Background. Telemedicine is defined as “the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide support health care when participants are separated” (Field M.J., 1998). The range from standard telephone audio consultations virtual reality scenarios. accelerated uptake telemedicine during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has resulted in valuable experience evidence on d...

BACKGROUND Dementia caregiving is often associated with increase in depressive symptoms and strained relationships. This study tested whether telephone-delivered psychoeducation combined with an enhanced behavioral activation (BA) module had a better effect on the well-being of Alzheimer's caregivers than psychoeducation alone. The focus is on enhancing the competent use of coping skills via BA...

The core functionality of an awareness system is to collect information about the activities of one individual or group and present it to another. These people may or may not be geographically separated, and the purpose of capturing the information can vary, from work purposes, monitoring the well being of a lone elderly, to affective communication, etc. By their nature, awareness systems tend ...

Wireless communication technologies are expected to constitute one of the most important growth businesses in the world electronics industry during the balance of the 1990s; current market projections are on the order of 50 % per year [1]. Digital wireless communications (DWC) systems are syntheses of numerous key and supporting technologies including wireless portable telephones, cellular tele...

The communications of emergency response managers were tracked during simulated catastrophic events at a university campus in the Washington, D.C. region. Local, state, and federal response managers interacted with each other and with students using a variety of communication media in order to investigate the utility of new communication channels for emergency response management. Students and ...

Instant Messaging is traditionally a text only affair. However, there are instances when it would be useful to bridge to other types of media, like speech. The SoftBridge is an application framework that enables this kind of communications bridging using instant messages. Its use of protocols like the Jabber Instant Messaging Protocol and the Simple Object Access Protocol makes it simple, open ...

The global communications system today (the telephone system yesterday) is considered as the largest man-made system all categories. While the demand for increased bandwidth in such systems increases, an increased interest in utilizing the available resources efficiently can be observed. Here, the subset of wireless cellular communications systems will be in focus and methods for transmitter po...

Recent research on the commercialization of scientific discoveries has emphasized the use of formal intellectual property rights (notably patents) as a mechanism for aligning the academic and entrepreneurial incentives for commercialization. Absent such explicit IPR and licensing, how is such open science commercialized? This paper examines the commercialization of Claude Shannon’s theory of co...

W hen the telephone was first invented, it was regarded as a luxury that only the wealthy could afford, and, as a result, its use grew slowly at first. More widespread use of the telephone occurred as the telephone system continued to expand, offering more people the opportunity to communicate across greater distances at lower costs. A similar trend occurred with other technological marvels of ...