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PREDICTIVE ABILITY [4 records]

Record 1 2023-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

"Abuse potential" characterizes the ability of a central nervous system(CNS)-active drug to produce pharmacological effects predictive of the risk of addiction...

PHR

high abuse potential, low abuse potential

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
CONT

[La kétamine] est dérivée de la phencyclidine (PCP), molécule possédant des propriétés psychodysleptiques hallucinogènes et dissociatives qui entraînent un potentiel d'abus important.

CONT

Le potentiel d'abus est limité avec les formes à libération prolongée.

PHR

faible potentiel d'abus, potentiel d'abus élevé, potentiel d'abus important

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
CONT

Predictive value improves the ability of the user to determine a company's future performance and take action accordingly, such as buying or selling stock, predicting the likelihood that a company will pay back a loan, or the likelihood the company will default or declare bankruptcy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
DEF

Qualité de l'information financière qui aide les destinataires à prévoir ce qui résultera d'événements passés, présents et futurs, et qui constitue à ce titre un élément de la pertinence de l'information.

Spanish

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Record 3 1988-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

McCarthy Screening Test. Dorothea McCarthy. Ages : 4-6. 5.... [It] includes six component scales-all drawn from the "McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities-that are predictive of a child's ability to cope with schoolwork in the early grades. Typically, children who would be diagnosed as "learning disabled", or as having other handicaps that would interfere with learning, perform less well on these scales then do children no so diagnosed. Therefore, the... test... identifies children as being "at risk" or "not at risk".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
OBS

Tant que le questionnaire n'est pas commercialisé (et traduit) en français, l'usage veut que l'on emploie l'expression anglaise, la seule officielle. Pour expliquer la chose, on pourrait parler du "test de dépistage de McCarthy".

Spanish

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Record 4 1985-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Human Diseases
CONT

Certainly an analytically predictive capability based on structural and functional information on macromolecules and microbial metabolites has already been demonstrated and among other things brings nearer the ability to design specific drugs, the "magic bullets" of Paul Ehrlich.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Maladies humaines
CONT

Un dispositif de prévision analytique reposant sur des informations relatives à la structure et à la fonction des macromolécules et des métabolites microbiens a incontestablement déjà atteint le stade de la démonstration et nous rapproche entre autres du moment où l'on pourra mettre au point des médicaments spécifiques, correspondant aux «projectiles magiques» de Paul Ehrlich.

Spanish

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