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Record 1 2024-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agriculture - General
  • Environment
CONT

Syntropic Farming Design. Designing a syntropic farm, or in other words designing a syntropic forest(or syntropic food forest), involves the strategic selection and positioning of a variety of plants, crops, and sometimes livestock. The goal is to create a self-sustaining, resilient ecosystem that yields high productivity while improving soil health. This system is laid out in a way that plants assist one another, creating a symbiotic relationship. Trees play a significant role in syntropic farming.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Agriculture - Généralités
  • Environnement

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Sites
  • Waste Management
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
CONT

... past and present processes of facility siting have adhered to a fairly straightforward method of site selection that involves "a progressive narrowing of scope from a very broad geographic area and range of factors to a short list of discrete sites and highly specific evaluation criteria. "This process uses a logical sequence of activities comprising six stages... :goal identification... project characterization... selection of site evaluation criteria... area and site screening... site assessment and selection... detailed design...

CONT

Current approaches to facility siting. ... This process uses a logical sequence of activities comprising ... site assessment and selection: requires a thorough comparative analysis of candidate sites so that these can be ranked and an overall "best" option selected.

OBS

siting: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’énergie nucléaire” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sites (Urbanisme)
  • Gestion des déchets
  • Études et analyses environnementales
CONT

Sélection du site candidat. À l'issue de la phase de confirmation, l'ANDRA établira pour chaque site un dossier regroupant les résultats des études et des reconnaissances ainsi que de premières évaluations montrant la sûreté et la faisabilité du projet. Le dossier comportera, en outre, un programme de qualification ayant pour objectif la validation du site, un avant-projet sommaire de laboratoire souterrain et de concept de stockage.

OBS

choix du site d'implantation : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’énergie nucléaire» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Emplazamientos urbanos
  • Gestión de los desechos
  • Estudios y análisis del medio ambiente
Key term(s)
  • selección de un sitio de disposición
  • selección de un emplazamiento de almacenamiento
  • selección de un lugar de almacenamiento
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Record 3 2005-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
CONT

We hope to elucidate the role of adenosine kinase(ADK) and that of the adenine salvage pathway in plant systems by isolating and characterizing ADK-deficient mutants from Arabidopsis thaliana. To achieve this goal, both a direct selection, previously employed for mammalian systems, and gene silencing are being used.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
Key term(s)
  • adénosine-kinase

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Injections, Tubing and Transfusions (Medicine)
DEF

A set of surveillance procedures covering the whole transfusion chain (from the collection of blood and its components to the follow-up of recipients), intended to collect and assess information on unexpected or undesirable effects resulting from the therapeutic use of labile blood products, and to prevent their occurrence or recurrence.

CONT

Hemovigilance is performed to meet three objectives at both the local and national level : to identify risks and their related factor(s) and monitor these risks. The alert function cannot be dissociated from epidemiological surveillance because both processes involve evaluating the impact of the preventive measures in place. The incidence of risks must be estimated and their evolution followed up for each type of recorded transfusion-related incident. At the blood collection level which is part of donor selection, the goal of hemovigilance is to assess the relevance of various medical indicators present in individuals who wish to donate blood. At the transfusion level, the goal of hemovigilance is to estimate the incidence of transfusion-induced side effects in recipients(e. g. viral or bacterial contamination, alloimmunization transfusion attribution errors). The incidence and prevalence of transfusion-associated incidents occasionally justifies the distinction between the three elements of the hemovigilance strategy : the alert system, recipient surveillance and blood collection surveillance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Injections, tubages et transfusions (Médecine)
DEF

Surveillance relative à l'utilisation thérapeutique des produits sanguins, exercée depuis la collecte du sang et de ses composants jusqu'au suivi des patients transfusés, afin de recueillir et d'évaluer des informations sur les effets inattendus ou indésirables de ces produits et d'en prévenir l'apparition.

OBS

Terme et définition recommandés par la Commission générale de terminologie et de néologie, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Exploration Equipment and Tools
OBS

sample return system : Several unmanned missions to the moon are planned. The goal of these missions is to gather Lunar environment data as well as to test-out the Lunar transportation systems presently under development. Both a Lunar orbiter and a Lunar Sample Return System are in the works. Their specific scientific purpose will be to verify the presence of water and to examine the selenography of the Lunar Station candidate sites. Data from these missions will be used to make the final selection the best Lunar Station Site.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage d'exploration spatiale

Spanish

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Record 6 1995-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Continuing Education
DEF

Tutoring conversation.

CONT

One goal of intelligent tutoring systems is to generate effective and responsive tutoring discourse. Tutoring systems should reason dynamically about selection of machine responses and should show genuine flexibility in its choice of topics, presentations, examples, and responses.

CONT

Within the EUROHELP project we started to investigate the relations between general principles of discourse and didactic discourse on the one hand, and the relations among the different didactic principles themselves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Éducation permanente

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

The problem-solving executive has the job of applying and evaluating all objects and goals. Its functions are method selection, goal recognition, goal evaluation, object recognition, object evaluation, goal selection, and attempt recording.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir programme superviseur.

Spanish

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