IMPORTANCE A thorough understanding of why we hold a cell phone to a particular ear may be of importance when studying the impact of cell phone safety. OBJECTIVE To determine if there is an obvious association between sidedness of cell phone use and auditory hemispheric dominance (AHD) or language hemispheric dominance (LHD). It is known that 70% to 95% of the population are right-handed, and...

Endowed with Hall-effect sensors and voice coil motors, cell phone cameras as intelligent systems are capable to execute auto-focusing for acquiring sharp image. For the use of cell phone cameras, this study presents an innovative auto-focusing module. When coils are powered, induced magnetic fields generate N and S poles around iron cores in the actuator. Unlike voice coil motors that employ L...

Since the advent of laser, acousto-optic modulators have been an important tool for controlling light. Recent advances in on-chip lithium niobate waveguide technology present new opportunities these devices. We demonstrate a collinear modulator suspended film employing high-confinement, wavelength-scale waveguide. By strongly confining optical and mechanical waves, this improves figure-of-merit...

The incidence of testicular cancer, cryptorchidism and defective spermatogenesis is increasing probably due to environmental and lifestyle-related factors. The aim of this review is to briefly describe and comment on the principal lifestyle factors. The recent findings that the electromagnetic waves following the use of the cell phone and the prolonged exposure to the noise stress cause relevan...

This work presents a detailed investigation of the effect auxeticity synergised with pyro-coupling behaviour multiphase magneto-electro-elastic (M-MEE) composites using finite element (FE) framework. The nonlinear deflection and bending problems sandwich plates auxetic core M-MEE skins subjected to multi-physics load (electric, magnetic thermal) are probed. plate kinematics is governed by Reddy...

No.1, Roosevelt Rd,. Sec. 4, TaGei, Taiwan 106, R.O.C. Phone: 886-2-2363525 1, Fax: 886-2-23678254, E-mail: [email protected] Shyh-Lin Tsao Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Technology, National Taiwan Normal University, No.88, Ting-ChouiRd,. Sec. 4, Taipei, Taiwan 116, R.O.C. Phone: 886-2-29350349, FAX: 886-2-29350382, E-mail: [email protected],tw Abstract Analysis of rhe minim...

1. Biological effects of electromagnetic waves emitted by a vacuum tube oscillator have been studied at frequencis ranging from 8,300,000 to 158,000,000 cycles per second (1.9 to 38 meters wave-length). 2. The effects produced on animals can be fully explained on the basis of the heat generated by high frequency currents which are induced in them. 3. No evidence was obtained to support the theo...

Terahertz (THz) frequency range, lying between the optical and microwave range covers a significant portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Though its initial usage started in the 1960s, active research in the THz field started only in the 1990s by researchers from both optics and microwaves disciplines. The use of optical fibers for THz application has attracted considerable attention in rec...