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DOWNSTREAM APPROACH [3 records]

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Record 1 2025-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
CONT

Primary prevention often employs what is often referred to as "upstream approaches." This simply means that one looks to the actual cause of the disease rather than looking down the line after a disease has manifested itself within a population. The latter are referred to as "downstream approaches."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
CONT

[Le système de santé de l'Ontario] adopte une approche en aval pour rétablir la santé une fois qu'elle a été perdue, au lieu d'une approche en amont qui prévient la maladie et les problèmes de santé avant qu'ils ne s'installent.

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
CONT

Wide mouth bottles are also trimmed downstream of the blow molder. A common approach is to use a "fly-cutter" to remove a dome and trim the finish inside dimension.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie

Spanish

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Record 3 1986-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

A determination(by indirect measurement) of peak discharge following a flood by field survey of highwater marks and channel and bridge geometry at a bridge constriction. Discharge is computed on the basis, of an evaluation of energy changes between the approach section and the downstream side of the constriction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Détermination du débit dans une section contractée d'un cours d'eau (par exemple, entre les piles d'un pont) à partir des traces laissées par l'eau en amont et en aval sur les parois de la section lors du passage de la crue.

Spanish

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