PURPOSE To investigate the presence of auditory and nonauditory symptoms in professionals working in ambulances. METHODS This was a descriptive cross-sectional study with a convenience sample. Thirty-six professionals working in mobile support units, including drivers and nursing technicians from two private urgency and emergency services in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, p...

MSTDM is a variant of the Ethernet protocol that provides quality of service guarantees for voice. This protocol has been applied to LAN’s and CATV networks. Cellular networks are different: 1) Each cell has a base station: When mobile units communicate through the base station, frequency reuse increases and collisions are detected. 2) The objective is to connect mobile units to the communicati...

We consider the application of high volume information dissemination in broadcast based mobile environments. Since current mobile units accessing broadcast information have limited battery capacity, the problem of quick and energy-eecient access to data becomes particularly relevant as the number and sizes of information units increases. We propose several randomized and Huuman-encoding based i...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to examine underserved women's perceptions on mobile versus fixed mammography in Santa Clara, California through a focus group study. BACKGROUND  Research has shown that medically underserved women have higher breast cancer mortality rates correlated with under-screening and a disproportional rate of late-stage diagnosis. The Community Health Partnership in Santa Clara C...

Background: In recent years, the widespread use of microwave producing instruments specially mobile phones; result in growing concern regarding the possible effects associated with these waves on human health. Some studies highlight the possible health hazards of electromagnetic fields (EMF), while others contest the hypothesis of biological impact of EMF. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...

Issue addressed: Mobile applications are increasingly being used in health promotion initiatives. Although there is evidence that developing these mobile health applications in multidisciplinary teams is good practice, there is a gap in the literature with respect to evaluation of the process of this partnership model and how best to disseminate the application into the community. The aim of th...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to explore the prevalence of microbiological contamination of mobile phones that belong to clinicians in intensive care units (ICUs), pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), and neonatal care units (NCUs) in all public secondary care hospitals in Kuwait. The study also aimed to describe mobile phones disinfection practices as well as factors associated...