In recent development discourse, much has been debated and written about evidence-based actions, defined as: ‘the application of the best available systematically assembled evidence in setting policy and practice’. Nutrition is clearly not exempt from justifying itself, and it is important that Public Health Nutrition has addressed this in recent issues. Much of our knowledge of ‘what works’ de...

Reading comprehension is a challenging task, especially when executed across longer or across multiple evidence documents, where the answer is likely to reoccur. Existing neural architectures typically do not scale to the entire evidence, and hence, resort to selecting a single passage in the document (either via truncation or other means), and carefully searching for the answer within that pas...

This contribution comments on certain works of digital literature in order to demonstrate their use of formal and thematic literary techniques and show that ‘wreaders’ have their own creative pattern. Playing with hyperlinks involves disorganized thinking, associative laxity and conceptual, and linguistic alterations that infringe the linear construction of the literary paradigm. The mechanism ...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the usability of electronic books (e-books) and paper books (p-books) with objective measures, including user comprehension, eye fatigue, and perception. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 56 sixth-year public school students participated in this study. This paper was conducted in the following order: pre-CFF measurement, p-/e-book reading, post-CFF mea...

This theory was originally developed for paint films but works quite well in many circumstances for paper. It is not, however, terribly good for dyed papers (or very dark, unbleached papers) when light absorption reaches a high level. A limiting assumption is that the particles making up the layer must be much smaller than the total thickness. Both absorbing and scattering media must be uniform...