INTRODUCTION The Orthognathic Quality of Life Questionnaire (OQLQ) was developed in 2000 and validated in 2002, aiming at assessing the impact and the benefits of orthosurgical treatment on patients' quality of life. OBJECTIVE Cross-culturally translate into Brazilian Portuguese and back-translate into English a quality of life instrument, assuring maintenance of its properties. METHODS At ...

we examined the psychometric properties of the arabic version of the obsessive compulsive beliefs questionnaire-44 (obq-44) in a sample of kuwait university students. this questionnaire was developed by the obsessive compulsive cognitions working group in order to assess belief domains believed to be crucial in the development of obsessive compulsive symptoms.the arabic version of the obq-44 wa...

The posting of offensive content in regional languages has increased as a result the accessibility low-cost internet and widespread use online social media. Despite large number comments available online, only small percentage them are offensive, resulting an unequal distribution non-offensive comments. Due to this class imbalance, classifiers may be biased toward with most samples, i.e., class...

Translation results suffer when a standard phrasebased statistical machine translation system is used for translating long sentences. The translation output will not have the same word order as the source. When a sentence is long, it should be partitioned into several clauses, and the word reordering during the translation done within these clauses, not between the clauses. In this paper, we pr...

Background: Patients’ trust in their physicians can affect therapeutic outcomes. Measurement of patient’s trust levels is a helpful approach for policymakers in healthcare systems. Aim: The present study was targeted toward the translation and psychometric assessment of patients’ trust in midwifery care questionnaire. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 female patients refer...

Improving neural machine translation (NMT) models using the back-translations of monolingual target data (synthetic parallel data) is currently state-of-the-art approach for training improved systems. The quality backward system - which trained on available and used back-translation has been shown in many studies to affect performance final NMT model. In low resource conditions, usually not eno...

OBJECTIVE To translate into Portuguese and to culturally adapt the malnutrition screening tool for hospitalized children, Strongkids. METHODS This study documents the translation of the tool from the original version (English) into Portuguese. The translation and cultural adaptation of the content of this tool consisted of six stages, according to the methodology proposed by Beaton et al (ini...