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Record 1 2024-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
CONT

The emergence of AI candidates in global politics signifies a paradigm shift in our understanding of governance and representation. On one hand, AI can process vast amounts of data, engage with constituents on an unprecedented scale, and propose policies grounded in empirical evidence rather than political expediency.... However, the ethical and practical implications of AI in politics are far-reaching and complex.

Key term(s)
  • artificial intelligence generated political candidate
  • AI generated political candidate
  • artificial intelligence generated candidate
  • AI generated candidate

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

... removal of the turrets from the [warship] had actually begun prior to any thought of their reutilization, ashore or elsewhere. Since no effort was then being made to preserve their integrity, the turret shells were cut at an extremely delicate point in the interests of salvage expediency. Consequently, their reassembly some two years later demanded that the segments be aligned and welded with painstaking accuracy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Administration (General)
CONT

Administrative facility or expediency can hardly be accepted as meeting the test of compelling public interest...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration publique (Généralités)
OBS

Source de "commodité administrative" : (1985) 2 R.C.S. p. 518.

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

It is often found that in his repetition [a witness] gives the lacking statement--possibly omitting one given the first time. This method may be tried more than once, and as a matter of expediency--so as to have the advantage of getting the whole story on the witness's own unaided recollection--counsel might pass on to some other subject and later revert to the conversation, asking him again to state it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Droit de la preuve

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Official Documents
CONT

In the interest of expediency, may a school issue a blank permit to a minor and, when he/she secures employment, have the employer complete the necessary forms?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Documents officiels

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
DEF

Sample chosen on the basis of accessibility, expediency, cost, efficiency, or other reason not directly concerned with sampling parameters.

OBS

The terme "ad hoc sampling" is sometimes applied to this type of sampling.

OBS

Term and definition standarized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
DEF

Échantillon choisi en fonction de l'accessibilité, de l'adéquation. des coûts, de l'éfficacité ou de tout autre motif sans rapport direct avec les paramètres d'échantillonnage.

OBS

Le terme «échantillonnage ad hoc» s'applique parfois à ce type d'échantillonnage.

OBS

Terme et définition normalisés par ISO.

Spanish

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Record 7 1998-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire

Spanish

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Record 8 1998-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
CONT

Expediency on account of economy or parsimony.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
CONT

Le sentiment est tellement plus fort que l'opportunisme que nous inspire le besoin d'économiser ou la lésinerie. (A. Fortier, Débats, édition révisée, 21-6-22, page 3358).

Spanish

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Record 9 1994-12-08

English

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

The new multiparty political system is fragile and reforms have fallen victim to political expediency.

Key term(s)
  • multi-party political system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
CONT

Le nouveau régime politique multipartite est fragile, et les réformes ont dû céder le pas aux raisons politiques.

Spanish

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Record 10 1993-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
  • Political Science

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Sciences politiques

Spanish

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Record 11 1989-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
DEF

An adaptive control system with the following additional properties: 1. The performance resulting from a controller change must be classified as "good" or "bad", and the system must be "rewarded" or "punished", respectively, 2. The system must be capable of using the results of past behaviour in determining present behaviour; i.e., it must have memory.

CONT

Learning control systems generally exhibit performance that gradually improves with time(expediency), and learning generally refers to the fact that either an improvement in the estimate of some information has occurred or some system parameters have been properly identified(learned).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Logiciels
OBS

Voir programme d'apprentissage.

Spanish

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Record 12 1986-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 13 1986-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire

Spanish

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Record 14 1985-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military (General)
  • Finance
OBS

The removal from active financial accounts of a debt which has proved to be uncollectable, or, although collectable, it appears to be undesirable to pursue collection on grounds of expediency.(TB Guide).

OBS

CODE dBOCEBAf

OBS

Term(s) officialized by the Department of National Defence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Militaire (Généralités)
  • Finances
OBS

Suppression d'un compte financier en activité d'une dette qui s'est avérée non recouvrable ou dont le recouvrement n'apparaît pas souhaitable pour des raisons pratiques. (Guide du CT).

Spanish

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Record 15 1984-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
CONT

Considerations of expediency. Expediency of the loan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts

Spanish

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Record 16 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
OBS

Modern tax systems are, to repeat a compromise. They give some weight to benefit notions; some weight to sacrifice and redistribution notions; and, one may add, some weight to expediency and politics(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique

Spanish

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Record 17 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue

Spanish

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