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This paper describes a font independent Gurmukhi-to-Shahmukhi transliteration system. Even though Unicode is gaining popularity, but still there is lot of material in Punjabi, which is available in ASCII based fonts. A problem with ASCII fonts for Punjabi is there is no standardisation of mapping of Punjabi characters and a Gurmukhi character may be internally mapped to different keys in differ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the distractive effects of background speech, aircraft noise and road traffic noise on text memory and particularly to examine if displaying the texts in a hard-to-read font can shield against the detrimental effects of these types of background sounds. This issue was addressed in an experiment where 56 students read shorter texts about different cla...

Reading speed is dramatically reduced when readers cannot use their central vision. This is because low visual acuity and crowding negatively impact letter recognition in the periphery. In this study, we designed a new font (referred to as the Eido font) in order to reduce inter-letter similarity and consequently to increase peripheral letter recognition performance. We tested this font by runn...