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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,151 Views
24 Pages

The use of the native language in the foreign language learning process has evoked controversy since the last century. The present research will argue for the use of translation by foreign language learners by investigating the correlation between tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,352 Views
21 Pages

This study investigates the extent to which highly proficient Spanish–Catalan bilinguals activate Spanish translation equivalents when they are presented with Catalan words. Participants performed a translation recognition task (Experiment 1) o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,562 Views
15 Pages

The recent arrival on the market of high-performing neural MT engines will likely lead to a profound transformation of the translation profession. The purpose of this study is to explore how this paradigm change impacts the post-editing process, with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,245 Views
23 Pages

The present study aims to assess differences in executive functioning between monolingual and multilingual 23-month-old toddlers, both when dichotomizing multilingualism and assessing it on a continuum. It is hypothesized that multilinguals, individu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,236 Views
34 Pages

9 August 2022

We generalize the exact predictive regularity of symmetry groups to give an algebraic theory of patterns, building from a core principle of future equivalence. For topological patterns in fully-discrete one-dimensional systems, future equivalence uni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,295 Views
11 Pages

Background: For children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), understanding their condition may lead to better outcomes. Knowledge assessment is imperative to identify where education may be required. An IBD knowledge assessment tool (IBD-KID2) is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,045 Views
16 Pages

A Model of a Zebrafish Avatar for Co-Clinical Trials

  • Alice Usai,
  • Gregorio Di Franco,
  • Patrizia Colucci,
  • Luca Emanuele Pollina,
  • Enrico Vasile,
  • Niccola Funel,
  • Matteo Palmeri,
  • Luciana Dente,
  • Alfredo Falcone and
  • Luca Morelli
  • + 1 author

13 March 2020

Animal “avatars” and co-clinical trials are being developed for possible use in personalized medicine in oncology. In a co-clinical trial, the cancer cells of the patient’s tumor are xenotransplanted into the animal avatar for drug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
584 Views
19 Pages

Formal Verification of Transcompiled Mobile Applications Using First-Order Logic

  • Ahmad Ahmad Muhammad,
  • Mahitap Ayman,
  • Samer A. Elhossany,
  • Walaa Medhat,
  • Sahar Selim,
  • Hala Zayed,
  • Ahmed H. Yousef,
  • Axel Jantsch and
  • Nahla Elaraby

The increasing interest in automated code conversion and transcompilation—driven by the need to support multiple platforms efficiently—has raised new challenges in verifying that translated codes preserve the intended behaviors of the ori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,265 Views
14 Pages

20 September 2023

This study delves into the intricate usage and interpretation issues of the Chinese term “體” (tǐ) in Xuanzang’s translation of the Abhidharmakośa (AKBh[X]) by providing a Sanskrit-Chinese comparative investigation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,050 Views
11 Pages

27 March 2024

Triangular screw configuration (TSC) fixation is widely used in clinics for femoral neck fractures, and the appropriate positions of TSC fixation have not been fully described in the literature. This study investigated the optimal fixation of femoral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,376 Views
10 Pages

27 October 2023

The topic of the article is the status of translation and homophony in philosophy, psychoanalysis and philology. The article focuses on the question of how translation is carried out using the basic principle of equivalence of meaning by homophony an...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,463 Views
12 Pages

18 November 2024

This paper investigates the domain of Natural Language Inference (NLI), with an emphasis on Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE). We utilize the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset, a benchmark for RTE tasks, to examine the efficacy of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,155 Views
38 Pages

Cross-Cultural Adaptation of a Questionnaire Measuring Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards the Environment

  • Candida Duarte Manuel,
  • Carla Rebelo Magalhães,
  • Claudia Maria Huber,
  • Lukáš Smerek,
  • Artur Fernandes Costa and
  • José Ribeiro Alves

19 March 2024

Translation, adaptation, and validation of instruments for cross-cultural investigation requires a rigorous methodological procedure that should be carefully planned to deliver instruments with adequate reliability and validity. This process was appl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,466 Views
12 Pages

Translation, Adaptation, and Validity of the Short Food Literacy Questionnaire for Brazil

