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Record 1 2015-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

Additive manufacturing – or 3D printing – is 30 years old... Today, it's found not just in industry but in households... Knowing you can print almost anything, not just marks on paper, opens up unlimited opportunities for us to manufacture toys, household appliances and tools in our living rooms. But there's more that can be done with 3D printed materials to make them more flexible and more useful : structures that can transform in a pre-programmed way in response to a stimulus. Recently given the popular science name of "4D printing, "perhaps a better way to think about it is that the object transforms over time.

Key term(s)
  • four-dimensional printing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques industrielles
CONT

Alors que les imprimantes 3D se développent et investissent l’industrie, se profile déjà une nouvelle génération d’objets imprimés qui se transforment après fabrication en réaction à des stimuli externes. [...] La quatrième dimension, celle du temps, est [ainsi] désormais intégrée dans cette nouvelle technologie d’impression d’objets. [...] Le principe de l’impression 4D reste le même que pour l’impression 3D. Il s’agit de construire une structure couche par couche en accumulant des matériaux et en leur faisant prendre la forme souhaitée. La seule différence est que ces matériaux sont modulables et peuvent changer de formes.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science (General)
  • National and International Security
DEF

A state that no longer possesses a viable capacity to govern effectively.

OBS

This is normally prompted by a withdrawal of popular support for the state in response to its inability or unwillingness to deliver at least one of its fundamental functions. Elements or remnants of governing institutions usually exist, though they are degraded and no longer functioning coherently.

OBS

The continuum of state stability is weak, fragile, failing and failed.

OBS

failed state: term and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel and the Defence Terminology Standardization Board.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
DEF

État qui n'a plus la capacité viable de gouverner efficacement.

CONT

Au lendemain du 11 septembre 2001, l’attention mondiale s’est tournée vers l’Afghanistan, point chaud de la menace à la sécurité dans le monde. La communauté internationale s’est ralliée pour aider l’État en déroute qu’était l’Afghanistan à se remettre sur pied, de façon à ne plus jamais devenir un foyer de terrorisme mettant en péril la sécurité mondiale.

OBS

Cette situation découle normalement du retrait du soutien populaire à l'État à cause de son incapacité ou de son absence de volonté de s'acquitter d'au moins une de ses fonctions fondamentales. L'État en déroute conserve habituellement des restes d'institutions gouvernementales, mais celles-ci sont dégradées et ne sont plus capables de fonctionner de façon cohérente.

OBS

État en déroute : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe d’experts en terminologie interarmées et par le Conseil de normalisation de terminologie de la Défense.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
OBS

For example, on the Rorschach Ink Blot Test some responses to particular cards occur with a high frequency among testees and are therefore classified as popular.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
CONT

Separation of spectral and non-spectral interferences by on-line high performance ion chromatography inductively coupled plasma sector field mass spectrometry (HPIC-ICP-SFMS) for accurate determination of234U,235U,238U and232Th in industrial ores.

CONT

Determination of trace elements in human milk by inductively coupled plasma sector field mass spectrometry (ICP-SFMS).

CONT

Indiana University Laboratory for Spectrochemistry. Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry. "Single-Crystal Scintillator-Based Array Detector for Sector-Field Mass Spectrometry, "[by] David A. Solyom. Beginning with the use of photographic plates in the first quarter of this century, array detectors have had a long history of usage in mass-spectrometric analysis. Array detectors are position-sensitive devices capable of independently measuring ion signals that are incident at different locations on the detector's face. Currently popular among the different types of array detectors available for mass spectrometry are microchannel-plate(s)(MCP) coupled with a phosphor.... The electrons emitted from the rear of the MCP strike the phosphor being held in close proximity(1mm) to the MCP. The phosphor screen is sensitive to the incident electrons and will emit photons in response. The number of emitted photons is proportional to the number of incident electrons and the location on the phosphor from which the photons are emitted coincides with the location of the incident electrons. The photons from the phosphor can then be converted into a proportional electronic signal by an imaging device such as a CCD or CID detector array.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
CONT

spectrométrie de masse à secteurs à plasma induit (ICP-SFMS).

OBS

Il existe plusieurs traductions du terme «inductively coupled plasma (ICP)» : le plus proche de la description de la technique est «plasma induit par un courant de haute fréquence», le plus simple est «torche à plasma»; pour décrire un «sector field mass spectrometer» nous parlons de «spectromètre de masse à secteur magnétique» ou, plus brièvement, de «spectromètre de masse magnétique». L'équivalent français de ICP-SFMS serait donc «torche à plasma couplée à un spectromètre de masse magnétique» (version courte) ou «plasma induit par un courant de haute fréquence associé à un spectromètre de masse à secteur magnétique» (version longue). [Source : Guy Bouchoux, Secrétaire, Société française de spectrométrie de masse, École Polytechnique, DCMR, Palaiseau (France)]

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
DEF

In access control, an enhanced form of smart card with an inbuilt keypad and display. The supersmart card is more secure than a conventional smart card, which must rely upon the keypad and display on the smart card reader.

CONT

An authentication technique that is becoming increasingly popular is the use of intelligent tokens, challenge/response calculators, or "smart cards". The increased use of these tokens is the result of a Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT) alert that unauthorized network access from password gathering had reached alarming levels. An advisory issued by CERT warned of a group of unidentified intruders that had compromised some service providers and used network packet-sniffers to gather passwords and login IDs for thousands of systems across the Internet. These intruders went undetected from September of 1993 until 1996. The recommended solution for eliminating this security hazard was to eliminate the transmission of reusable passwords in clear text over the network.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Concentrateur anneau à jeton intelligent IBM 8230.

Spanish

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Record 6 1987-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Airport Runways and Areas
CONT

The most popular theoretical model for the newer design methods is the elastic layered system. Layers are of finite thickness and infinite extent laterally except that the lowest layer(subgrade) is also of infinite extent downward. Response of each layer is characterized by its modulus of elasticity and Poisson's ratio.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pistes et aires d'aéroport
CONT

Le modèle théorique qui est le plus souvent employé dans ces nouvelles méthodes de calcul est le modèle à couches élastiques. On considère que ces couches ont des dimensions horizontales infinies et une épaisseur finie, sauf la couche inférieure (terrain de fondation) qui s'étend également à l'infini vers le bas. La réponse de chaque couche est caractérisée par son module d'élasticité et son coefficient de Poisson.

Spanish

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