While often being reminded to pay full attention to driving, people regularly engage in a wide variety of multi-tasking activities when they are behind the wheel. Indeed, as the average time spent commuting increases, there is a growing interest in trying to make the time spent on the roadway more productive. Unfortunately, due to the inherent limited capacity of human attention, engaging in th...

We describe a game for second-generation (2G) cell phones with small color screens, e.g., Mitsubishi Electric’s J-D05 J-Phone. The game is a simulation that is based on the popular Japanese pastime of breeding koi (ornamental carp). It differs from other breeding-based games by attempting to emulate an existing real-world hobby: our digi-koi look like real koi and our simulated genetics exhibit...

This study uses machine learning techniques to identify the key drivers of financial development in Africa. To this end, four regularization – Standard lasso, Adaptive minimum Schwarz Bayesian information criterion and Elasticnet– are trained based on a dataset containing 86 covariates for period 1990 - 2019. The results show that variables such as cell phones, economic globalization, instituti...

Mobile phones can be transformative for community health workers (CHWs) in enhancing their influence and status and helping to solve practical problems. While formal intervention research can help advance mHealth application, most progress will come through a "diffusion of innovation" process.

ISSUES The rapid rise of mobile phone use in poor countries is well known as an exemplary case of a technology enabling bottom-up empowerment through information access, driven by smallmargin business and end-user innovation. While many are not mobile phone owners themselves, few today face a several mile walk to access an often-disconnected landline phone for communication, which was a regular...

BACKGROUND The Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts outreach for public preparedness for natural and manmade incidents. In 2011, OPHPR conducted a nationwide mobile public health (m-Health) campaign that pushed brief videos on preparing for severe winter weather onto cell phones, with the objective of evaluating the...

Smart phones have permeated every part of people’s lives in the mobile internet era and are virtually taken for granted on a daily basis. Chinese primary school students facing serious problem with gaming addiction as result their easy access to cell phones. The excessive usage games has negative impacts children’s academic performance, physical health, mental may possibly severe, irreversible ...

Myth: Cell phones and other similar technology increase the risk of brain tumors. Answer: Lawsuits and news headlines have fueled the myth that cell phones cause cancer, particularly brain cancer. According to a survey by Gansler (2008), about 30% of Americans believe the myth. Cell phones are clearly visible in society. Statistics show that 79% of the U.S. population and 90% of European and As...

It is a challenge to provide a wide range of queries to database query systems for small mobile devices, such as the PDAs and cell phones. Currently, due to the physical and resource limitations of these devices, most reported database querying systems developed for them are only offering a small set of pre-determined queries for users to possibly pose. The above can be resolved by allowing fre...

This paper deals with modern cellular phones that operate on Voice over Internet Protocol, their current development, several Information security risks associated with them and various countermeasures that can be undertaken to prevent data theft/misuse. VoIP is vulnerable to well known traditional modes of attack such as Denial of Service (DoS),Man in the middle (MiTM) etc but also introduces ...