Smartphones usage among visually impaired users is growing in prominence and mobile phone providers are continuously looking for solutions to make touch screen interfaces more accessible to them. Key accessibility features for vision related impairment includes assistive screen reading applications like Voiceover in iOS or Talkback in Android which supports a variety of touch gestures for perfo...

Melbourne has one of the largest tram systems in the world yet access is difficult for many passengers, generally excluding people using wheelchairs and scooters and those with prams, luggage and shopping. Overcrowding from sustained increases in patronage and traffic congestion aggravate the problem, leading to longer travel times. The Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1992 and ...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal micro-level data about international migration behavior are notoriously difficult to collect, but data collection efforts have become more frequent in recent years. Comparative research of the patterns and processes of international migration, however, remains quite rare, especially that which compares across regions. OBJECTIVE We highlight the promises and difficultie...

objectives: civil rights may cover different aspects of citizens’ lives. all the members of the society should have equal access to the public facilities and public transportation system. barriers and obstacles in society may limit the accessibility of these facilities to the disabled people. methods: this article contains a part of the results in a phenomenological study of the disability righ...

Modern roundabouts have become very popular in North America over the last decade. This popularity can be attributed to their great success in Europe and Australia. The prevalence of roundabouts has generated significant debate over their accessibility for pedestrians. With almost uninterrupted traffic flows, it is difficult for the visually impaired to determine safe gaps relying on auditory c...

Co-workers are an important source of information in organizations. Consequently, information managers seek to facilitate the use of such human information sources. Although various studies about what influences the use of human information sources in organizations exist, it is difficult for information managers to utilize insights from this research body. The studies have provided contradictor...

Participants generated lists of exemplars from the categories of animals, tools, and fruit, and their lists were used to determine the relative accessibility of individual exemplars. Measures of accessibility included output dominance (the number of participants who listed an exemplar), rank (how early instances were listed), and two scores that reflect their combination-output precedence and d...

Characterization of cell type specific regulatory networks and elements is a major challenge in genomics, and emerging strategies frequently employ high-throughput genome-wide assays of transcription factor (TF) to DNA binding, histone modifications or chromatin state. However, these experiments remain too difficult/expensive for many laboratories to apply comprehensively to their system of int...

MOTIVATION Backbone structures and solvent accessible surface area of proteins are benefited from continuous real value prediction because it removes the arbitrariness of defining boundary between different secondary-structure and solvent-accessibility states. However, lacking the confidence score for predicted values has limited their applications. Here we investigated whether or not we can ma...

Due to the development of globalization, transnational activities are more frequent and evaluations current accessibility basis for improvements. Accessibility evaluation indices generally contain two parts: travel time probability. However, complex processes involve multimodal transport system, including air land networks, which makes calculation these difficult because large quantities fundam...