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WORLD CONCEPT [35 records]

Record 1 2026-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

The right of a person to have an organization completely and permanently delete obsolete, inaccurate or prejudicial data that it holds about them.

CONT

The concept of the right to erasure comes from the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR), which is frequently referred to as the benchmark legislation for data protection around the world. Effective as of 2018, the GDPR grants several rights to data subjects, including in article 17, a right to obtain the erasure, as soon as possible, of personal data that a business holds about them...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits et libertés
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Droit d'une personne d'obtenir d'une organisation l'effacement complet et permanent des données obsolètes, erronées ou préjudiciables qu'elle détient à son sujet.

CONT

La notion de droit à l'effacement provient du Règlement général sur la protection des données (RGPD) qui est régulièrement cité comme la législation de référence en matière de protection des données à l'échelle internationale. Entrée en vigueur en 2018, le RGPD confère plusieurs droits aux personnes concernées par un traitement de données à caractère personnel, notamment à son article 17, un droit d'obtenir l'effacement, dans les meilleurs délais, de données à caractère personnel qu'une entreprise détient à leur sujet [...]

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Record 2 2024-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Toys (General)
  • Software
CONT

The basic premise of a season pass follows the real world concept of a sporting season ticket, and gives gamers open access to time bound events and activities in a game's world. These frequently run for about 3 months before expiring, at which point a new season pass must be redeemed. With each season, developers offer fresh content, features and customisation options to incentivise renewal. This method of monetization is very effective as it means a game can continue earning revenue long past its initial release date. The concept has a long running association with DLC(downloadable content packs) release and can be seen as a refinement and serialisation of them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)
  • Logiciels
OBS

passe de saison : certains auteurs emploie cette désignation au féminin.

OBS

passe saisonnière : emploi de «passe» au féminin pour désigner un laissez-passer est considéré comme fautif par certains auteurs.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Population Movements
  • Political Science (General)
CONT

The concept of a Russian world has emerged in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union as a catch-all phrase that may incorporate all the 25-million-strong Russian-speaking diaspora outside Russia. The country refers to this diaspora in shaping its identity, a phenomenon that was exemplified in the annexation of Crimea recently.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements de population
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
CONT

Le «monde russe» [...] est un concept idéologique russe visant à englober la culture russe et son influence sur le monde environnant, au travers de son histoire de sa langue.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Movimientos de población
  • Ciencias políticas (Generalidades)
OBS

mundo ruso: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que la expresión "mundo ruso" se escribe con minúscula en ambos términos, no "Mundo Ruso". [...] Dicha construcción es una traducción de una expresión rusa que se emplea en ciertos contextos para referirse al conjunto de personas vinculadas por la cultura rusa, independientemente de su origen étnico y del territorio en el que residan.

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Record 4 2022-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

... a live-like testing environment used to ensure regulatory compliance and security checks for financial operations, including cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based systems.

CONT

In the computer science world, a sandbox is a closed testing environment designed for experimenting safely with web or software projects. The concept is also being used in the digital economy arena, to refer to regulatory sandboxes : testing grounds for new business models that are not protected by current regulation, or supervised by regulatory institutions.

Key term(s)
  • regulatory sand box
  • crypto regulatory sand box

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

Les Autorités canadiennes en valeurs mobilières (ACVM) ont lancé un bac à sable réglementaire afin d'appuyer les entreprises spécialisées en technologie financière (fintechs) souhaitant offrir des applications, des produits et des services novateurs au Canada.

OBS

bac à sable réglementaire : désignation tirée du mini-lexique «Intelligence artificielle et droit» et reproduite avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 5 2020-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
CONT

The world is currently undergoing a racial reckoning. … While … symbolic gestures are nice …, to even begin to scratch the surface and atone for the wrongs of a country founded on genocide and slavery, reparations are a necessary starting point. Restitution for the nation's wrongdoing is not a foreign concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
CONT

Les politiques et les propositions de réparation raciale visant à corriger les discriminations du passé sont chose courante partout dans le monde […], mais elles revêtent des formes spécifiques dans tel ou tel contexte national qui s'inscrivent dans une histoire coloniale particulière de formation raciale.

