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UBS Dictionary of Banking

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

UBS Dictionary of Banking

This updated edition of the «UBS Dictionary of Banking» contains definitions of over 2,400 terms, incorporating the latest information available from our Research department. This represents an increase – compared to the highly successful 2000 edition – of some 260 terms, the majority drawn from the area of wealth management. In future, the dictionary will be updated and expanded on an ongoing basis, so you will continue to benefit free of charge from UBS’s vast expertise in financial theory and practice.

Source: UBS

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Online Database: Finding the Right Term: TERMIUM Plus (Terminological & Linguistic Data Bank)

Friday, January 8th, 2010

This free database comes from the Translation Bureau (TB) of Canada. In a nutshell, it helps the user find the “right” word in English, French, or Spanish.

Access TERMIUM Plus and Related Info

Direct to the Database

Why Use It?

+ a trilingual data bank that gives the precise English, French or Spanish equivalent to designate anything from a simple tool or a complex machine, to a disease or plant, association or committee. Almost every field of human endeavour is covered;

+ unilingual data bank that can be used to check the meaning of a specialized term or find the meaning of a term in a leading-edge field;

+ a writing assistance tool that provides access to 14 electronic resources.

What it Contains:

+ 3,900,000 terms and names, with definitions, contexts, examples of usage, observations and phraseological units;

+ specialized and highly specialized terms not found in any standard bilingual data bank;

+ terms organized by subject, ensuring the ultimate in accuracy;

+ extensive and reliable data in nearly all fields;

+ standardized English and French terminology;

+ a wide range of official titles including names of national and international organizations, statutes and programs, as well as abbreviations, acronyms, initialisms, geographical names, etc.;

+ records resulting from terminologists’ participation in national and international standardization committees bank updated by 40 terminologists whose main job is to keep it current with the latest information

+ 50 000 modifications per year (record creation, deletion of outdated data and expansion of existing records).

Access TERMIUM Plus and Related Info

Direct to the Database

Source: Translation Bureau

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Reference: New Literary Glossary for Educators from the National Endownment for the Humanities

Monday, December 28th, 2009

From the EDSITEment portion of the NEH site. Each term comes with links to lesson plans using that term.

Access EDSITEment Literary Glossary

Source: National Endowment for the Humanities

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Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms.

Source: National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH)

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Reporting on Cancer Research

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Reporting on Cancer Research

Welcome to Reporting on Cancer Research, a Web site for science writers and the public with definitions of terms and brief overviews of how things work in the world of oncology research.

Tip sheets (PDFs) include:
+ Number glossary (absolute risk, relative risk)
+ Statistics glossary (p values, confidence intervals, survival)
+ Questions to guide reporting (e.g., how important are the outcomes?)
+ How to highlight study cautions (useful phrases)

Source: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

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Resource of the Week: Sloan Work and Family Research Network

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Resource of the Week: Sloan Work and Family Research Network
by Karen Corday, Information Services Specialist (corday@bc.edu)

The Sloan Network is the premier online destination for free work and family information. We serve a global community interested in work and family research by providing resources and building knowledge. Current, credible, and comprehensive, the Network targets the information needs of academics and researchers, workplace practitioners, state public policy makers, and interested individuals. It is the place to find high-quality research and reports, easy-to-read summary sheets and briefs, work-family topic pages, a work-family glossary, a work and family encyclopedia, and a literature database featuring over 10,000 bibliographic citations— all in one location. The Network is a project of the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College and has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the past 12 years.

We offer multidisciplinary, credible teaching resources and access to the world’s foremost work-family academics and researchers, evidence-based information on cutting-edge workforce issues, talent management, and the impact of work and family issues on business outcomes, and unbiased policy data about work and family trends, legislation, and statistics.

Topics featured on the site include:

We have a monthly award-winning newsletter, The Network News, featuring interviews with work-family experts as well as literature updates in the field and international work-family news. Subscribe for free. You can grab our RSS feed, and find us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. We update our Work and Family Blog at least three times a week; please get in touch if you have similar interests and would to guest blog.

Editor’s note: We think this is truly an outstanding website that provides continually updated information on topics of interest to almost everyone — researchers, policymakers, human resources professionals…and working parents. We are amazed — time and time again — by the high-quality resources created, maintained, curated, supervised, etc., by our readers. Do you work for an organization that offers high-quality, free content? We’re always looking for Resource of the Week contributors. Don’t hide your light under a bushel. Thousands and thousands of people read our content by blog, e-mail, Twitter, Facebook…

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Reference Resources: The Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

An excellent use of multimedia.

From the Glossary:

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms.

Linked information explains how to cite a term from the Glossary in a reference paper. Another link allows you to suggest a term currently not in the glossary that you feel would be a valuable addition. And there is a link to email any of the 200+ terms to a friend.

