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Record 1 2026-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Security
CONT

All employees have legal and ethical obligations and responsibilities to... ensure protected personal information is securely collected, accessed, used, retained, stored, disclosed and/or disposed of in accordance with federal standards, on an authorized need to know basis only...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Sécurité
CONT

Tous les employés doivent [...] veiller à ce que les renseignements personnels protégés soient recueillis, consultés, utilisés, conservés, stockés, divulgués et/ou éliminés en toute sécurité, conformément aux normes fédérales ou selon le principe du besoin de savoir [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operations (Air Forces)
CONT

Passengers without a level II security clearance and/or the "need to know" may be permitted to fly on non-tactical missions once they have met the... requirements of this order.

Key term(s)
  • nontactical mission

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations (Forces aériennes)
CONT

Un passager qui n'a pas une cote de sécurité de niveau II ou le «besoin de savoir» peut être autorisé à prendre part à une mission non tactique lorsqu'il satisfait aux exigences [...] de la présente ordonnance.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • River and Sea Navigation
CONT

The candidate must be able to ... obtain, reduce and plot a celestial fix using a sun-run-sun method.

CONT

sun-run-sun : So we now know how to get a single position line from a single sun sight. But we need at least two position lines to get an actual position fix, or position estimate. But there is only one sun, so we have to wait for the sun to move to take another sun sight and get another position line. Ideally, we would take a sun sight in the morning and obtain a position line, and take another sight in the afternoon for a second position line. This will result in two almost perpendicular lines, which will give us the most reliable fix with two lines(the closer the lines are to [being] perpendicular, the less susceptible their crossing point is to error).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Navigation fluviale et maritime

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Navegación fluvial y marítima
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Record 4 2017-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • River and Sea Navigation
DEF

A plotted line that the vessel is located on at a specific time, based on the bearing of a charted object of known location.

CONT

sun-run-sun : So we now know how to get a single position line from a single sun sight. But we need at least two position lines to get an actual position fix, or position estimate. But there is only one sun, so we have to wait for the sun to move to take another sun sight and get another position line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Navigation fluviale et maritime
DEF

Ligne tracée sur la carte et sur laquelle le navire se trouve à un moment précis qui est établie en fonction du relèvement d'un amer.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Navegación fluvial y marítima
CONT

[...] la recta de altura es un segmento de un círculo menor llamado círculo de igual altura. Cualquier observador situado en cualquier punto de este círculo observará el astro con la misma altura.

CONT

El cálculo de rectas de altura sigue teniendo vigencia para determinar la posición en el mar, como sistema de reserva y para verificar al GPS [sistema mundial de determinación de la posición].

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Record 5 2011-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Service
  • Office-Work Organization
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
DEF

At the Public Service of Canada, a person fully qualified by his clearance, need to know, security knowledge and official duties to receive official matter, enter classified spaces, or other spaces and have access to those parts and property of a Department with which he is concerned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fonction publique
  • Organisation du travail de bureau
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
DEF

Personne pleinement qualifiée par le contrôle sécuritaire, le besoin de savoir, les connaissances en matière de sécurité et les fonctions officielles l'autorisant à recevoir des renseignements officiels, à pénétrer dans les secteurs réservés, ou autres secteurs, et à avoir accès à ces parties et biens d'un ministère avec lequel il a à travailler.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Función pública
  • Organización del trabajo de oficina
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
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Record 6 2010-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

Data dredging bias: when data are reviewed for all possible associations without prior hypothesis, the results are suitable for hypothesis-generating activities only.

OBS

I know there's an association in here somewhere. You’ve got a river of data and nothing's making a ripple. What do you do when you’re looking for something lost in a river of data : Data dredge! All you need is a computer and a good statistical analysis program that can go through your data and look at every possible association. All you have to do is pick the association you think makes your case and write it up.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)

Spanish

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Record 7 2010-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
OBS

[A small manufacturing business] developed a partnership with [a school] ... instructors conducted English as a second language (ESL) classes as well as history and government classes ... on-site.

CONT

To begin building educational partnerships... they [the schools] have to know what we [the corporation] need, and we have to know what not to duplicate. We exchange faculty, jointly develop curriculum, share lab equipment, and tend our mutual feedback mechanism... We’re also developing dialogues with engineering schools, as well as elementary and secondary schools, about what we need and how it differs from what they provide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
CONT

Collaboration université-industrie : [...] dotée d'une matière grise abondante de technologie développées et d'équipements importants, l'université est une alliée de taille de l'industrie pour affronter la concurrence internationale.

