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FACTOR ALTERNATIVE [6 records]

Record 1 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
CONT

Principle of the limiting factor. In choosing from among alternatives, the more an individual can recognize and solve for those factors that are limited or critical to the attainment of the desired goal, the more clearly and accurately he can select the most favorable alternative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Economic Planning
CONT

The second category of costs relates to foregone benefits or lost opportunities, usually with respect to the use of time as well as the alternative use of pecuniary resources.

CONT

The optimum use of variable factors to maximize output... requires them to be allocated among alternative uses so that the productive value of an additional unit of any one factor type is the same in every use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Planification économique
CONT

Le coût d'option d'une installation ne tient pas compte de ce qu'on a dépensé à son endroit, mais uniquement de sa plus haute valeur dans un autre usage.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cytology
  • Genetics
CONT

[Study on ] the complex hormonal regulation of casein and thrombospondine (TSP) genes in mouse mammary gland epithelial cells and ultimately in breast cancer cells ... a 5’ noncoding sequence element involved in the mammary specificity of casein gene transcription is shared with TSP gene ... The more difficult but conclusive tests of promoter function and trans acting factors are not proposed. The effects of hormone treatments on TSP MRNA stability will be evaluated by pulse chase experiments ....

CONT

A novel transforming growth factor-beta SUB 1 responsive cytoplasmic trans-acting factor binds selectively to the 3’-untranslated region of mammalian ribonucleotide reductase R2 mRNA... mRNA destabilization triggered by premature translational termination depends on at least three cis-acting sequence elements and one trans-acting factor... In vitro analysis of bovine growth hormone pre-mRNA alternative splicing involvement of exon sequences and trans-acting factor(s)... [Source : PASCAL database].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cytologie
  • Génétique
DEF

Protéine auxiliaire liant l’ADN et interagit avec les séquences cis-régulatrices d’ADN pour contrôler l’expression d’un gène.

OBS

Facteur diffusible capable de moduler l'activité (en + ou en -) d'un ou de plusieurs gènes en interagissant avec leur(s) séquence(s) régulatrice(s).

Key term(s)
  • facteur trans

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Citología
  • Genética
DEF

Proteína auxiliar de unión con el ADN, que interacciona con las secuencias de ADN reguladas en cis para el control de la expresión génica.

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Record 4 2006-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
DEF

An autoantibody found in high concentrations in some kidney diseases which binds to, and stabilizes C3b,Bb, thus potentiating alternative pathway activity.

CONT

Nephritic factor is an immunoglobulin found in patients with partial lipodystrophy and/or mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis. It binds to the alternative pathway convertase enzyme C3bBd and stabilizes it by inhibiting release of Bb.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
DEF

Auto-anticorps dirigé contre la C3-convertase de la voie alterne. Cette spécifique explique sa fonction d'activateur de la voie alterne du complément.

CONT

Certaines protéines peuvent activer la voie alterne : 1) le facteur du venin de cobra [...]; le facteur néphritique, qui est un autoanticorps (IgG) dirigé contre la C3 convertase C3bBb; se fixant à elle, il stabilise le complexe qui résiste à l'action du (facteur) H; 3) la properdine [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inmunología
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Record 5 1993-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
Key term(s)
  • factor and alternative

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
OBS

Source(s) : DSTM [Direction des services de traduction ministériels] Communications.

Key term(s)
  • problème et solution possible

Spanish

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Record 6 1986-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Graphs and Diagrams
  • Management Control
CONT

Linear scoring function charts compare alternatives on a point system, where for each alternative an initial score(from 1(=lowest) to 10(=highest] against each evaluation factor is multiplied by the relative weight given to that factor(arrived at, in comparison to other evaluation factors, by an interdisciplinary delphi-type process) ;the best alternative is the one which accumulates the most total points.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Diagrammes et graphiques (Statistique)
  • Contrôle de gestion

Spanish

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