Technical Dictionaries Research Articles

Learning Online Environment for an Extra Curricular Course in Clinical Biochemistry

Integration between digital technology and telecommunication resources present multiple possibilities regarding access to education, among them, the longdistance learning process. The purpose of this work is to offer a long distance extra curricular course for health care students and professionals, intending to contribute with their continued education. The online cou rse (180h) was avail able on the webpage www.ead.ufpe.biz in a LMS platform(Learning Management System), in which 35 students from all over Brazil and 07 tutors (UFPE)subscribed. The subscribers had access to: web classrooms (12) withpresentations/notes (62); exercises (15); forums (27); technical dictionaries (119); scientific articles (70); theses e dissertations (04); web search links (50); email (30); clipboards (28); ch ats (01); exams (01). The number of accesses to the online content by the students (17.795 ) and the tutors (3.8 42) showed great participation on the online environment. Online classrooms were greatly accessed (3. 335)andthe forum demonstrated hasbeen thebest interaction tool (5.188). The asynchronous communication (email and forum) seemed more efficient than the synchronous (chat) one. Everyone performed the proposed activities between 07/25/08 and 02/05/09. The platform used was efficient in the online long distance extra curricular course i n clinical biochemistry , with satisfactory didactic planning and selection of the contents which were properly related to the professionalcompetences to be acquired by the subscribers.

A Novel Use for the Word “Trend” in the Clinical Trial Literature

A new meaning of the word "trend" is appearing in reports of clinical trials. Abstracts of all clinical trials in PubMed with English abstracts that contained the word "trend" for each decade from 1971 to 2001 were reviewed. "Trend" was used 36 times in 1981, 170 times in 1991, to 375 times in 2001, most often to refer to a judgment about statistical significance. When the expression "significant trend" was accompanied by a P value, the P value was always less than 0.05; when the expression "nonsignificant trend" was accompanied by a P value, all P values were greater than 0.05; 25% of the time, P values were greater than 0.19, and 5% of the time, they were greater than 0.45. When the unmodified word "trend" was accompanied by a P value, most P values were greater than 0.05. However, on 16 occasions, the P value was less than 0.05, and 5% of the time, P values were greater than 0.20; on 1 occasion it was used with a P value of 0.6. About 30% of the time, the exact meaning of the word could not be determined from the abstract. A novel use of the word "trend" has developed in the medical literature over the last several decades. This novel use should be documented in technical dictionaries, and further discussion should occur about the implications of this new connotation. In the meantime, clinical trials reporting can be improved by accompanying the word "trend" with associated P values or point estimates and 95% confidence intervals.

The Identification and Selection of Collocations in Technical Dictionaries

The Identification and Selection of Collocations in Technical Dictionaries

The treatment of synonymy and cross-references in special-language dictionaries (SLDs)

The features which distinguish special-language dictionaries from general-language dictionaries are described and exemplified by three technical dictionaries. The differences are explained in terms of differences in user groups and their expectations. Particular attention is devoted to the way conceptual relationships are expressed in these dictionaries by means of cross-references. Weaknesses in existing notations are pointed out, and alternatives for marking interconceptual relations are indicated.

A Compilação lexicográfica como Alternativa Emergencial à Descrição Terminológica Sistemática

<span>A descrição e a sistematização de dados terminológicos com base em córpus variados de textos de especialidade, embora constitua um dos métodos mais seguros para a obtenção de um retrato fiel do uso lingüístico efetivo, exige um dispêndio de tempo para a concretização de seus resultados que pode afigurar-se longo demais tendo em vista as urgências mais imediatas - tal como se manifestam no contexto brasileiro - particular mas não exclusivamente, da tradução técnica. Propõe-se, como abordagem alternativa, a compilação de dados lexicográficos a partir de dicionários e glossários técnicos já disponíveis no mercado e pré-selecionados em termos de confiabilidade por usuários especializados (tradutores profissionais), como solução emergencial, enquanto a descrição terminológica sistemática nos principais campos do conhecimento não gerar os seus primeiros frutos. Tal compilação deverá ser organizada de forma a tornar cada verbete compatível com sua futura expansão e transformação dos registros, de sua forma lexicográfica simplificada para a descrição terminológica completa.</span>

