E-learning can offer great opportunities to students with disabilities, but still few practitioners know exactly how to make it accessible. Although there are many technical standards and specifics to make e-learning platforms accessible, the pedagogical and didactic perspective of accessibility is not enough studied; disabled students can access to the e-learning platform but not to contents, ...

This paper presents the results of an accessibility-based model of aggregate commute mode share, focusing on the share of transit relative to auto. It demonstrates the use of continuous accessibility – calculated continuously in time, rather than at a single of a few departure times – for the evaluation of transit systems. These accessibility calculations are accomplished using only publicly-av...

In current practice, transportation planning often ignores the effects of major transportation improvements on land use and the distribution of land use activities, which might affect the accessibility impacts and economic efficiency of the transportation investment strategies. In this paper, we describe the model specification and application of the land use transport interaction model TIGRIS ...

Accessibility is one of the major determinants of housing price. To model housing price, many urban researchers have adopted the method of hedonic analysis. The main question addressed in this paper is: Are the existing hedonic price models adequate in capturing the effect of accessibility? In most of these models, accessibility is represented by rather simplistic measures, such as "distance-to...

Gene expression is commonly modulated by a set of regulating gene products, which bind to a gene’s cis-regulatory region. This region encodes an input-output function, referred to as signal-integration logic, that maps a specific combination of regulatory signals (inputs) to a particular gene expression state (output). The space of all possible signalintegration functions (genotypes) is vast an...

Self-reported health is considered a health outcome related to neighborhood characteristics. This study analyzes the influence of urban multi-criteria deprivation and spatial accessibility to healthcare on individual self-reported health from a case study carried out in the city of Quito, Ecuador. A multi-criteria deprivation index and two alternative scenarios of this index were generated. A g...

The importance of accessibility to digital resources is now widely acknowledged. The W3C WAI has played a significant role in promoting the importance of accessibility and developing a framework for accessible Web resources. The accessibility of elearning provides additional challenges that may not be faced when providing access to other Web resources. The authors argue that there is a need for...

This paper describes the need for an information model and specifications that support a new strategy for delivering accessible computer-based resources to learners based on their specific needs and preferences in the circumstances in which they are operating. The strategy augments the universal accessibility of resources model to enable systems to focus on individual learners and their particu...

Tourism industry has been promoted as one of the most effective development strategies in many poor areas in China. Yet, the tourism development patterns in many areas have shown unsustainable. The reason for the unsustainable is mainly due to the inability to manage the image of tourism, a public resources for all the tourism developers, in these regions. Regional tourism bureaus have not form...

In this paper, we consider the problem of constructing hierarchies of nonlinear control systems that preserve reachability properties, and, in particular, local accessibility. In this hierarchical framework, showing local accessibility of the higher level abstracted model of the nonlinear control system is equivalent to showing local accessibility of the, more detailed, lower level model. Hiera...