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OPERATIONAL DECISION [18 records]

Record 1 2024-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • Military Law
CONT

... of precluding the wrongfulness of State conduct not in conformity with one of the rules of the law of war which impose limitations on the belligerents regarding the means and methods of conducting hostilities between them, the general purpose being to attenuate the rigours of war ...

CONT

Necessity and proportionality have always been core principles of both branches of the jus belli principles that apply to both the authority to employ military force and the regulation of actual employment. However, in the jus ad bellum context, they have never before been viewed as principles to regulate operational and tactical execution. Instead, in that context they frame the legality of national or multinational resort to military force in self-defense. Once the decision is made to employ force pursuant to this authority, the jus in bello variant of these principles(necessity of the mission and proportionality of collateral damage) operate to regulate the application of combat power during mission execution(in other words, they provide the foundation for the regulation of the application of combat power in the context of the self-defense-justified mission).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Droit militaire

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • Military Law
CONT

Jus in bello, also referred to as international humanitarian law (IHL), applies to all warring parties irrespective of the reasons for the conflict. It does not speak to whether or not the cause of war is just. Instead, this body of law seeks to protect war victims and their fundamental rights, no matter to which party they belong.

CONT

Necessity and proportionality have always been core principles of both branches of the jus belli principles that apply to both the authority to employ military force and the regulation of actual employment. However, in the jus ad bellum context, they have never before been viewed as principles to regulate operational and tactical execution. Instead, in that context they frame the legality of national or multinational resort to military force in self-defense. Once the decision is made to employ force pursuant to this authority, the jus in bello variant of these principles(necessity of the mission and proportionality of collateral damage) operate to regulate the application of combat power during mission execution(in other words, they provide the foundation for the regulation of the application of combat power in the context of the self-defense-justified mission).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Droit militaire
CONT

Le droit international humanitaire a pour but de limiter les souffrances causées par la guerre en assurant, autant que possible, protection et assistance aux victimes. Il traite donc de la réalité d'un conflit sans considération des motifs ou de la légalité d'un recours à la force. Il en réglemente uniquement les aspects ayant une importance humanitaire. C'est ce que l’on appelle le jus in bello (le droit dans la guerre).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Guerra y paz (Derecho internacional)
  • Derecho militar
DEF

Jus in bello: [derecho que] regula el comportamiento de los durante las hostilidades.

OBS

Jus in bello Se distingue del jus ad bellum, o condiciones en que es lícito el recurso a la fuerza armada.

OBS

derecho de guerra, Jus in bello y derecho internacional humanitario: Expresiones reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 3 2024-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • Military Law
DEF

The right to resort to war.

CONT

Jus ad bellum refers to the conditions under which states may resort to war or to the use of armed force in general.

CONT

Necessity and proportionality have always been core principles of both branches of the jus belli principles that apply to both the authority to employ military force and the regulation of actual employment. However, in the jus ad bellum context, they have never before been viewed as principles to regulate operational and tactical execution. Instead, in that context they frame the legality of national or multinational resort to military force in self-defense. Once the decision is made to employ force pursuant to this authority, the jus in bello variant of these principles(necessity of the mission and proportionality of collateral damage) operate to regulate the application of combat power during mission execution(in other words, they provide the foundation for the regulation of the application of combat power in the context of the self-defense-justified mission).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Droit militaire
CONT

Le jus ad bellum (droit de faire la guerre) […]

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
  • Decision-Making Process
  • General Conduct of Military Operations
DEF

The collection, processing and dissemination of meteorological, oceanographic and geospatial data and products to forces in near-real time, in order to contribute to the common understanding of the operational environment and to improve joint operational effectiveness through enhanced situational awareness and decision making.

OBS

rapid environmental assessment; REA: designations and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Études et analyses environnementales
  • Processus décisionnel
  • Conduite générale des opérations militaires
DEF

Collecte, traitement et diffusion de données et de produits météorologiques, océanographiques et géospatiaux aux forces armées en temps quasi-réel afin de contribuer à la compréhension commune de l'environnement opérationnel et d'augmenter la capacité opérationnelle interarmées par l'amélioration de la connaissance de situation et du processus de décision.

