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INDEPENDENT CAUSE [18 records]

Record 1 2025-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Reproduction (Medicine)
  • The Genitals
CONT

Natural menopause is defined as the permanent cessation of menstruation resulting from the loss of ovarian follicular activity. It is recognized to have occurred after 12 consecutive months of amenorrhea, for which there is no other obvious pathologic or physiologic cause. Menopause occurs with the final menstrual period(FMP), which is known with certainty only in retrospect ≤1 year after the event. An adequate independent biologic marker for the event does not exist.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reproduction (Médecine)
  • Organes génitaux
CONT

On considère que la ménopause naturelle est confirmée après 12 mois consécutifs sans règles, en l'absence d'autres causes physiologiques ou pathologiques évidentes et d'interventions cliniques.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidemiology
  • Viral Diseases
  • Biotechnology
CONT

The core of the interpretation message is that, in most cases, wastewater provides a source of high-quality information that is independent from clinical surveillance(and associated pitfalls) that ultimately allows epidemiologists to better interpret local data in order to make appropriate decisions. Essentially, WVS that are baseline or trending down contribute public health intelligence that there is less cause for concern, while WVS that are trending up signify increasing concern...

Key term(s)
  • wastewater virus signal

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épidémiologie
  • Maladies virales
  • Biotechnologie
CONT

Corrélation positive et significative entre le signal viral dans les eaux usées et le nombre de cas confirmés dans la population.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Installations and Equipment (Museums and Heritage)
  • Various Decorative Arts
  • Painting (Arts)
CONT

Paintings should always be hung from two independent points. A single picture-hanging wire attached to the vertical members of a frame or auxiliary support exerts considerable stress on the frame or painting, may cause distortions, and is difficult to safely install and remove from a wall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement et équipements (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
  • Arts décoratifs divers
  • Peinture (Arts)
CONT

Détail du revers d'un tableau encadré avec un fil d'accrochage.

Spanish

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Record 4 2019-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Testing and Debugging
CONT

In dealing with fault-tolerant systems, one frequently encounters situations involving multiple faults and/or failures. Consideration of their causes leads one to distinguish independent faults, which are attributed to different causes[, from] related faults, which are attributed to a common cause.

OBS

related fault: term generally used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • related faults

French

Domaine(s)
  • Test et débogage
DEF

fautes corrélées : Fautes attribuées à une cause commune. [Définition reproduite avec l'autorisation de l'AFNOR.]

OBS

faute corrélée : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • fautes corrélées

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prueba y depuración
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Record 5 2019-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Testing and Debugging
CONT

In dealing with fault-tolerant systems, one frequently encounters situations involving multiple faults and/or failures. Consideration of their causes leads one to distinguish independent faults, which are attributed to different causes[, from] related faults, which are attributed to a common cause.

OBS

independent fault: designation generally used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • independent faults

French

Domaine(s)
  • Test et débogage
DEF

fautes indépendantes : Fautes attribuées à des causes différentes. [Définition reproduite avec l'autorisation de l'AFNOR.]

OBS

faute indépendante : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • fautes indépendantes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prueba y depuración
DEF

Fallo que ocurre sin ser causado por el fallo de cualquier otro elemento.

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Record 6 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

The active, efficient cause that sets in motion a train of events that brings about a result without the intervention of any other independent source.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

On doit aussi tenir, pour acquis que le jury avait conclu, selon la prépondérance de la preuve, que l'accident, tout en n'étant pas obligatoirement la seule cause du suicide, en était une cause directe et substantielle sans laquelle il ne serait vraisemblablement pas survenu.

OBS

cause directe : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

An efficient intervening cause is a new, independent force intervening between the defendant's negligent act and the plaintiff's injury by the negligence of a third person who had full control of the situation, whose negligence the defendant could not anticipate or contemplate, and whose negligence resulted directly in the plaintiff's injury.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

An event that comes between the initial event in a sequence and the end result, thereby altering the natural course of events that might have connected a wrongful act to an injury.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 9 2013-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Genetics
CONT

The substantial genetic correlation of size and timing of return that we observe ... could have consequences for harvest management. Alexandersdottir (1987) reviewed evidence that selection with respect to timing has had detrimental effects on pink salmon productivity in some fisheries. Our data suggest that selection against later returning fish could have the correlated effect of reducing the individual size of fish in the population.

CONT

A central objective of population ecology is to understand how populations are spatially structured. An informative way of looking at this is to describe how species abundance varies temporally and spatially and then to identify the mechanisms that can cause synchrony.... Two principal mechanisms have been identified as the possible cause of spatial synchrony. First, dispersal between spatially structured populations... and second, the correlated effect of density independent factors that synchronise populations with the same density dependent structure...

OBS

Genetically usable variation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Génétique

Spanish

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Record 10 2006-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... independent illegal act-eg. steal tools from contractor that are essential to perform contract with third party, breach contract by supplier to cause purchaser to default on contract with sub-purchaser, proof of causation.

CONT

Your foreign buyer defaults on the contract that you have honoured because your buyer cannot, or will not, pay.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
Key term(s)
  • manquer à une obligation contractuelle

Spanish

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Record 11 2005-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Guerilla Warfare
OBS

Founded in 1976, the LTTE is the most powerful Tamil group in Sri Lanka and uses overt and illegal methods to raise funds, acquire weapons, and publicize its cause of establishing an independent Tamil state. The LTTE began its armed conflict with the Sri Lankan Government in 1983 and relies on a guerrilla strategy that includes the use of terrorist tactics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Guérilla

Spanish

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Record 12 2004-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Cancers and Oncology
DEF

A spontaneous new growth of tissue forming an abnormal mass.

