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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
CONT

Generally, at higher altitudes, we try to fly upwind of the cell because we are less likely to encounter hail on the upwind side, and anecdotally, turbulence is normally much worse on the downwind side than the upwind side.

Key term(s)
  • fly head-wind

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
DEF

... the judgment that one is worse off compared to some standard accompanied by feelings of anger and resentment.

CONT

The concept of relative deprivation has been used to explain the fact that persons who could be much worse off than they are but still feel deprived in comparison with even more fortunate groups often play a prominent part in social movements.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
CONT

Le traitement différentiel suscitant le désengagement psychologique au travail a été évalué par le biais du concept de privation relative. Ce concept se traduit par un sentiment d'insatisfaction résultant d'une comparaison défavorable [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología social
CONT

La "privación relativa" es la ausencia de bienes en relación con un grupo de referencia. Un individuo o una familia experimentan "privación relativa" cuando carece de bienes comunes en otros individuos y familias del entorno social.

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Record 3 2024-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hygiene and Health
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
  • Sociology of Medicine
CONT

The social gradient in health is a term used to describe the phenomenon whereby people who are less advantaged in terms of socioeconomic position have worse health(and shorter lives) than those who are more advantaged.

Key term(s)
  • socio-economic gradient in health
  • socio-economic health gradient

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hygiène et santé
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle
  • Sociologie de la médecine
CONT

[Le] gradient socio-économique de santé ne dépend pas uniquement des revenus, mais aussi [...] du capital symbolique associé aux positions sociales[.]

Key term(s)
  • gradient socioéconomique de santé

Spanish

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Record 4 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • Treaties and Conventions
DEF

A person who is in favour of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the European Union.

CONT

By castigating [the Prime Minister] for coming up with a deal that is worse than continued [European Union] membership, some of the hard Brexiters are helping to make the case for giving the nation the opportunity to think again.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Traités et alliances
DEF

Personne en faveur du retrait du Royaume-Uni de l'Union européenne.

CONT

[...] les Brexiteurs ne rejettent pas l'immigration en soi, mais ses conséquences sur les bas salaires, les services publics et les infrastructures comme le logement.

Spanish

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Record 5 2022-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

Our discovery of super-recognizers demonstrates that people can not only be much worse than average at face recognition(as in developmental prosopagnosia), but also much better than average.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

Les superphysionomistes, eux, n'oublient jamais un visage rencontré ne fût-ce qu'une fois. Ils reconnaissent une personne des années plus tard, même après l'avoir vue seulement une ou deux fois très brièvement. [...] Ces superphysionomistes semblent avoir le don de traiter les visages inconnus avec la même efficacité que la plupart des gens avec leurs proches. Par ailleurs, ces surdoués des visages sont souvent en mesure de reconnaître quelqu'un à partir de quelques fragments d'images.

Spanish

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Record 6 2019-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic History
OBS

However true their lurid pictures of industrial factory towns, the earlier historians seem to have erred in thinking that conditions were worse than in the preindustrial era.

Key term(s)
  • pre-industrial era

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire de l'économique

Spanish

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Record 7 2018-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Communication
  • Television Arts
CONT

Cultivation theory states that high frequency viewers of television are more susceptible to media messages and the belief that they are real and valid. Heavy viewers are exposed to more violence and therefore are affected by the mean world syndrome, the belief that the world is a far worse and dangerous place than it actually is.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la communication
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
OBS

L'expression «théorie de la cultivation» est parfois utilisée par les auteurs d'ouvrages spécialisés dans le domaine des communications de masse.

Spanish

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Record 8 2018-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Economic History
  • Stock Exchange
CONT

Tuesday, 29 October — or Black Tuesday — was worse still. On Wall Street, 16. 4 million shares were sold, almost 4 million more than Black Thursday's unprecedented totals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Histoire de l'économique
  • Bourse
CONT

Le mardi 29 octobre, appelé mardi noir, est pire encore. À Wall Street, 16,4 millions d'actions sont vendues, soit presque 4 millions de plus que le sinistre record du jeudi précédent.

