The thesis is that the organization, attitudes, and customs of a scientific discipline are strongly influenced by the nature of the subject matter. A case study is presented, comparing theoretical physics and pure mathematics. These share a great deal, but differences in goals and subject have led to striking cultural differences and a long history of culture shock at the interface. An analysis...

Purpose: The first aim of this study was to test the acculturative stress hypothesis within the Australian context predicting that immigrant adolescents are more prone to psychological and socio-cultural adaptation problems than their national Australian peers. The second aim of the study was to profile the socio-demographic factors underlying adaptation problems. Methods: The study utilised st...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the quality of the adaptation procedures as well as the clinimetric testing of the shoulder disability questionnaires available in Portuguese that has occurred for each adaptation. METHODS Systematic literature searches on MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, SCIELO and LILACS were performed to identify relevant studies. Data on the quality of the cross-cultural adaptation procedur...

BACKGROUND The Polish orthopaedic literature lacks a tool to measure patient reported treatment outcomes in the foot and ankle. MATERIAL AND METHODS The translation and cultural adaptation of the Foot and Ankle Outcomes Questionnaire was performed in accordance with relevant guidelines. The Polish version of the questionnaire was tested to check its test retest reliability, internal consisten...

We present the ELEON/NATURALOWL system, an application of Semantic Web and Natural Language Generation technologies that combines a conceptual representation of cultural heritage objects with linguistic and adaptation resources. This combined model is used to automatically generate multi-lingual and personalized textual descriptions of cultural heritage objects represented as instances of an OW...