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HomeScience of Aging Knowledge EnvironmentVol. 2005, No. 20Papers of NoteBack To Vol. 2005, No. 20 Full accessSAGE Noteworthy This Week Share on Papers of NoteScience of Aging Knowledge Environment18 May 2005Vol 2005, Issue 20p. nw20DOI: 10.1126/sageke.2005.20.nw20 PREVIOUS ARTICLESpring ForwardPreviousNEXT ARTICLEMiMage: A Pan-European Project on the Role of Mitochondria in AgingNext

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE INTEGRATED DRIVER-VEHICLE INTERFACE: OVERVIEW OF THE AIDE PROJECT

This paper presents the sub-project 3 of the AIDE (Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle Interface) Integrated Project; AIDE is a pan European project co-funded by the European Commission, coordinated by Volvo Technology and managed by a core group with the participation of both the industry (Bosch, CRF, PSA, and BMW) and the academia (ICCS, TNO, Joint Research Centre). The main objective of the SP3 and the paper is the design and development of an innovative adaptive integrated human-machine interface for driver assistance, information and nomad systems. To address this objective different modules are described which monitor in real time the driver, the environment and the vehicle and to which the HMI is adapted. The information data flow, the communications and the interaction is ensured by a dedicated centralized module, namely the Interaction and Communication Assistant (ICA), which is considered as the main innovation and is described in details in the paper.

Workshop 20: European Health Indicators for People with an Intellectual Disability - the POMONA project

3) University of Maastricht Issue A complex range of co-morbidity, varied aetiology and an increasing evidence base of apparent disparity in health are recognized in people who have an intellectual disability (PWID). This leads to a need to identify appropriate health indicators for this group within the European Union linking to the European Union Health Indicator project, which has established a framework for indicators across the EU. Description of project A European Union funded project has been established to identify health indicators for this population. A combination of literature searching, workgroups and wide consultation across member states has been used to identify health indicators. This paper will describe findings from two workshops of representatives of member states and consultation, outlining a framework for indicators appropriate to this group. Workshop format 1 POMONA European Health Indicators for People with an Intellectual Disability – Professor P.N. Walsh The increasing global concern over disparity in health care for people with an intellectual disability and the recognition of the particular needs of this population led to the establishment of a pan-European project to identify health indicators. This presentation will address the issues in increasing health needs of this population and the structure of the POMONA project 2 Health indicators for people with an intellectual disability – Professor M.P. Kerr This presentation will discuss actual indicators for health in this population comparing the provisional results from the POMONA project with health targets set in the UK and with the public health indicators from the USA. 3 Integration of health indicators: the challenges – Professor M.P. Kerr There exist major challenge to the integration of health indicators into national datasets and into health surveys. The population of people with an intellectual disability exist as an invisible group in current systems. This presentation will explore the key issues, which may have lead to this situation (1) difficulties in classification, (2) difficulties in identification and (3) a lack of positive discrimination in data gathering. Specific problems in data linkage will also be explored. 4 Interactive discussion – Professor P.N. Walsh Lesson learned The development of health indicators in this group will be an important step to assess health care status of PWID across European Member States.

Um novo conceito de monitoramento e comunicação ambiental: a rede européia para a avaliação da qualidade do ar usando plantas bioindicadoras (EuroBionet)

In spite of all progress made in reducing the emission of air pollutants, the air quality is still unsatisfactory in many European cities. Bioindicator plants are of increasing importance for air quality control as their use makes it possible to prove and to demonstrate the negative impact of air pollutants on living organisms in a way that is easily comprehensible also to laymen. The pan-European project EuroBionet uses bioindicator plants to assess air pollution effects within a network of cities. Through a specific communication concept the scientific results of the project are translated and communicated in a way that addresses the public and raises environmental awareness. Thus the aim is to induce a change of attitude in parts of the urban population and to increase the acceptance of remedial measures. In the present paper the scientific and communicative aims and methods of the EuroBionet project are presented. First results of the exposure of tobacco plants in ten European cities during August and September 2000 show a gradient of increasing ozone impact from the North to the South and Centre of Europe with low injury degree in Scotland and Denmark and high degree in Italy, France, Austria and Southern Germany.

Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?

This paper is intended to open up discussion on potential co-operation, which would enable participants restricted by unequal resources and technologies to participate in a pan-European project. The idea has not yet been fully developed but the purpose of the project is to allow digital maps to function not only as geographic resources and educational tools, but to act simultaneously as an interface to metadata-databases. These would contain de-scriptions of maps and spatial databases, as well as locational or geo-referenced resources in books, periodicals, and the Internet.

Supporting family carers using interative multimedia.

ACTION (Assisting Carers using Telematic Interventions to meet Older persons' Needs) is a nursing led Pan-European project (1997-2000). Its primary aim is to maintain the autonomy, independence and quality of life of frail older and disabled persons and their family carers by the application of telematic technology. This article describes the development of two multimedia programmes created as part of the ACTION project. Programme 1 'Planning ahead' helps family carers and frail older people to think about and plan for the future. Programme 2 'Break from caring' assists carers and older people to explore the range of respite care options available. Both programmes have been developed using a multimethod, user-centred approach. Preliminary evaluation data have indicated that frail older people and their carers have used the programmes to assist them when making difficult decisions such as selecting a nursing home, or exploring the use of respite care facilities.

Federated healthcare record server—the Synapses paradigm

The delivery of healthcare relies on the sharing of patient information between those who are providing for the care of the patient and this information is increasingly being expressed in terms of a ‘record’. Further, it is desirable that these records are available in electronic form as Electronic HealthCare Records. As it is likely that patient records or parts of records will be stored in many different information systems and in the form of disparate record architectures, uniform access to patient records would be problematic. This paper presents an overview of the Synapses computing environment in which a Federated Healthcare Record Server provides uniform access to patient information stored in connected heterogeneous autonomous information systems and other Synapses servers. The Synapses record architecture is based on the architecture proposed by the Technical Committee 251 of the European Committee for Standardisation and the interfaces to the Synapses server are specified in the ISO standard Interface Definition Language. Synapses is a pan-European project involving a number of hospitals, software companies, universities and research institutes and is partly funded by the EU Health Telematics Programme. The overview is described in terms of the Open Distributed Processing Reference Model.

WYSIWYS? — What you see is what you sign?

The following describes some of the fundamental problems to consider in order to secure a Work Station for use in Electronic Commerce (EC). In particular, it gives a high level presentation of the principles developed jointly in the largest Pan-European project on EC, SEMPER. However, as software protection always will remain art and not exact science, we refrain from revealing the exact nature of the technical details in order not to give any potential attacker too many clues.

Merging and extending the PGP and PEM trust models-the ICE-TEL trust model

The ICE-TEL project is a pan-European project which is building an Internet X.509-based certification infrastructure throughout Europe plus several secure applications that will use it. This article describes the trust model being implemented by the project. A trust model specifies the means by which a user may build trust in the assertion that a remote user is really who he purports to be (authentication) and that he does in fact, have a right to access the service or information he is requesting (authorization). The ICE-TEL trust model is based on a merging of and extensions to the existing pretty good privacy (PGP) web of trust and privacy-enhanced mail (PEM) hierarchy of trust models, and is called a web of hierarchies trust model. The web of hierarchies model has significant advantages over both previous models, and these are highlighted. The article further describes the way the trust model is enforced through some of the new extensions in the X.509 V3 certificates, and gives examples of its use in different scenarios.