BACKGROUND Although many organizational culture questionnaires have been developed, there is a lack of any validated multidimensional questionnaire assessing organizational culture at hospital ward level and adapted to health care context. Facing the lack of an appropriate tool, a multidisciplinary team designed and validated a dimensional organizational culture questionnaire for healthcare set...

We build culture-specific dialogue policies of virtual humans for negotiation and in particular for argumentation and persuasion. In order to do that we use a corpus of non-culture specific dialogues and we build simulated users (SUs), i.e. models that simulate the behavior of real users. Then using these SUs and Reinforcement Learning (RL) we learn negotiation dialogue policies. Furthermore, w...

Summary From the beginnings of translation studies to present day, theoretical and practical paradigm has come a long way. Although it was closely associated with linguistics solution linguistic problems until early 1980s, first theories that drew attention cultural phenomena texts challenges translation. Translation scholars Susan Bassnett André Lefevre (1990) wrote translation's shift represe...

We describe the use of the Haskell testing package QuickCheck to aid in the debugging of the operational and denotational semantics of a hardware compilation language called Handel-C.

[This corrects the article on p. 144 in vol. 6, PMID: 25798132.].