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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"readability"”.
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Ballot Readability and Plain Language
… of this study was to examine the effect that readability and plain language had on voters' responses to Georgia's five legislatively-referred constitutional amendments (LRCA) in the November 2018 election. This study sought to answer the following questions regarding ballot readability and …
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Investigating the readability of formal specification languages
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2001.
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Determinants and Consequences of Earnings Disclosure Readability
… have had an impact on earnings disclosure readability over the 1997-2007 timeframe and whether firm managers are able to make negative firm financial information less transparent to the market by making negative earnings disclosures less readable. The idea that management may attempt to …
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Assessing text readability and quality with language models
Automatic readability assessment is considered as a challenging task in NLP due to its high degree of subjectivity. The majority prior work in assessing readability has focused on identifying the level of education necessary for comprehension without the consideration of text quality, i.e., how …
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Readability of conventional applications within immersive virtual environments
This thesis explores the potential role of virtual reality in allowing users to make full use of the space around them for computing tasks, and the impact such an environment could have when using conventional application software. As computers have become more core to our lives, the number of …
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Predicting Bankruptcy with 10-K Length and Readability
… 10-K filings in the prediction of bankruptcy – readability and document length. The 10-K filing is a useful accounting artifact that is intended to address information asymmetry inherently present in the management/shareholder agency relationship. The creation of this document by management is a …
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Human factors approach towards improving readability of bus schedules
Due to an increasing concern over the readability of existing bus schedules of a public transportation agency the schedule format was redesigned. Two prototype schedules were designed based on the gathered information from the literature survey, focus group meetings and data from other public …
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Text readability and summarisation for non-native reading comprehension
… of non-native reading comprehension: text readability assessment, which estimates the reading difficulty of a given text for L2 learners, and learner summarisation assessment, which evaluates the quality of learner summaries to assess their reading comprehension. We approach both tasks as …
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A Study of the Readability of On-Screen Type
This study examined the readability of fonts. More specifically, it investigated how four different fonts effected both reading rate and reading comprehension. The typefaces Georgia, Verdana, (which, according to their designers, optimize onscreen readability) Times, and Arial (both designed for …
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Improving Access to Computer Displays: Readability for Visually Impaired Users
… the issue of how text can be modified to improve readability of CRTs for individuals 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 …
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The Use of Readability Formulas By Classroom Teachers in Southwest Missouri
… of the teachers surveyed had some knowledge of a readability formula. However, it was found that only slightly more than one-third of the total population surveyed used a readability formula to any extent in their teaching procedure.
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Sunlight readability and luminance characteristics of light-emitting diode push button switches.
Lighted push button switches and indicators serve many purposes in cockpits, shipboard applications and military ground vehicles. The quality of lighting produced by switches is vital to operators' understanding of the information displayed. Utilizing LED technology in lighted switches has …
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