Mobile devices are undergoing great advances in recent years allowing users to access an increasing number of services or personalized applications that can help them select the best restaurant, locate certain shops, choose the best way home or rent the best film.
However, in 2010 – the last year for which Society of College, National and University Libraries data are available – UK universities had access to 2.42m journal subscriptions, an increase of 93% over 2006.
Among the key findings from the latest 2011 data, the report highlights: ■Almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of the world's population had access to improved sanitation facilities, an increase of almost 1.9 billion people since 1990.
Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that five months of access to universal prekindergarten leads to an increase of 0.23 standard deviations in general school readiness.
The dramatic growth over the last 20 years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost to be the result of a combination of, on the one hand, the ease of computerized access to an increasing number of measures of STI and, on the other hand, the interest in a growing number of public policy and private business circles in such indicators.
The Open Access movement means free and immediate electronic access to an increasing number of scientific journals (for example, Acta Orthopaedica), especially important in the developing world with a shortage of libraries.
The arrival of new mobile screen media provides young people with access to an increased variety of activities and at any time of their choosing.
Online libraries of PtDAs provide access to an increasing number of PtDAs [ 29], but few PtDAs have been developed using health technology research methods (such as user experience design, human computer interaction, etc).
Another key development that informs the current robot-assisted surgical training practice is the availability of simulation-based training systems that reduce the cost of training and provide access to an increasing collection of training content (simulations).
Enterprises Embrace Employee Owned Mobile Devices More than ever, organizations are dealing with two fundamental client-computing pain points – providing secure data access to an increasing number of mobile users, and managing the burgeoning diversity of data, applications and client devices within the enterprise.
