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INITIAL TESTING [27 records]

Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Penal Administration
OBS

The Reception Assessment Report will be completed by a psychologist : a) to report the results of psychological assessment performed during the reception process; b) to report the results of reassessment performed when the initial testing is invalid or a pathological personality profile is obtained; and c) to report on psychological interviews conducted at any point during the inmate's sentence, provided these interviews are not in response to a referral from a staff member...

OBS

Officially approved by the Terminology Committee of the Department of the Solicitor General.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Administration pénitentiaire
OBS

Appellation recommandée par le Comité de terminologie du ministère du Solliciteur général.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

labeled data: Pieces of data that have been tagged with one or more labels identifying certain properties or characteristics, or classifications or contained objects.

CONT

In supervised machine learning, labeled data act as the orientation for data training and testing exercises. The supervised machine learning program may start out with a set of entirely labeled data, or it may use initial labeled data to work with additional unlabeled data.

OBS

labelled datum; labeled datum: designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • labelled data
  • labeled data

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Les données étiquetées peuvent être utilisées pour déterminer des informations exploitables (par exemple, des tâches de prévision), tandis que les données non étiquetées sont plus limitées dans leur utilité.

OBS

donnée étiquetée; donnée annotée : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • données étiquetées
  • données annotées

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Plant Safety
CONT

An emergency drill typically involves testing a procedural or physical component of the emergency response program. An emergency drill may be conducted as an initial or periodic test, as a supervised training session or as an evaluation of a remedial event.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sûreté des centrales nucléaires
CONT

Les manœuvres d’urgence visent en général à éprouver une composante de nature pratique ou physique du programme d’intervention. Ces manœuvres peuvent prendre la forme d’un contrôle initial ou périodique, d’une séance de formation supervisée ou d’une évaluation des mesures correctives.

Spanish

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Record 4 2019-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Food Safety
  • Collaboration with the FAO
CONT

The CSA [comparative safety assessment] is basically a two-tiered approach. The initial step comprises a thorough comparison with the closely related conventional counterpart to identify any differences that may have safety implications for the consumer. This comparison includes both phenotypic characteristics as well as a compositional analysis. The phenotypic analysis should also include comparative health parameters. The compositional analysis will focus on key substances in the animal products under scrutiny and will be subject to changes according to the latest scientific state of the art. The second step of the CSA comprises the toxicological and nutritional evaluation of the identified differences between the GM [genetically modified] animal and its conventional counterpart. As a result of this second step, additional testing may be required and can result in an iterative process in order to obtain all relevant information for the final risk characterization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Salubrité alimentaire
  • Collaboration avec la FAO

Spanish

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Record 5 2019-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Food Safety
  • Collaboration with the FAO
CONT

The CSA is basically a two-tiered approach. The initial step comprises a thorough comparison with the closely related conventional counterpart to identify any differences that may have safety implications for the consumer. This comparison includes both phenotypic characteristics as well as a compositional analysis. The phenotypic analysis should also include comparative health parameters. The compositional analysis will focus on key substances in the animal products under scrutiny and will be subject to changes according to the latest scientific state of the art. The second step of the CSA comprises the toxicological and nutritional evaluation of the identified differences between the GM [genetically modified] animal and its conventional counterpart. As a result of this second step, additional testing may be required and can result in an iterative process in order to obtain all relevant information for the final risk characterization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Salubrité alimentaire
  • Collaboration avec la FAO

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Soil Science
CONT

Site surveys. An initial site survey should be conducted as part of any contaminated site assessment. In the context of this guidance the survey would either have been conducted as part of the screening level assessment or conducted prior to collecting soil samples for biological testing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Science du sol
CONT

Levé du site. Toute évaluation d'un lieu contaminé devrait comporter un levé initial du site. Ce levé devrait être exécuté dans le cadre de l'évaluation préalable ou avant le prélèvement d'échantillons de sol aux fins d'essais biologiques.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
CONT

