azar
fortuity.
Luck also called fortuity is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a persons control.
al azar
at random
by chance
haphazardly
indiscriminate
indiscriminately
random
randomly
pot luck
hit (and/or) miss
odd
by a fluke
lucky draw
lucky dip
by luck
by a stroke of (good) luck
draw of lots
Observations were made at random by uninvolved observers.
If, by chance, the newly entered item is identical to one already in the file, DOBIS/LIBIS ignores the new entry.
Although university education in modern India dates back to 1856, libraries developed haphazardly and were more embellishments than an integral part of the academic programme.
Nonetheless, the indiscriminate use of both terms in a data base creates a situation in which the serious scholar is either deprived of access to half of the material in the collection, or must consult two sequences.
Furthermore, the value of citation bibliometry is currently being undermined by the formation of 'citation clubs', which aim to indiscriminately achieve maximum cross-citing between 'club members'.
Where the subcategory is small the subsequent arrangement is random.
The reason for this is that the qualifier, Public Libraries, is randomly distributed depending on whether other facets are cited in between.
In addition to the 'pot luck' method which some indexers seem to favour, we now have the use of PRECIS to serve as the indexing method in BNB.
Funds are low, so libraries could benefit from interlibrary loan schemes, although without a national union catalogue, efforts to serve readers are hit and miss = Los fondos son escasos, por lo que las bibliotecas se podrían beneficiar del préstamo interbibliotecario, aunque, sin un catálogo colectivo nacional, los esfuerzos para atender a los usuarios son una lotería.
For example, review articles are expected to be supported by extensive bibliographies, whilst it is unusual for a letter to carry more than the odd citation.
The study revealed that most of the deformities are caused by a fluke.
Spend more than $100 and you will qualify to take part in a lucky draw where you stand the chance to win $2000 cash.
The article 'Ephemera and art libraries: archive or lucky dip' argues that ephemera are valuable for the historical perspectives, social insights and visual stimuli they can generate.
Machiavelli insisted that the Prince be aware that he was Prince mostly by luck and his job was to never admit it.
The stream suddenly swept him away, and it was only by a stroke of luck that they found him.
In case number of applications received is more than the flats available, allotment is made through draw of lots.
asignado al azar
randomised [randomized, -USA]
The library literature nevertheless contains diverse examples of randomised controlled trials.
azares
vicissitudes
ups and downs
The textual vicissitudes of British nineteenth-century novels in America are notorious.
The book trade is a mixed bag of ups and downs even within one broad category of publishing.
código generado al azar
nonce
This article will explain how to implement a nonce to be used with authentication.
comprobación al azar
spot check
To answer this question, the writer made a spot check of selected schools in Texas by means of a mailed questionnaire.
control al azar
spot check
To answer this question, the writer made a spot check of selected schools in Texas by means of a mailed questionnaire.
dejado al azar
stochastic
Indeed, the direction we seem to be embarked on may result in the negation of a century of well-established principles in favor of a machine-negotiated, stochastic access to individual items in the collection.
dejar Algo al azar
leave + Nombre + to chance
The author argues that it could be beneficial to leave some things to chance because one's outlook may be broadened in the process.
disparar al azar
take + pot shots at
Clearly there is at least one nutter roaming the river banks of our city taking pot shots at wildlife.
distribuido al azar
randomised [randomized, -USA]
The library literature nevertheless contains diverse examples of randomised controlled trials.
el azar quiso que [Con sentido positivo o negativo dependiendo del contexto] [Con sentido positivo o negativo dependiendo del contexto]
as luck would have it
as fate would have it
as good luck would have it
Today seemed like any other day under the blue skies of the tradewinds until, as luck would have it, his paddle broke.
As fate would have it, I wasn't pregnant, but I would have accepted and loved this child with all my heart.
When we came to supper there was neither a knife nor a fork on the table to eat with, but as good luck would have it, we had knives of our own.
escoger al azar
pick at + random
So, in practice, instead of exploiting the rich coordination of natural language, most systems ignore these links between concepts and resort to picking words from text at random.
escogido al azar
randomly chosen [randomly-chosen]
randomly selected
He inherited a deplorable 'library' with a randomly-chosen collection of tattered, torn, defaced books.
Accessing the web today is like entering a large library, where there is no catalogue but where a deranged janitor has assembled in the lobby a few pages torn from the indexes of randomly selected volumes = El acceso a la web hoy en día es como entrar en una gran biblioteca, donde no existe un catálogo, pero donde un conserje pirado ha reunido en el vestíbulo unas cuantas páginas arrancadas de los índices de algunos volúmenes seleccionados al azar.
inspección al azar
spot check
To answer this question, the writer made a spot check of selected schools in Texas by means of a mailed questionnaire.
juegos de azar
gambling
The library was created as a mechanism of social control to act as an antidote to the miners' proclivity for drinking, whoring and gambling.
jugar al azar
gamble
In the case of bookshops the function of 'buying' calls for real skill since the bookseller is gambling with his (or her) capital in purchasing the goods.
muestra al azar [Conjunto de individuos de una población cuya probabilidad de ser escogidos es la mima]
random sample
This study uses multiple regression analysis to investigate the determinants of the variations in prices for a random sample of 439 periodicals.
muestreo al azar
random sampling
This research examined a random sampling of 500 public libraries serving populations of 25 000 or more.
muestreo al azar estratificado
stratified random sampling
The article is entitled 'The effectiveness of simple and stratified random sampling in broadcast news content analysis'.
muestreo al azar simple
simple random sampling
The article is entitled 'The effectiveness of simple and stratified random sampling in broadcast news content analysis'.
que deja mucho al azar
hit-or-miss
There may be many excellent community information services whose praises have gone unsung and it may seem that my choice has been based on a rather hit-or-miss method.
seleccionado al azar
randomly chosen [randomly-chosen]
randomly selected
He inherited a deplorable 'library' with a randomly-chosen collection of tattered, torn, defaced books.
Accessing the web today is like entering a large library, where there is no catalogue but where a deranged janitor has assembled in the lobby a few pages torn from the indexes of randomly selected volumes = El acceso a la web hoy en día es como entrar en una gran biblioteca, donde no existe un catálogo, pero donde un conserje pirado ha reunido en el vestíbulo unas cuantas páginas arrancadas de los índices de algunos volúmenes seleccionados al azar.
seleccionar al azar
pick at + random
So, in practice, instead of exploiting the rich coordination of natural language, most systems ignore these links between concepts and resort to picking words from text at random.
tirar al azar
take + pot shots at
Clearly there is at least one nutter roaming the river banks of our city taking pot shots at wildlife.
