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Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Accounting
DEF

An authorization by Parliament to draw money up to a specified maximum amount from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for prescribed purposes. The recorded amount of a working capital advance at any given date represents the amount of the authorization utilized at that date.

OBS

Working capital advances may be used for the following purposes :(i) to finance the purchase of materials and supplies, until they are charged as current costs against departmental appropriations, or are sold outside the government;(ii) to finance departmental imprest funds;(iii) to finance the operation of a segment of a department in a foreign country or a remote area of Canada not readily serviced through the regular financial channels of government; and(iv) to provide funds for other purposes as may be approved by Treasury Board.

PHR

adjust, establish a working capital advance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité publique
DEF

Autorisation donnée par le Parlement de tirer sur le Trésor, à des fins prescrites, une somme maximale déterminée.

OBS

La valeur comptabilisée d'une avance de fonds de roulement, à une date donnée, représente la somme autorisée effectivement employée à cette date.

OBS

Les avances de fonds de roulement servent aux fins suivantes: (i) financer l'achat de fournitures jusqu'à ce qu'elles soient imputées sur les crédits courants des ministères ou vendues à l'extérieur; (ii) financer les avances fixes des ministères; (iii) financer les services établis par les ministères à l'étranger ou dans une région éloignée, et qui peuvent difficilement être approvisionnés en ressources financières de l'État par les moyens ordinaires; et (iv) fournir des fonds à d'autres fins moyennant l'approbation du Conseil du Trésor.

PHR

établir, rajuster une avance de fonds de roulement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
CONT

P3 attached site ... is planned for ISS [International Space Station] logistics support. ... Interfaces are the same as the S3 sites.

CONT

The main truss segments-S0, P1, S1, P3, and S3-were designed as rigid hexagonal sections; a six-point structure is more rigid than one with four points. The hexagonal cross section also maximizes the volume that can be used to load equipment onto the truss. A square will not use the available volume as well as a hexagon.... The truss segments are not regular hexagons; the sides are not equal in length. The segments are wider than they are tall to further exploit the Shuttle payload bay area... The hexagonal truss segments also contain a robotic manipulator arm that travels along two longerons on one plane of the hexagonal truss. The 55 ft(17 m) long robotic arm being built by the Canadian Space Agency will be launched with the S0 segment and will travel the length of the truss.

OBS

P3 truss; integrated truss structure P3; P3; ITS-P3: terms and abbreviations officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group (ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
CONT

Mission STS-115 (12A) avec la navette Endeavour transportant les sections de poutre P3 et P4, incluant de nouveaux panneaux solaires.

OBS

poutre P3; segment de poutre intégrée P3; P3; ITS-P3 : termes et abréviations uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronautics
CONT

The Payload Data Acquisition Station is one of the X-band receiving sites in the ENVISAT Ground Segment. It is located at Fucino/Italy. Because the regular Tape Recorder dumps are performed via the two Payload Data Handling Stations, the PDAS serves as a backup facility for temporary outages of one of the PDHS(Payload Data Handling Station).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronautique

Spanish

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