This article provides an applied analysis of Article 12 (Equal recognition before the law) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Article 13 (Access to justice) in the context of Article 6 (Women with disabilities). Recent literature on the CRPD has extended the analysis of Article 12 to consider its broader relevance for the interpretation of Article 13. The in...

Innovating the Public Administration is not just the union of various tasks (innovating institutions, reengineering administrative processes and using innovative technologies) performed in isolation, because of the additional complexity coming from their coupling. Conceptual modelling techniques and rapid prototyping tools can help public managers and administrators to better understand the rec...

Necessity to use new materials, demanding functional requirements and miniaturization have led to evolution of modern manufacturing processes. Developments are taking place both in the conventional methods and unconventional methods of manufacture. High speed machining, hard machining, non conventional processes like beam, mechanical and chemical processes and additive processes like rapid prot...

Many virtual world applications today represent the cutting edge in real-time 3D interactive graphics. These applications must model many complex, often changing, graphical objects. These graphical objects must be modeled both visually and behaviorly. An application independent method for describing graphical objects is essential for rapid prototyping and development. This paper presents a simp...

Background Enhancing evidence based practice via the rapid translation of new research evidence into every day clinical practice is fundamental to the success of health care and in turn health care professions. There is little known about the research capacity and culture of the podiatry profession across Australia. This study aimed to investigate the research capacity and culture of the podiat...

Shoulder joint replacement, or arthroplasty, is indicated in cases where arthritis or trauma has resulted in severe joint damage that in turn causes increased pain and decreased function. However, shoulder arthroplasty is less successful than hip and knee replacement, mostly due to the complexity of the shoulder joint and the resultant complexity of the replacement operation. In this paper we p...

This paper explores the notion of ‘provocation through concrete experience’ towards a provotyping approach. It addresses the question: How do we on the one hand, devise qualitatively new systems, and on the other hand, ensure their usability in a given practice? The notion of provocation through concrete experience is developed through an investigation of prototyping and activity theory. Explor...

❏ Despite the large number of methodologies, standards, and tools, large-scale information system development remains a challenging task. ❏ The percentage of unsuccessful development projects in terms of exceeding time and/or budget is constantly between 50% and 70%.

Topology control algorithms are used to improve the energy efficiency (or other quality parameters) of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we report on the application of graph transformation in the domain of wireless sensor networks by proposing a model-driven rapid prototyping approach for the kTC topology control algorithm to enable the fast implementation and the evaluation of its diff...