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Definitions (4/6) - Grouped by first letter "B"
50 Definitions Grouped by first letter "B" ➔ Glossary of frequently used abbreviations...
Energy from the alkaline-spent liquor obtained from the digesters during the production of sulphate or soda pulp required for paper manufacture. The ...
Process consisting of heat treatment of an organic substance by boiling or steaming in order to denature natural enzymes, soften tissue and remove raw ...
Blast furnace gas is obtained as a by-product in operating blast furnaces. It is recovered on leaving the furnaces and used partly within the plant ...
Blast furnace gas is produced during the combustion of coke in blast furnaces in the iron and steel industry. It is recovered and used as a fuel ...
Removing naturally occurring colour. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:029:SOM:EN:HTML
The total time measured in hours and minutes measured from the aircraft's initial move from its departure point until its final stop at its arrival ...
Variable that is used to partition matching data sets, that is, divide in a number of subfiles, with the intention of reducing the search space.
Blurring replaces a reported value by an average. There are many possible ways to implement blurring. Groups of records for averaging may be formed by ...
Blurring of objectives occurs when a benefit serves other purposes (including fraud) than the one for which it is formally intended. An example are ...
The total quantity of oxygen-demanding material that a wastewater treatment plant is designed for which can be treated daily with a certain ...
Total quantity of oxygen-demanding material that a wastewater treatment plant is designed for which can be treated daily with a certain efficiency.
A measure of a person's weight relative to height that correlates fairly well with body fat. The BMI is accepted as the most useful indicator of ...
A bond is a security that gives the holder the unconditional right to a fixed money income or contractually determined variable money income over a ...
Investment fund (IF) primarily investing in securities other than shares. The criteria for classifying investment funds into bond funds are derived ...
Bonds and debentures are securities that give the holders the unconditional right to fixed payments or contractually determined variable payments, ...
Bonds and notes are debt securities with an original maturity of over one year. They are usually traded (or tradable) in organized and other financial ...
A bond that gives the issuer a right to buy back the bonds on or by a particular date. The value of this right is usually reflected in the interest ...
A bond whereby the creditor has the right to sell back the bonds to the issuer on or by a particular date, or under certain circumstance, such as a ...
It refers to all payments to employees which were not paid regularly at each pay period, including bonuses paid at fixed periods, but not paid ...
Articles 29 and 39 of Council Directive 91/674/EEC.
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The Bonuses and rebates, net amount is used in the calculation of Other ...
These bonuses are not paid regularly at each pay period and are linked to individual or collective performance. The amount of such bonuses is not laid ...
There are payments which are not paid regularly at each pay period whose amount and periodicity are laid down in advance irrespective of results, the ...
Sums entered in the balance sheet of the plan sponsor as reserves or provisions for occupational pension plan benefits. Some assets may be held in ...
Book reserves or provisions are sums entered in the balance sheet as reserves or provisions for supplementary pension benefits.
In business accounts generally refers to the value recorded in the enterprise’s records. Book values may have different meanings because their ...
Build, Own, Operate, Transfer scheme http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SNA2008.pdf
Checks carried out at border crossing points, to ensure that persons, including their means of transport and the objects in their possession, may be ...
Activity carried out at a border, in accordance with and for the purposes of this Regulation, in response exclusively to an intention to cross or the ...
Any crossing-point authorised by the competent authorities for the crossing of external borders.
Any public official assigned, in accordance with national law, to a border crossing point or along the border or the immediate vicinity of that border ...
Region with a land border, or region where more than half of the population lives within 25 km of such a border.
Surveillance of borders between border crossing points and surveillance of border crossing points outside the fixed opening hours, in order to prevent ...
Border workers are people who cross the frontier daily to work in a neighbouring country.
Persons commuting between their country of usual residence (which is usually their country of citizenship as well) and their place of employment ...
A characteristic of a live-born infant or dead foetus whose mother and father were legally married (any recognized union according to the laws or ...
A characteristic of a live-born infant or dead foetus whose mother and father were not legally married at the time of delivery.
See: "Top and bottom coding" http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SDC_Handbook.pdf
Direction of the flow of, for example, information or decisions from lower levels of an organisation to higher levels.
The bottom-up methods or ascending method of estimating a regional aggregate involves collecting data at local unit KAU, and ascending by addition ...
A situation in which the set of prices for the second period is simply a reordering of the set of prices for the first period, the price relatives ...
If the primary objective is to make further technical improvements on the product or process, then the work comes within the definition of R&D. If, on ...
Limit of a known or recognisable quantity, area or scope.
Range of possible values of a cell in a table of frequency counts where the cell value has been perturbed or suppressed.
Test examining evidence of autocorrelation in the residuals.
Business registers for statistical purposes http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-32-10-216-EN-C-EN.pdf
Brackish water means water where the salinity is appreciable but not at a constant high level. The salinity may be subject to considerable variation ...
Brady bonds, named after U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, arose from the Brady Plan. This plan was a voluntary market-based approach, developed ...
Team working tool used to generate ideas without constraints in a short period of time.
Local units without separate legal entity, which are dependent on foreign enterprises, and classified as quasi-corporations according to ESA95 and ...
Tertiary educational institution that is owned, at least in part, by a local higher education institution (i.e. resident inside the compiling country) ...