Multiple dispatch allows determining the actual method to be executed, depending on the dynamic types of its arguments. Although some programming languages provide multiple dispatch, most widespread object-oriented languages lack this feature. Therefore, different implementation techniques are commonly used to obtain multiple dispatch in these languages. We evaluate the existing approaches, pre...

BACKGROUND Online health information is being used more ubiquitously by the general population. However, this information typically favors only a small percentage of readers, which can result in suboptimal medical outcomes for patients. OBJECTIVE The readability of online patient education materials regarding the topic of congestive heart failure was assessed through six readability assessmen...

BACKGROUND Quantitative tools have been developed to evaluate the readability of written documents and have been used in several studies to evaluate information and consent forms. These studies all showed that such documents had a low level of readability. Our objective is to evaluate the readability of Information and Consent Forms (ICFs) used in clinical research. METHODS AND FINDINGS Clini...

UNLABELLED More than 90 million Americans have low levels of health literacy that may contribute to poor health outcomes. Assessment of the readability of patient education materials (PEMs) is a vital component of health education. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to describe the readability of PEMs used in community healthcare settings serving low-income populations to provide further insig...

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis complexity texts on material linguistic subcorpus English textbooks “English”, “Starlight” and “Rainbow English” for 11th grade. total volume sub-corpus acting as empirical research amounted to 36 (3955 word uses). One characteristics text is its readability. It depends degree words structures used in sentences, well such quantitative p...

Readability is the measure of how easier a piece text is. assessment plays crucial role in facilitating content writers and proofreaders to receive guidance about easy or difficult In literature, classical readability, lexical measures, deep learning based model have been proposed assess readability. However, readability using machine data-intensive task, which requires reasonable-sized dataset...