menor-2
juvenile ; minor ; reduced ; slight ; low-key [low key] ; lesser ; lower-key ; diminished ; low-keyed.
The construction of the hypothesis, however, should be limited to such considerations as whether the subject heading list is designed to serve the adult or the juvenile user.
A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
The model shows that market concentration rises with inelastic demand, reduced marginal costs and efficient technology.
The ISBD(CP)'s recommendations are very similar in principle to those for AACR2's 'in' analytics, except for slight changes in punctuation and order.
Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
The catalog's deterioration is leading us down the road to lesser quality library service.
After all, print technology can be represented by pencial, pen, type, laser output, and so forth, but the effect is lower-key.
This volume comes at a time when increasingly frequent criticisms have been leveled at superpower nations for their diminished interest in problems in Africa.
Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
a menor escala
at a reduced rate
Results showed that losses still occurred, at a reduced rate, but that vandalism appeared to be on the increase.
cada vez menor
decreasing
dwindling
diminishing
declining
falling
shrinking
receding
sinking
ebbing
descending
tumbling
thinning
It is impossible to read the library press today without reading about the increasing costs of maintaining, and the decreasing budgets of libraries, and particularly about the increasing costs of technical services.
Squeezed between the upper and nether millstones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.
It is remarkable how, in an economy with diminishing job opportunities, librarians compensate for their inability to demonstrate the value of their skills by seeking the protection of educational and certification requirements.
The public library is a complex institution, evolving through many decades of human history and colliding today with the perplexing realities of change, declining funding, and shifting purpose.
As well as cuts imposed by the Government, libraries were faced with inflation in the price of books and periodicals, and a falling rate of exchange between the pound and the dollar.
Many challenges lie ahead for those selling children's books with increased competition and shrinking profit margins.
Poland is currently enjoying a steadily rising national income, declining inflation, receding unemployment and an educational boom.
It has not yet been decided what strategies libraries will use to face the crisis of rising personnel costs and sinking funds for book acquisitions.
Every publisher, materials vendor, systems vendor and bibliographic utility that serve libraries face sharp competition for a share of the ebbing library market.
The second reason is that companies have to take care of costs to meet the descending price rate of the market.
World share markets sank Thursday after a slide on Wall Street sparked by tumbling demand for oil and fears of slackening growth in the U.S.
News of boundless timber reserves spread, and before long lumberjacks from the thinning hardwood forests of New England swarmed into the uncharted area with no other possessions than their axes and brawn and the clothing they wore.
con un menor nivel educativo
lesser-educated
Better-educated people, not surprisingly, tend to use libraries proportionately more than lesser-educated people.
delito de menor grado
misdemeanour [misdimeanor, -USA]
Every state has its own statutes and codes that may make the theft or mutilation of library materials a misdemeanor or even a felony.
delito menor
petty offense
petty crime
minor offence
These indigents, known to the public as tramps & skid row winos, are very visible & more likely to be arrested for drunkenness & other petty offenses than a person with a permanent home.
Examples of 'petty crimes' are riding the train without a ticket, reproducing copyright computer programs, traffic violations, tax evasion, & shoplifting.
A discharge means that the judge finds you guilty, but then discharges you instead of convicting you - usually in the case of minor offences and if you have no criminal history.
demanda cada vez menor
falling demand
The Spanish airline swung to a net loss in the second quarter, hurt by falling demand for air travel as the recession grips Spain.
de mayor o menor importancia
great and small
'At no time in history', according to Geoffrey Langley, 'did people of all types and classes stand more in need of information on all manner of matters great and small'.
de menor impacto
low impact [low-impact]
The majority of high-impact articles had been published by men, but so had most low-impact articles = La mayoría de los artículos de gran impacto han sido publicados por hombres, al igual que la mayoría de los artítulos de menor impacto.
de menor importancia [En un sistema de clasificación especializado, aquellas materias inciden en la especialidad temática de la clasificación de un modo tangencial]
fringe subject
of fringe interest
In a general classification there are, of course, no fringe subjects: all are of equal weight, and must be given their due place in the overall order.
The indexer recommends to use a general term rather than specific terms for subjects of fringe interest.
de menor importancia para
on the fringe of
In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.
desajuste cada vez menor entre y
narrowing gap between ... and
narrowing of the gap between ... and
Trends noted include the narrowing gap in interactive searching between Europe and the USA, and the inter-regional imbalance within Europe in volume of searches.
The result might be greater efficiency and the narrowing of the gap between different modes of thought regarding library classification.
de venta al por menor
retail
Dunkin' Donuts of America, Inc., the world's largest retail coffee and doughnut shop chain, uses the Informark system supplied by NDS a software package containing a demographic file of data from the 1980 USA Census and other commercial data bases.
diferencia cada vez menor entre y
narrowing gap between ... and
narrowing of the gap between ... and
Trends noted include the narrowing gap in interactive searching between Europe and the USA, and the inter-regional imbalance within Europe in volume of searches.