A potential future Mars sample caching mission would acquire surface core samples with a rover and then store the samples in a canister that could be returned to Earth. The samples would likely be stored in individual sample tubes which are sealed. Significant care would be required to minimize contamination of the samples by Earth-source contaminants or by cross-contamination with material from other Mars sampling locations. Additionally, the system of sampling tool, sampling tool deployment device, and sample handling and encapsulation system would need to have minimal mass in order to fit on a small caching rover such as a MER-class rover. Past solutions have been problematic for various reasons including total system mass, sample contamination, or robustness. This problem applies to various potential future Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission architectures for returning samples from Mars to Earth including 1) a sample caching missionfollowed by a sample return mission where the caching mission rover would acquire and cache samples and a later sample return mission would have a fetch rover that retrieves the sample cache and return it to the landers Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) for return to Earth, 2) an Astrobiology Field Laboratory mission with caching which would provide the caching mission function while also including in-situ sample analysis, and 3) a combined sampling and return mission which would combine the sample caching and return to Earth functions.

CONT

After its initial construction, Rocky 7 was used for desert field tests in 1996 and 1997. Following that, it was used for several years of algorithm development and testing, including autonomous rock grasping, and wheel-terrain contact estimation techniques. From 2001 onward, it has been a test bed for CLARAty software development. More recently it has been considered a likely candidate for "fetch" rover studies for Mars Sample Return technology development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
OBS

Deux rescapés sur Mars. Les deux rovers existaient depuis longtemps dans les cartons de la NASA et leur histoire est déjà quelque peu mouvementée. Un exemplaire très similaire aux rovers actuels devait initialement partir vers la planète rouge en 2001 pour arpenter sa surface et commencer une collecte d'échantillons de roches et de sols. Un autre robot du même gabarit aurait du venir le rejoindre en 2003 pour continuer le travail. La précieuse récolte aurait ensuite été mise à l'abri en attendant qu'un troisième robot vienne la récupérer en 2005 pour la placer dans une fusée qui aurait finalement pris la direction de la Terre.

OBS

Le rover de récupération recueille les échantillons amassés par le rover de collecte et de stockage (cache rover).

Key term(s)
  • rover récupérateur

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Military Transportation
CONT

The force transport officer is responsible for... instructions covering all aspects of transport control, initial briefing of all drivers on general driving policy and conditions in the operational area, processing and testing contingents’ motor transport officers in their understanding of the rules and regulations in force in the UN Force and operative in the country in which the Force is stationed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Transport militaire

Spanish

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Record 9 2008-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
CONT

Instruments are installed for two purposes, one to display current conditions, the other to notify of unsatisfactory conditions... Certain system failures are immediately indicated on an annunciator panel on the main instrument panel. A master caution light and a light indicating the faulting system flash on. The master light may be reset to "Off, "but the indicating light will remain "On" until the fault is corrected or the equipment concerned is shut down. By resetting, the master caution light is ready to warn of a subsequent fault even before correction of the initial fault. A press to test light is available for testing the circuits in this system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
OBS

voyant de signalisation; voyant de mise en garde : termes uniformisés par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Opérations aériennes.

OBS

voyant de signalisation : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

Spanish

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Record 10 2005-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering
CONT

When models are complete and assembled, they need to be checked over.... After the samples have been inspected and any necessary corrections made, the initial testing begins.... It is important to test enough samples in the early stages of experimentation....

CONT

The prototype testing will be more comprehensive than the experimental [testing] ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ingénierie
CONT

Les essais occupent une place importante dans le processus de développement de produit. Presque à chaque instant, mais surtout à des étapes bien définies, il faut essayer pour sélectionner ou vérifier des solutions. Il existe trois grands types d'essais [...] les essais techniques, les essais usuels, les essais ou tests commerciaux.

OBS

Testation. Néologisme relevé en 1987 dans le volume 2 de la série Néologie lexicale (Paris) avec le sens : mise à l'épreuve, soumission à des tests.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ingeniería
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Record 11 2004-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • International Relations
OBS

An International Development Research Centre(IRDC) Project. The Farm Machinery Unit of Malawi, in conjunction with the Tropical Development and Research Institute, developed the first model of a hand-operated wooden groundnut sheller. IDRC funded further testing and modification of the sheller, and initial trials were run for a confectionery groundnut variety. Market standards — 90% average whole kernel efficiency(WKE) or 10% visible kernel damage — were met.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Relations internationales
OBS

Un projet du Centre de recherches pour le développement international (CRDI). En collaboration avec l'Institut de recherche sur le développement des zones tropicales, le Service des machines agricoles du Malawi a mis au point le premier modèle de décortiqueur d'arachides manuel en bois. Le CRDI a financé d'autres essais et la modification du décortiqueur, puis les premiers essais pratiques ont été réalisés avec une variété d'arachides destinées à la confiserie. Le décortiqueur a permis de respecter les normes du marché : efficience moyenne de 90 % pour les graines complètes ou 10 % de dommages visibles aux graines.

