The leaflets were appraised based on their textual framework, thoroughness, use of jargon terms and readability.
A second limitation of this study was the subjective selection of dental jargon and difficult words, within the textual framework.
Textual framework was assessed using three parameters: physical attributes; the use of relevant/instructional pictures; and the use of headings, subheadings and percentage of bulleted text.
We expand this research further by assessing readability as well as thoroughness, textual framework, and terminology of 27 publications from a diverse group of sources: the ADA, government health sources, and commercial organizations.
Forty paediatric oral health education materials were analysed for general readability according to the following parameters: Thoroughness; Textual framework; Terminology; and Readability (Flesch-Kincaid grade level (FKGL), Gunning Fog index (Fog) and Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG)).
Future work will examine incorporating bellwether authority into a textual analysis framework.
Kim Plofker reexamines the few facts about Indian mathematics that have become common knowledge--such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals--and she sets them in a larger textual and cultural framework.
It is clear that some methods of synthesis – namely, thematic synthesis, textual narrative synthesis, framework synthesis and ecological triangulation – view themselves as producing an output that is directly applicable to policy makers and designers of interventions.
For example, Barnett-Page and Thomas have identified: meta-narrative, critical interpretive synthesis, meta-study, meta-ethnography, grounded formal theory, thematic synthesis, textual narrative synthesis, framework synthesis and ecological triangulation [ 5].
A recent review of qualitative syntheses found that nine main approaches were used to synthesise qualitative research including: critical interpretive synthesis, grounded theory synthesis, meta-ethnography, meta-study, thematic synthesis, meta-narrative synthesis, textual narrative synthesis, framework synthesis, and ecological triangulation [ 1].
While information extraction on its own aims at semantic unification of varying textual representations, our federated framework allows for easier access to heterogeneously stored source data within a community as well as across different communities.
