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INCONCLUSIVE [22 records]

Record 1 2021-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

The [Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada] found the stamps in her passport to be inconclusive evidence of her presence in Canada, and that the applicant had failed to submit sufficient and satisfactory evidence of her physical presence in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
CONT

La [Commission de l'immigration et du statut de réfugié du Canada] a conclu que les timbres dans son passeport étaient une preuve non concluante de sa présence au Canada, et que la demanderesse n'avait pas fourni de preuve suffisante et satisfaisante de sa présence physique au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Police
  • Criminology
CONT

The forensic evidence was inconclusive and there was nothing to indicate that she died from natural causes nor was there conclusive evidence of accident, suicide or foul play.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Police
  • Criminologie

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport
  • Air Safety
DEF

The risk classification of an aircraft proximity in which insufficient information was available to determine the risk involved, or inconclusive or conflicting evidence precluded such determination.

OBS

risk not determined: term and definition officially approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
  • Sécurité (Transport aérien)
DEF

Classe de risque d'un cas de proximité d'aéronefs dans lequel des renseignements insuffisants, peu concluants ou contradictoires ont empêché de déterminer le risque.

OBS

risque non déterminé : terme et définition uniformisés par l'Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale (OACI).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transporte aéreo
  • Seguridad (Transporte aéreo)
DEF

Clasificación de riesgo de una situación de proximidad de aeronaves en la que no se disponía de suficiente información para determinar el riesgo que suponía, o los datos no permitían determinarlo por ser contradictorios o no concluyentes.

OBS

riesgo no determinado: término y definición aceptados oficialmente por la Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI).

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Record 4 2015-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Safety
DEF

A situation in which, in the opinion of a pilot or air traffic services personnel, the distance between aircraft as well as their relative positions and speed have been such that the safety of the aircraft involved may have been compromised.

OBS

An aircraft proximity is classified as follows : Risk of collision. The risk classification of an aircraft proximity in which serious risk of collision has existed. Safety not assured. The risk classification of an aircraft proximity in which the safety of the aircraft may have been compromised. No risk of collision. The risk classification of an aircraft proximity in which no risk of collision has existed. Risk not determined. The risk classification of an aircraft proximity in which insufficient information was available to determine the risk involved, or inconclusive or conflicting evidence precluded such determination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité (Transport aérien)
DEF

Situation dans laquelle, de l'avis d'un pilote ou du personnel du contrôle de la circulation aérienne, la distance entre des aéronefs ainsi que leurs positions et vitesses relatives ont été telles que la sécurité des aéronefs en cause peut avoir été compromise.

OBS

La proximité d'aéronefs est classée comme suit: Risque de collision. Classe de risque d'un cas de proximité d'aéronefs dans lequel il y a eu un grave risque de collision. Sécurité non assurée. Classe de risque d'un cas de proximité d'aéronefs dans lequel la sécurité des aéronefs a pu être compromise. Aucun risque de collision. Classe de risque d'un cas de proximité d'aéronefs sans risques de collision. Risque non déterminé. Classe de risque d'un cas de proximité d'aéronefs dans lequel des renseignements insuffisants, peu concluants ou contradictoires ont empêché de déterminer le risque.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguridad (Transporte aéreo)
DEF

Situación en la que, en opinión del piloto o del personal de tránsito aéreo, la distancia entre aeronaves así como sus posiciones y velocidad relativas, han sido tales que habrían podido comprometer la seguridad de las aeronaves de que se trate.

OBS

La proximidad de aeronaves se clasifica del siguiente modo: Riesgo de colisión. La clasificación de riesgo de una situación de proximidad de aeronaves en la que ha existido un grave riesgo de colisión. Seguridad no garantizada. La clasificación de riesgo de una situación de proximidad de aeronaves en la que habría podido quedar comprometida la seguridad de las aeronaves. Ningún riesgo de colisión. La clasificación de riesgo de una situación de proximidad de aeronaves en la que no ha existido riesgo de colisión alguno. Riesgo no determinado. La clasificación de riesgo de una situación de proximidad de aeronaves en la que no se disponía de suficiente información para determinar el riesgo que suponía, o los datos no permitían determinarlo por ser contradictorios o no concluyentes.

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Record 5 2014-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
  • General Sports Regulations
CONT

Women competitors who have taken a sex control test in past competitions and who have a sex control certificate issued either from the I.O.C. [International Olympic Committee] Medical Commission or from [an] International Federation [...] during world championships or continental championships proving their sex which the I.O.C. deems valid, will be exempted from the examination upon presenting that certificate.

