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POPULATION SEGMENT [15 records]

Record 1 2022-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
CONT

[This woman] is part of the van life community, a rapidly growing segment of the … population that has sold or stored its belongings and moved into a van. … Van lifers opt for this lifestyle for the simplicity, minimalism and freedom it affords. Some simply travel, some work remotely from their vans as they roam, some take temporary gigs in the towns they visit along the way. Normally, they park their homes in fee-charging public or private campgrounds or in free campsites on public lands.

Key term(s)
  • vandweller

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
DEF

Personne dont le mode de vie est caractérisé par l'usage d'un véhicule aménagé comme habitation mobile.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología (Generalidades)
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Record 2 2016-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Animal Pests (Crops)
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

Rusty tussock moth.... Larvae attack all conifer seedling species.... These gregarious caterpillars completely denude a seedling before moving on to the next, and can occur in patches of 5-100 styroblocks.... The adult male is rusty-brown with a white dot and light brown band on each forewing. The female is flightless, sedentary, with light tan hairs covering the body. The population overwinters as white egg masses which can be cemented to the sides and bottoms of styroblocks. They will adhere to the blocks after seedlings have been lifted and blocks washed and stored. Because the eggs are white, they often go unnoticed. Larvae emerge from these egg masses(often on styroblocks) around May, and actively feed on newly emerged seedlings. They are hairy, up to 28 mm long, have two black hair "pencils" projecting forward and one to the rear, four golden brushes of hair on the back, accompanied by eight warty protuberances with yellow and black hairs on each segment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Animaux nuisibles aux cultures
Entrée(s) universelle(s)

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
  • Military Organization
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... armed opposition groups exercising effective power over a significant segment of population and conducting sustained organized armed hostilities may for both conceptual and legal reasons be considered capable of violating human rights...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
  • Organisation militaire
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

[...] les groupes d’opposition armée qui exercent un pouvoir effectif sur un segment important de la population et qui se livrent à des opérations armées organisées et soutenues , sont capables de perpétrer des violations des droits humains [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • Land Forces
CONT

... armed opposition groups exercising effective power over a significant segment of population and conducting sustained organized armed hostilities may for both conceptual and legal reasons be considered capable of violating human rights...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Forces terrestres
CONT

[...] on peut, pour des raisons d'ordre conceptuel et juridique, considérer que les groupes d'opposition armée qui exercent un pouvoir effectif sur un segment important de la population et qui se livrent à des opérations armées organisées et soutenues , sont capables de perpétrer des violations des droits humains [...]

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidemiology
DEF

A programme for studying a population or a particular segment of the population, in order to assess its health problems or to detect conditions to which preventive measures may be applied.

OBS

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épidémiologie
DEF

Recherche sur toutes les conditions qui peuvent affecter la santé publique.

CONT

Les données sur la disponibilité en vue de l'équité en matière d'emploi, ou données sur l'ensemble de l'effectif, proviennent du Recensement de 1986 et de l'enquête de santé et les limitations d'activités.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Epidemiología
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Record 7 2006-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Studies
  • Urban Sociology
CONT

Flows of migrants from the countryside into the burgeoning cities of Latin America(and other developing countries) have led to uncontrolled "shantytownization" and nagging problems surrounding what to do with the new refugees of technological growth--a large and rapidly-growing segment of the world's population.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Urbanisme
  • Sociologie urbaine
DEF

Croissance des bidonvilles.

CONT

Il est de tradition, dans des pays où il ne pleut pas beaucoup ou pas du tout, que des populations se lancent dans des constructions anarchiques sur [...] le lit d'un cours d'eau ou sur les pentes d'une colline. La bidonvillisation de la cité avec des maisons à matériaux de construction non conformes aux normes requises, l'insouciance des populations et l'indifférence des pouvoirs publics font que la moindre goutte d'eau peut faire craindre le pire. Il est clair qu'en Algérie, en matière d'urbanisation, les quartiers périphériques ne sont pas des modèles à copier.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Census
  • Labour and Employment
  • Insurance
  • Social Organization
DEF

A segment of a population that is of approximately the same age or is within a specified range of ages.

CONT

Occupational Category, Employment Type and Age Band.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recensement
  • Travail et emploi
  • Assurances
  • Organisation sociale
DEF

Ensemble des individus d'une population déterminée dont l'âge est compris dans les limites données.

CONT

Le classement par âge, de la population est généralement établi, soit par années d'âge, soit par groupes d'âges [...]

CONT

Catégorie professionnelle, type d'emploi et groupe d'âge.

OBS

Les deux graphies «groupe d'âge» et «groupe d'âges» sont également utilisées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Censo
  • Trabajo y empleo
  • Seguros
  • Organización social
CONT

En México el sida es la cuarta causa de muerte en el grupo etario [...] entre los 25 y 44 después de los accidentes automovilísticos, los homicidios y la cirrosis.

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Record 9 2004-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Old Age
  • Sociology of the Family
CONT

Senior citizen: an elderly person; esp.: one who has retired.

CONT

... approximately one percent of the elderly, or 8,000 persons, would report having been victimized.

OBS

Note that the terms "elderly" and "aged" are preceded by the definite article and refer to a segment of the population rather than to an individual person. See the example above.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la vieillesse
  • Sociologie de la famille
CONT

Les personnes âgées en milieu naturel qui sont particulièrement à risque sont celles qui dépendent des autres pour leurs besoins de base comme le ménage, les soins, l'hygiène personnelle, l'aide financière, les activités de la vie quotidienne, l'aide légale, etc. Leur vulnérabilité découle souvent de leur état de santé, leurs problèmes chroniques, leur besoin de consommer plusieurs types de médicaments [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de la ancianidad
  • Sociología de la familia
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Record 10 2003-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
DEF

The compulsory restriction of marriage to members of the same segment of the population or class.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Règle obligeant un individu à choisir son conjoint à l'intérieur du groupe auquel il appartient lui-même.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Antropología
DEF

Práctica de contraer matrimonio personas de ascendencia común o naturales de una pequeña localidad o comarca.

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Record 11 2001-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing Research
CONT

Psychographic markets are groups of travelers having common attitudes, motivations, needs and wants.

OBS

psychographics : the use of demographics to determine attitudes and tastes of a particular segment of a population, as in marketing studies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étude du marché
OBS

L'adjectif "psychographique" a été relevé dans LLMAR, 1977, p. 378.

Spanish

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Record 12 1999-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
CONT

The CEEB standard score scale was established in 1941 on the basis of the average performance taking the test at that time. Those students were primarily young men and women applying to prestigious and highly selective colleges, which required the test as part of the admission requirement. Now many colleges require the test and a much broader segment of the population is taking the test.

OBS

The basic function of the [College Entrance Examination Board is] to provide a series of uniform entrance examinations on a national scale ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Docimologie

Spanish

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Record 13 1998-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Birth Rate
DEF

A hypothetical life table for a population or a segment of a population constructed on the basis of the current age-sex specific death rates of all age-sex groups in the population.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Natalité

Spanish

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Record 14 1989-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

We may call a country endoglossic when the national official language(s) is spoken natively by a sizeable segment of population.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Néologisme créé à partir des éléments grecs endo- (en dedans) et -glosse (relatif à la langue). Voir le petit Robert pour le sens de ces affixes. Antonyme : exoglosse.

Spanish

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Record 15 1985-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie
CONT

[...], les premiers des segments sociaux qui s'identifient à la société étatique. [...] la composition sociale du segment de société qu'ils représentent.

Spanish

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