Search results for " accessibility."

Accessible On-Line Floor Plans

2015

Better access to on-line information graphics is a pressing need for people who are blind or have severe vision impairment. We present a new model for accessible presentation of on-line information graphics and demonstrate its use for presenting floor plans. While floor plans are increasingly provided on-line, people who are blind are at best provided with only a high-level textual description. This makes it difficult for them to understand the spatial arrangement of the objects on the floor plan. Our new approach provides users with significantly better access to such plans. The users can automatically generate an accessible version of a floor plan from an on-line floor plan image quickly …

The temple of visual culture and people with visual impairments: museum accessibility as mental colonization

Accessibility raises political and cultural questions about inclusion and inclusive practices. Museums worldwide now offer multisensory access programs for people with visual impairments, which could appear as an actual implementation of the purpose of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of full inclusion and respect of disabled pleople as part of human diversity. However, by focusing on touch, they often passively exclude people with visual impairments because of their foundation in ocularcentric assumptions about knowledge, misconceptions about visual impairments, and aesthetic and epistemological potential of other 'senses'. Differently, approaches deeply aware of s…

Care management in a French cohort with Down syndrome from the AnDDI-Rares/CNSA study.

2021

Down syndrome (DS) is a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder. In individuals with DS, a multidisciplinary approach to care is required to prevent multiple medical complications. The aim of this study was to describe the rehabilitation, medical care, and educational and social support provided to school-aged French DS patients with varying neuropsychological profiles. A mixed study was conducted. Quantitative data were obtained from a French multicentre study that included patients aged 4-20 years with diverse genetic syndromes. Qualitative data were collected by semi-structured face-to-face interviews and focus groups. Ninety-five DS subjects with a mean age of 10.9 years were included. Sixt…

Distribution of maternity units and spatial access to specialised care for women delivering before 32 weeks of gestation in Europe

2010

Contains fulltext : 88841.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) Survival and quality of life are improved for very preterm babies when delivery occurs in a maternity unit with on-site neonatal intensive care (level III unit). We investigated the impact of distance on the probability of delivering in such a unit for births before 32 weeks of gestation from 9 European regions with diverse perinatal health systems (the MOSAIC cohort). We analysed distances between women's homes, and the nearest level III in population quartiles, adjusting for maternal and pregnancy characteristics. Living farther away from a level III reduced access to specialised care everywhere; in some regions women re…

Phygital accessibility e next normal per il patrimonio architettonico

2021

In modi e finalità dell’uso dell’ambiente costruito, sia ordinario sia connotato da significati culturali, il COVID-19 ha accelerato cambiamenti già avviati e in cui il consolidamento della IV Rivoluzione Industriale continua a giocare un ruolo essenziale. Prefigurando gli scenari post pandemici, l’affermazione della dimensione Phygital spinge la digitalizzazione oltre l’immaterialità astratta e avulsa, cercando rinnovate connessioni e sinergie tra mondo fisico e mondo digitale collegate allo specifico luogo. Alla sfera Phygital si possono riferire i più recenti avanzamenti su accessibilità e inclusione nel patrimonio archi- tettonico: uscendo dal loop virtuale e facendo leva sulla concrete…

Il progetto I-Access. Patrimonio culturale e accessibilità

2021

The volume is one of 3 (see notes) containing the results of the I-Access project: implementing accessibility in urban historic center's use and knowledge (Interreg V-A Italy-Malta, axis I, notice 1/16), of which R.P. is the project leader. Each section - accessibility, digital innovation, interventions, community - has always been referred, by scientific coordination, to cultural heritage. in the Appendices the fact sheets and verification of accessibility and the projects for overcoming the architectural barriers carried out, relating to the two churches of S. Maria la Nova and S. Maria in Valverde, are represented. for all activities, please refer to the site www.i-access.eu

La Corte costituzionale apre al divieto di retroattività del novum penitenziario in malam partem.

2020

With a courageous judgment, the Constitutional Court extends the application scope of art. 25, par. 2, Cost. in the criminal enforcement sector. Censoring the living law, the Court states the prohibition of the retroactivity of the measures more afflictive introduced by law no. 3 of 2019 to convicts who committed the fact before its entry into force. The Author, after dwelling on the new paradigm of "European legality", retraces the salient passages of the decision, from which it draws the innovative message of the Judge of the laws.

When the healthcare does not follow the evidence: The case of the lack of early intervention programs for psychosis in Spain

2017

Abstract There is now sufficient evidence to support the importance of interventions in the early stages of psychosis. The delay in the detection and treatment of the first-episode psychosis is related to a lower and slower recovery, as well as a higher risk of relapse. Despite this fact, early intervention units or teams are still not regularly implemented in mental health service settings in Spain. In this opinion article, a review is presented of the main arguments for defending the need to implement these programmes and strategies in order to achieve this aim. There are a number of programmes for early intervention for psychosis currently working in other countries, with a therapeutic p…

From limit to centrality. Regeneration of the Genoa's port area through architectural and urban design

2012

This survey’s core is the case study of the regeneration of the port area and of the urban waterfront of the city of Genoa, as an emblematic example where the architectural and urban design plays an important role, oriented to the transformation of the port area and to the modification of the relationship that exists between the harbour and the city. In particular this will deepen the possibility, to reverse the condition of limit that characterizes the port area into a new centrality, through the design, passing by intermediate steps that redefine the modalities of access and of connection between city and port, breaking the condition of isolation that ports usually present. As a matter of…

Realizing women´s right to maternal health: A study of awareness of rights and utilization of maternal health services among reproductive age women i…

2019

BackgroundMaternal mortality rates are still unacceptably high in many countries, indicating violation of women´s human right to life and health. Access to adequate information about maternal health rights and available services are essential aspects of realizing women´s right to accessible health care. This study aimed at assessing awareness of the right to access maternal health services among women who had recently given birth, and the association between such awareness and the utilization of maternal health services in two districts in Tanzania.MethodsThis study was cross sectional in design. Interviews were conducted with women who gave birth within one year prior to the survey in two …