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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Self's vision of formalizing teaching in terms of a student model is given a sharp focus in his work on concept teaching(Self, 1977). It differs from other projects by being a formal experiment on teaching rather than a teaching system. The domain is the acquisition of simple conjunctive concepts in a relational language close to first-order logic. An example of the concepts taught by Self's system would be R(x) T(y)("There is a rectangle and no triangle"). The target concept is taught through successive variable-free examples classified as positive or negative instances. For example, the tutor could say that R(a) T(b)("There is a rectangle a and a triangle b") is a negative example. Since the order in which the sequence of instances is presented greatly influences the time the student takes to converge on the correct concept, the idea is for the teacher to use a learning model to optimize its selection of examples.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir étude de concepts, évaluation des concepts, test de concepts.

OBS

Comparer à apprentissage de concepts : apprentissage visant à trouver une fonction de reconnaissance qui permet de distinguer les éléments appartenant au concept de ceux n'en faisant pas partie.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing Research
  • Corporate Economics
  • Economic Planning
CONT

A serviceable available market is a concept in business strategy and market analysis, closely related to total available market(TAM). SAM focuses on the portion of the market that a company can realistically target and serve with its products or services.... SAM refers to the portion of the total addressable market(TAM) that a company can effectively reach and serve with its products or services. It represents the subset of potential customers within a market segment that the company can realistically target given its resources, capabilities, and market positioning.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Étude du marché
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Planification économique
CONT

[Le] segment de marché disponible [..] est le segment du TAM [total available market] visé par vos produits et services se trouvant à votre portée géographique.

Spanish

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Record 3 2025-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronautics
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

The concept of space capture refers to the capability of a spacecraft to grasp a target satellite with the ultimate goal of executing servicing operations on the captured vehicle. Much research effort is currently focused on the development of technologies that enable such complex operations by means of autonomous vehicles.

OBS

space capture: designation validated by a Canadian subject-matter expert from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

Key term(s)
  • SearchOnlyKey1

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronautique
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
OBS

capture spatiale : désignation validée par un spécialiste canadien du NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Astronáutica
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
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Record 4 2023-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Methods
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

In predictive analytics and machine learning, the concept drift means that the statistical properties of the target variable, which the model is trying to predict, change over time in unforeseen ways. This causes problems because the predictions become less accurate as time passes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes statistiques
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

En analyse prédictive et en apprentissage automatique, on parle de dérive conceptuelle lorsque les propriétés statistiques de la variable cible, que le modèle essaie de prédire, évoluent au cours du temps d'une manière imprévue. Ceci pose des problèmes parce que les prédictions deviennent moins exactes au fur et à mesure que le temps passe.

Spanish

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Record 5 2022-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pharmacology
  • Biotechnology
CONT

For example, the concept of scaffold hopping, which could be considered a subset of the concept of bioisosterism..., might be applied during lead optimization to identify one or more new series of compounds having a fundamentally different core structure to improve, for example, its potency or selectivity profile, synthetic accessibility, intellectual property position, or pharmacokinetic properties. The goal of scaffold hopping is to attain novel structures by changing the central core framework(the scaffold) of active compounds without affecting its binding to the target receptor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pharmacologie
  • Biotechnologie

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Safety
CONT

The numerical safety standards appropriate to operations in a European RVSM [reduced vertical separation minimum] environment were derived from those developed by the ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization] Review of the General Concept of Separation Panel(RGCSP) in which the agreed tolerable level of risk was defined as a Target Level of Safety(TLS) expressed in terms of fatal accidents per aircraft flight hour.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité (Transport aérien)
CONT

Vérification des performances des aéronefs [...] L'objectif de cette phase est de confirmer, dans un environnement où la séparation verticale est de 2 000 ft : [...] que les niveaux de sécurité du système RVSM [minimum de séparation verticale réduit] proposé seront au minimum égaux à ceux qu'a établis le niveau de sécurité visé (TLS).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguridad (Transporte aéreo)
OBS

Expresión genérica que representa el nivel de riesgo que se considera aceptable en circunstancias particulares.

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Record 7 2014-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Anti-pollution Measures
CONT

Up to 1970, stream quality standards in the United States were largely the responsibility of individual states. The federal government became dominant in 1970 through passage of the National Environmental Policy Act which instituted the concept of environmental impact statements and established the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA). In 1972, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments were passed which provided effluent limitation guidelines and authority to levy fines for noncompliance. This act stipulated a step-wise schedule for meeting conventional discharge criteria, the first target level by 1977 being equivalent to "best practical technology"(BPT), and the second target level by 1983 being equivalent to "best available technology economically achievable"(BAT).

