In reply to: “Validating an HIV risk score”

risk taking in english to persian translation process by novice iranian translators

این پژوهش به بررسی ریسک پذیری مترجمان تازه کار در طی فرآیند ترجمه از زبان انگلیسی به فارسی می پردازد. پژوهش درباره مترجمان به عنوان اولین خواننده متن مبدا از اهمیت به سزایی برخوردار است. مترجمان تازه کار (و حرفه ای) در طی فرآیند ترجمه با مشکلات متعددی روبرو می شوند که باعث عدم اطمینان آنها از متن ترجمه شده می شود. با توجه به اینکه عدم اطمینان به انجام ریسک منتهی می شود، هدف این پژوهش بررسی کیفی...

Reply to letter: "The balance of risk score for allocation in liver transplantation".

To the Editor: W ith their balance of risk (BAR) score, Dutkowski et al1 present a new, simple tool both to assess the risk of recipient death after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) and to guide graft acceptance and allocation. The BAR score combines donor and recipient age, the length of cold ischemic time, the need for life support, and the model for endstage liver disease (MELD) score,...

Validating Standards-based Test Score Interpretations

Standards-based score reports interpret test performance with reference to cut scores defining categories like "below basic" or "proficient" or "master." This paper first develops a conceptual framework for validity arguments supporting such interpretations, then presents three applications. Two of these are serve to introduce new standard-setting methods. The conceptual framework lays out the ...

Reply to Jefferys: Declining HIV virulence.

We are grateful for this opportunity, in responding to Jefferys (1), to discuss further the nature of the relationship between HIV replication capacity and disease progression. The published studies [of which seven are cited in Payne et al. (2)] examining the relationship between viral replication capacity (VRC) and viral setpoint, CD4 count, and CD4 decline, overall, have painted a consistent ...

Practical Propensity Score Matching: a Reply to Smith and Todd*