práctico
workable ; hands-on ; practical ; utilitarian ; instrumental ; working ; down-to-earth ; practice-oriented ; hardheaded [hard-headed] ; serviceable ; how-to ; experiential ; practically minded ; worldly ; matter-of-fact.
The type of environment in which the principles of pre-coordination are workable are restricted by the acceptable bulk or length of index headings.
As an aid to evaluation, hands-on practical work is rarely cost effective, even in undertaken by inexperienced staff.
Yet, in its own way, the press was taking the lead in putting pressure on the Community to adopt a more practical outlook, and by so doing kept the subject alive in the minds of the public.
Descriptive bibliography has long been acknowledged as one primary field of bibliographical activity and greeted especially warmly by those who wish to see a strictly utilitarian end for these studies.
There are five types of 'gratification', instrumental, prestige, reinforcement, aesthetic and respite, to be derived from the reading of literature.
As they grow up, children have to develop an identity and a working philosophy of life.
The report gives a down-to-earth account of the way in which membership of the European Community has materially affected major British industries.
This paper describes a computerised index of the articles contained in 6 practice-oriented medical periodicals.
Managers should be encouraged to raise critical questions, and the criteria for evaluating progress must be as hardheaded as possible.
He provided us with this very serviceable definition: 'Bibliographical control is the development and maintenance of a system of adequate recording of all forms of material published and unpublished, printed, audio-visual or otherwise, which add to the sum of human knowledge and information'.
In addition, adult education in general has moved from an emphasis on the liberal arts to a concentration on practical, 'how-to' courses.
This necessitates the sharing of experiential knowledge at various levels and in various forms.
He is practically minded, not taking unnecessary risks or deliberately hurting his victims if nothing is to be gained.
There exist sets of duality in this philosophy; body versus soul, worldly versus unworldly and life versus salvation.
The videotape of the interviews showed the offender to be impassive and matter-of-fact in describing what he had done.
a efectos prácticos
to all intents and purposes
for all practical purposes
for all intents and purposes
to all intents
To all intents and purposes he is unaware of its existence.
The superintendent stated that this was an area she herself was anxious to investigate, because for all practical purposes salary increases were automatic and equal 'across-the-board'.
In the 20th century, the debate about weeding followed, for all intents and purposes, the contours of the controversy surrounding the Quincy Plan.
Suppose, for example, that the indexer decides that the terms 'Great Britain' and 'United Kingdom' are to all intents synonyms.
aplicación práctica
practical application
Thus the day for practical application of bibliographical hypotheses is continually being put off.
basado en un método práctico
enquiry-based [inquiry-based, -USA]
Such studies accord well with enquiry-based and open-ended educational strategies, to which education librarians are appropriately sympathetic.
caso práctico
case
practical case
Cases provide 'realistic' educational experiences for students beginning their study of business administration.
The author shows that in most practical cases Salton's cosine formula yields a numerical value that is twice Jaccard's index.
casos prácticos
best practices
Benchmarking is a technique companies use to compare themselves against other companies and identify best practices.
conocimiento práctico [Conocimiento que alguien posee de cómo hacer algo y que generalmente se contrapone o complementa al 'conocimiento teórico' (declarative knowledge) sobre algo]
procedural knowledge
Procedural knowledge have a significant direct influence on attitudes toward the Internet, frequency of Internet use, and, in particular, the number of different Internet tools used.
consejo práctico
tip
practical tip
hint
However, before proceeding to the directory of official sources, a few tips on how to deal with Whitehall departments may be useful.
This article presents some practical tips to help users of DIALOG's DIALOGLINK including buffer size, screen speed-up, startup short cuts, dealing with accounting files and use of DIALOGLING with other services.
This section is intended to provide some hints about the entry of a large number of prediction patterns.
consejos prácticos
hints and tips
This article offers practical tips and hints on the effective use of on-line bibliographic data bases.
consideración práctica
practical consideration
Practical considerations do, in fact, limit the number of entries that it is feasible to make for any given document.
con una mente práctica
practically minded
He is practically minded, not taking unnecessary risks or deliberately hurting his victims if nothing is to be gained.
cuestión práctica
practicality
However, most contributors to the debate about the future of SLIS have eschewed practicalities in favour of sweeping and dramatic generalizations.
de un modo práctico
practically
However, the rules of 1908 and 1949, on which practically all our catalogs have been based, included no such provision, save in the case of so-called anonymous classics.
ejercicio práctico
practical
practical exercise
hands-on exercise
General lectures to a whole year, or even several courses, are supplemented with more specialised tutorials or practicals, frequently in small groups.
A practical exercise was carried out in 100 articles chosen randomly from periodicals.
The use of these Web pages along with a hands-on exercise proved an effective mechanism for active learning.
escritor de casos prácticos
case writer [case-writer]
Case-writers are the students' proxies on the scene.
examen práctico
practical examination
Learner drivers must pass a theory test before they take their practical examination, but driving instructors say it does not guarantee that learners have mastered the Highway Code.
experiencia práctica
field experience
hands on experience
practical experience
From evaluation of findings, practical field experience is singled out as the most important prerequisite for effective university training in agricultural extension.
A wholly estimable rush of enthusiasm on the part of IT staff could devour all available spare resources overnight if severely rationed 'hands on' experience time was exceeded.
The practical experience of any librarian at an information desk will confirm this over and over again.
formación práctica
hands-on training
Today most graduate students have few opportunities for hands-on training.
guía práctica
working guide
field guide
A working guide is to seek to make any abstract as informative as possible within the constraints of time, length and audience.
The article 'The birds and the bees' argues that children who use field guides may pick up information handling skills without noticing.
información práctica
practical information
This yearbook will provide teachers and researchers interested in peace and conflict studies with practical information.
manual práctico
how-to manual
how-to book
instruction manual
how-to-do-it book
how-to-do-it manual
The selected genealogical materials held by the Arkansas University library which are listed include how-to manuals, bibliographies, dictionaries, and encyclopedias and guides.
How-to books which can cause harm are not advocated (including works on weapons, martial arts or hypnotism).
In teaching session after teaching session, day after day, school tasks are administered through textbooks, instruction manuals, reference works, etc - tomes teeming with problems for the pupils to solve.
One of the aims of our library is to strengthen collection of 'how-to-do-it' books and programmed materials for individual instruction.
In my previous books on reference work I have been at pains to explain that they were not written as 'how-to-do-it' manuals.
poco práctico
impractical
awkward
In a real library situation you would, of course, have the documents themselves but this is impractical in a course of this nature.
Access is impaired by archaic, awkward, or simply strange headings that most normal persons would never look for on their first try.
problema práctico
practical problem
He asked for a discussion of the practical problems which face practicing librarians and media specialists and urged me to state my opinion on all matters.
razón práctica
practical reason
This was all compounded by the fact that the wedding itself was somewhat precipitate, done when it was for practical reasons.
supuesto práctico
case
Cases provide 'realistic' educational experiences for students beginning their study of business administration.
trabajo práctico
fieldwork [field work]
practical work
The advise was based upon the assumption that students were taught, chalk in hand, in large classroom-based groups with little or no fieldwork or visits.
Teaching is done through lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical work both in the classroom and the library.
