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CRITICAL OBJECT [12 records]

Record 1 2026-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Video Technology
DEF

... the process of gathering video recordings for training and testing AI [artificial intelligence] and machine learning models.

CONT

Video data collection is critical to training AI [artificial intelligence] models to perceive and interpret the environments around them, enabling capabilities like motion detection, facial recognition, object tracking, scene recognition and more.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Vidéotechnique
CONT

[...] la collecte de données vidéo est essentielle à l'entraînement des modèles de vision par ordinateur. Pour entraîner [des] modèles de vision par ordinateur et d'apprentissage automatique, [...] des données audiovisuelles haute résolution provenant de diverses sources [sont collectées], notamment le trafic, la biométrie, le comportement humain et les images de surveillance.

Key term(s)
  • collecte de données vidéos

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Educational Psychology
  • Logic (Philosophy)
CONT

Abstract thinkers use analogies and metaphors to understand the world. They can read body language and generally are able to identify both verbal and nonverbal social cues. They can see the space difference in an object and envision what it looks like behind it without having to rotate the object. They’re critical thinkers, science-minded, and can often reason quite well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Psychologie scolaire
  • Logique (Philosophie)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vocabulario general
  • Psicología educacional
  • Lógica (Filosofía)
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Record 3 2021-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
  • incorrect RH
CONT

Relative humidity, unlike fire, water, pests, etc., cannot be considered an agent of deterioration—we cannot speak of avoiding relative humidity(RH) — but we can avoid "incorrect" relative humidity. From a practical risk assessment perspective, the many forms of incorrect RH can be subdivided into four types : Damp, over 75% RH; RH above or below a critical value for that object; RH above 0%; [and] RH fluctuations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
  • HR inadéquate
CONT

Du point de vue pratique de l'évaluation des risques, on peut classer les nombreux cas d'HR inadéquate en quatre catégories : [des] conditions d'humidité excessive, où l'HR est supérieure à 75 %; [des] cas où l'HR est supérieure ou inférieure à une valeur critique, pour un objet donné; [des] cas où l'HR est supérieure à 0 %; [des] variations d'HR.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
DEF

The apparent brightness of an object viewed through a slotted-disk, rotating above a critical frequency, is proportional to the ratio of the angular aperture of the open to the opaque sectors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Óptica
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Record 5 2015-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... a combination to injure another is prima facie actionable.... the critical issue is the object or purpose of those acting in concert... If the defendants acted in pursuit of a legitimate object, their combination is not vitiated by glee at the adversary's expected discomfiture...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... a combination to injure another is prima facie actionable... the critical issue is the object or purpose of those acting in concert.... If the defendants acted in pursuit of a legitimate object, their combination is not vitiated by glee at the adversary's expected discomfiture....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

L'avocat devra s'assurer que son recours poursuit un but légitime et n'intervient qu'en cas de stricte nécessité dans le respect des principes posés par les textes et le CEDH.

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-05-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

At one time, it used to be widely thought that a combination to injure was not actionable, unless it was inspired by malice or "disinterested malevolence". But as now formulated, a combination to injure another is prima facie actionable unless there is some justification recognized by law. Thus the critical issue is the object or purpose of those acting in concert.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

coalition délictueuse : terme recommandé par le Centre de traduction et de terminologie juridiques de l'université de Moncton.

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
CONT

Hennequin's prototype of a pneumatic tactile glove has layers of strategically placed air bladders that are rapidly inflated and deflated. The inventor claims that the size, location, and pressure of the tiny air bladders are the critical variables needed to create tactile illusions. By inflating the right patterns of bladders in the glove to the right amount of pressure, Hennequin hopes to be able to replicate the sensation of grasping an object and recognizing its shape. This is not the same kind of computerized glove that has dominated the VR story so far, although the ultimate goal is to combine a tactile glove with a gesture-sensing glove.

OBS

Tactile gloves are viewed as output devices whereas Data Gloves are input devices.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
  • Spacecraft
OBS

Mission : Space surveillance is a critical part of USSPACECOM's mission and involves detecting, tracking, cataloging and identifying man-made objects orbiting Earth, i. e. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris. Space surveillance accomplishes the following : Predict when and where a decaying space object will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere; Prevent a returning space object, which to radar looks like a missile, from triggering a false alarm in missile-attack warning sensors of the U. S. and other countries; Chart the present position of space objects and plot their anticipated orbital paths; Detect new man-made objects in space; Produce a running catalog of man-made space objects; Determine which country owns a re-entering space object; Inform NASA whether or not objects may interfere with the space shuttle and Russian Mir space station orbits.

Key term(s)
  • United States Space Surveillance System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
  • Engins spatiaux
OBS

Depuis plusieurs décennies, les États-Unis disposent d'un réseau de surveillance spatiale (Space Surveillance Network (SSN), contrôlé par le United States Space Command) qui leur permet de repérer, de suivre, de cataloguer et d'identifier tous les objets de plus de 10 cm qui se trouvent en orbite terrestre, en s'intéressant plus particulièrement aux satellites opérationnels.

Key term(s)
  • Réseau de Surveillance spatiale
  • Réseau de Surveillance spatiale des États-Unis

Spanish

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Record 10 1997-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
DEF

The value of an object that is an indication of the system time at some critical point in the history of the object.

OBS

Time stamp, if needed, may include a date indication and is then more properly called "time-date stamp."

Key term(s)
  • time-date stamp
  • time and date stamp

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI

Spanish

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Record 11 1995-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

The developmental stage in which a normal child, at about age two, learns to retain images it does not see.

CONT

... Piaget ... noted there is a stage at which children begin to grasp the concept of object permanence: Before the developmental transition, a toy does not exist once it is removed from the child’s sight. Afterward, the toy exists - and the child will look for it - even when it is no longer visible.

OBS

A critical aspect of a child's development of what Piaget calls the object concept is the notion of its permanence. Specifically, the reference here is to the awareness that a physical object is permanent that it continues to exist even when the child no longer interacts with it.

OBS

Object permanence develops during the sensorimotor period of Piaget’s stages of child development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain

Spanish

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Record 12 1988-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
OBS

Critical object used in pattern recognition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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