Translators face a number of difficulties while translating. Not only translation of cultural elements is of utmost importance in translation studies, but also it is an arduous task for translators, especially in the case of interlingual translation. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is culture-specific items amongst which taboo expressions are included. This study aimed at...

SUMMARY Protein topology cartoons are a representation of structural data commonly used by structural biologists to illustrate the relationship between one-dimensional sequence and three-dimensional structural data in a convenient two-dimensional format. TopDraw is a simple, freely available TCL/Tk based drawing program designed specifically for the production of publication quality topology ca...

We d e s c r i b e some f e a t u r e s of a p rog ram w h i c h i n t e r p r e t s c a r t o o n s w h i c h a r e t w o d i m e n s i o n a l r e p r e s e n t a t i o n s o f e v e n t s i n t h e t h r e e d i m e n s i o n a l w o r l d . The m a i n p rob lems c o n f r o n t i n g t h e r e c o g n i t i o n p r o c e d u r e s s tem f r o m t h e d i f f i c u l t i e s i n d e s c r i...

Rube Goldberg’s cartoons famously depict absurd, unreasonably complex machines invented by Professor Lucifer G. Butts to carry out simple tasks. Rube Goldberg machine has now become a byword for overly complicated machinery or bureaucracy of any kind. The specific structure of Goldberg’s original cartoons, however, is quite interesting. Beyond simply being complex, his machines are based on a p...

Purpose – A picture is worth a thousand words. Multimedia teaching materials have been widely adopted by teachers in Physics, Biotechnology, Psychology, Religion, Analytical Science, and Economics nowadays. To assist with engaging students in their economic study, increase learning efficiency and understanding, solve misconception problems, encourage in class discussion, and increase final perf...