OBS

As a screening test, a sex chromatin test for X-chromosomes and a fluorescent body test for Y-chromosomes will be conducted. Should the above method be inconclusive, the examinee's karyotype(chromosome map) will be examined. The samples will be taken from the buccal mucous membrane or hair roots.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
  • Règlements généraux des sports
CONT

Le test de vérification du sexe a acquis une certaine renommée lorsque le CIO [Comité international olympique] a introduit l'analyse de chromosomes aux Jeux olympiques de 1968.

CONT

En 2000, le CIO [Comité international olympique] met fin au test de féminité systématique. Il ne sera plus pratiqué qu'en cas de «doutes visuels».

Spanish

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Record 6 2013-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho probatorio
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Record 7 2013-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
DEF

A presumption that can be overturned upon the showing of sufficient proof.

CONT

Inconclusive or rebuttable presumptions of law are inferences which the law requires to be drawn from given facts, and which are conclusive until disproved by evidence to the contrary...(Jowitt's, p. 1418)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

présomption réfutable : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dentistry
  • Law of Evidence
  • Emergency Management
DEF

During the identification process of a cadaver, a case when no comparison can be made due to the absence or lack of post-mortem [PM] or ante-mortem [AM] dental data.

CONT

[One of the] conclusions available to the DVI [disaster victim identification] odontologist to choose of, following his comparison of post-mortem and ante-mortem dental records, [is] inconclusive : insufficient dental data are present to reach a conclusion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

Lors du processus d'identification d'un cadavre, cas où aucune comparaison ne peut être faite faute de données dentaires post mortem [PM] ou ante mortem [AM].

Spanish

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Record 9 2012-12-04

English

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

In any inconclusive ballot if more than one candidate receives the lowest number of votes cast, a subsidiary ballot shall be held between them and the candidate with the lowest number of votes cast in the subsidiary ballot if more than one candidate receives the lowest number of votes cast, further subsidiary ballots shall be held between the candidates tying with the lowest number of votes until one of them is eliminated

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
DEF

Résultat négatif d'un premier tour de scrutin où aucun des candidats n'a obtenu le nombre de voix suffisant pour être déclaré élu.

OBS

Situation résultant d'un premier tour de scrutin négatif.

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-11-13

English

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

Golden Dawn came from nowhere to win 7% of the inconclusive vote in May and enter parliament for the first time, riding a wave of hostility towards illegal immigrants in austerity-ridden Greece.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Diplomatie
CONT

Après deux votes sans résultat du Parlement le 20 mai 2009 et le 3 juin 2009, au cours desquels la majorité des 3/5 requise par la Constitution pour élire le Président de la République de Moldova n’a pu être obtenue, le 15 juin, le président en exercice [...] a appelé à la tenue d’un nouveau scrutin législatif le 29 juillet 2009.

Spanish

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Record 11 2011-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

Provided the Claimant has submitted to the medical assessment, as required, the adjudicator shall decide the issue having regard to the available evidence and the standard of proof, including where the results of the medical assessment are inconclusive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
CONT

Si le demandeur se soumet à l'examen prescrit, l'adjudicateur tranchera la question, incluant dans les cas où les résultats de la preuve médicale ne sont pas concluants, en évaluant la preuve disponible selon le fardeau de preuve applicable.

Spanish

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Record 12 2010-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology
CONT

One of the recommendations of the panel that has attracted the attention of attorneys is that fingerprinting tests showing a phenomenon called band shifting be declared "inconclusive" until laboratories have performed adequate studies on the effect. Band shifting can make two forensic samples from different biological sources appear the same; private companies that perform DNA fingerprinting and the Federal Bureau of investigation have already made attempts to correct for it. But the McKusick panel was not convinced that such attempts protect those accused : a suspect could be wrongly convicted if the "correction" was itself in error.

OBS

The DNA bands in the two samples did not line up exactly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie moléculaire
  • Biotechnologie
CONT

La fixation de la protéine sur le brin d'ADN entraînera un retard du fragment sur gel d'acrylamide. C'est la technique de retard sur gel (band shift), dont le principe est présenté en figure 5.

