This article discusses the socio-economic impact of mobile telephony in a developing country like India. Emerging markets are experiencing technology leapfrogging in terms of telecom evolution and adaptation. While the rich and affluent use mobile technology to enhance their lifestyle, for the poor, mobile based applications can augment their daily livelihood. Due to economic compulsions, the f...

results the prevalence of excessive mobile phone use was 36.7% on the students. there was a significant relation between the prevalence of excessive mobile phone use and mental health status in general (p > 0.05), and also somatization (p < 0.05), anxiety and depression specifically (p < 0.05), but no significant relation was found between the excessive mobile phone use and social dysfunction (...

mobile robot navigation is one of the basic problems in robotics. in this paper, a new approachis proposed for autonomous mobile robot navigation in an unknown environment. the proposedapproach is based on learning virtual parallel paths that propel the mobile robot toward the trackusing a multi-layer, feed-forward neural network. for training, a human operator navigates themobile robot in some...

background: mobile health is one of the new technologies for the utilization of health information. for its successful implementation as well as any other system, we must primarily measure the adoption and use of its factors. the purpose of this study was to systematically investigate published articles about the factors affecting the adoption of mobile health and categorizing the factors affec...

despite the interest in sport and physical activities in iran, its role in spending the leisure time of various groups in the society is insignificant. therefore, the aim of this research is to study and identify the patterns of spending the leisure time with emphasize on physical activities and sport at ilam university. this study is a descriptive and a kind of field study. the statistical soc...

weight-gain and potency enhancing drugs are the most popular herbal products in iran which are easily available via the internet and through illegal markets. the content of some of these popularly purchased products were investigated for the presence of illegal substance like phosphodiesterase inhibitors (pdh-5) and corticosteroids by hplc method. for this study, ten samples of both kind of her...

While mobile handsets have always been heavily used for data communication most notably SMS and basic internet services like email and browsing, they are now beginning to be used increasingly often as platforms for accessing IT resources exposed as web services. However due to the resource constrains of smartphones and the often unreliable wireless connections it remains challenging to link the...

The usage of mobile equipment like PDAs, mobile phones, Tablet PCs or laptops is already common in our current information society. Typically, mobile information systems work in a context dependent (e.g. location dependent) manner. Considering this characteristics, we present a cache which uses trie-based indexing for the optimization of accessing data cached on the mobile devices.

Mobile multimedia services like news, weather forecasts and mobile television require efficient technologies for distributing multimedia contents simultaneously to large mobile user groups. UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) Release 6 standardises MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services) for the first time. This article gives an overview of the MBMS standard and discuss...