The enduring enigma of nuclear translation

Translating Evidence into Healthcare Policy and Practice: Single Versus Multi-Faceted Implementation Strategies – Is There a Simple Answer to a Complex Question?

How best to achieve the translation of research evidence into routine policy and practice remains an enduring challenge in health systems across the world. The complexities associated with changing behaviour at an individual, team, organizational and system level have led many academics to conclude that tailored, multifaceted strategies provide the most effective approach to knowledge translati...

Competition of Discourses in Journalistic Translation: Diplomatic Negotiations in Focus

We sought to understand  whether,  how, and  why the translated journalistic texts  related  to  the  Iranian  nuclear  negotiations  were manipulated. To this end,  we  monitored  a news agency’s Webpage in a time span of 46 days that began 3 days before Almaty I nuclear talks and ended  3  days  after  Almaty  II  talks.  Monitoring  resulted  in  a  corpus  made  up  of  36  target  texts  p...

The Luteal Phase after GnRHa Trigger-Understanding An Enigma

A Computational Translation of the Phaistos Disk

For over a century the text of the Phaistos Disk remained an enigma without a convincing translation. This paper presents a novel semi-automatic translation method that uses for the first time a recently discovered connection between the Phaistos Disk symbols and other ancient scripts, including the Old Hungarian alphabet. The connection between the Phaistos Disk script and the Old Hungarian al...

The Enigma of Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type-1 (HTLV-1) Infection in Iran

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-I (HTLV-I) was the first human retrovirus associated with malignancy.  The prevalence of HTLV-I infection varies significantly in different regions of the world.  In this study, the prevalence of HTLV-I infection among ethnic Jews living in Shiraz, South of Iran, was investigated. 286 blood samples were obtained.  HTLV-1 antibody assay on serum samples was d...