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HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES [12 records]

Record 1 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidemiology
  • Hygiene and Health
CONT

The term burden of disease generally describes the total, cumulative consequences of a defined disease or a range of harmful diseases with respect to disabilities in a community. These consequences include health, social aspects, and costs to society.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épidémiologie
  • Hygiène et santé

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Epidemiología
  • Higiene y Salud
DEF

Efecto de la enfermedad en términos monetarios, de mortalidad y morbilidad, entre otros indicadores.

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Record 2 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
DEF

In the law of tort, the notion that one’s liability is limited to results proximately caused by his conduct or omission.

CONT

remoteness of damage : A party causing a tort is liable only if some harmful consequence of the kind which happened should have been foreseen as liable to result, and he is liable only for the reasonably foreseeable, or possibility for the direct, consequences of his wrongful conduct, not necessarily for all that has actually followed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
OBS

éloignement du dommage; éloignement du préjudice : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
OBS

[This term is used] by the more sophisticated crackers of computer security systems, for the more immature, but unfortunately often just as dangerous exploiter of security lapses on the Internet. The typical script kiddy uses existing and frequently well-known and easy-to-find techniques and programs or scripts to search for and exploit weaknesses in other computers on the Internet-often randomly and with little regard or perhaps even understanding of the potentially harmful consequences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Les pirates adolescents (script kiddies), qui utilisent des logiciels automatisés pour mener à terme des attaques sans avoir les connaissances nécessaires pour comprendre ce qu'ils font ni créer d'autres outils.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Design
  • Sewers and Drainage
DEF

A pavement made up entirely or partially of porous materials avoiding the harmful consequences of water trapped in the structure.

OBS

self-draining pavement: term and definition proposed by the World Road Association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conception des voies de circulation
  • Égouts et drainage
DEF

Chaussée constituée en tout ou partie de matériaux drainants ou poreux permettant de s'affranchir des conséquences dommageables des eaux d'interface piégées dans la structure.

OBS

chaussée autodrainante : terme et définition proposés par l'Association mondiale de la route.

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
  • Environment
  • Hygiene and Health
DEF

A strike team that is part of an environmental health task force and that is trained, equipped and deployed to reduce or halt the initial harmful effects of an incident on a specific area of the environment in order to minimize their consequences on environmental health and the affected population.

OBS

The composition of an environmental health strike team varies, but it always has a leader and includes representatives from all levels of government. Environmental health strike teams are divided into specific areas of expertise, such as radiology, food, potable water, debris and waste management, vector control, hazardous materials, outdoor air, indoor air, etc.

OBS

environmental health strike team: term and definition standardized by the Canadian Capability-Based Planning Terminology Committee and the Translation Bureau.

PHR

Environmental health strike team (air), (hazardous materials), (potable water), (radiological).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
  • Environnement
  • Hygiène et santé
DEF

Équipe de choc faisant partie de la force opérationnelle en salubrité de l'environnement qui est formée, outillée et déployée afin de réduire ou d'enrayer les effets néfastes initiaux d'un incident sur un secteur particulier de l'environnement de façon à atténuer leurs conséquences sur la salubrité de l'environnement et la population concernée.

OBS

La composition de l'équipe de choc en salubrité de l'environnement varie mais l'équipe comprend toujours un chef et compte des représentants des divers ordres de gouvernement. Les équipes de choc sont divisées en domaines de spécialisation tels que la radiologie, les aliments, l'eau potable, la gestion des débris et des déchets, la lutte antivectorielle, les matières dangereuses, l'air extérieur, l'air intérieur, etc.

OBS

équipe de choc en salubrité de l'environnement : terme et définition normalisés par le Comité de terminologie de la planification axée sur les capacités au Canada et le Bureau de la traduction.

PHR

Équipe de choc en salubrité de l'environnement (air), (eau potable), (matières dangereuses), (radiologique).

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Social Services and Social Work
OBS

The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention(CASP) was incorporated in 1985 by a group of professionals who saw the need to provide information and resources to the community at large to reduce the suicide rate and minimize the harmful consequences of suicidal behaviour.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Services sociaux et travail social

Spanish

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Record 7 2010-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

If a particular action or response causes the cancellation or postponement of an event that would otherwise have occurred, the action may be said to be an avoidance response. Successful avoidance of unpleasant or harmful consequences has obvious adaptive value, but has long seemed to pose a serious problem for theories of learning. A successful avoidance response is one which is followed by the absence of an aversive event... Another [solution], adopted by two-factor theories, is to assume that avoidance responses are reinforced because they reduce a state of fear classically conditioned to stimuli signaling the occurrence of the aversive event. A third, adopted by some radical behaviorists, is to describe the operations that appear to be required to reinforce avoidance responding and to eschew speculation about the inner processes of learning responsible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

[...] Toute réponse qui se traduit par l'évitement d'un stimulus aversif conditionnel, telle une situation génératrice d'anxiété, est renforcée [...] Une fois apprise, la réponse d'évitement se maintient.

