OBJECTIVE The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) classified mobile phone addiction disorder under "impulse control disorder not elsewhere classified". This study surveyed the diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV-TR for the diagnosis of mobile phone addiction in correspondence with Iranian society and culture. METHOD Two hundred fifty stud...

BACKGROUND Depression is a common mental disorder that is widely seen among adolescents suffering from mobile phone addiction. While it is well known that both positive emtions in adolescents wiotions and social support can have a positive impact by helping individuals to maintain a positive attitude, the correlation between positive emotions, social support, and depression among these adolesce...

-Now a day, e-commerce sites are very popular. Online shopping using wap enabled mobile phone has widely come into use. Debit and credit cards are used for secure etransaction. As the technology developed thief are also very smart, they stolen our detail from wap and use it. we present a model that can be used for secure transaction during using smart phone and give the features of smart phone ...

This paper presents a system whose purpose is to monitor a patient continuously from indoor or outdoor environments. The system is based on a Bluetooth PAN, carried by the patient, whose central node, a smart phone, compiles information about patient’s location and health status. These data are encrypted to be sent to a server through Wifi or GPRS/UMTS. The system provides facilities to access ...

background: the present study aimed to determine attitudes and effective factors in the acceptance of smart phones by physicians of the largest university of medical sciences in the south of iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed using structural equation modelling (sem) in 2014. study participants included 200 physicians working in the hospitals of shiraz university of medical...

Introduction: Smartphone overuse is a dependence syndrome seen among certain smartphone users. Some users exhibit problematic behaviors related to overuse. addiction causes health impacts and changes in health. Present studywas conducted assess the its B.Sc. (Hons.) Nursing students at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur. Methodology:Descriptive survey design was used total 148 sam...

New multimedia smart phones for wireless voice and data communications are now available. In this paper, a new user interface for a Personal Communications Services (PCS) smart phone is described. The user interface is designed around the unique characteristics of mobile wireless applications. Both the physical characteristics of the phone and the way users interact with applications are unique...

The Pattern of Structural Relationships Mobile Phone Addiction in Male Students Based on Negative Excitement and Boredom Proneness with the Mediating Role Self-Monitoring: A Descriptive Study

OBJECTIVE To assess the utilisation pattern of smart phones by residents and consultants with respect to their clinical work and academics. METHODS The cross-sectional study was carried out in orthopaedic departments of various hospitals in Karachi in July 2014. Orthopaedic residents and consultants were asked to fill a questionnaire containing various questions, including utilisation of thei...

As various smart devices are introduced, the application software for analyzing the pattern and the quantity of exercise is addressed as a promising smart-phone application. In this paper, we propose a classification scheme of ambulatory movements with barometer and accelerometer of a smart-phone. According to the experimental results, the difference of barometer datum can provide the character...