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Record 1 2024-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music
CONT

Two developments that had an especially important impact [on music in the 1960s] were quotation music and minimal music. The former, which involved the use of earlier music as material for new compositions, represented an idea with a long tradition in Western music. Quotation had been a standard procedure during the medieval and Renaissance eras and it persisted in occasional use throughout the common-practice period.... Quotation music of the 1960s was set apart, then, not so much by how pervasive it was(though it was certainly that) but by the fact that the borrowed material consumed such a large portion of the musical structure that its "foreign" nature was emphasized to such a marked degree.... Not uncommonly, entire compositions were made up of quotations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychoses
CONT

Violent, repeated trauma in infancy and pre-adolescence has the deepest impact on the human psyche, often to the degree of psychotic disorganization.

Key term(s)
  • psychotic disorganisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychoses
CONT

L'intrication entre effet toxique et désorganisation psychotique n'est pas encore complètement élucidée. Beaucoup d'auteurs pensent qu'une désorganisation psychotique déclenchée par une prise de [substance] toxique est en fait plutôt révélée par le toxique : la prise de [substance] toxique s'inscrivant sur un terrain de personnalité fragile, qui se décompense à ce moment.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicosis
CONT

La desorganización psicótica implica una brutal desorganización del entramado psíquico de representaciones, una verdadera escisión que altera profundamente varias o todas las funciones psíquicas.

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Record 3 2022-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

The principal environmental impact of driftnets is related to the bycatch of non-target species. In general, driftnets have a high degree of size selectivity and can efficiently be regulated by mesh size. Few alternative fishing methods are available to catch the species targeted by driftnets, and the impact for some of these gears is controversial. Solutions are proposed to mitigate the environmental impact of driftnet fisheries by alternative fishing gears and improvement of selectivity.

Key term(s)
  • drift net fishery

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 4 2018-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewing (General)
  • Sewing Techniques and Stitching
CONT

The yoke is the back part of the shirt that connects neck and shoulders and may assume a variety of shapes and patterns depending on the shirt model. Commonly, the yoke is made of one piece of fabric. However, on custom shirts, it makes sense to have a split yoke so the varying degree of your sloped shoulders can be accommodated correctly. Also, a split back yoke can help to match the shirt pattern on the sleevehead. A split yoke is also often used on higher end [ready-to-wear] shirts, but since they are symmetrical, the impact is limited.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Couture (Généralités)
  • Techniques d'exécution et points de couture

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Group Dynamics
  • Personality Development
  • Management Operations (General)
CONT

An individual' s degree of resistance to change is determined by whether they perceive the change as good or bad, and how severe they expect the impact of the change to be on them. Their ultimate acceptance of the change is a function of how much resistance the person has and the quality of their coping skills and their support system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dynamique des groupes
  • Développement de la personnalité
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
CONT

[Le] niveau de résistance au changement dans une entreprise repose à la fois sur la complexité technique du projet et sur le nombre de personnes qui soutiennent ou au contraire s'opposent à sa mise en œuvre.

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Testing and Debugging
DEF

A classification of a software error or fault based upon an evaluation of the degree of impact of that error or fault on the development or operation of a system(often used to determine whether or when a fault will be corrected).

OBS

criticality: term and definition standardized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Test et débogage
DEF

Classification d'une erreur ou d'une défaillance du logiciel, basée sur l'évaluation du degré d'impact de cette erreur ou de cette défaillance sur l'élaboration ou le fonctionnement d'un système (terme souvent employé pour déterminer si, ou à quel moment, la défaillance doit être corrigée).

Spanish

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Record 7 2010-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Given these experiences, we do not believe a human rights impact assessment tool for communities can simply be provided on a website with the idea that the communities will download it and go through the exercise on their own. In most cases, some degree of professional accompaniment in the process from outside the community will be critical.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits et libertés
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 8 2009-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

If scientists involved in environmental impact assessment begin to publish information on resilience in standardized ways for particular ecosystems being analyzed, we may at a future date be able to draw some generalizations about ecosystem resilience that will enable us to quantify the degree of "irreversibility of commitment" of ecological resources more effectively.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
OBS

"Ressources" : Élements de l'environnement utilisés directement ou utilisables à des fins d'alimentation, de revenus, de loisirs, etc.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
CONT

[...] las principales estructuras de los ecosistemas, entre las que figura en primer término la biodiversidad, consisten de arreglos bióticos (genes, especies y ecosistemas) que tienen valores actuales y potenciales para la humanidad. Esta categoría de componentes biológicos las ha identificado como recursos ecológicos [...] Los servicios y los recursos ecológicos se generan a partir de interacciones entre organismos, poblaciones, comunidades y su medio ambiente geoquímico.

