Statistical Terms Glossary

Nuclear waste pollution is pollution created by mishandling and inappropriate storage of spent nuclear fuel rods, and pieces of protective clothing and tools that have become contaminated, and by insecure transportation of highly radioactive material over long distances to a processing plant

Nuclear winter refers to widespread climatic cooling caused by the probable effect of nuclear warfare on such atmospheric conditions as would reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth’s surface

Tariff so low that it costs the government more to collect it than the revenue it generates.

Damage to a country’s benefits and expectations from its WTO membership through another country’s change in its trade regime or failure to carry out its WTO obligations.

Population aged 15 years and above who cannot both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on their every day life.

Total number of books in public libraries

Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that employment agency and not of the units in which they (temporarily) work.

Number of survivals of a cohort (or a stock) at a certain instant or over an interval of time.

Number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the unit, including wage-earners and self-employed persons (i.e., working proprietors, partners working regularly in the unit and unpaid family workers) as well as persons who work outside the unit but who belong to it and are paid by it (e.g., sales representatives, delivery personnel, repair and maintenance teams). It excludes manpower supplied to the unit by other enterprises, persons carrying out repair and maintenance work in the unit on behalf of other enterprises, as well as those on compulsory military service.

Organization, or part of an organization, World Health Organization [WHO]se main aims are to build and maintain a collection and to facilitate the use of such information resources and facilities as are required to meet the informational, research, educational, cultural or recreational needs of its users; these are the basic requirements for a library and do not exclude any additional resources and services incidental to its main purpose (ISO, 2006). It includes any organized collection of books and periodicals in electronic or in printed form or of any other graphic or audio-visual materials (based on United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], 1970). It includes virtual libraries, digital catalogues.

Number of seats/berths, including the driver’s, available in the vehicle when it is performing the service for which it is primarily intended.

A non-profit, permanent ins International Telecommunication Union tion in the service of society and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits sets and collections of historical, artistic, scientific and technical value or of any other cultural nature for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.

Total number of visitors to public libraries.

Usually small, raised, epidermal structures on regions of the head, body, or fin rays where two individuals come in contact. May consist of aggregations of non-keratinized epidermal cells, the same with a light, superficial keratinized cuticle, or with substantial number of fully keratinized cells that are organized to form a discrete, usually conical cap. Breeding tubercles may function to maintain body contact between the sexes during spawning; in the defence of nests and territories; in the stimulation of females in courtship; and in some forms perhaps in sex and species recognition. Found in 15 families of 4 orders; Salmoniformes, Gonorhynchiformes, Cypriniformes, and Perciformes (Wiley and Collette, 1970) (Ref. 28)

The person with scientific degree in nursing and register in nursing union.

It is an area where young plants, trees or vines are propagated for the purpose of transplanting.

A nutrient is a substance, element or compound necessary for the growth and development of plants and animals

A nutrient cycle is a repeated pathway of a particular nutrient or element from the environment through one or more organisms and back to the environment. Examples include the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the phosphorus cycle

Biogeochemical cycle, in which inorganic nutrients move through soil, living organisms, air and water. In agriculture, it refers to the return of nutrients absorbed by plants from the soil, back to the soil. Nutrient cycling can take place through leaf fall, root exudation (secretion), residue recycling, and incorporation of green manure.

Deterioration in soil physical, chemical and biological properties.

It measures and allows us to describe the current status of the child, both in terms of immediate acute factors such as inadequate current intake of food, childhood diseases and diarrhea leading to wasting, as well as accumulated impact of chronic deprivation leading to stunting.

The NUTS classification was created and developed according to the following principles: (a) The NUTS favours institutional breakdowns. Different criteria may be used in subdividing national territory into regions. These are normally split between normative and analytic criteria: normative regions; analytical (or functional) regions; institutional divisions. (b) The NUTS favours regional units of a general character. A territorial unit specific to certain fields of activity (mining regions, rail traffic regions, farming regions, labour-market regions, etc.) may sometimes be used in certain Member States. NUTS excludes specific territorial units and local units in favour of regional units of a general nature. (c) The NUTS is a five-level hierarchical classification (three regional levels and two local levels). Since this is a hierarchical classification, the NUTS subdivides each Member State into a whole number of NUTS 1 regions, each of which is in turn subdivided into a whole number of NUTS 2 regions and so on.

Is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or more. The BMI is a single number that evaluates an individual's weight status in relation to height (weight/height2), with weight in kilograms and height in metres).

A statement that defines and quantifies the fishery management goals and defines what the management strategy is trying to achieve.

A target that is actively sought and provides a direction for management action. For example, achieving a specified income for individual fishers is one possible economic objective of fisheries management.

See agency securities, obligations; bond; collateralized mortgage obligation; contingent obligation; general obligations