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FUNCTIONAL HEAD [5 records]

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Record 1 2025-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
DEF

A stone sculpture that is shaped to look like a body or person and has spiritual meaning with practices related to it.

CONT

The Inuit also construct a stone figure called an inunnguaq, which means "in the likeness of a human. "This familiar stone figure with head, body, legs and arms is often mistakenly referred to as an inuksuk. Its purpose is more symbolic than functional.

OBS

A stack of stones shaped like a person with a head, body, arms, and legs that is often mistakenly called an inuksuk. This figure is a type inusugait that is more accurately called an inunnguaq.

OBS

inunnguaq: Inuktitut designation.

OBS

inunnguaqs; inunnguat: plural of "inunnguaq."

Key term(s)
  • inunnguaqs
  • inunnguat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
  • Arts et culture autochtones
CONT

Les Inuits construisent également un personnage de pierre connu sous le nom d'inunnguaq, qui signifie «à l'image d'un humain». Ce personnage de pierre familier possédant une tête, un corps, des bras et des jambes, est souvent appelé à tort inuksuk. En fait, sa raison d'être est plus symbolique que fonctionnelle.

OBS

Un empilement de pierres qui prend la forme d'une personne ayant une tête, un corps, des bras et des jambes est souvent appelé à tort un inuksuk. Ce personnage [est un type d'inusugait qui] se nomme plutôt inunnguaq [...]

OBS

inunnguaq : désignation empruntée à l'inuktitut.

OBS

inunnguaqs; inunnguat : pluriel de «inunnguaq».

Key term(s)
  • inunnguaqs
  • inunnguat

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Pollutants
CONT

Perfluoroalkyl substances are fully fluorinated(perfluoro-) alkane(carbon-chain) molecules. Their basic chemical structure is a chain(or tail) of two or more carbon atoms with a charged functional group(or head) attached at one end. The functional groups commonly are carboxylates or sulfonates...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Agents de pollution
CONT

On donne le nom «substance perfluoroalkylée» [...] à une molécule pour laquelle l'ensemble des atomes d'hydrogène de la chaîne carbonée sont [remplacés] par des atomes de fluor.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Recruiting of Personnel
  • Training of Personnel
CONT

On the basis of its experience in managing a number of upward feedback projects in the public and private sectors, and in light of interviews held with human resources managers in government and a half-day practitioners’ debate, Phillips found that: Managers feel that the main benefits of upward feedback are improved communications between managers and employees.

OBS

A human resources generalist, manager, or director plays a wide variety of roles in organizations... HR directors, and occasionally HR managers, may head up several different departments that are each led by functional or specialized HR staff such as the training manager, the compensation manager, or the recruiting manager.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Recrutement du personnel
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
DEF

Gestionnaire chargé du recrutement et de la formation du personnel dans une organisation.

CONT

En se fondant sur son expérience de la gestion de plusieurs projets de rétroaction ascendante dans les secteurs public et privé, ainsi que sur des entrevues menées auprès de gestionnaires des ressources humaines au gouvernement et un débat d'une demi-journée auquel participaient les praticiens, le Groupe Phillips a constaté que: selon les gestionnaires, les principaux avantages de la rétroaction ascendante résident dans l'amélioration de la communication entre les cadres et les employés.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Contratación de personal
  • Capacitación del personal
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Record 4 2015-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Sociology of Work
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Public Service
OBS

head of functional community : term used in the context of the Blueprint 2020 vision of the Government of Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Sociologie du travail
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Fonction publique
OBS

responsable de communauté fonctionnelle : terme utilisé dans le contexte de la vision pour Objectif 2020 du gouvernement du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hospital Furniture
CONT

Völker S 960 hospital bed. Functional features.... Mattress displacement device moves pivotal moment of back section towards head of bed during raising. This prevents the patient from sliding down the bed and concertinaing. Used in conjunction with other adjustment possibilities, this creates a kinaesthetic space that stimulates patient mobility.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mobilier d'hôpital
CONT

Lit médicalisé Völker S960 : Les fonctions. [...] La compensation du matelas (compensation longitudinale [...]) déplace en continu vers l'arrière le point de rotation du relève-buste lorsqu'on redresse celui-ci et évite ainsi à la personne alitée de se recroqueviller; en liaison avec les possibilités de réglage, il se forme un espace cinesthésique qui favorise les mouvements du patient.

Spanish

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