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‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From the 'Digital Divide' to 'Digital Inequality': Studying Internet Use as Penetration Increases [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors of this paper contend that as Internet penetration increases, students of inequality of access to the new information technologies should shift their attention from the "digital divide" - inequality between "haves" and "have-nots ...
Eszter Hargittai, Paul DiMaggio
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Determinants of digital skills inequality among adult Poles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter investigates whether factors identified by the European Union as potential sources of digital exclusion increase the risk of not having or having insufficient skills to use effectively Information and Communication Technologies among ...
Drabowicz, Tomasz
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Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of amblyopia utilizing generated retinal reflexes [PDF]

open access: yes
Investigation confirmed that GRR images can be consistently obtained and that these images contain information required to detect the optical inequality of one eye compared to the fellow eye.
Hay, S. H., Kerr, J. H.
core   +1 more source

“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

The $b$-adic tent transformation for quasi-Monte Carlo integration using digital nets

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper we investigate quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration using digital nets over $\mathbb{Z}_b$ in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. The tent transformation, or the baker's transformation, was originally used for lattice rules by Hickernell ...
Goda, Takashi   +2 more
core   +1 more source

How multilingual is scholarly communication? Mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific contexts; few, however, have provided a global analysis of multilingualism in science. Using two major bibliometric databases (OpenAlex and Dimensions),
Carolina Pradier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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