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INJURY TEST [12 records]

Record 1 2026-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Federal Administration
CONT

Exemptions based on an injury test provide for the denial of access to requested information if disclosure "could reasonably be expected to be injurious" to the interest specified in the exemption. "Injury" in this context means having a detrimental effect. The fact that the disclosure could result in an administrative change in a government institution is not sufficient to satisfy an injury test. It must be possible to identify an actual detrimental effect on the interest specified in the exemption.

OBS

In the context of an access to information or personal information request, the injury test is used to determine whether the information requested is covered by an exemption because its disclosure would likely result in harm to the interest protected by the exemption.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Administration fédérale
OBS

Dans le cadre d'une demande d'accès à l'information ou de renseignements personnels, le critère subjectif sert à déterminer si les renseignements demandés sont visés par une exception parce que leur communication entraînerait vraisemblablement un préjudice à l'intérêt protégé par l'exception.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de las comunicaciones y la información
  • Administración federal
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Record 2 2024-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
CONT

The step-off test is a sensitive uniplanar test for determining PCL [posterior cruciate ligament] injury and posterior instability. Normally, the medial tibia plateau protrudes anteriorly 1 cm beyond the medial femoral condyle when the knee is flexed to 90°... The step-off is lost when there is a posterior sag of the tibia associated with injury to the PCL and other secondary restraints to posterior translation of the tibia.

Key term(s)
  • step off test

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-07-22

English

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

Frequently words and ambiguous or capable of being understood in several senses, defamatory in one but not another. What meaning is to be attached to them : that intended by the author? that understood by the addressee? or some tertium quid? The first(intended meaning) was long ago disqualified : one may be liable though innocent of any intention to defame. The second(comprehended meaning) seems most compatible with the purpose of damages being to compensate for actual injury, provided only that to understand the words in a defamatory sense was not unreasonable. In some respects, indeed, this test is important. The words, e. g., must have been published to someone capable of understanding them in a defamatory sense, not in a foreign language he could not comprehend.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

An actual or imminent invasion of a legally protected interest, in contrast to an invasion that is conjectural or hypothetical.

CONT

With respect to appellant's standing to sue, we think the appellant has alleged sufficient "injury in fact" to satisfy the standing test recently set out by the Supreme Court in Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U. S. 727(1972).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

atteinte de fait : 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 5 2015-10-29

English

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

The most commonly employed technique for determining causation-in-fact is the "but for" test, sometimes called the sine qua non test. It works like this : if the accident would not have occurred but for the defendant's negligence, then his conduct is a cause of the injury. Put another way, if the accident would have occurred just the same, whether or not the defendant acted, then his conduct is not a cause of the loss. Thus the act of the defendant must have made a difference. If his conduct had nothing to do with the loss, he escapes liability.

French

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

critère du sine qua non : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans le deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 2014-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Constitutional Law
DEF

[An exemption that] identifies the specific public or private interests which must be protected from injury resulting from the disclosure of information.

OBS

Related to the Access to Information Act.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit constitutionnel
DEF

[Exception qui] détermine l'intérêt précis, public ou privé, qui doit être protégé des préjudices entraînés par la divulgation de renseignements.

OBS

Loi sur l'accès à l'information.

Spanish

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Record 7 2009-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Muscles and Tendons
CONT

The prone leg extension(PLE) test is used by therapists who manually palpate the posterior muscles and observe trunk kinematics in an attempt to identify deviations from a supposed optimal. A dysfunctional firing pattern is assumed to exist when postural muscles(hamstrings and erector spinae) initiate the movement and a delay in gluteus maximus firing is evident. As well, inconsistent or altered firing patterns are assumed to be indicative of dysfunction. While dysfunctions in the trunk are hypothesized to alter the optimal firing pattern, distal dysfunction(ankle sprain) is also theorized to influence the proximal order of optimal firing patterns. An ankle sprain or lower leg injury is theorized to result in "imbalances" in the firing pattern of proximal muscles due to the dysfunction of distal segments.