Key term(s)
  • best available technology economically achievable

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Mesures antipollution
OBS

En 1972, les pouvoirs publics fédéraux modifièrent la loi en vigueur sur la pollution de l'eau pour que des limites soient imposées à la charge polluante des effluents et que les contrevenants deviennent passibles d'amendes. Il était stipulé qu'à partir de 1977, la pollution industrielle ne devait pas être supérieure à celle qu'occasionnent des rejets préalablement soumis à un traitement secondaire. Il s'agissait là d'une réduction maximale de la pollution d'un point de vue technique («Best Practical Technology - BPT»). L'étape suivante, à réaliser pour 1983, visait une réduction supplémentaire de la pollution par suite de la mise en œuvre de toutes les techniques mises au point et économiquement viables («Best Available Technology Economically Achievable - BAT»).

OBS

Terme tiré d'un lexique des sigles préparé par la section de traduction Environnement le 1er janvier 1985.

Key term(s)
  • meilleure technique existante
  • meilleurs moyens utilisables

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Vocabulario general
  • Medidas contra la contaminación
Key term(s)
  • los mejores medios disponibles
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Record 8 2011-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising Techniques
CONT

Your target customers are those who are most likely to buy from you.

OBS

The terms "target customers" and "target consumers" are sometimes found in the singular form(i. e. target customer and target consumer). Although it may seem grammatically questionable, in advertising the singular form designates the concept in a collective way.

Key term(s)
  • target customer
  • target consumer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques publicitaires
DEF

Ensemble des clients auquel une entreprise destine un produit ou un service et sur lequel elle fait porter ses efforts de commercialisation.

CONT

La publicité sans adresse, elle est la façon la plus économique et efficace de diffuser votre publicité. De plus, elle contribue à augmenter vos ventes, à accroître vos bénéfices tout en rejoignant efficacement votre clientèle-cible.

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising Techniques
CONT

Your target customers are those who are most likely to buy from you.

OBS

The terms "target customers" and "target consumers" are sometimes found in the singular form(i. e. target customer and target consumer). Although it may seem grammatically questionable, in advertising the singular form designates the concept in a collective way.

Key term(s)
  • target customer
  • target consumer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques publicitaires
DEF

Ensemble des clients auquel une entreprise destine un produit et sur lequel elle fait porter ses efforts de commercialisation.

OBS

En français, le mot «consommateur» désigne les utilisateurs d'un bien, tandis qu'en anglais, les mots «consumer» et «customer» désignent à la fois les utilisateurs d'un bien et d'un service.

Spanish

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Record 10 2011-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Fluctuations
DEF

The basic level of inflation over a period of time (e.g. a decade) as opposed to temporary fluctuations.

CONT

In this report we study the concept and measurement of core or underlying inflation more generally by examining several alternative measures of core inflation, from the viewpoint that core inflation is a tool for policy purposes, either as an indicator of current and future trends in inflation, or as a viable target for monetary policy.

PHR

Measure of core inflation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fluctuations économiques
PHR

Mesure de l'inflation tendancielle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fluctuaciones económicas
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Record 11 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Non-Lethal Weapons
  • Police
OBS

The Sticky Shocker® concept puts stun gun technology on a wireless self-contained projectile, allowing temporary incapacitation of a human target at safe, stand-off distance, using a widely accepted 40 mm or 37 mm projectile configuration and conventional launchers. The Sticky Shocker® can extend the range of electrical stun technology out to 10 m and potentially further. The projectile contains a battery pack and associated electronics that will impart a short burst of high-voltage pulses.

OBS

Sticky Shocker: A trademark of L-3 Communications Corp.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Armes non meurtrières
  • Police
OBS

Le «Sticky Shocker®» lance à une distance de 10 mètres un projectile sans fils qui se fixe sur la cible au moyen d'une glu ou de petites griffes. Le projectile contient une petite batterie et l'électronique nécessaire pour infliger des impulsions de 50 kv, selon le même principe que le TASER, même à travers plusieurs couches de vêtements.

OBS

Sticky Shocker : Marque de commerce de la société L-3 Communications Corp.

Spanish

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Record 12 2010-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

In the last few years, the Bank of Canada has used the concept of monetary conditions(the combination of the movement of interest rates and the exchange rate) as the operational target of policy, in much the same way as short-term interest rates were used in the past.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

Au cours des dernières années, la Banque du Canada a utilisé le concept de conditions monétaires (une combinaison des variations qu’enregistrent les taux d’intérêt et le taux de change) comme cible opérationnelle dans la conduite de la politique monétaire sensiblement de la même manière qu’elle avait utilisé auparavant les taux d’intérêt à court terme.

Spanish

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Record 13 2009-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
  • Thermonuclear fusion
CONT

Fusion Propulsion Unit. This MTF [Magnetized Target Fusion] concept has very attractive features... The magnetic nozzle can operate as a magnetic flux compression generator to provide the necessary circulating power for continued operation, yet still maintain a high nozzle efficiency...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
  • Fusion thermonucléaire
DEF

[Fusion magnétique] consommation sur place d'une part d'énergie produite [...]

