Statistical Terms Glossary

Number of injuries due to war in a current year. The number of war injuries in the total population divided by the total number of this population, expressed per 100,000 population, for a given year, in a given country, territory, or geographic area.

Similar to a hot site but not fully equipped with all of the necessary hardware needed for recovery.

Synonym for Intermediate Recovery.

Option to purchase ordinary share or bond of a particular company, usually purchased by bondholder wanting to participate in profit growth of that company. Often attached to new bond issue as inducement for investors to take up the bond. see also bond warrant; bond with bond warrant; bond with equity warrant; debt warrant; detachable warrant; foreign exchange warrant; stock warrant.

Bond with warrant attached. This may be a bond with bond warrant or a bond with equity warrant

Warrant which allows the purchaser to acquire, within a specified period of time, at a fixed price, a U.S. Treasury bill of specified coupon rate and maturity.

Warrants (a particular form of option) are tradable instruments giving the holder the right to buy from the issuer of the warrant (usually a corporation) a certain number of shares or bonds under specified conditions for a designated of time. Warrant scan be traded apart from the underlying securities to which the warrants are linked and thus have a market value. The treatment of warrants is the same as that for other options, and the issuer of the warrant is considered, by convention, to have incurred liability, which is the counterpart of the asset held by the buyer and reflects the current cost of buying out the issuer’s contingent liability

Warrants are a form of options that are treated in the financial account in the same way as other options; they are tradable instruments giving the holder the right to buy, under specified terms for a specified period of time, from the issuer of the warrant (usually a corporation) a certain number of shares or bonds.

A promise or guarantee that a product or Service will meet its agreed Requirements.

Occurs when a person buys and sells a stock, thereby recording a price, but with no actual change of ownership having taken place.

The WG-ES was designed to add additional functional domains to identify people with disabilities who are not captured by the WG-SS. These additional domains include upper-body mobility, psychosocial functioning, pain and fatigue.

Formed in 2001 as a United Nations Statistical Commission city group with major objective of providing basic and necessary information on disability that is comparable on the international level.

The WG-SS asks whether people have difficulty completing basic universal activities due to a health problem in the six core functional domains of seeing, hearing, mobility (walking or climbing steps), cognition (remembering or concentrating), self-care, and communication.

Treaty for the protection of intellectual property in respect of lay-out designs of integrated circuits.

Waste refers to materials that are not prime products (that is, products produced for the market) for which the generator has no further use in terms of his/her own purposes of production, transformation or consumption, and of which he/she wants to dispose.

Waste collection is the collection and transport of waste to the place of treatment or discharge by municipal services or similar institutions, or by public or private corporations, specialized enterprises or general government. Collection of municipal waste may be selective, that is to say, carried out for a specific type of product, or undifferentiated, in other words, covering all kinds of waste at the same time

See Disposal of waste.

The characteristic activities of waste management include:
(a) collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste,
(b) control, monitoring and regulation of the production, collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, and
(c) prevention of waste production through in—process modifications, reuse and recycling