Tourism Discourse: Strategies and Difficulties in Translating Hotel Websites

The article presents an analysis of one of the most dynamically growing spheres of translation – translation in tourism, namely localization of hotel websites. Undoubtedly, the Internet is the main source of information retrieval and a tool enhancing tourism attractiveness of a destination, which means that while translating hotel websites one should pay great attention to the language content. The analysis conducted by the authors allows concluding that most of the translations feature a lot of language mistakes: from lexical incongruity to spelling, making translated texts unreadable and not corresponding to their communicative and pragmatic functions. If a translator holds a basic strategy of producing a new text using peculiar stylistic markers and figurative language, characterizing other linguistic culture, and sometimes changes the form and structure of the text in the source language, then the translated text functions as an element, attracting new customers. This situation reflects the existence of highly widespread problems, found in the sphere of translation: the growing number of people speaking foreign languages makes professional competences of translators worthless. Together with the expansion of Machine Translation it lowers the quality of a "ready" product – localized text – making recipients and senders to perceive the inferior language content as normal

Russian writers’ aphorisms as a reflection of Russian linguoculture and the basis for the formation of a harmoniously developed personality

The article deals with aphoristics as a translator of the basic concepts of Russian linguoculture. The history of Russian aphorism reflects the history of the ethnic group, as well as all the changes in the public consciousness, while simultaneously fixing and preserving the same basic values. The researchers conducted a semantic analysis of the corpus of aphorisms recorded in the Dictionary of Aphorisms of Russian Writers

Results of continuous passive movement method application in physical rehabilitation process of patients with knee joint pathology

Purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of physical rehabilitation of patients with pathology of knee joints (KJ) in the postoperative period using the method of continuous passive movement in the joints with the help of domestic devices. Material & Methods: a comparative analysis of the results of rehabilitation of two clinical groups of patients was carried out, which were identical by sex, age, type of pathology and type of surgical interventions (52 male and 37 female), at the age of 18 to 60 years with the pathology of KJ who were on inpatient treatment. In the postoperative period, patients of the 2nd group, in addition to standard rehabilitation measures, performed passive development of motions in the affected KJ with the help of domestic devices for automatic development of movements. Result: program of physical rehabilitation of patients with KJ pathology, which consists of several stages, is based on the comprehensive application of a wide range of rehabilitation means with an individual approach to the course of the postoperative period in each particular patient. Conclusion: high efficiency of the use of the developed domestic devices for the automatic development of movements in the joints in the process of complex regenerative treatment of patients with the CS pathology, that allows recommending them for wide introduction in clinical use in rehabilitation centers and orthopedic and traumatological departments are proved

Increasing the meaningful involvement of women in HIV cure-related research: a qualitative interview study in the United States

Background Cisgender women represent over half of people living with HIV globally. However, current research efforts toward a cure for HIV focus predominantly on cisgender men. The under-representation of women in HIV cure clinical studies is particularly problematic given data suggesting that sex-dependent phenotypes limit scientific discovery. Objective We aimed to generate considerations to increase the meaningful involvement of women in HIV cure-related research. Materials and methods We conducted in-depth interviews with biomedical researchers and community members to better understand factors that could increase the meaningful involvement of women in HIV cure clinical trials. Participants were affiliated with academia, industry, community advisory boards, and community-based organizations, and were identified using listings from the AIDS Clinical Trials Group and the Martin Delaney Collaboratories. We used conventional content analysis to analyze the qualitative data. Results We recruited 27 participants, of whom 11 were biomedical researchers and 16 were community members. Participants included 25 cisgender women, 1 transgender woman, and 1 cisgender man. Key considerations emerged, including the need to ensure that HIV cure studies reflect HIV epidemiologic trends and having accurate representation by sex and gender in HIV cure research. To increase the meaningful involvement of women, recommendations included instituting intentional enrollment goals, frequent and mandatory reporting on enrollment, and incentives for sites to enroll women. Additional themes included the need for agency and self-determination, attention to lived experiences, trauma and healing, and adequate support for women (e.g. logistical, psychosocial, mental, emotional, and physical). Participants noted that women would be willing to participate in HIV cure trials, related procedures (e.g. biopsies), and analytical treatment interruptions. They also expressed a desired for women-centered and holistic clinical trial designs that account for intersectionality. Conclusions Our empirical inquiry extends recent calls to action to increase diversity of people involved in HIV cure research. Redressing the under-inclusion of women in HIV cure research is an urgent imperative. The entire field must mobilize and reform to achieve this goal. Meaningfully involving women across the gender spectrum in HIV cure research is needed to ensure that interventions are safe, effective, scalable, and acceptable for all people with HIV