PURPOSE Dental professionals suffer from a high prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Dental hygienists in particular have a high prevalence of pain in the forearms and hands. The objective of this study was to compare 1 cordless handpiece to 2 corded handpieces during simulated tooth polishing in terms of the muscle loads (recorded as electromyography (EMG) activity), dur...

BACKGROUND A previous study found an association between maternal cell phone use during pregnancy and maternal-reported child behaviour problems at age 7. Together with cell phones, cordless phones represent the main exposure source of radiofrequency-electromagnetic fields to the head. Therefore, we assessed the association between maternal cell phone and cordless phone use during pregnancy and...

Objective The purpose of this study was to measure the temperature of the plugger tip of 3 cordless heat carriers set at 200°C. Materials and Methods Pluggers of the same taper (0.06, 0.08, 0.10) and similar tip sizes (sizes of 50 and 55) from 3 cordless heat carriers, namely SuperEndo-α2 (B & L Biotech), Friendo (DXM), and Dia-Pen (Diadent), were used and an electric heat carrier, System B (...

In this paper, low-IF receiver planning for Digital European Cordless Telephone (DECT) systems operating around 1.9 GHz is described. A low-IF receiver architecture is chosen, since it allows a high degree of integration. Unlike zero-IF receivers, this architecture does not have a DCoffset or self-reception problem. The main features of the DECT system are presented, including the translation f...

IEEE 802.11b compliant WLAN technology is increasingly used for cordless telephone services. Often, a WLAN phone is moved during a call. In the present paper we explore to what extent slow user motion influences the wireless link quality. We conducted extensive measurements with speech over commercial WLAN equipment using an experimental environment enforcing controlled motion. Our experiments ...

We studied the association between use of mobile and cordless phones and malignant brain tumours. Pooled analysis was performed of two case-control studies on patients with malignant brain tumours diagnosed during 1997-2003 and matched controls alive at the time of study inclusion and one case-control study on deceased patients and controls diagnosed during the same time period. Cases and contr...