Drawing on recent visual and spatial turns in history writing, this paper considers AIDS posters from the perspective of their museum 'afterlife' as collected material objects. Museum spaces serve changing political and epistemological projects, and the visual objects they house are not immune from them. A recent globally themed exhibition of AIDS posters at an arts and crafts museum in Hamburg...

This paper provides three representative examples that highlight the ways in which procedures can be combined to study interactions across traditional domains of study: segmentation, word learning, and grammar. The first section uses visual familiarization prior to the Headturn Preference Procedure to demonstrate that synchronized visual information aids in speech segmentation in noise. The sec...

Alibaba Group is China’s largest e-commerce company and leader in e-business infographic publishing. This study attempts to understand how Alibaba’s infographics use texts, visual aids, and statistical graphics to facilitate understanding of their contents. A quantitative content analysis of its 460 infographics suggests that while Alibaba’s content preference aligns with its mission to educati...

We discuss the motivation and an architectural framework for using small mobile robots as automated aids to operators of nondestructive inspection (NDI) equipment. We review the need for aircraft skin inspection, and identify the constraints in commercial airlines operations that make small mobile robots the most attractive alternative for automated aids for NDI procedures. We describe the desi...

The functional status of 114 hearing aids from 8 nursing homes and retirement centers located in mid-Michigan was evaluated via visual/listening inspections and electroacoustic analysis. Overall, 45% of the hearing aids from both facilities failed 1 or more components. The hearing aids from the nursing homes had a much higher problem rate than those from the retirement centers. The results rein...

This paper presents some issues on design and navigation in concept maps. It shows a set of visual features based on proposals from information visualization and it describes the navigation tasks a user could perform on a concept map. As a result of this, the article provides the first step in the construction of a visual aids language for concept map exploration.

The speech-perception ability reported from profound hearing impaired persons using different technical aids: hearing aids, cochlear implants, or tactile aids, varies widely. A test-battery was constructed that consisted of segmental and suprasegmental tasks and speech tracking. Two presentation modalities were used, vision only and visual information supplemented with the assistive device. Dea...

BACKGROUND Research on vision-related quality of life (QOL) in multiple sclerosis (MS) is still limited. Tools such as the Visual Functioning Questionnaire-25 (VFQ-25) and the Vision Performance Scale (VPS) facilitate assessments of the severity of visual impairment and its impact on daily life. OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to examine vision-related QOL, comorbid eye conditions, u...

purpose : up to 70% of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) have aids-related ocular involvements which may severely affect their quality of life caused by visual impairment. this study was designed to investigate the ocular manifestations in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). methods : in this case series study, 41 hiv positive patients were investiga...

This paper looked at audio-visual aids in the teaching of sport concepts for sustainable development Nigeria. The study sought to find out whether department, levels study, ages students and genders influence utilization day-today skills, thereby enabling researcher observed that equipment were not available skills such as hurdles, throws, games so on. posed challenges effective learning. A tot...