Accessibility indicators from a gender perspective

A Critical Visual Analysis of Gender Representation of ELT Materials from a Multimodal Perspective

This content analysis study, employing a multimodal perspective and critical visual analysis, set out to analyze gender representations in Top Notch series, one of the highly used ELT textbooks in Iran. For this purpose, six images were selected from these series and analyzed in terms of ‘representational’, ‘interactive’ and ‘compositional’ modes of meanings. The result indicated that there are...

Looking at Trade from a Gender Perspective

Gender: An Emotional Intelligence Perspective

Dear Editor:    The rising importance of emotional intelligence gives a clear idea of the significant differences between men and women, since men and women are emotionally intelligent in different ways. Understanding and appreciating such differences leads to the improvement of the existing relationships and to the establishment of new relationships in a satisfying manner.       One of the pri...

Accessibility Indicators for Transportation Planning Using GIS

In this paper a method to create GIS-based accessibility indicators is presented. The method allows to create person-by-person and store-by-store (disaggregate) accessibility indicators but also to derive zonal summary (aggregate) indicators that can be used in more traditional transportation planning applications. These indicators have also been used as explanatory variables in person-based tr...

Accessibility to health care facilities in Montreal Island: an application of relative accessibility indicators from the perspective of senior and non-senior residents

BACKGROUND Geographical access to health care facilities is known to influence health services usage. As societies age, accessibility to health care becomes an increasingly acute public health concern. It is known that seniors tend to have lower mobility levels, and it is possible that this may negatively affect their ability to reach facilities and services. Therefore, it becomes important to ...