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INDIVIDUAL CONSTANT [15 records]

Record 1 2024-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
  • Public Sector Budgeting
CONT

The World Health Organization(WHO) has reported that 80% of vaccine sales come from just five large multinational corporations, formed as a result of mergers and acquisitions in recent decades. It said :"Many of the individual vaccine markets are monopolies or oligopolies, either by product or presentation. "In this market environment, the balance between supply and demand needs to be closely monitored, leading the WHO to advocate for "constant management and communication between market actors" to guarantee sufficient supply of vaccines. Without an open procurement process, it's extremely difficult for the government and public to know if the procurement in these tight market conditions is being managed in their best interests as effectively as possible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
  • Budget des collectivités publiques

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

The state in which the frames generated by the receiving apparatus have a desired constant time relationship with the frames of the received signal, so that the individual time-slots in each frame can be uniquely identified.

OBS

frame alignment: designation and definition standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

État dans lequel les trames produites par un appareil de réception ont une relation de phase constante voulue avec celles du signal reçu, de sorte que les différents créneaux temporels de chaque trame peuvent être identifiés sans ambiguïté.

OBS

verrouillage de trame : désignation et définition normalisées par la Commission électrotechnique internationale (CEI).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
OBS

cerramiento de trama: designación normalizada por la Comisión Electrotécnica Internacional (CEI).

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Record 3 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Ecology (General)
  • Ecosystems
  • Marine Biology
CONT

... the biomass size spectrum was introduced by aquatic ecologists... They noticed that the summed biomass concentration of individual aquatic organisms was roughly constant across equal logarithmic intervals of body size from bacteria to the largest predators. These observations formed the basis for a theory of aquatic ecosystems, based on the body size of individual organisms, that revealed new insights into constraints on the structure of biological communities.

OBS

biomass size spectra: plural.

Key term(s)
  • biomass size spectra

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Écosystèmes
  • Biologie marine
CONT

[Des écologistes aquatiques ont introduit] la théorie du spectre de taille de la biomasse [...] Ces derniers avaient remarqué que la somme des concentrations de biomasse d'organismes aquatiques individuels était généralement constante pour des intervalles logarithmiques égaux de tailles du corps, des bactéries jusqu'aux plus grands prédateurs. Ces observations constituaient le fondement d'une théorie des écosystèmes aquatiques reposant sur la taille du corps des organismes individuels, qui mettait en lumière des facteurs agissant sur la structure des communautés biologiques.

Spanish

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Record 4 2022-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Statistics
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Inconstant catchability among individual fish has been widely recognized... as a major source of error in depletion estimates of population size when using models [that] assume constant catchability. Inconstant catchability is a feature of populations that contain individuals with different vulnerabilities to capture or when their behaviour changes with successive hauls. The effect is to cause a rapid depletion of the more vulnerable individuals after the first unit(or few units) of effort is applied, leaving behind a pool of animals with a lower [catchability].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Statistique
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Social Problems
DEF

A system of organized psychological terror tactics used against a person who has become an enemy of an individual or a government.

CONT

"Organized stalking" is a form of terrorism used against an individual in a malicious attempt to reduce the quality of a person's life so they will : have a nervous break-down, become incarcerated, institutionalized, experience constant mental, emotional, or physical pain, become homeless, and/or commit suicide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Problèmes sociaux
DEF

Forme de poursuite incessante d'un système organisé qui est exercée contre un individu ou un groupe donné que l'on considère comme un ennemi dans le but de le terroriser ou de le capturer.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Statistical Graphs and Diagrams
OBS

When the Business Partnering Model was first presented, the role of a broker within the Director, Human Resources’ team had been developed whose responsibility was routing all requests to the appropriate service centre, tracking all requests to ensure service standards were met, and providing information to managers and the team on the status of individual service transactions. After long discussions, the broker role was replaced by a Business Line Team(BLT). This team is part of the Organization and Resourcing Services. On a matrix basis, a team will be set up for each client Branch/SOA. Headed by a Senior Consultant, reporting to the Resourcing Manager, the team represents a mix of skills and resources to meet client needs as defined by a service agreement negotiatied by the Director, Human Resources. The Senior Consultant, BLT and his/her team will work in partnership with the Director, HR team and will provide constant feed back on results and issues impacting service delivery to the client. Members of the BLT team are at all levels of the organization from support to officer. The make up of the Business Line Team is reviewed annually based on client business plans and service agreements. The Business Line Team is the client's single point of access for staffing, organization design and classification request. It is also responsible for providing these services in the most strategic and cost-efficient way for the client. The Director, HR team will keep the BLT abreast of any client issue, general direction and priority that might impact on service delivery.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Diagrammes et graphiques (Statistique)
OBS

