background the increasing use of mobile phones in recent years has caused concerns about the effects of electromagnetic waves of mobile phonesonhuman biological processes. objectives this study was conducted in order to survey the effects of mobile electromagnetic waves on electro cardiogram parameters as heart rate, tp segment, pr interval, time of qrs and t waves, and voltage of r wave. patie...

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women, both in the developed and developing countries. Women with mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Recent studies show that short-wavelength visible light disturb the secretion of melatonin and causes circadian rhythm disruption. We have previously studied the health effects of exposure...

Background Mobile learning affects learners through motivation, cooperation, information sharing, and availability. It provides opportunities for learners, learning providers and universities. This study aimed to examine the role of mobile learning on the academic achievement and self-regulation of paramedical sciences in Birjand University of Medical Sciences. Methods This survey is a quasi-ex...

Over 1 billion mobile phones are currently in use worldwide. In North America, particularly in the United States, the number of people using mobile phones has jumped from a mere 340,000 subscribers in 1985 to over 128 in 2001. Coupled with a relatively high discard rate and the intrinsic hazardousness of various mobile phone parts, the threat of waste mobile phones inundating the global waste s...

The cell phone though the mobile communication system is proved to be an advantageous method of communication over wired communication, there is another problem that is the mobile phones get lost or get misplaced. The losses are increasing day by day and there has been very little effort that has been done to obtain the lost mobile phone. The main scope for this paper is “The proposal for the d...

This study aims to determine the services provided by TSPs for motivating the consumers to purchase new e-era mobile phones and find their corresponding functions of products, and to plan new e-era mobile phones based on customers’ attributes for satisfying the customer needs. This study uses four aspects (image of product, price of product, function of product and derived function of product) ...

Mobile phones may provide a useful and engaging platform for supporting therapeutic services working with adolescents. This paper examines the potential benefits of the mobile phone for self-charting moods in comparison to existing methods in current practice. The paper describes a mobile phone application designed by the authors which allows adolescents to record moods on their personal mobile...

BACKGROUND Global burden of hospital-associated infection (HAI) is on the rise and contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality of the patients. Mobile phones are indispensible part of communication among doctors and other health care workers (HCWs) in hospitals. Hands of HCWs play an important role in transmission of HAI and mobile phones which are seldom cleaned and often touched duri...

Mobile phones contaminated with bacteria may act as fomites. Antibiotic resistant bacterial contamination of mobile phones of inpatients was studied. One hundred and six samples were collected from mobile phones of patients admitted in various hospitals in Jazan province of Saudi Arabia. Eighty-nine (83.9%) out of 106 mobile phones were found to be contaminated with bacteria. Fifty-two (49.0%) ...

Mobile phones adoption and diffusion is a practical issue that has significant implications for e-commerce and m-commerce development. Examining the adoption of mobile phones from the well-developed theoretical foundation of innovation diffusion theory may clarify some significant factors that affect the adoption decision. Moreover, with the understanding of the influence sources of mobile phon...