The topic of source code readability has paramount importance in software engineering. Literature exists on how to write readable code; how to create analytical models and automatically predict readability; and how readability influences software cost and eventually the economy. In this article we follow a different path; we explore the question of why and how unreadable code gets written. Moti...

The 3 most prevalent respiratory diseases in Malaysia are asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and tuberculosis (TB). Patient education materials (PEMs) have been utilised to deliver information about the disease, ways manage prevent conditions. Therefore, PEMs produced must be effective. Methods: Malay language on COPD TB were assessed using Khadijah Rohani’s Readability Formul...

This article proposes a novel framework for representing and measuring local coherence. Central to this approach is the entity-grid representation of discourse, which captures patterns of entity distribution in a text. The algorithm introduced in the article automatically abstracts a text into a set of entity transition sequences and records distributional, syntactic, and referential informatio...

The supplementary material contains the proof of Remark 3.1 as well as some additional information about the numerical experiments that contribute to the understanding of the main paper. We present detailed qualitative and quantitative evaluation results for each of our two (demosaicking and deconvolution) exemplary linear inverse image reconstruction problems. These results include parameter v...

Refactoring is the act of changing software code, usually to improve internal code quality, without changing its external behavior. Soetens and Demeyer (2010) analyzed one software and showed that code refactoring did not imply in better result for code quality metrics. In this work, we extend Soetens and Demeyer study, mining data from 256 software projects from Apache Software Foundation, usi...