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FACE MEASURE [11 records]

Record 1 2024-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Social Services and Social Work
OBS

This measure would benefit parents, particularly mothers who are often primary caregivers for children. It also directly benefits families of lower socio-economic status, single parents, families living in underserved or rural and remote communities, and 2SLGBTQI+ [Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and others] families, who may face multiple barriers, including limited social networks for finding suitable child care, and discriminatory experiences.

OBS

More Affordable Child Care: measure announced in the 2024 federal budget.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
OBS

Cette mesure profiterait aux parents, en particulier aux mères, souvent la principale ressource pour prendre soin des enfants. Elle profite aussi directement aux familles ayant un statut socio-économique inférieur, aux parents célibataires, aux familles vivant dans des collectivités mal desservies ou rurales et éloignées, et aux familles 2ELGBTQI+ [bispirituelles, lesbiennes, gaies, bisexuelles, transgenres, queers, intersexuées et autres], qui peuvent faire face à de multiples obstacles, y compris des réseaux sociaux limités pour trouver des services de garde adaptés et de la discrimination.

OBS

Accroître l'accès à des services de garde abordables : mesure annoncée dans le budget fédéral de 2024.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of Ideologies
OBS

This measure would benefit Indigenous people, who may face racism when seeking access to health care.

OBS

Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care: measure announced in the 2024 federal budget.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie des idéologies
OBS

Cette mesure profiterait aux personnes autochtones, qui peuvent être victimes de racisme lorsqu'elles cherchent à accéder aux soins de santé.

OBS

S'attaquer au racisme contre les Autochtones dans les soins de santé : mesure annoncée dans le budget fédéral de 2024.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Destructive and Non-destructive Tests (Mat.)
  • Metallography
DEF

An indentation hardness test using calibrated machines to force a square-based pyramidal diamond indenter having specified face angles, under predetermined load, into the surface of the material under test and to measure the diagonals of the resulting impression after removal of the load.

OBS

Vickers hardness test: term standardized by ASTM [American Society for Testing and Materials].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Contrôle destructif et non destructif (Matér.)
  • Métallographie
CONT

Méthode Vickers. La mesure de la dureté par la méthode Wickers présente une certaine analogie avec la méthode Brinell. L'essai consiste à essayer, sous charge constante [...] (exprimée en kilo), une pyramide de diamant à base carrée dont l'angle au sommet a une valeur de 136 ° [...] On mesure la diagonale [...] de l'empreinte laissée par la pyramide après suppression de la charge.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Electrical Measuring Equipment
DEF

Grid or network of lines projected into [a] flat surface; coordinate network.

CONT

Practically all oscilloscopes have a graticule mounted in front of the face of the cathode-ray tube. The graticule is commonly ruled like a sheet of graph paper. The vertical intervals are used to measure voltage, and the horizontal intervals are used to measure time in typical applications.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Appareils de mesures (Électricité)
DEF

Feuille de matière transparente placée devant l'écran sur laquelle est tracé un quadrillage permettant le repérage de la position du spot ou l'évaluation des dimensions de la trace apparaissant sur l'écran.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Matemáticas
  • Equipo de medición eléctrica
PHR

Gratícula de osciloscopio.

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Record 5 2010-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mine Passages
DEF

A form of advance support in loose ground for tunnels and workings.

OBS

Forepoles are driven from behind the permanent supports and into the loose ground and usually angled outwards. The method provides temporary protection to the miners at the face until space is available for erecting another set of permanent supports. On longwall faces, slots may be made in a soft band over the coal seam into which steel straps are forced. After the coal has been worked, the straps may be supported by props or again advanced to provide a measure of pre-support at the face.

