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 ...

purpose: the aim of the current study was to predict the high school students' academic burnout based on social adjustment, academic procrastination and academic hope. materials and method: current research method was descriptive and correlational. the study population included all high school students of the state female high schools of bojnourd. 350 students were selected as a sample emp...

Background Malnutrition is an important factor affecting hypertensive incidence. Since the unhealthiest nutritional behaviors are rooted in childhood attitudes and experiences, applying educational interventions to these age groups will be most useful in the formation of preventive nutritional behaviors. Objective To determine the predictive power of the TPB on hypertension in junior high-sch...

Societies are regulated by norms and, consequently, autonomous agents that want to be part of them must be able to reason about norms. However, no reasoning can be done if agents lack a model of norms that allows them to know how by complying with norms some of their goals might be affected. In this paper, a general model of norms is proposed. By contrast with current models of norms, our model...

HYPOTHESIS The surgical treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism results in an improved health-related quality of life. DESIGN Prospective cohort analysis of consecutive patients with primary hyperparathyroidism analyzed preoperatively and 1 year postoperatively. SETTING Academic multispecialty referral clinic. PATIENTS We prospectively evaluated 74 consecutive patients who underwent para...