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Showing 1 to 20 of 294 for “"font"”.
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Effects of Font Design on Highway Sign Legibility
… Alphabet, or Highway Gothic, as the standard font for all American roadway signs in 1966. Since then, that standard has not changed, with all signs following the norm. In the 1980s, new retro-reflective sheeting introduced on American roadways caused Highway Gothic to be more difficult to …
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Patriarchy: The Predominant Discourse and Font of Domestic Violence
… phenomenon and that patriarchal discourse is the font of domestic violence
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Manuel Font de Anta, vida y obra (1889-1936)
Las referencias a Manuel Font de Anta como pianista y compositor sevillano del siglo XX son muy escasas. En el Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana (2002), Casares, Álvarez y Alonso dedican una breve reseña al músico. En ella, exponen su formación de la mano de Vicente Ripollés, …
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A dialogue of forms : letter and digital font design
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Prosodic Font : the space between the spoken and the written
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 1998.
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Learning to draw vector graphics : applying generative modeling to font glyphs
… design of vectorized drawings, with a focus on font glyphs. We establish a data-driven approach for creating preliminary graphics upon which designers can iterate. To accomplish this, we present an end-to-end pipeline for a supervised training system on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) that …
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Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias: when changing the font changes your mind
Research on the confirmation bias (Nickerson, 1998) demonstrates that people selectively seek evidence that confirms their prior beliefs and expectations. This selective search for information allows people to analyze new information in an efficient, but shallow way. The present research discusses …
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Role of the C-terminal domain of the <font face = "symbol">a</font> subunit of RNA polymerase in transcriptional activation of the <i>lux</i> operon during quorum sensing
… RNA polymerase (RNAP). The specific role of the <font face = "symbol">a</font>CTD of RNAP in LuxR-dependent transcriptional activation of the <i>lux</i> operon promoter has been investigated. The effect of seventy alanine substitution variants of the <font face = "symbol">a</font> subunit was …
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Effects of color CRT misconvergence and font type on text readability and subjective preference
… effects of misconvergence type and amount and font type on reading performance (time required and errors made), (2) to determine the effects of misconvergence type and amount and font type on subjective image quality ratings, (3) to determine the role of luminance and chrominance contrasts in …
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Evaluation of the effect of Clearview font and retro-reflective sheeting materials on legibility distance
… in retro-reflective sheeting materials and fonts. It is important to identify the combination of font and retro-reflective sheeting material, which performs best by increasing the legibility distance between the driver and the sign during both day and night time conditions. The objective of …
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Les Défis Auxquels Les Mères-Enseignantes De L’immersion Française En Milieu Langagier Minoritaire Canadien Font Face
… en milieu langagier minoritaire canadien font face. Ce projet de recherche est encadré par une méthodologie féministe, triangulée, narrative et constructiviste. En outre, l’échantillon consiste de quatre participantes. Elles sont mères de jeunes enfants ainsi que enseignantes de …
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Comparing the Legibility and Comprehension of Type Size, Font Selection and Rendering Technology of Onscreen Type
… relationship between the independent measures of font selection, type size, and type rendering technology and the dependent measures of legibility, as measured by the Chapman-Cook speed of reading test, as well as comprehension, as measured by a series of questions from the verbal comprehension …
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From font-of-knowledge to facilitator: Exploring a model of professional change with South African early educators
Despite positive developments in greater access to the South African reception grade, recent evaluation studies reveal that early educators struggle to take a responsive role, including in child-managed play. This is a challenge, which resonates across cultures. The ambition of this study was to …
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Perceived readability, understandability, and hazardousness of prescription drug warning labels as a function of icon, font size, and color
Current standards on warning design recommend including icons on various product labels to increase saliency and reinforce meaning. In order to examine if icons are understandable and salient, Experiment 1 consisted of a sample of 489 undergraduate students rating 43 pharmaceutical pictorials with …
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An experimental determination of the effects of dot matrix/character size and font on reading times and eye movements
… of legibility; matrix/character size and font, on two performance measures, reading times and eye movements, were studied in this experiment. The results showed significant practice effects for the 7 x 9, 7 x 9 (= 5 x 7), and 9 x 11 (= 5 x 7) sizes. The data also showed that the size of a …
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