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Designing a visible city for visually impaired users [PDF]
, 2009 This paper reports on an ongoing doctoral research project which aims to identify the main barriers to access within the built environment for persons with a visual impairment.
Grant, P.M., White, Robert W.
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Access, the built environment, and behavior
Access is an essential component of the built environment that measures the ease of reaching desired destinations; the level of access is a combined result from both land use and transport infrastructure. Other facets of the built environment include density, street design, pedestrian and bike infrastructure, policy, etc. Individual travel behaviour is
Wu, Hao, Levinson, David Matthew
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Российский журнал гериатрической медициныBackground. In the context of demographic aging, depopulation and workforce deficiency in Russia, the need for employment of aged workers will grow every year.
A. S. Bashkireva +4 more
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A behavioural dataset for studying individual differences in language skills
Scientific Data, 2020 Measurement(s) Natural Language • cognitive function measurement Technology Type(s) Behavioral Assessment Factor Type(s) sex • age • education Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens Sample Characteristic - Environment laboratory environment ...
Florian Hintz +4 more
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Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2017 This is a qualitative study of the role of the legal and regulatory framework in making built environments accessible to Persons with Disabilities in six universities in Ghana.
John Tiah Bugri, Anthony Kwame Danso
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ACCESSIBLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED IN MALAYSIA: HOTELS AS CASE STUDIES [PDF]
Journal of Construction in Developing Countries, 2010 In Malaysia, it has become of increasing importance to study ways to improve the level of accessibility in buildings for the elderly and disabled people in the built environment, especially in hotels and resorts.
Asiah Abdul Rahim, Nur Amirah Abd. Samad
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Preparation and manipulation of a fault-tolerant superconducting qubit
, 2007 We describe a qubit encoded in continuous quantum variables of an rf superconducting quantum interference device. Since the number of accessible states in the system is infinite, we may protect its two-dimensional subspace from small errors introduced by
Gerd Schön +5 more
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Ain Shams Engineering JournalIn cities with historical heritage, wheelchair users cannot benefit from urban spaces due to the lack of design in the physical environment. In this study, Konya city centre (Turkey), which has a historical richness for the solution of this problem, is ...
Hüseyin Özdemir
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Can aspiration kill local community? Challenges for young people and career practitioners in Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2013 Raising aspiration is a primary focus of careers work. However, in some circumstances enhanced aspirations may create tensions in situations of limited accessible opportunity.
Neary, Siobhan
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Generating Virtual Environments to Allow Increased Access to the Built Environment
International Journal of Virtual Reality, 1998 The problems encountered by individuals with disabilities when accessing large public buildings is described and a solution based on the generation of virtual models of the built environment is proposed. These models are superimposed on a control network infrastructure, currently utilised in intelligent building applications such as lighting, heating ...
T. Foster, G. +3 more
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