THE MAJORITY OF THE RADIOFREQUENCY ENERGY emitted by a cellular telephone is absorbed by the hand and head of the user. The total energy absorbed is a function of the specific absorption rate, duration of use, and the manner in which the phone is used. In addition to concerns about potential harmful effects of such exposure, such as the issue of risk of brain cancer, change in brain function re...

The article presents research on the risk of phonoholism occurring among high school students. Strong attachment to a cell phone, for many students, can be an indicator serious problems. Thanks utilizing in diagnostic survey method, 450 from all over Poland, could express their opinions dangers associated with using mobile phone. Their were analysed terms ability use smartphone rationally, incl...

Objective. To assess the use of cell phones and email as means of communication between pregnant women and their gynecologists and family physicians. Study Design. A cross-sectional study of pregnant women at routine followup. One hundred and twenty women participated in the study. Results. The mean age was 27.4 ± 3.4 years. One hundred nineteen women owned a cell phone and 114 (95%) had an ema...

Multitasking diminishes the self-awareness of performance that is often essential for self-regulation and self-knowledge. Participants drove in a simulator while either talking or not talking on a hands-free cell phone. Following previous research, participants who talked on a cell phone made more serious driving errors than control participants who did not use a phone while driving. Control pa...

Java cellular phone has arrived in the marketplace as the latest device of a mobile gear. The gear is very compact, allowing 10KB for Java program size and 5KB for data size. Although small in size, it features innovative computer system architecture. Java program can be sent dynamically to the gear in a streaming manner over wireless network. In addition, compared to conventional mobile comput...

OBJECTIVES While numerous cell phone use while driving laws have been passed among states, little information exists regarding who gets cited for these traffic infractions and how much these laws are enforced at the state-level within the USA. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. SETTING 14 states and the District of Columbia. PARTICIPANTS Those receiving cell phone use while drivin...

In response to concerns that distracted driving due to cell phone use has become a threat to roadway safety, many states have passed cell phone bans that prohibit drivers from texting and talking on handheld cell phones. This paper empirically examines the impact of these bans on driver cell phone usage, traffic accidents, and casualties. To distinguish the effect of the bans from confounding f...

With the proliferation of cell phone cameras, new applications are being sought out by cell phone service providers. We explore a possibility for one such application that will provide image recognition for digitally captured images. Specifically, we investigate the applicability of eigenimages for the recognition of pieces of art that were captured with the Nokia N93 camera-phone.

This study discusses some empirical findings on telephone and cell phone adoptions in Latin American and Caribbean nations. Exhaustive pooled regressions are undertaken for this set of nations, using data from the World Bank for the period of 1989-1999. The results show that telephone and cell phone adoptions are different in nature, and cell phone adoption complements telephone adoption. Count...