OBS

It is with few exceptions of unknown cause, non-inflammatory, and develops independent of, and unrestrained by normal laws of growth and morphogenesis.

OBS

tumor: term recommended by the Medical Signs and Symptoms Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Cancers et oncologie
DEF

Toute néoformation tissulaire non inflammatoire (plus ou moins volumineuse) qui ressemble (plus ou moins) au tissu normal homologue (adulte ou embryonnaire) aux dépens duquel elle s'est développée, qui a tendance à persister et à s'accroître et qui échappe aux règles biologiques de la croissance et de la différenciation cellulaire.

OBS

tumeur : terme privilégié par le Comité de sémiologie médicale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Tipos de cáncer y oncología
DEF

Crecimiento anómalo de tejido en el organismo.

CONT

Los tumores pueden ser benignos (no cancerosos) o malignos (cancerosos).

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Record 13 2000-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mechanical Transmission Systems
DEF

Binary circuit or device, which has one stable state and which requires an appropriate change of the input to cause a transition out of its stable state for a specified period of time. The specified period of time at which the circuit stays out of its stable state is independent of the duration of the appropriate change of the input signals.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmissions mécaniques
DEF

Composant ou circuit ayant un état stable, et pour lequel la sortie change d'état pour une période donnée lorsque le signal d'entrée change lui-même d'état. La durée pendant laquelle le signal de sortie demeure en ce deuxième état défini, est indépendante de la durée du signal d'entrée.

Key term(s)
  • univibrateur

Spanish

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Record 14 1988-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Wilson J. gave judgment for the plaintiff, rejecting the contention of the defendants that the meddling with the tanks constituted an intervening act which broke the chain of causation.... he stated :"If what is relied upon as novus actus interveniens is the very kind of thing which is likely to happen if the want of care which is alleged takes place, the principle embodied in the maxim is no defence... "... Mr. Justice Wilson found that the intervention was not a "fresh, independent cause" of the damage and that "... the person guilty of the original negligence will still be the effective cause if he ought reasonably to have anticipated such interventions... "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Le juge Wilson a accueilli la demande, rejetant l'argument de la défenderesse selon laquelle la manipulation des bonbonnes durant la nuit constituait une intervention d'un tiers, qui avait rompu la chaîne causale. [...] le juge Wilson a déclaré ce qui suit : «Si le fait que l'on invoque à titre de novus actus interveniens est le type même d'incident qui est susceptible de survenir si le défendeur fait preuve de l'imprudence reprochée, le principe sous-jacent à cette maxime ne trouve pas son application ...» [...] le juge Wilson a conclu que l'intervention en question ne constituait pas une «cause nouvelle, indépendante» du dommage et que «... celui-ci sera imputé à la personne responsable de la négligence initiale, s'il est démontré qu'elle pouvait raisonnablement prévoir ces interventions ...»

Spanish

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Record 15 1988-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Wilson J. gave judgment for the plaintiff, rejecting the contention of the defendants that the meddling with the tanks constituted an intervening act which broke the chain of causation.... he stated :"If what is relied upon as novus actus interveniens is the very kind of thing which is likely to happen if the want of care which is alleged takes place, the principle embodied in the maxim is no defence... "... Mr. Justice Wilson found that the intervention was not a "fresh, independent cause" of the damage and that "... the person guilty of the original negligence will still be the effective cause if he ought reasonably to have anticipated such interventions... "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Le juge Wilson a accueilli la demande, rejetant l'argument de la défenderesse selon laquelle la manipulation des bonbonnes durant la nuit constituait une intervention d'un tiers, qui avait rompu la chaîne causale. (...) le juge Wilson a déclaré ce qui suit : "Si le fait que l'on invoque à titre de novus actus interveniens est le type même d'incident qui est susceptible de survenir si le défendeur fait preuve de l'imprudence reprochée, le principe sous-jacent à cette maxime ne trouve pas son application..." (...) le juge Wilson a conclu que l'intervention en question ne constituait pas une "cause nouvelle, indépendante" du dommage et que "... celui-ci sera imputé à la personne responsable de la négligence initiale, s'il est démontré qu'elle pouvait raisonnablement prévoir ces interventions..."

Spanish

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Record 16 1987-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Usually, the interaction of several, though independent, causes produces a single indivisible result and the defendant or defendants, if liable at all, will be answerable for the whole of the damage. Their misconduct may have been simultaneous ... or successive ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 17 1982-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy (General)
DEF

The philosophical and religious doctrine that attributes the cause of behavior to volition and independent decisions of the person rather than to external determinants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
DEF

Pouvoir de se déterminer à l'action par la seule volonté en choisissant indifféremment, et même éventuellement sans motif, entre les contraires.

Spanish

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Record 18 1981-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
OBS

If an employee while insured for this benefit, sustains accidental bodily injury which, independent of all other causes, is the direct cause of any loss shown in the following Schedule of Losses and Benefits, and if such loss occurs within ninety days after the date of sustaining such injury, the Company will,(...) pay the amount provided for such loss in the Schedule of Losses and Benefits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
OBS

Si un employé, alors qu'il est assuré pour ces prestations, subit une blessure corporelle accidentelle qui, indépendamment de toutes autres causes, occasionne directement toute perte mentionnée dans le Tableau des Pertes et Indemnités ci-dessous, et si cette perte survient au cours des quatre-vingt-dix jours suivant la date à laquelle la blessure a été reçue, la Compagnie paiera, (...) le montant indiqué pour une telle perte au Tableau des Pertes et Indemnités.

Spanish

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