scholarly journals COMPARISON BETWEEN STANDARD AND MOBILE DENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 305-315
Author(s):  
Martin Mariyanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Dental Practice ◽  
First Choice ◽  
Good For ◽  
Dental Photography ◽  
Constant Improvement

Introduction:With the constant improvement of technology in recent years, mobile dental photography is gaining more and more popularity. Mobile phones have almost completely replaced compact cameras in everyday life. Aim:The aim is to determine whether a mobile phone can be used to take standard pictures of patients in daily dental practice. Material and methods:A total of 330extraoral photographs were taken of 33 patients. 10 photos were taken of each of them (5 extraoral and 5 intraoral).From the five photos there were one taken with a DSLR camera and four with a mobile phone with different magnification x2, x3, x4 and x5 and respectively from different distances. Eleven linear parameters were measured and compared. Results: In the photos taken with a mobile phone there is a deformation of the image compared to the photos taken with a DSLR camera at all magnifications. The largest deformation is at twice the magnification. The image is close to the photos taken with a DSLR camera at four and five times the magnification. Conclusion:The mobile phone is applicable for the extraoral dental photography. At four times magnification(x4) and distance of 110 cm the deformation of the image is negligible and the quality of the photos is good. For the intraoral photos if there is a need for an image with the correct and as close as possible to the actual proportions of the teeth, the first choice is the DSLR camera.

Mobile Phone Culture: The Impacts of Mobile Phone Use

2015 ◽  
pp. 658-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Hyun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

From being a simple communication technology to a key social tool, the mobile phone has become such an important aspect of people's everyday life. Mobile phones have altered the way people live, communicate, interact, and connect with others. Mobile phones are also transforming how people access and use information and media. Given the rapid pervasiveness of mobile phones in society across the world, it is important to explore how mobile phones have affected the way people communicate and interact with others, access the information, and use media, and their daily lifestyle. This article aims to explore the social and cultural implications that have come with the ubiquity, unprecedented connectivity, and advances of mobile phones. This article also focuses on the discussion about people's dependence on, attachment and addiction to mobile phones, social problems that mobile phones generate, and how people value mobile phone use.

scholarly journals Healthcare Professionals Perception of Mobile Phone Usage and Hand Hygiene Adhesion in Intensive Care Units

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s346-s346
Author(s):  
Evelyn Sanchez ◽  
Lauro Perdigão-Neto ◽  
Sânia Alves dos Santos ◽  
Camila Rizek ◽  
Maria Renata Gomez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Hand Hygiene Compliance ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Molecular Testing ◽  
First Choice ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Hygiene Compliance

Background: The introduction of new technologies into the medical field has the duality of improvement and concerns about correct usage and cleaning. Mobile phones are used by healthcare professionals (HCPs) in the work place, and there is not an official policy about their use in health environment. Methods: We asked 60 intensive care unit (ICU) HCPs from 2 units (the burn unit and the internal medicine unit) to participate in an electronic survey about mobile phone usage and hand hygiene compliance; we also cultured the hands and mobile phones of the participants. Unfortunately, 13 HCPs did not participate. Susceptibility testing of the strains was conducted, as well as molecular testing. Results: Overall, 47 HCPs responded to the inquiry: 19% were nurses (9 of 47), 19% were resident physicians (9 of 47), 17% were nursery technicians (8 of 47), 17% were physiotherapists (8 of 47), 13% were cleaning staff (6 of 47), 11% were consultants (5 of 47), and 4% were technicians (2 of 47). Moreover, 26 of 47 participants (55%) were woman and 21 (45%) were men. From all HCP categories, 39 of 47 respondents (83%) reported that they had optimal hand hygiene compliance. However, 92% of respondents had a colonized hand and 90% had a colonized mobile phone. Also, 44 of 47 HCPs (94%) reported that the took their personal mobile phone into the workplace; 40 (85%) reported that they used it during the work day and 35 (74%) reported that they cleaned it. However, 8 HCPs (26%) reported that they had never cleaned the device. All of the HCPs understood that mobile phones can harbor bacteria, and 27 of 47 HCPs (57.45%) indicated that they use 70% alcohol to clean their mobile phones. In contrast, the first choice for hand hygiene was water and soap in 51% of HCPs (24 of 47). Also, 3 HCPs did not have any colonization in the hand culture but had healthcare-associated infection (HAI) pathogens in the mobile phone culture. Conclusions: A policy regarding mobile phone usage in the healthcare setting should be in place, and cleaning of electronic devices in hospitals should be standardized.Funding: NoneDisclosures: NoneFunding: NoneDisclosures: None

Understanding Mobile Phone Usage through a Value-Based Approach: Marketing Implications