OBS

évaluation rapide de l'environnement; REA : désignations et définition normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Intelligence (Military)
  • Military Tactics
CONT

The MCS system provides the primary tactical planning tool for the brigade. Supported by graphics decision support tools, including digital maps, aerial or satellite photos, dynamic 3D "flyover" view of the battlespace, and mobility analysis of the terrain, map overlays with intelligence and battle resources by unit. Commanders can quickly and clearly analyze different courses of action and take decisions based on thorough analysis of up-to-date situational assessment, various maneuver schemes, doctrine, and changes encountered during the course of action. Once detailed plan is determined, the MCS prepare and send warning operations orders, and related annexes. During the mission, the system provides automatic updates of friendly/enemy unit movement locations and battlefield geometry. As all information is maintained on the database, re-tasking of units is rapid and flexible. As an integrated part of the battle command systems, MCS receives information from external sources and updates those sources within predetermined operational plans. Such sources include intelligence, fire support, supply status and air operations requests.

Key term(s)
  • manoeuvre control system
  • maneuver control system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
  • Tactique militaire
OBS

Traduction littérale : Système de contrôle de manœuvre.

Key term(s)
  • Système de contrôle de manœuvre

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-07-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Defence Planning and Military Doctrine
DEF

Broad precepts distilled from experience that influence the conduct of armed conflict and that should guide all strategic and operational decision making.

OBS

There is some variation between the principles accepted by different nations.

OBS

principles of war: term and definition officially approved by the Air Force Terminology Panel (Trenton).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrine militaire et planification de défense
DEF

Préceptes généraux acquis par l'expérience qui influencent la façon de gérer un conflit armé et qui devraient guider la prise de toutes les décisions stratégiques et opérationnelles.

OBS

Il y a quelques variantes quant aux principes adoptés par différents pays.

OBS

principes de la guerre : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe d'experts en terminologie de la Force aérienne (Trenton).

OBS

principes de la guerre : terme uniformisé par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

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Record 7 2009-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Emergency Management
DEF

The successive compilation, confirmation, analysis and preparation of operational information for dissemination to decision makers and other officials of an organization responding to an emergency or crisis.

OBS

information flow: term and definition standardized by the Translation Bureau and the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

Succession des activités de compilation, de confirmation, d'analyse et de préparation de l'information opérationnelle qui est destinée aux décideurs et autres responsables d'une organisation intervenant à l'occasion d'une urgence ou d'une crise.

OBS

flux de l'information : terme et définition normalisés par le Bureau de la traduction et le Bureau de la protection des infrastructures essentielles et de la protection civile (BPIEPC).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de las comunicaciones y la información
  • Gestión de emergencias
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Record 8 2008-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Management Operations (General)
OBS

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. The Policy objective is to ensure that appropriate financial and operational management controls are applied to the decision process in spending public money and that they contribute to the effectiveness of program delivery and to the accountability of the authority process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
OBS

Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada. L'objectif de la politique est de veiller à ce que des contrôles de gestion financiers et opérationnels efficaces soient exercés sur le processus décisionnel de dépenses de fonds publics et contribuent à l'efficacité de l'exécution des programmes et à l'imputabilité du pouvoir décisionnel.

Spanish

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Record 9 2007-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Internet and Telematics
OBS

DECIMAL offers a unique value added expertise that combines innovative technology-based solutions with a capacity to understand your financial and operational reality while taking into consideration your mission and corporate objectives. Such a capacity is well adapted for both the private and public sector and becomes an enabler to deploy a CPM strategy to transform your organization into a proactive, decision enabled, productive, accountable and profitable one. DECIMAL is altogether an independent software vendor and a service provider in the field of corporate performance management. DECIMAL is unique in Canada and is well positioned to offer the best performance management solutions and the best price.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

DECIMAL est une société dont la propriété intellectuelle combine plusieurs volets proposant ainsi une offre de service unique au Canada. DECIMAL propose une capacité unique de recherche et développement pour offrir à nos clients des solutions logicielles novatrices, une capacité exceptionnelle de comprendre la réalité financière et opérationnelle de ceux-ci et une capacité de prendre en considération efficacement leur mission ainsi que leurs objectifs corporatifs. La combinaison de ces atouts fait de DECIMAL une société bien positionnée pour vous offrir des solutions de gestion de la performance efficace à un ratio prix performance incomparable.

