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Record 1 2015-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
  • Television Arts
  • Literature
CONT

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
  • Littérature
DEF

Effet dramatique visant à tenir le lecteur ou le spectateur en haleine, notamment à la fin d'un chapitre, d'un épisode ou d'une séquence.

CONT

Après application de plusieurs recettes d’écriture, mise en suspense et création d’un rythme propre au polar, les élèves ont finalisé leurs productions écrites.

OBS

suspens : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 16 octobre 2011.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Areal Planning (Urban Studies)
  • Regulations (Urban Studies)
OBS

One of the market problems is the variety of land destination in urbanized territories and suburban areas. The main reason is insufficient detail planning of these territories and cadastral measurement of land plots. In addition, it would be necessary to inventory land plots again and renew cartographic material-that would speed up land plot formation process. One probable solution is the participation of clearly outlined state and private capital in the processes mentioned abobe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement du territoire
  • Réglementation (Urbanisme)
CONT

Le Plan Local de l'Urbanisme (PLU) devra être un document plus souple et plus simple que les Plans d'Occupation des Sols (POS). Il définira plus simplement la destination générale des sols et comportera moins de mentions obligatoires. - Le PLU présentera le projet urbain de la ou les commune(s), en particulier en matière de traitement des espaces publics, de paysage, d'environnement, et de renouvellement urbain. - Ainsi, les Plans Locaux de l'Urbanisme ne définiront plus simplement la destination générale des sols mais deviendront le cadre de référence des différentes actions d'aménagement d'une commune (ou de plusieurs communes).

CONT

La carte régionale de destination générale des sols ne constitue qu'une représentation graphique à l'échelle du 1/150 000 des orientations et principes d'utilisation des sols exprimés dans le rapport du Schéma Directeur.

CONT

[...] ces schémas directeurs déterminent, en particulier, la destination générale des sols, le tracé des équipements d'infrastructure, l'organisation général des transports.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remote Sensing
CONT

Vegetation monitoring has been one of the main focal points of remote sensing study since remote sensing research began. Many vegetation indices, using red and infrared reflectance, have been devised. The Perpendicular Vegetation Index(PVI), Ratio Index and Normalized Vegetation Index are among the well known indices of this type. The Perpendicular Vegetation Index, proposed by Richardson and Wiegand(1977), was defined as the distance from the soil line on a scatter plot of near infrared(NIR) versus red reflectance. The pixel vectors of bare land in such plots vary with soil moisture content. The PVI was developed as a vegetation index to effectively monitor the vegetation biomass without being affected by differences in soil background.

OBS

perpendicular vegetation index; PVI: term and abbreviation officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télédétection
DEF

Indice de végétation utilisé pour la surveillance de la biomasse sans que n'entrent en compte les différences de l'arrière-plan sol.

OBS

indice de végétation perpendiculaire; PVI : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
CONT

Test the effect of species of log, soil contact, insects, and diameter on the rate of log decomposition and release of nutrients... The experiments are being conducted at six sites located within intact old-growth Douglas-fir-western hemlock forests. The experimental design is a split-split plot in time. Each site represents a block, and log species is the main plot effect. Substrate layer(that is, inner bark, outer bark, sapwood, and heartwood) is the subplot effect. The plan is to resample logs annually for the first 5 years, and then spread out sampling over 2, 5 and 10 years as time passes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agriculture - General
OBS

Eleven native grass species were seeded in a split plot design with purple prairie clover... as the main plot and entries as subplot. [Source : ethanol project-Paulnat. en p. 1].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Agriculture - Généralités
OBS

Dans les petites parcelles, on a semé les treize cultivars [...] [Source: projet éthanol - Paulnat.fr p. 1].

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Experimental Farms
OBS

e. g. main plot and sub-plot treatments in a split-plot experiment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Fermes expérimentales
OBS

par exemple variantes principale et secondaire dans une expérience avec parcelles divisées

Spanish

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