The present study provides the first evidence that illiteracy can be reliablypredicted from standard mobile phone logs. By deriving a broad set of mobile phoneindicators reflecting users’ financial, social and mobility patterns we show howsupervised machine learning can be used to predict individual illiteracy in an Asiandeveloping country, externally validated against a large-s...

Education development is a critical component for a modern economy as the illiteracy rate can hinder economic growth. The illiteracy rate in China has decreased rapidly since 1980s, but there still exists an imbalance in distribution of educational resources among different regions. In order to explore the impacts of education quality on regional economic growth, we employ a quadratic direction...

The present study provides the first evidence that illiteracy can be reliably predicted from standard mobile phone logs. By deriving a broad set of mobile phone indicators reflecting users’ financial, social and mobility patterns we show how supervised machine learning can be used to predict individual illiteracy in an Asian developing country, externally validated against a large-scale survey....

There is a current concept that illiteracy and lower educational levels are risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia. Our aims were to review the association between illiteracy and dementia; and to describe some results on neuropsychological findings in illiteracy. A literature search of the PubMed database was performed. The search terms were "dementia", "illiteracy", "neuropsychologica...

The brain can be understood as an organ that adapts to several types of internal and external influences. The interaction of these complex concurrent stimuli along life shapes the highly differentiated biologic arrangement of the brain and its consequent physiology, at any given time. The past years have seen a significant development of the knowledge about the neural substrate of language in i...

REQUIRED) This study examines the possibility that our undergraduates may become multidisciplinary illiterates as a result of the increasing breadth of content introduced into the IS field. An analysis of the top IS journals finds IS education isolated and detached from its research. Without a clear body of knowledge built within a succinct codified framework for students, the IS field will con...

An interesting article on the Army approach to Problems of illiteracy was published in the Educational Supplement of The Times of December 23rd, 1944. In this the author, after commenting on the illiteracy or Partial literacy of a proportion of the population, and the fact that too little attention has been given to the niatter in this country, describes measures taken by the War Office to deal...

Functional health illiteracy is a silent disability demanding the attention of healthcare professionals because it affects millions of people in the United States. Patients are reluctant to disclose this problem because they fear discrimination and stigmatization. Inadequate health literacy raises ethical questions because it is a barrier to healthcare and results in poor health outcomes. The p...

In this article, we explore the impacts that education expansion and increased levels in educational homogamy have had on couples' isolated illiteracy rates, defined as the proportion of illiterates in union that are married to an illiterate partner. First, we develop the methodology to decompose isolated illiteracy rates into two main components: one related to level of homogamy among illitera...