We assessed the literacy level and readability of online communications about H1N1/09 influenza issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the first month of outbreak. Documents were classified as targeting one of six audiences ranging in technical expertise. Flesch-Kincaid (FK) measure assessed literacy level for each group of documents. ANOVA models tested for diffe...

The IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser TM is an application for the interactive publication of scientific and technical documents. The original project started as an experiment at IBM Research to see how an implementation of a subset of TEX, LTEX, and AMSLTEX could be extended to support interactive viewing of documents for a computer algebra system. This interactivity is accomplished via supp...

Public geological achievement platform is a part of science and technology infrastructure and related to sustainable development of the economy and society. By literature research, expert's discussion and case study, the paper proposes that centralized sharing with local sharing mechanism and multi-layers network have to be set up to achieve public geological achievements sharing. The operating...

In the context of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Web 2.0 applications are increasingly being used for Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). The paper presents the main principles of Web 2.0 and develops the hypotheses derived from the central aspect of collaborative learning. These hypotheses refer to the significance of Web 2.0 for the technical support of various collaborativ...

Healthcare systems around the globe are facing a number of challenges. Thus Increasing focus is being placed on constructing appropriate healthcare reforms which are attempting to address how to tackle these challenges. A critical enabler in these reforms is the adoption of an e-health solution. Such e-health solutions are not only expensive and complex endeavours, but also have far reaching im...

Software development involves a variety of interrelated software documents produced in the diierent phases of the software development process. A CASE environment should maintain these documents and their relationships, and provide support for their consistency. Hyper-text provides a general way to store and present interrelated information. It is natural to expect that hypertext can play a sig...

We present a system for extracting an English translation of a given Japanese technical term by collecting and scoring translation candidates from the web. We first show that there are a lot of partially bilingual documents in the web that could be useful for term translation, discovered by using a commercial technical term dictionary and an Internet search engine. We then present an algorithm ...

Electronically signed documents can lose value of evidence because the security of cryptographic algorithms decreases in the course of time. In this paper we describe legal, technical and user-oriented requirements for long-term conservation of provability of electronically signed documents, which were systematically examined in the project “ArchiSig Conclusive and secure long term archiving of...