Confirmé par Services de l'organisation et du ressourcement, Direction générale des ressources humaines, TPSGC [Travaux publics et Services gouvernementaux]. Lorsque le modèle de partenariat d'affaires a été présenté, on a défini le rôle d'un aiguilleur au sein de l'équipe du directeur des Ressources humaines qui devait acheminer toutes les demandes au centre de services approprié, faire le suivi des demandes afin de s'assurer que les services rendus étaient conformes aux normes, et informer les gestionnaires et l'équipe sur l'état d'avancement de chaque opération. Après en avoir discuté longuement, on a remplacé le rôle d'aiguilleur par le concept d'ESA [Équipe de secteur d'activité]. Cette équipe fait partie des Services de l'organisation et du ressourcement. Une équipe sera formée pour chaque direction générale ou OSS client sur une base matricielle. Dirigée par un conseiller principal relevant du gestionnaire, Ressourcement, l'équipe représente un agencement de compétences et de ressources visant à répondre aux besoins des clients, tels qu'ils sont établis dans l'entente de service négociée par le directeur des Ressources humaines. Le conseiller principal de l'ESA et son équipe travailleront en partenariat avec l'équipe du directeur des Ressources humaines et lui fournira continuellement de l'information sur les résultats et sur tout problème touchant la prestation des services au client. Les membres de l'ESA sont de tous les niveaux de l'organisation, de l'employé de soutien à l'agent. La constitution de l'ESA est revue chaque année en fonction des plans d'activités des clients et des ententes de service. L'ESA est le seul point de contact des clients pour les demandes de dotation, de design organisationnel et de classification. Elle est également chargée d'offrir ces services de la façon la plus stratégique et efficiente possible. Le directeur des Ressources humaines tiendra le conseiller principal de l'ESA au courant de tout problèm.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Merchandising Techniques
CONT

Engineered with innovative design and operational features, such as a two-tiered display surface and independent heating controls for the individual case sections, BKI's new island display case is ideal for enhancing any foodservice program... BKI's new island display case is built to work and to hold constant and proper temperature... With its double-level display surface, BKI's heated island case elevates product visibility and accessibility to customers-putting a variety of dinner entrees and side items at their fingertips and making dinner selection so easy.

OBS

Note that the island display case is accessible from all sides.

Key term(s)
  • isle
  • island

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques marchandes
DEF

Meuble de présentation de formes diverses et accessible de tous les côtés.

CONT

Meubles à produits surgelés [...] Le service peut se faire des deux côtés du meuble ce qui leur fait donner le nom de meubles «îlots».

Key term(s)
  • meuble-îlot

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Machines and Equipment
DEF

The wall separating cells.

OBS

The surface of the anilox roller is defined by the cell wall ratio and the separation of the individual cells by the cell wall, in general a high ratio should be the target. The better the demarcation of the cell through the land areas, the more regular is the successful inking of the image particularly of fine printing elements. The cell wall ratio should be as high as possible so that the surface of the printing plate is clean. In order to achieve a constant ink transfer volume, not only must the cell wall ratio be defined but also the characteristics of the cell wall.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Imprimerie et arts graphiques)
DEF

Surface latérale de l'alvéole d'un anilox.

OBS

paroi de l'alvéole : terme 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 9 2005-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupational Bodies and Committees
  • Union Organization
  • Agriculture - General
OBS

The Union des producteurs agricoles(UPA) is a professional farmers’ union organization. Its main purpose and its action are based on values : respect for the individual, solidarity, collective action, social justice, fairness, democracy. In compliance with these values, the chief mission of the UPA is to promote, defend and develop the professional, economic, social and moral interests of Québec' s farm producers, without distinction as to race, nationality, gender, language or beliefs. In addition, in constant interaction with all of Québec society, the UPA helps improve living conditions of rural communities at the social, economic and cultural levels. Finally, the UPA recognizes that Québec agriculture exists within the context of global interactions and, consequently, that it can associate with the collective action of farm producers groups in Canada and elsewhere in the world. The Union catholique des cultivateurs(UCC) became the Union des producteurs agricoles(UPA) in 1972.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités professionnels
  • Organisation syndicale
  • Agriculture - Généralités
OBS