The result might be greater efficiency and the narrowing of the gap between different modes of thought regarding library classification.
en mayor o menor grado
to a greater or lesser degree
Nevertheless any nation is inevitably made up of a number of smaller regions, each with its own culture to a greater or lesser degree.
en mayor o menor medida
to a greater or lesser extent
The staff of SLIS have, to a greater or lesser extent, been drawn into such teaching.
en menor cantidad
less copiously
Wood letter was also produced in Europe but less copiously than in the United States, where later technical advances included die-stamping in place of pantographic copying, and wood letter with veneered and enamelled faces.
en menor grado
to a lesser extent
to a lesser degree
The Prussian Instructions were also widely adopted in Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and to a lesser extent Denmark, Holland and Norway.
Xworld is a good communications package that is most suitable for users interested in sending and receiving binary files, and to a lesser degree text files.
en paños menores
in + Posesivo + underclothes
Finally six men agreed to go forth in their underclothes and nooses around their necks in hopeful expectation that their sacrifice would satisfy the king's bloodlust and he would spare the rest of the citizens.
la menor duda de que
no doubt whatsoever
Powell said there was 'no doubt whatsoever' that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
mal menor
lesser evil
On the other hand, going sole source is a lesser evil than being 'listed' (as opposed to being stocked) by a distributor.
materiales menores
minor materials
Local publications are defined as the minor material, such as newsletters and pamphlets, which originates in a particular locality and could appropriately be acquired by a local studies library.
menor de + Número [Comparativo de few (poco)]
fewer than + Número
Those eligible normally include only companies with less than 45 million of net fixed assets and fewer than 500 employees.
menor, el
least, the
Of these three connectors, 'and' focusses your search with the least precision since it retrieves all records that contain both words anywhere in the record.
no tener la menor duda de que
there + be + no doubt in + Posesivo + mind that
A manqué artist will do when the real thing is unavailable, but there was no doubt in my mind that the musician onstage last night was incapable of delving deeply into any material.
no tener la menor importancia
be of no particular concern
Whether or not the distribution fits a Bradford distribution is of no particular concern.
Osa Menor, la
Little Dipper, the
Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor is colloquially known as the Little Dipper because its seven brightest stars seem to form the shape of a dipper.
Ursa Minor is colloquially known as the Little Dipper because its seven brightest stars seem to form the shape of a dipper.
paños menores
undies
Lingerie is ladies' underwear; lacy frilly knickers, bras, panties, undies, stockings, various fancy items.
presupuesto cada vez menor
shrinking budget
In the face of rising costs and stagnant or shrinking budgets, libraries are looking for efficient and less expensive methods of processing materials.
que no quepa la menor duda
make no mistake
Make no mistake, I take no joy in seeing peaceful protesters attacked.
ser el que con menor frecuencia
be (the) least likely to
Low income households and households in inner city locations are least likely to own a telephone.
ser menor
be less
Space requirements are less and capital outlay is considerably less, though this is offset by the higher maintenance costs.
símbolo de menor-que (<)
left angled bracket (<)
less-than sign (<)
The left angled bracket (<) is used to indicate that a 'see' reference has been made from the variant heading that follows.
Each see reference tracing, including the first, is precede by a less-than sign or left angled bracket (<).
sin el menor asomo de duda
without a shadow of a doubt
beyond a shadow of a doubt
beyond a shadow of a doubt
This is without a shadow of a doubt one of the weirdest and probably disturbing postings I have ever had the pleasure to read.
The film proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the official story is hogwash and that all the evidence points towards an inside job.
The film proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the official story is hogwash and that all the evidence points towards an inside job.
sin la menor duda
no mistake
no doubt
We were in a pickle too and no mistake.
The compiler of the classification scheme will no doubt be all too familiar with the order of subjects within the scheme = El compilador del sistema de clasificación sin duda estará muy familiariazado con el orden de las materias dentro del sistema.
sin la menor idea
clueless
Well, if you've come this far, and you started off clueless, I must congratulate you for wading through all these explanations.
sin la menor sombra de duda
without a shadow of a doubt
This is without a shadow of a doubt one of the weirdest and probably disturbing postings I have ever had the pleasure to read.
vender al por menor
retail
Beadle and Adams of New York's 'dime and nickel novels' included both new books and pirated English novels retailing as paperbacks at 10 cents a volume.
venta al por menor
retailing
retail trade
In this example, the reader is trying to follow up all the ramifications of a fairly comprehensive subject such as 'commerce', which might include not only 'retailing' but also 'wholesaling', 'accounting', 'consumer protection' and so on.
This article reports how supermarket chains confront the problems of the retail trade on a daily basis.
ventas al por menor
retail sales
Yesterday's report on March retail sales was greeted with banner headlines proclaiming the comeback of the consumer.
vías respiratorias menores, las
small airways, the
Rales are caused by fluid in the small airways or atelectasis.
