Background: The use of mobile apps for health and well being promotion has grown
exponentially in recent years. Yet, there is currently no app-quality assessment tool beyond “star”-…

Background: There is growing evidence for the positive impact of mindfulness on wellbeing.
Mindfulness-based mobile apps may have potential as an alternative delivery medium for …

Background: The Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) provides a reliable method to
assess the quality of mobile health (mHealth) apps. However, training and expertise in mHealth …

This book covers the method of metric distances and its application in probability theory and
other fields. The method is fundamental in the study of limit theorems and generally in …

The period between 15 and 25 years is characterised by much personal change and is the
peak age of onset of mental health problems. This prompts an interest in everyday strategies …

The classes of reward‐risk optimization problems that arise from different choices of reward
and risk measures are considered. In certain examples the generic problem reduces to …

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work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. …

In the post-crisis era, financial institutions seem to be more aware of the risks posed by
extreme events. Even though there are attempts to adapt methodologies drawing from the vast …

Over 50% of young people have dated by age 15. While romantic relationship concerns are
a major reason for adolescent help-seeking from counselling services, we have a limited …

Distortion risk measures are perspective risk measures because they allow an asset manager
to reflect a client’s attitude toward risk by choosing the appropriate distortion function. In …