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Skilur almenningur íslenskt lagamál?

open access: yesOrð og Tunga, 2022
Text comprehension of Icelandic legislative texts was studied qualitatively by interviewing 46 Icelandic speakers individually. The participants read parts of the Icelandic Inheritance Act no. 8/1962 and of the Icelandic Children’s Act no.
Ari Páll Kristinsson   +3 more
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Risks of Using “Language Relief” and Plain Language Principles in the Process of Applying Tax Law – Selected Issues

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021
The level of communicativeness of official letters in the field of tax law leaves much to be desired. The article concerns the consequences of the application of “Language Relief” in the practice of applying tax law by the National Revenue Administration.
Woltanowski Piotr
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A randomized implementation trial to increase adoption of evidence-informed consent practices

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2023
Introduction: Several evidence-informed consent practices (ECPs) have been shown to improve informed consent in clinical trials but are not routinely used.
Erin D. Solomon   +7 more
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Plain Language Summaries Explained in Plain Language

open access: yesEos, 2021
Find out what a Plain Language Summary is, how to write an effective one, and how it benefits publications.
openaire   +1 more source

HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Psychiatry, 2011
HIV infection is associated with disturbances in brain function referred to as HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). This literature review outlines the recently revised diagnostic criteria for the range of HAND from the earliest to the more ...
Zahir Vally
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Lessons Learned from Developing Plain Language Summaries of Research Studies

open access: yesHealth Literacy Research and Practice, 2021
Background: Plain language translation may facilitate the public's ability to understand and use results of scientific research. Brief description of activity: This article describes the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's (PCORI) approach to ...
Maureen Maurer   +5 more
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LEX.CH.IT: A Corpus for Micro-Diachronic Linguistic Investigations of Swiss Normative Acts in Italian

open access: yesComparative Legilinguistics, 2019
The aim of this paper is to present LEX.CH.IT, a corpus for micro-diachronic linguistic investigations of Swiss normative acts in Italian. Italian has a peculiar position as an official minority translation language within the Swiss institutional system.
Canavese Paolo
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Defining 'plain language' in contemporary South Africa

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2015
Defining the concept ‘plain language’ has been hugely problematic since the origins of the so-called Plain Language Movement in the 1970s in the United States and elsewhere in the world.
Eleanor Cornelius
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PLAIN LANGUAGE W TEKSTACH PRAWNYCH – PERSPEKTYWA Z POLSKI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The purpose of this research is to explore plain-language postulates reflecting on legal drafting assumptions since legal acts should be precise, clear and express with no doubts the intention of the legislator.
ZYCH, Natalia
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