OBS

Journée du 29 octobre 1929, correspondant au point le plus fort du krach de 1929 et marquant le début de la dépression des années 1930.

Spanish

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Record 9 2018-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neuroses
  • Clinical Psychology
Universal entry(ies)
296.82
classification system code, see observation
CONT

Atypical depression refers to fatigue superimposed on a history of somatic anxiety and phobias, together with reverse vegetative signs(mood worse in the evening, insomnia, tendency to oversleep and overeat), so that weight gain occurs rather than weight loss.

OBS

296.82: code used in the ninth edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, but not included in the tenth edition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Névroses
  • Psychologie clinique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
296.82
classification system code, see observation
CONT

Selon la description classique, la dépression atypique est un état dépressif avec une anxiété importante, une fatigue difficilement surmontable, une hypersomnie, une hyperphagie avec prise de poids, une humeur plus dépressive le soir et une grande sensibilité aux critiques.

OBS

296.82 : code de la neuvième édition de la Classification statistique internationale des maladies et des problèmes de santé connexes, mais non repris dans la dixième édition.

Spanish

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Record 10 2017-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
DEF

A tropical cyclone which shows some closed isobars and has winds speeds of 35-64 knots.

CONT

Tropical storms-typically referred as storms incorrectly-are natural hazards that form in Earth's atmosphere. They are exceptionally severe and much worse than a standard thunderstorm. Tropical storms can cause great damage to property and loss of life, so it is fortunate that they are rare.

OBS

In most of the world, a storm is given a name when it reaches tropical storm intensity.

OBS

Tropical storm: maximum wind speed of 34 to 47 knots. Severe tropical storm: maximum wind speed of 48 to 63 knots.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
DEF

Cyclone tropical avec vents maximaux entre 34 et 64 nœuds (les critères varient suivant les conventions des services météorologiques nationaux).

CONT

Dans les régions intertropicales, la vitesse du vent v permet de classer les tempêtes, en dépression tropicale (v < 63 km.h-1 ou 34 nœuds), tempête tropicale (63 km.h-1 < v < 118 km.h-1) [...]

OBS

Tempête tropicale : vitesse maximale du vent de 34 à 47 nœuds. Forte tempête tropicale : vitesse maximale du vent de 48 à 63 nœuds.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fenómenos meteorológicos, climáticos y atmosféricos
OBS

Tempestad tropical: Velocidad máxima del viento de 34 a 47 nudos. Tempestad tropical intensa: Velocidad máxima del viento de 48 a 63 nudos.

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Record 11 2017-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
CONT

... ability to conform to visual acuity requirements such as a) vision(either unaided or corrected by the individual' s usual distance refractive correction) in the eye used to aim a rifle, shall not be worse than 6/9...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
CONT

Lorsqu'un œil possède un pouvoir de réfraction normal, l'image des objets situés entre 5 m et l'infini se forme sur la rétine sans intervention de l'accommodation (emmétropie). Dans le cas contraire (amétropie), un verre correcteur est nécessaire pour qu'il en soit ainsi.

Spanish

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Record 12 2016-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Waste Management
  • Various Industries
CONT

As far as post-consumer recycled plastics are concerned, their properties are even worse than those of post-industrial materials.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des déchets
  • Industries diverses
CONT

Matières post-industrielles : les matières post-industrielles proviennent des chutes et des retailles produites en usine manufacturière et qui sont réintroduites dans le cycle de fabrication.

Spanish

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Record 13 2013-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

Some members of the Task Force maintain that the powers of observation and recollection were no worse in young people than old people, yet no special requirement exists regarding the use of geriatric evidence.(Fed./Prov. Task Force, p. 272)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

témoignage de vieillard : terme traité dans le Vocabulaire bilingue de la Common Law - Droit de la preuve, mais non normalisé.

Spanish

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Record 14 2012-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anti-pollution Measures
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

Compensation measures, in the context of facility siting,... fall into two broad categories :(a) those which are impact-related, that is, they aim to offset unavoidable adverse residual impacts or damages thereby leaving the community no worse off than it was before the facility was sited there; and(b) those which are equity-related, that is, they aim to redress the unfair distribution of costs and benefits by ensuring that the local community derives benefit from the siting decision such that it is better off than it was before the facility was sited there.

