Objective To determine if there is muscle mass reduction in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) compared to the general population and to examine the relationship between skeletal muscle mass, quality of life (QOL), strength, and mobility in patients with AS. Methods A total of 30 AS patients were enrolled in this study. Skeletal muscle mass was measured by bioelectrical impedance analy...

Human translators are the key to evaluating machine translation (MT) quality and also to addressing the so far unanswered question when and how to use MT in professional translation workflows. Usually, human judgments come in the form of ranking outputs of different translation systems and recently, post-edits of MT output have come into focus. This paper describes the results of a detailed lar...

While a multitude of machine translation (MT) evaluation metrics exist, most require one or more gold standard references. For the DARPA GALE program, source data is translated according to detailed guidelines and high quality standards, but these raw translations then undergo a rigorous and carefully constructed quality control (QC) process to create the final references. GALE evaluation trans...

apart from the linguistic ability in translation which has constantly been the focus of scholars in the past decades, many recent arguments and research on translation quality point to the indispensable effect of mental and cognitive aspects of translator on his translation performance. in this paper we sought to implement this psychological approach and to investigate the probable relationship...

Most of the vision quality assessment questionnaires are in English. None low-vision-related quality-of-life have been translated or developed Persian. It will help Persian optometrists and ophthalmologists to assess improvement visual function life during their low-vision rehabilitation programs. In this study, we aimed translate (LVQOL) questionnaire language apply exploratory factor analysis...

Background: Safety climate assessment is increasingly recognized as an important factor in healthcare quality improvement, especially in operating rooms (OR). One of the most commonly used and rigorously validated tools to measure safety culture is the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). This study presents the validation of the Operating Room Version of the SAQ (SAQ-OR) for use in Portuguese...

Multitask learning has been proven a useful technique in a number of Natural Language Processing applications where data is scarce and naturally diverse. Examples include learning from data of different domains and learning from labels provided by multiple annotators. Tasks in these scenarios would be the domains or the annotators. When faced with limited data for each task, a framework for the...

BACKGROUND The Health Service Quality Scale is a multidimensional hierarchical scale that is based on interdisciplinary approach. This instrument was specifically created for measuring health service quality based on marketing and health care concepts. The aim of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the Health Service Quality Scale into Brazilian Portuguese and to assess the validit...

conclusions the persian version of dad, during the study, had a very good validity and reliability and can serve as a useful scale in clinical assessment of functional disability in patients with alzheimer’s in the area of activities of daily living. background as dementia progresses in the course of life, one's functions may be reduced regarding to fulfill the activities of daily living. one o...