Introduction The negative health effects of electromagnetic radiation and psychological dependence are among the major consequences of widespread cell phone use in the general population, especially among adolescents. In this study, the relationship between cell phone use and sleep quality parameters was evaluated. Materials and Methods The study sample consisted of 820 students (305 males and ...

Background: There is a great concern for the possible adverse effects of cell phones and noise waves and it looks these wave effects on the individuals’ health. Thus, the present study was conducted to examine the effect of cell phone waves, severity noise, and simultaneous effect of cell phone waves and severity noise on sperm motility and sexual hormones in adult male rats. Materials and Meth...

Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) is an emerging technology that is beginning to replace traditional telephone services because it is much more cost effective for the consumer and businesses. Long distance charges are relatively a thing of the past, and in general there are more feature-rich services available over a VoIP line than traditional phone services. VoIP provides phone services with...

An important aspect of a Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) system for pronunciation acquisition is the automatic detection of mispronunciations. This problem can be formulated as a phone verification task. For each phone to be verified, the system generates a verification score and a decision threshold is applied to accept or reject the pronunciation of that phone. Most verification sy...

This paper describes a text retrieval system for cellular phones with Web browsing capability, which accepts spoken queries over the cellular phone and provides the search result on the cellular phone screen. This system recognizes spoken queries by large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR), retrieves relevant document by text retrieval, and provides the search result on the World ...

Java cellular phone has arrived in the marketplace as the latest device of a mobile gear. The gear is very compact, allowing 10KB for Java program size and 5KB for data size. Although small in size, it features innovative computer system architecture. Java program can be sent dynamically to the gear in a streaming manner over wireless network. In addition, compared to conventional mobile comput...