CONT

Examples of equity-related compensation measures include local purchasing and hiring policies (sometimes include employee training provisions), tax subsidies (e.g., payment of all or part of the property taxes of local residents, involving either only those most directly affected or the community as a whole), tipping fees (i.e., a tax on the material disposed of at the facility, either on a volume or gross receipt basis, with the funds earmarked for use by the local community), co-use of the facility (e.g., incorporating into the facility a landfill to dispose of municipal waste), bonus services (e.g., the provision of infrastructure such as schools, hospitals or other amenities which would enhance the community’s development potential), and bonus facilities (e.g., construction of a research and/or educational centre focussed on some specific aspect of the proposed facility such as the waste itself or the technology required to manage it).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures antipollution
  • Économie environnementale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medidas contra la contaminación
  • Economía del medio ambiente
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Record 15 2011-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
  • Long-Distance Pipelines
CONT

Another soil process, which is of importance to subsea pipeline engineering, is dynamic liquefaction caused either due to the passing of individual(steep) waves or due to a gradual build-up of pore pressure in the soil due to repeated cyclical forcing, such as wave motion. As a consequence of liquefaction the soil loses its bearing capacity. Hence, a negatively buoyant pipe will sink into the seabed, but what is usually worse is that a buoyant pipe can work its way out of the seabed with potentially hazardous consequences. Although dynamic liquefaction has been studied for more than 20 years, we are still some ways from formulating clear design rules, partially because it is still not clear how important this effect is in the field; the evidence is contradictory.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des sols
  • Canalisations à grande distance

Spanish

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Record 16 2011-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics
  • Urban Planning
CONT

... a framework for impact management ... consists of four basic components: - mitigation measures which aim to prevent or reduce potential negative effects; - compensation measures which aim to redress or offset unavoidable negative effects; - contingency measures which aim to aid in the detection and timely response to potential problems and unanticipated effects; and - community relations measures which aim to ensure effective two-way communication and joint problem-solving to resolve concerns and issues on an on-going basis.

CONT

Compensation measures, in the context of facility siting,... fall into two broad categories :(a) those which are impact-related, that is, they aim to offset unavoidable adverse residual impacts or damages thereby leaving the community no worse off than it was before the facility was sited there; and(b) those which are equity-related, that is, they aim to redress the unfair distribution of costs and benefits by ensuring that the local community derives benefit from the siting decision such that it is better off than it was before the facility was sited there.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale
  • Aménagement urbain
DEF

Mesure en faveur de l'environnement permettant de contrebalancer les dommages qui lui sont causés par un projet et qui n'ont pu être évités ou limités par d'autres moyens.

OBS

Cette mesure est généralement obligatoire, en ce sens qu'il s'agit de respecter un droit, une règle, une coutume.

OBS

mesure compensatoire : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 4 février 2010.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
  • Planificación urbana
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Record 17 2010-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
CONT

""Canadian Black Book® values are available to the public through the manufacturer sites listed on the left side of this page... The on-line prices we provide to manufacturers for use on their web sites are "Trade-in" values. These are prices calculated differently than “wholesale”. It is a range of value we would expect a dealer to give a consumer trading in a vehicle on the purchase of a new vehicle, based on the dealer not seeing the car and allowing for worse case scenarios".

OBS

Canadian Black Book®: A registered trademark of Hearst Business Media Corporation, used under license by Wm. Ward Publishing Ltd. as exclusive Canadian distributor.

Key term(s)
  • Canadian Black Book

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes
OBS

Canadian Black Book® : Marque déposée de la société Hearst Business Media Corporation.

Key term(s)
  • Canadian Black Book

Spanish

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Record 18 2010-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
CONT

For us that sit low in the altitude saddle, areas of high altitude can tremendously effect our bodies. There is nothing worse than a pounding headache, shortness of breath, nausea, fatigue, and heart palpitations. Unfortunately, these are all symptoms of altitude sickness. Altitude sickness can happen when you are in an airplane or when you are in a geographical area of high altitude.

