Evaluating the Accessibility of Computer Laboratories, Libraries, and Websites in Jordanian Universities and Colleges

This article evaluates the accessibility computer laboratories, libraries, and web sites of five different institutions of higher education in Jordan. The evaluation is performed using a questionnaire and by expert visiting these institutions of higher education to check their accessibility according to a set of universal standard collected from the literature. The analysis of the results revealed a serious weakness in understanding, adopting and implementing web accessibility guidelines throughout nearly all evaluated Jordanian universities and colleges. On the other hand, the accessibility of computer laboratories and libraries the questionnaire answers show that there is environmental barrier and technological barrier for persons with disabilities to access such services. The article points out the importance of improving awareness, training staff and developers, and developing formal guidelines to improve the accessibility of universities and colleges services.

Striking a Balance between Free Association and Regulating Membership of a ‘Community’: Exploring s 235 of the Constitution of South Africa

Section 235 of the Constitution of South Africa contains a promise of potential self-determination of language and cultural communities. An essential question arising from this promise is how an individual’s freedom of association interacts with the ability of a community to determine its membership. This article reflects on this question with reference to standards developed in international law and practices in the constitutional law of selected case studies. Whereas international law sets a universal standard of free association, states have developed practices whereby the individual’s right to free association is recognised, but where there are also some measures allowed to ensure that an individual is indeed accepted by and part of the community. Any conflicts that arise are, generally speaking, subject to a form of judicial review.

A Study on the Analysis of Vertical Walking Speed Considering the Confluence of Occupants in the Stairwell of a High-rise Building

In a fire incident case in a modern high-rise complex building, most occupants use the stairs to evacuate; hence, it is critical to secure the safety of vertical escape routes, such as the stairs. However, in Korea, the size of the stairwell is stipulated as a universal standard, and there are insufficient regulations and studies on the behavioral characteristics of occupants that may occur during the vertical evacuation of buildings. Therefore, in the evacuation experiment conducted at the W University in Japan, the relationship between the density and velocity of the occupants and the flow coefficient were analyzed during merging in the stairwell to derive a regression equation. When the stair width acted as a variable, the behavioral characteristics of the occupants and the evacuation time inside the stairwell were analyzed to obtain the basic data for improving the evacuation safety in the stairwell.

A universal standard for health-promoting places. Example of assessment – on the basis of a case study of Rahway River Park

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to development of approaches to the evaluation of the design of public open green spaces (POS). This paper presents a universal standard for the design of health-promoting urban places. The standard is a conceptual framework which was developed after visiting over one hundred public parks and therapeutic gardens in Europe and the United States. The universal standard is a simple and effective tool that can be used by both professional designers and non-professionals to improve the health-promoting qualities of open green spaces. Rahway River Park, designed by Olmsted Brothers in 1925, serves as a case study.

Validation of the complex for daily monitoring of ECG and blood pressure "Medicom-Combi" for blood pressure measurement in medical institutions in the general population (according to the Universal standard AAMi / ESH / ISO UNIVERSAL)

Purpose. To assess the accuracy of blood pressure measurement by oscillometric and auscultatory methods using the complex for daily monitoring of ECG and blood pressure «Medicom-Combi» in accordance with the criteria outlined in the Universal Standard AAMI/SH/ISO (ISO 81060-2:2018) for children and adults.Materials and methods. The study involved 90 patients (average age -33.8 ± 26.7 years) of the cardiological profile of the City Clinical Hospital No. 13 DZM, Children’s City Clinical Hospital No. 9 named after G. N. Speransky, as well as medical personnel, of which 85 were included in the analysis. For each participant, 3 pairs of valid measurements were obtained (reference-test, 255 pairs of measurements in total). Reference measurements were carried out by two experts, independently of each other, using the auscultatory method. Test measurements were read from the complex by a third expert.Results. According to validation criterion 1, the mean ± standard deviation of differences between test and reference measurements was 0.1 ± 6.0/1.7 ± 5.8 mm Hg for SBP/DBP by the oscillometric method and 0.0 ± 6.5/1.3 ± 6.6 mm Hg for SBP/DBP by the auscultatory method. According to validation criterion 2, the standard deviation of the average difference between the BP values of the same patient according to the results of test and reference measurements did not exceed 6.95/6.73 for SBP/DBP by the oscillometric method and 6.95/6.82 mm Hg for SBP/DBP by the auscultatory method.Conclusion. The complex for daily monitoring of ECG and blood pressure «Medicom-Combi» meets the requirements of the Universal Standard AAMI/ESH/ISO in terms of measurement accuracy for devices intended for use among children and adults when assessing blood pressure by oscillometric and auscultatory methods.

