The 233-page report of the study, called "Financing Education -Investments and Returns," looks at 16 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, Uruguay, and Zimbabwe. It concludes that, over all, investments in education during the past two decades "may have accounted for about a half a percentage p...

The cloud storage-based zero client technology gains companies’ interest because of its capabilities in secured and economic management of information resources. As the use of personal smart devices such as smart phones and pads in business increases, to cope with insufficient workability caused by limited size and computing capacity most of smart devices have, the necessity to apply the zero-c...

Whereas HTML is commonly used for creating graphical web applications, VoiceXML is used for voice-enabled web applications. But those applications that contain a big data or interaction a single-modality are not suited for small and mobile devices. The multimodal markup language like the XHTML plus Voice(X+V) is used for multimodal applications that are composed of VoiceXML-based voice applicat...

Economic Conditions and Child Abuse Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction. Using county-level child abuse data spanning 1996 to 2009 from the...