The aim of this study was to identify the parental factors associated with regular use of dental services by second year secondary school students in Quebec. Data were collected in 1996-97, as part of a provincial survey on the dental health of Quebec students. A stratified probabilistic sample of 1,351 students, representative at the provincial level, was obtained. Data about frequency of use ...

As ubiquitous computing environments become more prevalent they will cover more and more of our public and private lives. Users will be able to interact with these environments to purchase goods, receive services and share information in ways unheard of today. But the success of these environments will be dependent on users’ willingness to accept and manage the privacy risks of sharing their pe...

objective: the  implementation of  family  psychoeducation at  the  service delivery level is not without difficulty. few mental health professionals receive special training to work with families especially in iran.   the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training health professionals in terms of their adherence to protocol. method: eight professionals (general prac...

The traditional approach taken to the provision of music for the print impaired by major organisations has been largely concerned with Braille Music. However, reading Braille Music is a specialised skill and not all visually impaired people can learn this skill. There are some technologies available which allow the print-impaired to service themselves but there remains a lot of work to be done ...

this paper examines how learning happened in an interactive studio setting using the theories and methods of educational ethnography. the study begins with a review of the education literature on the acquisition of professional education and identity, particularly epistemic frame theory. Using a case study approach, we examine students’ learning during a two-week period of a graduate urban plan...

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments aiming to find new ways to obtain a better integration of information technology in everyday life devices and activities. On the other hand, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), is an important application domain of AmI that aims to contribute with ICT research applied to enabling assistive living environmen...

The so called trend ‘‘live digital, remember digital’’ is acquiring higher relevance within the international research community, due to its several appealing challenges in a multitude of different fields within the Information and Communication Technologies. Today, many people live daily connected to the Internet through their mobile phones, laptops, tablets, etc. and the need to audit or log ...

The health workforce is of strategic importance to the performance of national health systems as well as of international disease control initiatives. The brain drain from rural to urban areas, and from developing to industrialized countries is a long-standing phenomenon in the health professions but has in recent years taken extreme proportions, particularly in Africa. Adopting the wider persp...

Abstract The deployment of mixed reality systems in professional settings demands adaptation the physical environment and practices. However, technology-driven changes to are problematic some contexts. Specifically, face-to-face advisory services rely on scripted material routines using specific tools. This manuscript explores challenges encountered during development LivePaper, a mixed-reality...