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THROUGH TRIAL ERROR [6 records]

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Record 1 2024-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cooling and Ventilating Systems
CONT

The natural cooling of buildings developed empirically over many centuries, based on an understanding of seasonal and diurnal changes in the local climate, and through a process of trial and error, to provide relief from the extreme heat of the summer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes de refroidissement et de ventilation

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Systemas de enfriamiento y ventilación
CONT

Se pueden incorporar captadores de viento en el diseño del edificio para canalizar el aire hacia áreas específicas y crear un efecto de enfriamiento natural.

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Record 2 2015-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Corporate Management (General)
DEF

A structured, systematic process that helps a person achieve personal and professional growth.

OBS

[The coaching] process ... involves discussion, guided activities, problem solving, personal analysis and feedback, a learner gains information and skills faster and more thoroughly than you would otherwise be the case.

OBS

It provides a safe and protected environment in which the individual can learn without having to go through a lengthy and often costly trial and error process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Gestion de l'entreprise (Généralités)
DEF

Méthode de formation du personnel selon laquelle un supérieur forme un subordonné aux aptitudes et connaissances nécessaires à l'exercice d'une fonction en lui assignant des tâches accompagnées de suggestions et conseils individualisés sur les façons de les accomplir.

OBS

L'usage du terme «accompagnement» est à privilégier au gouvernement du Canada.

OBS

Selon certains auteurs, le terme «coaching» est un anglicisme. Toutefois, ce terme est couramment utilisé par les spécialistes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Corporate Security
DEF

in computer usage, an effort made by an unauthorized source to gain access to the system. Break-in attempts primarily refer to attempts to login illegally. These attempts focus on supplying passwords for users known to have accounts on the system, through informed guesses or other trial and error methods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Sécurité générale de l'entreprise
CONT

Lorsqu'une porte est bloquée, claquée ou a été forcée (souvent suite à une tentative d'effraction, cambriolage ou tout simplement l'âge).

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-06-09

English

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

The CALT(Conditional Associative Learning Test), presents four identical stimuli in a random spatial array to be associated with four identical response items according to location alone. Subjects must learn, through trial and error, which stimulus is linked with which response. Feedback is provided during each trial, which continues until a correct spatial association is achieved. The score is the number of trials to complete 12 consecutive correct responses. The number of errors is also recorded.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Docimologie

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
  • Government Accounting
CONT

The Pitfalls of Formula Funding.... Through extensive trial and considerable error, [the government's funding] schemes have evolved into the current "formula" approach to defence financing, one which essentially involves indexing of DND's budget both to compensate for the [effects] of inflation and to permit real increase in defence spending.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
  • Comptabilité publique

Spanish

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Record 6 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • Productivity and Profitability
OBS

Few business firms are able to develop exact curves of cost and revenue. This does not mean that they are oblivious to profit maximization. Through trial and error, they may be doing a tolerably good job of keeping alive as a business entity and of achieving long-run optimum profits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Productivité et rentabilité

Spanish

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