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • School and School-Related Administration
CONT

On the contrary, the Court indicated that the admission of members of the linguistic majority to minority schools could have harmful consequences, especially in Quebec' s particular situation, where the existence of English-language schools should not be a barrier to the desire to protect and enhance French as the majority language in Quebec, though it is still the minority language in Canada as a whole.

Key term(s)
  • minority school

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
CONT

Au contraire, la Cour a indiqué que l'admission des membres de la majorité linguistique aux écoles de la minorité pourrait entraîner des conséquences néfastes, surtout dans la situation particulière du Québec, où la présence des écoles de langue anglaise ne doit pas faire obstacle à la volonté de protéger et de favoriser le français comme langue de la majorité dans la province, mais qui constitue la langue minoritaire dans l'ensemble du Canada.

Key term(s)
  • école d'une minorité

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental Disorders
CONT

Anxiety sensitivity is the fear of anxiety-related sensations. It is thought to arise from beliefs that these sensations have harmful consequences. For example, an individual may fear that the sensation of palpitations indicates a serious, life-threatening condition, such as a heart attack. According to expectancy theory, such an individual may become anxious whenever this symptom is experienced and may tend to avoid activities or places that are believed to bring it on.

CONT

The candidate investigated ... personality factors that are related to risky substance use in adults: trait anxiety (frequency of anxiety symptoms), anxiety sensitivity (fear of anxiety sensations), and intensity and novelty seeking.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles mentaux
CONT

La candidate a étudié, chez les jeunes, les facteurs de personnalité associés à la toxicomanie à l'âge adulte : l'anxiété réactionnelle (fréquence des symptômes d'anxiété), la sensibilité à l'anxiété (peur des sensations liées à l'anxiété) ainsi que la recherche d'intensité et de nouveauté.

Spanish

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Record 10 2002-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Biochemistry
CONT

Maintaining and promoting the growth of helpful bacteria, while destroying the harmful strains, is vital to health. If harmful bacteria grow in too great a proportion, serious consequences can arise. A number of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, colitis, diabetes, meningitis, thyroid disease and bowel cancer are throught to result from significantly altered bowel flora.

Key term(s)
  • helpful bacterium
  • useful bacterium

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Biochimie
CONT

Les deux grands réservoirs de bactéries sur la terre sont le sol et les eaux d'une part, le tube digestif des animaux de l'autre. C'est ce second écosystème que nous prendrons comme exemple dans la suite. Parmi les bactéries utiles, on trouve en permanence dans le tube digestif de l'homme une population bactérienne complexe capable d'agir souvent positivement sur l'individu qui les héberge. On classe également parmi les bactéries utiles celles qui ont été domestiquées par l'homme (yaourts, produits laitiers fermentés...).

OBS

bactéries utiles : pluriel d'usage.

Key term(s)
  • bactérie utile

Spanish

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Record 11 1994-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
OBS

A phrase applied to actions or words that do not have harmful consequences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

Sans qu'il soit fait obstacle ni porté atteinte à ... Comp. sans préjudice de ...

Spanish

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Record 12 1994-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Phraseology
DEF

Behavior characterized by evasion and/or withdrawal.

CONT

If a particular action or response causes the cancellation or postponement of an event that would otherwise have occurred, the action may be said to be an avoidance response. Successful avoidance of unpleasant or harmful consequences has obvious adaptive value, but has long seemed to pose a serious problem for theories of learning....

PHR

avoidance behavio(u)r, - conditioning, - gradient, - reaction, - response, - training, - learning.

PHR

avoidance-avoidance conflict, - in thinking.

PHR

the disposition to -, intensity of the -.

PHR

to reinforce - responding.

PHR

phobic -.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Phraséologie
DEF

Action qui consiste, pour une personne, à s'éloigner d'une source de stimulation considérée comme négative par celle-ci.

PHR

évitement de la situation, - de l'école, - de l'enfance, - de l'adolescence, - dans l'agoraphobie.

PHR

évitement conditionné, phobique, plus marqué.

PHR

apprentissage par -, attitude d'-, comportement d'-, conditionnement d'-, conduite d'-, réaction d'-, réponse d'-, trouble d'-.

PHR

soulagement consécutif à l'évitement, soulagement procuré par l'-.

PHR

l'évitement s'accentue à tel point que.

Spanish

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