(1) Background: Lower Limb deformities include many conditions where pain and physical limitations negatively impact the health-related quality of life (HRQL) children. The ideal way to assess this is by using a Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM). Such condition-specific PROM under development, called LIMB-Q Kids. This study aimed perform translation cultural adaption (TCA) Kids for use in...

there is a growing interest of clinical and epidemiological researches in the field of functional gastrointestinal disorders in our society. accordingly, validated and culturally adapted instruments are required for appropriate measurement of variables specially the quality of life. the aim of our study was the linguistic validation of the irritable bowel syndrome-quality of life questionnaire ...

Large-scale linguistic corpora, complete with information about speakers’ social networks as well as demographic and temporal information, allow for empirical validation of complex theories about the social interactions and linguistic properties leading to large-scale language change. We present ongoing work on the diffusion of lexical innovations using a corpus we have compiled from the Gmane ...