism of contemporary media ecosystem, which corresponds to the media, emerging technologies and societies, increasingly participant in communication processes. In fact, these transformations have changed not only the processes but also the compositions of the professional groups, which work in the construction of contemporary news, now multi-language and designed to devices previously adopted, such as mobile phones and tablets. Like the data journalism, which considers the phenomenon of big data and information available in the cloud, despite to not stand out so important when disguised between contents. The crescent participation of professionals in the sciences and engineering is explained to work with these files and binary scenarios, leading to think about selection, cleaning, understanding and build public space from digital concepts of multiplatform. In this study, it was adopted some methodological procedures which include bibliographies research, as fundamental research to understand the process of evolution and practice of journalism comprising the fundamental data to develop the proposal initially raised. With the conclusion of this study, we can understand the Transmedia Journalism as perfect language to develop content based in Big Data, Algorithms for a current data journalism. This is the proposal offered in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mobile ecosystems constitute a clear example of emerging business models promoting openness and collaboration with external agents. The results of the empirical analysis presented in this paper reveal that (i) firms competing in the mobile industry must involve external resources in their business models in order to enact dynamic capabilities, (ii) there exists a strong relationship between the intensity of external resources incorporated and the ability of the firm to create value according to markets' expectations, (iii) there exist a strong relationship between the intensity of external resources and the final value delivered to consumers. As a result this paper finds evidence of the importance of open business models to articulate the dynamic capabilities to adapt to the market, extract economic value and reconfigure its internal resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a literature review and experiment results from pilot-doctoral research "assembly language visual narrative for the documentary film interactive," which defend the thesis that there are features interactive audio and video editing of the movie, even as causing agent of interactivity. The search for interactive audio-visual formats are present in international investigations, but sob glances technology. He believes that this paper is to propose possible formats for interactive audiovisual production film, video, television, computer and cell phone from the postmodern society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluation and indicators definition is an issue in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). Previous studies have evaluated first and second generations of SDI in comparison to their planned or anticipated development. This is following an exante approach. However, current SDI trends requires consideration of additional elements for a proper evaluation. The rise of mobile devices, sensors and the growing citizen collaboration are driven the SDI development to a third generation which demands interactive contents, frequently updates, real-time and participation. This paper proposes a system of indicators aimed at evaluating the performance of new SDI trends under an ex-post approach, i.e. after its development. The indicator system assesses two dimensions of management processes that occur in the GeoWeb: participation (through dialogue and empowerment) and dynamism. This work contributes to the improvement of existing SDI evaluation systems by integrating specific indicators for new technology trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose the construction of a simple microscope recreating the operating principle of Leeuwenhoek microscope, using in this case a camera lens of a cell phone. With this device we can observe and take pictures of cellular structures, whose enlarged images allow to see some tiny details. Details are provided to build the microscope in a simple way with common materials. We also report the implementation of the proposal with students of a teacher training institute and the obtained results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the most relevant results of a study in which opinions of the teachers in the area of Fresno (Central California, USA) about the effects of the integration of mobile devices into the teaching-learning process. Among other objectives, this study has tried to analyze the influence of mobile learning over three very important learning factors: affective-emotional (motivation), ethic-social (social skills) and the cognitive one (cognitive skills). In order to carry out this study, a descriptive methodological approach was adopted, using the survey technique as the most adequate method to collect teachers' opinions in a relatively fast and precise way. Obtained results show a widespread agreement among teachers about the pedagogical potential of mobile devices as a tool to improve learning quality. In general terms, conclusions suggest an improvement in the students' interest on educational tasks, an increase during study activities, a better collaborative work, as well as an improvement of creativity and information acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a study on appropriation and educational uses of cell phones in a random sample of 954 students and 246 teachers, representing 12% and 24% respectively of the total population of the two campuses of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in Ensenada, Mexico. A survey was developed and applied to this university population in 2011. The results show that students had used cell phones for an average of seven years, while teachers had an average of ten years of use. Students were able to operate their mobile devices with more ease. Cell phone ownership was 97% among the teachers and students. However, we observed that there was not much use of the cell phone for educational purposes, the principal ones being communication, information management and organization. The main disadvantages