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Formatting Your Document For Onscreen Reading: An Ms Word Template For Producing Screen-Friendly Pdf Documents, Paul Royster Jul 2005

Formatting Your Document For Onscreen Reading: An Ms Word Template For Producing Screen-Friendly Pdf Documents, Paul Royster

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The traditional 8.5” x 11” portrait page is not very convenient or reader-friendly for publications delivered electronically and read on-screen. This document and its attached files include a MS Word document template (“E-Pub format.dot”) that creates a page format to present text in two-page spreads; each spread fits on a single screen (of 1024 x 768 pixels) and remains readable at 75% magnification. The template includes page layout, design, and typographic settings engineered to accommodate most text elements: headings, subtitles, extracts, notes, etc. There is also a MS Word document (“E-Pub format sample.doc”) of the file from which the archived …


The Influence Of Instruction Set And Test Format On The Detection Of Malingering, Teri Jean Forrest Jan 2005

The Influence Of Instruction Set And Test Format On The Detection Of Malingering, Teri Jean Forrest

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

It is increasingly common for individuals involved in civil litigation to undergo neuropsychological evaluation. This trend increases the possibility that individuals receive trade-secret test information from their attorneys before evaluation in order to maximize their ability to appear injured. However, no known research has examined what effect this knowledge may have on an individual's ability to successfully evade detection as a malingerer. The current investigation examined the performance of archival brain-damaged individuals, normal controls, and individuals in three malingering groups on both previously and newly developed malingering indices for the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and the Halstead Category Test …


Answer Format Effects Revisited, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun Jan 2005

Answer Format Effects Revisited, Sara Dolnicar, Bettina Grun

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The effect of answer formats presented to respondents in written surveys are investigated for two constructs (attitudes and behavioral intentions) and three response scales (binary, ordinal and metric). Results indicate that (1) formats differ in their susceptibility to response styles but lead to the same results with respect to average values and underlying dimensions; (2) binary format is quicker to complete and perceived as quicker while all formats are perceived as equally simple, pleasant, and useful to express feelings; (3) an interaction between the construct measured and the answer format clearly exists which should be investigated more systematically in future …