in the global village of today, more people have been moving and migrating than ever before creating a need for better communication. thus community interpreting rose as a specialization serving the needs of members of the community who are unable to communicate with the system. within this broad field of interpreting the specialist area of legal interpreting assumed a high position. however, l...

a close study of the conduct of a translator or an interpreter indicates that there are a large number of factors which can play a significant role in their success or failure in their profession. the present paper is intended to probe into a number of these factors which appear to have a rather more important role in the profession of interpreters. it is accepted though, by the majority of the...

Since its inception, many have questioned the utility of electronic fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring. However, it arrived without the benefit of clear, standard nomenclature, leading to difficulty interpreting studies regarding its benefit. In 2008, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) developed standard nomenclature for interpreting eFHR tracings. Understanding...

The patient presented herein is a 52-year-old woman suffering from primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in both eyes. She has no history of systemic disorders and is not on any systemic medications. She underwent laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) 9 years ago for refractive error of -5.50-3.00×180 in both eyes, and was diagnosed with glaucoma 7 years afterwards. Her ocular examination when I sa...

Complexity of simultaneous interpreting has long attracted the interest of researchers and led them to explore different linguistic, psychological, cognitive, social, and neurological factors involved in enabling the human mind to perform such a difficult task. Within the framework of cognitive studies of interpreting, the authors of this study aimed at exploring the relationship between select...

purpose: to evaluate the correlation between corneal power and corneal horizontal white to white diameter in myopic patients scheduled for lasik surgery. methods: overall, in 840 eyes of 420 myopic subjects scheduled for lasik, horizontal white to white diameter and mean corneal power were obtained using orbscan ii. pearson correlation test and regression analysis were used to detect any correl...