a recent international journal of health policy and management (ijhpm) article by fadi el-jardali and colleagues makes an important contribution to the literature on health system strengthening by reporting on a survey of healthcare stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries (lmics) about systems thinking (st). the study’s main contributions are its confirmation that healthcare stakeholde...

in this article the possible effects of the translation technologies on the critical thinking and translation ability of the students of the translation studies would be studied through a pre-experimental method of research. the participants of this research were thirty one iranian senior translation studies students at the age group of 20-26 who were selected based on their age, educational le...

This article briefly discusses knowledge translation and lists the problems associated with it. Then it uses knowledge-management literature to develop and propose a knowledge-value chain framework in order to provide an integrated conceptual model of knowledge management and application in public health organizations. The knowledge-value chain is a non-linear concept and is based on the manage...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate greenhouse owners’ knowledge regarding integrated pest management (ipm) in the production of greenhouse cucumber in khorasan razavi province.the survey research was a descriptive – correlational one. the study consisted of all farmers who cultivated greenhouse cucumber in khorasan razavi province (n=160), of whom 108 were selected through a random sampli...

BACKGROUND Better use of research evidence (one form of "knowledge") in health systems requires partnerships between researchers and those who contend with the real-world needs and constraints of health systems. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) and integrated knowledge translation (IKT) are research approaches that emphasize the importance of creating partnerships between researche...

This paper presents the translation technologies of Portuguese to Chinese machine translation system, PCT Assistente a hybrid translation model integrated with example-based and rule-based translation paradigms to counterbalance the intrinsic weakness of these approaches by combining the strong features of another. In the example-based model, translation examples are annotated under the schema ...