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NUMBER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS [3 records]

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Record 1 2014-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

When developing a mass-fatality plan, community planners need to take into consideration the various predisaster conditions that will influence the ability to attend to the disaster... [such as] communities with a significant number of senior citizens... the cultural composition of a community...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
CONT

Chute du taux de croissance à des niveaux inférieurs à la situation précatastrophe.

Key term(s)
  • état pré-catastrophe
  • situation pré-catastrophe

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2006-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
09.05.18 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

bit rate in parallel transmission

OBS

The data signaling rate is given by :... where m is the number of parallel transmission channels; Ti is the significant interval for the i-th channel expressed in seconds; ni is the predefined number of significant conditions in the i-th channel.

OBS

data signaling rate; DSR: term, abbreviation and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-9:1995].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
09.05.18 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

débit binaire en transmission parallèle

OBS

Le débit binaire équivalent est exprimé par la formule [...] où m est le nombre de voies de transmission parallèles; Ti est l'intervalle significatif en secondes sur la voie i; ni est le nombre prédéfini d'états significatifs sur la voie i.

OBS

débit binaire équivalent; DBE : terme, abréviation et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-9:1995].

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Animal Biology
DEF

A full period of one day and one night.

CONT

Though our preliminary studies on food intake of pikes reared under different light conditions(DD, LD : 12. 12 and LL) do not show any significant differences in the number of captured prey along the nycthemer, we also tried to see whether or not the growth of these fishes was modified under the previously stated light conditions.

OBS

plural: nychthemera, nycthemerons

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Biologie animale
DEF

Espace de temps (24 h) comprenant un jour [photophase] et une nuit [scotophase] et correspondant à un cycle biologique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Biología animal
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