U.S. Government dictionaries: A selective guide

Researchers, subject specialists, and information professionals have long been aware of scientific and technical (sci‐tech) dictionaries available from the U.S. government. Yet these reference sources often remain invisible to the general public, especially in libraries that exclude government documents from the main catalog or that maintain separate documents collections. However, as more libraries automate their holdings and load cataloging records for government publications into their online public access catalogs (OPACs), government documents should become more visible. Until then, it may surprise some to learn that many U.S. government agencies have allocated vast resources into compiling, publishing, and updating technical dictionaries in print, microfiche, and electronic format.

Contrastive Analysis of Terminological Systems and Bilingual Technical Dictionaries

Comparisons of technical terminologies across languages are necessary for purposes of compiling bilingual technical dictionaries and thesauri and of teaching technical translation. Divergences between technical terminologies in different languages are not necessarily uninteresting from the semantic or lexicological point of view. Some of the major types of divergences between English and Hungarian technical terminologies will be illustrated here, and the importance of differences in the use of terminological systems for bilingual dictionary making will be stressed. Depending on the prospective user, the bilingual technical dictionary should contain some information on synonymic relations between technical and non-technical terms, preference for generic or specific term, grammar and collocational possibilities of technical terms, and the possibilities of abbreviating technical terms.

Macquer's Dictionnaire de Chymie: a bibliographical study.

Summary The eighteenth century saw the publication of many scientific and technical dictionaries, particularly in France, one of the most important being P. J. Macquer's Dictionnaire de chymie. Both the original text of 1766 and the revised and enlarged version of 1778 were translated into several languages, sometimes with authoritative notes and additions by the translators. No mere list of definitions, Macquer's work contained long articles that made it a comprehensive treatise on chemistry, and it set the pattern for many subsequent chemical dictionaries. We have endeavoured to give an account of the circumstances in which the various editions, reprints and translations were published, and we add detailed bibliographical descriptions of them. Bibliographical purists consider that all the copies of a book printed from the same setting of type constitute an ‘edition’, and that there is a new edition when all or most of the type has been reset. However, Macquer described his revised and expanded text of 1778 as the ‘second edition’ and this designation has been adopted by subsequent writers, even though the original text was reprinted several times from different settings of type before 1778. In order to avoid confusion we therefore refer to all versions of the 1766 and 1778 editions as ‘issues’, ‘printings’ or ‘reprints’ of the first and second edition respectively.

Technical Dictionaries

Technical Dictionaries

Book Review: Bibliography of Interlingual Scientific and Technical Dictionaries (Fifth Edition). 1969. Unipub, Inc

Book Review: Bibliography of Interlingual Scientific and Technical Dictionaries (Fifth Edition). 1969. Unipub, Inc

Reliability definitions

There are a number of documents in the USA, United Kingdom and Canada which either include a list of definitions or which are specially written in the form of definition standards. It matters less which of these documents you may wish to examine and compare: of all terms defined, about 60 per cent of the definitions in one differ from those in the next one. The differences in definitions may be minor (a single word added or left out or altered), but the meaning of the definition may vary considerably from one case to the next. You may say that our standard dictionaries, Webster, Oxford, etc., should be used as the basis for any definition that no question of interpretation will arise. Unfortunately such standards are not geared to the technical jargon which prevails among groups such as the reliability engineer. Even technical dictionaries are unable to keep abreast with the ever-changing science of reliability. Because reliability engineering covers such a wide field, it is not surprising that each group of engineers wishes to express the terms in the most suitable form to fit his specialized requirement. For example, a reliability engineer concerned with development will want to model his definitions to meet his particular needs. Another reliability engineer concerned with logistics will try to define the same term differently so that it relates to his peculiar operation. Standardization is therefore subjective to the individual need of the various specialists in the field of reliability.

