Hybrid interventions that use technology and remote intervention components to enhance existing in-person treatment programs represent a new reality, especially by adding an obesity program with a connective technology system which provides mobile decision support (ie, calorie and activity feedback).

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Viiiiva also allows the athlete to adjust settings, review activity summaries and to receive performance feedback from their iPhone or iPod at anytime, anywhere.

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By making the selection process a transparent community activity, Turner said, START.ac has created a unique feedback cycle.

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For lack of a better term, these mobile health devices and others like them share exercise and activity date with your smartphone or computer to give you real time feedback.

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Tighter monetary policy would then have made an adverse feedback loop more likely: The greater uncertainty about asset values would raise credit spreads, causing economic activity to contract further, thereby creating more uncertainty, making the financial crisis worse, causing the economic activity to contract further, and so on.

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Meanwhile, outside of that claustrophobic feedback loop of our face and our screen, the physical systems of the earth are degraded by human activity.

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