Even though the expanded programme for immunization (EPI) coverage at national level is high in Burkina (95% of fully vaccinated children), mothers of children following EPI in Health Centres (HC) would benefit from being reminded of EPI sessions by sending SMS (short message service) to their own mobile phone, or through mobile phone of a family member living in the same compound. SMS could be...

The whole framework of the new generation campus smart card system based on the mobile communication is designed in this article, and it realizes two technical breakthroughs when it could remain compatible with the existing campus smart card system platform. The first technology is that the design could use the wireless POS based on GPRS network to substitute the wire POS to implement the onlin...

Since the first handheld cellular phone was introduced in 1970s, the mobile phone has changed significantly both in terms of popularity and functionality. With more than 4.6 billion subscribers around the world, it has become a ubiquitous device in our daily life. Apart from the traditional telephony and text messaging services, people are enjoying a much wider range of mobile services over a v...

The objective of this work is to evaluate the Quality of Service (QoS) of a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) cell. Among UMTS characteristics, we focus the attention on two aspects strictly related with the identified QoS measures: the random-access procedure and the admission control strategy. Using a model-based approach, we model and evaluate a UMTS cell under several service...

This paper presents a platform used to acquire, analyse and transmit data from a vehicle to a Control Centre as part of a Pay-As-You-Drive system. The aim is to monitor vehicle usage (how much, when, where and how) and, based on this information, assess the associated risk and set an appropriate insurance premium. To determine vehicle usage, the system analyses the driver's respect for speed li...

one of the most important challenges for researchers is deciding on how to collect their data. there are various views on using telephone interviews. conducting telephone interviews on women of 40 years old and older in isfahan about mammography screening behavior showed that it could be an appropriate method for data collection when there is a combination of effective communication process and...

Mobile telephone systems divide the coverage area among low transmitting power sectors. This allows the so-called frequency reuse between sectors: geographically “distant” sectors might employ the same electromagnetic frequencies, since the probability of interference between them is small. The electromagnetic frequencies available for mobile communications are very limited and their use is reg...

patient, the use of a hands-free device to avoid recurrent trauma in the region was sufficient to cure the lesion. We have presented a case of CN antihelicis caused by work-related mobile telephone use for many hours a day. Although this etiology is not reported frequently in the literature, physicians should take into account the widespread use of mobile telephones when trying to determine the...

In Pakistan, like other countries of the world, electronic media have opened new avenues of information and entertainment for people from diversified sectors of life including agriculture. The paper covers the general use of electronic media by the farmers for various purposes and its relationship with demographic characteristics. The data were collected with the help of reliable and validated ...

Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) is a new standard, adopted by a consortium of the major United States cellular telephone companies, for data communication with wireless mobile hosts. CDPD is designed to carry data packets using using either IP or CLNP over the current cellular telephone network, utilizing the available idle capacity of the network not used by voice calls. Although much has ...