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Record 1 2023-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clothing (Military)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
DEF

A garment with integrated sensors measuring various data related to the soldiers’ physiology, activity and posture, that are wirelessly transmitted, allowing the medical staff to get real-time information about each soldier's condition and to determine whose needs are most urgent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Habillement (Militaire)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
OBS

Le vêtement intelligent pour le télétriage est muni de capteurs qui enregistrent des données relatives à la physiologie, à l'activité et à la posture des soldats. Ces données sont transmises à distance afin de permettre au personnel médical de localiser les soldats, d'évaluer leur état de santé et de faire le télétriage.

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Environmental Law
OBS

Ecojustice goes to court and uses the power of the law to defend nature, combat climate change, and fight for a healthy environment for all. Its strategic, innovative public interest lawsuits lead to legal precedents that deliver lasting solutions to their most urgent environmental problems.

Key term(s)
  • Sierra Legal Defense Fund

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Droit environnemental
Key term(s)
  • Sierra Legal Defense Fund

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Economics
OBS

The Victoria Hospitals Foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment and special projects at Royal Jubilee Hospital and Victoria General Hospital, Vancouver Island's largest and most comprehensive health care resources. [The foundation consults] with Island Health to determine the most urgent equipment needs so [donations are] spent where it will have the greatest impact.

OBS

The mission of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation is to encourage contributions to the improvement of health services on Vancouver Island.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Économique

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Programs
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Energy Transformation
OBS

We, the elected Heads of States and Governments of the Americas, convinced of the urgent need to advance toward sustainable development by strengthening social awareness, with a broad vision that promotes public participation, integration, hemispheric cooperation, equity, and social justice, with special emphasis on women, children, and vulnerable groups, commit ourselves to implement the first Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Americas, based on the principles of the Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, for the purpose of overcoming the most pressing problems faced by our people and assuring an adequate and decent standard of living for present and future generations.

Key term(s)
  • Action Plan for the Sustainable Development of the Americas
  • Plan of Action on Sustainable Development

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes internationaux
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Transformation de l'énergie
Key term(s)
  • Plan d'action sur le développement durable

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas internacionales
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
  • Transformación de la energía
OBS

Nosotros, los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno elegidos de las Américas, convencidos de la urgente necesidad de avanzar hacia el desarrollo sostenible, fortaleciendo la concientización social, con un amplio enfoque que promueva la participación pública, la integración, la cooperación hemisférica, la equidad y la justicia social, con especial énfasis en las mujeres, los niños y los grupos vulnerables, asumimos el compromiso de poner en ejecución el primer Plan de Acción para el Desarrollo Sostenible de las Américas con base en los principios de la Declaración de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, con el propósito de superar los más apremiantes problemas que afrontan nuestros pueblos y asegurar un nivel de vida adecuado y digno para las generaciones presentes y futuras.

OBS

Terminología relacionada con el proceso de las Cumbres de las Américas.

Key term(s)
  • Plan de Acción de Desarrollo Sostenible
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Record 5 2002-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
OBS

Friends of the Earth International is a federation of autonomous environmental organizations from all over the world. Our members, in 66 countries, campaign on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our day, while simultaneously catalyzing a shift toward sustainable societies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telegraphic Switching
  • Signals (Military)
OBS

FLASH is [an authorized precedence designator] reserved for the most urgent telegrams containing information vitally affecting the conduct of foreign relations and requiring instant action by the addressee, regardless of the time of day or night.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation télégraphique
  • Transmissions de campagne (Militaire)
OBS

Il s'agit d'un code de priorité.

OBS

Source(s) : Manuel des instructions de sécurité, annexe B, chap. 5.

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Honorary Distinctions
  • Prizes and Awards (Arts and Culture)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • Urban Studies
OBS

... to pay tribute to the exemplary action of five municipalities in cities located in the five world regions which has succeeded in strengthening social solidarity, improving living conditions in troubled neighbourhoods and developing genuine urban harmony... Its most important achievement is the fostering of dynamics of exchange between cities on innovative practices to tackle urgent urban issues.

Key term(s)
  • Cities for Peace Prize
  • Mayors for Peace Prize

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres honorifiques et décorations internationaux
  • Prix et récompenses (Arts et Culture)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Urbanisme
OBS

[...] distinction destinée à honorer des actions exemplaires, accomplies par cinq équipes municipales dans des villes des cinq différentes régions du monde, ayant abouti au renforcement de la cohésion sociale, à l'amélioration des conditions de vie dans les quartiers fragilisés et au développement d'une véritable convivialité urbaine. [...] Il doit avoir pour principal résultat de favoriser la dynamique des échanges entre les villes sur des pratiques novatrices qui permettent de faire face à des problèmes urbains urgents.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos honoríficos y condecoraciones internacionales
  • Premios y recompensas (Artes y Cultura)
  • Guerra y paz (Derecho internacional)
  • Urbanismo
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Record 8 1999-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
DEF

... that organized network of peripheral units capable of providing certain basic health services within the available local resources to cater for the most urgent health needs of the population.

OBS

HOHEA: Hogarth, J. Glossary of health care terminology. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1978. (Public Health in Europe, No. 4).

Key term(s)
  • health care delivery system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
Key term(s)
  • réseau médico-hospitalier

Spanish

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Record 9 1995-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
OBS

Most items can be held over for inclusion in weekly Information Summaries(INFSUMS) ;otherwise if considered more urgent, they can be transmitted as a separate Information Report.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix

Spanish

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Record 10 1985-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
  • Water Pollution
CONT

He listed the major steps "which the Ontario government wants taken, which include : abatement on an international scale, preventive and remedial action, and continuing scientific investigation-our most urgent and vital need. "Scott mentioned lake liming as a "remedial action", without mentioning its dubious success rate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Pollution de l'eau
CONT

Le service de l'Aménagement et de l'Exploitation de la Faune (Québec) a procédé en août 1981 au chaulage d'un lac acide (3,9 ha). De la chaux hydraté Ca(OH)2 à une concentration de 14,3 gr/m [cube] a été appliquée et le pH moyen grimpa de 4,3 à 6,3 (mars 82).

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire

Spanish

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