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MARGINAL AREA [15 records]

Record 1 2021-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forage Crops
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
CONT

The choice between alfalfa and oat hay depends on price per unit of energy or protein and the type of horse being fed. Depending on the area of the country in which it is grown, oat hay can be low in protein and contain only marginal calcium, phosphorus, and carotene.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des plantes fourragères
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
CONT

Le foin d'avoine est un fourrage à fort rendement utilisé par les laiteries, les éleveurs d'équidés et les producteurs de bovins à viande pour préserver la santé et la productivité des animaux.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
CONT

If the objective of the program had been efficiency in the detection of morbidity, and redistributive considerations had been unimportant, then for each i [superscript] th area the marginal investment benefit... would have been equal to the marginal cost... of the program.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Statutes and Regulations (Air Transport)
  • Air Traffic Control
CONT

The forecasts aren’t working out-an unexpected area of low ceilings and rain is pushing into his route of flight. His destination is already marginal VFR [visual flight rules] and getting worse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Réglementation et législation (Transp. aérien)
  • Circulation et trafic aériens
CONT

Les prévisions n'annoncent rien de bien réjouissant. Une zone inattendue de plafonds bas et de la pluie l'avancent en direction de sa trajectoire de vol. À destination, on parle déjà de conditions VFR [règles de vol à vue] marginales, et la situation empire.

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

A stable area marginal to an orogenic belt, toward which the rocks of the belt were thrust or overfolded.

CONT

The side of the range toward which the overturned folds incline is called the foreland ...

CONT

Regional zoning occurs on a very large scale often corresponding to large sections of orogenic belts and their foreland ...

OBS

Generally the foreland is a continental part of the crust, and is the edge of the craton or platform area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
DEF

Masse continentale demeurée stable vers laquelle la chaîne [de montagnes d'un géosynclinal] se trouve déversée [...]

CONT

Dans le concept de la tectonique des plaques, l'avant-pays représente l'ancienne marge stable, comme la bordure orientale du Massif central constitue l'avant-pays des Alpes.)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tectónica
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Record 5 2003-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Oceanography
DEF

Pertaining to the shore area marginal to the littoral zone, just above high-tide level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Océanographie
DEF

Se dit de l'étage de littoral situé au-dessus de la laisse de haute mer.

CONT

[...] la zone «supratidale», celle qui est située immédiatement au-dessus [de la zone intertidale] et atteinte seulement par les vagues de très haute mer ou de tempête.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
  • Oceanografía
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Record 6 2003-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Integration
  • Urban Sociology
  • Environmental Management
CONT

Town-Country Symbiosis in Calcutta. Historically, the city's eastward expansion halted west of a marginal zone of low lying marshlands, variously known as Dhapa, East Calcutta, or the area of the salt water lakes. Here a symbiotic, creative relationship exists between town and country. With the participation of the rural inhabitants, much of the solid trash, liquid sewage, and polluted air generated by the metropolis of over ten million inhabitants is recycled into organic nutrients, fresh water, and clean air. The system reduces urban waste, creates a daily supply of fresh fish and green vegetables for Calcutta's kitchens, and generates employment and revenue for East Calcutta's thirty-odd villages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intégration urbaine
  • Sociologie urbaine
  • Gestion environnementale
CONT

Afin de réaliser une symbiose ville-campagne, nous avons [...] proposé le retour des [...] ordures ménagères organiques à la terre, grâce à des usines intercantonales de l'humus.

CONT

Soutenir la transformation par les minoteries villageoises et favoriser la symbiose ville-campagne.

OBS

symbiose : Fusion, union de plusieurs choses; association étroite et harmonieuse entre des personnes ou des groupes de personnes.