PHR

Altered, continuous, dysfunctional, intermittent, phasic, sporadic, tonic firing pattern.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Muscles et tendons
CONT

L'électromyogramme comporte un premier temps de détection. Il s'agit tout d'abord d'évaluer, avec une aiguille électrode implantée dans le muscle étudié, l'éventualité d'une activité de repos [...] Puis on demande au patient d'effectuer un mouvement actif du muscle étudié contre résistance progressive jusqu'à atteindre une force maximale : on peut ainsi étudier la richesse en unités motrices fonctionnelles du muscle examiné et le mode de recrutement de ces unités motrices.

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-09-10

English

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

A test used in an action for negligence where a defendant will be held liable if he should reasonably have foreseen that consequences of a certain kind were likely to result.

CONT

The nervous shock cases raise... the question whether a person's peculiar susceptibility to injury entitles him to special regard in the exercise of care from others. There used to be impressive support for the view that conformity to an external and objective standard of normality was postulated for plaintiff and defendant alike.... Eventually, however, this viewpoint yielded to the more open-minded foreseeability test... we have come to recognize that even those endowed with less psychic robustness than the model person or the physically handicapped are entitled to consideration from those whose activities foreseeably create unreasonable hazards in their path....

French

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

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
CONT

The pole impact sled was developed to reproduce a vehicle-to-pole side impact crash test. The upper sled carriage is used to accelerate a 254 mm diameter pole to impact the side structure and other interior components, which are positioned on the lower sled carriage. Using dummy injury data and high-speed video, performance of curtain airbags and other countermeasures can be efficiently evaluated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
  • Plant Breeding
  • Industrial Crops
CONT

The excellent qualities of Marquis were immediately apparent. It ripened almost a week earlier than Red Fife and thereby had the potential to escape injury by rust and premature frosts. Its agronomic performance and plump kernets gave rise to excellent yields. The "chewing test" indicated that the new variety retained the gluten properties of Red Fife for high baking quality(...).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
  • Amélioration végétale
  • Culture des plantes industrielles
CONT

Les qualités remarquables du Marquis apparurent immédiatement. Il mûrissait presque une semaine avant le Red Fife et pouvait donc mieux éviter les atteintes de la rouille et des gelées hâtives. Son comportement agronomique et son grain bien fourni produisirent d'excellents rendements. Le «test d'évaluation du comportement sous la dent» révélait que la nouvelle variété avait hérité du Red Fife ses propriétés du gluten et sa valeur boulangère élevée [...].

Spanish

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Record 11 1994-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
CONT

The effect of good and bad posture can be very simply demonstrated by the following example, "The Wrist Test". When the wrist is held in the neutral position, a moderate blow can be applied to the palm of the hand without causing pain and discomfort. When the wrist is in the neutral position, it can absorb the force best. However, if the blow is applied to the wrist when it is fully extended up or down, the wrist is a poor shock absorber, and is most vulnerable to stress and injury.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)

Spanish

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Record 12 1985-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
  • Public Service
DEF

Compensation paid to employees or their dependants where injury or death is a direct result of non-scheduled flight undertaken by an employee in the course of duty or in the case of a civil aviation inspector where injury or death is a direct result of any flight undertaken for the purpose of conducting a flight test or monitoring commercial air operations on that flight.

OBS

flying accidents compensation: term and definition officially approved by Treasury Board Secretariat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
  • Fonction publique
DEF

Indemnité versée à l'employé ou aux personnes à sa charge lorsqu'il y a blessures ou décès résultant directement d'un vol non régulier entrepris par lui dans l'exercice de ses fonctions ou, dans le cas d'un inspecteur de l'aviation civile, lorsqu'il y a blessures ou décès résultant directement d'un vol entrepris à des fins d'essai ou de contrôle des opérations commerciales.

OBS

indemnité d'accident d'aviation : terme uniformisé par le Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor.

Spanish

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