The essence of the computer as a representational medium is procedurality – the ability of the computer to engage in arbitrary mechanical processes to which observers can ascribe meaning. Taking full representational advantage of the computer thus requires procedurally literate authorship, that is, artists and writers who are able to think about and work within computational frameworks; in the ...

This paper describes the “Jaba” programming environment which allows users to tailor the level of abstraction at which they visualise, browse, edit and document object-oriented programs. Its design draws on concepts from literate programming, holophrasting displays, fisheye visualisation and hypertext to allow programmers to rapidly move between abstract and detailed views of Java classes. The ...

Teacher a profession which creates all other profession, who are the most influential people of society. Not just teaching and academia they have highly positive influence impact many lives. Being financial literate having ability to effectively manage their own finance by gaining fruitful resource can make them role model o f students also become key contributor for betterment development The ...

OBJECTIVES To obtain normative data for Alzheimer's Quick Test (AQT) measures of perceptual and cognitive speed from West African speakers of Krio. SUBJECTS Normal adults, who were functionally independent, from Sierra Leone (n = 164) aged 25-79 years. METHODS Perceptual and cognitive speed were measured with AQT single- and dual-dimension colour-number (C-N) and colour-animal (C-A) naming ...

Many letters of the alphabet are consistently mapped to specific colors in English-speaking adults, both in the general population and in individuals with grapheme-color synaesthesia who perceive letters in color. Here, across six experiments, we tested the ubiquity of the color/letter associations with typically developing toddlers, literate children, and adults. We found that pre-literate chi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a tool called the Pictorial Cognitive Screening Inventory (PCSI), which consists of pictorial memory and attention tests that are not influenced by literacy level. PATIENTS AND METHODS PCSI, Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), and Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) questionnaires were administered to 80 elderly participants (20 illit...

This thesis presents Community Knowledge Sharing (CKS), an Internet-enabled asynchronous messaging system designed for use in the developing world. The system is motivated by a desire to expand the benefits of network connectivity deeply into rural areas, breaking down barriers within and between communities. Recognizing that large segments of the population in rural communities have low levels...