There is growing recognition, particularly in the areas of illicit drug policy and HIV prevention, that policy-makers are in many instances implementing suboptimal programs and services because they are not basing their decisions on the best available scientific evidence. One notable example where a policy-making body has failed to use scientific evidence to inform policy is the Canadian federa...

The present research aimed at investigating the deformation of political news headlines translation between English and Persian News Agencies based on Berman`s deformative system. For this purpose, 100 news headlines in English were selected from BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, France, France 24, Financial Times, Business Times, New York Times, Politico, Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, Middle East Ey...

Website operators and visitors are both interested in effective communication of the privacy policies of a website. In practice, however, privacy policies are either too long and difficult for visitors to read through, or do not provide the information that visitors are looking for. Automated translation of P3P policies into human readable form is a promising solution. P3P is a W3C-defined stan...

Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are "experimental farms" for research that matters in clinical practice. One of the defining characteristics of PBRNs is their ability to operate across a wide range of the bidirectional "pipeline of research translation," from clinical trials to informing health care policy. Developing effective translational approaches requires significant experimentat...

this research was conducted to examine whether there was a significant difference between the quality of translations produced by translation students who used bilingual (english to farsi) dictionaries with that of those using monolingual (english to english) dictionaries. to this end, 78 senior undergraduate students of english translation took part in a piloted english proficiency test, 60 of...

OBJECTIVES There have been increasing calls for more research on interventions to successfully translate evidence-based knowledge into improved health policy and practices. This paper reports on an exploratory study of knowledge translation interventions conducted with participants of global health meetings held in Bangladesh in 2012 and in South Africa in 2013. We measured stakeholders' uptake...

search, review for relevance, classifying and rating quality, and then synthesising and validating papers. Jones et al., 2009 Knowledge, Policy and Power Six dimensions of the knowledge– development policy interface To investigate how various types of knowledge are used across contexts, sectors and with different actors – and thus what can be deduced about the knowledge translation process. Pro...

the present article reports a study carried out to investigate whether or not awareness of functional translation theories has any impact on the translation quality of translator trainees. 2oo iranian undergraduate students took part in this study. they were divided into four groups -two- experimental and two control groups. after homogenizing the participants by a toefl test, a translation pre...