Applications of building automation for elderly and disabled persons

Two views of the nature of holiness are outlined in this chapter. According to one, which we may call ontological or essentialist, holy places, persons, times, and objects are onto...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them?  Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing product...

State building and democratization in Africa rarely attract the attention they deserve. Few have grappled with the relationship between state building (nation-building) and democra...

Description These 17 papers were presented on June 25 and 26, 2014 at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto Canada after the regular ASTM C24 meeting. The theme of this symp...

The assessment of elderly patients should differ from that of younger adults. The overall function of elderly patients is influenced by factors other than their medical...

A major emerging demographic issue of the twenty-first century is the ageing of populations as an inevitable consequence of the demographic transition experienced by most countries...

Robert Persons’s De persecutione Anglicana, composed in the immediate aftermath of the first Jesuit mission to England, at the time of the execution of Edmund Campion, publicized t...