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CRITICAL REGION [18 records]

Record 1 2026-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
  • Software
  • Risks and Threats (Security)
  • Electronic Warfare
CONT

Cyberthreat modelling is the process of developing and applying a representation of adversarial threats, both within a network or in cyberspace. Such threats can target or affect a device, an application, a system, a network, a mission or business function, an organisation, a region or an entire critical infrastructure sector.

Key term(s)
  • cyberthreat modeling
  • cyber-threat modelling
  • cyber-threat modeling
  • cyber threat modelling
  • cyber threat modeling

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
  • Logiciels
  • Risques et menaces (Sécurité)
  • Guerre électronique
CONT

La modélisation des menaces est un processus structuré visant à identifier et à évaluer les menaces potentielles pour un système, une application ou un réseau. En comprenant comment, où et pourquoi un attaquant pourrait compromettre un système, les organisations peuvent prendre des mesures ciblées pour atténuer les risques. La modélisation des menaces [...] est adaptée à l'architecture, aux objectifs et aux vulnérabilités uniques de chaque système.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Intergovernmental Bodies and Committees
  • Climate Change
OBS

The IAI is an intergovernmental organization supported by 19 countries in the Americas dedicated to pursuing the principles of scientific excellence, international cooperation, and the full and open exchange of scientific information to increase the understanding of global change phenomena and their socio-economic implications. The IAI was envisaged as an intergovernmental instrument by which scientists and decision makers of countries throughout the Americas might jointly address the critical issues associated with global change in the region.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités intergouvernementaux
  • Changements climatiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités intergubernamentales
  • Cambio climático
OBS

El IAI es una organización intergubernamental conformada por diecinueve países de América que se rige por principios de excelencia científica, cooperación internacional e intercambio completo y abierto de información científica para mejorar la comprensión de los fenómenos del cambio global y sus implicancias socioeconómicas. El IAI fue pensado como un instrumento intergubernamental que permitiera a científicos y tomadores de decisiones de los países de las Américas abordar de forma conjunta cuestiones críticas asociadas al cambio global en la región.

OBS

IAI: por sus siglas en inglés "Institute for Global Change Research".

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Record 3 2023-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Mining Operations
CONT

Extractivism is the process of extracting natural resources from the Earth to sell on the world market. It exists in an economy that depends primarily on the extraction or removal of natural resources that are considered valuable for exportation worldwide. Some examples of resources that are obtained through extraction include gold, diamonds, lumber and oil. This economic model has become popular in many Latin American countries but is becoming increasingly prominent in other regions as well.

OBS

... during the last couple of years, the term has become increasingly important in Latin America, especially amongst scientists dealing with the recent economic developments of the region... Contemporary discussion focuses on the efforts of left leaning governments using revenues from resource extraction to finance social programs for the poor and middle classes in their respective countries. Negative effects such as environmental degradation and social costs are also highlighted in critical approaches...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Exploitation minière
CONT

[L']«extractivisme», néologisme […] né en Amérique latine, […] désigne, [selon] la définition la plus connue [...], une forme particulière d'extraction de ressources minières et naturelles, marquée par une forte intensité d'extraction (en volume), des richesses majoritairement destinées à l'exportation et peu (ou pas) transformées au moment d'être exportées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
  • Explotación minera
DEF

[...] extracción de recursos naturales, en gran volumen o alta intensidad, y que están orientados esencialmente a ser exportados como materias primas sin procesar, o con un procesamiento mínimo.

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Record 4 2019-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Sales (Marketing)
CONT

As part of the stores leadership team, the zone manager is responsible for the management, growth, and success of multiple stores within a designated region. Under the guidance of the regional director, the zone manager sets the standard for service, excellence, operation management, financial performance and leadership for all team members. Critical to this role, is the ability to lead by positive influence, foster a collaborative and customer-centric culture, and maintain operational efficiencies through the management of a model store.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Vente

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2018-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Universal entry(ies)
004227
occupation code, see observation
OBS

004227: Royal Canadian Mounted Police job code.

OBS

The member is responsible for : developing supplemental training, planning and implementing a program of training, performance standards for regional Major Case Management(MCM) operations and operational support personnel; participating as a member of the Major Case Management Operational Service Centre(MCMOSC) management team, defining, developing, promoting and implementing strategies to improve Electronic Major Case Management(E-MCM) program initiatives through service integration and developing partnerships; planning and identifying resourcing levels, preparing budgets and strategic forecasts and overseeing the hiring process for MCM personnel throughout the region; managing the region's MCM operational support central services unit operations; providing guidance on overall E-MCM program set up through the entire life cycle of the project; developing regional policy supplements, policy, best practices and standards; and managing the regional MCMOSC Rapid Response initiative to support critical operational initiatives.