OBS

Le Québec a mis en place une véritable politique intégrée en matière technologique de façon à stimuler la recherche et le développement, favoriser la synergie université-entreprise et faciliter la levée du financement requis.

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Saving and Consumption
CONT

There is a need for an automotive strategy in Canada. If there is a Korea deal, there will be a need for additional trade transition measures. There's an equal need to get an agreement with Japan. We know that if the WTO [World Trade Organization] round concludes, our tariffs, including those on auto, will be significantly reduced, decreasing what we have to offer in the negotiations and making our ability to get a good deal with Korea even more difficult to achieve.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épargne et consommation
CONT

Le Canada a besoin d’une stratégie de l’automobile. Si un accord est conclu avec la Corée, il nous faudra des mesures de transition supplémentaires. De plus, nous aurons besoin d’un accord avec le Japon. Nous savons que si le cycle de négociations de l’OMC [Organisation mondiale du commerce] aboutit, nos droits de douane, y compris ceux qui sont imposés sur les véhicules, baisseront sensiblement, ce qui réduira d’autant ce que nous aurons à offrir à la Corée. Il nous sera alors encore plus difficile de conclure un marché avantageux.

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

People who share information for the use of a specific computer system, or software, through meetings and/or publications.

CONT

Not long ago, user groups were made up of closely knit professionals in the computer industry, or of "techies" sharing the latest advances. These groups are still popular, but lately, due to computer based tele-communicating, and the proliferation of computing, user groups have expanded to include members with any number of interests. Individuals who do not need to know the science of computers, but do need to know how to get the most out of them, are getting together to share insights and frustrations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

Groupe constitué sur la base d'intérêts communs : intérêts professionnels (médecine, droit), intérêts financiers, intérêts de gestion organisationnelle, ou simplement intérêts personnels pour les nouveautés informatiques, par exemple.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
DEF

Grupo de usuarios del equipo de un determinado fabricante. El grupo se reune para discutir problemas, intercambiar programas y compartir los conocimientos y experiencias adquiridos al instalar y desarrollar sistemas.

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Record 10 2005-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Law
CONT

The need for full disclosure of material risk is an important new reality for all health care professional. It is based on increased recognition by society and in the law that patients have the right to know about risks and their health care options before consenting to examination or treatment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la santé
CONT

Le patient a le droit de connaître tous les risques auxquels l'exposent les examens, interventions ou traitements qui lui sont proposés [ ... ]

CONT

Le droit de savoir par rapport au droit de ne pas savoir [ ... ]

Spanish

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Record 11 2004-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Airborne Forces
  • Skydiving, Paragliding and Hang Gliding
DEF

Any improper function of the parachute system which causes the parachute to deploy, develop or descend in an abnormal manner.

CONT

Exit of parachutists over an open-air assembly of persons or in such a manner that in the event of a malfunction, a parachutist would land among an assembly of persons is prohibited.

CONT

The catalogue of possible malfunctions is long, but all you really need to know is that any parachute must have two characteristics. It must be open, and it must be safe to land. Otherwise it is a malfunction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forces aéroportées
  • Parachutisme, parapente et deltaplane
DEF

Mauvais fonctionnement du parachute qui fait que ce dernier se déploie, se gonfle ou descend d'une manière anormale.

CONT

La sortie de parachutistes au-dessus d'un rassemblement de personnes en plein air ou d'une manière qui, en cas de défectuosité, pourrait amener un parachutiste à atterrir au milieu d'un rassemblement de personnes est interdite.

CONT

Après un saut-école de 15 secondes de chute libre, d'une hauteur de 2.000 m., M. Degrugilliers, victime d'un incident d'ouverture, effectue la procédure de secours mais la voilure de secours ne se gonfle que partiellement et M. Degrugilliers animé d'une grande vitesse de descente impacte violemment le sol.

OBS

Un défaut de fonctionnement du parachute principal ou de secours (ou des procédures de secours) à une altitude correcte, et/ou une défaillance du matériel peut aboutir [à] de sévères blessures ou à la mort.

Spanish

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Record 12 2000-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
CONT

Observe that, to make such computations, you do not need to know with precision the details of the wiggles of the Julia set. You just need to have some combinatorial information about the way its various parts are related to each other. J. H. Hubbard succeeded in concentrating this information in a diagram, that I [Adrien Douady] call the Hubbard tree, and when I want to talk about a specific point in M, I find it much more convenient to draw its Hubbard tree than to give its coordinates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques

Spanish

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Record 13 2000-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

Reverse DNS is exactly the opposite of DNS. Instead of wanting to know the IP address of a domain name, we know the name and need the number. So, if we have the IP number 206. 54. 191. 15, we can look it up to see that the machine name is www. dallasmemory. com.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Par DNS inverse, on dénote le processus par lequel un site distant (comme le serveur mail de hotmail.com par exemple) arrive à connaître le nom exact du domaine qui se cache derrière une adresse IP quelconque.

