Placeholders in physical documents provide critical support for the human reader in relocating material and their place in the text. However, the equivalent tools in digital documents have long been identified as suffering from unintuitive interactions and low rates of use. This paper evaluates the current bookmarking technologies found in digital document readers, and identifies a number of sp...

A digital archive, together with its users and its contents, does not exist in isolation there is a cycle of activity which provides the context for the archive’s existence, and which the archive supports through its various roles of information access, discovery, storage, dissemination and preservation. This paper describes an extended digital library environment that we have developed for ort...

In an attempt to qualify technologies that may assist bridge the digital divide, this paper examines the relationship between the digital divide and different current technologies as well as the up-to-date status of the digital gap in Africa using statistics provided by the International Telecommunication Unit (ITU). Looking at this imbalance of accessing information and communication technolog...

background and aim: an important criterion for success assessment of implant-supported prostheses is marginal fit. vertical and horizontal discrepancy can result in loosening of the prosthetic screw, crestal bone resorption, peri-implantitis and loss of osseointegration. despite careful attention to waxing, investing, and casting, marginal discrepancies are inevitable. the aim of this study was...

By now there still exists a major gap in the seamless information integration between product design and manufacturing processes. The reasons for this gap are manifold, however the incompatibility between the modeling philosophy used in the product design and for product manufacturing as well as the inconsistency in the data models and formats used in both areas are among the most obvious. Brid...

• Physicians and patients are overwhelmed with the number variety of digital health technologies (DHTs) coming to market. Marketing authorizations by U.S. FDA its European counterparts currently do not signal safety, efficacy, ethical compliance DHTs. We evaluate alternatives regulatory agency-based assessments find them offer some value in bridging current gap until it is closed. Ultimately, s...

This paper addresses the digital divide issues based on a survey of 150 respondents comprising of governments and respondents from rural and urban sectors of selected areas as well as in-depth interviews. The study explored various government measures to encourage the wider uptake of computers and other forms of ICT applications. The study also looked into steps taken to minimize the digital di...