Trends in Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Expenses Before and After Passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

The Era of Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act

On June 28, 2012 the United States Supreme Court upheld the Patient Rights and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The individual mandate and the extension of Medicaid eligibility are the primary components of ACA and have drawn a great deal of attention from the media and public. However, little attention has focused on how ACA will affect ve...

Cost Containment and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Gainsharing and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

“Gainsharing” is a business practice that can reduce costs and increase efficiency while engaging and rewarding front-line workers, those who work most directly with customers or with the product a company manufactures. Although the practice reportedly began as early as the nineteenth century, it became popular in the 1930s in the steel manufacturing industry. While several different forms of p...

the analysis of the role of the speech acts theory in translating and dubbing hollywood films

از محوری ترین اثراتی که یک فیلم سینمایی ایجاد می کند دیالوگ هایی است که هنرپیش گان فیلم میگویند. به زعم یک فیلم ساز, یک شیوه متأثر نمودن مخاطب از اثر منظوره نیروی گفتارهای گوینده, مثل نیروی عاطفی, ترس آور, غم انگیز, هیجان انگیز و غیره, است. این مطالعه به بررسی این مسأله مبادرت کرده است که آیا نیروی فراگفتاری هنرپیش گان به مثابه ی اعمال گفتاری در پنج فیلم هالیوودی در نسخه های دوبله شده باز تولید...