introduction: the mini nutritional assessment (mna) has been developed to assess malnutrition in elderly  and to filter those who might get benefited from early diagnosis and treatment. the objective of the present study was to examine the nutritional profile of old age hospitalized individuals through the use of the mna in king khalid hospital at hail city of saudi arabia. methods: demographic...

This paper attempts to compare between the advancements in the productivity of Arabic into English Machine Translation Systems between two years, 2008 and 2013. It also aims to evaluate the progress achieved by various systems of Arabic into English electronic translation between the two years. For tracing such advancement, a comparative analysis of translated texts taken from previous studies ...

BACKGROUND Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bone Marrow Transplant (FACT-BMT) has been translated from English into several languages. Currently, there is no validated translation of FACT-BMT in Arabic. Here, we are reporting the first Arabic translation and validation of the FACT-BMT. METHODS The study was approved by the Institutional Research Advisory Council. The Arabic translation...

OBJECTIVES To develop a conceptually and semantically valid Arabic version of a validated disease-specific instrument of quality of life (QoL) for women with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). METHODS This is a prospective cohort study conducted at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between December 2010 and December 2011 following e...

hojatt-ol hagh hakim abolfath-e omar ibn-e ebrahim known as khayyam or khayyami, was a philosopher, mathematician, astrologer, and poet of late fifth-early sixth century a.d. for long he was famous for his scientific features, however, later on his stanzas, were introduced to the world, the west in particular, through the translations provided by the nineteenth century british poet fitzgerald. ...

A review of the nursing and health-related literature on spirituality revealed that no valid and reliable research tool exists in Arabic for measuring spiritual beliefs and practices for Arab Muslim population. This study translated the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale (SIBS) into Arabic and examined the psychometric properties of the Arabic version in a sample of Jordanian Arab Muslim n...

It is challenging to translate names and technical terms from English into Arabic. Translation is usually done phonetically: different alphabets and sound inventories force various compromises. For example, Peter Streams may come out as hr..~ ~ bytr szrymz. This process is called transliteration. We address here the reverse problem: given a foreign name or loanword in Arabic text, we want to re...

BACKGROUND The Activity of Daily Living (ADL) is an instrument that screens elderly respondents for physical functioning and assesses whether they are dependent or independent in their daily activities. This study demonstrates a translation procedure and obtains the reliability and validity of a translated, Arabic ADL. METHODS The ADL was translated to Arabic through a forward translation met...