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SEARCH INTERVAL [8 records]

Record 1 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
  • Emergency Management
CONT

The search leader [of a disaster site] will determine if the teams will walk the area in an open-or a closed-line formation.... The search team members walk the site in straight lines in what is referred to as a single-or double-arm interval... In a single interval, team members are placed one arm length apart from each other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

The search leader [of a disaster site] will determine if the teams will walk the area in an open-or a closed-line formation.... The search team members walk the site in straight lines in what is referred to as a single-or double-arm interval... In a double-arm interval, the team members are spaced two arm lengths apart [from each other].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

The search leader [of a disaster site] will determine if the teams will walk the area in an open-or a closed-line formation.... The closed-line formation is utilized when visibility is obstructed or limited due to dense vegetation, debris or obstacles. The search team members walk the site in straight lines in a closed-arm(shoulder-to-shoulder) interval. The closed-arm formation is commonly used in mass fatalities incidents that involve extensive fragmentation of remains in large open areas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

The search leader [of a disaster site] will determine if the teams will walk the area in an open-or a closed-line formation. The open-line formation is utilized in large areas where visibility is good. The search team members walk the site in straight lines in what is referred to as a single-or double-arm interval...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

[The] disaster site search operation... involves a two-stage process referred to as the initial and comprehensive search... the initial search is a coordinated and systematic walk through the disaster site [by] a large group [of] designated search teams, in a straight-line formation, utilizing a close, single, or double-arm interval as determined by the recovery manager. [This] systematic search [is conducted] prior to the establishment of a grid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
CONT

Des recherches ont été effectuées en vain autour du lac [...] Cette habitante d'un quartier voisin [...] n'a pas participé aux recherches initiales [...]

Spanish

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Record 6 1989-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
CONT

The number of search computations with respect to an exhaustive search can be reduced for unimodal functions by using the dichotomous search procedure. The first step here is to evaluate two points separated by some interval(delta) in the domain of definition. The half of the domain in which the maximum or minimum lies can now be determined, and two new points can be placed in the center of this interval and so forth until the value of the interval approaches(eta). The value of(eta) clearly established the precision of(the) estimate....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Logiciels
OBS

Dichotomique : Qui se divise par bifurcation.

Spanish

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Record 7 1983-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Aircraft)
  • Emergency Management
DEF

The interval of time elapsed from arrival of the first SAR resource at an initial search position until either the search object is located or the search is suspended.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherches et sauvetages (Aviation)
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

Le temps qui s'écoule entre l'arrivée de la première ressource SAR en position pour commencer les recherches et la découverte de l'objet recherché ou l'abandon des recherches, selon le cas.

Spanish

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Record 8 1983-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Aircraft)
  • Emergency Management
DEF

The interval of time elapsed from launch of the SAR resource to its arrival at an initial search position.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherches et sauvetages (Aviation)
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

Le temps qui sépare le départ de la ressource SAR de son arrivée en position pour commencer les recherches.

Spanish

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