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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"font size"”.
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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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Improving Access to Computer Displays: Readability for Visually Impaired Users
… with low vision. A 2x5x2x3 (visual capability, font size, polarity, and contrast) mixed-factor, repeated-measures experimental design was used to determine if changes in font size, contrast polarity, and/or contrast can improve reading speeds and reduce error rate for people with low vision. The …
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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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An adaptive crowdsourced investigation of word abbreviation techniques for text visualizations
… to solve this problem like setting a very small font size. On the other hand, sometimes the font size is so small that the text can be difficult to read. Wrapping sentences, dropping letters and text truncation can also be used. However, there is no research on how these techniques affect the …
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Competition Between Grb2 and Plcγ1 For Binding to Fgfr2 Regulates Phospholipase and Pten Activity, Leading to Cell Invasion and Proliferation
<p>@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; }p.MsoNoSpacing, li.MsoNoSpacing, div.MsoNoSpacing { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; …
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Derivatization of porphyrins for DNA and metal ion binding, especially by employing secondary sulfonamide links
<div> <p align="justify"> <font size="3" face="Times">Porphyrins are of exceptional importance in nature, science and technology: For instance, as ligands for metals in supramolecular synthesis, as photosenstizers in photodynamic therapy (PDT), and as building blocks for electronic devices. In …
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Diabetes Patient Education Materials in the Veterans Administration Health Care System: Readability Suitability and Cultural Relevance for Older Veterans
… related to diabetes content; 3) increased font size relevant to an older adult with potential vision limitations related to diabetes, and 4) military reference. A convenience sample of 111 diabetes PEM were obtained from the North, South, East, and West Texas Veterans Administration Health …
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Exploring the Effect of User Characteristics in Word Cloud Visualizations
… clouds usually show the frequency of words using font size, recent studies have explored other possible design elements. However, there is still a gap in terms of understanding how individual differences among users may impact their performance. This thesis aims to bridge this gap by answering two …
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An Evaluation of Grades 10 and 11 English First Additional Language Learners’ Interpretation of Verbal and Nonverbal Cues in Cartoons: A Case Study of the Sibasa Circuit, Limpopo Province
… engaging with visual literacy elements such as font, font size, and the meaning of body language and gestures in visual texts.
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Formas hipernormales y bifurcaciones en sistemas planos y tridimensionales
… se estudia la forma hipernormal. ... ht: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt">En la segunda (formada por los dos últimos capítulos) se analiza el comportamiento dinámico y de bifurcaciones de un sistema electrónico. En el primer capítulo se formaliza el concepto de …
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The Decline in Baseball Participation Amongst African American Youth
<p>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } <p>The basis for this thesis was to study the decline in baseball participation amongst African American youth …
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The effect of GM label variation on perceptions of genetically modified foods
… type, whilst others such as label shape and font size are less consistent. The modelling suggests that GM label variations affect attitudes in particular, and to some extent subjective norms and perceived behavioural control which are then predictive of the behavioural intention. to buy GM …
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A comparative study of neural network algorithms.
… network, number of patterns that can be trained, size of the network, speed of the trained network for test data and noise sensitivity. The Multi-layer feed forward neural network is trained using the Fast training algorithm and delta rule training algorithm. Then both algorithms are compared for …
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Factors Influencing Readers When Matching Texts to Struggling Students
… as well as features within the text like font size, syllabic number, and oral language. Two specific questions center the research: In what ways does each specific text influence how a teacher sees the reader? Does a reader’s fluency, expression, comprehension, and re-telling vary among …
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Hidrodinámica de los medios granulares diluidos
… de esferas duras inelásticas. ... ;,'serif'; font-size: 12pt"> Se ha estudiado el estado más sencillo que puede presentar un medio granular que evoluciona libremente, el denominado estado de enfriamiento homogéneo (HCS), analizando con detalle la función de distribución de velocidades. …
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Implicit graphemic cues in Thai reading
… was operationally defined by the physical size of the grapheme, manipulated by font size specification. The necessity for the reader to segment the words themselves was manipulated by changing the windowing for a key target region in each sentence, such that normal windowing (i.e., normal …
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Adult consumers' understanding and use of information on food labels : a study among consumers living in the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp region
… with food labels were mainly indicated as the font size of the print, whereas reasons for not reading food labels were related to product attributes, demographic characteristics and situational factors. Conclusions: Findings indicate that the food choices of the majority of respondents who read …
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Document Layout Analysis and Recognition Systems
… document using text attributes such as font size, font height, and boldface (in Chapter 2), (2) an image-based machine learning method that extracts Table of Contents (TOC) to provide an overall structure of the document (in Chapter 3), (3) a document texture-based deep learning method …
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The Application of Macro- and Microfossils to Identify Paleoearthquakes in Sumatra, Indonesia and to Characterize Geomorphic and Ecological Succession on a Marsh Platform After Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina, USA
@font-face { font-family: "Verdana"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 200%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } In this research I revealed …
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Finding Relevant PDF Medical Journal Articles by the Content of Their Figures as well as Their Text
… methods can be enhanced by using formatting and font-size information as a structure and organization model for a PDF document; (3) whether to use the standard Euclidean distance function or the matrix distance function for content-based image retrieval; (4) how to convert a PDF into a …
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