The main objective of this chapter is to define a set of strategic lines, from the public policy point of view, so that Portuguese suppliers of the auto industry can deploy a strategic alignment throughout the supply chain in order to position themselves as potential suppliers of the global sourcing strategy of their Iberian Peninsula clients. The characterization of the auto industry in Portug...

PURPOSE To develop and psychometrically test a Brazilian-Portuguese version of the Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool (CAIT), the only questionnaire that provides a numeric measure for functional ankle instability. METHODS The CAIT was translated and adapted into Brazilian-Portuguese according to the Guidelines for the process of cross-cultural adaptation of self report measures. The Brazilian...

Personal MT (PMT) is a new concept in dialoguebased MT (DBMT) , which we are currently studying and prototyping in the LIDIA project Ideally, a PMT system should run on PCs and be usable by everybody. To get his/her text translated into one or several languages, the writer would accept to cooperate with the system in order to standardize and clarify his/her document. There are many interesting ...

After the experiences of dialogue based MT systems with ITS [91, N-Tran 16] mid KBMT-89 [5], the LIDIA project aims at the construction of a mock-up of a personal MT systeln for a monolingual user. One major aspect of rite 1.1DIA project is thus, the study of a dialogue of standardization and disambiguation between the system and the user so as to produce a high quality translation. This dialog...

Lead Authors Anthony Woolf, Bone and Joint Research Group, Royal Cornwall Hospital, UK; Chair, Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health Lyn March, Institute of Bone and Joint Research, University of Sydney, Australia; Chair, Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health Surveillance & Information Task Force; Member, International Coordinating Committee Alana Officer, Senior Health Advisor, Depar...