L'Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) est une organisation syndicale professionnelle, qui fonde sa raison d'être et son action sur les valeurs de respect de la personne, de solidarité, d'action collective, de justice sociale, d'équité et de démocratie. Dans le respect de ces valeurs, l'UPA a pour mission principale de promouvoir, défendre et développer les intérêts professionnels, économiques, sociaux et moraux des productrices et des producteurs agricoles et forestiers du Québec, sans distinction de race, de nationalité, de sexe, de langue et de croyance. De plus, en constante interaction avec l'ensemble de la société québécoise, l'UPA contribue à l'amélioration des conditions de vie sur le plan social, économique et culturel du milieu rural. Enfin, l'UPA reconnaît que l'agriculture et la foresterie québécoises se situent dans un contexte d'interactions mondiales et qu'en conséquence, elle peut s'associer à l'action collective des regroupements de productrices et de producteurs agricoles ou forestiers, tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger.

Spanish

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Record 10 1998-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Optics
CONT

Binocular vision gives rise to a perceptual space that is endowed with a rich geometrical structure, which according to Luneburg [...] is a non-Euclidean Riemannian geometry of constant curvature..... The Luneburg theory has been less successful in quantitatively predicting individual data, a fact that has sometimes been taken as evidence against the presumed geometrical structure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Optique
DEF

Théorie suivant laquelle la géométrie de l'espace visuel est décrite par un système hyperbolique non euclidien variable.

OBS

Source MVISI-F : Le nouveau dictionnaire de la vision par Michel Millodot, Médiacom Vision Éditeur, 1997.

Spanish

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Record 11 1998-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Silviculture
  • Forestry Operations
CONT

Based on the measurements(height, diameter in H. 100, age) of about more than 1000 individual locations of Mediterranean trees and shrubs along a North-South gradient, reaching from the Submediterranean locations in the Rhine valley to Thermomediterranean locations in South Portugal, a first attempt is made to construct an initial simulation model for the growth of some exemplary Mediterranean trees and shrubs. The main objectives of the growth model are : to fit differential equations for the main Mediterranean trees under constant climatic conditions... to run long term model simulations... to include some natural(fire) or human(tree cutting)...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Sylviculture
  • Exploitation forestière
CONT

La construction du modèle de croissance. La démarche du projet amorcé en 1993 consiste à prédire l'évolution de placettes-échantillons temporaires, d'une unité de sondage donnée, à l'aide d'un modèle de croissance construit avec les données recueillies dans les placettes-échantillons permanentes. L'analyse de ces données permet d'établir des relations mathématiques entre diverses variables dendrométriques et écologiques susceptibles d'expliquer la croissance et la mortalité des arbres ainsi que la venue de nouvelles tiges dans la placette (recrues).

Spanish

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Record 12 1994-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

Image processing technique in which image contrast is adjusted by multiplying or dividing individual pixels by a constant, or image brightness is adjusted by adding or subtracting a constant value from individual pixels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Projet de norme ISO sur la visionique.

Spanish

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Record 13 1988-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

To describe operators and actions, we first have to give them names. In what follows, we use the ternary function symbol M to designate the move operator, we use the binary function symbol U to designate the unstack operator, we use the binary function symbol S to designate the stack operator, and we use the constant Noop to designate the null action. With this vocabulary, we can name individual actions. For example, the term M(C, A, B) designates the action of moving block c from a to b. We call terms of this form action designators.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir "désignatif" et "indicatif".

Spanish

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Record 14 1986-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A constant that represents a specific object.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

constante : quantité qui garde la même valeur.

OBS

S'oppose à constante universelle.

Spanish

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Record 15 1982-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

D2F reverse-current filter.... The action can be likened to that of two individual filters each operating at half the speed of the coarse filter; this speed remains constant, as the two filter layers, being of the same grain size, become clogged at the same rate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

Bifiltre D2F à courants inverses. [...] Tout se passe comme si l'on avait deux filtres élémentaires fonctionnant à vitesse moitié de celle du filtre dégrossisseur, cette vitesse restant d'ailleurs constante car les deux couches filtrantes, de même granulométrie, se colmatent identiquement.

Spanish

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