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Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radio Transmission and Reception
  • Radiotelephony
  • Air Transport
DEF

A self-acting device which maintains the output of a radio receiver or amplifier substantially constant within relatively narrow limits while the input voltage varies over a wide range.

OBS

In FM receivers, this device is called the automatic gain control (agc) because, unlike the AM receiver, the volume at the output is not directly related to the incoming signal strength.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Émission et réception radio
  • Radiotéléphonie
  • Transport aérien
DEF

[Dans un récepteur AM] Dispositif qui permet d'obtenir une puissance d'écoute indépendante des variations de propagation dues au fading.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiotransmisión y radiorrecepción
  • Radiotelefonía
  • Transporte aéreo
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Record 2 1995-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Penal Administration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Administration pénitentiaire
OBS

Ce droit sera exigé pour les demandes de réhabilitations à partir du 1er avril 1995.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Space Centres
CONT

Integration of the Payload Equipment Bay engineering model has started, and integration of the proto-flight Service Module will commence soon. The structure of the proto-flight payload carrier has been completed and is undergoing qualification static testing at CASA in Spain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Centres spatiaux

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology
  • Translation and Interpretation
CONT

We introduce a syntactically enhanced word alignment model that ... takes [advantage] of both unsupervised and supervised word alignment approaches by obtaining anchor alignments from unsupervised generative models and seeding the anchor alignments into a supervised discriminative model.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Lexicologie, lexicographie et terminologie
  • Traduction et interprétation

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Lexicología, lexicografía y terminología
  • Traducción e interpretación
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Record 5 1977-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
OBS

Si (...) l'évaporation est (...) plus importante (que les apports d'eau), le bilan hydrologique sera négatif.

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien

Spanish

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Record 7 1985-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
OBS

EASF

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale

Spanish

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Record 9 1997-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveys (Public Relations)
  • Furniture (Various)
  • Household Articles - Various
  • Labour and Employment
Key term(s)
  • household effect survey

French

Domaine(s)
  • Enquêtes et sondages (Relations publiques)
  • Mobilier divers
  • Articles ménagers divers
  • Travail et emploi
OBS

Source : Guide du service extérieur.

Key term(s)
  • inspection de l'effet mobilier

Spanish

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Record 10 1985-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
CONT

Honeywell, Ferranti, Thomson-CSF and AEG all use a "single eye" helmet display, with "FLIR and flight symbology" focused at infinity, whereas the HNVS uses a display projected onto the whole visor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)

Spanish

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