tourism has always been the main concern of the organizations which are responsible for attracting tourists to visit iran. so preparing and, especially, translating tourist texts are vital for improving tourism in our country. in this paper, we deal with the form of language used in tourist texts and the strategies of translating them by giving some examples. domesticating and foreignising stra...

Using ethnographic techniques, I studied the religious and spiritual aspects of health care at the N.R.I. Academy of the Sciences in Chinakakani, Andhra Pradesh, India, to gain perspectives on how culture influences people’s beliefs about health. It became apparent that “cultural customs” accounted for people’s similar beliefs concerning recovery from disease and injury, irrespective of their d...

In response to the need for culturally competent care, faculty can instill in students the desire to become culturally competent practitioners by providing the opportunity to participate in a short-term study abroad immersion experience. While this strategy is not considered cutting-edge or revolutionary, changing global dynamics warrant rethinking this curricular option. Nurse faculty conducte...

BACKGROUND There is limited literature available identifying and describing the instruments that measure cultural competence in nursing students and nursing professionals. DESIGN An integrative review was undertaken to identify the characteristics common to these instruments, examine their psychometric properties, and identify the concepts these instruments are designed to measure. METHOD T...

BACKGROUND Multiple factors influence the end-of-life (EoL) care and experience of poor quality services by culturally- and spiritually-diverse groups. Access to EoL services e.g. health and social supports at home or in hospices is difficult for ethnic minorities compared to white European groups. A tool is required to empower patients and families to access culturally-safe care. This review w...

Community helping services is an expression used by the social movements to designate families that live in shacks installed in a public area intended for building of own house at a community helping system. Studies in ethnonursing that aimed: in order to detail dynamic configuration in a community helping service. It took place in an community helping area located in the outskirts of Fortaleza...

Abstract This paper explores the possible negative implications of teacher selected whole‐class reads rooted within traditional canon English Language Arts instruction and solutions for re‐engaging disengaged adolescent reader through choice reading implementation more culturally relevant texts. Historically, educators assign required readings to entire class without taking into account lens wh...

The POSBIOTM/W1 is a workbench for machine-learning oriented biomedical text mining system. The POSTBIOTM/W is intended to assist biologist in mining useful information efficiently from biomedical text resources. To do so, it provides a suit of tools for gathering, managing, analyzing and annotating texts. The workbench is implemented in Java, which means that it is platform-independent.