Evaluating patient-centered care (PCC) is crucial to its improvement. This pilot study tested the feasibility of an electronic format to assess PCC during hospitalization. Using a validated indicator of PCC imbedded on a mobile device, 86 older adults evaluated its delivery by registered nurses. Patients over 85 years of age rated PCC as poor (r=−0.22; p=.04). The electronic format was appraise...

Management of nomadic computers (either portable laptops or mobile robots) in actual networks brings new challenges for eecient resources access and cooperative work. New systems have to cope with communication breaking of. Systems should also manage resources mobility (due to hardware location change or cell change for wireless communication), that may lead to prohibitive resources use due to ...

BACKGROUND One of the most instrument demanding and expensive supplying sectors ofthe Health Care Systems is the anesthesia and the intensive therapy. In this professional sector with the support of our work a precise information system would be carried out and with the support of it not only the quality assurance and control but after applying a suitably elaborated standards, and indices finan...

Mobile technology shows promise in supporting and improving education and its delivery. Coupled with the use of mobile devices and software/hardware solutions that make it possible to access educational content, students can be exposed to new educational experience. Applications of mobile technology in education can provide many benefits including greater flexibility, more available education r...

Recently, mobile devices penetrate people’s everyday life and become personalized necessaries of human’s life. Therefore, people, today, always carry mobile device anytime and anywhere. Given the current lifestyle, the present paper believes that mobile device evolves to personal life recorder for caching everyday life. The LifeDiary creates daily activity automatically in a time line and allow...

An ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile hosts forming a temporary network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. In such an environment, it may be necessary for one mobile host to want the aid of other hosts in forwarding a packet to its destination, due to the limited range of each mobile host's wireless transmissions. In this paper Ad Hoc...

With the advancements in mobile technology and its utilization in every facet of life, mobile popularity has enhanced exponentially. The biggest constraint in the utility of mobile devices is that they are powered with batteries. Optimizing mobile’s size and weight is always the choice of designer, which led limited size and capacity of battery used in mobile phone. In this paper analysis of th...

The objective of this study was to assess the influence of some socioeconomic characteristics on purposes for which mobile phone was used by small scale farmers in the Gezira State, Sudan. The total number of small- scale farmers in the State for 2013-2014 growing season was estimated to be 5000. Ten percent of the population was used using the simple random sampling technique. The collected da...