Enhancing independent community access and participation Services, technologies, and policies

Despite regulations and major efforts aimed at protecting the rights of people with disabilities, there are still huge challenges to ensure community access and full participation of persons with disabilities in society, in a context where the prevalence of disability will increase over the next decades. In this chapter, we examine three aspects of the community access issue—access to services, the value of both existing and emerging technologies, and social and economic policymaking. In addition to an efficient rehabilitation process focusing on physical and mental capabilities, enhancing community access and social participation will require the optimization of access to services such as primary healthcare, family support, the home environment, and job training, which currently are highly variable between jurisdictions. Key concepts in this regard include the notion of resiliency—support for both individuals and their families as well as their communities should aim to enhance the ability of these to rebound from challenging situations and create new ways of functioning. Technologies that enhance mobility, communication, and home adaptation also play an increasingly important role in favouring community access and participation. While these are essential to compensate various forms of disabilities, the current rapid evolution of technologies does not allow adequate efficacy testing, limiting the establishment of best practices or recommendations regarding these products and often overestimating their benefits. Finally, better community access and participation, supported by an enabling environment should not be based on a culture of disability but a culture of ‘ability’ that impacts all citizens regardless of their life situation.

Welcome to the 15th volume of Future Neurology

To all our readers, we are delighted to welcome you to the fifteenth volume of Future Neurology. We are also excited to welcome you to the second Open Access issue of the journal. Since the launch of this title, we have continued to publish high-quality scientific research and commentary, and the open access model will allow us to share our great content with an even bigger audience. 2019 was another exciting year for Future Neurology with the continued publication of timely, high quality manuscripts. We are proud to present some of our content highlights within this article. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our valued Editorial Board members, readers and contributors for their continued support. As we move into 2020, we very much look forward to seeing the journals continuous progression and development.

Access to Higher Education for People with Disabilities

This chapter focuses on a series of related questions centered on access issue for people with disabilities in Chinese higher education: what is the representation for people with disabilities in Chinese higher education? What factors contribute to the impediment of access for higher education for people with disabilities? What educational legislation exist that provide educational guidelines for people with disabilities? What cultural traditions underlie the lack of educational attainment for people with disabilities in China?

Exploring visual representation of concepts in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

This Special Issue aims to go deeper in exploring the potential uses of visual representation in teaching and learning and the implications for practice in the context of higher education while showcasing the emerging work and research in this area from around the world. We welcome articles from new and more experienced academic writers, practitioners and researchers who have been creating, using and adapting various forms of visual representation across the disciplines and professional areas. We also invitestudents who are using them for their learning at undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral level, from around the world and would like to share their work with a wider audience through an open access issue to help us all gain new insights and deepen our understandings in this area.

Massive Random Access in Automobile-to-Automobile Communications using Honey-Bee Algorithm

Automobile-to-Automobile correspondence (M2M) is an inside piece in the Internet of Things (IoT) vision. In context on the enormous number of devices expected, the Whole deal Advancement Advanced (LTA-A) structures may present stop up and over-burden issues. The colossal passionate access in M2M trades will cause radio access arrange discourage in the base station (BS), actuating sharp debilitating in access deferral and access probability. Access class in any case (ACB) that can direct control the advancement of Automobile-type correspondence (MTC) devices by an ACB factor is an earth shattering course of action to keep the BS from traffic overbother. In remote cell manages, the enthusiastic access resources (i.e., preludes) are shared by M2M and human-to-human (H2H) contraptions, and research on ACB plot generally perceive that a predestined number of partners are named with M2M traffic. In any case, when encountering colossal access in M2M correspondences, it is connecting rapidly satisfy the path requests from MTC contraptions using each open presentation, especially in time-sensitive IoT conditions. In this paper, we study the gigantic access issue in M2M traffic entered conditions where M2M and H2H traffic can apply for each available prelude without segment. Utilizing the self-adaptable learning property of learning automata, we further propose dynamic Honey bee estimation to adjust the close to rate parameter. Duplication results exhibit that the Honey bee Computation achieves the presentation close to hypothetical optimality. The BS equipped with the Honey bee Count can effectively control the M2M traffic by capability adjusting the ACB factor under the counteractive action of H2H traffic and give quality relationship to both M2M and H2H traffic.

Access to Higher Education for People with Disabilities

This chapter focuses on a series of related questions centered on access issue for people with disabilities in Chinese higher education: what is the representation for people with disabilities in Chinese higher education? What factors contribute to the impediment of access for higher education for people with disabilities? What educational legislation exist that provide educational guidelines for people with disabilities? What cultural traditions underlie the lack of educational attainment for people with disabilities in China?