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CRITERION GROUP [9 records]

Record 1 2025-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
CONT

... the Group of Experts on Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties... agreed that, since the criterion of material injury was one of the two factors required to allow anti-dumping action, the initiative for such action should normally come from domestic producers who considered themselves injured or threatened with injury by dumping. Governments would, however, have the right to take such initiative...

OBS

When an imported product is dumped and the dumped imports are causing material injury to a domestic industry producing the like product, anti-dumping measures are remedies that may be applied by the importing member.

Key term(s)
  • material injury standard

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
CONT

[...] critère du dommage important figurant dans l'Accord antidumping [...]

OBS

Lorsqu'un produit importé fait l'objet d'un dumping et que cela cause un dommage important à une branche de production nationale produisant un produit similaire, le membre importateur peut appliquer des mesures antidumping à titre de mesures correctives.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
DEF

Any derived score using as its unit the standard deviation(or some fraction thereof) of the population that is regarded as the criterion group.

OBS

derived score: A score derived from another score or scores by a statistical manipulation of the original data or measures ...

OBS

standard deviation: A measure of the dispersion or variability of a whole distribution.

OBS

Standard scores, when based on normal distributions, are for most purposes comparable even though the raw scores are incomparable. Thus, by standard scores it is possible to show that a person can jump better than he can run (even though feet jumped is incommensurable with yards per second) or that he is more intelligent than he is emotionally stable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
CONT

Aucune donnée n'a été publiée en France pour l'Inventaire de CATTELL, mais les références d'origine américaine sont plus complètes, et des normes ont été établies par profession, notamment pour les vendeurs. Comme elles ont été calculées en notes standard, nous avons adopté la même méthode pour nos moyennes, ceci afin de faciliter les comparaisons [...]

Key term(s)
  • note étalonnée

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estadística
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Record 3 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
  • Public Service
DEF

At the Public Service of Canada, the criterion, listed in a job classification standard of the grade description variety, for determining whether a specific job rates at level one, level two or level three etc., in the new occupational group.

OBS

Most often used in its plural form to represent all the determinants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
  • Fonction publique
OBS

S'emploie habituellement au pluriel pour désigner l'ensemble des déterminants.

DEF

En classification, critères utilisés pour établir le niveau d'un poste dans un plan d'évaluation établi selon la méthode de description de niveaux.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
DEF

A complex biotic community covering a large geographic area and characterized by the distinctive life forms of important climax species of plants and animals.

OBS

A life form is the common morphological features that characterize a group of organisms. On the land, a biome is identified by the life form of the dominant climax plants, as well as by the distinctive types of vegetation and landscape in which they grow. In the ocean, the life forms of the predominant animals serve as the criterion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
DEF

Vaste unité écologique de physionomie homogène, s'étendant sur des surfaces importantes où dominent les mêmes conditions climatiques.

OBS

La savane africaine, la forêt boréale, la toundra, le désert constituent des biomes, qui correspondent chacun à une formation végétale particulière, de même que les dunes, les prairies, les eaux saumâtres, etc.

PHR

Biome dispersé, linéaire, océanique, terrestre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecosistemas
DEF

Comunidad de organismos que ocupa un área muy amplia, por ejemplo, los bosques tropicales.

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Record 5 2007-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recruiting of Personnel
  • Labour and Employment
  • Public Service
CONT

In a closed competition, the occupational criterion means a specific occupational stream that may span several occupations(such as health care services, social services, etc.), may be more specific and refer to a particular occupation(such as registered nurse, lawyer, etc.) or occupational group(such as CS, FI, etc.).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recrutement du personnel
  • Travail et emploi
  • Fonction publique
CONT

Dans un concours interne, le critère professionnel sert à décrire un domaine professionnel comprenant plusieurs groupes et niveaux professionnels (tels les services de santé, les services sociaux, etc.). Il peut aussi être plus précis et décrire un emploi particulier (comme les infirmiers et infirmières, les avocats et avocates, etc.) ou un groupe professionnel (comme CS, FI, etc.).

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
DEF

The criterion that determines when a cycle, such as a group of events, is to be repeated or the total number of times that it is to be repeated. The criterion might be a magnitude, a sign, a fixed number, or the occurrence of any other event.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
OBS

itération : Répétition d'un groupe d'instructions un certain nombre de fois, fixé à l'avance, ou jusqu'à réalisation d'une condition définie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas operativos (Soporte lógico)
DEF

[Criterio que determina] el número total de veces que debe repetirse un ciclo.

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Record 7 1998-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
DEF

The relation between test scores and indices of criterion status obtained at approximately the same time.... tests are administered to a group on whom criterion data are already available. Thus the test scores of college students may be compared with their cumulative grade-point average at the time of testing...

OBS

for "concurrent validation" : The expression "concurrent validation" should not be used as a synonym of "concurrent validity" even though some authors tend to do so. "Concurrent validation" is the process used to determine the degree of "concurrent validity" of a test. "Concurrent validity" is a property or quality that a test must have and which is obtained by the process of validation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
DEF

Validité de construct établie selon un critère éprouvé.

Spanish

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Record 8 1987-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

Internal consistency.... Sometimes an adaptation of the contrasted group method is used, extreme groups being selected on the basis of the total test score. The performance of the upper criterion group on each test item is then compared with that of the lower criterion group. Items that fail to show a significantly greater proportion of "passes" in the upper than in the lower criterion group are considered invalid... Another application of the criterion of internal consistency involves the correlation of subtest scores with total score.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
CONT

Consistance interne. La technique de validation est alors la suivante: on constitue deux sous-groupes de sujets, le premier formé des sujets qui ont les notes les meilleures, le second par ceux qui ont les notes les plus basses. En examinant les résultats des deux groupes à chaque item, on retient comme items valides ceux qui présentent une corrélation suffisamment élevée avec la note idéale au test.

OBS

Malheureusement, cette notion ne se retrouve que dans une source française. En anglais, la notion n'apparaît que dans deux sources.

Spanish

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Record 9 1987-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

While the proposition that such intervention can help to stabilise exchange rates over time is appealing, the Working Group found that the application of the profitability criterion raised a number of very difficult issues. Such difficulties arise in connection with the concept of exchange rate stability, the relationship between exchange rate stability and profitability, and the measurement of profitability.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

Bien qu'il soit séduisant d'affirmer que de telles interventions peuvent contribuer à stabiliser les taux de change avec le temps, le groupe de travail a estimé que l'application du critère de rentabilité soulevait un certain nombre de problèmes très délicats. Ces difficultés sont liées au concept de stabilité du taux de change, à la relation entre stabilité du taux de change et rentabilité, et à la mesure de la rentabilité.

Spanish

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