  • Larissa Baungartner Zeminian,
  • Ligiana Pires Corona,
  • Isabelle do Nascimento Batista,
  • Marcela Chagas da Silva and
  • Diogo Thimoteo da Cunha

8 December 2022

Food literacy refers to the knowledge and skills related to healthy food choices. The aim of this study is to present the process of the cross-cultural adaptation and content validation of the Short Food Literacy Questionnaire (SFLQ) for the Brazilia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,651 Views
22 Pages

23 August 2023

This article is a discursive and equivalence-generating study of the use of the multilingual property as a narrative transmission mechanism in audiovisual texts. Specific functions can be constructed and different events and aspects of the plot can b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,343 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2024

The EA-QOL questionnaire measures quality-of-life specifically for children born with esophageal atresia (EA) aged 8–18 and was completed in Sweden and Germany. This study aimed to describe an international collaborative initiative to establish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,162 Views
14 Pages

15 February 2021

A double negation translation (DNT) embeds classical logic into intuitionistic logic. Such translations correspond to continuation passing style (CPS) transformations in programming languages via the Curry-Howard isomorphism. A selective CPS transfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,449 Views
19 Pages

24 July 2025

The Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedikā-Prajñāpāramitā-Sūtra) translated by the Sui Dynasty monk Dharmagupta is the fourth Chinese rendition of the Diamond Sutra. Characterized by unprecedented linguistic opacity and syntacti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,130 Views
9 Pages

26 August 2025

Due to the challenges in evaluating chronic pain in dogs, owner-reported outcome measures have been developed, such as the Helsinki Chronic Pain Index (HCPI), originally written in Finnish and published in English, limiting its use among Spanish-spea...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,256 Views
12 Pages

3 August 2021

The interactions between topological covering spaces, homotopy and group structures in a fibered space exhibit an array of interesting properties. This paper proposes the formulation of finite covering space components of compact Lindelof variety in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
982 Views
10 Pages

Turkish Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the Motor Planning Maze Assessment (MPMA)

  • Zeynep Ozdemir,
  • Sevda Asqarova,
  • Teresa May-Benson and
  • Aymen Balikci

8 April 2025

The MPMA is a performance-based evaluation designed to quickly and accurately screen for motor planning challenges in children between 3 and 12 years old. This test is currently unavailable in Turkish. A systematic, multistage translation process is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
482 Views
22 Pages

18 September 2025

The conditional Feynman integral provides solutions to integral equations equivalent to heat and Schrödinger equations. The Cameron–Martin translation theorem illustrates how the Wiener measure changes under translation via Cameron–M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,219 Views
11 Pages

19 April 2022

In the framework of instrumental research, the adaptation of tests has been increasing. The aim of this paper is to explain the procedures followed for the adaptation of a test with a construct of a cultural nature to another context, reflecting on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,029 Views
10 Pages

15 January 2024

Purpose: This study aimed to provide Arabic-speaking individuals with tools to assess their cognitive abilities and physical function and to contribute to a better understanding of these capabilities in this population. Thus, the specific objective w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,525 Views
10 Pages

LIMB-Q Kids—German Translation and Cultural Adaptation

  • Bjoern Vogt,
  • Jana Fresen,
  • Georg Gosheger,
  • Harpreet Chhina,
  • Carolin Sophie Brune,
  • Gregor Toporowski,
  • Adrien Frommer,
  • Andrea Laufer,
  • Anthony Cooper and
  • Robert Roedl
  • + 1 author

16 September 2022

(1) Purpose: Lower limb deformities can have a severe impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL). LIMB-Q Kids is a new patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) aiming to elucidate the experience of 8–18-year-old patients before, during and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,277 Views
10 Pages

Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Quality of Life Scale in Patients with Onychomycosis

  • Vasco Silva-Neves,
  • Ana Caramelo,
  • Paulo Alves,
  • Carla Pais-Vieira,
  • Alexandra Palmer Minton,
  • Ana María Rodríguez-Leboeuf and
  • Miguel Pais-Vieira

