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Mobile phones and driving [PDF]
Journal of Public Health, 2005 Prior to the introduction of legislation in the United Kingdom, observational road-side studies showed that approximately 2 per cent of drivers use a mobile phone while driving. We studied the change in the usage rate of hand-held mobile phones from 10 weeks before to 10 weeks after the legislation came into force in December 2003.
Sandeep Johal +3 more
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Health and the Mobile Phone [PDF]
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2008 Within the next 8 years, annual U.S. expenditure on health care is projected to reach $4 trillion/year, or 20% of the gross domestic product.1 Whether resource consumption of this order of magnitude is sustainable is an open question, but at the very least it suggests the need for population-level solutions for everything from the primary prevention of
William G. Griswold +5 more
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Mobiles phones and health [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2008 Mobile phones came on the market in the 1980s and people in the Nordic countries were among the first to use the technology. We are now among the most frequent mobile phone users in the world. Mobile phone technology has changed from analogue to digital signals, and signal frequencies have changed from 450 to 2200 MHz.
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BMJ, 2003 Mobile phones (cell phones) are a source of irritation for some but undeniably useful for many, and over 50% of the population of the United Kingdom possess one. Their use in hospitals, however, is mostly banned as they are considered potentially hazardous in medical environments.
Myerson, S, Mitchell, A
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Exploring the mobility of mobile phone users [PDF]
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013 16 pages, 12 ...
Vincent D. Blondel +9 more
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Brains and mobile phones [PDF]
BMJ, 2006 The biggest risk to health from mobile phones is using them while driving T here are more than 50 million mobile phones in the United Kingdom, and more than 1 billion worldwide. Mobile phones allow people to communicate with flexibility and ease. In addition, having a personal and mobile means of communication has helped to save lives through quicker
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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013 AbstractThe aim of this study is to analyse loneliness of university students according to mobile phone addiction, daily phone use time and gender. Survey model is used for this research. To collect data; personel information form, problematic mobile phone use scale, and UCLA-loneliness scale were applied for 527 students who are from different ...
Ayşenur Dönder +2 more
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Crystallography on mobile phones [PDF]
Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2006 The new possibilities offered by mobile phones combined with their widespread dissemination among young people open new paradigms for teaching science. The wide adoption of the Java environment for mobile devices gives the opportunity to develop custom-made applications for educational purposes.
Orlov, Ivan +2 more
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Translated from FeatureIDE.xml, original publication in https://doi.org/10.1145/2110147 ...
Chico Sundermann +4 more
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Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones [PDF]
Communications, 2016 AbstractResearch on mobile technology adoption has focused predominantly on young adults, and little attention has been paid to older people. But with rapidly aging populations in most developed countries, and evidence from many studies that older adults are as capable of adopting and using mobile technology as everybody else, the academic, business ...
Vicente, P., Lopes, I.
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