Spanish

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Record 6 2020-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
CONT

Most of the top organizations in the world, now have introduced the concept of management trainee program. Management trainee programs are... training programs, which take in fresh graduates after assessing them on certain skills and take them through proper training in each department and aspect of the organization. This not only gives individuals a proper brush up as they enter the professional world, but also teaches them different roles, coordination and other important skills to carry out during their job.

Key term(s)
  • management trainee programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
CONT

En élargissant le spectre de nos besoins de personnel, nous avons continué à recruter des diplômés universitaires pour notre programme de stagiaire en gestion. Chaque année, les stagiaires en gestion se voient confier des projets d'envergure, et ont la chance de contribuer positivement.

Spanish

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Record 7 2018-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
  • Games and Toys (General)
CONT

Fog of war is a common concept found in many combat-based real-time and turn-based strategy games. In addition to providing the player with an exploration incentive to uncover the game world, it also serves to mask the disposition and movements of enemy forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Informatics
  • Sciences - General
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
OBS

The conference "Converging Technologies for a Diverse Europe" on September 14 and 15, 2004 in Brussels marked an important step in exploring the impacts and opportunities of the "new technology wave. "... However, the Report from the Expert Group had integrated the social sciences in NBIC [nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies and cognitive sciences], and the key concept was CTEKS, ’Converging Technologies for the European Knowledge Society, ’with whose convergence and its impact on Europe and the world at large were to be analysed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Informatique
  • Sciences - Généralités
  • Sciences humaines
OBS

Prenant conscience de la portée potentielle des technologies convergentes, la Commission européenne a instauré en 2004 un groupe de travail chargé d'appréhender les potentiels et les risques. [...] Le groupe ayant était chargé d'analyser la question dans un contexte spécifiquement européen, il a donc conçu une vision étendue de la convergence, reprise dans le concept de «technologies convergentes pour la société européenne de la connaissance» (TCSEC).

Spanish

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Record 9 2013-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
DEF

Species with their main distribution in the coniferous forest zone.

OBS

They may occur in the Boreal zonobiome, and/or in the coniferous forest zone of mountains to the south. This zone also includes subalpine or subarctic forests of birch (Betula pubescens).

OBS

biome. A biological subdivision that reflects the ecological and physiognomic character of the vegetation. Biomes are the largest geographical biotic communities that it is convenient to recognise. They broadly correspond with climatic regions, although other environmental controls are sometimes important. They are the equivalent to the concept of major plant formations in plant ecology, but are defined in terms of all living organisms and of their interaction with the environment(and not only with the dominant vegetation type). Typically, distinctive biomes are recognised for all the major climatic regions of the world, emphasising the adaptation of living organisms to their environment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
CONT

The term resource partitioning is an ecological concept used to describe the differential use of resources such as food and space by two or more species. Of course, as humans sequester ever more resources required or desired by our species, fewer resources are left for others, hence the accelerating biodiversity crisis world wide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
CONT

En fait, la notion de ressources ne s'applique pas uniquement à notre espèce, mais également à toutes les autres. En anglais, l'expression «resource partitioning» est utilisée par certains écologistes pour désigner le partage différentiel de ressources, comme la nourriture et l'espace, entre deux ou plusieurs espèces. Évidemment, comme les humains accaparent de plus en plus de ressources pour satisfaire leurs besoins et leurs désirs, il en reste de moins en moins pour les autres espèces, d'où l'accélération critique de la perte de biodiversité à l'échelle de la planète

Spanish

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Record 11 2011-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

The formal economic concept of "decoupling" related very closely to the idea of the sustainable economy since decoupling is about disengaging environmental impact(through resource use and pollution) from economic growth. With populations continuing to grow both within Canada and around the world, either "per capita consumption"or "pollution per unit of consumption" must be drastically transformed in order to enjoy sustainable economic growth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

Un découplage a été réalisé entre croissance économique et certaines pressions sur l'environnement, avec une forte diminution des émissions d'un large ensemble de polluants atmosphériques, en comparaison avec les valeurs de 1980 : ce découplage s'observe également, de manière plus récente, pour les phosphates.

CONT

La notion de découplage, qui consiste à neutraliser l'effet du soutien des revenus agricole sur les anticipations concernant la production, la consommation et le commerce, semble aussi occuper une place importante.

