OBJECTIVES To assess the legibility and completeness of handwritten prescriptions and compare with electronic prescription system for medication errors. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Handwritten prescriptions were received from clinical units of Medicine Outpatient Department (MOPD), Primary Care Clinic...

the objective of this article is to present the established components with regard to the visual quality and legibility of isfahan city according to lynch’s theory. data was gathered in isfahan mainly by way of observation and interviews. additional information was obtained from historical data and urban documents. in the opinion of the citizens, the zayandehrood river, as a natural urban compo...

Recent research on the legibility of digital displays has demonstrated a "positive polarity advantage", in which black-on-white text configurations are more legible than their negative polarity, white-on-black counterparts. Existing research in this area suggests that the positive polarity advantage stems from the brighter illumination emitted by positive polarity displays, as opposed to the da...

Over the last few decades, some newly developed areas in the city of Isfahan have had serious problems in providing such urban design qualities as legibility, and this has led to various problems for the citizens like difficulty in way-finding, orientation or addressing. In order to solve this problem and enrich the legibility of newly developed areas, planners and designers should utilize appr...

This short paper explores a straightforward insight: that the basic features of visual perception map instructively onto letterform skeletons Latin alphabet. Linking findings from ith knowledge about typography and reading might advance our how letterforms function visually. could be used to develop formal measure legibility, rovide means distinguish between text display typeface, provide guida...

In scientific and information visualization 3D diagrams are now more common. Text or name labels in any kind of diagram play an important role. In this work we combine both 3D diagrams and text labels by evaluating the legibility of text on 3D shaded diagram elements. The focus is on using a transparent background for the text labels on the nodes. The investigation seeks to determine whether a ...