Based on Chesterman's theory of translation norms, this research analyses the Database of Imported Drugs (DID) of State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to explore the expectancy norms in E-C translation of trade names of drugs. It is found that there are four expectancy norms in E-C translations of trade names of drugs: mental expectancy norms, cultural tradition norms, translation traditio...

Researchers seeking to understand teen sexual behaviors often turn to age norms, but they are difficult to measure quantitatively. Previous work has usually inferred norms from behavioral patterns or measured group-level norms at the individual level, ignoring multiple reference groups. Capitalizing on the multilevel design of the Add Health survey, we measure teen pregnancy norms perceived by ...

Our main interest research is focused on reaching a decentralized form of social order through the usage of social norms in virtual communities. In this paper, we analyze the effects of different sets of social norms within a society. The simulation scenario used for the experiments is a metaphor of a resource-gatherer prehistoric society. Finally, we obtain a qualitative ranking of all the pos...

A descriptive norm is a behavioral rule that individuals follow when their empirical expectations of others following the same rule are met. We aim to provide an account of the emergence of descriptive norms by first looking at a simple case, that of the standing ovation. We examine the structure of a standing ovation, and show it can be generalized to describe the emergence of a wide range of ...

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a common method in data mining that have been used in different applications as a dimension reduction, classification or clustering method. Methods in alternating least square (ALS) approach usually used to solve this non-convex minimization problem.  At each step of ALS algorithms two convex least square problems should be solved, which causes high com...

When modeling agents involved in scientific activities, one of the major issues is how to let them evaluate the reliability of evidence and the trustability of sources. In the real world of science, input judgment is a common, potentially complex task, of considerable interest for scientific practice and meta-scientific studies. It turns out that epistemic norms here constitute an important too...