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorology
  • Agriculture - General
CONT

A field experiment area involving five Douglas fir... was established in the year 1966. After three measurement actions being performed in 1980, 1990, and in 1997 the following results are obtained :... The experiment area shows the lack of a protection belt of same sort, because of presence of marginal effect, what affect the investigation results. The occurrence of marginal effect shows that more light is necessary for development of the Douglas fir.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Météorologie
  • Agriculture - Généralités
DEF

Zone entourant une surface d'essai où sont effectuées des mesures climatiques (évaporation, évapotranspiration), micro-climatiques (gradients de température, d'humidité ou de vent) ou biologiques (résistances stomatiques, assimilation nette), le couvert végétal et les interventions culturales étant identiques ou aussi semblables que possible sur cette zone et sur la surface d'essai.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Meteorología
  • Agricultura - Generalidades
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Record 8 1994-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Sociology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie urbaine
DEF

Territoire adjacent à deux aires culturelles différentes et qui reçoit des influences de l'une et de l'autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología urbana
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Record 9 1987-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names
OBS

(...) the Laurentides Scarp, the Laurentians, Thunder Bay area and the eastern arms of Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake-all in marginal parts of the Canadian shield.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques
OBS

L'escarpement laurentien, les Laurentides, la région de Thunder Bay et les bras orientaux du Grand lac des Esclaves comme du Grand lac de l'Ours (...) se situent toutes sur les marges du Bouclier.

Spanish

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Record 10 1987-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Geography and Geopolitics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie politique et géopolitique

Spanish

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Record 11 1987-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Geography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie économique

Spanish

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Record 12 1987-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique

Spanish

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Record 13 1977-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Bivalves of the Family Trigoniidae have shells that are] highly variable in shape and ornament; [the] umbones [are] most commonly opisthogyrous, but orthogyrous or prosogyrous in a few groups; [an] escutcheon [is] usually present; [the] area and flank [are] differentiated and differently ornamented in most genera; [the] flank ornament [is] generally concentric or oblique, but radial in some forms; [the] median tooth of [the] left valve [is] broad, grooved, strongly concave to deeply emarginate below; [the] posterior left [is] weak or obscure, marginal; [the] anterior left [is] of moderate strength; [the] right valve(...) [has] two subequal and more or less symmetrically divergent teeth not borne on [a] hinge plate, and(...) [a] very obscure anterior marginal tooth in some species; [the] two main teeth of [the] right valve and [the] sides of [the] left valve teeth against which they fit bear strong transverse ridges(...) ;[the] anterior myophorous buttresses [are] well developed; [the] pallial line [is] entire; Recent forms [are] filibranchiate; mantle lobes [are] free; [the bivalves are] nonbyssiferous. "M. Trias.-Rec. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Lamellibranches de la] famille des Trigoniidae (...) [ont une] coquille nacrée, inéquilatérale, [le] bord antérieur [est] généralement arrondi, beaucoup moins développé que le postérieur qui est plus ou moins tronqué et anguleux. [La] charnière [est] faite généralement de deux dents cardinales divergentes sur la valve droite et de une, deux ou trois dents cardinales divergentes sur la valve gauche; [le] ligament est externe; [ils ont] deux impressions musculaires; [et une] empreinte palléale entière.

Spanish

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Record 14 1977-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Bivalves of the] family Praecardiidae(...) [have a] shell approximately equivalve(...) with or without [a] marginal gape; [the] cardinal area [is] broad and flattened to narrow; [the] surface [is] rarely smooth, more commonly radially costate. "? U. Cam., L. Ord.-L. Miss. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Lamellibranches de la] famille des Praecardiidae (...) [ont une] coquille très mince, équivalve, légèrement inéquilatérale, [le] crochet en saillie; sous le crochet, [il y a une] aréa triangulaire; du côté postérieur, quelques dents verticales; [l'] ornementation [est] faite de côtes rayonnantes.

Spanish

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Record 15 1977-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

Depressed marginal area of an areole, or any depressed ring around base of a tubercle, serving for attachment of muscles which move spine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) dépression annulaire (...) qui entoure (...) un tubercule [chez un Oursin] c'est la zone d'insertion des muscles de fixation du piquant (...)

Spanish

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