As an E-learning provider, before offering such a product it needs to carry out a thorough analysis in order to understand the customers and trends, and evaluate external environmental forces which include market demand, political and legal forces, social and ethical influences, technology and competition. Through conducting a thorough analysis, a clear strategy can be developed that identifies...

This paper describes the concept of relative scrollbars. Simple scrollbars have been used for some time to distinguish a particular region in a linear data set. When two users of a cooperative editor are simultaneously working on the same file, each has a distinguished region corresponding to the part of the file which is displayed. Often what is most important is information on the position an...

The healthcare sector has been investing heavily in health information technologies (HIT), with the aim of improving decision-making through improved medical processes, reduced costs and integration of medical data. However, the overall contribution of HIT to the medical field is not obvious, especially, in high-stress environments such as the emergency department (ED). The objective of this re...

INTRODUCTION The first step in fMRI statistics is almost invariably to create a thresholded statistical map, showing which regions are ‘activated’ above some particular threshold. For simple comparisons, it is often sufficient to stop there and simply report the results of the thresholded map. However, there are often reasons to look further into particular regions of interest (ROIs). In this b...

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This paper presents a method for improving the accuracy of template-based planar tracking. It has been shown that when the ROI of the input image has a lower resolution than the template, tracking accuracy will deteriorate; then, this can be remedied by blurring the template in response to the motion of the plane. In this study, we show that, conversely, when the template has a lower resolution...