Information society skills: Is knowledge accessible for all? Part II

Towards an Accessible Information Society in Europe

The European Commission considers it is now urgent to achieve a more coherent, common and effective approach to e-accessibility, in particular web accessibility, to hasten the advent of an accessible information society. Document COM (2008) 804 Final. This is based on the conclusion that “as our society is evolving to an ‘information society,’ we are becoming intrinsically more dependent on tec...

Contextualized information systems for an Information Society for all

The paper describes some ideas about contextualized information services based on location, user, environment, and equipment awareness. An information society where people have access to information and communication facilities wherever they are overstrains people by information overload and selection and configuration effort if selection and presentation means do not consider the context of us...

ONCOLOGY NURSING SOCIETY WHITE PAPER Neutropenia: State of the Knowledge Part II

In Part I of this two-part white paper, the project team of the State of the Knowledge on Neutropenia Symposium summarized the available evidence regarding chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN), neutrophil physiology, chemotherapy dose intensity, approaches to risk assessment, national practice guidelines, and outcomes of neutropenia. The authors identifi ed what currently is known and, import...

Commercial web sites made accessible for all

“Rhetoric Teaching” is necessary for all of the university students?

A simple search for information sources shows that there are many researches and articles in the field of lecture method and comparison with other types of teaching methods. Interestingly enough, if not with certainty in all of these researches, at least in most of them, the result was in favor of non-lecturing. Previously, the authors emphasized the importance of rhetoric in a Persian letter (...