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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | | French term or phrase: échelle d'étude | From the description of a research project on companies' relationships with non-profit organisations:
La première innovation de ce travail réside dans la localisation de ses recherches, autant pour le pays concerné que pour les opportunités qu’elle représente pour d’autres pays. Peu de recherches est en effet menée au Luxembourg sur ce sujet [...] Nous profiterons alors des opportunités que présentent le Luxembourg comme échelle d’étude pour collecter des informations. |
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| | case study | Explanation:
Although I generally use some form of "level" or "scale" to translate "échelle" in an academic context, here you could likely get away with "case study" as really all it is saying is that Luxembourg will be used as the case study here.
Best,
Jocelyne
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I would however turn the sentence around to say something like, "We will use Luxembourg as a case study to..."
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Paper Prepared for the 4 PhD Symposium of the Hellenic ...
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www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/.../pdf/4th.../GHIKAS.pdf
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The characteristics which make the EU a unique case study in international affairs are .....
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MANCHESTER PAPERS IN POLITICS: EPRU SERIES 3/2002 ...
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www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/.....
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3 Cyprus can be considered a unique case study in the sense that it is the only ...... |
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Explanation:
Although I generally use some form of "level" or "scale" to translate "échelle" in an academic context, here you could likely get away with "case study" as really all it is saying is that Luxembourg will be used as the case study here.
Best,
Jocelyne
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-09-09 10:28:59 GMT)
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I would however turn the sentence around to say something like, "We will use Luxembourg as a case study to..."
Ex:
PDF]
Paper Prepared for the 4 PhD Symposium of the Hellenic ...
- [ Traduire cette page ]
www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/.../pdf/4th.../GHIKAS.pdf
Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Afficher
The characteristics which make the EU a unique case study in international affairs are .....
PDF]
MANCHESTER PAPERS IN POLITICS: EPRU SERIES 3/2002 ...
- [ Traduire cette page ]
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/.....
Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Afficher
de G Christou - Autres articles
3 Cyprus can be considered a unique case study in the sense that it is the only ......
| Jocelyne S
France
Local time: 21:02
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