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Record 1 2024-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transportation
CONT

Comfort has been an increasingly important issue in air travel. Passenger comfort is clearly a key variable in research on user acceptance of transportation systems, and it is related to passengers’ satisfaction and the willingness to fly again. After realizing its importance in capturing and retaining customers, a growing number of airlines are focusing on comfort. How to improve the experience of passenger comfort has become a major strategic goal for the airline management.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transports

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
CONT

The summary jury trial is the only ADR [alternative dispute resolution] method which provides for case presentation before a jury. Although the process is time limited, the parties have the satisfaction of having their case heard by their peers. The goal of the summary jury trial is to provide litigants with a jury verdict which will help them facilitate settlement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Modes substitutifs de résolution des différends
OBS

procès sommaire devant jury : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
DEF

Usability testing refers to evaluating a product or service by testing it with representative users.... The goal is to identify any usability problems, collect qualitative and quantitative data and determine the participant's satisfaction with the product.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupational Bodies and Committees
  • Medical Staff
OBS

[It makes] a meaningful difference in improving health care for British Columbians by working alongside [its] members to achieve quality patient care through engagement, collaboration, and physician leadership. Legally operating as the British Columbia Medical Association, [it is a partner] in progress - helping to make sure the voices of BC’s doctors are heard by government, health authorities, media, and the public.

OBS

[Its] goal is to promote a social, economic, and political climate in which physician members can provide the citizens of British Columbia with the highest standard of health care, while achieving maximum professional satisfaction and fair economic reward.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités professionnels
  • Personnel médical

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Saving and Consumption
  • National Accounting
CONT

Personal consumption expenditures reflect spending to acquire goods and services for the direct satisfaction of individual or collective wants. Attaining higher levels of consumption now or in the future is a major goal of most individuals and a widely accepted indicator of national economic activity.

OBS

personal consumption expenditure; personal expenditure: terms usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • personal consumption expenditures
  • personal expenditures

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épargne et consommation
  • Comptabilité nationale
CONT

Les dépenses personnelles de consommation sont des dépenses visant à acquérir des biens et services pour la satisfaction directe de besoins individuels ou collectifs. Atteindre, immédiatement ou ultérieurement, un niveau de consommation supérieur est de première importance pour la plupart des gens et un indicateur généralement accepté de l’activité économique nationale.

OBS

dépenses personnelles de consommation; dépenses personnelles : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • dépenses personnelles de consommation
  • dépenses personnelles

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ahorro y consumo
  • Contabilidad nacional
Key term(s)
  • gastos de consumo personales
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Record 6 2006-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Experimental Psychology
DEF

Any response which does not directly bring satisfaction or is not immediately goal-directed but which is related to goal activity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie expérimentale

Spanish

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Record 7 1995-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

... a sequence of actions which leads to the satisfaction of a given goal.

DEF

A mapping from a task goal to either code or an abstract representation of code that achieves that goal.

CONT

Plans for goals ... representations that the computer can use to understand how events fit together with respect to the plans and goals that actors might be using in stories.

CONT

... in PROUST plans relate task goals to parameterized code templates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Ensemble des choix disponibles en vue d'accomplir un certain but.

Spanish

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Record 8 1993-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Personnel Management (General)
CONT

All organizations exist to satisfy human concerns and, as a consequence, customer satisfaction must be the number one goal for any organization. ²This means that organizations have to, first, understand their customers’ concerns and translate them into needs to which they can respond and, second, be able to marshall all their resources toward satisfying these needs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)
CONT

Toutes les organisations existent pour répondre aux préoccupations humaines; c'est pourquoi la satisfaction du client doit être le but premier de toute organisation.² Cela signifie que ces dernières doivent, tout d'abord, comprendre les préoccupations de leurs clients et les traduire en besoins auxquels elles peuvent répondre et ensuite, pouvoir mobiliser toutes leurs ressources pour satisfaire ces besoins.

Spanish

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Record 9 1981-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
OBS

A leadership theory which holds that the manager's job is to(a) clarify the tasks to be performed by subordinates,(b) clear away any roadblocks to goal attainment, and(c) increase the opportunity for subordinates to obtain personal satisfaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)

Spanish

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