Key term(s)
  • Major Cases Management Operational Services Centre Client Services Manager
  • Major Case Management Operational Service Center Client Services Manager
  • Major Cases Management Operational Services Center Client Services Manager

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
004227
occupation code, see observation
OBS

004227 : code d'emploi de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada.

OBS

Le membre remplit les fonctions suivantes : élaborer la formation complémentaire, et élaborer et mettre en œuvre un programme de formation ainsi que des normes de rendement pour le personnel régional des opérations et du soutien opérationnel de la Gestion des cas graves (GCG); à titre de membre de l'équipe de gestion du Centre des services opérationnels de la Gestion des cas graves (CSOGCG), définir, élaborer, promouvoir et mettre en œuvre des stratégies visant à améliorer les initiatives du programme de gestion de cas graves électronique (GCGe) par l'intégration des services, et établir des partenariats; planifier et déterminer les niveaux de ressources, établir les budgets et les prévisions stratégiques, et coordonner le processus d'engagement du personnel de GCG dans toute la région; gérer les opérations du groupe régional des services centraux de soutien opérationnel de la GCG; donner des conseils sur l'organisation générale du programme de GCGe durant tout le cycle de vie du projet; élaborer des normes, des politiques, des pratiques exemplaires et des suppléments régionaux à la politique; gérer l'initiative régionale d'intervention rapide du CSOGCG pour appuyer des initiatives opérationnelles critiques.

OBS

gestionnaire du Service à la clientèle du Centre des services opérationnels de la Gestion des cas graves : Bien que ce titre soit tiré du «Manuel de gestion des carrières» de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada, «gestionnaire des Services à la clientèle du Centre des services opérationnels de la Gestion des cas graves» est préférable.

Key term(s)
  • Centre des services opérationnels de la Gestion des cas graves, gestionnaire du Service à la clientèle

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Helicopters (Military)
  • Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance
CONT

The lower blade velocity of the retreating blade and the negative lift of the reverse flow region cause the outboard portion of the retreating blade to operate at higher and higher angles of attack as the aircraft forward flight speed is increased. At some airspeed, the retreating blade will surpass its critical stall angle of attack. This is referred to as retreating blade tip stall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hélicoptères (Militaire)
  • Aérotechnique et maintenance

Spanish

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Record 7 2009-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audio Technology
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
CONT

Precise control of the tape in the critical region where it passes the rotating heads was accompanied by the use of a "vacuum guide, "or "female guide, "which forms the tape into the required curved "canoe. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Électroacoustique
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Foreign Trade
OBS

The APPF is a loosely-structured and non-exclusive forum of national parliamentarians who participate either as delegates of their parliaments or in their personal capacities. The APPF, which was founded by the former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, seeks to provide opportunities for national parliamentarians of the Asia Pacific region to identify and discuss matters of common concern and interest and to highlight them in a global context; to deepen their understanding of the policy concerns, interests and experiences of the countries of the region; to examine the critical political, social, and cultural developments resulting from economic growth and integration; to encourage and promote regional cooperation at all levels on matters of common concern to the region; and to play the roles of national parliamentarians in furthering in their respective countries a sense of regional cohesion, understanding and cooperations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Comercio exterior
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Record 9 2003-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physics
CONT

percolation theory, the theory of the properties of classical particles interacting with a random medium, is of wide applicability and provides a simple picture exhibiting critical behaviour... In this review the concepts of percolation theory and the general features associated with the critical region about the onset of percolation are developed in detail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique
CONT

Dans la percolation, les liaisons valent (+1) ou (0); dans la frustration, les liaisons valent (+1) ou (-1). En général, dans un matériau magnétique désordonné, les deux effets seront mélangés: l'effet de percolation, c'est l'apparition d'amas isolés par la déconnexion progressive du réseau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física
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Record 10 2003-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

A test in which the statistic used is one-dimensional and the critical region is the set of values lower than a given number(or the set of values greater than a given number).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
DEF

Test dans lequel la statistique utilisée est unidimensionnelle et la région critique comprend uniquement l'ensemble des valeurs inférieures à un nombre donné (ou l'ensemble des valeurs supérieures à un nombre donné).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estadística
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
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Record 11 2003-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Physics
OBS

subsonic plasma flow : Theories of solar wind origin place the transition region from subsonic plasma flow to supersonic flow somewhere between 1 and 10 solar radii. Radio scattering experiments on Viking during superior conjunction suggest a critical point closer to 10 solar radii.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique spatiale

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physical Geography (General)
CONT

Olson et al(1997) completed a conservation assessment of 117 freshwater ecoregions and ecoregion complexes for the entire Neotropical Region.... Critical ecoregions include : Caribbean lowlands, Maraciabo basin, Lake Poopo, Atacama deserts, Parano-Platense delta and the Mediterranean ecoregions of Chile. Two of the most endangered habitat types are flooded river plains such as floating meadows and varzea forests, threatened by logging and conversion to pasture, and cataracts, lost over vast areas due to dams and water diversions...

