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than perfect read rates in supply chain applications. This research aimed to evaluate the readability issues commonly faced … readability greatly varies for different product-package systems, with paper towels producing near-perfect reads, followed by … bottled water and carbonated soda cans. The slower the forklift truck speed, the better the readability across the board, and …
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How has the Internet affected newspaper content? We build a dataset that matches newspaper readability measures to … penetration and newspaper readability. This result appears remarkably robust. The relationship is evident in non-parametric graphs …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between narrative disclosures and corporate performance based on Australian evidence. In particular it builds a model which discriminates between good and poor performing companies based on their corporate narratives....
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companies. The paper builds on methodologies developed in prior empirical studies of annual reports readability and content … analysis. Two dimensions are investigated: a) text ease of readability (text complexity); b) wording structure. Tests are made … to measure the level of readability and wording construction of the MD&A of 40 listed companies. Results indicate that …
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This article examines rules of style for text, graphics, and mathematics and applies these rules to spreadsheets. The article describes the new style in detail with an example and contrasts the new style with the existing programming style.
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Many news reports in the USA describe problems in education, including that of students graduating from high school with very poor reading and writing skills. Published academic studies have also documented the reduction in the content and writing levels of school textbooks. However, no...
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In this paper, we inquire about some of the ways in which the community around Simple Wikipedia—an offspring of Wikipedia, the notorious free online encyclopedia—manages the online collaborative production of reliable knowledge. We focus on how it keeps its collection of articles...
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Hartley, Trueman and Meadows [3] contribute useful evidence on whether scientists can gain prestige by writing in a manner that is difficult to read. This has been called the bafflegab theory by some. They concluded that the evidence was not strong. This comment examines some of the conclusions...
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine and critique the accounting literature's dominant readability formula, the Flesch … sentence length variable, a probable cause of low readability. A reader attribute score further enhances the formula by … integrating the considerable impact of readers' attributes on readability and accounting communication effectiveness …
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