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HAPPEN WHAT MAY [8 records]

Record 1 2024-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases - Various
  • Liver and Biliary Ducts
CONT

What is MASH? This is a serious form of another condition called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease(MASLD). It used to be called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH). With MASH, your liver swells from excess fat along with inflammation. MASH can cause cell damage that affects how well your liver works. Over time(usually many years), you may get liver scarring that doesn’t heal. Doctors call this cirrhosis, but it doesn’t happen to everyone.

Key term(s)
  • metabolic dysfunction associated steatohepatitis
  • metabolic dysfunction-associated steato-hepatitis
  • nonalcoholic steato-hepatitis
  • non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines diverses
  • Foie et voies biliaires
CONT

La stéatohépatite associée à un dysfonctionnement métabolique (MASH pour metabolic dysfunction-associated steato-hepatitis) est caractérisée par la présence de graisses qui provoquent une lipotoxicité et des lésions inflammatoires des cellules hépatiques.

Key term(s)
  • stéato-hépatite associée à un dysfonctionnement métabolique
  • stéato-hépatite métabolique
  • stéato-hépatite non alcoolique

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environment
CONT

A second scenario may be an environmental event such as a tornado, hurricane, earthquake, flood or fire. What would happen if such an event completely destroyed your building, your vehicles and all of the equipment and product inside your facility?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Environnement

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Bird Watching (Hobbies)
CONT

Incidental observations are casual wildlife sightings that happen when you’re outside – hiking, camping, swimming, driving, etc. Spotting a species in the "right place at the right time" can have a far-reaching effect. Knowing what species are present in different locations helps identify areas that are important (e.g. breeding sites, hibernation sites, migration routes, etc.), which also helps to improve conservation efforts.

CONT

Chance observations provided the earliest data on raptor diet, and are still recorded today. These are the events all naturalists happen to see, such as a flying buzzard with an especially long snake dangling limply below it... There was no forethought to go and record what buzzards were eating, but having seen something exciting the observer may want to record it in a local bird report or online. Why should a modern scientist bother with such unsystematic data when trying to make an assessment of buzzard diet?... while such chance observations can’t be used on their own to understand common buzzard behaviour, they do supplement the more rigorous data collection and help to complete the picture of diet diversity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Observation des oiseaux (Passe-temps)
CONT

Consigner les observations fortuites d'animaux sauvages constitue un moyen peu coûteux et efficace de recueillir des renseignements sur les tendances à long terme de l'abondance et de la répartition des espèces sauvages. C'est également une activité à laquelle les visiteurs du parc peuvent participer et ainsi contribuer à la surveillance de l'intégrité écologique du parc. Dans le parc national des Monts-Torngat et ses environs, ces observations sont consignées sur des fiches dont les données sont saisies dans une base de données.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Effects of Pollution
CONT

Since alteration means change, change in the environment is synonymous with alteration. In this case, it is a change for the worse. Often the effects of alteration are neither immediately discernible nor accurately predictable. Who can foresee what will happen to a 1970 American baby who is born in an air-conditioned hospital, taken home in an air-conditioned car, reared in an air-conditioned apartment, schooled in an air-conditioned school and amused by recreational activities in an air-conditioned bubble? This unnatural alteration of normal rises and falls in daily temperature may result in eventual genetic changes. And what alteration is being wrought on the urban atmosphere during the summer while hundreds of thousands of air-conditioned apartments and homes pump their waste heat out into the atmosphere and the occupants undergo alteration of temperature and humidity inside? Undesirable levels of pollutants-toxic and otherwise-of course cause alteration of air, water and soil.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Effets de la pollution
OBS

La source CILFG-20 («Dict. des secours d'urgence en cas de catastrophe», par William S. Gunn) définit le terme «altération de l'environnement» comme une «Modification, favorable ou défavorable, de l'état de l'environnement». Selon nous, cependant, «altération» ne peut en fait être considéré comme un synonyme de «modification» que si la modification est défavorable (ce qui est presque toujours le cas néanmoins). En effet, altérer veut dire «modifier en mal l'état normal d'une chose, dénaturer l'état normal de quelque chose» [d'après le Grand dict. encycl. Larousse].

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

The initiation of a subroutine by one program before it has finished its response to another program that called for it.

OBS

This is what may happen when a control program is subjected to a priority interrupt.

Key term(s)
  • subroutine re-entry
  • sub-routine re-entry
  • sub-routine reentry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
DEF

Iniciación de una subrutina por un programa antes de haber completado su respuesta a otro programa que la ha llamado.

OBS

Esto es lo que puede suceder cuando un programa de control está sujeto a una interrupción de prioridad.

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Record 6 1994-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

This mathematically local description carries the name of local bifurcation, as opposed to global bifurcations, meaning that we concern ourselves with the vicinity of a given solution, and not with what may happen at a finite distance from it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
CONT

Cette description locale, au sens mathématique précis évoqué ci-dessus, d'une bifurcation a engendré le vocable, quelque peu elliptique, de bifurcation locale (que l'on oppose à bifurcation globale). Cela signifie que l'analyse est focalisée sur une région volontairement limitée autour d'une solution donnée, et ne prend pas en compte ce qui peut survenir à distance finie de celle-ci.

Spanish

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Record 7 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons
OBS

Meadmore

Spanish

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