2015 ◽  
pp. 213-220
Author(s):  
Yung Kyun Choi ◽  
Sungmi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Marketing Environment ◽  
A Value ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

As mobile devices increasingly become a ubiquitous and essential part of everyday life, marketers must face a host of new challenges. This new marketing environment requires that marketers understand how consumers use their mobile phones and, more particularly, how they perceive and derive value from doing so. In this article, the authors suggest that mobile services offer either context-related or content-related values. They also explore managerial implications, by revealing factors that influence consumers to utilize mobile phone services.

scholarly journals Impact of Mobile Phone Usage on Some Health Aspects of Children and Adolescents: Evidence Based Review Article

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Aqeel Abbas Noaman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Radio Waves ◽  
Quality Of Sleep ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
The Brain

The Wi-Fi devices in mobile phones have a key role in exchanging information and data to show images, audios, videos, and to transfer applications from mobile emitting radio waves. These waves emitted by mobile devices are radiofrequency waves, where many kinds of researches in this field have shown that they negatively affect, especially when using the mobile phone for a long time during the day on the vision and the level of hearing in the young people, as well as the effect on the nervous system caused Headache and muscle aches, as well, it has also been derived from these researches and studies that these waves can cause more depression or psychological stress in children and young users of mobile phones. Moreover, it can cause damage to the brain cells and may have caused a brain tumor even though many studies have not proved it. Also, these studies, which were presented in this article, have concluded that the use of mobile phones, especially late at night, can negatively affect the quality of sleep.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF PRODUCT PRICE AND PRODUCT QUALITY ON PURCHASING DECISIONS FOR SAMSUNG BRAND HANDPHONES AMONG STIE AAS SURAKARTA STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewi Muliasari
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Joint Effect ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Product Price ◽  
Decision Variables ◽  
Positive Effect

This study aims to analyze the mobile phone price towards the decision to purchase Samsung mobile phone among STIE AAS Surakarta students and to analyze the quality of the Samsung mobile phone product against the decision to buy a Samsung mobile phone among STIE AAS Surakarta students. The populationS in this study were all consumers or users of Samsung mobile phones among STIE AAS students. The sample in this study was Samsung mobile phone users as many as 100 respondents. The results of this study indicate that the t test results are known to significantly influence the price variable purchasing decisions. The results of the F test together with the price variable (X1) and product quality (X2) have a joint effect on purchasing decisions. R2 analysis results obtained adjusted R square (R2) of 0.0627 means that variations in changes in purchasing decision variables can be explained by nutrient variables (X1) and product quality (X2) have a positive effect on purchasing decisions by 62.8%. While, the remaining Values Of 37.2% is explained by other variables outside the model. Keywords: Price, product quality, buying decision, mobile phone.

scholarly journals Value of a mobile information system to improve quality of care by community health workers

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Tomlinson ◽  
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus ◽  
Tanya Doherty ◽  
Dallas Swendeman ◽  
Alexander C. Tsai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Community Health Workers ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Web Based

Background: We will be unable to achieve sustained impact on health outcomes with community health worker (CHW)-based interventions unless we bridge the gap between small scale efficacy studies and large scale interventions. Effective strategies to support the management of CHWs are central to bridging the gap. Mobile phones are broadly available, particularly in low and middle income countries (LAMIC), where the penetration rate approaches 100%.Objectives: In this article, we describe how mobile phones and may be combined with mobile web-based technology to assist in the management of CHWs in two projects in South Africa.Methods: This article is a descriptive study, drawing lessons from two randomised controlled trials outlining how a mobile phone information system can be utilised to enhance the quality of health interventions. We organised our comprehensive management and supervision system around a previously published management framework. The system is composed of mobile phones utilised by CHWs and a web-based interface utilised by CHW supervisors. Computerised algorithms were designed with intervention and assessment protocols to aid in the real-time supervision and management of CHWs.Results: Community health workers used mobile phones to initiate intervention visits and trigger content to be delivered during the course of intervention visits. Supervisors used the web-based interface for real-time monitoring of the location, timing and content of intervention visits. Additional real-time support was provided through direct support calls in the event of crises in the field.Conclusion: Mobile phone-based information system platforms offer significant opportunities to improve CHW-delivered interventions. The extent to which these efficiency gains can be translated into realised health gains for communities is yet to be tested.

scholarly journals Photographies in Africa in the digital age

Africa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Vokes
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Early Generation ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Massive Influx ◽  
Key Driver

