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INCREASING RETURN [7 records]

Record 1 2017-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

Forcible exhalation against the closed glottis, increasing intrathoracic pressure and impeding venous return to the heart.

OBS

Valsalva maneuver: term recommended by the Medical Signs and Symptoms Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
DEF

Effort d'expiration forcée à glotte fermée, entraînant une augmentation de la pression intrathoracique, d'où une brusque et importante diminution du retour du sang veineux au cœur, ainsi qu'une insufflation de la trompe d'Eustache.

OBS

manœuvre de Valsalva : terme privilégié par le Comité de sémiologie médicale.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
CONT

Increasing profit shares(of employees) could be made to depend on meeting certain targets of... rate of return on capital.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • Production (Economics)
  • Production Management
CONT

Increasing returns to scale occurs if a proportional increase in all inputs under the control of a firm results in a greater than proportional increase in production.

OBS

increasing return to scale : term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • increasing returns to scale

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Production (Économie)
  • Gestion de la production
CONT

Rendements d’échelle croissants : les coûts unitaires diminuent quand la production augmente du fait de la répartition des coûts fixes sur un volume d’unités produites plus important.

OBS

rendement d'échelle croissant; rendement croissant à l'échelle : termes habituellement employés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • rendements d'échelle croissants
  • rendements croissants à l'échelle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía empresarial
  • Producción (Economía)
  • Gestión de la producción
CONT

Existen rendimientos crecientes a escala o economías de escala si al aumentar todos los factores en determinada proporción la producción aumenta en una proporción mayor.

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Record 4 2002-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
CONT

If at first there is increasing returns, there is at first declining MC [Marginal Cost] - ultimately followed by diminishing returns and increasing MC.

OBS

Usually in plural.

Key term(s)
  • increasing returns

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Lois du marché (Économie)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía empresarial
  • Leyes del mercado (Economía)
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Record 5 1999-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
DEF

Alternately printing on either direction. A line printed left-to-right is followed by a line printed right-to-left thereby avoiding usual carriage return delays, greatly increasing throughput.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
CONT

Une imprimante 132 colonnes compatible IBM-Pc. Sa vitesse d'impression est de 160 cps en écriture bidirectionnelle avec recherche optimisée.

OBS

Cette tête unique permet : Une vitesse d'impression jusqu'à 250 c/s bi-directionnelle en noir et rouge.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ofimática
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Record 6 1989-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate
  • Estimating (Construction)
CONT

The principle of increasing and decreasing returns... is a variation of the principle of balance. It affirms that larger and larger amounts of agents in production will produce larger and larger net returns up to a certain point at which the maximum value will have been developed, and beyond which any additional investment will not produce a return commensurate with the investment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier
  • Évaluation et estimation (Construction)
OBS

Le principe des revenus croissants et décroissants certifie que le revenu net sera de plus en plus imposant dans la mesure d'une contribution de plus en plus grande des facteurs de production mais seulement jusqu'à un certain niveau (auquel la valeur maximum aura été atteinte) et au-delà duquel tout investissement additionnel ne produira pas un revenu net proportionnel à ces investissements additionnels.

Spanish

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Record 7 1988-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate
DEF

A valuation principle which states that when successive increments of one or more factors of production are added to fixed amounts of the other factors there is a resulting enhancement of income(in dollars, benefits, or amenities), initially at an increasing rate to a point of maximum return and then decreasing until eventually the increment to value becomes increasingly less than the value of the added factor(or factors).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier

Spanish

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