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Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England.

This article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care services. Policy in this area in England has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. Recent policy change in Engla...

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ALT: Another Likelihood Tool

Although there are many phylogenetic reconstruc-tion tools available [1][4], their purpose is in generalto solve specific problems or to apply a limited num-ber of evolution models.We present a new program, ALT — AnotherLikelihood Tool, which implements Felsenstein’smaximum likelihood algorithm [2][3] two importantcharacteristics: it is written in a highly modular<lb...

ALT text and basic accessibility

Recent surveys have shown that the majority of websites are not accessible. Despite legal obligations and the importance of the internet for disabled people, most websites fail to reach a basic level of accessibility, yet web developers are not short of accessibility guidelines and recommendations. This preliminary study consists of a meta-review of web accessibility studies in order to identif...