purpose : the objective of this study was to investigate the total antioxidant status (tas) and dna damage markers of serum and aqueous humor in patients with pseudoexfoliation (pex) syndrome. methods : twenty-seven cataract patients with pex and twenty-seven without pex syndrome were included in the study and groups were matched for age and gender. patients had no elevated intraocular pressure...

in this research, different english translations of sa‘di’s bustan were studied. an anecdote was selected randomly with its three english translations to identify whether or not the translators have managed to convey the messages of the original poem. the three selected translations were examined according to two of the criteria that larson (1984) has proposed (accuracy and naturalness) for tes...

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BACKGROUND The aim of the paper is to present the Polish adaptation of the Humor Climate Questionnaire (HCQ), designed to measure humor as organizational climate feature. MATERIAL AND METHODS The authors employed back-translation and independent judges method to choose the best version of the translated items. The psychometric properties of HCQ were estimated on the basis of 2 samples: the ba...

Audiovisual translation of humor has long been a challenge faced by translators. It is inevitable for translators to remove or reduce some the humorous effect in target language despite their endeavor preserve elements. This qualitative study aimed investigate reasons behind loss scenes from an American comedy cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants. Sperber and Wilson (1986)’s Relevance theory Chaume (...

The first two studies investigated reactions to several different types of humorous comments. Participants indicated they would be significantly more likely to continue interacting with a friend who used adaptive self-enhancing or affiliative humor rather than maladaptive aggressive or self-defeating humor; with the most detrimental effects being evident for aggressive humor. Adaptive humorous ...

The purpose of this study was to reevaluate the multi-dimensional model of humor creation, which is comprised of three dimensions: humor motivation, humor cognition, and humor communication, using in vivo (natural setting) methodology. Thirty-four lecturers from colleges and universities completed a questionnaire. Additionally, 1530 students observed these lecturers and evaluated their sense of...