Qualification of employees who operate technological processes directly influences the safety of production. However, the employees’’ qualification cannot completely exclude human factor. Today, there are many technologies that can minimize or eliminate human factor impact on production safety ensuring. The augmented reality technology is an example of this technology. Nowadays, the augmented r...

The development of new technologies creates affordances with the potential to remove barriers to learning faced by young people. New technologies have therefore been seen as both a panacea for problems in developing inclusive education, and as a way of allowing a diverse range of learners to access and engage with the curriculum in its broadest sense. This chapter critically considers these vie...

In recent years, there have been some interesting advances in the science and practice of peritoneal dialysis (PD). This review focuses on selected technological advances and the impact that these changes may have on this modality. New, so-called "biocompatible" fluids have more physiologic pH and reduced glucose degradation products. These new fluids may reduce the deleterious effects of chron...

As graphics calculators are mainly devices for student learning, it is important that curricula and examinations are constructed to incorporate them in a coherent way. Three recent developments in graphics calculators are described and analysed to determine their implications for examinations. Symbolic manipulation on algebraic calculators challenges existing emphases in many examinations and t...