2010 2nd International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering(ICSTE) Better Technologies and Services for Smart Homes of Disabled People: Empirical Findings from an Explorative Study among Intellectually Disabled Jukka Ojasalo‚ PhD‚ Professor Laurea University of Applied Sciences Espoo‚ Finland jukka.ojasalo@laurea.fi Heikki Seppälä‚ Researcher Laurea University of Applied Sciences Espoo‚ Finland heikki.seppala@laurea.fi Niko Suomalainen‚ Researcher Laurea University of Applied
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arms wide and say‚ ‘Here I am. My name is Najaf Mazari. Do you have a use for me in this country?’ p. 2 What a country I come from! Strangers to the idea of queue-‐jumping‚ and on top of that‚ babies are born without anything in writing to prove that they exist! P. 3 Like almost
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be a law of preventing people from living in or near a forest area? Nowadays‚ because of the highly polluted and crowed urban areas‚ there are a lot of people decided to find some new places with fresh air to go for their weekends and vacation. One of the most ideal places for this is the forested area whereas the air is fresh and the landscape is beautiful‚ which fit the demand of people beautifully. However‚ there should be a law to prevent and limit the amount of people living in or near those
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The People of the Philippines by the Philippine Tourism Promotions Board 1 The Filipino is basically of Malay stock with a sprinkling of Chinese‚ American‚ Spanish and Arab blood. The Philippines has a population of 70 million‚ and it is hard to distinguish accurately the lines between stocks. From a long history of Western colonial rule‚ interspersed with the visit of merchants and traders evolved a people of a unique blend of east and west‚ both in appearance and culture. 2 The Filipino
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Plagues and Peoples was written by William H. McNeill. The basis of this book all falls on epidemiology‚ also known as the study of patterns‚ causes‚ and effects that disease and health conditions have on certain populations. McNeill’s writing shows how the relationship that mankind‚ referred to a macroparasites‚ and parasites‚ referred to as microparasites‚ have made an impact on the world through history. The relationship at first during existence was said to be “balanced”‚ but when mankind in
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People in today’s culture have turned from the use of the old way of communication to the more advanced and hi-tech ways of communicating. Technology has made it easier for people to communicate in a faster‚ well-organized and cost efficient means through the introduction of the communication channels. The world has turned out to be the center for technology with different technologies emerging daily as the people continue to develop from time to time to cope with the growing technology. The benefits
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In many countries‚ the proportion of old people is steadily increasing. Does this have more positive or negative effects on the society? With the development of technology and medical care‚ people now enjoy extended life expectancy. The percentage of elderly people who are over 65 has been increasing dramatically which is as a direct result of longevity. This trend is not only restricted to developed countries where have surging economy‚ advanced technology and relatively completed social welfare
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Video Assigment The Pokot people are an indigenous tribe that lives in the West Pokot and Baringo Districts of Kenya and in eastern Karamoja in Uganda. Their main language is Pökoot and its a language of the Southern Nilotic language family ``The Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between southern Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples‚ particularly associated with cattle-herding.``(Wikipedia 2011‚ 1). Based on areal and cultural differences
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“We the People…” marked the opening of the country of America. These three words are the first three words written on the constitution which is known to be the framework of which this country is run. A country that gives all the promises of “liberty”‚ “justice”‚ “property”‚ and “life” through this document. This is a document that has said they will give all in a secular manner. All matters that involve religion will not govern the country. If this said to be true‚ than certain practices such as
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Indigenous People Indigenous people are those that are native to an area. Throughout the world‚ there are many groups or tribes of people that have been taken over by the Europeans in their early conquests throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‚ by immigrating groups of individuals‚ and by greedy corporate businesses trying to take their land. The people indigenous to Australia‚ Brazil and South America‚ and Hawaii are currently fighting for their rights as people: the rights to own
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