OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to compare the effectiveness of two methods of follow-up: Short Message Service (SMS) versus telephone call on glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in type 2 diabetes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This semi-experimental study consisted of 77 patients with type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned into two groups: telephone follow-up (n = 39) and Short Message Service ...

There is a long history of authentication protocols designed for ease of human use, which rely on users copying a short string of digits. Historical examples include telex test keys and early nuclear firing codes; familiar modern examples include prepayment meter codes and the 3-digit card verification values used in online shopping. In this paper, we show how security protocols that are design...

background: increasing cost of cancer in the world and particularly in developing countries, postulates need for public participation in cancer control activities, including prevention, treatment and supportive care. we studied role of different factors on the success of advertising through short message services (sms) for public donations for cancer control activities. materials and methods: b...

Analysis of short message corpus is an important foundation for research of automatic short message processing technology. Based on large scale short message corpus, this paper firstly presents statistical data and performs analysis in detail on basic information of short message corpus and special language phenomena in it. The distributions of the corpus parameters and special language phenome...