OBS

Ce concept [...] s'applique aux politiques qui n'ont pas d'impact sur les échanges et la production.

Spanish

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Record 12 2011-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Military Tactics
OBS

The Gin Drinkers Line or Gin Drinker's Line was a British military defensive line against the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong during the Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941, part of the Pacific War. The concept came from France's Maginot Line, built after World War I. The British believed the line could protect the colony from Japanese invasion for at least six months...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Tactique militaire

Spanish

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Record 13 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Atmospheric Physics
DEF

Equality between streams of radiation into and out of the atmosphere or a particular system.

CONT

The mean surface temperature for the entire world, 14°C is almost 40°C higher than the mean temperature required for radiative equilibrium of a black body at the earth's mean distance from the sun. It is essential, in understanding the concept of the greenhouse effect, to note that the important additional warming is due to the counter-radiation from the atmosphere.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rayonnements électromagnétiques
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
DEF

Équilibre entre des flux de rayonnement vers l'intérieur ou vers l'extérieur de l'atmosphère ou d'un système déterminé.

CONT

La température de surface moyenne de la planète serait, de 18 °C. Cette valeur représente en effet la température de l'équilibre radiatif de la planète : en résumé, la température pour laquelle l'intensité du flux de rayonnement infrarouge émis par la Terre compenserait exactement l'absorption de rayonnement solaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiación electromagnética
  • Física de la atmósfera
DEF

Equilibrio entre los flujos de radiación hacia el interior o el exterior de la atmósfera o de un sistema dado.

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Record 14 2010-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
CONT

... the higher elevations of the coastal range facing the Andes become a multiplicity of islands, forming an intricate labyrinth of channels and fjords that have been an enduring challenge to maritime navigators.

OBS

... the concept [of coast range] is not limited to the NA [North American] west coast.... There are other places in the world where "coast range" has a local meaning(in Japan, the "coast range" is on the western side of Honshu).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
CONT

La chaîne côtière de Californie [...] occupe en bordure du Pacifique une région à caractère géosynclinal où les sédiments de plus de 20 000 m d'épaisseur se sont accumulés [...]

CONT

D'autres mines de plomb sont dispersées dans les chaînes littorales de la région de Carthagène [...]

Spanish

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Record 15 2009-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
OBS

The Paris Motor Show(French : Mondial de l'Automobile) is a biennial auto show in Paris. Held in the autumn, it is one of the most important auto shows, often with many new production automobile and concept car debuts. The show was the first motor show in the world, started in 1898 by industry pioneer, Albert de Dion. The show takes place in Paris Expo in Porte de Versailles. The Mondial is scheduled by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles, which considers it a major international auto show. Until 1986 it was called Salon de l'Auto. It took the name Mondial de l'Automobile en 1988.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes
OBS

Le Mondial de l'automobile est un salon international automobile qui se déroule tous les deux ans, vers la troisième semaine d'octobre, à Paris, au Parc des expositions de la porte de Versailles. Le Jardin des Tuileries reçoit en 1898 la première exposition internationale d'automobiles jamais réalisée dans le monde à l'intiative de l'Automobile Club de France. L'opération remporte un vif succès puisque 140 000 visiteurs viennent découvrir les 232 modèles exposés. En 1901, l'exposition prendra toute son importance en s'installant au Grand Palais. Mais, à nouveau, les organisateurs doivent trouver un autre lieu devant l'engouement des visiteurs et le nombre toujours croissant de modèles présentés. Le Mondial de l'automobile de Paris est un salon se tenant tous les deux ans (avant 1976, il était annuel), les années paires, qui se tient depuis 1962 au parc des expositions de la porte de Versailles; les années impaires se tient au Salon de Francfort. Le Salon de l'automobile change de nom en 1988 pour devenir le Mondial de l'Automobile.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de documentos y obras
  • Vehículos automotores y bicicletas
OBS

El Salón Automóvil de Paris (nombre oficial actual: "Mondial de l'Automobile") es un salón del automóvil que se celebra en setiembre u octubre en París, Francia. Es uno de los salones más importantes en Europa, junto con los de Frankfurt y Ginebra. Se celebra únicamente en los años pares, alternándose con el Salón de Frankfurt. Las marcas francesas Citroën, Peugeot y Renault suelen estrenar modelos nuevos y prototipos en este salón.