(1) Background: Onychomycosis (OM) is a fungal nail infection, considered a risk factor for diabetic foot ulcers. It is associated with changes in quality of life, in terms of pain, self-confidence and self-esteem. The aim was to translate and adapt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
722 Views
30 Pages

Design and Research of Lorentz Force Magnetic Levitation Vibration Isolation Platform

  • Baiqi Li,
  • Weijie Wang,
  • Lifen Wang,
  • Chunmiao Yu and
  • Yanxia Yang

28 October 2025

To address the micro-vibration isolation requirements of precision payloads in spacecraft, a Lorentz force-based magnetic levitation series vibration isolation platform is proposed. The Lorentz force actuator, overall coupling characteristics, and lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,122 Views
9 Pages

Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Reliability of the 15D Portuguese Version: A Generic Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) Instrument

  • Soraia Ferreira,
  • Harri Sintonen,
  • Armando Raimundo,
  • Nuno Batalha,
  • María Mendoza-Muñoz,
  • Jorge Perez-Gomez and
  • Jose A. Parraca

(1) Background: Purpose: The assessment of quality of life is essential to the human condition and can be measured through questionnaires. This study aims to translate and culturally adapt the 15D questionnaire to assess the population’s qualit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
16,100 Views
14 Pages

27 November 2009

Is Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) a physical principle? In this paper I tentatively suggest it is not, on the basis that MEP is equivalent to Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) inference algorithm that passively translates physical assumptions into m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,610 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2022

Estimates of historical enteric methane emissions by US beef cattle using various methodologies recommended by IPCC were compared, then translated using two expressions of carbon dioxide equivalence. Three existing methodologies (Tier 1, Tier 2, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,819 Views
10 Pages

Spanish Cultural Adaptation and Inter-Rater Reliability of the Revised Knox Preschool Play Scale

  • Sergio Serrada-Tejeda,
  • Marta Pérez-de-Heredia-Torres,
  • Susan H. Knox,
  • Patricia Sánchez-Herrera-Baeza,
  • Rosa M. Martínez-Piédrola,
  • Paula Obeso-Benítez and
  • Sergio Santos-del-Riego

Background: The Revised Knox Preschool Play Scale (RKPPS) is a comprehensive assessment test that observes the level of play development; however, there is no culturally adapted version available with stable psychometric values that would allow its w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,904 Views
12 Pages

The dominance of English as the world language of publication has had a decisive impact on the dissemination of information and innovation across cultures, with a resulting tendency to a standardization of scientific conceptualization. This dominance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,386 Views
19 Pages

Specific Features of the Functional Activity of Human Adipose Stromal Cells in the Structure of a Partial Skin-Equivalent

  • Diana Ya. Aleynik,
  • Irina N. Charykova,
  • Yulia P. Rubtsova,
  • Daria D. Linkova,
  • Ekaterina A. Farafontova and
  • Marfa N. Egorikhina

Mesenchymal adipose stromal cells (ASCs) are considered the most promising and accessible material for translational medicine. ASCs can be used independently or within the structure of scaffold-based constructs, as these not only ensure mechanical su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,257 Views
16 Pages

Translation and Cultural Adaptation of an E-Health Program to Promote Positive Mental Health Among Family Caregivers in Portugal

  • Sandra Carreira,
  • Núria Albacar-Riobóo,
  • Carme Ferré-Grau,
  • Carlos Sequeira,
  • Carmen Andrade and
  • Odete Araújo

27 December 2024

Introduction: Caring for a dependent individual, particularly over an extended period, places significant strain on family caregivers, often leading to adverse physical, mental, emotional, social, and economic outcomes for both caregivers and those t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,096 Views
18 Pages

8 September 2025

In 1807, a group of Protestant missionaries driven by evangelistic ideals arrived in China, dedicated to “winning China for Christ.” Walter Henry Medhurst of the London Missionary Society was among them. In addition to his preaching and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,073 Views
6 Pages

Background: The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is growing every year. The extent of its use is still not clear, and it is difficult to undertake comparative studies due to the variety of data collection tools used. Therefore, a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,325 Views
15 Pages

