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COME WHAT MAY [6 records]

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Record 1 2024-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Aircraft
  • Applications of Automation
CONT

... the almost ready to fly drone is already built but depending on the brand, it may come without the necessary electronics that make it roar to life. These electronics could include the transmitter, receiver, battery, etc. Read the description carefully to see what it may or may not come with before deciding. Although these drones may need some assembly, they are easily customized and recommended for experts that want to try different components on the drone.

Key term(s)
  • almost-ready-to-fly drone

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types d'aéronefs
  • Automatisation et applications
OBS

Le drone est [...] vendu sans récepteur radio ni radiocommande, et n'est pas obligatoirement monté [...]

OBS

drone ARF : Le sigle «ARF» provient du terme anglais «almost ready-to-fly».

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

An apparently unicellular microfossil of unknown biological affinity ranging in age from Precambrian to Holocene.

CONT

Acritarchs are organic-walled, acid-resistant microfossils of uncertain biological affinities that are classified on the basis of their morphology.

OBS

... we know practically nothing about plankton in the Proterozoic. Consequently, we’ll talk mostly about acritarchs instead. And what exactly is an acritarch? No one is quite sure. Acritarchs are like sharks’ teeth from the Phanerozoic or cigarette butts from the 1960's. That is, they are found everywhere, are practically indestructible, and come in a variety of interesting shapes and sizes. They look informative, but ultimately tell us rather little about the organisms or ecosystem which produced them--other than the fact that it contained sharks or smokers, as the case may be.

OBS

acritarch: term usually used in the plural.

OBS

acritarch: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

Key term(s)
  • acritarchs

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Forme organique sphérique hérissée d'épines présente dans les sédiments marins et pélagiques (conservation de la matière organique, surtout dans les roches siliceuses), d'origine incertaine (pontes, Protistes, spores ?), parmi les fossiles les plus anciens (Précambrien - Actuel).

CONT

À la fin du Protérozoïque apparaissent les babétosphères, les sporomorphes et les acritarches.

OBS

acritarche : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

acritarche : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Key term(s)
  • acritarches

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics
DEF

The study of the impact of efforts to improve the environment on the economy of a nation or region.

CONT

Resource degradation, loss of biodiversity, land degradation, global climate change, may all serve as examples of the consequences of poor decision making based on inadequate economic analyses. Fortunately, efforts are now being made to understand the factors that generate incorrect decisions and to solve the problems facing the present generation and those to come. The relatively young discipline of environmental economics is an example of the positive efforts in this direction. Environmental economics aims to integrate ethics, ecology and economics in an attempt to define the conditions necessary for achieving sustainable development, i. e., it tries to define for us what constitutes good environmental housekeeping.

OBS

Compare with "welfare economics".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale
CONT

Parallèlement à la prise de conscience des problèmes d'environnement, qui s'est accélérée depuis le début des années 1970, un courant de pensée nouveau s'est constitué. Celui-ci, que l'on peut qualifier d'économie écologique, cherche à améliorer la compréhension des liens entre économie et biosphère. Cette approche s'efforce de quantifier les biens et services naturels, qui ne font pas l'objet d'un échange marchand (les capacités d'auto-épuration du milieu, la régulation du climat, l'effet de serre, etc.) et qui, en conséquence, ne sont soumis à aucune évaluation monétaire dans l'économie conventionnelle.

OBS

L'économie environnementale a pris la relève de ce qui était appelé à l'époque l'économie de bien-être.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
CONT

La economía ambiental surge del modelo de Pearce-Atkinson basado en la formulación de Hartwick (1977) primero y de Solow más tarde (1986). La idea principal desarrollada por el primero es el requerimiento de reinvertir las rentas obtenidas del capital natural en el país de donde se extraen para mantener el consumo real constante a lo largo del tiempo. Sollow desarrolla esta premisa y la reinterpreta como el mantenimiento del stock de capital constante.

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Record 4 2008-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
  • Forestry Operations
CONT

What is forest science? If one can distinguish forest science from its underpinning disciplines, it may be thought of as the description, analysis and prediction of forest growth. The underlying disciplines are the plant sciences(genetics, plant physiology) and those that deal with the environment(geology, soil science, meteorology or climatology). These all come together in forest ecology, which considers environmental interactions with vegetation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
  • Exploitation forestière
CONT

La science forestière se définit comme «la connaissance détaillé et traduite en nombres des lois de la croissance du bois, dans les divers modes de reproduction, pour toutes les essences forestières, et dans toutes les combinaisons imaginables de climat, d'habitation et de culture».

OBS

Terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • sciences forestières

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Welding and Soldering (Metals)
CONT

When two pieces of sheet metal come together at a corner,... two common methods of designing the joint may be used. [The design of joint shown] is what is known as a corner weld.

OBS

The fillet weld (pronounced "FILL-it," not "fil-LAY") is used to make lap joints, corner joints, and T joints.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soudage (Métal)
CONT

Les soudures en angle servent à assembler des tôles faisant entre elles un angle important (90 degrés par exemple).

OBS

Une soudure d'angle est une soudure dont la section transversale est approximativement triangulaire et qui est déposée à la surface des plats assemblés. [...] Selon la position relative des pièces à assembler, trois types de dispositions des soudures d'angle peuvent être envisagés [...] : - assemblage à recouvrement dans lequel les pièces à souder se trouvent dans des plans parallèles [soudure à recouvrement ou à clin]; - assemblage cruciforme ou en T dans lequel les pièces à souder sont plus ou moins perpendiculaires l'une par rapport à l'autre [soudure en té, soudure en angle simple ou double]; - assemblage d'angle dans lequel les pièces sont plus ou moins perpendiculaires l'une par rapport à l'autre {soudure d'angle avec ou sans chanfrein].

PHR

Soudure d'angle avec un chanfrein, avec deux chanfreins, sans chanfrein.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

A negative discrimination index is most likely to occur with an item that covers complex material written in such a way that it is possible to select the correct response without any real understanding of what is being assessed. A poor student may make a guess, select that response, and come up with the correct answer. Good students may be suspicious of a question that looks too easy, may take the harder path to solving the problem, read too much into the question, and may end up being less successful than those who guess.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Docimologie
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Un item bien réussi par les élèves faibles et mal réussi par les élèves forts.

Spanish

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