OBS

[...] industriellement parlant cette puissance circulante ne doit pas excéder 15 à 20 % de la puissance totale.

Spanish

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Record 14 2006-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
  • Target Acquisition
DEF

[A radar search mode that consists of] tracking a number of targets simultaneously while continuing to search.

CONT

... Track-While-Scan(TWS)... The central concept of TWS is to maintain target tracks in a computer with periodic information updates from a scanning radar.

Key term(s)
  • trackwhile scan
  • track-while scan
  • track-while-scan

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
  • Acquisition d'objectif
DEF

Mode de poursuite simultané de plusieurs objectifs sans interruption de balayage.

Key term(s)
  • poursuite sur informations discontinues

Spanish

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Record 15 2004-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
CONT

Researchers employed an innovative guidance strategy to produce new guidance laws that are nonlinear variants of augmented PRONAV.... The new concept led to guidance laws that do not depend on time-to-go, indirectly minimize miss distance, and compensate for both target and missile acceleration. By applying the new guidance strategy to the complete, fully coupled, nonlinear, intercept kinematics, researchers developed two families of guidance laws that account for various levels of cross-channel couplings between the azimuth and elevation guidance channels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes

Spanish

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Record 16 1997-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Methods
OBS

This concept does not seem to have a set terminological unit to designate it in the target language. The concept does exist in the English language, however, as the following text indicates :"A frequency polygon is a line graph of class frequency plotted against class mark. It can be obtained by connecting midpoints of the tops of the rectangles in the histogram.... the sum of the areas of the rectangles in the histogram equals the total area bounded by the frequency polygon and the X axis...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes statistiques
CONT

Polygones de fréquences déduit de l'histogramme. [...] Il suffit de joindre les milieux des sommets de chaque rectangle par des segments de droite [pour réaliser le] passage de l'histogramme à la courbe adoucie ou régularisée par rapport au polygone, dite courbe de fréquence. La courbe se construit en appliquant le principe dit de la conservation des aires. La régularisation opérée par la courbe de fréquence doit être telle que la somme des aires éliminées [...] soit égale à la somme des aires incorporées [...] de manière que l'aire comprise à l'intérieur de la courbe soit la même que l'aire de l'histogramme.

Spanish

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Record 17 1994-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

A concept learning program has to learn a symbolic description that enables it to determine whether or not an object is an instance of the target concept.

CONT

... Self presents a concept learning program. The program takes as input the classified examples in the sequence, then forms a bounded set of hypotheses, and manages this set until it reduces to a singleton containing the correct concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 18 1992-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

... learning by analogy involves learning a target concept by analogy with an existing source concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Il y a un autre type de variante suivi par différents systèmes d'apprentissage analogique : les précédents ne sont pas à proprement parler des exemples, mais plutôt des concepts (...). La mise en correspondance s'effectue alors directement de concept source à concept cible....

Spanish

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Record 19 1992-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

... learning by analogy(involves) learning a target concept by analogy with an existing source concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Il y a un autre type de variante suivi par différents systèmes d'apprentissage analogique : les précédents ne sont pas à proprement parler des exemples, mais plutôt des concepts. La mise en correspondance s'effectue alors directement de concept source à concept cible.

Spanish

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Record 20 1989-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

The only duty of the concept teaching program is to select the small sets to be presented at each iteration from a pool of prestored classified instances. Its objective is to find the sequence that will minimize the time elapsed between the presentation of the first instances and the last error in classification. To this end, it maintains a model of the student's set of hypotheses(exactly how the model is inferred is left unspecified). In addition to a definition of the(target concept), it is given a model of its student's learning mechanisms. Hence it can select the instances by which its learning model would minimize the difference between its student model' s set of hypotheses and the correct concept. This difference must be computed according to some distance measure, which can be very difficult to determine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Voir apprentissage de concepts, enseignement de type conceptuel.

Spanish

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Record 21 1989-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A bias that does not allow the concept learner to elect the target concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 22 1989-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

Object not contained in the target concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 23 1989-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
OBS

Object contained in the target concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 24 1988-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
  • Employment Benefits

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
  • Avantages sociaux

Spanish

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Record 25 1988-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

One that allows the concepts learner to elect the target concept.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 26 1984-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

... the DME(distance measuring equipment) guidance concept offers the advantage of being compatible with a sensor target locator system is real time plus performing ground equipment self-survey.

OBS

This system is on the Lance missile system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Systèmes d'armes
CONT

[...] le guidage par DME (distance measuring equipment : équipement de mesure de distance) offre l'avantage d'être compatible avec un détecteur d'objectif en temps réel et de permettre de procéder à des levés de plans.

OBS

Ce détecteur fait partie du missile Lance.

Spanish

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