CAT HPPR: a critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of systematic, rapid, and scoping reviews investigating interventions in health promotion and prevention by Thomas L. Heise, Andreas Seidler, Maria Girbig, Alice Freiberg, Adrienne Alayli, Maria Fischer, Wolfgang Haß, Hajo Zeeb

“…Methods The development process of the Critical Appraisal Tool for Health Promotion and Prevention Reviews (CAT HPPR) included six phases: (i) the definition of important review formats and complementary approaches, (ii) the identification of relevant CATs, (iii) prioritisation, selection and adaptation of quality criteria using a consensus approach, (iv) development of the rating system and bilingual guidance documents, (v) engaging with experts in the field for piloting/optimising the CAT, and (vi) approval of the final CAT. …”
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Calls to Action (Mobilizing Information) on Cancer in Online News: Content Analysis by Thomas Hongjie Zhang, Jen Sern Tham

“…MethodsThe Star Online and Sin Chew Online were selected for analysis because the two newspaper websites enjoy the highest circulation and readership in the English language and the Chinese language streams, respectively. Two bilingual coders searched the cancer news articles based on sampling keywords and then read and coded each news article accordingly. …”
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A grammar of Hyow by Muhammad Zakaria

“…One text from the corpus has been added as a sample. There is also a bilingual dictionary of about three thousand and one hundred words. …”
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非我族类，其心必异 ：张爱玲笔下的异国异族形象 = The studies of exotic image in Eileen Chang’s literary works by 尹君儿 Wan, Kuan Yi

“…Both her background and educational background have given rises to her dual cultural background with a unique perspective, which makes her stands out from others. As a bilingual individual, there is no language barrier for her to read foreign literature works in both Chinese and English. …”
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The reception and transmission of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae in late medieval England by Peak, K

“…The fourth chapter looks at the commentary to the Consolatio by Nicholas Trevet, both its broad use and its influence, with a particular case study of one bilingual manuscript which combines Trevet’s commentary with Chaucer’s translation. …”

The achievement of Somali boys: a case-study in an inner-London comprehensive school by Gillman, P

“…Contrary to the published literature, language was not found to be a significant barrier to learning and all students were found to be bilingual. Finally, the evaluation of the peer-mentoring intervention found that this is a positive, sustainable strategy which is of value to both mentors and mentees; the positive relationships between mentor and mentee were the key elements which made this a valuable programme for the Year 7 and Year 12 students.…”

Role of personality traits and working memory capacity in scalar implicature computation among L2 Malay adults by Khorsheed, Ahmed

“…This scalar implicature arises when we produce a weaker expression instead of a stronger one. Studies on bilingual adults suggest that L2 learners, regardless of their proficiency level, are sensitive to pragmatic violations and they exhibit a superior pragmatic ability on a par with monolingual control groups. …”
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Editorial by María Lourdes Piñero Martín

“…También Luisinet Suarez y Gerardo Corbo, presentan la investigación Manual didáctico para el uso del diccionario bilingüe inglés-español / español-inglés, obteniendo como que los participantes presentan muchas dificultades al momento de localizar el adecuado equivalente en español de palabras con cambios morfológicos, polisémicas y de frases lexicales, lo que refleja el poco dominio de los estudiantes del diccionario bilingüe y que justifica la propuesta de un manual para guiar el uso del mismo. …”
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Mandarin Chinese L1 and L2 complex sentence reading reveals a consistent electrophysiological pattern of highly interactive syntactic and semantic processing: An ERP study by Luyao Chen, Luyao Chen, Mingchuan Yang, Fei Gao, Fei Gao, Zhengyuan Fang, Peng Wang, Peng Wang, Peng Wang, Liping Feng

“…From the neuropsychological perspective of bilingual studies, whether second language (L2) learners can develop a consistent pattern of target language (i.e., L2) comprehension regarding the interplay of syntactic and semantic processing, especially when their first language (L1) and L2 are typologically distinct, remains to be determined. …”
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Exploring the consequences of food insecurity and harnessing the power of peer navigation and mHealth to reduce food insecurity and cardiometabolic comorbidities among persons with... by Amanda E. Tanner, Deepak Palakshappa, Caryn G. Morse, Lilli Mann-Jackson, Jorge Alonzo, Manuel Garcia, Elena Wright, Ajay Dharod, Scott Isom, Ana D. Sucaldito, Lucero Refugio Aviles, Scott D. Rhodes

