deterioro
damage ; decay ; deterioration ; impairment ; embrittlement ; slippage ; degradation ; degeneration ; rot ; decline ; rack and ruin ; worsening ; dilapidation.
Wastage is sometimes defined as material which temporarily or permanently has evaded the usual lending procedures due to misplacement, damage, non-registration, theft or non-returns.
Nevertheless, deacidification alone will not stop the decay unless soluble copper compounds are removed from the object or converted to chemically inert compounds.
And thirdly and most importantly, I am concerned about some movements which I think symptomatize ideological deterioration and would have us, as someone put it, march boldly backwards into the future.
A well-designed multimodal application can be used by people with a wide variety of impairments.
This article considers the need for a survey of modern printed book collections, in the context of the embrittlement of book papers.
The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) also publishes FAO Books in Print on an intended annual cycle but the programme has been subject to slippage in recent years.
This article describes how the property of chemiluminescence - the faint emission of light from organic materials undergoing oxidisation - may be used to measure the rate of degradation of paper.
The article 'The degeneration of the work of man' examines the work of hunter/gathers, farmers, factory workers, and information handlers from the Ice Age to the Information Age.
The article 'Stop the rot!' reports on a half-day seminar on audiovisual conservation.
Library automation was in its ascendancy at precisely the same time that the nation's economy was firmly embarked on its present calamitous decline.
The policies that the Mugabe government have taken have lead the country to economic and political rack and ruin.
We have also considered other possible mechanisms to explain the worsening of hypokalemia in this patient.
If Central Park is to be rescued from the general dilapidation it is much money and energy intelligently directed must be expended.
acelerar el proceso de deterioro
hasten + rot
CD rot can be hastened by many factors including improper storage and handling during use.
deterioro biológico
biodeterioration
The article is entitled 'biodeterioration and biostability of library materials'.
deterioro cognitivo
cognitive impairment
Its relation to cognitive impairment is as yet uncleared.
deterioro del CDROM
CD rot
The purportedly 'permanent' CD-ROM medium follows the immutable laws of nature: the aluminum coating on the disc oxidises over time (a condition called disc rot or CD rot), resulting in an unreadable disc.
deterioro de los discos
disc rot
The purportedly 'permanent' CD-ROM medium follows the immutable laws of nature: the aluminum coating on the disc oxidises over time (a condition called disc rot or CD rot), resulting in an unreadable disc.
deterioro de los enlaces [En Internet, término usado para referirse al deterioro de los hipervínculos a otros servidores web que aparecen en una página web debido al cambio de las direcciones a las que apuntan o su desaparición total]
link rot
Link rot, in which a significant percentage of links no longer work due mainly to to URLs change or dissapearance, is a common problem on the Web.
deterioro de propiedad alquilada
dilapidation
A dilapidation deposit, usually equal to 1.5 times the monthly rental figure, must be paid by the tenant to cover any minor losses or dilapidation.
deterioro social
social decay
Cordelia emerges amid the moral depravity and social decay as one who is honest and true to her beliefs.
en deterioro
deteriorating
crumbling
decaying
dilapidated
disintegrating
This article discusses the current situation, emphasising the apparent complacency of the government in the face of incipiently deteriorating prospects for public libraries.
We must now look beyond crumbling books to determine the deeper significance of our stewardship obligations for the future = Debemos mirar más allá de los libros en deterioro para determinar cuál es el verdadero significado de nuestras obligaciones para el futuro.
Following World War II, 'urban renewal' referred primarily to public efforts to revitalize aging and decaying inner cities.
China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.
For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.
en estado de deterioro
decaying
dilapidated
Following World War II, 'urban renewal' referred primarily to public efforts to revitalize aging and decaying inner cities.
China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.
