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LAY COURSE [6 records]

Record 1 2015-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Courses
  • Training of Personnel
Universal entry(ies)
P021
classification system code, see observation
OBS

This course will examine communication and coping strategies, the priority administration system as well as the processes involved with the selection of employees for retention and lay off. Participants will familiarize themselves with the Work Force Adjustment Directive and learn how to prepare in the event that their position is affected.

OBS

P021: a Canada School of Public Service course code.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de cours
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
P021
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Ce cours porte sur les stratégies de communication et d'adaptation, le système d'administration des priorités ainsi que le processus de sélection aux fins de maintien en poste et de mise en disponibilité. Les participants se familiariseront avec la Directive sur le réaménagement des effectifs et apprendront à se préparer à l'éventualité où leur poste serait touché.

OBS

P021 : code de cours de l'École de la fonction publique du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
CONT

Not just simple responses to an external stimulus play a role in instinctive behavior; instinctive activity involves sequences of behavior that run a predictable course. These behaviors may last seconds, minutes, hours or even days. Exemplifying this, we can refer to a particular species of digger wasp, which finds and captures only honeybees. With no previous experience, a female wasp will unearth an intricate burrow, find a bee, paralyze it with a careful and precise sting to the neck, pilot back to her discreet home, and, when the larder has been supplied with the correct number of bees, lay an egg on one of them and seal the chamber.... Overall, one of the main distinctive features of instinctive activity is the ability to react to an external stimulus the correct way the first chance(and every time thereafter) the animal receives. This feature distinguishes this particular behavior from what ethnologists call learned behavior, which scientists have discovered are actions that take place from conditioning an animal to learn the right way.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
CONT

Le toilettage chez les animaux est une activité instinctive et pour partie parfois apprise et transmises aux générations suivantes (utilisation d'eau chaude, de terre, de feuilles ou de poussière par exemple).

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Mechanics (Physics)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Navigation Instruments
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
CONT

Gyroscopes can be used as devices for direction finding, guidance, and control. If a gyroscope, mounted on its gimbal rings, is set spinning about a horizontal axis, and the outer gimbal ring is rotated in a horizontal plane, then the inner gimbal ring, carrying the flywheel, tilts up out of the horizontal plane in which it, too first lay. After a few oscillations, damped out by friction, the axis of spin of the gyroscope settles down along a vertical direction. Inertial guidance systems make use of very similar phenomena. Once a gyroscope has been set spinning about a chosen axis, any motion that would cause it to deviate from this direction calls into existence a torque that can be used as an error signal to control corrective maneuvers... Some of the most important applications of gyroscopic phenomena are in aircraft instruments. A free(perfectly balanced) gyroscope can give a constant indication of a chosen reference direction for checking the correct course, and a gravitationally loaded gyroscope can be used to identify the true vertical at all times and so define an artificial horizon against which the pilot can measure the angles of bank and climb.

Key term(s)
  • gyroscopic phenomena

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique générale (Physique)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Instruments de navigation
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
CONT

Le gyroscope construit par Foucault 1852 est un appareil qui dérive de son pendule. Comme lui, il met en évidence les effets de la rotation de la terre. Il est constitué d'une masse lourde, appelée rotor, en mouvement de rotation rapide autour d'un axe restant fixe dans un référentiel galiléen. Le gyroscope se caractérise par un moment cinétique élevé. Il existe des gyroscopes dont l'axe en rotation est lié à l'armature de l'appareil par deux axes et d'autres reliés à un seul axe. On retrouve le phénomène gyroscopique dans des jouets tels que les toupies. Il est utilisé dans des appareils appelés compas gyroscopiques servant au guidage des missiles, des avions et des satellites.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pipes and Fittings
CONT

... cut tubes in half and join end-to-end to lay out your course.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tuyauterie et raccords
DEF

Joindre bout à bout des tuyaux.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paddle Sports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de pagaie

Spanish

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Record 6 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Weaving (Textile Industries)
  • Tools and Equipment (Textile Industries)
OBS

--the narrow wooden, metallic, or plastic flat strip in the lay of the loom set in front of the reed. [it] serves as a support and directs the course of the shuttle as it passes through the shed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tissage (Industries du textile)
  • Outillage et équipement (Industries du textile)
OBS

--traverse qui forme la partie inférieure du battant du métier à tisser. [on dit aussi semelle du battant KETEC 65 2-661]

Spanish

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