We conducted a trial of mobile phone text messaging (short message service; SMS) for diabetes management. In an eight-month period, 23 diabetic patients used the service. Patients used SMS to transmit data such as blood glucose levels and body weight to a server. The server automatically answered with an SMS acknowledgement message. A monthly calculated glycosylated haemoglobin result was also ...

In this paper 1 a study of SMS messages in a large US based cellular carrier utilizing both customer reported SMS spam and network Call Detail Records (CDRs) is conducted to develop a comprehensive understanding of SMS spam in order to develop strategies and approaches to detect and control SMS spam activity. The analysis provides insights into content classification of spam campaigns as well a...

Star STING is the latest version of the STING suite of programs and corresponding database. We report on five important aspects of this package that have acquired some new characteristics, designed to add key advantages to the whole suite: 1) availability for most popular platforms and browsers, 2) introduction of the STING_DB quality assessment, 3) improvement in algorithms for calculation of ...

an organization beyond rote subscription to an SMS. a truly safe operation is not defined simply by the presence of a safety management system (SMS). While an SMS is a good start, more is needed, much more. The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt SMSs has clearly focused attention on the concept of an SMS. However, a decision ...

Due to its ubiquitous availability, Short Message Service (SMS), first introduced in the 1980s, became not only the most popular way of communication, but also stimulated the development of SMS-based value added services. This application-to-person traffic is delivered to end users through SMS aggregators who provide the link between service providers and mobile carriers. In order to perform op...

The popularization of mobile data services such as SMS (shortmessagingservice) has prompted the development of mobile marketing. The deployment of SMS based marketing campaigns has been noted as a very successful mean of reaching consumers. The available literature on mobile marketing has a strong emphasis on consumer perceptions towards SMS based campaigns. However, there is a clear lack of kn...

The stiff man syndrome (SMS) and its variants, focal SMS, stiff limb (or leg) syndrome (SLS), jerking SMS, and progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus (PERM), appear to occur more frequently than hitherto thought. A characteristic ensemble of symptoms and signs allows a tentative clinical diagnosis. Supportive ancillary findings include (1) the demonstration of continuous musc...

conclusions the use of sms-based education is a constant and efficient educational approach for increasing mothers’ level of knowledge about children’s sleep health. background sleep-deprivation in children decreases the quality of life and endangers health. increasing mother’s level of awareness can help improve the children’s sleep schedule and avoid many associated problems. objectives this ...

The STAM project addresses the problem of automatic transcription of SMS language and especially the translation of messages written in Arabic dialect. The objective of STAM system is to automatically translate texts written in SMS language in a dialect spoken in the Arab World (source language) into a French text (target language), interpretable and understandable. Mots-clés : Dialecte, SMS, T...

Bangladesh is a moderate Islamic country. There are six full pledged Islamic banks providing services to wide range of customers. This study is designed to examine the impact of demographic disparities on the bank selection criteria applied by diversified customers of domestic Islamic banks in Bangladesh. We have run regression analysis after controlling for four demographic groupings such as G...