BACKGROUND The menopause-specific quality-of-life (MENQOL) was developed as a specific tool to measure the health-related quality-of-life in menopausal women. Recently, it has been translated into about 15 languages. AIM This study was performed to develop the Persian version of the MENQOL questionnaire from the original English language version. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectio...

Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics (MTEMs) are the central core of Machine Translation (MT) engines as they are developed based on frequent evaluation. Although MTEMs are widespread today, their validity and quality for many languages is still under question. The aim of this research study was to examine the validity and assess the quality of MTEMs from Lexical Similarity set on machine tra...

Translators face a number of difficulties while translating. Not only translation of cultural elements is of utmost importance in translation studies, but also it is an arduous task for translators, especially in the case of interlingual translation. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is culture-specific items amongst which taboo expressions are included. This study aimed at...

Translation is evaluated in terms of its forms and functions inside the historically developed systems of the receiving culture and literature. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Persian translation of the14th edition of the original English book “Principles of Marketing” written by Philip Kotler and Gary Armstrong based on House (TQA) model: overt and covert translation distinction. T...

The article presents a part of Russian translation (with an introduction and commentaries) the important treatise: Dalil al-mutahayyirin (A Guide for Perplexed) by Sayyid Kazim Rashti, one founders Shaykhi school. work is dated 1842. made from Arabic original two Persian translations treatise.

This study aims at investigating the psychological approach and translation analysis of the novel genre. For this purpose, the English version of "Othello" is compared with its Persian translation. At first, this study surveys the ST from psychological point of view. Second, it compares the ST with its translation. In this regard, the study focuses on the stylistic and semantic analysis of the ...

objective: to translate the structured clinical interview for dsm-iv axisi disorders (scid-i) into persian (farsi) and to adapt this instrument for the iranian culture. method: the scid was translated into persian using an elaborate procedure to achieve a satisfactory cross-cultural equivalent. this included forward translation by bilingual (english/persian) translators, discussion and revision...

OBJECTIVE The Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) assesses disability in four domains of home management, work responsibilities, close relationships and social life. The main objective of this study was to develop the Persian version of the SDS. METHOD Two steps of field work followed the Persian translation and cultural adaptation of the tool: First, the internal consistency and convergent validi...

introduction: the dysphagia handicap index (dhi) is one of the instruments used for measuring a dysphagic patient’s self-assessment. in some ways, it reflects the patient’s quality of life. although it has been recognized and widely applied in english speaking populations, it has not been used in its present forms in persian speaking countries. the purpose of this study was to adapt a persian v...