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HEAD SITUATION [12 records]

Record 1 2025-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Martial Arts
CONT

Techniques using head diving are dangerous and will be penalised with hansoku-made. Following the safety frame of judo, performing judo throws should be done without the head going directly to the tatami. The neck is not a very strong part of the body, Landing first on the head with the opponent behind puts athletes at risk and in a very dangerous situation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts martiaux
DEF

Geste dangereux qui, lors d'un combat, consiste à plonger la tête en avant sur le tapis ou à contraindre son adversaire à le faire.

OBS

En compétition, le plongeon est sanctionné par une disqualification immédiate.

OBS

plongeon : désignation et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 18 avril 2025.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rehabilitation (Medicine)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
CONT

Some qualifying factors for acute rehabilitation to be needed are a medical condition that has significantly decreased a patient's faculties. Examples of a situation that cause a significant disturbance include, but are not limited to, stroke, spinal cord injury, head trauma or acquired brain injury, amputations, and burns. A patient who is at risk of medical instability will likely be admitted into acute rehab. Because it is located in the hospital, all resources are available on-site if an emergency were to occur.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réadaptation (Médecine)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Education Theory and Methods
CONT

The head of a shipping company for whom we designed training systems called requesting help. After discussing his situation, I suggested that he didn’t need new training systems and that the apprenticeship approach to training would work for him. On a boat, novice sailors have the time to ask questions and look over more experienced seamen's shoulders. Because of the close quarters and cultures of learning on a ship, it's easy to learn from the experts. And there are plenty of mechanisms in place to ensure that a neophyte's mistake doesn’t blow up the ship. Classroom training, or even e-learning, would have been an expensive and less-effective solution to this company's problem.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Internet et télématique
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
CONT

Un certain nombre de sociétés s'inscrivent sur la nouvelle approche qui caractérise le contenu e-learning. Ainsi elles mettent désormais en œuvre une approche d'apprentissage par l'action (favoriser la pratique), optique défendue par les théories cognitives.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hearing
CONT

The worst problem... is now to exclude... changes in hearing caused by the aging process(presbycusis), by diseases, industrial chemicals, oxotoxic drugs, and blows to the head(nosoacusis), and by intense sound experienced outside the work situation-sounds to which the individual exposes himself willingly if not eagerly, such as motorcycle noise, loud music, or sports gunfire(socioacusis).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ouïe
DEF

Surdité due à des maladies de l'oreille ou à des maladies générales telles que le diabète.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Oído
DEF

Pérdida auditiva [...] atribuida a causas como sorderas progresivas hereditarias, ciertas enfermedades, fármacos ototóxicos, etcétera.

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Record 5 2007-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recruiting of Personnel
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... a deputy head could have established the employment equity objectives as an organizational need but chose not to apply this merit criterion in the appointment process because other circumstances have changed the situation, such as changes in the representation level of the organization, the requirement to appoint a person with priority entitlement, or the need to apply other criteria.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recrutement du personnel
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maneuvering of Ships
Key term(s)
  • head on situation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Manœuvre des navires

Spanish

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Record 7 1996-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
CONT

An avascular necrosis of the femoral head occurred after intra-medullary nailing of a femoral diaphyseal fracture. This complication may be related to the posterior situation of the proximal insertion hole just posterior to the trochanteric notch and piriformis fossa as demonstrated by the CT scan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
CONT

La fossette piriforme est située à l'extrémité supérieure de la base du col fémoral à l'union du 1/4 postérieur et des 3/4 antérieurs[...] Si c'est le point d'entrée le plus naturel pour un enclouage à foyer fermé compte tenu du fait que cette fossette piriforme est dans l'axe du canal médullaire, il convient de rappeler que le centre de la fossette piriforme n'est, en moyenne, qu'à 7 mm du bord postérieur du col.

Spanish

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Record 8 1989-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

In this situation the recovery from the head does not go as high as the recovery from the left shoulder, and there is a down-sloping neckline.

OBS

Term used in technical analysis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Dans cette situation, la reprise à partir de la tête ne va pas aussi haut que la reprise de l'épaule gauche et il y a une ligne de col descendante.

OBS

Ce terme appartient à l'analyse technique.

Spanish

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Record 9 1987-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
  • Aircraft Systems
DEF

... [an integral] reservoir [which] is formed by closing the second and sixth inboard bulkheads with flapper valves. These valves permit fuel to flow inboard but prevent fuel from flowing outboard away from the boost pumps in a wing-low attitude or other similar situation. The retained fuel provides a head of fuel to keep the boost pumps submerged at all normal flight altitudes and during all normal manoeuvres.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
  • Circuits des aéronefs
OBS

compartiment nourrice secondaire : terme accepté par le Comité d'étude de la terminologie des cartes de travail du DC-9.

Spanish

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Record 10 1981-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydroelectric Power Stations
OBS

"a high head(400M) Francis turbine situation for 231 MW in 3 or 4 units... ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Centrales hydro-électriques
OBS

Source: Hydro-Québec.

Spanish

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Record 11 1981-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
OBS

Increasing the filtration speed by raising the head loss is easily ensured provided that the "puncture" limit of the filtering mass is not reached, or the limits where washing is poorly performed, or where it becomes necessary to shut a filter down for a long period for washing purposes, a situation that would waste a great deal of filtered water.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
OBS

Accroître la vitesse de filtration par augmentation de la perte de charge est aisément réalisable à condition de ne pas atteindre les limites de crevaison de la masse filtrante ni celles où les lavages se font mal et où il faut immobiliser longtemps un filtre pour son nettoyage tout en perdant une quantité d'eau importante.

Spanish

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Record 12 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Structure
OBS

it is no accident that organizations are(...) charted in--. The pyramid itself implies a situation in which the head of the pyramid and of each subordinate pyramidal part is the leader of the group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Structures de l'entreprise
OBS

les principaux types d'organigrammes sont : l'arbre généalogique ou représentation pyramidale

Spanish

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