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Record 9 2009-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

If scientists involved in environmental impact assessment begin to publish information on resilience in standardized ways for particular ecosystems being analyzed, we may at a future date be able to draw some generalizations about ecosystem resilience that will enable us to quantify the degree of(irreversibility of commitment) of ecological resources more effectively.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Écologie (Généralités)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estudios y análisis del medio ambiente
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
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Record 10 2005-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
CONT

Backward mapping is a user centered versus product by program centered way of looking at plans.

OBS

The success is measured by the degree of penetration used and impact on the intended target population.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation
DEF

Planification tenant compte des répercussions possibles de la réalisation d'un plan déterminé sur la population à laquelle il est destiné.

OBS

Par analogie avec backward scheduling : jalonnement en amont.

OBS

Les plans de développement fournissent un exemple du genre de planification.

Spanish

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Record 11 2003-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Strength of Materials
  • Plastic Materials
  • Rubber
CONT

ASTM method D 746 addresses the effect of cold temperature on plastics and, in particular, the properties of brittleness and impact strength. At various temperatures, specimens are tested by a specified impact device in a cantilever beam test mode. Brittleness is defined as "that temperature estimated statistically, at which 50 percent of the specimens would fail in the specified test".

CONT

Determination of the Izod impact resistance of rigid plastics... Method A is the Cantilever beam or Izod Type Test in which the specimen is broken by a blow delivered at a fixed distance from the edge of the specimen clamp. The test requires a notched specimen in all cases. The notch is intended to produce a standard degree of stress concentration.

OBS

Izod impact strength of notched specimens ... The test specimen, supported as a vertical cantilever beam, is broken by a single swing of a pendulum, with the line of impact at a fixed distance from the specimen clamp and from the centre line of the notch.

Key term(s)
  • Izod-type test

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Résistance des matériaux
  • Matières plastiques
  • Caoutchouc
DEF

Essai consistant à rompre d'un seul coup, à l'aide d'une masse oscillante, une éprouvette entaillée fixée en une de ses extrémités. L'énergie absorbée, déterminée par la mesure de la hauteur de remontée du pendule, est une mesure de la résistance au choc ou résilience.

CONT

Détermination de la résilience Izod des matières plastiques rigides [...] La méthode A est l'essai sur éprouvette en porte-à-faux ou essai type Izod dans lequel la rupture de l'éprouvette résulte d'un coup appliqué à distance fixe du bord du porte-éprouvette. Dans tous les cas l'essai nécessite l'emploi d'éprouvettes entaillées. L'entaille a pour but de réaliser un degré uniforme de concentration des contraintes.

OBS

L'éprouvette, tenue encastrée en position verticale, [en porte-à-faux] est cassée par une seule oscillation d'un pendule, la ligne de choc étant située à distance fixe du serrage de l'éprouvette et de l'axe de l'entaille.

Key term(s)
  • méthode à éprouvette entaillée

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Shooting (Sports)
DEF

Degree of dispersion of a series of shots about the mean point of impact.

DEF

The extent of the spread of a group of rounds all fired at the same data. It is measured, not about the target, but about the mean point of impact.

OBS

If a spread of rounds about the mean point of impact is great, the consistency is poor. Conversely, if the spread of rounds about the mean point of impact is small, the consistency is good.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Tir (Sports)
DEF

Degré de dispersion d'une série de coups autour du point moyen des impacts. [Définition uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.]

DEF

Degré de dispersion d'un groupe de coups tous tirés avec les mêmes éléments. La mesure est prise en fonction du point moyen des impacts et non de l'objectif.

OBS

Si les coups sont très dispersés autour du point moyen des impacts, la précision est faible; s'ils sont peu dispersés, la précision est bonne.

OBS

précision : terme et définition uniformisés par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre; terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas de armas
  • Tiro (Deportes)
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Record 13 2001-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anti-pollution Measures
  • Transport of Goods
  • Security
  • Emergency Management
CONT

Most of the assessments reviewed emphasized the mitigation measures to be adopted to reduce or eliminate undesirable impacts.

CONT

Mitigative measures as special actions and structures ... included: (a) downstream channel improvements to prevent permanent flooding of the Godaleich Pond delta; ... (e) design improvements in the power canal ... to facilitate crossing by caribou....

OBS

"Mitigate": In environmental usage, the reduction or control of adverse environmental impact through various measures which seek to make the impact less severe, less obvious, more acceptable, etc.

OBS

"Mitigation" : Includes :(a) Avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action,(b) Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree of magnitude of the action and its implementation,(c) Rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the impacted environment,(d) Reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action,(e) Compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources or environments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures antipollution
  • Transport de marchandises
  • Sécurité
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

Mesure visée par le "Code de l'environnement" ou une directive d'environnement et prise par suite d'un accident.

