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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Personal digital assistants"”.
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Forensic analysis of digital evidence from Palm Personal Digital Assistants
Personal Digital Assistants are becoming more affordable and commonplace. They provide mobile data storage, computational, and network abilities. When handheld devices are involved in a crime, forensic examiners need tools to properly retrieve and analyze data present on the device. Unfortunately, …
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The use of personal digital assistants in the K-8 classrooms
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are being used in the K-8 classrooms and if so to what extent. By way of a stratified random sample, four counties in central and southern New Jersey were selected. A survey was developed and sent to the …
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Personal Digital Assistants: Their Influence on Clinical Decision-Making and the Utilization of Evidence-Based Practice in Baccalaureate Nursing Students
During the last decade, the advent of the personal digital assistant (PDA) and the development of clinical software specific to nursing practice have changed the way that many nurses manage information and workload. More recently, PDAs have become a standard tool in undergraduate nursing education. …
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Asbestos : operating system security for mobile devices
… to run on mobile devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants. These mobile, wireless-enabled devices are at risk for data attacks because they store private data but often roam in public networks. The Asbestos operating system is designed to prevent disclosure of such data. The …
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Design of a low power capacitive sensor for a micromachined accelerometer
… is for use in handheld devices such as personal digital assistants and cellular phones, as an intuitive method of data entry which does not consume space on the ever-shrinking exterior. These devices are battery powered, which imposes stringent power consumption limitations on any …
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An innovative integrated development environment for the Pocket PC PDA
… Integrated Development Environments running on Personal Digital Assistants lack features that address the challenges in human-computer interaction with the PDA. The slow input techniques and small screen display of PDAs contribute to the overall difficulty of software development on the PDA. …
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A wireless wide area network PDA application for on-call ambulatory care physicians
… implementations of patient information review on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are gaining traction in the in-patient hospital setting. There are tremendous patient safety and satisfaction, workflow improvement and physician satisfaction improvements possible if similar technology is …
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Wireless sensor data transfer using bluetooth technology
… as the standard analog inputs and 0-5V as the digital inputs) from the serial port of the Etrax100LX developer board, save them to a file on the developer board and make this data available for remote access. The idea behind using the Etrax100LX development board and writing software for it is …
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A new approach to the electronic pen idea
… and portable output device. Even in a world with Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and laptops in abundance, many people still prefer pens for situations like taking notes in a lecture or a business meeting or for sketching an idea. A pen product has been developed that takes writing and produces …
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Drop Impact Reliability Testing Lead-Free Chip Scale Packages
Mobile and handheld electronics devices such as digital cameras, cell phones, and personal digital assistants (PDAs) are prone to be dropped in their lifetime. The drop event may result in failure of solder joints inside these devices. The importance and widespread use of these devices in both …
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Energy efficient operating systems and software
… battery-operated appliances such as laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and cellular phones. Numerous dedicated hardware approaches for energy mini-mization have been proposed while software energy efficiency has been relatively unexplored. Since it is the software that drives the …
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Supporting Real-time Pda Interaction With Virtual Environment
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are becoming more and more powerful with advances in technology and are expanding their applications in a variety of fields. This work explores the use of PDAs in Virtual Environments (VE). The goal is to support highly interactive bi-directional user interactions …
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Comparison between rule-based and data-driven natural language processing algorithms for Brazilian Portuguese speech synthesis
… the exponential growth in the use of computers, personal digital assistants and smartphones, the development of Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have become highly demanded during the last years. An important part of these systems is the Text Analysis block, that converts the input text into …
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A wireless, low power, asynchronous, multi-sensor, temperature network
… of a battery. Examples include cellular phones, personal digital assistants, and ethernet cards for personal computers with the battery life ranging from a few hours to a few days. This thesis creates a low-power, battery-operated transmitter that reads the temperature from a sensor and then …
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Harnessing Handheld Computing - Framework, Toolkit and Design Propositions
… of handheld technologies such as smartphones and personal digital assistants in recent years has created opportunities for the mobile workforce to take advantage of computerised information systems. To apprehend and harness the opportunities of computerised information systems implemented on …
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Quality of service management for multimedia communications : investigations on usability of interfaces for desktop and portable systems
… Systems and on Portable Devices – such as, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and Mobile Phones. Conducting the usability tests for these interfaces required re-engineering of traditional usability testing processes – to improve the efficiency of performing each test and collecting data. Ten …
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User interface design for keyframe-based content browsing of digital video
… are being developed and turned into products. Digital video is one of those application areas that is getting more and more attention as the consumer market is likely to be huge, including professional video editing and home entertainment. However, most digital video systems so far have been …
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Development and evaluation of an intelligent handheld insulin dose advisor for patients with Type-1 diabetes
… of the system for the Palm OS family of modern Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) is described. The evaluation of this new version in a seven week, randomised, open, cross-over clinical pilot study involving eight patients on short-acting plus long-acting insulin basalbolus regimens showed it to …
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Overcoming middleware heterogeneity in mobile computing applications
… Mobile devices such as smart phones and personal digital assistants are becoming more commonly used due to the reduction in their size and increase of computational power. In addition, wireless network hotspots (in airports, hotels and commercial outlets) are now beginning to populate the …
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