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Record 16 2009-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
DEF

A form of memory in which information is stored with "mental tags" about where, when and how the information was picked up.

CONT

Tulving introduced the concept of episodic memory in 1972, contrasting it with semantic memory. Episodic memory was assumed to refer to the capacity to recollect individual events, its essence being the capacity to represent a specific event located in time and place. Semantic memory, on the other hand, was assumed to correspond to general facts about the world, with no reference to spatial and temporal context.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
DEF

Mémoire qui n'indexe principalement que les caractéristiques biographiques, épisodes ou événements singuliers de la vie de l'individu qui ne peuvent en aucun cas être assimilés à des connaissances générales.

CONT

Comme son nom l'indique, la mémoire épisodique enregistre des épisodes de notre vie qui se situent dans un contexte spatio-temporel. Il peut s'agir de souvenirs anciens, comme le jour de notre mariage, ou encore d'événements plus récents, comme une sortie au cinéma la semaine passée. Ainsi, le fait de se remémorer l'endroit où a eu lieu la cérémonie de mariage nous facilitera l'accès à de nombreux détails et anecdotes sur les invités.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología cognitiva
DEF

Memoria formada por las impresiones almacenadas de experiencias personales (episodios) de la vida de uno.

CONT

La memoria episódica es rica en detalles concretos y es almacenada en forma de secuencias de eventos que ocurrieron en lugares y momentos particulares, mientras que la memoria semántica era más abstracta y era almacenada en términos de conceptos y principios relacionados de manera lógica.

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Record 17 2008-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Sports (General)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
OBS

In January 1948 at the 42nd IOC in St Moritz, Switzerland, the International Olympic Committee(IOC) approved the idea of Olympic Day. This celebration would be used to commemorate the creation of the IOC on 23 June 1894 in Paris. Olympic Day was held for the first time on 23 June 1948 with a total 9 National Olympic Committees(NOCs) hosting ceremonies in their respective countries : Austria, Belgium, Canada, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela. In an effort to encourage all NOCs to commemorate and celebrate Olympic Day, the IOC Sport for all Commission launched the Olympic Day Run concept with the objective of promoting the practice of participation in sport by men, women and children from all corners of the world and all walks of life, regardless of athletic ability. The first Olympic Day Run was held in 1987.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Sports (Généralités)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
OBS

En janvier 1948, lors de la 42e Session du CIO à Saint-Moritz, Suisse, le Comité Internationale Olympique (CIO) approuva l'idée d'une Journée olympique. Cet événement allait servir à commémorer la création du CIO le 23 juin 1894 à Paris. La journée olympique fut célébrée pour la première fois le 23 juin 1948 par neuf Comités Nationaux Olympiques (CNO) qui organisèrent des cérémonies dans leurs pays respectifs : Autriche, Belgique, Canada, Grand-Bretagne, Grèce, Portugal, Suisse, Uruguay et Venezuela. Dans un effort visant à encourager tous les CNO à commémorer la Journée olympique, la commission du sport pour tous du CIO lança le concept de la course de la Journée olympique, avec pour objectif la promotion de la pratique du sport par les hommes, femmes et enfants des quatre coins du monde et de tous les horizons, quelles que soient leurs aptitudes sportives. La première course de la Journée olympique fut organisée en 1987.

Spanish

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Record 18 2007-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Environment
OBS

The International Model Forest Network(IMFN) is a voluntary association of partners from around the world working toward the common goal of sustainable forest management and use. The IMFN is based on an innovative approach that combines the social, cultural and economic needs of local communities with the long-term sustainability of forest landscapes. Our three key objectives are : to foster international cooperation and exchange of ideas relating to the working concept of sustainable forest management ;to support international cooperation in critical aspects of forest science and social science that underlie the search for new models of forest management; to support ongoing international discussions on the criteria and principles of sustainable development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Environnement
OBS