Spanish

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Record 13 2009-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
CONT

Lordotic projections are obtained in the PA [posteroanterior] or anteroposterior(AP) projection with the x-ray tube angled 15 degrees cephalad. This projection is useful in changing the relative position of the anterior and posterior bony thorax, thus diminishing the summation problem when evaluating possible apical masses. The lordotic projection can also be used to confirm complete collapse of the right middle lobe by positionning this lobe tangent to the x-ray beam if routine projections are inconclusive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
OBS

incidence : terme utilisé en radiodiagnostic pour définir l'orientation du rayon directeur et la position du sujet afin d'obtenir une vue bien déterminée d'une structure anatomique ou d'une partie de celle-ci.

Spanish

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Record 14 2009-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
CONT

The shovel shear test provides information about the location where the snow could fail in shear. It is best applied for identification of buried weak layers and does not usually produce useful results in layers close to the snow surface. Soft snow near the surface is better tested with the tilt board and the shear frame or an improvised version of this tilt test.

CONT

Shovel Shear Test. This test can be done on a flat or on a slope. With good technique, the location of weak layers, even thin weak layers, can be found. First dig a hole or pit in the snow. The vertical wall of the pit should be straight up and down, and smooth. Make a mark on the uphill portion of one corner of your pit with your shovel blade. This will mark the boundaries of your column, which should be roughly 30 cm by 30 cm or 12 inches square. (A) Now, cut both sides using a snow saw or your ski, all the way to the floor of the pit making sure that the cuts are straight. (B) The back of the column should only be cut as deep as your shovel blade is long, so measure with your shovel blade (C) and then cut the back. (D) Next, insert your shovel, blade down, in the back cut of the column and pull gently and evenly forward being careful not to lever your shovel handle. (E) Examine the shear layer where the block failed. (F) The force applied to the shovel that causes a weak layer to shear from the layers surrounding it can be rated as follows: Very easy ... Easy ... Moderate ... Hard ...

CONT

The results of the shovel shear test were inconclusive. [Example approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee. ]

OBS

Shovel test: abbreviated form of "shovel shear test." Shovel test may also refer to the shovel tilt test or the shovel compression test.

OBS

Observers are cautioned that identification of the weak layers is the primary objective of the shovel shear test. The shovel shear test is not a stability test.

OBS

shovel shear test: term officially approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
CONT

Le test de la pelle consiste à isoler une tranche du manteau neigeux de base carrée (la largeur est celle de la pelle, soit une trentaine de centimètres en moyenne), puis à la tirer vers soi ou à la charger pour détecter la présence de plan(s) de glissement potentiel(s).

CONT

Le test de cisaillement à la pelle n'a pas donné de résultats définitifs. [Exemple entériné par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.]

OBS

[Ce test n'est] pas à proprement parler un test de stabilité.

OBS

Test de la pelle. [...] Il existe plusieurs variantes de ce test sous la même désignation. Méthode Faarlund. [...] Méthode de Munter.

OBS

test de cisaillement à la pelle; essai de cisaillement à la pelle : termes uniformisés par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.

Spanish

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Record 15 2005-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Geology
OBS

Data is now used both as a plural and as a singular collective. These data are inconclusive. This data is inconclusive. The plural construction is the more appropriate in formal usage.

Key term(s)
  • grade/tonnage datum
  • grade-tonnage datum
  • tonnage and grade datum

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie économique
OBS

Termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • données sur la teneur et le tonnage
  • données sur les tonnages et les teneurs

Spanish

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Record 16 1999-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 17 1998-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
CONT

While many curriculum developers advocate the use of operationally stated objectives because they facilitate instructional planning, empirical evidence to date has not been convincing. Although there has been some evidence... that behavioral objectives aid learning when actually provided to the student(for whom they presumably function as organizers), research on the effects of the use of operational objectives by instruction planners has been inconclusive...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Objectif opérationnel articulé à un contenu au moyen d'une situation d'apprentissage définie ou d'un ensemble déterminé de plusieurs situations possibles d'apprentissage.

Spanish

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Record 18 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

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Record 19 1993-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Internet and Telematics
OBS

Term standardized by AFNOR.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Verdict obtenu quand le résultat observé est tel que ne peut être donné ni un verdict "succès", ni un verdict "échec".

OBS

Terme et définition normalisés par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 20 1985-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
CONT

It is still premature to incorporate threshold loading(dose/effect) relationships into the sensitivity index. Much of what is known is based on laboratory simulation, or inconclusive field results, and awaits more rigorous testing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air

Spanish

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Record 21 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

Un référendum non décisif.

Spanish

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Record 22 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy and Religion

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie et religion

Spanish

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