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time-planning of activities

  • 1 time-planning of activities

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > time-planning of activities

  • 2 time management

    Gen Mgt
    conscious control of the amount of time spent on work activities, in order to maximize personal efficiency. Time management involves analyzing how time is spent, and then prioritizing different work tasks. Activities can be reorganized to concentrate on those that are most important. Various techniques can be of help in performing tasks more quickly and efficiently: information handling skills; verbal and written communication skills; delegation; and daily time planning. Time management is an important tool in avoiding information overload.

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  • 3 планирование деятельности по времени

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > планирование деятельности по времени

  • 4 планирование мероприятий по времени

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > планирование мероприятий по времени

  • 5 programación

    f.
    1 programming, timetable, schedule, scheduling.
    2 programming, computer programming.
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    1 (de televisión, radio) programming (US programing)
    ■ ¿qué cadena tiene mejor programación? which channel has the best programmes?
    2 (de teatro) billing
    3 (de vídeo) programming
    4 INFORMÁTICA programming
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    SF
    1) (Inform) programming, programing (EEUU)
    2) (Radio, TV) programme planning, program planning (EEUU); [en periódico] programme guide, viewing guide

    programación abierta — uncoded programmes pl, non-scrambled programmes pl

    3) (Ferro) scheduling, timetabling
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    1)
    a) (Rad, TV) programs* (pl)
    b) (de festejos, visitas - lista) program*; (- organización) organization, planning
    2) (Inf) programming
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    = schedule, programming, scheduling, scripting, script-writing [scriptwriting], software development, programme schedule.
    Ex. The head librarian had set up a timetable of activities for her in advance and topics and schedules for the courses she would teach at the library school.
    Ex. Today, it is difficult to conceive of a library school that neglects to offer its students a chance to experiment with databases and gain at least a nodding acquaintance with programming and a computer language.
    Ex. Closed doors should be flung open and scheduling changed to allow systematic examination of professional and organisational questions.
    Ex. The author looks at seven data communications software packages which now offer high speed scripting and easy to use facilities.
    Ex. Script-writing is not worth the effort in the light of software tools like Pro-Search.
    Ex. The company now has offices in the UK, the USA and Asia, and has branched out into consultancy and software development.
    Ex. Programme schedules are subject to change without prior notification.
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    * herramienta de programación = scripting tool.
    * lenguaje de programación = programming language, computer language, scripting language, script.
    * lenguaje de programación algorítmico = algorithmic programming language.
    * metaprogramación = meta-programming.
    * microlenguaje de programación = micro-language.
    * programación del viaje = travel plan.
    * programación orientada a objetos = object-oriented programming (OOP).
    * programación televisiva de mayor audiencia = prime time television.
    * relativo a la programación = programmatic.
    * sistema de presupuestación mediante planificación y programación = planning programming budgeting system (PPBS).
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    1)
    a) (Rad, TV) programs* (pl)
    b) (de festejos, visitas - lista) program*; (- organización) organization, planning
    2) (Inf) programming
    * * *
    = schedule, programming, scheduling, scripting, script-writing [scriptwriting], software development, programme schedule.

    Ex: The head librarian had set up a timetable of activities for her in advance and topics and schedules for the courses she would teach at the library school.

    Ex: Today, it is difficult to conceive of a library school that neglects to offer its students a chance to experiment with databases and gain at least a nodding acquaintance with programming and a computer language.
    Ex: Closed doors should be flung open and scheduling changed to allow systematic examination of professional and organisational questions.
    Ex: The author looks at seven data communications software packages which now offer high speed scripting and easy to use facilities.
    Ex: Script-writing is not worth the effort in the light of software tools like Pro-Search.
    Ex: The company now has offices in the UK, the USA and Asia, and has branched out into consultancy and software development.
    Ex: Programme schedules are subject to change without prior notification.
    * herramienta de programación = scripting tool.
    * lenguaje de programación = programming language, computer language, scripting language, script.
    * lenguaje de programación algorítmico = algorithmic programming language.
    * metaprogramación = meta-programming.
    * microlenguaje de programación = micro-language.
    * programación del viaje = travel plan.
    * programación orientada a objetos = object-oriented programming (OOP).
    * programación televisiva de mayor audiencia = prime time television.
    * relativo a la programación = programmatic.
    * sistema de presupuestación mediante planificación y programación = planning programming budgeting system (PPBS).

