Statistical Terms Glossary

For statistical purposes: specifically refers to output from aquaculture activities, which are designated for final harvest for consumption or other purposes, e.g. ornamental purposes. Output is reported in weight (generally in tonnes of live weight equivalent for aquatic animals, in wet weight for aquatic plants).

These include risk management frameworks, aquatic animal health management programmes, aquaculture certification and assistance to small scale aquaculture.

Aquatic biosecurity is a system of procedures for dealing with the risks of diseases, pests and other hazards (such as genetic pollution) in aquatic environments. In the Pacific region, the main aims of aquatic biosecurity are to safeguard human health, the environment, and national economies.

A complex of living organisms and their non-living environment which are inseparably interrelated and interact upon each other.

Comprise fish, crustaceans, molluscs, shellfish, aquatic mammals and other aquatic organisms that are considered to live within the boundaries of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of a country throughout their life cycles, including both coastal and inland fisheries. Migrating and straddling fish stocks are considered to belong to a given country during the period when those stocks inhabit its EEZ.

A geological formation where all the void spaces are filled with water (saturated). The formation must be permeable enough to yield economic quantities of water.

An aquitard is a geological unit that is relatively impermeable over a short time-frame. The unit may be permeable enough to transmit water in significant quantities when viewed over large areas and long periods, but the hydraulic conductivity of an aquifer is low enough to typically act as a floor"" for the groundwater table.""

A member of the Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group, is a specialized research, analysis and consulting company focused on the communications, media, technology and financial markets throughout the Arab World (MENA) region.

Scientific cooperative non-governmental Arab institution, believes in common Arab action that aims at finding a joint Arab strategy to face the challenges of the Age of Information.

In a summit in Kuwait 1966 the Arab League Council decided to establish an organization to improve and develop the Industry in general. The decision was approved by the Arab Economic Council in 1968. The headquarters was decided to be established in Cairo. In 1975, the Arab Ministries of Industries decided to free the organization from Arab League influence and was claimed as an independent organization. The organization's headquarters was moved from Cairo to Tunis temporarily from 1979 to 1980

Established in August 29, 1989, in Buffalo-New York City - USA, and registered officially in Amman on October 10, 1990 under the name of the “Arab Management Society”. Its vision is to To play a pioneering role in organizing, directing, motivating, and developing the capacities of Arab individuals and institutions in order to create an Arab Knowledge Community

The Arab Labour Organization (ALO) includes in its membership all Arab States and is the only Arab regional organization with tripartite representation. Founded in 1965, its aims include to: (a) Coordinate efforts in the field of labour and workers on the Arab and international levels; (b) Develop and maintain union rights and freedom; (c) Provide technical assistance in the labour domain to the three parties of production in member States; (d) Improve labour laws in member States and work on unifying them; (e) Improve the circumstances and conditions of work in member States; (f) Develop Arab human resources to benefit from their full potential in economic and social development; (g) Develop the Arab labour force and enhance its productivity; (h) Prepare a manual and set the bases for occupational classification and qualification; (i) Translate labour and vocational training terminology to Arabic.

Meetings, Conversations and Developing.

One of the Arab League organizations till 1989 when it was dissolved and replaced by a center attached to The Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization (AIDMO), called Center for Standardization and Metrology (CSM), with the head-quarter in Rabat

The aim of the Arab TeleMedicine Network (ATMN) was constructed to facilitate the exchange of medical data among the hospitals and medical centers in the Arab countries and other international centers and hospital. Providing online medical consultation for Arabic citizen and their doctors to advise , follow up or diagnose their medical state.

The Arabian Knowledge Economy Association (AKEA) is an international association targeting the Arab world, aiming to draw attention to such issues as education/learning, intellectual capital, innovation, entrepreneurship, research and technology

Main goal of this project is to demand the adoption of  the Arabic domain names as one of the Arab nations rights.

Using the Arabic language to express Internet domain names . a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical (binary) identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide

Was formed under the auspices of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), and the guidance of Multilingual Internet Names ADNS through a Request For Comments (RFC) document(MINC); one of its main objectives was to help define standards for Consortium

Non-profit, non-governmental, international organization. It focuses on developing and promoting a truly multilingual Internet domain names and keywords, internationalization of Internet names standards and protocols, technical coordination and liaison with other international bodies. Coordinate the efforts of various national and regional initiatives, through an international forum and platform, which can be the unified voice for all Arabic speaking communities world wide, to ensure that the Arabic Based Languages script is one of the first languages to be enabled on the Internet domain names space.