OBJECTIVE This study is a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature to identify the correlates of mobile screen media use among children aged 8 years and less. SETTING Home or community-based studies were included in this review while child care or school-based studies were excluded. PARTICIPANTS Children aged 8 years or less were the study population. Studies that included larger a...

RATIONALE Information retrieval technology tends to become nothing less than crucial in physician daily practice, notably in family medicine. Nevertheless, few studies examine impacts of this technology and their results appear controversial. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Our article aims to explore these impacts using the medical literature, an organizational case study and the literature on organizat...

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) or handheld computers have become more popular in the practice of medicine. These devices have implications for psychiatric practice, and this paper reviews various published articles describing their use. The literature demonstrates their use in document editing, patient tracking, accessing medical information and drug reference guides, prescription writing, ...

Programming by example (PBE) literally means making “programs” from examples, but PBE techniques are also useful for automating text composition tasks by creating editing procedures from the history of a user’s editing operations. Composition by example (CBE) is a practical approach to improve the efficiency of text composition tasks using various simple PBE techniques. Thousands of people are ...

There is converging evidence that physical activity influences affective states. It has been found that aerobic exercise programs can significantly diminish negative affect. Moreover, among healthy individuals, moderate levels of physical activity seem to increase energetic arousal and positive affect. However, the predictive utility of affective states for bodily movement has rarely been inves...

Technology and Process Improvement Dazzled by advances in surgical lasers, the anti-aging drug reservatrol, or Google’s warpspeed search of the earth’s information on their handheld computers, physicians and nurses may dismiss the significance of their recent diabetic and cardiac quality improvement (QI) work that arguably improves health care more than many technologic advances. Despite the in...

This paper describes an XML-based language for describing the functions of appliances, such as televisions, VCRs, copiers, microwave ovens, and even manufacturing equipment. Our description language is designed to be concise, easy to use, and contain no presentation information. It has been used to describe more than twenty diverse appliances. The functional descriptions written in our language...

Whip type antennas are probably the most commonly used antennas in portable RF systems, such as cordless and cellular phones, RF enabled laptop computers, , and handheld computers. Whip antennas are almost always mounted on the chassis which contains the radio and other electronics. Normally in mobile phone two set of antenna used for receiving different application such as GSM and GPS. In this...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate a handheld computer smoking cessation intervention tool designed to assist physicians in their smoking cessation counseling with patients. METHODS This study used a pre/post survey design, with a 4-month trial period for the software. Study participants included 22 faculty and resident physicians from the University of Virginia. Paired sam...