Le Réseau international de forêts modèles (RIFM) est une association volontaire de partenaires qui proviennent de partout dans le monde et qui concourent à la gestion et à l'utilisation durables des forêts. Les trois objectifs clé du Réseau international consistent à : stimuler la coopération internationale et l'échange d'idées sur le concept de gestion durable des forêts; appuyer la coopération internationale dans des domaines cruciaux des sciences forestières et des sciences sociales qui sous-tendent la recherche de nouveaux modèles de gestion des forêts; soutenir les discussions internationales en cours sur les critères et les principes du développement durable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas federales (Gobierno canadiense)
  • Medio ambiente
OBS

La Red Internacional de Bosques Modelo (RIBM) es una asociación voluntaria que agrupa interesados de todas partes del mundo con el fin de trabajar en forma conjunta hacia la meta común de manejo y uso forestal sustentables. [...] Nuestros tres objetivos claves son fomentar la cooperación internacional y el intercambio de ideas sobre el concepto operativo de manejo forestal sustentable; apoyar la cooperación internacional en aspectos de ciencia forestal y ciencia social subyacente a la búsqueda de nuevos modelos de manejo forestal; apoyar los debates actuales internacionales sobre los criterios y principios de desarrollo sustentable.

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Record 19 2006-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
DEF

A paradigm like Hobbes’ model of the world as a huge machine, which aids in understanding the essence of our current and future experience. This experience will be characterized by computer systems able to sense our needs and respond to them(Myron Krueger, the inventor of the concept, 1983).

CONT

The responsive environment has been presented as the basis for a new aesthetic medium based on real-time interactions between men and machines. It has been suggested that the concepts and tools of the responsive environments can be fruitfully applied in a number of fields.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)

Spanish

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Record 20 2006-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
DEF

A storage method in which data, along with information used for error correction, such as parity buts or Hamming codes, is distributed among two or more hard disk drives in order to improve performance and reliability.

OBS

RAID stood originally for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and was expressed as an alternative to the SLED-Single Large Expensive Disk. The concept was to use banks of PC Disks as an alternative with the addition of a level of redundancy. General interpretation in the Storage world of 1992 is to refer to it as Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
DEF

Une matrice de disques dans laquelle une partie de la capacité physique est utilisée pour y stocker de l'information redondante concernant les données d'utilisateurs.

Spanish

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Record 21 2005-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
CONT

International English is the concept of the English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects, and the movement towards an international standard for the language. It is sometimes referred to as Global English, World English or Standard English. Sometimes these terms refer simply to the array of varieties of English spoken throughout the world; sometimes they refer to a desired standardisation. Howerver, consensus on the terminology and path to standardisation has not been reached.

CONT

Microsoft is partnering publishers in the US, UK and Austr alia in a large-scale new project to publish the world’s first dictionary of English, based on a single database of "world English" under the title Encarta World English Dictionary. Some 250 lexicographers form 10 countries compiled a three-million-word text that reflects the use of English as "the language of the world". Anne Soukhanov, currently Word Watch columnist for the Atlantic Monthly, claims that "World English is the communication medium of the 21st century".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
CONT

L'expression «anglais international» peut être comprise comme une abréviation de «anglais langue internationale» (ALI). Ce dernier terme est plus lourd, mais plus précis, car il insiste sur l'usage international de l'anglais au lieu de sous-entendre, à tort, qu'il existe une variété bien définie qui s'appellerait «anglais international».

Spanish

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Record 22 2004-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Social Policy (General)
DEF

A state in which the government assumes the responsibility for maintaining the minimum standards of living for all its nationals (citizens as well as aliens legally admitted for residence).

OBS

Nanny State : the concept of welfare from cradle to grave, created after the Second World War.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Politiques sociales (Généralités)
DEF

Conception de l'État dont l'une des missions consiste en la prise en charge très complète et fondée sur une solidarité entre les catégories sociales, de divers risques sociaux (maladie, indigence, retrait d'activité, chômage [...]

CONT

Les jeunes français refusent absolument la nounoucratie socialiste de Mitterand qui leur propose une existence cotonneuse.

OBS

État providence : équivalent adopté par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des services sociaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Servicios sociales y trabajo social
  • Políticas sociales (Generalidades)
DEF

Modelo de Estado que pretende garantizar a toda la población unos mínimos ingresos permanentes, intervenir en la distribución de la renta nacional con medidas permanentes que aseguren su más equitativo reparto y asegurar gratuitamente o a precio político unos mínimos vitales de equipamiento en bienes y servicios esenciales.

