Introduction: The great use of electrical appliances in different life applications is one of the most obvious concerns because of its possible health drawbacks. These investigation reports results of electromagnetic field effect emitted from mobile phones on some biophysical parameters of human blood belonging to blood groups A, B, AB & O collected from the normal persons. The parameters obser...

Introduction: The use of cell phones is widespread and there are public concerns regarding its possible deleterious effects on human health especially on the pregnancy outcomes. In this study, structural changes of the placenta after applying the cell phone radiation were examined in the mice model.   Materials and methods: For this work, 40 pregnant Balb/C mice were randomly allocated to ...

Background: Previous studies have shown that exposure to electromagnetic fields produced by magnetic resonance imaging or mobile phones can lead to increased microleakage of dental amalgam.Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of electromagnetic field of a commercial dental light cure device and a common GSM mobile phone on microleakage of amalgam restorations.Ma...

Background: People who use home blood glucose monitors may use their mobile phones in the close vicinity of medical devices. This study is aimed at investigating the effect of the signal strength of 900 MHz GSM mobile phones on the accuracy of home blood glucose monitors.Methods: Sixty non-diabetic volunteer individuals aged 21 - 28 years participated in this study. Blood samples were analyzed ...

In this paper, we relook at the problem of pronunciation of English words using native phone set. Specifically, we investigate methods of pronouncing English words using Telugu phoneset in the context of Telugu Text-to-Speech. We compare phone-phone substitution and wordphone mapping for pronunciation of English words using Telugu phones. We are not considering other than native language phones...

background: with regard to large number of mobile users especially among college students in iran, addiction to mobile phone is attracting increasing concern. there is an urgent need for reliable and valid instrument to measure this phenomenon. this study examines validity and reliability of the persian version of mobile phone addiction scale (mpais) in college students. materials and methods: ...

INTRODUCTION Although it is becoming more and more accepted that driving while talking on a cell phone can be hazardous, most jurisdictions are making handheld phone use illegal while allowing hands-free phone use. METHODS The scientific literature exploring the effects of these two types of cell phone use on driving and driving-related performance is reviewed here. RESULTS Our review shows...

Background: Infertility is defined as inability to conceive after a year of sexual intercourses without the use of contraceptives. In half of the cases the causative factor is the male. Males are exposed to the effect of various environmental factors, which may decrease their reproductive capabilities. Phone electromagnetic power is very small, only a few hundredths of a microwave oven, but bec...

This paper explores direct phone-to-phone communication between the driver’s phone & the owner’s phone to support mobile sensing applications. Direct communication between driver’s phone & owner’s phone is an important in improving data collection efficiency and sharing participatory sensing information in an inexpensive manner. We design a practical and optimized communication mechanism for di...