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From computer workstations to the world of the web, statutes and policies have afforded students with disabilities the right to participate in postsecondary education in a non-discriminatory manner. Automatic doors and adjustable tables are a commonplace on campuses and represent prime examples of accessible policy adherence, but what affect do accessible website design policies have on practice? The answer is monumental for the students with disabilities that rely on the integration of electronic curb cuts into institutional websites. In 2006, Illinois Board of Higher Education required public postsecondary institutions to develop and implement a website policy, report on the accessibility of their websites and continuously improve throughout the year. In response, multiple policies and practices were implemented throughout the state. As to how effective this requirement was and what variables influenced policy decision and implementation is the purpose of my study. Through a mixed method approach, I examined the relationship between web accessibility policy and practice. Quantitatively, descriptive statistics in conjunction with a paired t-Test were used to examine the amount of change in the accessibility pass and fail rates of all 12 Illinois postsecondary institutional homepages. In addition, quantitative data were used as a means to identify trends such as spikes and drops. Qualitatively, autoethnographic practices and document analysis were implemented to bring focus as to why these changes and trends might have occurred. By implementing this mixed methodological approach, I was able to identify a statistically significant change in the overall statewide pass rate. In addition, three prominent trends were discovered. The first was a spike trend where accessibility pass rates spiked just before deadlines. The second was a high standard, high accessibility rate where institutions that incorporated a high standard ended up being the most accessible of all the state institutions. The third was a low standard, high accessible illusion trend. Here, institutions incorporated a low standard then stopped accessibility development when the standard was met. This afforded institutions the opportunity to report a high pass rate when assessed with their low standard rather than a low pass rate against a more stringent standard. The implications of this study are many. Of paramount importance is that policy is not always incorporated into practice as it was intended. This is evident with the low standard, high accessible illusion trend. The intent of the policy in this study was for continuous improvement. However, when institutions reported 100% compliance to a low standard, they were also able to report that there was no need for improvement. Consequently, if a policy is to succeed, such behavior needs to be taken into consideration and appropriately addressed.

In this work, we expand the scope of the present implications of the tight-binding microcanonical picture of electron transport, which is proposed by Di Ventra and co-workers as an alternative to the Landauer’s static scattering approach. We investigate the structure dependence of current flow in electrode-conductor-electrode systems and calculate the local occupation functions and time-dependent conductor current for various conductor lengths and electrode configurations. We also explore fundamental physical limits to the encoding of information in the nanoscale conductor by application of electrode bias in a model system. Using the microcanonical description of a nanoconductor, composed of linear chain of atoms, bridging two electrodes, we obtain upper bounds on the accessible information in the conductor as a function of electrode bias, when the current flow is governed by the conductance quantum.

Esta tese trata das políticas de inclusão escolar as quais, através de seus programas, vêm operando como um dispositivo biopolítico para o governo das pessoas, executando de forma mais eficaz e mais econômica o seu gerenciamento, a começar pela exigência de ocupação e compartilhamento de um mesmo espaço. Para isso, criam-se novas regras de ordenamento, novas normas de comportamento e de conduta, que devem ser cumpridas e incorporadas numa nova forma de subjetividade. A problematização que se faz, neste trabalho, das políticas de inclusão brasileiras, especificamente do Programa Escola Acessível, pretende mostrar como, na atualidade, através de uma lógica neoliberal de investimento na população, são fabricados, nas nossas escolas, os dispositivos de uma ortopedia social. Para isso, o estudo procura dar visibilidade aos efeitos produzidos pelo discurso dessa racionalidade na escola brasileira, uma racionalidade que coloca a Inclusão Escolar que, pela garantia e pela obrigatoriedade do acesso universal, como um instrumento capaz de acabar com qualquer forma de exclusão. / This thesis deals with school inclusion policies which, through its programs, have been operating as a biopolitical device for the government of the people, running more efficient and more economical way your management, starting with the requirement of an occupation and sharing same space. For this, new rules are created to order, new standards of behavior and conduct, which must be completed and incorporated into a new form of subjectivity. Problemizing that does this work policy Brazilian include specifically Program School Affordable intends Displaying as today, neoliberal across a logic Investment in population is fabricated Our on schools devices a Orthopaedics social. For this, the study seeks to give visibility to the effects produced by this discourse rationality in Brazilian school, a rationality that places the School Inclusion, and the requirement for ensuring universal access as a tool to end all forms of exclusion.