Spanish

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Record 10 2007-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
OBS

Nordicity Group Ltd.(NGL) helps businesses make strategic decisions; we also address regulatory and government policy issues for firms, consortia, and industry associations. Nordicity helps governments and other organizations develop and evaluate policy and regulation. Our consultants provide clients with strategic planning, business case analysis, market assessment and forecasting, economic analysis, financial modelling, evaluation frameworks, and other tools for strategic and operational decision making.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
OBS

Le Groupe Nordicité Ltée (NGL) aide les entreprises à prendre des décisions stratégiques; nous traitons également des questions de politique réglementaire et gouvernementale pour les entreprises, les consortiums et les associations industrielles. Par ailleurs, Nordicité aide les gouvernements et leurs organisations à élaborer et à évaluer les politiques et les règlements. Nos experts-conseils offrent aux clients des services tels que la planification stratégique, l'analyse de rentabilisation, l'évaluation et la prévision du marché, l'analyse économique, le modelage financier, les cadres d'évaluation et d'autres outils pour faciliter la prise de décision stratégique et opérationnelle.

Spanish

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Record 11 2006-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Climate Change
OBS

The Adaptation Fund was established under the Kyoto Protocol to support the implementation of concrete adaptation projects and programmes as well as activities identified in paragraph 8 of Decision 5/CP. 7. The Fund became operational with the entry into force of the Protocol...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Changements climatiques
OBS

[...] un Fonds d'adaptation est en train d'être établi en vertu du Protocole de Kyoto pour financer des projets et des programmes concrets d'adaptation (C'est la CP [Conférence des Parties] qui orientera le fonds jusqu'à l'entrée en vigueur du Protocole).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Denominaciones varias
  • Cambio climático
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Record 12 2004-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Intelligence (Military)
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
OBS

Operational commanders weigh the advantages to be gained by countering adversary C2 [command and control] nodes against the potential loss of intelligence from enemy signatures, radiation, or emissions, and the need to protect intelligence sources and methods. In some cases, the decision authority to destroy or degrade an adversary's higher command echelons will be held at the national strategic level. Assistance in understanding an adversary's information system and his cycle of information processing is available through the Defense Intelligence Agency's(DIA) Tailored Analytical Intelligence Support to Individual Projects(TASIP).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Renseignement (Militaire)
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 13 2003-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Climate Change
OBS

In 1990 a research project was funded by the Commission of the European Communities, within the frame of the funding programme EPOCH with the aim of evaluating the possibility of such integration. The project, which title was "A Comprehensive Forecasting System for Flood Risk Mitigation and Control"(AFORISM)(Todini, 1995c) aimed at verifying different approaches in rainfall modelling as well as in rainfall-runoff modelling and their integration in a decision support system both for planning and for real time flood forecasting and management. In order to do so a feasibility study, based upon the Reno river, aiming at integrating all the innovative technologies in an operational decision support tool for flood forecasting and flood impact analysis was carried out by the following research groups.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Changements climatiques
Key term(s)
  • Système global de prévision pour l'atténuation des risques liés aux crues

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombres de sistemas
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
  • Cambio climático
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Record 14 2003-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorological Forecasting, Data Measurement and Analysis
CONT

Modern operational weather forecasts now include information on the likelihood of various weather events, usually determined through ensemble prediction systems (EPS).

CONT

... ISCS/WAFS [International Satellite Communications System/World Area Forecast System] purpose is to provide the worldwide aviation community with operational meteorological forecasts and information about meteorological phenomena required for flight planning and safe, economic, and efficient air navigation.

CONT

Operational weather forecasts contain information about future weather. To extract the maximum amount of value from such forecasts, they must be integrated into decision making in a rational way. This can be achieved by modelling the impact of weather on the utility of a company.

