OBJECTIVES to translate and culturally adapt to Brazilian Portuguese the Developing Nurses' Thinking model, used as a strategy for teaching clinical reasoning. METHOD the translation and cultural adaptation were undertaken through initial translation, synthesis of the translations, back-translation, evaluation by a committee of specialists and a pre-test with 33 undergraduate nursing students...

This paper reports results from an experiment that was aimed at comparing evaluation metrics for machine translation. Implemented as a workshop at a major conference in 2002, the experiment defined an evaluation task, description of the metrics, as well as test data consisting of human and machine translations of two texts. Several metrics, either applicable by human judges or automated, were u...

4.18.1 Historical Background 2747 4.18.2 Electrochemical Principles 2748 4.18.2.1 Aqueous Corrosion 2748 4.18.2.2 Cathodic Protection 2748 4.18.2.3 Oxygen Reduction 2749 4.18.2.4 Hydrogen Evolution 2750 4.18.3 Methods of Applying Cathodic Protection 2751 4.18.3.1 Impressed Current Method 2751 4.18.3.2 Sacrificial Anodes 2752 4.18.4 Proof of Protection 2753 4.18.4.1 Steel 2753 4.18.4.2 Other Met...