Esta tese trata das políticas de inclusão escolar as quais, através de seus programas, vêm operando como um dispositivo biopolítico para o governo das pessoas, executando de forma mais eficaz e mais econômica o seu gerenciamento, a começar pela exigência de ocupação e compartilhamento de um mesmo espaço. Para isso, criam-se novas regras de ordenamento, novas normas de comportamento e de conduta, que devem ser cumpridas e incorporadas numa nova forma de subjetividade. A problematização que se faz, neste trabalho, das políticas de inclusão brasileiras, especificamente do Programa Escola Acessível, pretende mostrar como, na atualidade, através de uma lógica neoliberal de investimento na população, são fabricados, nas nossas escolas, os dispositivos de uma ortopedia social. Para isso, o estudo procura dar visibilidade aos efeitos produzidos pelo discurso dessa racionalidade na escola brasileira, uma racionalidade que coloca a Inclusão Escolar que, pela garantia e pela obrigatoriedade do acesso universal, como um instrumento capaz de acabar com qualquer forma de exclusão. / This thesis deals with school inclusion policies which, through its programs, have been operating as a biopolitical device for the government of the people, running more efficient and more economical way your management, starting with the requirement of an occupation and sharing same space. For this, new rules are created to order, new standards of behavior and conduct, which must be completed and incorporated into a new form of subjectivity. Problemizing that does this work policy Brazilian include specifically Program School Affordable intends Displaying as today, neoliberal across a logic Investment in population is fabricated Our on schools devices a Orthopaedics social. For this, the study seeks to give visibility to the effects produced by this discourse rationality in Brazilian school, a rationality that places the School Inclusion, and the requirement for ensuring universal access as a tool to end all forms of exclusion.

Esta tese trata das políticas de inclusão escolar as quais, através de seus programas, vêm operando como um dispositivo biopolítico para o governo das pessoas, executando de forma mais eficaz e mais econômica o seu gerenciamento, a começar pela exigência de ocupação e compartilhamento de um mesmo espaço. Para isso, criam-se novas regras de ordenamento, novas normas de comportamento e de conduta, que devem ser cumpridas e incorporadas numa nova forma de subjetividade. A problematização que se faz, neste trabalho, das políticas de inclusão brasileiras, especificamente do Programa Escola Acessível, pretende mostrar como, na atualidade, através de uma lógica neoliberal de investimento na população, são fabricados, nas nossas escolas, os dispositivos de uma ortopedia social. Para isso, o estudo procura dar visibilidade aos efeitos produzidos pelo discurso dessa racionalidade na escola brasileira, uma racionalidade que coloca a Inclusão Escolar que, pela garantia e pela obrigatoriedade do acesso universal, como um instrumento capaz de acabar com qualquer forma de exclusão. / This thesis deals with school inclusion policies which, through its programs, have been operating as a biopolitical device for the government of the people, running more efficient and more economical way your management, starting with the requirement of an occupation and sharing same space. For this, new rules are created to order, new standards of behavior and conduct, which must be completed and incorporated into a new form of subjectivity. Problemizing that does this work policy Brazilian include specifically Program School Affordable intends Displaying as today, neoliberal across a logic Investment in population is fabricated Our on schools devices a Orthopaedics social. For this, the study seeks to give visibility to the effects produced by this discourse rationality in Brazilian school, a rationality that places the School Inclusion, and the requirement for ensuring universal access as a tool to end all forms of exclusion.

Protected areas such as national parks are an important part of nature-based tourism all over the world. Over the past years there have been an increase of visitors to Sweden’s 30 national parks. Most of the visitors are domestic, however about 7% of the international tourist travel to Sweden in the purpose of visiting a national park. The aim of this thesis is to examine different factors that potentially could impact the visitor numbers. Factors such as availability for disabled, transport modes, population and visitor centers. Furthermore, the presence of certain elements is compared in a qualitative analysis. According to the results the presence of a visitor center, naturum, have a positive impact on the number of visitors. As well as national parks established after 1960. During the 1960s grater investments were made to make nature accessible for everyone. This thesis shows that there is a connection between high visitor numbers and easily accessible national parks, which could be a result of the change in the 1960s. At the same time, the most inaccessible national parks have seen an increase of visitors over the past years.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 40 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-35).

Improving access to affordable housing is often approached through efforts to increase the supply of such housing, as the need to make better use of existing resources and coordinating the efforts of housing providers is often overlooked. A central housing registry in Winnipeg would be one approach to improving coordination and better access for low-income households to affordable housing. This study explores different examples of housing registries that exist in Canada and the United States. It provides insight into the benefits and challenges of housing registries through web searches and a survey. A focus group was also used to gain insight on the local context for developing a central housing registry. This research will increase the awareness of the benefits of a central housing registry and provides recommendations on how to approach the development and implementation of a central housing registry. / October 2005

Here, we present the program QContacts, which implements Voronoi polyhedra to determine atomic and residue contacts across the interface of a protein-protein interaction. While QContacts also describes hydrogen bonds, ionic pair and salt bridge interactions, we focus on QContacts’ identification of atomic contacts in a protein interface compared against the current methods. Initially, we investigated in detail the differences between QContacts, radial cutoff and Change in Solvent Accessible Surface Area (delta-SASA) methods in identifying pair-wise contacts across the binding interface. The results were assessed based on a set of 71 double cycle mutants. QContacts excelled at identifying knob-in-hole contacts. QContacts, closest atom radial cutoff and the delta-SASA methods performed well at picking out direct contacts; however, QContacts was the most accurate in excluding false positives. The significance of the differences identified between QContacts and previous methods was assessed using pair-wise contact frequencies in a broader set of 592 protein interfaces. The inaccuracies introduced by commonly used radial cutoff methods were found to produce misleading bias in the residue frequencies. This bias could compromise pair-wise potentials that are based on such frequencies. Here we show that QContacts provides a more accurate description of protein interfaces at atomic resolution than other currently available methods. QContacts is available in a web-based form at http://tsailab.tamu.edu/qcons (Fischer et al., 2006).