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THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE [19 records]

Record 1 2024-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • Finance
CONT

... alternatives to selling the target [company] include proceeding with the current strategy... or restructuring and refinancing, possibly selling or spinning off specific assets or divisions. If there is no compelling alternative strategy, the board should quickly engage resources, identify other potential buyers and prepare a data room to be made available to other potential buyers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Finances
CONT

[...] il existe d'autres options que la vente; la [société] cible peut continuer d'appliquer la stratégie en cours [...], procéder à une restructuration ou à un refinancement et, éventuellement, vendre ou scinder certains actifs ou certaines divisions spécifiques. Si aucune stratégie de rechange ne semble suffisamment prometteuse, le conseil doit sans tarder mobiliser des ressources, identifier d'autres acheteurs potentiels et préparer une salle de documentation qui sera mise à la disposition d'autres acheteurs potentiels.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
CONT

Few or no close substitutes : When there are few, if any, good alternative products or services that can be substituted for the product or service that is being purchased, individuals or firms wishing to rig bids or engage in other collusive conduct are more secure knowing that the purchaser has few, if any, good alternatives and thus their efforts to raise prices are more likely to be successful.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
CONT

Absence ou rareté des produits de remplacement : Quand il y a peu de bons produits ou services de rechange (voire aucun) pour les produits ou services devant être achetés, les particuliers ou entreprises désirant truquer les offres ou mener une activité de collusion se sentent mieux protégés sachant que l'acheteur possède peu ou pas de solutions de rechange et que les efforts visant à augmenter les prix ont plus de chance de réussir.

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Medication
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

How is MAT used to treat substance use disorders? There are no medications that can cure substance use disorders. Instead, medications are used to help in the treatment of substance use disorders.... the primary intervention for individuals with substance use disorders is to get them engaged in formal substance use disorder therapy and other adjunctive forms of treatment, such as social support groups(e. g., 12-Step groups, community support groups, etc.), volunteer work, and complementary and alternative treatments, such as music therapy, animal-assisted therapy, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
  • Médicaments
  • Drogues et toxicomanie

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
CONT

Virus-like particle vaccines represent an attractive alternative to inactivated and live-attenuated influenza vaccines for several reasons :(a) there is no live virus involved in the production process which makes them extremely safe;(b) development and production time are relatively short; and(c) there are a variety of egg-free expression systems available.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
OBS

vaccin à VLP : L'abréviation «VLP» provient du terme anglais «virus-like particle».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inmunología
CONT

A diferencia de la mayoría de las vacunas convencionales, las vacunas VLP tienen pseudopartículas virales, pues carecen del material genético del patógeno y, por lo tanto, no hay riesgo de que se repliquen en las células del paciente ni de que se reviertan a su forma infecciosa.

OBS

vacuna VLP: Las siglas "VLP" provienen del término en inglés "virus-like particle vaccine".

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Record 5 2016-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental health and hygiene
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

Mental Health Treatments. Many people diagnosed with mental illness achieve strength and recovery through participating in individual or group treatment. There are many different treatment options available. There is no treatment that works for everyone – individuals can chose the treatment, or combination of treatments, that works best : Psychotherapy... Medication... Case Management... Hospitalization... Support Group... Complementary & Alternative Medicine...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hygiène et santé mentales
  • Psychologie clinique
CONT

L’Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal met à contribution son laboratoire de réalité virtuelle dans le traitement de la schizophrénie en initiant un programme de recherche novateur : la thérapie par avatar. Selon [l'auteur] «la réalité virtuelle est employée depuis quelques années dans le traitement de troubles mentaux, mais ce sera la première fois que la thérapie par avatar sera validée dans un environnement virtuel en 3D».

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Switching
DEF

A condition in a switching system in which no paths or circuits are available to complete a call and a busy tone is returned to the calling party. In this situation there is no alternative but to hang up and try the call again.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation (Télécommunications)
DEF

Dans un système de commutation, occupation de tous les circuits; empêche le demandeur de faire l'appel. Celui-ci entend alors une tonalité d'occupation; il doit raccrocher et renouveler l'appel.

Spanish

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Record 7 2014-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

The Supreme Court has ruled that where cohabitees purchase property in joint names, there is a presumption that they own it jointly unless an alternative intention between the parties can be inferred from the evidence or, where no intention can be inferred, an alternative intention can be ‘imputed’ by the judge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Droit de la preuve

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • Diplomacy
CONT

[The 12th Prime Minister of Australia] has pledged Australia's continuing assistance in the defence of South Vietnam, and there seems no practical alternative to the diehard policy of hanging on and avoiding defeat until some strategy is evolved for enforcing a settlement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Diplomatie
CONT

Parallèlement à la politique d’immobilisme et aux tactiques d’obstruction au niveau des négociations, l’Algérie et le Polisario ont multiplié les tentatives pour faire déraper le processus, à travers une instrumentalisation systématique de la question des droits de l’homme.

