1 The goods and services are broken into eight major categories: 1. Food and beverages, including full-service meals and snacks; 2. Housing; 3. Apparel, including jewelry; 4. Transportation, including air fares, fuels, and vehicle insurance; 5. Medical care; 6. Recreation, including sports equipment and pets; 7. Education and Communication, including tuition and telephone services; 8. Other goo...

The demand for home health care has skyrocketed in recent years. The aging population and the push for more efficient delivery of hospital services have fueled this growing demand. However, health care financing reforms have constrained the industry's growth. Home health agencies struggle to deliver high-quality services while staying within the financial limitations imposed by reimbursement ch...

AIM To assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of different methods of cleaning and sterilisation of infant feeding equipment used in the home. DESIGN Systematic review of studies from developed countries on the effectiveness of methods of cleaning and sterilisation of infant feeding equipment used in the home. A brief telephone survey of UK-based manufacturers of infant feeding equipment ...

The work describes the process of building a telephone-based interactive voice response (IVR) system. For the collection of audio data for speech recognition, webbased audio recorders are used so that technical audio equipment does not have to be shipped to the countries with the language in question. However, some parts of the world do not have an Internet infrastructure at all or only a slow ...

The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is evolving from a closed network made up of specialized equipment into an open network employing many of the same components and protocols that are used in the Internet. The security vulnerabilities of the Internet are well known. The possible introduction of these vulnerabilities into the PSTN provides opportunities—for hackers to exploit the vulne...

This paper reviews the literature data on the genetic toxicology of radiofrequency (RF) radiation. Whereas in the past most studies were devoted to microwave ovens and radar equipment, it is now mobile telecommunication that attracts most attention. Therefore we focus on mobile telephone frequencies where possible. According to a great majority of the papers, radiofrequency fields, and mobile t...

The future of integrated electronics is the future of electronics itself. The advantages of integration will bring about a proliferation of electronics, pushing this science into many new areas. Integrated circuits will lead to such wonders as home computers—or at least terminals connected to a central computer—automatic controls for automobiles, and personal portable communications equipment. ...

The increasing demand for high-bandwidth services such as corporate communications, fast Internet access and digital audio and video delivery presents both a great challenge and a great opportunity. To respond to this challenge, and to take advantage of the opportunity, the telecommunications industry is developing communication equipment based on clever implementations of highly efficient modu...

Technologies such as Bluetooth, RFID, WiFi, 4G, and the Internet of things are mutually converged with ADSL and fiber to the home network. Users can get information in the forms of word, voice, images, etc. through ubiquitous networks including the fixed telephone, the mobile telephone, the television, the computer, and diversified informational zed terminal equipment. Ubiquity informatization ...