Spanish

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Record 14 1998-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Private-Sector Programs
OBS

of the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Project WILD is based on the premise that young people and their teachers have a vital interest in learning about the earth as home for people and wildlife. We emphasize wildlife because of its intrinsic, ecological and other values, as well as its importance as a basis for understanding the fragile grounds upon which all life depends. In the face of pressures affecting the quality and sustainability of life on earth as we know it. Project WILD addresses the need for human beings to develop as responsible members of the ecosystem.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes du secteur privé
OBS

La Fédération canadienne de la faune parraine Atout-Faune au Canada. Atout-Faune repose sur l'intérêt vital, pour les jeunes et leurs enseignant(e)s, de connaître la nature dans laquelle ils vivent. La faune est mise au premier plan, parce qu'elle a sa valeur par elle-même, et parce qu'elle permet d'illustrer de façon frappante le fragile équilibre dont dépend la vie sur Terre. Atout-Faune répond au besoin, de plus en plus manifeste devant toutes les contraintes qui s'exercent sur la vie terrestre, sa qualité et sa durabilité, de prendre conscience de nos responsabilités au sain d'un écosystème auquel nous appartenons.

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Record 15 1997-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

Trojan Horses. A common attack against network platforms is to replace network services with software that allows an intruder to subvert the machine on which the service is running. With the trusted operating system, the damage this type of rogue program can cause is minimal.

CONT

In systems that operate at multiple levels of security, where not all users are cleared to the same level or have a common need to know, users can be separated only through a trusted operating system capable of enforcing system and data access control.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Pour les systèmes qui utilisent des niveaux multiples de sécurité, c'est-à-dire que tous les utilisateurs n'ont pas la même cote ou n'ont pas besoin des mêmes renseignements, les utilisateurs peuvent être distingués les uns des autres uniquement par un système opérationnel éprouvé de contrôle de l'accès aux systèmes et aux données.

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Even if the denotations of terms were the same for all agents(and for use), we would need to have a way of referring to the constants used by agents for denoting objects(because the constants used by these agents might not appear in our theory). Suppose we were to Skolemize a nested belief formula by replacing the existential variable by a Skolem constant, say Sk. Sk denotes an object-we do not know which one, but A does know!(We know that A knows which object Sk denotes because the semantics of B tells us that there is an expression of the form P(C) in A's theory such that C denotes whatever Sk is supposed to denote.) Therefore, we need a constant to denote whatever it is that Sk denotes. We introduce an operator o. called the bullet operator, that transforms any term inside the context of the B operator to a constant denoting, for the believer, whatever that term is supposed to denote for us.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 17 1993-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

In systems that operate at multiple levels of security, where not all users are cleared to the same level or have a common need to know, users can be separated only through a trusted operating system capable of enforcing system and data access control.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Pour les systèmes qui utilisent des niveaux multiples de sécurité, c'est-à-dire que tous les utilisateurs n'ont pas la même cote ou n'ont pas besoin des mêmes renseignements, les utilisateurs peuvent être distingués les uns des autres uniquement par un système opérationnel éprouvé de contrôle de l'accès aux systèmes et aux données.

Spanish

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Record 18 1993-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

System configuration. "User community" is the term used to describe who will use the system. Features to be identified include the number of users, their screening levels, their need to know information and whether or not it is acceptable that one user have access to the information under the control of another.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Configuration du système. L'expression «groupe des utilisateurs» désigne les personnes qui utilisent le système. Les caractéristiques à définir sont notamment leur nombre, leur niveau de présélection, leurs besoins d'information et s'il est acceptable d'accorder à un utilisateur l'accès à des données sous le contrôle d'un autre.

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Record 19 1993-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

System configuration. "User community" is the term used to describe who will use the system. Features to be identified include the number of users, their screening levels, their need to know information and whether or not it is acceptable that one user have access to the information under the control of another.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Configuration du système. L'expression «groupe des utilisateurs» désigne les personnes qui utilisent le système. Les caractéristiques à définir sont notamment leur nombre, leur niveau de présélection, leurs besoins d'information et s'il est acceptable d'accorder à un utilisateur l'accès à des données sous le contrôle d'un autre.

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