Statistical Terms Glossary

Main canal of an irrigation system connecting the water source (or the feeder conduit) to the distribution system.

Conveyance efficiency (Ec) is the ratio of the water received at the inlet of a block of fields to the water released at the headwork.

Water that is lost as irrigation water travels from its source to the fields.

Unit of measurement of traffic representing the movement of convoy over one kilometre on an inland waterway.

The act of working together with someone or doing what they ask you

The sharing of information and the deconfliction of activities as much as possible among independent individuals or institutions so as not to undermine a shared goal.

A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise. The promotion and strengthening of the identity of cooperatives should be encouraged on the basis of: (a) cooperative values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity; as well as ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others; (b) cooperative principles as developed by the international cooperative movement, namely: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for community.

Financing arrangement between two lenders whereby the loans may be for different projects or different sectors but one organization takes the lead in coordinating arrangements for the two loans.

<storage> Main memory or RAM. This term dates from the days of ferrite core memory; now archaic most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. <processor> An integrated circuit design, usually for a microprocessor, which includes only the CPU and which is intended to form part of a complete circuit design which incorporates other circuits on the same chip such as cache, memory . <language> A varient on kernel as used to describe features built into a language as opposed to those provided by libraries.
management unit, I/O ports and timers.

A good or service that is widely available throughout the world so that a substantial number of countries in each region can provide prices for these items.

An alternative or supplement to the core commodity approach. Core countries agree to price a common basket that allows linking of all areas of the world at the basic heading level; or certain pairs of core countries make binary comparisons that allow there to be links at the basic heading level between all groups of countries participating in the comparison.

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

The central part of a telecom network that provides various services to customers who are connected by the access network.