Effects of climate change on agricultureThe effects of climate change on agriculture can result in lower crop yields and nutritional quality due to drought, heat waves and flooding as well as increases in pests and plant diseases. Climate change impacts are making it harder for agricultural activities to meet human needs. The effects are unevenly distributed across the world and are caused by changes in temperature, precipitation and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels due to global climate change. In 2019, millions were already suffering from food insecurity due to climate change.
Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climatLe Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC, ou IPCC pour l'anglais Intergovernmental panel on climate change) est un organisme intergouvernemental chargé d'évaluer l'ampleur, les causes et les conséquences du changement climatique en cours. Créé en 1988 sous l'égide de l'Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM) et du Programme des Nations unies pour l'environnement (PNUE) à la suite d'une initiative politique internationale, le GIEC est ouvert à tous les pays membres de l'Organisation des Nations unies.
Quality (business)In business, engineering, and manufacturing, quality – or high quality – has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something (goods or services); it is also defined as being suitable for the intended purpose (fitness for purpose) while satisfying customer expectations. Quality is a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace.
Média socialLes médias sociaux sont des applications web qui permettent la création et la publication de contenus générés par l’utilisateur et le développement de réseaux sociaux en ligne en connectant les profils des utilisateurs. Le terme recouvre les différentes activités qui intègrent la technologie, l’interaction sociale, et la création de contenu. Les médias sociaux utilisent l’intelligence collective dans un esprit de collaboration en ligne.
Subjective well-beingSubjective well-being (SWB) is a self-reported measure of well-being, typically obtained by questionnaire. Ed Diener developed a tripartite model of subjective well-being in 1984, which describes how people experience the quality of their lives and includes both emotional reactions and cognitive judgments. It posits "three distinct but often related components of wellbeing: frequent positive affect, infrequent negative affect, and cognitive evaluations such as life satisfaction.
History of the graphical user interfaceThe history of the graphical user interface, understood as the use of graphic icons and a pointing device to control a computer, covers a five-decade span of incremental refinements, built on some constant core principles. Several vendors have created their own windowing systems based on independent code, but with basic elements in common that define the WIMP "window, icon, menu and pointing device" paradigm. There have been important technological achievements, and enhancements to the general interaction in small steps over previous systems.
Widget toolkitA widget toolkit, widget library, GUI toolkit, or UX library is a library or a collection of libraries containing a set of graphical control elements (called widgets) used to construct the graphical user interface (GUI) of programs. Most widget toolkits additionally include their own rendering engine. This engine can be specific to a certain operating system or windowing system or contain back-ends to interface with more multiple ones and also with rendering APIs such as OpenGL, OpenVG, or EGL.
Qualité de serviceLa qualité de service (QDS) ou quality of service (QoS) est la capacité à véhiculer dans de bonnes conditions un type de trafic donné, en termes de disponibilité, débit, délais de transmission, gigue, taux de perte de paquets... La qualité de service est un concept de gestion qui a pour but d’optimiser les ressources d'un réseau (en management du système d'information) ou d'un processus (en logistique) et de garantir de bonnes performances aux applications critiques pour l'organisation.
Video qualityVideo quality is a characteristic of a video passed through a video transmission or processing system that describes perceived video degradation (typically, compared to the original video). Video processing systems may introduce some amount of distortion or artifacts in the video signal that negatively impacts the user's perception of a system. For many stakeholders in video production and distribution, assurance of video quality is an important task. Video quality evaluation is performed to describe the quality of a set of video sequences under study.
H.265H.265, ou « MPEG-H HEVC » (High Efficiency Video Coding), est une norme de codage/compression vidéo ISO/CEI 23008-2 et UIT-T H.265, publiée le . Elle est développée conjointement par les groupes Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) et Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) et doit succéder au H.264 (ISO/CEI 14496-10 et UIT-T H.264). Ses applications concernent aussi bien la compression des vidéos en ultra-haute définition que la diminution du débit de transmission sur les réseaux pour les vidéos en définition standard avec des applications pour la vidéo sur mobile et pour l'extension de l'éligibilité aux services audiovisuels (TV, VoD.
Subjective video qualitySubjective video quality is video quality as experienced by humans. It is concerned with how video is perceived by a viewer (also called "observer" or "subject") and designates their opinion on a particular video sequence. It is related to the field of Quality of Experience. Measuring subjective video quality is necessary because objective quality assessment algorithms such as PSNR have been shown to correlate poorly with subjective ratings. Subjective ratings may also be used as ground truth to develop new algorithms.