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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Smartphone Applications"”.
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Security Testing of Web and Smartphone Applications
Web applications have become integral part of everyday life, as they are used by a huge number of customers on regular basis, for daily operations in business, leisure, government or academia, and so correctness of these applications is fundamental. In particular, security is a crucial concern …
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Investigation and design of 5G antennas for future smartphone applications
… energy efficiency. For handheld devices such as smartphones, 2×2 MIMO antennas are currently employed in 4G systems and it is expected to employ a larger number of elements for 5G mobile terminals. Placing multiple antennas in the limited space of a smartphone PCB poses a significant challenge. …
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Using Smartphone Applications to Support Cognition in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Treatment Study
… program was developed to train the use of smartphone applications to support cognitive functioning in personally-relevant activities. Voice commands were selected as an efficient access method to address progressive motor impairment in PD, and the principles of systematic instruction were …
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Collegiate Athletes’ Perceptions of a Smartphone Application and Factors that Enhance Adherence to Physical Therapy Home Exercise Programs
… by physical therapists. It is unknown whether smartphone applications would enhance adherence in collegiate athletes. In this mixed-methods study, two hypothetical vignettes were designed. The standard practice vignette described how physical therapists typically present home exercise programs …
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Investigating the Relationship between the Exposure to Smartphone Health Applications and the Intention to Use the Applications to Guide Exercise Behavior
This research studied how smartphone applications are influencing individual’s health-related attitudes and behaviors with regards to the obesity issue. Because there is no research studies that have focused on the impacts of smartphone applications on people’s attitude and behavior changes, …
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Smartphone Application Interventions to Increase Weight Loss: A Systematic Review
… that specifically investigates the use of smartphone applications (apps) for weight loss. This systematic review will evaluate the current pool of evidence and assess the effectiveness of smartphone application interventions to increase weight loss. The electronic databases MEDLINE, CINAHL, …
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Bandwidth Aggregation Across Multiple Smartphone Devices
<p>Smartphones now account for the majority of all cell phones in use today [23]. Ubiquitous Internet access is a valuable feature offered by these devices and the vast majority of smartphone applications make use of the Internet in one way or another. However, the bandwidth offered by these …
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Exploring the Effect of Digital Brand Engagement in Self-Concept (BESC) on the Continued Usage of Branded Digital Possessions
… on consumer brand engagement with branded Smartphone Applications to study the effect of users’ self-concept on the continued usage of digital possessions. The exploratory research approach involved two studies, taking a multi-phase mixed methods approach, involving quantitative data …
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Reviews of Applications for Smartphone-Connected Hearing Aids and Implications on Counseling
<p>With the recent rise of smartphone ownership, more applications have been created that connect user’s hearing aids to their smartphone. One type of application that has become popular is one that allows the user to control hearing aids using a smartphone. While these applications have many …
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Toward a Smart Civic Engagement: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in E-Government Applications
… projects. The positive outcome of using citizen smartphone applications (citizen apps) encourages municipalities to adopt this technology to improve citizen engagement to improve urban livability. These apps support creating a partnership between the local government and citizens to improve urban …
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Analyzing & designing the security of shared resources on smartphone operating systems
Smartphone penetration surpassed 80% in the US and nears 70% in Western Europe. In fact, smartphones became the de facto devices users leverage to manage personal information and access external data and other connected devices on a daily basis. To support such multi-faceted functionality, …
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A Thematic Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Children's Top Mobile Applications of 2018
… comprise a large majority of individuals who use smartphone applications, particularly for gaming and learning opportunities. Understandably, these apps become part of the identity development process, including the formation of one's gender identity. App developers include gendered content to …
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Security Testing of Permission Re-delegation Vulnerabilities in Android Applications
Smartphones play an important role in our daily lives. Once used only for communication purposes are now also used for several day-to-day activities ranging from social media and entertainment to privacy sensitive operations such as data storage, fitness tracking, mobile banking and …
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Building Computing-As-A-Service Mobile Cloud System
… mobile devices, the explosion of various mobile applications and the rapid adoption of cloud computing in business, governmental and educational IT deployment. There is also a growing trends of combining mobile computing and cloud computing as a new popular computing paradigm nowadays. This …
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Evaluating the use of smartphone measurement applications for crime scene documentation
As smartphone technology continues to evolve, it begs the question as to whether or not smartphones could be used by crime scene investigators. Crime scene documentation is a time-consuming task when using a standard tape measure compared to advanced techniques (such as 3D scanners). However, these …
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A highly accessible application for detection and classification of maize foliar diseases from leaf images
… algorithms, have successfully developed applications that can diagnose crop diseases. However, these studies have primarily focussed either on developing large scale remote sensing applications more suited for large scale farming or on developing desktop/laptop applications and a few …
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Simulation, Design and Implementation of Antenna for 5G and beyond Wave Communication. Simulation, Design, and Measurement of New and Compact Antennas for 5G and beyond and Investigation of Their Fundamental Characteristics
… are already used, while 5G mobile terminals for smartphone hand-held devices are projected to use a bigger number of elements. The placement of many antennas in the restricted space of a smartphone PCB is one of the most critical challenges. As a result, for sub-6 GHz 5G applications, a new …
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Diagnosing and debugging abnormal battery drain on smartphones
… have witnessed an evolutionary change in the smartphone ecosystem. Smartphones have gone from closed platforms containing only pre-installed applications to open platforms hosting a variety of third-party applications. Unfortunately, this change has also led to a rapid increase in Abnormal …
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Examining the long-term effects of a commercial mHealth app: A 24-month quasi-experimental study of 516,818 app users
… app users in Ontario, Canada. Users with valid smartphone-assessed baseline step count data were included. Simple linear regression models analyzed weekly mean daily step counts. Post-hoc estimates examined differences in weekly mean daily step count from baseline. RESULTS: The total sample …
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Appraisal of free online symptom checkers and applications for self-diagnosis and triage: An Australian evaluation
… of 36 symptom checkers found on websites and smartphone applications that are freely available for use by the Australian general public. Symptom checkers were exposed to 48 clinical vignettes, generating 1858 symptom checker vignette tests (SCVT). Diagnosis was assessed on the inclusion of the …
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