BACKGROUND Patients have to acquire information to support their decision on choosing a suitable healthcare provider. But in developing countries like Vietnam, accessibility issues remain an obstacle, thus adversely affect both quality and costliness of healthcare information. Vietnamese use both sources from health professionals and friends/relatives, especially when quality of the Internet-ba...

Suppose there are several experts, with some dominating others (expert A dominates expert B if B says something is true whenever A says it is). Suppose, further, that each of the experts has his or her own view of what is possible — in other words each of the experts has their own Kripke model in mind (subject, of course, to the dominance relation that may hold between experts). How will they a...

•Accessibility by non-experts: researchers in the social sciences should be able to use the system to share and explore data with no involvement from experts in data privacy, computer science, or statistics. •Generality: the system should be applicable and effective on a wide variety of heterogeneous datasets hosted in a repository such as the Harvard Dataverse. •Workflow-compatibility: the sys...

Subject of our work is to explore and analyze the referred relationships between the emerging ICT landscape in the European societal and economic context, and the development and provision of e-Accessibility, within a perspective of 10 years. Some core areas of concern we deal with are represented by the following questions: Which are the trends that may affect the future of e-Accessibility (in...

this research was conducted based on survey strategy with purpose of investigating the information seeking behavior patterns of tomato growers in badouleh district. validity of questionnaire as data gathering instrument, confirmed by selected experts and coronbach alpha coefficient (equal to 0.68 – 0.75 range for deferent parts of questionnaire) used to confirm its reliability. the population o...

A well-developed road network allows all forest activities, including wood harvesting, firefighting and recreational activities. However, forest road construction and maintenance involve economic and environmental costs. For these reasons, forest road network planning is a fundamental phase of forest management, maximising the benefits and reducing costs and impacts. Thanks to modern technologi...

The current paper presents the evaluation framework and plans developed for the evaluation of the applications to be developed in the context of the ÆGIS Integrating Project (Grant Agreement: 224348) of the 7th Framework Programme, which aims to embed support for accessibility through the development of an Open Accessibility Framework, upon which open source accessibility interfaces and applica...