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Validation of the Dutch-Flemish translated ABCD questionnaire to measure cardiovascular diseases knowledge and risk perception among adults
No full textValid and reliable measurement of an individual’s knowledge and risk perception is pivotal to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The recently developed Attitudes and Beliefs about Cardiovascular Disease (ABCD) knowledge and risk questionnaire is shown to be valid in England. In this study, we evaluated the psychometric properties of the modified and Dutch (Flemish)-translated ABCD questionnaire using both the classical test and item response theory (IRT) analysis. We conducted a community-based survey among 525 adults in Antwerp city, Belgium. We assessed the item- and scale-level psychometric properties and validity indices of the questionnaire. Parameters of IRT, item scalability, monotonicity, item difficulty and discrimination, and item fit statistics were evaluated. Furthermore, exploratory and confirmatory factorial validity, and internal consistency measures were explored. Descriptive statistics showed that both the knowledge and risk scale items have sufficient variation to differentiate individuals’ level of knowledge and risk perception. The overall homogeneity of the knowledge and risk subscales was within the acceptable range (> 0.3). The exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the risk scale supported a three-factor solution corresponding to risk perception (F1), perceived benefits and intention to change physical activity (F2), and perceived benefit and intention to change healthy dietary habit (F3). The two parametric logistic (2-PL) and rating scale models showed that the item infit and outfit values for knowledge and risk subscales were within the acceptable range (0.6 to 1.4) for most of the items. In conclusion, this study investigated the Dutch (Flemish) version of the ABCD questionnaire has good psychometric properties to assess CVD related knowledge and risk perception in the adult population. Based on the factor loadings and other psychometric properties, we suggested a shorter version, which has comparable psychometric properties.</p
Hafiz Ali Ulqinaku's Turkish-Albanian dictionary named Acibü'l-manzar (alif-shin letters)
No full textHafız Ali Ulqinaku, Arap alfabesiyle Arnavutça eser yazma konusunda önemli gayretleri olan en önemli Arnavut yazarlarından biridir. Ülgün’de doğup ilk eğitimini orada alan ve bu şehrin Karadağlılar tarafından işgal edilmesiyle İşkodra’ya hicret etmek zorunda kalan Hafız Ali, din, edebiyat, eğitim ve özellikle de dil konusunda önemli eserler yazmıştır. Dil alanında yazdığı eserlerin en önemlisi, Ulqin (Ülgün) adlı eseridir. Bu eser, manzum Bedi’ül-Mukattar ve mensur Acibü'l-manzar adlı Türkçe-Arnavutça sözlükler ve Garibü’l-mebsar adlı Arnavutça-Türkçe sözlükten oluşmaktadır. Yazar, Arnavut öğrencilere Türkçeyi öğretmek amacı ve Arap harfleriyle hazırladığı bu eseri yayınlamak için İstanbul’a gitmiş, ancak tüm çabalarına rağmen yayınlayamamıştır. 22.5 x 16.5 sm. ölçüsü ve sert arka ve ön kapağı olan bu eser, 1334 sayfadan oluşmakta ve eserin iki nüshası el yazması olarak Arnavutluk Devlet Arşivi’nde bulunmaktadır. Bu eserin içinde yer alan sözlüklerden en hacimlisi ve tez çalışmamızın konusu olan, Arap alfabesine göre hazırlanan Acibü'l-manzar adlı Türkçe-Arnavutça sözlüktür. 914 sayfadan oluşan bu sözlükte bir sözcüğün sadece kök biçimleri değil çekim sırasında ortaya çıkan şekilleri de madde başı yapılmıştır. Bu da gramatik ayrıntıların ve çekim eklerinin o dönemdeki kullanım şekillerinin kapsamlı bir şekilde incelenmesini sağlamaktadır. Gerek Türk dili ve gerek Arnavut dili için çok önemli olan bu eser, parmakla sayılacak kadar az çalışılmıştır. İlk kez bu tez çalışmasıyla söz konusu eserin elif-şin harfleri Latin harflerine aktarılmış ve sözlükbilimsel açıdan incelenmiştir.Hafiz Ali Ulqinaku is one of the most eminent Albanian writers who have made significant efforts to write works in Albanian using the Arabic alphabet. Hafız Ali, who was born in Ülgün where he received his primary education and was forced to migrate to Shkodër after the occupation of this city by the Montenegrins, wrote important works on religion, literature, education and especially linguistics. The most important in the field of linguistics is his work Ulqin (Ülgün), which consists of bilingual dictionaries prepared with Arabic letters for the purpose of teaching Turkish to Albanian students. This work consists of, Turkish-Albanian dictionary named Bedi'ül-Mukattar, Turkish-Albanian dictionary named Acibü'l-manzar in the Arabic alphabet, and Albanian-Turkish dictionary named Garibü'l-mebsar still in the Arabic alphabet. The author went to Istanbul to publish this work, but despite all his efforts, he couldn’t succeed. This work, which measures 22.5 x 16.5 cm and has a hard back and front cover, consists of 1334 pages and its only copy is in the Albanian State Archives. Among the dictionaries in this work, the most voluminous one and the subject of our thesis is the Turkish-Albanian dictionary named Acibü'l-manzar, prepared according to the Arabic alphabet. In this dictionary, which consists of 914 pages, the forms of a word that appear during the conjugation are made per lexical item. This provides a comprehensive examination of grammatical details and inflectional affixes and the usage patterns of the tense. This work, which is very important for both Turkish and Albanian language, has not been studied enough. The letters of this work, elif-şin, were converted to Latin letters and examined in terms of lexicography for the first time in this thesis.Yurt Dışı Türkler ve Akraba Toplulukları Başkanlı
