Frits M. FLESCH*, Jong W. YU†, Mark A. LEMMON†1 and Koert N. J. BURGER*‡1 *Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands, †Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A., and ‡Department Biochemistry of Membranes, Inst...

Flesch et al [3] showed that, if the payoff functions are bounded and lower semicontinuous, then such a game always has a pure, subgame perfect -equilibrium for > 0. Here we prove the same result for bounded, upper semicontinuous payoffs. Moreover, Example 3 in Solan and Vieille [7] shows that if one player has a lower semicontinuous payoff and another player has an upper semicontinuous payoff,...

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A 40-item English version questionnaire to assess knowledge on osteoporosis was developed. It was reviewed by a panel of health professional and tested on pharmacists and osteoporosis patients. The internal consistency (Cronbach’s α=0.82) and test-retest reliability of the instrument was good. Flesch reading ease was 57 (satisfactory), mean difficulty factor was 0.73 (moderately easy). The diff...

This paper examines the readability of the chairman’s narratives, as determined by the Flesch score, of a Malaysian public listed company’s corporate reports from 1962 to 2009. It partially supports earlier studies which demonstrated that corporate reports were difficult to read, and had shown very negligible decrease in difficulty over time. Net profit to sales and readability was significantl...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To assess the quality and readability of thyroplasty information available on the Internet. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS We conducted a Google search for "thyroplasty treatment" and analyzed the first 50 Web sites using the DISCERN instrument, the Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) score. DISCERN is a 16-item vali...

Background. The available health information on websites should be reliable and accurate in order to make informed decisions by community. This study was done to assess the quality and readability of health information websites on World Wide Web in India. Methods. This cross-sectional study was carried out in June 2014. The key words "Health" and "Information" were used on search engines "Googl...

BACKGROUND Patients are increasingly using the internet to access health-related information. The purpose of this study was to assess the readability and quality of laryngeal cancer-related websites. METHODS Patient education materials were identified by performing an internet search using 3 search engines. Readability was assessed using Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), Flesch-Kincaid Grade ...