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An appraisal of plain language in the South African banking sector

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2016
The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA) came into full force in April 2011. An important corollary of this Act, and the National Credit Act 34 of 2005, is the obligation that consumer documents must be in plain language.
Cornelius, Eleanor
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Strategic Combination of Theory, Plain Language, and Trusted Messengers Contribute to COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: Lessons Learned from Development and Dissemination of a Community Toolkit

Vaccines, 2023
Widely accepted practices for the development of health education materials include the use of theoretically driven content, the execution of plain language writing and design strategies, the solicitation of community input, and a plan for dissemination ...
Alison Caballero, Katherine J. Leath, Allie D. Staton   +2 more
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Generating multimedia presentations: from plain text to screenplay [PDF]

, 2005
In many Natural Language Generation (NLG) applications, the output is limited to plain text – i.e., a string of words with punctuation and paragraph breaks, but no indications for layout, or pictures, or dialogue.
A. Jameson, A. Rubinstein, B. Krenn, C. Hartshorne, E. Reiter, E.,.H. Hovy, G. Nunberg, H. Kamp, H. Levesque, J. Bateman, J. Kuppevelt Van, K. Deemter Van, N. Bouayad-Agha, P. Grice, Paraboni, R. Dale, W. Wahlster   +16 more
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ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PLAIN SWEDISH MOVEMENT FROM THE POLISH PERSPECTIVE

Comparative Legilinguistics, 2009
The paper deals with the plain language movement in Sweden from the Polish perspective. Plain Swedish is endorsed by law as an objective of state policy and there is a state body responsible for the quality of public language.
Milena HADRYAN
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Teaching plain language to medical students: improving communication with disadvantaged patients

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background Low health literacy underpins health inequality and leads to poor adherence to medical care and higher risk of adverse events and rehospitalization.
Doron Sagi, Sivan Spitzer-Shohat, Michal Schuster, Ligat Daudi, Mary Catharine Joy Rudolf   +4 more
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Higher algebras and mesonic spectrum in two-dimensional QCD [PDF]

, 1994
We construct composite operators in two-dimensional bosonized QCD, which obey a $W_\infty$ algebra, and discuss their relation to analogous objects recently obtained in the fermionic language.
Abdalla, Abdalla, Abdalla, Avan, Balitsky, Baluni, Belavin, Cappelli, Dhar, di Vecchia, Dirac, E. Abdalla, Faddeev, Frishman, Gepner, Goddard, Gonzales, Gorsky, Gross, Gross, Gross, Hooft, Iso, Jevicki, Karabali, Knizhnik, Lipatov, Lipatov, M.C.B. Abdalla, Mitra, Patrasciou, Petersen, Polyakov, Polyakov, Steinhardt, Verlinde, Witten, Witten, Wu   +38 more
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Plain language communication as a priority competency for medical professionals in a globalized world

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2018
This brief report aims to highlight the impact of globalization – the international movement of goods, people, and ideas – on patient-provider communication in medical training and practice, and how the implementation of plain language communication ...
Fiona Warde, Janet Papadakos, Tina Papadakos, Danielle Rodin, Mohammad Salhia, Meredith Giuliani   +5 more
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Computing the BRST Operator Used in Quantization of Gauge Theories [PDF]

, 1994
It is shown that for a large class of non-holonomic quantum mechanical systems one can make the computation of BRST charge fully algorithmic. Two computer algebra programs written in the language of {\tt REDUCE} are described.
Burnel, A., Caprasse, H., Dresse, A.
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Developing a consensus-driven, plain-language clinical research glossary for study participants and the clinical research community

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2022
Clinical research is complex, and research-related terms can be challenging to understand. Clear, supportive communication with patients, potential study participants, and their caregivers must be prioritized by healthcare providers as well as ...
Sylvia Baedorf Kassis, Sarah A. White, Barbara E. Bierer   +2 more
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Creating an amateur press corps of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to cover breaking science and improve lay-writing skills

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021
The Science Writing Initiative for Trainees is a science communications internship program for biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Kimberly McGhee, Tammy Loucks, Sheila Champlin, Matthew Greseth, Paula Traktman   +4 more
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