“…The objectives of this study are to better understand how food insecurity contributes to the development of cardiometabolic comorbidities among PWH and to test a novel bilingual peer navigation-mHealth intervention (weCare/Secure) designed to reduce these comorbidities in food-insecure PWH with prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes (T2DM). …”
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Endoplasmic reticulum stress triggers Xanthoangelol-induced protective autophagy via activation of JNK/c-Jun Axis in hepatocellular carcinoma by Zichao Li, Luying Zhang, Mingquan Gao, Mei Han, Kaili Liu, Zhuang Zhang, Zhi Gong, Lifei Xing, Xianzhou Shi, Kui Lu, Hui Gao

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Mobile Device Ownership, Current Use, and Interest in Mobile Health Interventions Among Low-Income Older Chinese Immigrants With Type 2 Diabetes: Cross-sectional Survey Study by Lu Hu, Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Nadia Islam, Bei Wu, Shimin Cao, Jincong Freeman, Mary Ann Sevick

“…Surveys were administered face-to-face by bilingual study staff in the participant’s preferred language. …”
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TRADUCEREA DOCUMENTELOR CU REFERIRE LA LEGISLAŢIA NAŢIONALĂ ŞI INTERNAŢIONALĂ by Victoria CRAVCENCO

“…Special attention is paid to work on bilingual or multilingual parallel corpora of official texts which we call reference documents. …”
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Comparative survey among paediatricians, nurses and health information technicians on ethics implementation knowledge of and attitude towards social experiments based on medical ar... by Rui Feng, Weibing Wang, Hong Xu, Ying Gu, Jie Yin, Cheng Jin, Xiaobo Zhang, Ling Su, Yingwen Wang, Weijia Fu, Weihan Fang, Yuejie Zhang, Xiaoling Ge, Chengjie Ye, Liangfeng Tang, Jinwu Fang, Daoyang Wang, Jiayu Wang

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Analyzing User Engagement Within a Patient-Reported Outcomes Texting Tool for Diabetes Management: Engagement Phenotype Study by Soumik Mandal, Hayley M Belli, Jocelyn Cruz, Devin Mann, Antoinette Schoenthaler

“…The high engaged completers were predominantly older, of Hispanic descent, bilingual, and had a graduate degree. In comparison, the low engaged subgroup was composed mostly of African American patients who reported the lowest annual income, with one of every 3 patients earning less than US $20,000 annually. …”
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Rezension: Janusz Siatkowski, Studia nad słowiańsko-­niemieckimi kontaktami językowymi, Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski 2015, 503 S. by Thomas Menzel

“…Janusz Siatkowski argues that, especially in bilingual territories, language contact was so strong that derivational suffixes could be productive in German dialects irrespective of lexical borrowings. …”
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طرق نقل المصطلحات اللسانية إلى العربية ( قاموس المورد للبعلبکي نموذجًا ) دراسة تحليلية تقابلية by أماني محمد عبد الکريم عطية

“…In this study, the researcher clarifies ways to transfer the linguistic terms into Arabic, through Al-Mawred dictionary of Munir Al-Baalbaki, which is a bilingual dictionary in the contemporary Arabic language, and their equivalents from the English language.The English language is the entrance language, and the Arabic language is the explanation language.The dictionary contains all the terms related to knowledge, different contemporary and modern sciences provided that they are common and circulated, and it moved away from uncommon terms and words. …”
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Bringing the Pediatric Endocrine Spanish Speaking Community Together: First Virtual Pediatric Endocrine Meeting in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Central and South America by Roberto Bogarin, Luis Elizondo, Evangelia Kalaitzoglou, Jadranka Popovic, Alan Rogol, Erick Richmond, Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Jose M Lopez-Pedrosa, Francis Ruiz Salazar, Patricia Vuguin

“…A total of 23 sessions were offered, most of which were bilingual (Spanish and English). Feedback from the evaluation questionnaire indicated that the content of the conference was very relevant to the participants’ professional practice. …”
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Improving Medication Safety in Cancer Services for Ethnic Minority Consumers: Protocol for a Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Study of a Co-Designed Consumer Engagement Interven... by Bronwyn Newman, Melvin Chin, Louisa Robinson, Ashfaq Chauhan, Elizabeth Manias, Carlene Wilson, Reema Harrison

“…ResultsEthical approval for this research has been provided by the South Eastern Sydney Area Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HRECXXX). Bilingual field-workers, 1 Mandarin-speaking and 1 Russian-speaking, are contacting eligible patients to enroll. …”
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Quality of Answers of Generative Large Language Models Versus Peer Users for Interpreting Laboratory Test Results for Lay Patients: Evaluation Study by Zhe He, Balu Bhasuran, Qiao Jin, Shubo Tian, Karim Hanna, Cindy Shavor, Lisbeth Garcia Arguello, Patrick Murray, Zhiyong Lu

“…We assessed the similarity of their answers using standard Q&A similarity-based evaluation metrics, including Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation, Bilingual Evaluation Understudy, Metric for Evaluation of Translation With Explicit Ordering, and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Score. …”
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