In recent years, all kinds of African photographies, both on the continent and in the diaspora, have undergone a digital ‘revolution’ (Ekine and Manji 2012). Without doubt, the key driver of this trend has been the rapid, and massive, influx to practically all African countries of ever more affordable third generation/advanced mobile phone handsets, or smartphones. Even compared with earlier technological revolutions on the continent, both the speed and the scale of this spread have been simply breathtaking. For example, the establishment of transistor radio sets – the process through which personal radios became ubiquitous across Africa – occurred over the period of at least a decade and a half (between roughly the late 1950s and the early 1970s). Similarly, the original mobile phone revolution – i.e. the process through which early generation/low functionality mobile phones went from being a source of novelty, to a domain for experimentation, to technologies that were routinized in everyday life, throughout the continent – took more than a decade to unfold (the crucial years being those between roughly 1999 and 2010) (Vokes 2018b). Against both of those earlier processes, the emergence of smartphones occurred over a much shorter timeframe. Between 2011 and mid-2015 alone, the number of smartphones being imported into Africa – the majority of them sub-US$100 Android-based systems – jumped from around 10 million units per annum to almost 100 million (Tshabalala 2015), as a result of which these devices became quickly established as a common feature of everyday life. Today, more than one-third of all mobile phones in Africa are smartphones, and this percentage is set to rise to two-thirds by 2020 (GSMA Intelligence 2017).

scholarly journals Attitudes and opinions of dental practitioners towards the use of clinical photography in Srinagar: a cross sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1818
Author(s):  
Asif Yousuf ◽  
Iram Jan ◽  
Mohsin Sidiq
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Dental Practice ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Clinical Photography ◽  
Dental Practitioners ◽  
Srinagar City ◽  
Dental Photography

Background: Clinical photography has become a part of modern-day dental practice. It has been used for dento-legal documentation, diagnosis, clinical assessment, treatment planning, patient motivation, communication with the patient and laboratory, academic purposes and also for marketing. The aim of the study was to assess and determine the knowledge and the extent of the use of photography by dental practitioners of Srinagar city.Methods: A cross-sectional survey involving a questionnaire consisting of 10 questions was distributed among 88 randomly selected dental practitioners of Srinagar city, out of which 72 dental practitioners responded positively and returned the questionnaire. The data collected were computerized and analyzed statistically. The average values of the responses received by groups of questions were analyzed.Results: According to the survey conducted, 52(72.22%) dentists used photography for dental practice. Out of all the dentists surveyed, 63(87.5%) of the dentists knew about the importance of dental photography. It was observed that 40(55.55%) fresher dentists (<5 years’ experience) showed more positive attitude towards the application of photography in their dental practice. It was also revealed that the application of clinical photography among male dentists, dentists with <5 years’ experience and dentists who work with an assistant were significantly higher as compared to other dentists (p<0.05).Conclusions: Hence, from this study, majority of respondents (87.5%) were aware of the importance of dental photography. The reasons which prevented the dentist from using clinical photography were lack of time, expensive instruments, lack of interest and cross infection. Male practitioners were more likely than female practitioners to use clinical photography. Photographic training should hence be inculcated in the curriculum of dentistry. Also dental practitioners should actively participate in CDE programs on Clinical photography to improve the quality of dental practice.

scholarly journals A METRIC-BASED EVALUATION MODEL FOR APPLICATIONS ON MOBILE PHONES

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azham Hussain ◽  
Nor Laily Hashim ◽  
Nazib Nordin ◽  
Hatim Mohamad Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Usability Study ◽  
Mobile Phone Applications ◽  
Usability Metrics ◽  
Metrics Model

A number of methods and measures have been used by researchers in software evaluation. Usability metrics is one of the approaches that has been used as a guideline to evaluate the quality of the system in many mobile applications. However, the metrics used for evaluation method keep changing due to new inventions of mobile phones. Thus, there is a need to create a dynamic model for evaluation that can grow together with new inventions and technology. In this paper, a dynamic usability metrics model for evaluation of mobile applications was designed. The model comprises usability goals, questions and metrics for evaluation of applications on mobile phones. To ensure that the model is reliable and effective, a usability study was conducted on two applications installed in different mobile phones. This model proves to be applicable for evaluation of mobile phone applications whereby its questions and metrics can be dynamically changed accordingly to comply with the requirements of the evaluators.  

Use of Mobile Phones by Individuals with Visual Impairments

2015 ◽  
pp. 1531-1542
Author(s):  
Murat Bengisu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Flat Screen

Mobile phones are useful devices for communication and applications that can help improve the quality of life of individuals with visual impairments (IVI). Many assistive technologies are available and many more are being developed to reduce dependence on vision and make mobile phones more accessible to IVI. The diffusion of smart phones with touch screens presents some challenges for IVI due to the flat screen surface with no discernable features. However, researchers have already found different ways to overcome this problem by combining the use of different senses and gestures, such as sound, tactile feedback, synthetic speech, voice command, and input by gestures. This article summarizes the challenges faced by IVI in the use of mobile phones and assistive technologies and applications and provides some guidelines for inclusive mobile phone design with regard to IVI.

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