Introduction: What is Crowdsourcing in Libraries? Crowdsourcing has recently been defined as an “online distributed problem-solving and production model that leverages the collective intelligence of online communities to serve specific organizational goals.”1 Crowdsourcing encourages users to participate in knowledge creation with other members of their academic community. In both the library a...

Mental disorders are as prevalent among college students as same-aged non-students, and these disorders appear to be increasing in number and severity. The purpose of this report is to review the research literature on college student mental health, while also drawing comparisons to the parallel literature on the broader adolescent and young adult populations.

Assistive technology can help disabled students function better in most educational situations. This technology includes devices and equipment such as pencil grips, picture boards, alternative keyboards, touch screens, speech synthesizers, voice recognition systems, talking calculators, tape recorders and optical character recognition systems. Several web sites are included for additional infor...

Most hole filling approaches use techniques to fill up a hole first and then to smooth it. Very few tries rebuild features on the filled surface of the original 3D model. We propose an efficient hole-filling methodology which preserves sharp features of the geometry of the original model. The main idea is that we reconstruct feature curves in the missing parts of the given mesh before filling t...

Providing the technical means to prevent collapse or falls in patients with different types of pathology in motion and balance control is one of the traditional problems in rehabilitation engineering. A means of addressing the problem using assistive devices, including prostheses, is to restrict the mobility in certain anatomical or artificial joints by applying corsets, braces, brakes and lock...

With but one exception world-wide, males complete suicide at rates exceeding those of females. The male to female suicide ratio in the United States is greater than 4:1. Explanatory hypotheses for these findings include gender role behaviors, specifically the greater involvement of men in high-risk health behaviors and the greater propensity of women to seek and use supports for help when in ne...

BACKGROUND Seventy percent of lifetime cases of mental illness emerge before the age of 24 years, but many youth are unable to access the support and services they require in a timely and appropriate way. With most youth using the internet, electronic health (eHealth) interventions are promising tools for reaching this population. Through participatory design research (PDR) engagement methods, ...

BACKGROUND A primary means of social connection is visiting friends and families in their homes. Visitability is designing houses in a way that enables people to visit others' homes regardless of physical limitations or use of mobility assistive devices. OBJECTIVE The goals of this study were to develop a set of questions about visitability that could be used for surveillance and to assess th...