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NUMBER TRIALS [17 records]

Record 1 2021-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
CONT

A negative binomial random variable is the number X of repeated trials to produce r successes in a negative binomial experiment. The probability distribution of a negative binomial random variable is called a negative binomial distribution. The negative binomial distribution is also known as the Pascal distribution.

OBS

negative binomial distribution: designation standardized by ISO in 2006.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
OBS

loi binomiale négative : désignation normalisée par l'ISO en 2006.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
DEF

A frequency distribution giving the number of trials required to obtain a single successful outcome.

CONT

The geometric distribution is a special case of the negative binomial distribution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
CONT

La distribution géométrique est un cas particulier de la distribution binomiale négative. Il traite du nombre d'essais requis pour un seul succès. Ainsi, la distribution géométrique est une distribution binomiale négative où le nombre de succès (r) est égal à 1.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • Medication
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
DEF

... the legal entity that holds the Notice of Compliance, the Drug Identification Number(DIN), the medical device licence number, the product licence number, or that has received approval to initiate clinical trials in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication des produits pharmaceutiques
  • Médicaments
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Scientific Research
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
OBS

[The ISRCTN registry] is a registry and ... database containing the basic set of data items deemed essential to describe a study at inception, as per the requirements set out by the World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines.

OBS

ISRCTN registry : When the registry was started in the early 2000s, the acronym stood for International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number because the scope of the Registry was Randomised Controlled Trials. Over the years the scope has been expanded... and the acronym now means International Standard Registered Clinical/soCial sTudy Number. However the preferred name is simply ISRCTN and not the spelt out version.

Key term(s)
  • International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number registry
  • International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number registry
  • International Standard Registered Clinical/soCial sTudy Number registry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Recherche scientifique
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
OBS

Registre et base de données contenant les données jugées essentielles pour décrire toute nouvelle étude clinique, conformément aux exigences établies par le Système d'enregistrement international des essais cliniques de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) et les directives du Comité international des rédacteurs de revues médicales.

Spanish

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Record 5 2018-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cargo (Water Transport)
  • Containers
CONT

In 1966, the first containerised service was established in world sea trade and it was an independent company which did so, after a number of trials on minor routes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cargaisons (Transport par eau)
  • Conteneurs

Spanish

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Record 6 2017-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
CONT

Given the growing recognition that the symptoms related to FM [fibromyalgia] are due to a central sensitization disorder, there have been a number of recent large randomized trials using the anticonvulsants pregabalin and gabapentin...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
CONT

La recherche parle maintenant d'un trouble de sensibilisation centrale qui pointe vers une affection neurologique plutôt que rhumatismale. La fibromyalgie fait maintenant partie de la grande famille des douleurs chroniques.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
CONT

Several automatic decision-making criteria have been used to determine the beginning, end, and center of the target. Two principal types are the sliding window and the sequential observer. The sliding-window detector... stores the number of radar returns at target range within each prescribed incremental range-resolution element during the past N azimuthal trials. If the number of returns exceeds a predesignated value... the target is declared to be detected.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
CONT

Pour réaliser le traitement de la vidéo d'un radar à antenne tournante, le test est appliqué aux signaux recueillis dans une fenêtre glissante [...] Cette fenêtre est très étroite en distance et elle s'étend en azimut sur une portion de faisceau d'antenne. Sa forme est adaptée à la non stationnarité du Clutter. La distribution varie rapidement avec la distance; par contre, elle varie lentement entre deux récurrences successives (à même distance) à cause de la corrélation spatiale due au faisceau d'antenne.

Spanish

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Record 8 2014-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
CONT

The number of anti-cancer antibodies in therapy and in clinical trials is increasing gradually while their curative efficacy remains rather limited due to the resistance of tumor cells to complement-dependent cytotoxicity(CDC).

Key term(s)
  • complement-dependant cytotoxicity

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
CONT

Le mode exact par lequel les anticorps neutralisent et détruisent les cellules cancéreuses est encore imparfaitement compris. Il est cependant clair que trois mécanismes entrent en jeu : l'induction de la mort cellulaire (apoptose), la cytotoxicité dépendant des anticorps (CDA) et la cytotoxicité dépendant du complément (CDC), appelées collectivement les fonctions effectrices.

Spanish

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Record 9 2014-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Graphs and Diagrams
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

A table presenting a cross-classification of categorical data such that the categories of one characteristic are indicated horizontally (in rows) and the categories of another characteristic are indicated vertically (in columns).

OBS

The concept may be generalized to the case of more than two characteristics.

OBS

Each cell of the table will indicate the number or proportion of individuals who have both the characteristic on its row and in its column. The simplest contingency table is the fourfold, or 2 x 2 table, which is used in clinical trials, for example, to compare dichotomous outcomes for two groups.

OBS

contingency table: term and definition standardized by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary English Editorial Board and the Translation Bureau.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Diagrammes et graphiques (Statistique)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
DEF

Tableau présentant un croisement de données catégoriques de façon que les catégories d’une caractéristique soient indiquées horizontalement (en lignes) et les catégories d’une autre caractéristique soient indiquées verticalement (en colonnes).