CONT

Altitude illness is the result of traveling to a higher altitude faster than the body can adapt to that new altitude. Fluid leakage from blood vessels appears to be the main cause of symptoms. Altitude illness is divided into three syndromes: acute mountain sickness (AMS), high-altitude cerebral edema (HACE), and high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE).

Key term(s)
  • high altitude sickness
  • high altitude illness

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
DEF

[Malaise] provoqué par une diminution de la pression atmosphérique et se produisant chez un individu exposé à une altitude dépassant celle à laquelle il est acclimaté.

OBS

soroche (sorroche), mal des montagnes : le terme «soroche» prête à confusion. Il peut à la fois désigner le «mal des montagnes» et le « mal de l'altitude ». De plus, les termes «mal des montagnes» et «mal de l'altitude» ne sont pas synonymes, le mal des montagnes est une forme de mal de l'altitude.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Morfología y fisiología general
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Record 19 2008-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

Under the cutting system of grading, a cutting that is free of all visible defects on the face graded(other than certain minor defects allowed in some grades in certain grading rules) while the reverse face must not be worse than as defined under a sound face cutting.

Key term(s)
  • clear face cutting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Partie d'une face exempte de défauts sur toute sa largeur.

OBS

Le classement des faces sert à apprécier la qualité de la surface d'une bille. Pour ce faire, la bille est visuellement divisée en quatre faces, de façon à concentrer le plus grand nombre de défauts dans un nombre aussi restreint de faces que possible.

Spanish

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Record 20 2008-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meats and Meat Industries
CONT

Bacon, rind on or off? Rindless, lean bacon in rolls is often more palatable than rind on bacon, although rindless bacon is a little more expensive it guarantees customer satisfaction. There's nothing more annoying than customers asking you to cut it off when [you are] busy or worse than watching your customers wrestling with their bacon rolls.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salaison, boucherie et charcuterie
CONT

Vous pouvez remplacer chaque laitage par : [...] une tranche de jambon cuit ou de bacon découenné et dégraissé [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industria cárnica, de fiambres y embutidos
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Record 21 2008-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Conventions, Treaties and Agreements (Documents)
  • Investment
OBS

A Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement(FIPA) is a bilateral agreement aimed at protecting and promoting foreign investment through legally-binding rights and obligations. FIPAs accomplish their objectives by setting out the respective rights and obligations of the countries that are signatories to the treaty with respect to the treatment of foreign investment. Typically, there are agreed exceptions to the obligations. FIPAs seek to ensure that foreign investors will not be treated worse than similarly situated domestic investors or other foreign investors; they will not have their investments expropriated without prompt and adequate compensation; and, in any case, they will not be subject to treatment lower than the minimum standard established in customary international law. As well, in most circumstances, investors should be free to invest capital and repatriate their investments and returns.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de conventions, de traités et d'accords (Documents)
  • Investissements et placements
OBS

Un Accord sur la promotion et la protection des investissements étrangers (APIE) est un accord bilatéral visant à protéger et à promouvoir l'investissement étranger par des droits et des obligations juridiquement contraignants. Un APIE atteint ses objectifs en énonçant les droits et obligations de chacun des pays signataires quant au traitement de l'investissement étranger. En général, l'APIE contient des exceptions convenues aux obligations. L'APIE assure aux investisseurs étrangers qu'ils recevront un traitement aussi favorable que leurs homologues nationaux ou les investisseurs d'autres pays; que leurs investissements ne seront pas expropriés sans que des indemnités suffisantes ne leur soient versées promptement; et qu'ils ne seront en aucun cas soumis à un traitement inférieur à la norme minimale prévue dans les règles du droit international coutumier. De plus, dans la plupart des cas, les investisseurs devraient pouvoir investir leurs capitaux et rapatrier leurs investissements et leurs gains de placement.

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Record 22 2002-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Pharmacology
DEF

The worsening of symptoms upon discontinuation of treatment.