Source: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

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Chicken Glossary

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Chicken Glossary

We’ve compiled a Glossary from several sources…

Source: BackYardChickens.com

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Reference Shelf: Online Glossary of Economic Terms from The Economist

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

An A-Z list (browse) of economic and economic related terms. The online content is adapted from the book Essential Economics by Matthew Bishop from Profile Books. You don’t have to be an Economist subscriber to access the complete glossary.

From Absolute Advantage to Zero-sum game.

Source: The Economist

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New Resource from NIST: Information Technology: Glossary of Acronyms, Abbreviations

Monday, October 5th, 2009

From the Article:

NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) hopes to bring some order to the sometimes inconsistent and often confusing world of IT (information technology) acronyms and abbreviations by publishing a glossary of commonly used terms.

NIST Interagency Report (“NISTIR”) 7581 , “System and Network Security Acronyms and Abbreviations,” runs the alphabetical gamut from A (address resource record type) to ZSK (zone signing key).

“The capitalization, spelling and definitions of acronyms and abbreviations frequently vary among publications,” the report states. Some abbreviations, such as WWW, have a universally recognized meaning, while others have multiple definitions. For instance, MAC can stand for mandatory access control, Media Access Control, Medium Access Control or message authentication code. Others might contain an internal logic but can be confusing at first glance. For instance, Triple DES (Data Encryption Standard) is often abbreviated as 3DES.

Access the Full Text of the IT Glossary (32 pages; PDF)

Source: GCN

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A Collection of English-Spanish Glossaries from the U.S. Government

Monday, October 5th, 2009

These glossaries are from the Spanish Language Style Guide from WebContent.gov.

+ English-Spanish Glossary of Federal Agencies, Officials and Laws

+ Frequently Mistranslated English Terms

+ Names of US States and Territories (in English and Spanish)

+ Spanish Health Care Terms in the United States (in English and Spanish)

+ Spanish Information Technology Terms (in English and Spanish)

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Fashion Designer Dictionary

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Fashion Designer Dictionary

Don’t know Lagerfeld from Lanvin?

TheBudgetFashionista’s Guide to the Designers You Need Know is a will fill you in on the designers and design lines that you need to know to be a well informed fashionista.

What you’ll find in this guide:

  • A pronunciation guide. So you can finally pronounce “Versace” correctly.
  • Tips for getting the designs for less. Cause there’s no since in having an authentic Fendi bag, if you can’t pay your bills
  • Notes on designers who have/had budget friendly lines…

Source: TheBudgetFashionista

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A Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws

Friday, March 27th, 2009

A Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws

A product of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress at the request of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture

Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Agriculture

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National Funeral Directors Association: Glossary

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

National Funeral Directors Association: Glossary
Glossary of funeral industry terms. Browse alphabetically or search.

Source: NFDA

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New: Thesaurus for Use in College and University Archives

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

From the Site:

SAA’s latest ePublication, Thesaurus for Use in College and University Archives, compiled and edited by Kate Bowers, is a set of 1,300 terms for use by any college or university archives in the U.S. for describing its holdings.

Direct to Thesaurus

Source: SAA

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A Guide To Communications Terms

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Direct to Guide

From 3G to Wi-Max.

Source: Dow Jones

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Glossary — The Language of Local Government

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

The Language of Local Government

This list of definitions and acronyms provides easy-to-understand explanations of words, phrases, terms and acronyms commonly used in local government that may not be familiar to citizens or newly elected or appointed municipal officials.

Source: City of Port St. Lucie

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Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations and Acronyms

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

A glossary of terms, abbreviations and acronyms from the Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.).

Source: EPA

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NAL Publishes New Editions of Agricultural Thesaurus, Glossary

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

NAL Publishes New Editions of Agricultural Thesaurus, Glossary

The USDA National Agricultural Library (NAL) has published 2008 editions of its NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (NALT) and Glossary of Agricultural Terms in both Spanish and English. The update is published collaboratively with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

NAL, the world’s foremost research library focused on agriculture, is part of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief scientific research agency.

The 2008 edition of the Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary adds about 70 new definitions in Spanish and English, with expanded terminology associated with fuels, chocolate manufacture, bodies of water, the U.S. National Forest System, and acronyms used in the taxonomic classification of viruses.

The Thesaurus and Glossary Web site features a new format presenting parallel English and Spanish language interfaces, enabling users to search and read all background materials in either language.

It also features a “Download Files” page enabling users to download the thesaurus and glossary files in an array of formats. A “Contact us” page is also included where users can propose terms to be added to the thesaurus and glossary.

+ Search the thesaurus
+ Download the thesaurus

Source: National Agricultural Library

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Glossary of Teen Slang Around Drugs & Alcohol

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Glossary of Teen Slang Around Drugs & Alcohol

Below are teen slang terms that are popular references for drugs, alcohol and some of the behaviors associated with them. Included are examples of sentences that offer the context in which they can be used.

Source: Caron Treatment Centers

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