found were the potential for distraction and the high cost of Wi-Fi connection. The cell phone has great educational potential; nevertheless, further research is needed for its proper integration in the university educational process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the studies of a new form of peer harassment, cyber-bullying (CB), which uses new information and communication technologies, mostly Internet and mobile phones, to harass colleagues. We analyzed the studies that have investigated the prevalence and effects of CB. The results of this review reveal a high prevalence of CB in all countries. Approximately, 40% and 55% of students are involved in some way (victims, perpetrators, observers), between 20% and 50% reported experiences of victimization, but only between 2% and 7% have suffered severely. It confirms variations according to the country, ages of the samples, and the time period over which information is requested. Regarding the effects, studies show that cyber-victims experience anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, stress, fear, low self-esteem, feelings of anger and frustration, helplessness, nervousness, irritability, somatization, sleep disturbances, and concentration difficulties that affect their academic performance; whereas cyber-attackers show a lack of empathy, aggressive and criminal behavior, higher use of alcohol and drugs, dependence on technology, and truancy. The discussion focuses on the importance of taking action to prevent CB and on intervention when it has already occurred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Market response to mobile television usage is quite modest in most European countries. No single reason explains this situation. On the contrary, a set of complex and interrelated causes can be found. On the supply side, the potential hurdles are in the technical (infrastructures, standards), economic (revenue models, content availability) and normative domains. On the demand side, companies must understand the (real) utility derived by consumers and the circumstances in which they intend to use the service. The conditions for mobile television success are, therefore, the research question of this paper. It is concluded that removal of these barriers, focus on the user (rather than on the product), and stronger institutional commitment are key factors for mobile television development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New technologies have involved a great opportunity to improve business management. On the one hand, Internet is beginning to be a selling channel that is valid and complementary of the traditional channel, apart from being a channel to search information and socialize. On the other hand and recently, mobile marketing is useful in a commercial sense: the mobile phone incorporates television, camera, radio, chat and now firms are introducing in the issue of advertising and in other regions in selling through the mobile phone. In spite of the increasing number of studies on traditional distribution and on electronic commerce, the studies that explore the possibilities and challenges of the mobile telephone and that compare it with Internet as buying and selling channels are scarce. The goal of this study is to compare the situation of B2C buying and selling through Internet and through the mobile phone and the theoretical approaches applied in each case. This paper presents common advantages for consumers and firms in both buying and selling channels and also clear differences between them. Besides, this study revises the main approaches and determinants of the buying in each case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an approach to the relationship between youth identities and cellular phone technology, in order to explain the transition from a social landscape in which traditional mass communication media used to predominate to the actual one, a new "personal communication society". The methodology was built up taking into account: theory discuss (from authors like Marc Augé, Georg Simmel, Manuel Castells, Martín-Barbero and other specialists on mobile telephony); concept articulation with national statistics data and some explorative (but not probabilistic) research by informally interviewing young people. Youths seem to find in mobile communication an ideal way of expression and reassurance on which many of the dimensions which characterize young urban cultures rely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mobility and access to Web contents and services from any place having an internet connection are both advantages of using mobile devices like mobile phones, pdas, smartphones, ultra mobile PCs or ultra low cost PCs. However, new questions also arise, mainly related to content accessibility: their characteristics, connections and the way people in motion connect to the internet generate different requirements. In this paper a general landscape of the mobile web is drawn from a librarian's perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, mobile phones are an essential communication tool and even a personal symbol which often defines the personality of the young people of the 21th century. Thus, it is important to analyze the causes and consequences of its success, above all, among teenagers, who are the real driving force behind this technology. The present paper analyzes the main features of mobile phones marketing -product, price, distribution and communication- and also. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a research about the use, availability and some aspects concerning relationships in a sample of adolescents (N=1211) aged between 12 and 16 from the province of Girona establish with different people in relation to the use of their mobile phones. Gender differences are observed with regard to availability and use, girls being the ones who, proportionally, have more mobile phones and dedicate more hours to using them. Adolescents prefer to talk about what they do using their mobile phone with their peers followed by their siblings and finally with adults (parents and teachers). Finally adolescents are shown to be more interested and informed trough Internet and the mobile phone than trough the four other audiovisual media (television, computer, computer games and video games). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]