First human hNT neurons patterned on parylene-C/silicon dioxide substrates: Combining an accessible cell line and robust patterning technology for the study of the pathological adult human brain

In this communication, we describe a new method which has enabled the first patterning of human neurons (derived from the human teratocarcinoma cell line (hNT)) on parylene-C/silicon dioxide substrates. We reveal the details of the nanofabrication processes, cell differentiation and culturing protocols necessary to successfully pattern hNT neurons which are each key aspects of this new method. The benefits in patterning human neurons on silicon chip using an accessible cell line and robust patterning technology are of widespread value. Thus, using a combined technology such as this will facilitate the detailed study of the pathological human brain at both the single cell and network level.

Making electronics more accessible to people with learning disabilities

We extended 'littleBits' electronic components by attaching them to a larger base that was designed to help make them easier to pick up and handle, and easier to assemble into circuits for people with learning disabilities. A pilot study with a group of students with learning disabilities was very positive. There were fewer difficulties in assembling the components into circuits, and problems such as attempting to connect them the wrong way round or the wrong way up were eliminated completely.

littleBits go LARGE: making electronics more accessible to people with learning disabilities

The “littleBits go LARGE" project extends littleBits electronic modules, an existing product that is aimed at simplifying electronics for a wide range of audiences. In this project we augment the littleBits modules to make them more accessible to people with learning disabilities. We will demonstrate how we have made the modules easier to handle and manipulate physically, and how we are augmenting the design of the modules to make their functions more obvious and understandable.

Non-Markovianity through Accessible Information

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Accessible information in a two-qubit system through the quantum steering ellipsoids formalism

Capire come ottenere l'informazione accessibile, cioè quanta informazione classica si può estrarre da un processo quantistico, è una delle questioni più intricate e affascinanti nell'ambito della teoria dell'informazione quantistica. Nonostante l'importanza della nozione di informazione accessibile non esistono metodi generali per poterla calcolare, esistono soltanto dei limiti, i più famosi dei quali sono il limite superiore di Holevo e il limite inferiore di Josza-Robb-Wootters. La seguente tesi fa riferimento a un processo che coinvolge due parti, Alice e Bob, che condividono due qubits. Si considera il caso in cui Bob effettua misure binarie sul suo qubit e quindi indirizza lo stato del qubit di Alice in due possibili stati. L'obiettivo di Alice è effettuare la misura ottimale nell'ottica di decretare in quale dei due stati si trova il suo qubit. Lo strumento scelto per studiare questo processo va sotto il nome di 'quantum steering ellipsoids formalism'. Esso afferma che lo stato di un sistema di due qubit può essere descritto dai vettori di Bloch di Alice e Bob e da un ellissoide nella sfera di Bloch di Alice generato da tutte le possibili misure di Bob. Tra tutti gli stati descritti da ellissoidi ce ne sono alcuni che manifestano particolari proprietà, per esempio gli stati di massimo volume. Considerando stati di massimo volume e misure binarie si è riuscito a trovare un limite inferiore all'informazione accessibile per un sistema di due qubit migliore del limite inferiore di Josza-Robb-Wootters. Un altro risultato notevole e inaspettato è che l'intuitiva e giustificata relazione 'distanza tra i punti nell'ellissoide - mutua informazione' non vale quando si confrontano coppie di punti ''vicine'' tra loro e lontane dai più distanti.

BREAKING CODES: MAKING THEORIES ON MENSTRUATION ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THIRD-WAVE FEMINISM

Men and women respond to situations according to their community’s social codes. With menstruation, people adhere to “menstrual codes”. Within academic communities, people adhere to “academic codes”. This report paper investigates performances of academic codes and menstrual codes. Implications of gender identity and race are missing and/or minimal in past feminist work regarding menstruation. This paper includes considerations for gender identity and race. Within the examination of academic codes, this paper discusses the inhibitive process of idea creation within the academic sphere, and the limitations to the predominant ways of knowledge sharing within, and outside of, the academic community. The digital project (www.hu.mtu.edu/~creynolds) is one example of how academic and menstrual codes can be broken. The report and project provide a broadly accessible deconstruction of menstrual advertising and academic theories while fostering conversations on menstruation through the sharing of knowledge with others, regardless of gender, race, or academic standing.

Accessible e-learning

People with disabilities often encounter difficulties while trying to learn something, because teaching material is for example not accessible to blind people or rooms, where courses take place, are not accessible to people using a wheelchair. E-learning provides an opportunity to disabled people. With the new German law on the equalisation of opportunities for people with disabilities for the first time access to information technology was explicitly taken up in German legislation. As a consequence of this law the framework law on universities (Hochschulrahmengesetz) was changed. The law now commit universities not to discriminate disabled students in their studies. For references on how universities can design accessible e-learning contents and provide accessible information online see http://wob11.de/links/anleitungen.html#elearning.

Making Abortion Services Accessible in the Wake of Legal Reforms: A Framework and Six Case Studies

Contiene Informe completo y resumen.

Developing Accessible Mobile Phone Applications: The Case of a Contact Manager and Real Time Text Applications

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular and are already the first access technology to information and communication. However, people with disabilities have to face a lot of barriers when using this kind of technology. This paper presents an Accessible Contact Manager and a Real Time Text application, designed to be used by all users with disabilities. Both applications are focused to improve accessibility of mobile phones.