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Record 23 2004-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Golf
  • Contests (Recreation)
CONT

A Skins Game is based on the concept of different holes or "skins" being worth different amounts of money. In the TELUS Skins Game, the purse is split in the following way : Holes 1-6 :$15, 000/hole; Holes 7-12 :$20, 000/hole; Holes 13-18 :$25, 000/hole. The player with the lowest score on a hole wins the money. If all players tie a hole, the prize money is carried over and added to the next hole's prize purse. The Skins Game is a global golf property sold for broadcast around the world by IMG Canada. Professional Skins Games are also played in Australia, France, Korea, Thailand, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia and the U. S. A.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Golf
  • Concours (Loisirs)
CONT

Un jeu Skins Game repose sur la notion de trous primés ou «skins» ayant une valeur financière différente. Dans le Skins Game de TELUS, la bourse se divise de la manière suivante : Trous 1-6 : 15 000 $ par trou; Trous 7-12 : 20 000 $ par trou; Trous 13-18 : 25 000 $ par trou. Le joueur qui réussit la coche des coups la moins élevée pour un trou gagne le prix. Si tous les joueurs ont le même total pour un trou, le montant à gagner est alors ajouté au prix du trou suivant. Le Skins Game est une propriété mondiale du golf qui est vendue pour diffusion à travers le monde par IMG Canada. Les Skins Games professionnels se jouent aussi en Australie, en France, en Corée, en Thaïlande, en Grande-Bretagne, en Arabie saoudite et aux États-Unis.

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Record 24 2003-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meetings
  • Golf
  • Contests (Recreation)
OBS

Organized by the TELUS company. «A Skins Game is based on the concept of different holes or "skins" being worth different amounts of money. In the TELUS Skins Game, the purse is split in the following way : Holes 1-6 :$15, 000/hole; Holes 7-12 :$20, 000/hole; Holes 13-18 :$25, 000/hole. The player with the lowest score on a hole wins the money. If all players tie a hole, the prize money is carried over and added to the next hole's prize purse. The Skins Game is a global golf property sold for broadcast around the world by IMG Canada. Professional Skins Games are also played in Australia, France, Korea, Thailand, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia and the U. S. A.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réunions
  • Golf
  • Concours (Loisirs)
OBS

Organisé par la compagnie TELUS. «Un jeu Skins Game repose sur la notion de trous primés ou «skins» ayant une valeur financière différente. Dans le Skins Game de TELUS, la bourse se divise de la manière suivante : Trous 1-6 : 15 000 $ par trou; Trous 7-12 : 20 000 $ par trou; Trous 13-18 : 25 000 $ par trou. Le joueur qui réussit la coche des coups la moins élevée pour un trou gagne le prix. Si tous les joueurs ont le même total pour un trou, le montant à gagner est alors ajouté au prix du trou suivant. Le Skins Game est une propriété mondiale du golf qui est vendue pour diffusion à travers le monde par IMG Canada. Les Skins Games professionnels se jouent aussi en Australie, en France, en Corée, en Thaïlande, en Grande-Bretagne, en Arabie saoudite et aux États-Unis.

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Record 25 2002-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade
  • Environmental Economics
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
CONT

Ethical consumption, also known as socially responsible consumption, is a trend where consumers ask questions about the company that produced the goods -- choosing to patronize the companies which have "positive" profiles and avoiding those with "negative" profiles.

OBS

The very name of "ethical consumption" is still an open issue, and varies from ethical consumption to consumption in solidarity, responsible consumption, and fair consumption.... The idea of "ethical consumption" should initially be based on a definition of ethics. For those who understand the concept of Ethics as the definition of criteria to identify Good and Evil, it is important for the concept of Ethical Consumption to include another idea of consumption that is not based on individualism. The word that best defines this relationship with the rest of the world is "solidarity. "It qualifies it and defines the importance of others in the ethical values on which consumption is based. In this case we are talking about "ethical consumption in solidarity. "There is also a simplified version called "consumption in solidarity", which appears in the literature referring to consumption that not only considers our personal welfare but also considers general welfare. This is a consumption in which production is completed, generating an impact on the ecosystem and society in general. Under this idea, the choice of type of consumption can benefit or hinder the creation or maintenance of the productive jobs in a specific society, the preservation of ecosystems and the promotion of the general welfare of communities, countries and the entire planet. "Responsible consumption"(an expression used in Europe, particularly in France), appears where there is an awareness of the power of consumers, which become economic units with an important role to play, just as important as businesses and market regulatory boards. It implies an idea of economy that wishes to provide answers to citizens who belong to an economic and political world that considers man as a mere consumer. In this respect, consuming in a different way represents paying attention to what the money that we give to buy goods and services is financing, thus bringing economic pressure to bear from below that compensates