Key term(s)
  • floating meadows

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géographie physique (Généralités)
DEF

Prairie irriguée de Lombardie et du Piémont, où l'eau est distribuée par des rigoles à époque fixes.

CONT

Au printemps, l'irrigation par des eaux chaudes permet le réchauffement du sol d'où une augmentation de la précocité : tel est le cas en Italie du Nord de l'irrigation de prairies avec l'eau de certaines sources appelées marcites.

Key term(s)
  • marcites

Spanish

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Record 13 2000-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
CONT

Strengthen and improve existing national and regional networks of health information and surveillance systems, so that stakeholders have access to data to address critical health issues in the Region, in order to make appropriate clinical and managerial decisions.

OBS

Terminology related to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiating process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
CONT

Renforcer et améliorer les réseaux nationaux et régionaux existants d'information et de surveillance en matière de santé, de manière à ce que les intéressés aient accès à des données relatives aux questions de santé critiques dans la région, afin de prendre les décisions d'ordre clinique et de gestion appropriées.

OBS

Terminologie du processus d'établissement de la Zone de libre-échange des Amériques (ZLEA).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
CONT

Fortalecerán y mejorarán las redes nacionales y regionales de información en salud y los sistemas de vigilancia, de modo que todos los interesados tengan acceso a los datos necesarios para abordar los asuntos críticos de salud de la Región, promoviendo una adecuada toma de decisiones en las áreas clínica y administrativa de los servicios de salud.

OBS

Terminología relacionada con el proceso de negociación del Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas (ALCA).

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Record 14 2000-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Deposits
  • Oil Production
DEF

In reservoir mechanics, the formation of liquid droplets in a gas as the well is produced and the pressure drops.

CONT

Retrograde condensation is the phenomenon that deals with the phase(liquid and vapor) behavior of a hydrocarbon mixture in the critical region where gas is converted to a liquid through a reduction in pressure.

CONT

When pressure is decreased, instead of the hydrocarbons expanding (as might be expected), they tend to condense. This phenomenon is known as retrograde condensation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gisements pétrolifères
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Condensation se produisant par chute de pression isotherme, ou à pression constante par un accroissement de température.

Spanish

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Record 15 1998-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
DEF

An instability in the melt flow through a die, starting at the entry to the die. It leads to surface irregularities on the finished article such as a regular helix or irregularly spaced ripples.

CONT

The term "melt fracture"... refers to extrudates, produced at critical shear stress, whose shapes are distorted.... abnormal stresses in the entrance region of a capillary, cause elastic failure or shear fracture of viscoelastic fluids, resulting in distorted extrudates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
DEF

Marques formées par l'immiscibilité partielle de deux courants de matière incomplètement fusionnés après leur rencontre. Elles sont provoquées par un entraînement de matière à mouler, partiellement solidifiée au contact du moule, qui a été ensuite soudée à la masse quand celle-ci a été durcie à son tour.

Spanish

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Record 16 1992-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (Physics)
CONT

As a black region forms, sometimes thin rivers of black will flow into the coloured area of the film. Critical fall, as this is known, usually happens with soap solution having more than 4% of surfactants. What causes critical fall? First, an island of thicker silver-white film is caught in the thinner black film....

OBS

"critical": relating to, indicating, or being a state in which or a measurement or point at which some quality, property, or phenomenon suffers a finite change or undergoes drastic alteration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des fluides et hydraulique (Physique)
OBS

"critique" : Se dit des valeurs des grandeurs (masse, température, pression, etc.) pour lesquelles se produit un changement dans les propriétés d'un corps, dans l'allure d'un phénomène.

Spanish

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Record 17 1991-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys
DEF

The given number which limits the critical region.

OBS

The choice between a one-sided test and a two-sided test is determined by the alternative hypothesis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
DEF

Nombre donné limitant la région critique.

OBS

Le choix entre un test unilatéral et un test bilatéral est déterminé par l'hypothèse alternative.

Spanish

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Record 18 1991-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Pollution
  • Anti-pollution Measures
DEF

An area of oil concentration which occurs behind and at some distance from containment booms. This area of oil thickening is important to the positioning of mechanical recovery devices(i. e. skimmers), and is the region where the droplet breakaway boom failure phenomenon is initiated when current flow exceeds critical velocity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'eau
  • Mesures antipollution
DEF

Épaississement localisé à la marge distale d'une nappe d'hydrocarbures retenue par une barrière. Cet épaississement influe sur la sélection de l'emplacement des dispositifs de récupération mécaniques (c'est-à-dire, les écrémeurs) et il est le siège du phénomène d'arrachement des gouttelettes d'hydrocarbures qui peuvent remonter derrière la barrière lorsque le courant dépasse la vitesse critique.

Spanish

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