CONT

If the drug [sedative] is stopped, a rebound occurs with the appearance of symptoms worse than those experienced prior to treatment

Key term(s)
  • rebound phenomenon
  • rebound effect

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Pharmacologie
DEF

Réapparition des signes traités avec une plus grande intensité après l'arrêt d'un traitement.

Key term(s)
  • rebond
  • effet de rebond
  • phénomène de rebond

Spanish

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Record 23 2000-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orthopedic Surgery
CONT

In general, the results of secondary [total hip] replacement were no worse than those obtained after primary arthroplasty for femoral neck fracture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie orthopédique
CONT

Sous réserve d'une maîtrise technique rigoureuse, en particulier fémorale, la qualité des résultats à moyen terme justifie à nos yeux la poursuite de l'utilisation des implants non cimentés de Zweymüller en arthroplastie primaire de la hanche.

Spanish

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Record 24 2000-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Propulsion Systems
CONT

... aircraft with hush kits are not as environmentally friendly as those with cleaner burning new generation engines. Hush kits induce weight and performance penalties which translate into 50 percent more fuel consumption on take-off and significantly worse noise standards than current technology aircraft...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propulsion des aéronefs
CONT

Le Dash 8Q offre un confort comparable à celui d'un avion à réaction en raison de son système d'atténuation du bruit et d'amortissement des vibrations (NVS) unique dans l'industrie.

Spanish

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Record 25 1999-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • Amalgamation and Partnerships (Finance)
DEF

Price or level of conditions at which one party prefers to definitively halt negotiations rather than reach an agreement at a worse price.

OBS

walk-away price: term and definition reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Fusion, absorption et coparticipation (Finances)
DEF

Prix ou conditions dans lesquels une partie préfère rompre définitivement la négociation plutôt que de parvenir à un accord ou à un prix moins intéressant [dans une fusion].

OBS

prix de rupture : terme et définition extraits du CAPITAL Business Dictionary et reproduits avec l'autorisation de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía empresarial
  • Consolidación y asociaciones (Finanzas)
DEF

Precio o nivel de condiciones en el que una parte prefiere romper definitivamente la negociación a llegar a un acuerdo a un precio peor (en una fusión].

OBS

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

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Record 26 1996-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Toxicology
  • Radiation Protection
  • Nuclear Waste Materials
CONT

The notion of "no threshold" may... lead to the view that radiation, having no proven minimum safe level, is therefore uniquely harmful, far worse than the effects of other toxins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toxicologie
  • Radioprotection
  • Déchets nucléaires

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Toxicología
  • Protección contra la radiación
  • Desechos nucleares
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Record 27 1996-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anti-pollution Measures
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

Compensation measures, in the context of facility siting,... fall into two broad categories :(a) those which are impact-related, that is, they aim to offset unavoidable adverse residual impacts or damages thereby leaving the community no worse off than it was before the facility was sited there; and(b) those which are equity-related, that is, they aim to redress the unfair distribution of costs and benefits by ensuring that the local community derives benefit from the siting decision such that it is better off than it was before the facility was sited there.

CONT

Examples of impact-related compensation measures include in-kind compensation (i.e., replacement of what is lost), service subsidies (to support any expansion of services that may be required to offset the effect of increased demand), property tax abatement (to offset any potential increase in property taxes), property value protection (guarantee of payment of fair market value as protection against a real decline in property value due to the construction and operation of the facility), and property buy out (for those residents who are likely to suffer significant levels of unavoidable impacts for an extended period of time). Payments-in-lieu of taxes, which have become a convention in public facility development, are not regarded as a component of impact management.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures antipollution
  • Économie environnementale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medidas contra la contaminación
  • Economía del medio ambiente
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Record 28 1993-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Skin
DEF

exposure to the sun continuing for a long period of time.

CONT

Sooner or later, chronic exposure to sun will contribute to photoaging in any person, but the ravages of the sun are far worse for some people than for others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareil cutané
DEF

exposition solaire que l'on fait durer plus longtemps.

Spanish

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