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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Cellphones"”.
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Mobility, *Being, Global Network: A Technography of Laptops and Cellphones
Mobility refers to the movement of actors and actants in ever-shifting arrays that comprise actor-networks; movement in physical terms, but also conceptual movements such as transience in identity. Being refers to a Heideggerian state of 'pure being', moments of revelation in which the truth about …
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A high-speed robotic disassembly system for the recycling and reuse of cellphones
Hundreds of millions of cellphones are thrown away every year, creating a market for large-scale recycle and reuse. We present a low-cost robot that can disassemble cellphone components in a nondestructive way and be distributed widely. The goal of this robot is to accelerate the recovery of …
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The paradox of cellphones: a media dependency study on college-aged teens and their cellphone use
… relationships with them. Research has found that cellphones are associated with feeling social and job pressures, anxiety, and depression. The media available through cellphones are intentionally crafted to hold users' extended attention and keep them engaged and active for long periods of time. …
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Mobile Learning Activities for Students’ English Learning Engagement in China
… and the challenge of self-regulation in using cellphones was uncovered. These findings are significant for educators and decision-makers to lessen the stereotype of cellphones for learning and recognize the benefits of making use of personal devices for catering to individual learners’ needs, …
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Fast Fourier transform on a 3D FPGA
… role in many applications from astronomy to cellphones. The complexity of these algorithms results from the many computational steps, including multiplications, they require and, as such, many researchers focus on implementing better FFT systems. However, all research to date focuses on the …
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A Framework for Evaluating the Computational Aspects of Mobile Phones
… digital cameras began to be incorporated into cellphones, followed shortly thereafter by Global Positioning System (GPS) hardware allowing location-based services to be offered to customers. Since then the use of mobile phone hardware for non-communication purposes has continued to expand. Some …
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Are You Really There? The Mediatized Experience of the 21st Century Concert-Goer
… further mediatized the concert experience. The cellphones mediatization of the concert experience involves modifications to memory practices, understandings of the concert experience, and interpersonal interaction within the venue. The combination of a content analysis, participant observation, …
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Missed connections: Exploring the impact of technoference on wellbeing
… Today, the use of screen time on televisions, cellphones, computers, and tablets is widespread (Pew Research Center, 2021). This study hypothesized that the pervasive use of technology by parents in front of their children significantly impacts how parents and children bond, thus impacting how …
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L'ordinateur versus le portable en classe de FLE pour travailer l'oral de la mouvelle generation
… the new generation, prefer working on their cellphones. Furthermore, we presented recommendations to those who wish to continue research or create and implement activities using a cellphone in language learning.
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Fusion of non-visual and visual sensors for human tracking
… with the pervasiveness of mobile devices such as cellphones, smart watches and smart glasses embedded with all kinds of sensors including accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, GPS, WiFi modules and so on. In this thesis, we firstly investigate the application of Inertial Measurement Unit …
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Influence of materialism on students fund spending in a rural-based university in Limpopo, South Africa
… money on expensive gadgets, trendy clothes, cellphones, rented cars, video games, and alcohol and drugs. Despite getting money from parents, NSFAS, bursaries, and study loans, most of the students hardly used their money for educational purposes such as buying books and other necessary study …
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Autonomous interactive intermediaries : social intelligence for mobile communication agents
Today's cellphones are passive communication portals. They are neither aware of our conversational settings, nor of the relationship between caller and callee, and often interrupt us at inappropriate times. This thesis is about adding elements of human style social intelligence to our mobile …
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Becoming a functioning member of the collegiate culture: how cellphone communication affects first-year college students' self and identity in college transition.
… study explores the meanings of cellphones and cellphone communication of first-year college students during their college transition and how such newly populated human communicative conducts affect their sense of self and identity during this life period. The findings from this …
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High performance materials for artificial muscles and energy storage devices
… ranging from automobile to telecommunication. Cellphones, for example, use fast charging micro-supercapacitors in their GSM/GPRS modulus to generate high current pulses for signal transmission purposes. The current technologies, such as tantalum/niobium oxide micro-supercapacitors are evolving …
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Visualization impacts on utility functions and multiattribute utility copula approach toward electronic product recovery techniques
… function. Lifecycle analysis was conducted on cellphones in order to understand the impact that electronic waste can have on the environment. A multiattribute utility copula approach was used in analyzing the behavior of EOL processing activities on the part of an OEM. This decision-making tool …
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Multiobjective RF Communication Networks: Theory and Hardware Implementation
… and satellites, and in smaller scale, also in cellphones.
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Grade 6 Teachers perceptions towards textese in English as a second language in Vhembe East District Limpopo Province
… written work like essays. Ownership and usage of cellphones was considered the primary means of accessing social media by learners. A purposive sample of 12 Grade 6 teachers from four schools in the Mutshundudi Circuit of Vhembe East District was drawn from the entire population of all teachers of …
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System design and performance analysis of asymmetrically and symmetrically clipped optical (ASCO)-OFDM for IM/DD optical wireless communications
… of mobile communication devices, such as cellphones, tablets, and laptops, dramatically increase, the demand for high speed wireless service has been growing. Optical wireless communications (OWCs), which offer unlimited transmission bandwidth, have received a lot of attention and been …
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Cyber-physical data distillation in a sensor rich world
… testbed, 100 vehicles are equipped with cellphones to collect fuel efficiency data enabling the GreenGPS service and the FusionSuite libraries to run in a small scale."
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Printable zirconia membranes for high power density micro solid oxide fuel cells
… be used in portable devices such as laptops and cellphones. In order for this to be feasible, however, the operating temperature would need to be reduced. This can be done by reducing the thickness of the functional electrolyte membrane. In light of this, work has been done on the creating of …
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