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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Understandability"”.
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Perceived readability, understandability, and hazardousness of prescription drug warning labels as a function of icon, font size, and color
… 43 pharmaceutical pictorials with regards to understandability, carefulness, likelihood of injury, severity of injury, and saliency. The icons "Shake well," "Poison," .. "should be taken with plenty of water," "for headaches," "do not drink alcoholic beverages," and "for the ear" met the ISO …
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping
… including line smoothness, proportion, and understandability. Of particular note is the contribution of assessing understandability as a metric for sketches as communication tools. This study also presents a tool to capture designer reflections after each iteration of a prototype. Not only …
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An Evidence Based Practice Training and Educational Curriculum for Adolescent Mental Health Promotion
… promotion evaluated by content experts for understandability and actionability. Methods: A comprehensive training program and associated educational curriculum PYD program for adolescent mental health promotion was written by the author, presented in a narrated PowerPoint presentation that …
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Automatic fault localization in concurrent programs using noising and search strategies
… often come at a cost with respect to program understandability as well as testing and debugging challenges. To address these challenges we have developed CFLASH (Concurrency Faults Localized Automatically using Search Heuristics), an automatic fault localization tool for multithreaded Java …
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The Medicine Wheel for Carbohydrate Counting
… perception of usefulness, ease of use, and understandability. Interviews were transcribed verbatim using Grounded Theory. Future work can incorporate feedback and create a tool that may better engage the Native population to control and help reduce risk for diabetes and diabetes related …
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A User-Oriented Conceptual Schema Model of A Data Base With A Supporting Design Strategy
… conventional data models currently in use today. Understandability and expressiveness of a data base are achieved if the data model meets each of the following criteria: (1) it is structured to reflect information content only, not considerations of physical storage or access strategy; (2) it is …
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The Role of Interfirm Information Exchange and Choice of Coordination Mechanism on Performance in the United States Pork Supply Chain
… the lack of significant association between the understandability of the performance report and the perceptions regarding the reward system. Finally, the analysis permits us to infer that producers' perception of interfirm information and reward systems affect their performance.
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Applying semantic web technologies in education : a digital mathematics problem archive for the mathematics student at the upper secondary level Malta
… with up to a certain extent - lack of machine understandability of web contents, we use search engines running keyword-based algorithms to retrieve the desired information. The web browser publishes those web sites that contain any keyword/s of the search criteria, with the drawback that pages …
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Factors relating to the understanding of college and university financial statements for nonfinancial university personnel
… the study is to identify factors relating to the understandability of college and university financial statements to the end that such statements may be more comprehensible and usable for academic administrators, faculty, and other concerned nonfinancial persons. The need for better understanding …
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Design of an advanced Text-To-Speech system for Afrikaans
… in South Africa can understand and relate to. Understandability, flexibility, naturalness and pleasantnedd are the requirements of an advanced TTS system. The technique of concatentative speech synthesis has been the most successful in meeting all these requirements. The Festival speech …
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A Framework for Consistency Based Feature Selection
… such that the feature size is reduced and understandability of a learning process is improved without significantly decreasing the overall accuracy and applicability. This thesis focuses on the consistency measure where a feature subset is consistent if there exists a set of instances of …
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Software comprehension : theory and metrics
The understandability of a program specification has a direct bearing on several important aspects of software quality. These include reliability, modifiability, reusability, and maintainability to name a few. The process of comprehension has been studied by psychologists. Their findings have …
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Hybrid percussion : extending physical instruments using sampled acoustics
… percussion, gaining much of the richness and understandability of acoustic instruments while preserving the flexibility of digital systems. For this thesis, I have collaborated with percussionists to develop a range of instruments, to refine and extend the algorithmic and physical designs, and …
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A novel model for improving the maintainability of web-based systems
… and the following maintainability measures: Understandability Time (the time spent on understanding the software artifact in order to complete the questionnaire), Modifiability Time(the time spent on identifying places for modification and making those modifications on the software artifact), …
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A comparison of designs for extensible and extension-oriented compilers
… changes. However, they can greatly improve code understandability and correctness, advantages that should be accessible to all programmers. This thesis considers four extensible and extension-oriented compilers: CIL, Polyglot, xtc, and Xoc. These four compilers represent four distinctly different …
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SPEST – A Tool for Specification-Based Testing
… classes. The first experiment compared the understandability and efficiency of SPEST generated tests against student written tests based on the Java Modeling Lan- guage (JML)[25] specifications. JML is a widely used language for behavior program specification. A second experiment evaluated …
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Factors Affecting the Design and Use of Reusable Components
… principles: well-defined interface, clarity and understandability, generality, and separate concepts from content significantly increased the ease of reuse while commonality and variability analysis significantly decreased the ease of reuse, and documentation did not have a significant impact on …
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Multimodal Interaction in Electronic Customer Loyalty Management Systems: An Empirical Investigation
… effectiveness, user satisfaction, and understandability of the customisation tasks and information communicated. The potential of users developing loyalty as a result of better usability and user satisfaction is also accessed via questionnaires. The first experiment investigated issues …
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