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FUNCTIONAL GOAL [6 records]

Record 1 2024-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rehabilitation (Medicine)
CONT

Functional electrical stimulation(FES) is the use of electrical stimulation to activate several muscles in a coordinated sequence for the purpose of achieving a functional goal such as walking or grasping.

Key term(s)
  • functional electro-stimulation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réadaptation (Médecine)
CONT

La stimulation électrique fonctionnelle (SEF) est une méthode permettant de restaurer en grande partie l'activité motrice des membres paralysés. Le principe est d'appliquer des séquences de stimulations aux muscles appropriés, via des électrodes placées en surface du muscle ou appliquées directement sur les nerfs moteurs, afin de réaliser le mouvement souhaité.

Key term(s)
  • électro-stimulation fonctionnelle

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy (General)
  • Experimental Psychology
CONT

Functional contextualism(FC) in it's simplest form means that the "glasses we put on" to view humans endeavours focuses us on "behaviour in its context. "From this view, we assume all behaviour occurs in a context and has purpose. Our goal is to predict and influence that behaviour by considering why the behaviour occurs in that specific context.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
  • Psychologie expérimentale
CONT

[...] c’est-à-dire que les comportements sont influencés à chaque instant par une multitude de facteurs contextuels externes (environnement socioculturel, conséquences sociales, facteurs historiques) et internes (p. ex. relation entre le penseur et la pensée). Cette vision du monde, analogue au béhaviorisme radical de Skinner, fait ressortir la pluralité des variables du contexte et la difficulté à établir une compréhension univoque d’un comportement.

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Materials Processing
CONT

Material and product design incorporating agro-based materials goes beyond applications like thatched roofs, wattle façades and other examples harking back to older days. Its goal is to use proven and new technologies and make such composites that satisfy the demanded functional specifications while containing a high degree of environmental friendliness. The first applications of agro based materials in the building industry may be found in insulation and interior decoration. The Dutch market offers insulation materials based on waste paper(including Isofloc and Isocell). Flax insulation mats are produced in the Netherlands by Eco Fiber. Hemp is another material suitable for insulation mats. Hemp is better resistant to moisture than flax. But as yet there has not been much experience with applications of this material in the building industry. The use of coconut fibers as insulation material offers several benefits such as a low energy content and high insulation value. The material is naturally highly moisture resistant. Insulation materials can be treated with halogen-free cellulose fire retardant. To preserve the material, the fibers can be treated just like wood with boric salt. Another technology is to treat cellulose fibers via the so-called PLATO(Proving Lasting Advanced Timber Option) process. This involves heating the fibers in an autoclave under 14 atmosphere pressure to about 200 degrees Celsius. In this process the lignin and the hemi-cellulose in the fiber chemically react generating a water resistant bakelite-type of resin-compound around the remaining cellulose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration et mise en œuvre des matériaux
CONT

Voilà 8 ans désormais que AFT Plasturgie travaille à la mise en œuvre d'agro-matériaux dans les processus industriels, notamment dans la filière automobile et du bâtiment. L'entreprise a développé un procédé original de conditionnement des fibres de chanvre permettant d'obtenir une bonne interface fibre/polymère sans modification chimique des composants, assurant ainsi une très bonne compatibilité entre la fibre végétale et les matières thermoplastiques. Elle travaille sur 2 lignes de produits intégrant des fibres de chanvre : les [composés] thermoplastiques (granulés) destinés à la transformation par extrusion et injection et les non-tissés (production de pièces par thermocompression et renforcement des pièces moulées en résine thermodurcissable).

Key term(s)
  • agro matériau
  • agromatériau

Spanish

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Record 4 2007-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Federal Administration
OBS

In recognition of the need for overall functional direction over legal agents, a National Agent Affairs Program was established in 1996. In support of the reasonable demands of effectiveness, efficiency and economy, the ultimate goal of the Program is to provide the Department with a framework to strengthen its ability to administer and manage legal agent activities in such a way as to ensure the provision of quality legal service while containing the associated costs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Administration fédérale
OBS

Par suite de la reconnaissance du besoin d'assurer une orientation fonctionnelle générale aux mandataires, un programme national des mandataires a été mis sur pied en 1996. Pour répondre aux demandes raisonnables visant l'obtention de services juridiques efficaces, efficients et économiques, le but ultime du Programme est de fournir au Ministère un cadre qui lui permet de renforcer sa capacité d'administrer et de gérer les activités juridiques des mandataires de manière à assurer la prestation de services juridiques de qualité et à endiguer les coûts connexes.

Spanish

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Record 5 2006-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
CONT

An encounter with a foreign pathogen or antigen stimulates naive T lymphocyte activation and the generation of immunologic memory. The T cells which are responsible for immunologic memory differ, both phenotypically and functionally, from naive T cells. Of interest is the observation that aging is associated with an enhanced level of memory T cells, suggesting that the qualitative T cell response differs in the elderly. Further, differences in the proportion of memory to naive T cells may be responsible for immune dysfunction and autoimmunity associated with the aging process. In general, the goal of our research is to characterize the differences between antigenically naive(virgin) and memory T helper cells at the developmental, phenotypic, and functional levels

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
CONT

Pour être efficace, la réponse immunitaire doit être adaptée à chaque type d'infection. De ce fait, les lymphocytes T naïfs peuvent se différencier, en fonction des besoins, soit en lymphocytes auxiliaires de type Th1, soit en Th2.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioquímica
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Record 6 1986-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

A functional goal consists of two goals : a proper goal for the literal followed by an "!"(abort-) goal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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