Styling and formatting of XML documents for various target media is often specified with the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language. An appealing feature of CSS is that it specifies formatting instructions using rather simple guarded rules. A limitation of CSS is that it focuses on static formatting rules. As a consequence scripting languages such as ECMA Script are used in practice for dynamic a...

This paper looks at different ways of personalising web page presentation to alleviate functional impairments in older people. The paper considers how impairments may be addressed by web design and through various personalisation instruments: accessibility features of standard browsers, proxy servers, assistive technology, application adaptors, and special purpose browsers. A pilot study of fiv...

Failure to disclose patents According to ANSI, only certain, limited sanctions are appropriate when a patent owner fails correctly to identify and disclose patent rights embodied into a standard until after the standard has been adopted. (This is the pattern of conduct that led to the US Federal Trade Commission’s 1995 case against Dell Computer after the 1992 development and adoption of the VE...

balance sheet itself does not specify and show all the activities that a bank pays. because banks can do many swap contracts and obligations, exchange, and commitments outside of the balance sheet. to such activities and exchange that will not appear on the balance sheet, are saying off-balance sheet activities. these items are usually reported in the notes to the attached financial statements....

The end-Ordovician was an enigmatic interval in the Phanerozoic, known for massive glaciation potentially at elevated CO2 levels, biogeochemical cycle disruptions recorded as large isotope anomalies and a devastating extinction event. Ice-sheet volumes claimed to be twice those of the Last Glacial Maximum paradoxically coincided with oceans as warm as today. Here we argue that some of these rem...

Objectives: Periodontal disease is universally prevalent and an important public health problem. Poor life style and negative psychosocial condition has been said to play an important role in the aetiology of adult periodontitis. Construction workers are characterized by insecurity of wages and poor life style. Dental extractions form a major constituent of therapeutic measures in these lower s...

RESUME : L’objectif de cet article est de définir un modèle de sécurité permettant de contrôler les accès aux documents XML. Le modèle proposé permet une expression simple et précise de la politique de sécurité. Un document XML est représenté par un arbre dont les nœuds sont de différents types (élément, attribut, texte, commentaire, etc.). Dans notre modèle, le nœud est le plus petit objet auq...

Rapid development of telecommunication networks has made made possible development of telemedicine, and especially on of its segments medical teleconsultation. In this paper we will present system which is designed to provide tools for establishing meaningful communication between general practitioner on dislocated areas and specialists typically located in large medical centers. Technological ...

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a W3C specification for a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language, more precisely, for styling Web documents. However, in the last few years, the landscape for CSS development has changed dramatically with the appearance of several languages and tools aiming to help developers build clean, modular and p...