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    Is machine language translation a viable tool for health communication?

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    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

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    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

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    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, there’s 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, there’s 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

    Developing an understanding of the experiences of south Asian women with gestational diabetes mellitus living in the UK

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    This portfolio thesis includes 3 parts: a systematic literature review; an empirical paper and appendices.Part one is a systematic literature review, considering the experiences of diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus of South Asian people living in the UK. The review attempts to determine how culturally specific experiences may impact on illness perceptions for this population, links to theory and clinical implications are then discussed.Part two is an empirical report of a qualitative study aimed at understanding the experiences and illness perceptions of South Asian women with first diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The results are discussed to propose an understanding of how these experiences effect pregnancy and perceptions of illness. These are then discussed with reference to theory and clinical implications.Part three comprises appendices; a reflective statement which draws on personal experiences and reflects on the research process and an epistemological statement describing the epistemological position of the research

    Chinese elements : a bridge of the integration between Chinese -English translation and linguaculture transnational mobility

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    [Abstract] 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 students’ translation skills
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