OBS

Roof support method where horizontal bars are supported by a cantilever arrangement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Galeries et soles (Mines)

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Surveys (Public Relations)
OBS

The Statistics Canada Survey is a triennial survey that focuses on small businesses, given their importance to the Canadian economy and the challenges they face in complying with information obligations stemming from government regulations. The survey has two primary objectives. The government seeks to : improve understanding of how small businesses comply with information obligations stemming from government regulations and the cost of compliance; and establish a baseline measure of the compliance costs imposed on small businesses against which government can benchmark its progress in lessening the burden.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Enquêtes et sondages (Relations publiques)
OBS

L'Enquête sur le coût de la conformité à la réglementation menée par Statistique Canada est une enquête triennale qui cible les petites et moyennes entreprises, compte tenu de leur importance pour l'économie canadienne et des difficultés auxquelles elles se heurtent dans la conformité aux exigences en matière d'information découlant de la réglementation gouvernementale. L'Enquête a deux objectifs principaux. Le gouvernement cherche : à mieux comprendre comment les petites entreprises se conforment aux exigences en matière d'information découlant de la réglementation gouvernementale et à déterminer le coût de la conformité; à établir une mesure de référence du coût de la conformité pour la petite entreprise, sur laquelle le gouvernement s'appuiera pour évaluer ses progrès dans l'allégement du fardeau.

Spanish

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Record 7 2005-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flexography (Printing)
DEF

A process where color capability is measured and recorded.

CONT

For instance, on a printer, or printing press, strips of various CMYK [cyan, magenta, yellow, black] values are read with a measuring instrument. This information is saved into a file that can be used to define the color space of that printer or press. The same applies to monitors. Usually an emissive colorimeter is attached to the face of the monitor for calibration, and then to measure its color space, or color capability. This process of measuring a color space is called characterization...

OBS

Flexography has the potential to approach and rival the print quality of rivals lithography and gravure, if flexo converters are willing to pay the price. That price is awareness and control of printing variables. This type of control can be obtained with a press fingerprint -- or as it is more commonly called today, press characterization. Characterization, when done correctly, has the potential to control variability in the current process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Flexographie (Imprimerie)
DEF

Technique de vérification des paramètres d'une presse en vue de la reproduction précise des couleurs primaires et de la quadrichromie à l'aide de méthodes densitométriques et d'analyse d'élargissement du point.

OBS

caractérisation de presse; programme des couleurs : Termes et définition tirés du Vocabulaire de la flexographie de France Brodeur. Reproduction autorisée par l'Institut des communications graphiques du Québec.

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

The area measurement of one face of a piece of timber.

OBS

The surface measure is generally measured in square feet (USA) and superfeet (Commonwealth).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Superficie de la face d'une pièce de bois débité.

OBS

La surface faciale s'exprime généralement en pieds carrés.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aserradura de la madera
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Record 9 1999-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
OBS

The key objective of the Committee for Canada-Wide Standards in Education is to arrive at a measure of national educational standards for graduates from Canadian high schools or others who have had equivalent preparation. Focus is on core subjects such as language, maths and science. These are considered areas that impact on the coping abilities of youth as they emerge from the high school stage to face rapidly evolving demands in communicative, technological and scientific knowledge and skills.

Key term(s)
  • Committee for Canada Wide Standards in Education

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Docimologie
Key term(s)
  • Comité pour des normes pancanadiennes en éducation

Spanish

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Record 10 1989-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geophysics
  • Geological Prospecting
DEF

Trade name for a microresistivity log, obtained with a miniaturized focused-current log electrode arrangement designed to measure a shallow volume of rock at the borehole face.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géophysique
  • Prospection géologique
DEF

Variante du latérolog, dans laquelle les mesures de résistance sont faites sur une zone particulièrement étroite de la formation.

CONT

Le Microlaterolog est un outil qui donne d'excellentes mesures de Rxo [résistivité de la zone lavée] lorsque la profondeur d'invasion est d'au moins 100 mm et l'épaisseur de boue inférieure à 10 mm.

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Finishing
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
DEF

Measure on the face of any wood member not including the tongue nor the groove

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finition du bois
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)

Spanish

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