A STUDY OF THE NOVEL "SADION KI ZANJEER" IN A HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT
No full textRazia Fasih Ahmed is an important contemporary writer. He has a keen eye for the changes taking place in society. “Sadion ki Zanjeer” is One of his most important novels written in the context of “Fall of Dhaka”. In this novel, he presented the historical facts regarding the tragedy of East Pakistan in three periods namely “manzar”,”pasmanzar” and “paish manzar”. After the Fall of Dhaka, the people of East Pakistan, who were suffering from misconceptions about independence, realized that it was a conspiracy. The author has stated all these facts very clearly in this novel. He also described the wrong decisions taken by West Pakistan at the political and economic levels. This novel is also an excellent account of the cultural situation of East Pakistan. In this article, the incident of “Fall of Dhaka” has been presented as a historical tragedy because of the mental and psychological conditions of the characters
Preparation of Liquid Sweetener and its Applications
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Studies on preparation of liquid jaggery from sugarcane.
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
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No full textTranslated Qur’an No. 3997 in the Central Library, University of Tehran; A Treasure of Transoxianan Persian
No full textThis article examines a Qur’an translation available on microfilm at the Central Library of the University of Tehran (no. 3997), belonging to Masih Zabihi (1929-1977), a Gorgani author from northern Iran. As translators searched for exact equivalents for Qur’anic terms and expressions, their efforts led to the development of ancient translations’ most significant feature: preserving a vast treasure of words. Three approaches have been employed by Qur’an translators to achieve this goal: using forgotten words, dialectal words, and coining new words according to linguistic capabilities. Hence, examining these translations reveals many lexical features of ancient texts. In light of the vocabulary, grammatical, and linguistic features in manuscript no. 3997 and its comparison with manuscripts no. 999, no. 2046, and no. 1713 in Astan Quds, it can be concluded that Qur’an no. 3997 belongs to the Transoxiana linguistic are
Comparative analysis of the semantic features of idioms, phraseological phrases, proverbs and sayings in Azerbaijani and English languages and some ways of their translation
No full textThis investigation work is dedicated to the research of comparatively analyses of phraseological expressions, proverbs and wise-sayings.In modern English and Azerbaijani languages the comparatively investigation of phraseological combinations are necessary in many aspects. Firstly, the investigation of phraseological units in different systematic languages helps to identify the objective laws of languages in that aspect. The second point is that, the research of these kinds of units help to gain more idea about the semantic progress of language and its lexical system.This research is interesting from the theoretical aspect of linguistics. It‟s hard to imagine the human speech without phraseological units, proverbs and sayings.That‟s why, phraseological units, proverbs and sayings that have a great history also have a great part in today‟s natural speech. Phraseological units, proverbs ans sayings are created as the view of the ways of folk life by folk and represented their traditions, customs and the view of morality. The purpose of this thesis is the exploration of internal-semantic and external-semantic structure of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings, to study how to translate them, the explanation of their usage features from theoretical and practical aspects. The aim of the dissertation thesis has determined these tasks: -to compare the difference of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings between Azerbaijani and English languages; -to found the rich sources of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings comparatively in both languages; -to explore phraseological units, proverbs and sayings according to the semantic aspect and some ways of their translation.
