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Is machine language translation a viable tool for health communication?
Chapters in this book aim to fill in a persistent knowledge gap in current multicultural health research, that is, culturally effective and user-oriented healthcare translation.Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psycholog
Changing Trains at Wigan: Digital Preservation and the Future of Scholarship
This paper examines the impact of the emerging digital landscape on long term access to material created in digital form and its use for research; it examines challenges, risks and expectations.
DiDiMap. Diet Diary and Consumption Control for Monitoring Bowel Dysfunctions and low-FODMAP Diet App
The purpose of this project was to design and implement a mobile application for people with bowel dysfunctions, intolerances, and food allergies. The application was expected to provide all needed functionality for the target groups day to day challenges.
Irritable bowel syndrome, intolerances, and food allergies affect a significant portion of the population. On a world basis, 15\% of the population are affected by IBS alone. Although intolerances and food allergies are handled better than before in terms of adaptation from restaurants, food producers, and grocery stores, thereâs still a long way to go. Food producers and caterers must, by law, inform consumers of whether their products contain certain common allergens. If a person has an allergy or intolerance outside the standard, thereâs little information to get.
A systematic review and an app review mapping existing knowledge and implementations for similar apps were conducted. A mobile application was implemented for a low-FODMAP (Fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols) use case based on the conducted reviews features and shortcomings. The app contains features such as optical character recognition to identify potential trigger foods, barcode scanning of food products to retrieve nutritional and intolerance information, and a log to track meals, events during the day, and symptoms. The application also includes a communication platform for connecting and communicating with peers, which can later be expanded into discussion and motivation groups. Unlike other similar applications in the market, the app provides, in addition to peer communication, all needed functionality in a single platform, which enables utilization of log data for consumption control.
We conducted a trial of the application with 65 users who were currently following a low-FODMAP diet. Of these 8 people responded to an anonymous survey asking users to rank the system's usability on a scale, and to answer a few application-specific questions. Feedback from user testing indicated a great interest in the app. Through the survey the app gained a system usability score of 85/100, and 75\% thought the app would greatly simplify the process of following the low-FODMAP diet
Chinese elements : a bridge of the integration between Chinese -English translation and linguaculture transnational mobility
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As the popularity of Chinese elements in the innovation of the translation part in Chinese CET, we realized that Chinese elements have become a bridge between linguaculture transnational mobility and Chinese-English translation.So, Chinese students translation skills should be critically improved; for example, on their understanding about Chinese culture, especially the meaning of Chinese culture. Five important secrets of skillful translation are introduced to improve studentsâ translation skills
Making the best use of new technologies in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey: a review
.Background
Dietary assessment is of paramount importance for public health monitoring. Currently in the
UK, the populationâs diets are examined by the National Diet and Nutrition Survey Rolling
Programme (NDNS RP). In the survey, diet is assessed by a four-day paper-based dietary
diary, with accompanying interviews, anthropometric measurements and blood and urine
sampling. However, there is growing interest worldwide in the potential for new technologies
to assist in data collection for assessment of dietary intake.
Published literature reviews have identified the potential of new technologies to improve
accuracy, reduce costs, and reduce respondent and researcher burden by automating data
capture and the nutritional coding process. However, this is a fast-moving field of research,
with technologies developing at a rapid pace, and an updated review of the potential
application of new technologies in dietary assessment is warranted. This review was
commissioned to identify the new technologies employed in dietary assessment and critically
appraise their strengths and limitations in order to recommend which technologies, if any,
might be suitable to develop for use in the NDNS RP and other UK population surveys.
Objectives
The overall aim of the project was to inform the Department of Health of the range of new
technologies currently available and in development internationally that have potential to
improve, complement or replace the methods used in the NDNS RP. The specific aims were:
to generate an itinerary of new and emerging technologies that may be suitable; to
systematically review the literature and critically appraise new technologies; and to
recommend which of these new technologies, if any, would be appropriate for future use in
the NDNS RP. To meet these aims, the project comprised two main facets, a literature
review and qualitative research.
Literature review data sources
The literature review incorporated an extensive search of peer-reviewed and grey literature.
The following sources were searched: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR),
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), Web of Science Core Collection,
Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid MEDLINE In-Process, Embase, NHS EED (Economic Evaluation
Database), National Cancer Institute (NCI) Dietary Assessment Calibration/Validation
Register, OpenGrey, EPPI Centre (TRoPHI), conference proceedings (ICDAM 2012,
ISBNPA 2013, IEEE Xplore, Nutrition Society Irish Section and Summer Meetings 2014),
recent issues of journals (Journal of Medical Internet Research, International Journal of
Medical Informatics), grants registries (ClinicalTrials.gov, BBSRC, report), national surveys,
and mobile phone application stores. In addition, hand-searching of relevant citations was
performed. The search also included solicitation of key authors in the field to enquire about
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as-yet unpublished articles or reports, and a Bristol Online Survey publicised via social
media, society newsletters and meetings.
Literature review eligibility criteria
Records were screened for eligibility using a three-stage process. Firstly, keyword searches
identified obviously irrelevant titles. Secondly, titles and abstracts were screened against the
eligibility criteria, following which full-text copies of papers were obtained and, in the third
stage of screening, examined against the criteria. Two independent reviewers screened
each record at each stage, with discrepancies referred to a third reviewer.
Eligibility criteria were pre-specified and agreed by the project Steering Group (Section 1.6).
Eligible records included: studies involving technologies, new to the NDNS RP, which can be
used to automate or assist the collection of food consumption data and the coding of foods
and portion sizes, currently available or beta versions, public domain or commercial; studies
that address the development, features, or evaluation of new technology; technologies
appropriate for the requirements of the NDNS RP in terms of nutritional analysis, with
capacity to collect quantifiable consumption data at the food level; primary sources of
information on a particular technology; and journal articles published since the year 2000 or
grey literature available from 2011 onwards. The literature search was not limited to Englishlanguage
publications, which are included in the itinerary, although data were not extracted
from non-English studies.
Literature synthesis and appraisal
New technologies were categorised into eleven types of technology, and an itinerary was
generated of tools falling under each category type. Due to the volume of eligible studies
identified by the literature searches, data extraction was limited to the literature focussing on
selected exemplar tools of five technology categories (web-based diet diary, web-based 24-
hour recall, handheld devices (personal digital assistants and mobile phones), nonautomated
cameras to complement traditional methods, and non-automated cameras to
replace traditional methods). For each category, at least two exemplars were chosen, and all
studies involving the exemplar were included in data extraction and synthesis. Exemplars
were selected on the basis of breadth of evidence available, using pre-specified criteria
agreed by the Steering Group.
Data were extracted by a single reviewer and an evidence summary collated for each
exemplar. A quality appraisal checklist was developed to assess the quality of validation
studies. The checklist was piloted and applied by two independent reviewers. Studies were
not excluded on the basis of quality, but study quality was taken into account when judging
the strength of evidence. Due to the heterogeneity of the literature, meta-analyses were not
performed.
References were managed and screened using the EPPI Reviewer 4 systematic review
software. EPPI Reviewer was also used to extract data
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