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Gibraltar Health Authority launches electronic prescript...
28 April 2008
The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) has introduced a ne ...
Using a combination of unique prescription IDs and uniqu ...
... his type of information can be critical to patient car

Interest in MySpace.com increased following the murder o... Taylor Behl who had a MySpace.com account. The account i... goodbyes and well wishes.

Red, yellow and orange show activated regions while blue... are deactivated in these maps of bodily sensations assoc...
Yellow shows regions of increased sensation while blue a ...
Chests puffing up with pride — and happiness felt head ...
Researchers

It all started while we were researching an article on f... interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at th... multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the i...
There is, it turns out, a whole community of very smart ...
And so we d

Research into collaborative document use often concentra... share document content. However, studies of real-world d... reveal that the structures by which document corpora are... also, themselves, be important sites of collaborative ac... Unfortunate

a way to store, sync, share, model and back up content
a work in progress
Open Source (Apache licensed)
an acronym for "Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed ...
... neither "Cloud" nor "Local". happily both.

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

There are times when user experience practitioners might... System Usability Scale (SUS), but there is an item that ... in their context of measurement. For example, the first ... I would like to use this system frequently.” If the sy... one that wo

What’s the future of mobile experience-capture technol... if a company were to make a small, white, beautifully de... device with an “i” in front of its name, what would ... explore this question by examining three technologies: o... currently a

This study confirmed previous results of an association ... cordless phone use and malignant brain tumours. These fi... support for the hypothesis that RF-EMFs play a role both... and promotion stages of carcinogenesis.

Social networking site Facebook is facing an investigati... privacy watchdog after a complaint from a Channel 4 News...

Use checkboxes and radio buttons only to change settings... buttons that make something happen. Also, the changed se... take effect until the user clicks the command button (la...
* If the user clicks the Back button, any changes ma ...
* If th

Trajectory-based interactions, such as navigating throug...
moving in 3D worlds, are becoming common tasks in modern ...
performances in these tasks cannot be successfully model ...
applied to pointing tasks. Therefore we explore the poss ...
... ste

Clear is hands-down worth picking up if you’re interes... and have any need for a simple list-making-and-completin... beyond its immediate worth, I think that it could signal...
It’s roughly five years into the multitouch revolution ...
I think tha

#!/usr/bin/python # MVC Howto - Introduction & code # Wh... stands for "Model", "View" & "Controller", a way of sepe... into # manageable and independent chunks that can be cha... use MVC? # Because code is independent from each other, ... for you to

Problems of human-computer interaction become crucial wh... question is a potential purchaser trying to engage with ... an internet shopping site. These days customer interface...
Walk-through first referred to a physical tour of a faci ...
Its key asp

A collection of hardware and software components providi...
The components of the toolkit include:
Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ...
Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ...
... loads where applicable, are a

Basic general information about the markup languages: cr...
↓ Creator ↓ License ↓ First public release ...
avg Ulrich von Zadow LGPL 2003 0.7.0 text editor or ...
GladeXML GNOME LGPL April 1998 2.10.0 Glade GTK+
... 3. ^ XForm

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass.
And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ...
But this could change if a new 4G m

The growing popularity of connected devices – especial... tablet computer, the iPad – are starting to change the... media. And with sales of these devices expected to be a ... otherwise lackluster holiday shopping season, everyone, ...
The Nielsen

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i don't photolurk often, but man i'm always insanely cur ...
makelikepaper said, (14 days ago) reply
if you post photos on your flickr here, i'll probably go ...

Weird huh ?
This robot is used to mimic a remote users facial moveme ...

Weird huh ?
This robot is used to mimic a remote users facial moveme ...

Having observed people helping one another in a friendly... trusting community way on the Internet, the WELL, and Us...
The first postings debuted in early 1995. The initial te ...
Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. Both subscriber ...
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