CONT

The CSI [Clark Sustainability Initiative] shall be approached as a process of continuous learning and innovation open to all members of the university community. The concepts and means of measuring "sustainability" and "socially and ecologically responsible consumption practices" shall be subject to regular reassessment and reconsideration in light of new experiences and understandings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce
  • Économie environnementale
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle
CONT

Le mode de consommation durable est fondé sur des modes de production et de consommation pouvant durer sans dégrader l'environnement humain ou naturel. C'est favoriser la consommation responsable, par le choix de produits sains, favorables à l'environnement et produits dans des conditions sociales respectueuses des droits de l'homme.

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Record 26 2002-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
  • Meteorology
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
OBS

The concept of the Operational World Weather Watch Systems Evaluation(OWSE) has also been developed as a framework for regional implementation. The OWSE-Africa, which was created to evaluate the very extensive use of a geostationary meteorological satellite(operated by the European operational satellite consortium, EUMETSAT) to improve telecommunications and data availability in Africa,... was designed to implement and test the data collection system for receipt of meteorological observations from various countries in Africa.

OBS

The WMO responded to the UN request with the concept of the World Weather Watch(WWW), an operational system to bring the global atmosphere under improved surveillance and to provide for the rapid collection and exchange of weather data as well as for the dissemination of weather products from centralized processing centers.... The World Weather Watch(WWW) is an integrated system which functions on three levels--global, regional, and national. The WWW is divided into three essential elements that are closely linked and interdependent--the Global Observing System(GOS), Global Data Processing System(GDPS), and Global Telecommunication System(GTS).

Key term(s)
  • Operational World Weather Watch System Evaluation
  • Operational WWW System Evaluation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux
  • Météorologie
  • Études et analyses environnementales

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas internacionales
  • Meteorología
  • Estudios y análisis del medio ambiente
Key term(s)
  • Evaluaciones Operativas de los Sistemas de la VMM
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Record 27 2002-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
  • Environmental Management
OBS

The concept of "sustainable development" was first used in the mid-1970s, to suggest a broad policy goal of integrating environmental considerations into economic decisions. In 1980, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources(IUCN), in conjunction with UNEP [United Nations Environment Programme], the World Wildlife fund(WWF), and other organisations, published the World Conservation Strategy(WCS). In the WCS, the current and more complex implication of sustainable development emerged to imply, for example, operational linkages between resource use and sustainable yields, in light of the needs of future generations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux
  • Gestion environnementale
OBS

Pour la Journée Mondiale de la Conservation, l'UICN [Union mondiale pour la nature] publie la Stratégie mondiale de la conservation (SMC ou WCS en anglais) (sous-titrée : «La conservation des ressources vivantes au service du développement durable»), avec la coopération du PNUE [Programme des Nations Unies pour l'environnement], du WWF [Fonds mondial pour la nature] et en collaboration avec l'UNESCO et la FAO [Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture]. Ce document, fruit de deux ans de travail et reconnu comme le manifeste le plus important des années 80 dans le domaine de la conservation de la nature, redéfinit le fondement intellectuel de celle-ci. La SMC insiste sur un fait essentiel : la conservation et le développement durable ne sont pas ennemis, ils sont inséparables.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas internacionales
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
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Record 28 2001-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special Water Transport
  • Materials Handling
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

The concept of building major strategic port storages, suitably located to serve a large area, has caught the interest of many including, the FAO and the World Bank. The concept of building strategically located "transshipment" ports also has potential. Such facilities would transfer grain from large ocean bulk carrier to small coasters that could serve shallow receiving ports. Potential locations for such transshipment ports include the Caribbean Sea, the Mediterranean, Singapore, Hong Kong, and other ports on the coast of Mainland China.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transports par bateaux spéciaux
  • Manutention
  • Minoterie et céréales
CONT