OBS

Chaque cellule du tableau indiquera le nombre ou la proportion d’individus possédant à la fois la caractéristique de sa ligne et de sa colonne. Le tableau de contingence le plus simple est le tableau à quatre cellules, ou tableau 2 x 2, utilisé par exemple dans le cadre d’essais cliniques pour comparer des résultats dichotomiques entre deux groupes.

OBS

tableau de contingence : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

OBS

tableau de contingence; tableau croisé; table de contingence : termes et définition normalisés par l'Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) et le Bureau de la traduction.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Diagramas y gráficos estadísticos
  • Medicina, Higiene y Salud
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Record 10 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

Conditioning in which two stimuli are paired over a number of trials until one of the two can be used as a substitute for the other in eliciting a response.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

Procédé expérimental qui consiste à associer, dans une phase initiale, deux stimuli neutres, à conditionner une réponse à l'un des termes de l'association et à présenter l'autre isolément afin de déterminer s'il y a transfert.

Spanish

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Record 11 2005-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
CONT

Over the next 30 years the Mafia became a power not only in Sicily but all over Italy as well. The Italian government began an anti-Mafia campaign in the early 1980s, leading not only to a number of arrests and sensational trials, but also to the assassination of several key law-enforcement officials in retaliation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
CONT

Il y a eu une campagne anti-mafia mise en place dans les années 1980 et on a eu une impression d'efficacité. Des municipalités ont, par exemple, été mises sous administration directe de Rome, leur Conseil municipal ayant été noyauté par la mafia.

OBS

mafia : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 12 2000-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Mathematics
DEF

The discrete distribution of the number of successes that occur in a fixed number of trials, where the outcomes are statistically independent, and the probability of success is the same for each trial.

DEF

Probability function that indicates how often two outcomes with constant probability will occur in a succession of repetitive experiments.

OBS

Compare to "normal distribution", "Poisson distribution".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Loi statistique selon laquelle chaque essai donne lieu à deux possibilités, par exemple succès ou échec.

OBS

Si l'on répète une expérience un certain nombre de fois en enregistrant chaque résultat comme étant soit un succès, soit un échec, on peut alors utiliser la loi binomiale pour établir les probabilités binomiales (probabilités de succès ou d'échecs).

Key term(s)
  • loi binominale
  • distribution binominale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Encuestas estadísticas
  • Matemáticas
DEF

Distribución de probabilidades [que] indica la posibilidad de que un suceso, que tiene p probabilidad de ocurrir y n oportunidades de que ocurra, suceda exactamente x veces.

OBS

distribución binomial: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 13 2000-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
CONT

Practice trials may be given en masse in a single session or the same number of trials may be distributed in sessions held on different days. The interrupted schedule is far superior to massed practice in that the rate of forgetting that follows distributed practice is much slower.

OBS

As opposed to "distributed practice".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Apprentissage comprenant une série d'essais entre lesquels on ne laisse aucun intervalle de temps.

CONT

Une tâche peut être mémorisée en espaçant les essais avec des intervalles de repos (apprentissage distribué) ou en réduisant au minimum la durée de ces intervalles et à la limite en les supprimant (apprentissage massé).

Spanish

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Record 14 1999-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
DEF

The CALT(Conditional Associative Learning Test), presents four identical stimuli in a random spatial array to be associated with four identical response items according to location alone. Subjects must learn, through trial and error, which stimulus is linked with which response. Feedback is provided during each trial, which continues until a correct spatial association is achieved. The score is the number of trials to complete 12 consecutive correct responses. The number of errors is also recorded.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Docimologie

Spanish

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Record 15 1999-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Biology
CONT

Kenneth Rinehart, a chemist at the University of Illinois in Urbana, is working with NCI on two compounds that may prove useful for a number of cancers. Didemnin B, a substance extracted from a marine animal called a tunicate and found in the western Caribbean Sea, is currently in Phase II clinical trials for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and a type of central nervous system tumor. However, this extract--which is the marine compound at the most advanced stage of development for use as an anti-cancer agent--has remained in Phase II for five years because of debilitating side effects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie animale
OBS

Substance d'origine marine présentant des propriétés antitumorales, isolée chez Tritidemnum solidum (ascidie) qui provient de la Mer des Caraïbes.

Spanish

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Record 16 1997-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
  • Biotechnology
CONT

The potential therapeutic applications of encapsulated cell technology are enormous... It appears likely that over the end of the decade clinical trials of encapsulated cells to treat many diseases will become a reality. The Food and Drug Administration has already authorized studies to evaluate the safety and biological activity of several types of systems. A number of issues will have to be addressed, including the sourcing of raw materials, the design and building of manufacturing facilities, the scale-up and optimization process, storage and distribution of the product, and quality control.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
  • Biotechnologie

Spanish

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Record 17 1989-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Mathematics
DEF

A modification of the creeping random search procedure, where, if the result of a random trial is closer to the maximum/minimum than that of the previous trial, the center of the search distribution is moved to the new point, and random trials are re-initiated. If no point closer than the present center is found in some number of trials, the search is terminated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Logiciels
  • Mathématiques
OBS

Voir recalcul.

Spanish

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