Spanish

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Record 12 2004-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Lot Releases : Health Canada performs tests on the drug lots produced by manufacturers during initial drug submissions, clinical trials, and after they have been approved for market. This testing is done to ensure production consistency and drug safety. Drugs that pose a high risk, such as those administered to large populations, are evaluated more often than low risk drugs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication des produits pharmaceutiques
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Autorisation de mise en circulation d'un lot : Santé Canada fait des tests sur les lots de drogue, durant les premières présentations, au cours des essais cliniques et après leur approbation de ise en marché. Ces tests sont effectués pour assurer l'uniformité de production et l'innocuité du médicament. Les drogues à risque élevé, telles que celles administrées à un grand nombre de personnes, sont évaluées plus souvent que celles ayant un moindre risque.

Spanish

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Record 13 2003-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
DEF

A collection of mirrors, [lenses], prisms, and other devices (placed in some specified configuration) which reflect, refract, disperse, absorb, polarize, or otherwise act on light.

CONT

We describe the initial setup, configuration, and testing procedures that were used to incorporate a Xinetics 349 channel deformable mirror into the DCATT [Developmental Characterized Active Telescope Testbed] active optical system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
DEF

Appareillage de physique relatif à la vision, à la propagation de la lumière dans le vide ou dans les milieux naturels.

OBS

Les systèmes optiques de certains satellites captent la lumière du soleil réfléchie par la surface de la Terre et sont donc dépendants de l'éclairement et des conditions météorologiques.

Spanish

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Record 14 2003-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
CONT

The Rack Level Test Facility is the formal verification tool used for the functional and operational testing of internal payloads. The Rack Level Test Facility will however, be modified to also allow the verification of external payloads and centre-aisle payloads, but this capability does not currently exist. This verification is carried out before installation into the Columbus Laboratory(for the initial internal payload complement), or prior to shipment to the Kennedy Space Centre for installation into the Multi Purpose Logistics Module, for transportation to the ISS.

OBS

rack level test facility; RLTF: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group (ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
OBS

système d'essai niveau bâtis; RLTF : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Spanish

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Record 15 2001-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Materiel Management
CONT

The initial contract was for the first article qualification testing and delivery of 18 terminals for field operational test and evaluation and was valued at US$20 million.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion du matériel militaire

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Technology - Equipment
  • Petroleum Distillation
CONT

The examination of operating variables using the bench-scale continuous-flow unit was continued and initial results warrant further experimental testing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareillage (Technologie pétrolière)
  • Distillation du pétrole
CONT

On a poursuivi l'examen des variables d'exploitation en utilisant le dispositif de laboratoire fonctionnant en continu et les premiers résultats justifient d'autres essais expérimentaux.

Spanish

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Record 17 2000-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
DEF

The initial production of an oil well recorded after testing operations and recovery of load oil.

OBS

For this figure to be meaningful, it should approximate closely the maximum ability of a well to produce on completion without subsequent reservoir damage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
OBS

(d'un puits).

Spanish

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Record 18 2000-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Strength of Materials
  • Concrete Construction
  • Waterproofing (Construction)
CONT

The present methods of specifying and compliance testing cast stone products for compliance are the BS 1217 initial surface absorption test(ISAT), the DIN 18500 water immersion test and the UKCSA's capillary absorption test(CAT).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Résistance des matériaux
  • Bétonnage
  • Étanchéité (Construction)
DEF

Essai qui consiste à mesurer, selon un mode opératoire défini, la quantité d'eau absorbée par une éprouvette prismatique en béton ou en mortier placée debout sur un lit de sable gorgé d'eau, et à suivre cette absorption dans le temps jusqu'à l'obtention d'un poids constant.

OBS

Essai d'étanchéité [...] Absorption capillaire.

