Personal Digital Assistants PDA

Fuel cells can be used to power a variety of portable devices, from handheld electronics such as cell phones and radios to larger equipment such as portable generators. Other potential applications include laptop computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and handheld video cameras—almost any application that has traditionally used batteries. These fuel cells have the potential to last more than three times as long as batteries between refueling. 

Laboratories are already investigating the use of wireless devices that can be used to more efficiently access their software applications and data. Tablet PCs and personal digital assistants (PDA) are now capable of providing secure, wireless access to many of the applications that are used in the laboratory. 

The battery industry has seen enormous growth over the past few years in portable, rechargeable battery packs. The majority of this surge can be attributed to the widespread use of cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDA s), laptop computers, and other wireless electronics. Batteries remained the mainstream source of power for systems ranging from mobile phones and PDA s to electric and hybrid electric vehicles. The world market for batteries was approximately 41 billion in 2000, which included 16.2 billion primary and 24.9 billion secondary cells. 

Personal electronic or electrical devices that may require control are pagers, cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and personal radios or music players. Few, if any, of these devices are evaluated to determine if they may be safely used in hazardous areas. Typically, such devices do not claim to be "intrinsically safe" or of "nonincendive circuit" design (NFPA 70, Articles 500 and 504). 

Begin by acquiring a personal planner, such as a Day-Timer, or a personal digital assistant (PDA), such as the Palm Pilot III, V, or VII. Before actually starting your job search, make a list of everything you will need to accomplish to land a job. Break down the big task into lots of smaller ones, which are easier to accomplish. If you have to write or update your resume, add it to your list. If you need to buy outfits to wear to interviews, that too goes on your list. Once your list is complete, write down how long you think each task will take to accomplish. 

The proliferation of the feature-rich mobile devices, for example mobile phones or network-enabled Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), provides means for creation of distributed mobile agents platforms. Unique properties of mobile agents, like ability to migrate data together with agent s code from host to host, or ability to make decisions on behalf of the owner, open a new... 

More recent advances in technology made possible by the personal digital assistant (PDA) have allowed physicians to electronically prescribe at the point of care. PDAs are handheld computers that typically run using a Windows- or other proprietary-based platforms. These PDAs use a touch-sensitive screen to maneuver through a menu-driven prescribing process that can execute a prescription in as little as three stylus taps. - The PDAs or other proprietary devices then upload the prescription via a network connection or modem to be printed, faxed, or electronically transmitted to a pharmacy. 

Advances in technology can facilitate the generation and transfer of patient documentation. As more pharmacies use the Internet as a means of communication, information can be transferred quickly and accurately over greater distances. Handheld computers and specialty software allow health care practitioners to document information in an electronic format that can be transformed immediately for rapid transfer to others. Reports in the literature have described methods to assess pharmacist interventions related to medication errors, the use of computer-based systems, and recently, the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) in specific patient care areas. Many of these documentation systems tend to be individualized apphcations in which the transfer of data to other providers is not possible or quite limited. Often these systems focus on the generation of reports for workload analysis or accreditation purposes. 

An RFID system consisting of transceiver, personal digital assistant (PDA) platform, and RFID tags at 13.54 MHz. (The PDA was held portable and used in the collection of held samples and in the laboratory.)... 

Before administering a drug product, the bar code on the patient s identification bracelet is scanned and the bar code on the medication is scanned. The computer/personal digital assistant [PDA] checks the medication against the patient s medical record to see if administration of the drug was ordered. If the scan... 

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