Nordic Orofacial Test-Screening Protocol as a Tool for Assessment of Orofacial Dysfunction in Pediatric and Adult Patients

  • Karolina Szuflak,
  • Karolina Gerreth,
  • Maurycy Jankowski,
  • Roksana Malak,
  • Włodzimierz Samborski and
  • Michał Karlik

Background/Objectives: The Nordic Orofacial Test-Screening (NOT-S) is a versatile tool used for the assessment of orofacial function. The aim of this study was to introduce the Polish version of the NOT-S along with the results of its cultural adapta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,240 Views
15 Pages

25 December 2021

In this paper, we first discuss some important properties of fractional q-calculus. Then, based on these properties and the q-Laplace transform, we translate a class of fractional q-differential equations into the equivalent q-differential equations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,461 Views
25 Pages

28 May 2025

This paper interprets Stanisław Lem’s novella Professor A. Dońda as a thought experiment. In the novella, Lem proposes Dońda’s law, a formulation that allows for a sophisticated theory of creation, at once theological and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
609 Views
12 Pages

Design of an Energy Selective Surface Employing Dual-Resonant Circuit Topology

  • Honglin Zhang,
  • Jihong Zhang,
  • Song Zha,
  • Huan Jiang,
  • Tao Zhou,
  • Chenxi Liu and
  • Peiguo Liu

A dual-polarization energy selective surface (ESS) with low insertion loss (IL) and high shielding effectiveness (SE) based on a dual-resonant equivalent circuit topology was proposed for high-intensity radiation field (HIRF) protection in this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,262 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2021

The submodel of ideal gas motion being invariant with respect to the time translation and the space translation by one direct has 4 integrals in the case of vortex flows with the varying entropy. The system of nonlinear differential equations of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,801 Views
11 Pages

19 October 2022

Waste recycling has always been a priority in the paper industry. In this study, the potential of translating various wastes in papermaking into building materials was separately evaluated. For the first time, the improvement of flexibility and sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,923 Views
13 Pages

13 August 2024

The PTEN tumor suppressor is frequently targeted in tumors and patients with PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome (PHTS) through nonsense mutations generating premature termination codons (PTC) that may cause the translation of truncated non-functional PTEN...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,856 Views
13 Pages

Vietnamese Version of the General Medication Adherence Scale (GMAS): Translation, Adaptation, and Validation

  • Thao Huong Nguyen,
  • Hoa Van Truong,
  • Mai Tuyet Vi,
  • Katja Taxis,
  • Thang Nguyen and
  • Kien Trung Nguyen

29 October 2021

Background: We aimed to translate, cross-culturally adapt, and validate the General Medication Adherence Scale (GMAS) into Vietnamese. Methods: We followed the guidelines of Beaton et al. during the translation and adaptation process. In Stage I, two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,339 Views
16 Pages

Psychometric Properties of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale for South America (CD-RISC-25SA) in Peruvian Adolescents

  • Karen A. Dominguez-Cancino,
  • Francisca L. Calderon-Maldonado,
  • Edith Choque-Medrano,
  • Carola E. Bravo-Tare and
  • Patrick A. Palmieri

3 November 2022

Resilience describes the ability of someone to adapt to adverse life experiences by adjusting to demands with behavioral flexibility. When encountering crisis situations, resilient people typically spring back emotionally with increased strength and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,235 Views
22 Pages

In the past few decades, studies on translation have converged towards the metaphor of a “ribosome nanomachine”; they also revealed intriguing ribosome properties challenging this view. Many studies have shown that to perform an accurate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
15,407 Views
18 Pages

14 February 2022

Currently, the mechanism of progression of atopic dermatitis (AD) is not well understood because there is no physiologically appropriate disease model in terms of disease complexity and multifactoriality. Type 2 inflammation, mediated by interleukin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,460 Views
14 Pages

12 January 2025

In common law, the “termination” of a contract entails several consequences, particularly on the basis of the context where such a term is used and, from a linguistic perspective, depending on the words that accompany it (e.g., “ter...

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