Bibliography of Interlingual Scientific and Technical Dictionaries

Bibliography of Interlingual Scientific and Technical Dictionaries

Space Travel Problems: Human Factors in Jet and Space Travel . A medical-psychological analysis. S. B. Sells and Charles A. Berry, Eds. Ronald, New York, 1961. xvi + 386 pp. Illus. $12.

Space Travel Problems: <i>Human Factors in Jet and Space Travel</i> . A medical-psychological analysis. S. B. Sells and Charles A. Berry, Eds. Ronald, New York, 1961. xvi + 386 pp. Illus. $12.

Bibliography of Interlingual Scientific and Technical Dictionaries

Bibliography of Interlingual Scientific and Technical Dictionaries

Russian-English Biological and Medical Dictionary

Russian-English Biological and Medical Dictionary Get access Russian-English Biological and Medical Dictionary. Carpo-Vich Eugene A.. 400 pgs. Technical Dictionaries Co., Box 144, New York 31, N. Y. ( 1958) $12.00. Sidney Glazer Sidney Glazer Bethesda, Md. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar AIBS Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 1959, Page 51, https://doi.org/10.2307/1292774 Published: 01 January 1959

Modern Technical Dictionaries in Spanish and Portuguese

Modern Technical Dictionaries in Spanish and Portuguese

Dictionaries of Foreign Languages: A Bibliographical Guide to the General and Technical Dictionaries of the Chief Foreign Languages, with Historical and Explanatory Notes and References

Dictionaries of Foreign Languages: A Bibliographical Guide to the General and Technical Dictionaries of the Chief Foreign Languages, with Historical and Explanatory Notes and References

A Study of Unit and Group Semantic Systems: Empiric Regularities in Book Indexes and Technical Dictionaries

A Study of Unit and Group Semantic Systems: Empiric Regularities in Book Indexes and Technical Dictionaries

Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux: Annual Conference

THE twenty-first conference of the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux will be held at the Polytechnic, Regent Street, London, W.I, during September 13–15, and a provisional programme ha been issued. The presidential address, by Sir Reginald Stradling, will be given on September 14, and the subject is “Special Libraries in Research Organisations”. Papers have been promised on the preparation of critical bibliographies (A. D. Roberts, British Library of Political and Economic Science), communication of specialist information to business executives (Prof. R. S. Hutton), mathematical machines and tables (Dr. L. J. Comrie, Scientific Computing Service, Ltd.), and technical dictionaries and glossaries (Miss M. Gosset, Science Library). A symposium on aspects of documentation in Europe has been arranged for September 15 (morning session), at which Mrs. Lancaster-Jones (British Council) will deal with the European demand for British scientific literature, Miss Esther Simpson will speak on the Society for Visiting Scientists, and Ronald Fraser (Control Commission for Germany and Austria) on Germany; information services in other European countries will also be surveyed. Further particulars of the conference can be obtained from the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, 52 Bloomsbury Street, London, W.C.1.

An Encyclopædic Dictionary of Science and War

IT is in the nature of things that one is more intensely critical of dictionaries than almost any other documentary material, so let it be said at once that the present volume is a remarkable achievement for a single author. He is well known as a lifelong student of ballistics, and, carefully avoiding the ground recently covered by other technical dictionaries and encyclopedias, has contrived to concentrate on ballistics and such sections of chemistry as explosives, war gases, and the elements, as have primary functions in war-time. Where desirable, extensive tables give the data in easily accessible form, with one dire exception: if one requires any of the mass of information which is given about an element, one is retarded by the time required to disentangle each item, since for each element the items run on. There are inevitably some obvious misprints in these masses of data. Much space is saved for useful information by a considerable series of contractions, which are listed separately.