Creencia y pertenencia: El laberinto de las sociedades posotomanas

Post-colonial coagulation is the dilemma of many societies in endless formation due to the aftermath of colonialism and the dominance of coloniality, and even more so when this aftermath has been converted into a never-ending labyrinth for political-Islamic anthropology, particularly in the Arab case. The present study primarily aims to analyze the emergence of Abrahamic religions among Arab tribes and their role in supplanting the canon of identity and belonging, forming a universal standard for legal identity substantially different from the European one, and overturning the ancient tribal concept. The study then shifts to analyz-ing the formation of Islamic ideology as positive law by means of an empirical parallelism with Roman law, thus introducing the Latin concept of interpolare. We therefore arrive at the conclusion of how foreign-colonial interference played the main role in diluting the identity canon and that of belonging, creating a false identity, shaped to conform to colonial compromises, wrapping religious epistemology in a forced normative system to have caused schizophrenia and cognitive resistance to power and normative disobe-dience, even prompting schizophrenia and an aversion to reality.

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) Applied to Microbiology: A National Laboratory Mapping Experience in Taiwan

Background and Objective: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) is a universal standard for identifying laboratory tests and clinical observations. It facilitates a smooth information exchange between hospitals, locally and internationally. Although it offers immense benefits for patient care, LOINC coding is complex, resource-intensive, and requires substantial domain expertise. Our objective was to provide training and evaluate the performance of LOINC mapping of 20 pathogens from 53 hospitals participating in the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS). Methods: Complete mapping codes for 20 pathogens (nine bacteria and 11 viruses) were requested from all participating hospitals to review between January 2014 and December 2016. Participating hospitals mapped those pathogens to LOINC terminology, utilizing the Regenstrief LOINC mapping assistant (RELMA) and reported to the NNDSS, beginning in January 2014. The mapping problems were identified by expert panels that classified frequently asked questionnaires (FAQs) into seven LOINC categories. Finally, proper and meaningful suggestions were provided based on the error pattern in the FAQs. A general meeting was organized if the error pattern proved to be difficult to resolve. If the experts did not conclude the local issue’s error pattern, a request was sent to the LOINC committee for resolution. Results: A total of 53 hospitals participated in our study. Of these, 26 (49.05%) used homegrown and 27 (50.95%) used outsourced LOINC mapping. Hospitals who participated in 2015 had a greater improvement in LOINC mapping than those of 2016 (26.5% vs. 3.9%). Most FAQs were related to notification principles (47%), LOINC system (42%), and LOINC property (26%) in 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively. Conclusions: The findings of our study show that multiple stage approaches improved LOINC mapping by up to 26.5%.

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The Literature is going to transform into a Universal Brand and to produce a Continental Version. Arabic and English needs to have Literary Covenant of cross cultural Studies. The Field of “Comparative Literature” is a Linking Bridge between the world famous and enormous Literatures. Like other realms of Literature it also have effects on Wisdom Literature and especially on Proverbial Comparative Studies. There is no Proverb less Literature in the world and in each Literature, Proverbs have the similar vocal, Structural, Lexical and Semantic Features which make it sure to be memorized and retrieved while dealing with the Situations. As we come across the common Properties of Proverb ( i.e. Succinctness, Recurrence, Catchiness, Eloquence, a) in Arabic and English which reflects Human Nature , we also find various Speech Stylistics like Assonance, Consonance, Alliteration, Parallelism, Repetition, Regression, Anadiplosis and Antithesis. Rhyme is one of these prominent feature of Proverbial Structure. It is a Rhetorical Embellishment related to Arabic and English Acoustics. This Feature makes the proverb more attractive and catchy. This Article deals with the Similarities and Dissimilarities of the Rhyme and Rhythmic Properties used in the Structural Patterns of Proverb in the Languages, Arabic and English. The Article will answer the Question whether Rhyme is found in Arabic and English or not? And also the question, Are there Identical Embellishments in the Arabic and English Rhetoric? Is Proverb a common phenomenon in Arabic and English? The Article replies in Yes as it has Universal Standard.