OBS

Operational forecaster analyzes weather conditions and issues forecasts or alerts the public of severe weather

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions météorologiques et mesure et analyse des données
CONT

Prévisions météorologiques opérationnelles. Les prévisions couvrant les 5 prochains jours en provenance du U.K. Met. Office sont reçues automatiquement deux fois par jour et présentées sous diverses formes. Tableau (pression atmosphérique, force et direction du vent à Westhinder). Graphique (évolution temporelle de la force du vent à Westhinder). Animation (évolution spatiale et temporelle de la pression atmosphérique et de la force et direction du vent dans la région Nord-Atlantique).

CONT

Actuellement on dispose de prévisions opérationnelles dont la validité atteint cinq jours.

Key term(s)
  • prévision opérationnelle du temps

Spanish

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Record 15 2002-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Urban Housing
OBS

Manitoba Family Services and Housing. Housing Services : provides development, co-ordination and support services to the Housing Division, the Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation, the Manitoba Housing Authority and the Winnipeg Housing and Homelessness Initiative in support of strategic and operational decision making, monitoring of external Property Management Agreements and the non-profit portfolio, and grant and subsidy benefit payments to low income renters under shelter assistance programs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
OBS

Services à la famille et Logement Manitoba. Services de logement : services d'élaboration de programmes, de coordination de services, et de soutien de la Division du logement, la Société d'habitation et de rénovation du Manitoba, du Bureau de logement du Manitoba et de l'initiative de logement et d'aide aux sans-abri à Winnipeg, pour appuyer la prise de décisions stratégiques et opérationnelles, le contrôle des ententes de gestion immobilière externes et du portefeuille des logements à but non lucratif, et les subventions et allocations aux locataires à faibles revenus dans le cadre de programmes d'allocations-logement.

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising Techniques
CONT

The "tell-all copy" is an advertising technique that gives all operational data and information necessary for making a decision to purchase, used especially in business paper advertising.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques publicitaires
CONT

La «publicité par l'objet» est une technique publicitaire qui permet à tout type d'annonceur d'envoyer un message à un public parfaitement ciblé en prenant pour support un objet utile, universel, ayant l'attrait de la nouveauté ou une valeur intrinsèque.

Spanish

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Record 17 1999-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Law of Security
CONT

Collateral pledging and valuation--1. DCS [Debt Clearing Service] not available at all--An emergency in DCS can affect LVTS [Large Value Transfer System] in at least two different ways. Firstly, a failure in DCS could affect the ability of participants to pledge collateral for LVTS purposes. In this case the Association would need to communicate with CDS to determine the expected time for CDS [Canadian Depository for Securities Limited] to be back up and fully operational. At this point, a decision would have to be made by CDS whether to move to CDS's interim manual pledging mechanism. Any delay in the availability of the DCS pledging function of more than two(2) hours would require the move to the interim pledging mechanism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Droit des sûretés
CONT

Remise en nantissement et évaluation de la garantie -- 1. SCD [Service de compensation des dettes] totalement inaccessible -- Une situation d'urgence touchant le SCD peut influer sur le STPGV [système de transfert de paiements de grande valeur] d'au moins deux façons différentes. D'abord, une panne du SCD peut empêcher les participants de remettre une garantie en nantissement aux fins du STPGV. Dans ce cas, l'Association doit communiquer avec la CDS [La Caisse canadienne de dépôt de valeurs limitée] pour déterminer dans combien de temps on prévoit que le SCD sera rétabli et pleinement opérationnel. Il appartient alors à la CDS de décider s'il convient de passer à son mécanisme manuel provisoire de remise en nantissement. Si la fonction de remise en nantissement du SCD doit demeurer inaccessible pendant plus de deux (2) heures, il faudrait passer au mécanisme provisoire.

Spanish

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Record 18 1996-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decision-Making Process
DEF

A short-run decision to help implement strategies.

Key term(s)
  • business decision

French

Domaine(s)
  • Processus décisionnel
CONT

L'objectif commun, a indiqué M. Pandolfi, est de parvenir à une décision opérationnelle sur ces mesures le 16 septembre prochain.

OBS

Extrait d'un article diffusé par l'Agence France-Presse.

Spanish

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