Spanish

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Record 9 2004-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
DEF

The law states that the frequency of alternative alleles of the same gene in a population are constant from one generation to the next so long as :(1) the population is large;(2) crosses occur at random;(3) there is no selection pressure favouring a specific form;(4) there is no mutation;(5) there is no migration of part of the population...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
CONT

La loi de Hardy-Wieberg définit l'équilibre génétique : d'une génération à l'autre, dans des conditions idéales où aucun facteur évolutif n'agit, les fréquences géniques restent constantes. Dans le pool génique, c'est-à dire l'ensemble des gènes d'une population, l'allèle R a une fréquence allélique p et l'allèle r la fréquence relative q. La loi pose que dans un système bi-allèlique, p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1. Cette loi exclut tout phénomène de sélection, mutation ou migration. Si la population «idéale» ne se retrouve que rarement dans la nature, la loi de Hardy-Weiberg nous donne des outils pour étudier les phénomènes qui s'en écartent.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
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Record 10 2004-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
DEF

[A type of insurance] charging each enrollee in a region the same premium for a particular level of coverage, regardless of individual characteristics affecting probability of loss.

CONT

An alternative approach to a universal health care scheme funded by taxes is to develop a government subsidised, community-rated, universal insurance pool. All citizens would contribute(their contributions would amount to the equivalent of a tax), and there would be no discrimination on the basis of individual health conditions.

Key term(s)
  • community rated insurance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurance-maladie
  • Assurance sur la vie
OBS

[Le] gouvernement expose ses plans en vue de renforcer la concurrence sur le marché de l'assurance-maladie privée et aborde une variété de questions réglementaires et notamment les principes de tarification universalisée («community rating»), d'adhésion non discriminatoire, de compensation des risques ainsi que la mise en place d'une Administration de l'assurance-santé.

OBS

En Irlande, le «Health Insurance Act» (1994), entré en vigueur le 28 mars 1996, définit les trois grands principes à respecter par tous les assureurs dans le cadre de l'assurance-maladie volontaire : mutualisation des risques (community rating), obligation d'acceptation de tous les risques, couverture viagère.

OBS

La personnalisation des risques (experience rating) est écartée au profit de la péréquation des risques (community rating).

Spanish

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Record 11 2003-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Real Estate
CONT

There are two distinct scenarios in which early termination of a lease could apply : 1. In cases where the accommodation is being replaced, the exercise of an early termination right is subject to obtaining project approval(either LPA or Effective Project Approval(EPA) for the alternative solution... 2. In cases where no replacement accommodation is required(e. g. program termination), approval from the authority level commensurate with the magnitude of any cost or penalty would be appropriate...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Immobilier
CONT

Parmi les raisons motivant la résiliation anticipée d'une convention de location, on trouve les suivantes : la fin d'un programme, l'augmentation ou la réduction des besoins en locaux, la réinstallation d'un programme dans un autre lieu, la possibilité d'harmoniser le programme à d'autres niveaux du gouvernement, la possibilité d'une solution de rechange à plus long terme ou l'occasion de renégocier la durée de bail plus avantageuse pour l'État.

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Planning
  • Rail Networks
CONT

Rail banking is another alternative to abandoning a rail line and is used when rail services are no longer financially viable but there is a high likelihood the tracks will be needed in the future. A state or a public agency acquires the track and it remains inactive until it is needed for future rail freight or passenger use.

Key term(s)
  • railbanking
  • rail-banking

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement urbain
  • Réseaux ferroviaires

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
DEF

... monochrome painting carried out mostly in shades of grey.

CONT

grisaille ... Such works were often produced in the Renaissance to simulate sculpture, as in Uccello’s equestrian portrait of Sir John Hawkswood (Cathedral of Florence). Painters of stained glass frequently used grisaille. In the 17th cent. grisaille was prized for interior decoration.

OBS

The use of the French word can be traced only to 1625, since although grisaille painting was done in preceding centuries, it was not referred to as such. The alternative expression "peinture en camaïeu(gris) "is also documented only more recently. In the 16th century there are occasional references to "dead colour", but this term is no longer used. At the time of its origin, in the medieval period, grisaille painting was simply called "painting in black and white", as is clear, for example, from an entry in the inventories of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, of 1401, 1413 and 1416 :’Item, unes petites heures de Nostre Dame... enluminées de blanc et de noir’. However, this description is not very precise, as grisaille painting was never merely black and white at that time but was always combined with(more or less sparingly used) colours. The term grisaille, as commonly used today, itself only inadequately describes the various modes it subsumes. Their only common feature is the more or less exclusive use of non-coloured pigments, while they diverge technically and aesthetically to an often astonishing extent.

