country. Is there no way in which to break this wall of prejudice and opposition? These people are illiterate; scientific lectures do not interest them, and ordinarypropaganda leaves them untouched. But if entertainment can only be combined with such teaching, much might be accomplished. I would suggest coloured lantern slides as an aid to popularising vaccination. If vaccinators were but train...

Introduction Evidence is emerging that the social profile of the AIDS pandemic is changing over time. During its initial stage, the more educated, mobile and better-off members of society seem to be most vulnerable to HIV infection. With increased information, knowledge and awareness, however, their behavior changes faster than that of illiterate and poor people in terms of delaying first sexua...

Being visually impaired or a computer illiterate have always being a barrier for people to use computer to perform their tasks in an easy, efficient and quick way. However, mobile is not only a necessity of everyone today but is convenient to be operated by anyone and everyone. This paper discusses a system wherein the user will be able to type text on computer by providing a voice input throug...

The Kingdom of Morocco, situated at the North West tip of Africa and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, covers an area of 710,850 km2. The population exceeds 30 million, children under the age of 15 representing 31 % of the population. Morocco faces the problems typical of developing countries; 19% of the population living below the poverty line and up to 50% being illite...

It was found that illiterate adults could neither delete nor add a phone at the beginning of a non-word; but these tasks were rather easily performed by people with similar environment and childhood experiences, who learned to read rudimentarily as adults. Awareness of speech as a sequence of phones is thus not attained spontaneously in the course of general cognitive growth, but demands some s...

Among other factors, high complexity and mandatory expert computer knowledge make many music IR and music analysis systems unsuitable for the majority of largely computer-illiterate musicologists. The JRing system offers highly flexible yet intuitively usable search and comparison operations. to aid musicologists during score analysis. This paper discusses the requirement analysis that led to J...

Twenty per cent of Accident and Emergency department attendance by the elderly in a regional hospital in Hong Kong were deemed 'avoidable' by the attending doctors. The 'avoidable' attendants were younger and physically more independent than the appropriate attendants, and more of them were illiterate. Half of them attended the Accident and Emergency department for somatic complaints. Strategie...

Female education creates awareness that their reproductive and health seeking behaviour show a noticeable difference than illiterate women. Ample research has been carried out to find out the linkages between female education and fertility. It has been argued that female education empowers women mainly through four ways. Their involvement in family decision –making, autonomy and control over ho...

Speaker independent, spontaneous and continuous speech recognition system (ASR) can be integrated to other technologies like mobile to create an interface between technology and illiterate people so that they can use modern technologies. One of the major hurdles in such ASR is unacceptable word error rate. The paper explores the possibility of analyzing the Urdu speech corpus based on recogniti...