this qualitative study attempted to determine the approaches of select ‎iranian translator educators for assessing students’ translation quality. so, ‎a purposive sample of twelve experienced, specialist translator educators‎at major universities across iran was invited for interviews. the analysis ‎of the interview data revealed the approaches they advocated and so ‎applied to assessment of st...

First of all, let me thank you very much indeed for this opportunity to talk with you concerning problems of mutual concern. In view of your current endeavors in the design of a new curriculum, and, more importantly, the premises from which this design emanates, it is clear that at best I may be bringing a few coals to Newcastle. Nevertheless, let me try to formulate with you some of my thought...

Design factors to be considered in wide band Pre-D recording and playback equipment for usage in a versatile Pre-D system are presented. These design factors are introduced in a discussion of both the down-translator and up-translator. The mechanisms which produce spurious outputs from the up-translator and the effects caused by these spurious outputs are treated in detail. The extension of Pre...

Encouragingly accurate translations have recently been obtained using a connectionist translator called RECONTRA (Recurrent Connectionist Translator). In order to deal with tasks of medium or large vocabularies, distributed representations of the lexicons are required in this translator. A simple connectionist model has been recently designed to automatically obtain word distributed representat...

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals' person-centered communication skills are pivotal for successful group-based diabetes education. However, healthcare professionals are often insufficiently equipped to facilitate person-centeredness and many have never received post-graduate training. Currently, assessing professionals' skills in conducting group-based, person-centered diabetes education prim...

Discourse audiences are susceptible to fall victims of the concealed ideological representations in discourses at the expanse of changing and modifying their mental models through which they act on the world. Translators as readers and at the same time intercultural mediators need to be equipped with the knowledge of how ideology is accommodated in discourse both not to fall victim to it and to...

The FLEET computer [1] is a new architecture designed from the ground up with parallelism in mind, providing the programmer with direct control over data movement and concurrency. Since FLEET is a completely new architecture, programming for it can be quite challenging. The machine is inherently parallel, so sequential programming techniques do not directly translate to it. The MIPS to FLEET tr...