Key term(s)
  • dead colour
  • dead color
  • camaïeu
  • camayeu
  • black and white painting
  • painting in black and white

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
DEF

Peinture monochrome en camaïeu gris ou de couleur proche du gris.

CONT

Le terme de grisaille désigne une peinture traitée en monochromie pour imiter le bas-relief à l'aide d'une dégradation entre le noir et le blanc de valeurs grises. Cette monochromie peut être établie également à partir d'une gamme chromatique différente à base de vert, par exemple [...]

OBS

L'appellation [grisaille] est parfois synonyme de «camaïeu» et surtout de «clair-obscur», comme le précise Vasari dans son introduction aux «Trois Arts du dessin» [...] Il faut évoquer enfin l'emploi du terme «grisaille» dans l'art du vitrail, où il désigne soit une expression monochrome, soit une modification de valeur de la même couleur.

Key term(s)
  • camaïeu

Spanish

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Record 14 2001-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
CONT

In recent years, drinking water regulations for the removal of particles and total organic carbon(TOC) have become more stringent. Consequently, utilities are considering whether traditional treatment strategies... are best suited to achieving these new standards at a reasonable cost, or whether the use of innovative processes is warranted. Among the possible alternatives that are currently in use, microsand enhanced coagulation has emerged as a promising, low-cost alternative for many water supplies based on extensive trial and error pilot testing. However, because of poor understanding, there is no fundamental basis for deciding when, or if, the microsand process will offer advantages over conventional treatment, nor is there an understanding about the magnitude of the improvement to be expected.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Traitement des eaux
DEF

Élément très fin contenu dans un sable.

CONT

Traitement des eaux pluviales par décantation de flocs physico-chimiques lestés par du microsable.

Spanish

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Record 15 1999-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special Rail Transport
  • Freezing and Refrigerating
  • Food Industries
CONT

Trucking has always been the mode of choice for shipping refrigerated product. But with recent developments in technology, the railways are becoming more confident they can measure up as a viable service alternative... A few weeks ago, US-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway(BNSF), ran its first all-refrigerated train from Illinois to California. It carried frozen product at a constant temperature for the entire 69-hour trip. There were no re-fuelling stops and so far, no cases of food spoilage... When you put a trailer on a train, there's nobody really looking after it, so if loads go bad or(the units) run out of fuel they don’t notice until it's too late. The difference with the BNSF service is the whole train is refrigerated and therefore gets constant attention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transports ferroviaires spéciaux
  • Congélation, surgélation et réfrigération
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
CONT

L'offre «FrigoRail» pour les transports en wagons frigorifiques et isothermes ICF ainsi qu'en trains frigorifiques russes se caractérise par : des prix ferroviaires de bout en bout compétitifs, un interlocuteur unique, des durées d'acheminement remarquables, un transbordement sans faille à Brest [...]

Spanish

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Record 16 1999-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Ideologies
DEF

Complete unwillingness to consider any other course than that chosen.

OBS

TINA : an assertion central to the political principles of Margaret Thatcher, in her speech to the Conservative Women's Conference, 21 May 1980, when she said :"I believe people accept there is no alternative".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des idéologies

Spanish

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Record 17 1998-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
DEF

Borrowing in a situation of extreme need when there is no other alternative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Coopération et développement économiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
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Record 18 1990-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cofferdams and Dewatering (Construction)
DEF

A bored well of about 30 cm diameter, used as an alternative to wellpoints, in which each borehole has its own pump installed at the top. It is more expensive and slower to install, but there is less disturbance to the ground than with wellpoints because there are fewer, though more efficient, wells.... If the pumps are submersible they can be installed at the foot of each well, and there is then no limit to their depth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épuisements et batardeaux (Construction)
CONT

[...] on procède à un rabattement de nappe par pompage, en principe à l'extérieur de la fouille [...] on dispose un réseau de pointes filtrantes, qui sont des tubes d'acier crépinés foncés par battage et reliés en tête à un collecteur sur lequel est montée une pompe de surface. La hauteur d'aspiration est limitée pratiquement à 7 ou 8,00 m. Dans le cas où la hauteur de pompage est plus importante, on a recours à des puits filtrants équipés chacun d'une pompe immergée dont la hauteur de refoulement n'est plus limitée. Cette réalisation est plus onéreuse, mais bien plus performante.

Spanish

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Record 19 1988-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
CONT

There is no alternative but to...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
CONT

il n'y a pas d'autre issue que de ...

Spanish

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