This PoW strategy allows for easy, broad participation, which in turn ensures greater network stability with minimal requirements on each participant, allowing participants to remain, for example, anonymous.
Some of these might have been protective of mental health: women in the intervention group were older, were more likely to be in higher status occupations and were more likely to speak English at home and therefore to have easier social participation.
Two areas were personal interest in the research question and outcome, and ease of participation: Easy to participate as it was Internet-based.
It seems that the easy gains in participation have been made, and that further increases will require addressing structural constraints that limit women's participation, like access to child and elder care.
True to form, it was a Florida Republican, Mike Bennett, who put it most succinctly, saying during a debate about the state's voter clampdown that he wanted to make democratic participation easy.
(3) It has an easy threshold for participation.
The unique approach is purposely designed to be easy, to maximize participation and provide instant feedback.
That's why Pawlenty has been working so hard to meet voters and sign them up -- campaigning for weeks in Iowa -- and is running shuttle buses to the straw poll to make participation easy and painless for supporters.
The enrolment of this study was relatively easy with active participation by 19 of the 20 selected centres.
The following criteria were chosen when asked about the 2 most important conditions for voluntary participation: easy handling (77.7%), feedback of results (43.1%), and financial compensation (38.9%).