The practical value of given work is that it can be useful as a literary source for everybody who wants to study the phraseological expressions,proverbs and sayings
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and can be serve for the courses in linguistics. During our research we based on the materials of some authors like– I.Rahimov,H.Bayramov,V.V.Vinogradov,L.A.Bulakhovsky,H.E.Palmer,L.Smith, I.V.Smitnitsky and others. We also used article of author as A.V.Kunin on the topic “О фразеологических сращениях в современном Английском языке” from the magazine “Иностранные языки в школе“. According to the the method of investigation, we try to use comparison-contrasting and descriptive method. In writing process of this work we used the typological investigation according this linguistic aspect and applied some scientific directions. The given dissertation thesis consists of an introduction, two main chapters, conclusion and references
A survey on the prevalence of dental caries of school children in Swat Pakistan
No full textPLEASE NOTE: This work is protected by copyright. Downloading is restricted to the BU community: please log in with a valid BU account to access and click Download. If you are the author of this work and would like to make it publicly available, please contact [email protected] (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, 1994 (Public Health Dentistry)Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-68)Six-hundred and forty-six urban, suburban and rural school-age children in Pakistan were examined for the Decayed Missing Filled Teeth (DMFT) Index. They were examined for many other things also, e.g. Periodontal Index, Gingival Index. The children were divided into three age groups: group l (3-5 years), group 2 (6-9 years) and group 3 (9-12 years). Dental caries was diagnosed according to criteria recommended by World Health Organization (43). The relationship of the DMFT index to the following factors was investigated: age, sex, personal hygiene, gingival status, periodontal status, malocclusion, occupation and geographic setting.
The sample consisted of 513 males and 133 females who ranged in age from three to twelve years. Their mean age was 6.25 years. For the entire sample, the mean DMFT was 4.02; the mean periodontal index (PI) was 0.5 and the mean gingival index (GI) was 1.1.
For the entire sample, the mean number of decayed teeth was 3.7, and the mean number of missing was 0.5. Only six fillings were observed, indicating a very low level of therapeutic treatment in the study population. The results of this study call for both preventive and restorative care. Planning an appropriate oral care program needs careful consideration in Pakistan
Developing the Role of Intermediaries in the Creative Tourism Value Chain Case Study: A Cultural Travel to the West Europe
No full textTourist development today, coupled with advancements in information and communication technology, has rendered the traditional tourism value chain inefficient. Certain segments of the chain lack functionality or exhibit very weak functionality, failing to create added value. Among these segments are distribution channels (intermediaries), often comprising tour guides and travel agencies. Today's tourists, within the paradigm of creative tourism, seek more than mere leisure; they aim to discover the unknown and gain unique experiences through interaction with the destination and local people. In this study, conducted using qualitative and ethnographic methods, involving deep interviews and participatory observation by the researcher during a trip to Western Europe organized by the MANZAR Society in 2015, a creative and research-oriented journey was undertaken. The author endeavors to identify the role of intermediaries (tour leaders) in this journey as a theoretical framework within a dynamic and creative unified system. This framework suggests that the role of tour leaders has evolved from its traditional state to encompass a system involving activities before, during, and after the journey. The details of each activity were identified and elucidated in this study. It is worth noting that this framework was validated through a two-stage Delphi method involving experts