Spanish

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Record 19 1999-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design
  • Acoustics (Physics)
DEF

Artificial word without meaning, which has a vowel with an initial and/or final consonant, used in articulation testing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
  • Acoustique (Physique)
DEF

Élément phonétique sans signification propre constitué d'une voyelle précédée et suivie du son d'une consonne ou d'un groupe de consonnes.

OBS

La netteté pour les logatomes d'une liaison téléphonique est le pourcentage de logatomes reconnus à la réception, dans des conditions déterminées, par un groupe d'expérimentateurs.

Spanish

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Record 20 1997-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • The Eye
CONT

All patients were evaluated for binocular function with stereopsis testing and demonstration of fusion with the Worth Four-Dot test... This was done so that patients with an initial exotropia who drifted outside the target range could be compared equally with patients who were initially esotropic who drifted the same amount but had not gone past a mark of 8 pd of exotropia.

Key term(s)
  • Worth Four Dot test
  • Worth 4-Dot test
  • Worth 4 Dot test

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Oeil

Spanish

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Record 21 1996-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Militaire (Généralités)
Key term(s)
  • essai de la production initiale

Spanish

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Record 22 1994-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

Culture-fair testing : Any intelligence test that makes use of language is likely to be culturally biased. Consequently, attempts have been made to produce language-free culture-fair tests that would be equally difficult for members of any culture. Initial efforts generally relied on pictures and nonverbal instructions, but these still tended to favor some cultures... there are tests that are self-explanatory and do not require pictures of familiar objects. One of the most widely used culture-fair tests is the Raven Progressive Matrices Test... In this test... people from cultures in which fill-in or matching exercises are more common may be more likely to do well than people from other cultures. To date [1982], no one test has been developed that is completely culture-fair.

OBS

Related terms: culture-fair testing, intelligence test, culturally biased, language-free culture-fair test, nonverbal instruction, matching exercise, fill-in exercise.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
OBS

Penrose et Raven (1936) ont désigné [«matrices progressives»] un type de test d'éducation, comprenant des ensembles, en disposition rectangulaire, de figures à compléter, et dont on réussit le complètement (par choix multiple) dans la mesure où l'on saisit une ou plusieurs relations, de modalité additive ou ordinale.

Key term(s)
  • matrice progressive de Raven

Spanish

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Record 23 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

État de test dans lequel un corps de test démarre.

OBS

Un état de test "initial" peut être "stable" ou "temporaire".

OBS

Terme et définition normalisés par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

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Record 24 1991-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing Research
CONT

Concept testing. The objective of this type of research is an initial screening of product ideas before any money, time, or personnel are committed to making the products, in order to encourage further development of good ideas and to weed out poor ideas.

OBS

Concept testing may bear on a product concept or on a service concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étude du marché
CONT

Les principales étapes des études de marché actives sont : les tests de concepts (faits sur concepts et spécifications); les tests de produits (faits sur maquettes et prototypes); les tests de marché (faits sur modèles de présérie).

OBS

Le mot "test" désigne en français l'action de soumettre à une épreuve, ainsi que l'épreuve elle-même.

Spanish

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Record 25 1991-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Design
OBS

During model making, fabrication of parts brings to light errors in drafting or design.... When models are complete and assembled, they need to be checked over.... This pre-test sample check is a form of nondestructive testing.... After the samples have been inspected and any necessary corrections made, the initial testing begins.

OBS

Term proposed from the above context for "model" and from the term "prototype sample" (BREND 1986, p. 89)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dessin industriel
CONT

Lorsque le modèle de présérie est au point, la construction industrialisée de modèles de série (...) peut commencer. Des multitudes d'exemplaires identiques du produit peuvent ainsi être fabriqués. Chacun de ces exemplaires du modèle de série en "état de marche" passe ensuite une certaine période de léthargie (...) en attente d'être vendu (...)

Spanish

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Record 26 1987-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)

Spanish

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Record 27 1983-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Prospecting
  • Preparatory Mining Work
CONT

Before diamond drilling became as usual a method of testing as it is today, exploration shafts and adits were more common during initial stages than they are now. They were often driven with hand steel, and many were just wide enough for a man to work in or crawl through.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prospection minière
  • Travaux préparatoires (Exploitation minière)

Spanish

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