Divers groupes, dont la FAO et la Banque mondiale, ont été séduits par l'idée de construire de grands silos portuaires à des endroits stratégiques qui permettraient de desservir un vaste territoire. L'idée de construire des ports de transbordement avantageusement situés n'est pas non plus sans intérêt. Dans ces ports, on pourrait transborder le grain des vraquiers dans des caboteurs capables d'entrer dans des ports peu profonds. Ces ports de transbordement seraient probablement situés dans la mer des Antilles et la Méditerranée, à Singapour, à Hong Kong, de même que sur les côtes de la Chine continentale.

Spanish

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Record 29 1999-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environment
  • Social Movements
CONT

... anti-doomsday people are in a double bind rhetorically. The doomsdayers speak in excited, angry, high-pitched voices, using language such as Famine 1975! they say that such tactics are acceptable because "we are faced with a crisis ..."

CONT

The Doomsayers and Brownlasher.... John Maddox... authored the book "The Doomsday Syndrome",... a book that addressed the environmental and science issues that had the world(and especially the United States) in a whir in 1972.... In Maddox's arguments, there is always a strong defense of the environment and the concept of "do no wrong", but he point-by-point castigated those that use emotion rather than logic to advance science.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Environnement
  • Mouvements sociaux
OBS

alarmiste : Personne qui incite à l'inquiétude, qui répand l'alarme de manière systématique (et plus ou moins excessive ou injustifiée).

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Record 30 1998-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
OBS

Concept developed by Bela Balassa, it is measured by an item's share in the country's exports relative to its share in world trade. If the share of the item in the country's exports is more than the corresponding world share, then the country has a revealed comparative advantage; if less, it has a revealed comparative disadvantage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
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Record 31 1997-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A form of learning in which the learner generates concepts useful in characterizing a given collection of objects or facts or a subset of them.

CONT

The concept-formation program described by Winston in his thesis(Winston 1975) was a landmark development in this direction. It accepted as input a sequence of descriptions of complicated Blocks World configurations, each classified as a positive or negative instance of the concept to be learned. The output was a definition of an admissible relation for the concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Création de concepts servant à caractériser une collection d'objets, d'événements ou de faits.

OBS

genèse : manière dont une chose est formée.

Spanish

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Record 32 1996-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
CONT

The term resource partitioning is an ecological concept used to describe the differential use of resources such as food and space by two or more species. Of course, as humans sequester ever more resources required or desired by our species, fewer resources are left for others, hence the accelerating biodiversity crisis world wide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
CONT

Évidemment, comme les humains accaparent de plus en plus de ressources pour satisfaire leurs besoins et leurs désirs, il en reste de moins en moins pour les autres espèces, d'où l'accélération critique de la perte de biodiversité à l'échelle de la planète.

Spanish

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Record 33 1994-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
CONT

The concept of functional specialization in the visual cortex supposes that color, form, motion and possibly other attributes of the visible world are processed separately.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
CONT

Le concept de spécialisation fonctionnelle du cortex visuel prétend un traitement séparé de la couleur, de la forme, du mouvement et, sans doute, d'autres caractéristiques du monde visible.

Spanish

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Record 34 1990-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A frame which stands for a physically existent world concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

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Record 35 1989-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Fischer, Brown, and Burton(1978; Burton, Brown, and Fischer, 1984) propose a paradigm for the design of optimal learning environments, which they call increasingly complex microworlds. The concept of microworlds created for educational purposes with the computer as a(universal simulator) is already the central theme of LOGO. Fischer et al. set out to formalize the notion of a succession of(microworlds) where the modifications at each step are meant to support learning. The idea is to start with a simplified world and to have a coach progressively add new dimensions of complexity that require an increasing mastery of basic skills. Fischer et al. present skiing instruction as a pedagogical success model that has made use of microworlds. Over the years, skiing instruction has become safer and surprisingly effective. According to the authors, the key to this success is the definition of progressive learning phases : instructors have combined technological advances with pedagogical cleverness to provide useful simplified versions of the skill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir micromonde, complexifié.

Spanish

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