This paper describes the integration of commonly used screen readers, namely, NVDA [NVDA 2011] and ORCA [ORCA 2011] with Text to Speech (TTS) systems for Indian languages. A participatory design approach was followed in the development of the integrated system to ensure that the expectations of visually challenged people are met. Given that India is a multilingual country (22 official languages...

Several on-line daily newspapers offer readers the opportunity to directly comment on articles. In the Netherlands this feature is used quite often and the quality (grammatically and content-wise) is surprisingly high. The paper develops techniques to collect, store, enrich and analyze these comments. After giving a high-level overview of the Dutch ‘commentosphere’ we zoom in on extracting the ...

Inequalities are useful in all fields of Mathematics. The aim of this problem-oriented book is to present elementary techniques in the theory of inequalities. The readers will meet classical theorems including Schur’s inequality, Muirhead’s theorem, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, the Power Mean inequality, the AM-GM inequality, and Hölder’s theorem. I would greatly appreciate hearing about comm...

Addiction received the editorial by McCreanor et al. (2000) which follows, and we publish it after refereeing. We see it as usefully expressing the opinion of the authors. The informed statement of a personal opinion is indeed what an Addiction editorial is often productively about, especially so if the piece carries an inherent challenge to its readership and sets up some temperate controversy...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to gain insight into public awareness of intimate partner violence (IPV) in late life by how individuals respond to incidents of IPV reported in the newspaper. DESIGN AND METHODS Using grounded theory techniques, online news items covering 24 incidents of IPV in late life, and the reader comments posted to them were analyzed. The news items were examined ...

The overall purpose of the ‘Statistical Points and Pitfalls’ series is to help readers and researchers alike increase awareness of how to use statistics and why/how we fall into inappropriate choices or interpretations. We hope to help readers understand common misconceptions and give clear guidance on how to avoid common pitfalls by offering simple tips to improve your reporting of quantitativ...

The overall purpose of the ‘Statistical Points and Pitfalls’ series is to help readers and researchers alike increase awareness of how to use statistics and why/how we fall into inappropriate choices or interpretations. We hope to help readers understand common misconceptions and give clear guidance on how to avoid common pitfalls by offering simple tips to improve your reporting of quantitativ...

The overall purpose of the 'Statistical Points and Pitfalls' series is to help readers and researchers alike increase awareness of how to use statistics and why/how we fall into inappropriate choices or interpretations. We hope to help readers understand common misconceptions and give clear guidance on how to avoid common pitfalls by offering simple tips to improve your reporting of quantitativ...