Spanish

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Record 14 2001-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
CONT

Orthotherapy is the specialization of kinesitherapy. This profession aims at relieving muscle pain and joint stiffness, often resuting from improper posture, abrupt movements, accidental falls, impact trauma, accidents and even the lack of physical activity. Requiring a higher degree of specialization than kinesitherapy, Orthotherapy is primarily concerned with determining the nature of disorders, based on extensive knowledge and understanding of the functioning of musculoskeletal and organic systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
CONT

L'orthothérapie est la spécialisation de la kinésithérapie. Elle est une profession qui vise à soulager les douleurs musculaires et les raideurs articulaires souvent dues à des défauts de posture, à des gestes brusques, à des chutes, coups, accidents et même, au manque d'activité physique. Plus spécialisée que la kinésithérapie, l'orthothérapie a comme rôle d'identifier la nature du problème en approfondissant et en comprenant le fonctionnement des systèmes organiques et du musculo-squelettique.

Spanish

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Record 15 2000-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
DEF

In the UCS, a heading in the rating scale.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
DEF

Dans la NGC, une des rubriques de l'échelle d'évaluation.

Spanish

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Record 16 1999-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Management
CONT

To assess degree of sediment contamination, those responsible for environmental assessment of a dredging project can consult the report entitled Interim Criteria for Quality Assessment of St. Lawrence River Sediments issued in 1992 by Environment Canada in conjunction with the Quebec department of the environment. This report gives assessment criteria for three levels of impact : No Effect Level, Minimal Effect Level, and Toxic Effect Level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion environnementale
CONT

Quant à l'évaluation du degré de contamination des sédiments, un document a été publié en 1992 par Environnement Canada en collaboration avec le ministère de l'Environnement du Québec. Intitulé Critères intérimaires pour l'évaluation de la qualité des sédiments du Saint-Laurent, ce document fournit au gestionnaire responsable de l'évaluation environnementale d'un projet de dragage des critères d'évaluation pour trois niveaux d'effets : le seuil sans effet (SSE), le seuil d'effets mineurs (SEM) et le seuil d'effets néfastes (SEN).

Spanish

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Record 17 1999-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Strength of Materials
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Plastic Materials
DEF

Determination of the degree of resistance of a material to breaking by impact, under bending, tension, and torsion loads.

CONT

Impact test. ... The quantity measured is the energy absorbed in breaking the specimen by a single blow, as in the Charpy or Izod tests.

CONT

Impact tests. ... The Charpy test and the Izod test each employ a pendulum, and the energy absorbed in fracture is obtained from the height to which the pendulum rises.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Résistance des matériaux
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Matières plastiques
DEF

Essai utilisé pour étudier la résilience d'un matériau.

CONT

Un essai de résilience a pour but de déterminer la ténacité d'un métal [ou autre matériau], c'est-à-dire sa résistance au choc. Celle-ci est mesurée par l'énergie nécessaire pour provoquer la rupture d'un échantillon. On appelle cette énergie de rupture la résilience.

CONT

L'essai de résilience est généralement effectué avec le mouton-pendule de Charpy, constitué par une masse de poids déterminé, mobile autour d'un axe fixe; la barre à tester est calée horizontalement aux pieds de l'appareil, de sorte que la masse puisse la casser en tombant d'une certaine hauteur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Resistencia de los materiales
  • Fiabilidad y ensayos (Ingeniería)
  • Materiales plásticos
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Record 18 1998-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
OBS

To analyze the Year 2000 impact to the programs, the impact analysis includes : analyzing complexity(determines the complexity of a software design or code using a metric, such as degree of nesting, or other characteristics) ;analyzing impact(analyzes the program modules and related data to determine what is impacted and related) ;analyzing metrics(collects, analyzes, and reports the results of analysis activities) ;analyzing database(investigates the structure and flow within a database to observe the characteristics of the database and determine if certain measurements/requirements can be realized).

OBS

Term related to Year 2000 compliance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
OBS

Afin d'analyser l'impact de l'an 2000 sur les programmes, l'analyse de l'impact comprend: l'analyse de la complexité (déterminer la complexité de la conception ou du code d'un logiciel au moyen de la métrologie, soit par exemple, le degré d'imbrication ou d'autres caractéristiques); l'analyse de l'impact (analyser les modules du programme et les données connexes afin de déterminer ce qui a été touché et ce qui s'y rapporte); l'analyse métrologique (recueillir, analyser, et faire rapport sur les résultats des activités d'analyse); l'analyse des bases de données (examiner la structure et la circulation dans la base de données afin d'observer les caractéristiques de la base de données et de déterminer si on peut procéder à certaines mesures et satisfaire à certains besoins).

OBS

Terme relatif au passage de l'an 2000.

Spanish

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Record 19 1993-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
DEF

The degree to which the job has a substantial impact on the lives or work of other people-whether in the immediate organization or in the external environment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 20 1990-12-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anti-pollution Measures
OBS

Attenuable: that may be attenuated.

