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Law/Patents - Law: Contract(s) | | Portuguese term or phrase: mau comportamento | | O exercício do direito de fiscalizaçao por parte de XX nao dispensa os ensaios de Recepçao Provisória e Definitiva,nem diminui de qualquer modo a responsabilidade do Adjudicatário no caso de posterior verificaçao do mau comportamento dos materiais, órgaos ou equipamentos ou da nao observancia de qualquer outro requisito do contrato. |
| | | English translation:poor performance | Explanation:
"performance" applies equally well to materials, machines, and equipment.
"Poor" captures best the absolute negative sense of "mau," which is stronger than "inadequate," an adjective that is only comparative ("not as good as adequate," "not satisfactory," "not up to par"). If the original author wanted the weaker sense of "inadequate," he or she would have said "inadequado." The expression "bad performance," while occasionally used, tends to sound strange because it is more often used to connote the moral sense applied to human behavior.
examples:
"This course is designed for experienced engineering personnel who require knowledge in a broad spectrum of highway materials... Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to...:
2. Identify and describe causes for poor performance of materials or structures." (See http://www.dot.state.tx.us/hrd/tdp/catalog/des114.htm)
"Though it [the VTC system] worked reasonably well as a clinical tool, it was costly, the images were poor and the equipment was less than reliable... The immediate after-action reports of this venture were critical, particularly regarding operating costs and the over-complexity and poor performance of equipment." (See http://www.federalmedicine.com/leit0200.html)
"Fuchs et al. propose to apply this method to reconstruct the real world scene from a large amount of fixed cameras. But at that time the speed of the stereo algorithm was much limited by the poor performance of machines. To overcome this problem, Kanade develops a video rate stereo machine..." (See http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/85873/10717)
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Carine H.
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4 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1 malfunctioning
Explanation:
bad behavior if refering to people the above when related to machines and other likewise
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| Ricardo Fonseca
Portugal
Local time: 07:26
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