A b s t r d C t Information and communication technologies (ICT) are at the heart of government social inclusion policy. However, the "digital divide " remains and social inclusion and technology are closely linked: Not having access to technology is often seen both as part of the inclusion/exclusion problem and part of the solution by enabling access to information resources through different ...

BACKGROUND Social inclusion is a common focus of listening and spoken language (LSL) early intervention for children with hearing loss. This exploratory study compared the social inclusion of young children with hearing loss educated using a listening and spoken language approach with population data. METHODS A framework for understanding the scope of social inclusion is presented in the Back...

In Study 1, 167 English children aged 6-8 or 9-11 evaluated peer English or French soccer fans that were loyal or partially disloyal. In Study 2, 149 children aged 5-11 made judgments about generic inclusion norms between and within competitive groups. In both studies, children's understanding of intergroup inclusion/exclusion norms (group nous) was predicted by theory of social mind (a social ...

This paper addresses issues involved in representing uncertain causal relationships between entities in medical knowledge. An interval-based approach for medical binary fuzzy relations is proposed to represent the ignorance about uncertain and imprecise associative relationships whereas some effort has been put in introducing and reinterpretation of novel medical measures. The focus of attentio...

background: stem-cell therapy plays a preventive role for different complications of diabetes, including diabetes nephropathy. the current phase 3 single-arm clinical trial is designed to investigate the potential protective effect of allotransplantation of fetal liver-derived cell suspension in diabetic nephropathy. methods: seventy-four diabetic patients with type 1 were selected according to...

BACKGROUND Although the inclusion of women in research has been examined in medical publications, little is known about how federal mandates have influenced the inclusion of women in research published in nursing journals. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the inclusion of women in published nursing research from 1995 to 2001, with a focus on the leading causes of mortality. METHOD All ...

This study examined the sense of coherence and loneliness of 19 children aged 12-14 years with severe to profound hearing loss. These feelings and their interrelations with speech intelligibility (SI) were examined in 2 settings: in special classes within regular schools (group inclusion) or individuals integrated into regular classes (individual inclusion). Two self-report measures (Loneliness...

Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and exclusion, confirming much of the economic...

In this paper we consider resolution estimates for a linearized inverse conductivity problem with limited-view data. Our purpose is to precisely describe the effect of the limited-view aspect on the resolving power of the measurements in the presence of measurement noise. We first show that, in the shallow probing regime, where the inclusion is close to the boundary of the background medium, we...