I live dangerously. I tempt fate on a daily basis. Who am I? I am not a professional stuntman. I don’t fight fires. I’m not even taking Vioxx for arthritis. I am a bicycle commuter. I pedal to work. Why is my form of transportation so dangerous? Well, living in Dallas doesn’t help. Here, bicycle paths are far outnumbered by our vast roadway system. It also doesn’t help that so many of the cars ...

This paper presents a system for reading comics on cellular phones. It is necessary for comic images to be divided into frames and the contents such as speech text to be displayed at a comfortable reading size, since it is difficult to display highresolution images in a low resolution cellular phone environment. We have developed a scheme how to decompose comic images into constituent elements ...

A Chinese news summarization method is proposed in order to help humans deal with the message services of news briefs broadcast over cell phones. The problem to be solved here is unique because a strict length limit (69 or 45 characters) is imposed on the summaries for the message service. This requires some sort of automatic sentence fusion, rather than sentence selection alone. In the propose...

Distributed media have evolved since the time this mini-track was launched, seven years ago. Fueling these changes have been two important trends: one, technological, and the other, organizational. Technologically, many of the media have started to converge—cellular phones and personal organizers; PCs and phones/faxes; Internet-enabled TVs and PCs; the list goes on. Organizationally, we have se...

In this paper we discuss the unique security characteristics of cell phones in ad hoc mode for emergency applications. We assume as first security requirements: secure authentication with non-repudiation, the need to stop the spread of malicious information as soon as possible, and the defence against potential Denial of Service. We provide solutions to the above security challenges for cell ph...

This paper summarizes the experience gained at FernUniversität in two pilot projects concerned with utilizing cellular phones for higher education in the area of statistics. In the first project a complete course on descriptive statistics was developed and tried out with early WAP phones. Based on the results of the evaluation of that project, now a mobile game-like application called 'HistoBri...

In this chapter, a campus information providing system (CIPS) for cellular phones is proposed. By using this system, the search time to find the necessary information in the campus is reduced. Users can access the system using the cellular phone terminal and by clicking the links or by inserting a keyword in the form they can get easily the campus information. The system has four agents, which ...

BACKGROUND Cellular phones enable communication between healthcare providers and patients for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. However, few studies have examined the user-friendliness or effectiveness of cellular phone-based medical informatics (CPBMI) for healthcare. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study investigated the use of CPBMI to identify its current status within the medi...

BACKGROUND The use of cellular and cordless telephones has increased dramatically during the last decade. There is concern of health problems such as malignant diseases due to microwave exposure during the use of these devices. The brain is the main target organ. METHODS Since the second part of the 1990's we have performed six case-control studies on this topic encompassing use of both cellu...

Here we present the pooled analysis of 2 case-control studies on the association of brain tumours with mobile phone use. Use of analogue cellular phones increased the risk for acoustic neuroma by 5%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2-9% per 100 hrs of use. The risk increased for astrocytoma grade III-IV with latency period with highest estimates using >10-year time period from first use of these...