Improving peer?review by developing reviewers' feedback literacy

Improving Adult Literacy Instruction: Developing Reading and Writing

Improving Diabetes Health Literacy by Animation.

PURPOSE AND SCOPE To produce a Spanish/English animated video about diabetes; to qualitatively assess cultural and linguistic appropriateness; and to test effectiveness at improving diabetes health literacy among Latino/Hispanics. METHODS Participatory research and animation production methods guided development of the video. Cultural appropriateness was assessed through focused discussion gr...

Improving Code Review by Predicting Reviewers and Acceptance of Patches

Code reviews are an important part of software development because they help to increase code quality and reliability. For this paper, we observed the review processes of two open-source projects, Firefox and Mozilla Core. We noticed that code reviews are mostly organized manually. In particular, finding appropriate reviewers is a complex and time-consuming task and, surprisingly, impacts the r...

Consumer Feedback: Does Rating Reflect Reviewers' Feelings?

Consumer feedbacks have been widely used for product improvement. These consumer reviews reveal customer sentiments (e.g., like/dislike, fulfilled/unfulfilled etc.) about products and the degree of sentiments as well. These reviews are good sources to gauge customer feelings, which are important to make essential business decisions. In this research, we analyzed textual movie reviews semi-autom...

Health literacy: improving patient understanding.

The review of health literacy and its impact on older adults by Amalraj and colleagues in this issue of ONCOLOGY brings much-needed attention to this very critical issue. The impact of limited health literacy is made even more critical given the increasing number of older adults in the United States, estimated to be 20% of the US population by the year 2030, and the fact that limited health lit...