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Record 1 2021-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Human Diseases
DEF

A zone in a health care facility where patients with the infectious disease involved in an epidemic are treated.

OBS

By establishing zones to isolate infected patients from non-infected patients in a facility, the risk of spreading the disease inside the facility is reduced.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Maladies humaines
DEF

Zone d'un établissement de soins de santé où sont traités les patients atteints de la maladie infectieuse en cause dans une épidémie.

OBS

En mettant en place des zones pour isoler les patients infectés des patients qui ne le sont pas, le risque de propagation de la maladie au sein de l'établissement est réduit.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
  • Enfermedades humanas
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Record 2 2015-05-12

English

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

The atmospheric pressure at mean sea level usually determined from the observed station pressure.

OBS

Mean sea level pressure is computed from the station pressure and reported so that the barometric pressures at stations of different elevations can be compared at a common level for analysis purposes.

French

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

Pression atmosphérique au niveau moyen de la mer, généralement déterminée à partir de la pression observée à la station.

OBS

La pression au niveau moyen de la mer est calculée à partir de la pression à la station et est enregistrée, de manière à ce que les pressions barométriques à des stations d'altitudes différentes puissent être comparées à un niveau commun à des fins d'analyse.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Previsiones meteorológicas, medición y análisis de datos
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Record 3 2011-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

The storage cloud is/will be the amorphous entity of online data that will be uploaded from a variety of sources, retrieved from a variety of tools, and rehashed into new forms and outputs. At some point it will be unclear who owns what in the storage cloud, and that will be ok, it will be a shared collective pool of media.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
CONT

Hacia la nube de almacenamiento. Cloud computing, la tendencia por excelencia en el sector tecnológico, tiene, como no podía ser de otra forma, un impacto en la forma de almacenar información. No en vano […] para el año 2020 un tercio de toda la información digital creada anualmente residirá o pasará a través de la ‘nube’.

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Record 4 2003-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Climatology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Climatologie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Climatología
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