OBS

In North American English "impact mitigation" is preferred to "impact attenuation" with the meaning : Avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action,(b) Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree of magnitude of the action and its implementation,(c) Rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the impacted environment,(d) Reducing or eliminating the impact over time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures antipollution
OBS

Réductible: qui peut être réduit, rendu plus intéressant.

OBS

Même si l'expression "atténuation des impacts" est correcte et recommandée en français, l'adjectif "atténuable" n'est pas attesté dans les dictionnaires généraux français.

Spanish

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Record 21 1990-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Strength of Materials
CONT

ASTM method D 746 addresses the effect of cold temperature on plastics and, in particular, the properties of brittleness and impact strength. At various temperatures, specimens are tested by a specified impact device in a cantilever beam test mode. Brittleness is defined as "that temperature estimated statistically, at which 50 percent of the specimens would fail in the specified test."

OBS

Determination of the Izod impact resistance of rigid plastics... Method A is the Cantilever beam or Izod Type Test in which the specimen is broken by a blow delivered at a fixed distance from the edge of the specimen clamp. The test requires a notched specimen in all cases. The notch is intended to produce a standard degree of stress concentration.

OBS

Izod impact strength of notched specimens ... The test specimen, supported as a vertical cantilever beam, is broken by a single swing of a pendulum, with the line of impact at a fixed distance from the specimen clamp and from the centre line of the notch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Résistance des matériaux
OBS

Détermination de la résilience Izod des matières plastiques rigides (...) La méthode A est l'essai sur éprouvette en porte-à-faux ou essai type Izod dans lequel la rupture de l'éprouvette résulte d'un coup appliqué à distance fixe du bord du porte-éprouvette. Dans tous les cas l'essai nécessite l'emploi d'éprouvettes entaillées. L'entaille a pour but de réaliser un degré uniforme de concentration des contraintes.

OBS

L'éprouvette, tenue encastrée en position verticale, [en porte-à-faux] est cassée par une seule oscillation d'un pendule, la ligne de choc étant située à distance fixe du serrage de l'éprouvette et de l'axe de l'entaille.

Spanish

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Record 22 1989-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Effects of Pollution
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
CONT

... consider the following definitions extracted from various impact statements: "Major impacts - impacts of great visual or ecological consequence and which may be regional or long-term in nature. Such impacts may be difficult to prevent or mitigate."

CONT

A major impact affects an entire population or species in sufficient magnitude to cause a decline in abundance and/or change in distribution beyond which natural recruitment(reproduction, immigration from unaffected areas) would not return that population or species... to its former level within several generations. A major impact may also affect a subsistence or commercial resource use to the degree that the well being of the user is affected over a long term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Effets de la pollution
  • Études et analyses environnementales
OBS

Le terme "impact" est accepté et il est largement utilisé.

OBS

Les impacts s'évaluent du point de vue de leur durée (à court, à moyen, à long terme; temporaire, permanente, etc.), de leur importance (forte, faible, positive, négative, bénéfique, nuisible, etc.) et de leur envergure (locale, régionale, etc.).

Spanish

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Record 23 1988-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

A major impact affects an entire population or species in sufficient magnitude to cause a decline in abundance and/or change in distribution beyond which natural recruitment(reproduction, immigration from unaffected areas) would not return that population or species... to its former level within several generations. A major impact may also affect a subsistence or commercial resource use to the degree that the well being of the user is affected over a long term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Écologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 24 1988-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Effects of Pollution
CONT

The second phase [in the impact assessment process] relies to some extent or a reasonable degree of flexibility in project design and operation and decisions made during this phase... are normally based on actual measurements of change.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Effets de la pollution
DEF

Opération consistant à déterminer l'ampleur de l'impact à l'aide de diverses unités de mesure (longueur, superficie, volume, capacité, poids, température, pression, force, quantité, etc.).

Spanish

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Record 25 1984-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
  • Advertising Agencies and Services
OBS

Starch rating : A measurement of the degree of readership obtained by a publication advertisement, derived from the Starch Advertisement Readership Service. When advertisers are unable to trace the results of their messages or to evaluate them in terms of impact, impression, sales, or other yardstick, they may make use of one of the research organizations set up to provide information concerning post-publication effectiveness.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation
  • Agences et services de publicité

Spanish

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Record 26 1980-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
OBS

Starch rating : A measurement of the degree of readership obtained by a publication advertisement, derived from the Starch Advertisement Readership Service. When advertisers are unable to trace the results of their messages or to evaluate them in terms of impact, impression, sales, or other yardstick, they may make use of one of the research organizations set up to provide information concerning post-publication effectiveness.

Key term(s)
  • Starch rating

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation

Spanish

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