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Record 1 2003-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronautics
CONT

All of the following AATSR-specific L1B auxiliary files will be maintained by the Announcement of Opportunity Instrument Provider (AOIP), with the exception of. This file will be maintained by ESA.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronautique

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
DEF

Salary expressed in terms of the quantity of goods or services that can be bought, allowing comparisons to be made between different countries or between different periods in the same country. As a monetary value is not used, the effects of inflation or exchange rates do not apply.

OBS

"Real wage" and "actual wage": terms usually used in the plural.

OBS

Actual wages ... has been used synonymously with real wages [and] has also been used to define ... take-home pay ... The term offers little in usefulness and might well be set aside in favor of the more clearly understood phrases "real wages" ... or "take-home pay".

OBS

real wage: term reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

Key term(s)
  • real wages
  • actual wages

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques
DEF

Salaire envisagé d'après la quantité de biens et de services qu'il permet d'obtenir sur le marché par rapport à une année de référence, c'est-à-dire d'après son pouvoir d'achat en comparaison avec les années antérieures.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Remuneración (Gestión del personal)
  • Previsiones y condiciones económicas
DEF

Salario expresado, para facilitar la comparación entre países, o en diferentes períodos dentro de un país, por la cantidad de bienes y servicios que permite adquirir. Al prescindir de su valor monetario se elimina el efecto del tipo de cambio y el de la inflación.

CONT

Se basan también en modelos en los que las expectativas de que se produzca una crisis da lugar a un incremento de los salarios nominales, que, cuando los precios son rígidos, eleva los salarios reales y reduce la competitividad.

OBS

salario real: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 3 1986-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
  • Computer Graphics
OBS

Photographs of machines or similar constructions dismantled into their parts and laid out so as to correspond as closely as possible to the way in which they were assembled.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie
  • Infographie
DEF

Représentation graphique d'un objet complexe (machine, moteur, ouvrage d'art), qui en montre les éléments ordinairement invisibles par séparation de ces éléments représentés en perspective.

Spanish

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Record 4 1992-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Aircraft
OBS

single-seat helicopter: term standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types d'aéronefs
OBS

hélicoptère monoplace : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

Traditionally, the legal mechanism employed to resolve disputes arising through changes in land bordering upon water is the doctrine of accretion. Stated briefly, this doctrine is that naturally occurring additions of soil to waterside land become the property of the riparian owner of the land which is thereby increased, and soil removed by erosion ceases to belong to the riparian owner whose land is diminished. (Howarth, The Conveyancer, p. 247)

Key term(s)
  • accretion doctrine

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

doctrine de l'accroissement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Conditioning and Heating
  • Pharmacology
OBS

of untreated air

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement de l'air et chauffage
  • Pharmacologie

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations
OBS

Export and Import Permits Act

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements
OBS

Loi sur les licences d'exportation et d'importation

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Intelligence (Military)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Renseignement (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biotechnology
  • Molecular Biology
CONT

Each 96-well plate includes SYBR [Synergy Brands] Green-optimised primer sets for a thoroughly researched panel of relevant, pathway- or disease-focused genes. The arrays can also be customised to contain a panel of genes tailored to a specific research interests. The design and master mix formulation facilite the PCR [polymerase chain reaction] array to amplify 96 different gene-specific products simultaneously under uniform cycling conditions.

OBS

PCR: polymerase chain reaction.

Key term(s)
  • PCR micro-array
  • PCR microarray

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biotechnologie
  • Biologie moléculaire
OBS

PCR : Réaction en chaîne de la polymérase.

Spanish

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Record 10 2016-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Existentialist Doctrines
  • Sociology of Ideologies
DEF

[An] ideological form of myth in discourse ... in which the attempt to choose between options is erased in the name of balance.

Key term(s)
  • neithernorism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines existentialistes
  • Sociologie des idéologies
CONT

Le ninisme. [...] cette figure mythologique qui consiste à poser deux contraires et à balancer l'un par l'autre de façon à les rejeter tous deux.

Key term(s)
  • ni-nisme

Spanish

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