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    1 ( Rad, TV) programs* (pl)
    la programación de hoy today's programs
    el encargado de la programación the person in charge of program planning o scheduling
    2 (de festejos, visitas — lista) program*; (— organización) organization, planning
    Compuesto:
    television scheduling
    B ( Inf) programming
    Compuesto:
    neurolinguistic programming
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    programación sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) (Rad, TV) programs( conjugate programs) (pl)

    b) (de festejos, visitas — lista) program( conjugate program);

    (— organización) organization, planning
    2 (Inf) programming
    programación sustantivo femenino
    1 (de radio, televisión) programmes
    2 (planificación) planning, organization
    3 Inform programming
    ' programación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    telebasura
    - programa
    - televisión
    English:
    computer
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    1. [de fiestas] [acción] programming, scheduling;
    [programa] programme
    2. [de vídeo] programming
    3. [televisiva] scheduling;
    la programación del lunes Monday's programmes
    4. Informát programming
    programación lineal linear programming
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    f
    1 RAD, TV programs pl, Br
    programmes pl
    2 INFOR programming
    * * *
    1) : programming
    2) : planning
    * * *
    1. (de televisión, radio) programmes
    2. (de ordenador) programming

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  • 6 activity

    n
    1) часто pl активность, деятельность; действия, операции ( в определенной области)
    2) хозяйственная деятельность, производственная деятельность
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    to accuse smb of subversive activities — обвинять кого-л. в подрывной деятельности

    to bar smb from political activities — запрещать кому-л. заниматься политической деятельностью

    to be engaged in an activities — заниматься какой-л. деятельностью

    to be involved in an activities — участвовать в какой-л. деятельности

    to break off an activities — прекращать какую-л. деятельность

    to carry out activities — осуществлять какую-л. деятельность

    to check smb's hostile activities — пресекать чьи-л. враждебные действия

    to coordinate smb's activities — координировать чью-л. деятельность / чьи-л. действия

    to combine smb's activities — объединять чьи-л. действия

    to conceal one's activities — скрывать свою деятельность

    to conduct an activities — заниматься какой-л. деятельностью

    to cover up smb's war time activities — прикрывать чью-л. деятельность во время войны

    to cut down on one's spying activities — сокращать свою разведывательную деятельность

    to engage in an activities — заниматься какой-л. деятельностью

    to examine activities — изучать / исследовать деятельность

    to expel smb for activities incompatible with his diplomatic status — выдворять кого-л. за деятельность, несовместимую с его дипломатическим статусом

    to facilitate operational activities — способствовать / помогать оперативной деятельности

    to focus activities on / upon smth — сосредоточить деятельность на чем-л.

    to intensify activities — усиливать / повышать активность

    to limit smb's activities — ограничивать чью-л. деятельность / чьи-л. действия

    to make a contribution to smb's activities — вносить вклад в чью-л. деятельность

    to monitor smb's activities — следить за чьей-л. деятельностью

    to paralyze smb's activities — парализовать чью-л. деятельность

    to participate in an activities — участвовать в какой-л. деятельности

    to put a stop to smb's criminal activities — пресекать чью-л. преступную деятельность, положить конец чьим-л. преступным действиям

    to restrain / to restrict smb's activities — ограничивать чью-л. деятельность

    to resume one's activities — возобновлять свою деятельность

    to step up one's activities — повышать свою активность; активизировать / усиливать свою деятельность

    to take part in an activity — принимать участие в какой-л. деятельности

    to terminate an activities — прекращать какую-л. деятельность

    to undertake activities — осуществлять деятельность, предпринимать действия

    to widen the range of activities — расширять масштаб / поле деятельности

    - activity in the market
    - activity incompatible with one's diplomatic status
    - activity inconsistent with one's diplomatic status
    - activity on the international scene
    - activities against smb / smth
    - advisory activity
    - aggregate activities
    - aggressive activity
    - ancillary activities
    - anti-democratic activities
    - anti-government activities
    - anti-militarist activities
    - anti-national activities
    - anti-popular activities
    - anti-state activities
    - area of activity
    - backstage activities
    - back-stairs activities
    - banned activities
    - basic activities
    - behind-the-scenes activities
    - black market activities
    - business activity
    - civil activity
    - clandestine activities
    - commercial activities
    - competitive activity
    - conspiratorial activity
    - constant activity
    - continuing activity
    - continuous activity
    - coordination of activities
    - counterespionage activities
    - covert activities
    - criminal activities
    - cultural activities
    - current activities
    - curtailing of military activities
    - day-to-day activity
    - decline in business activity
    - defense activity
    - defense industry activity
    - defense-generated economic activity
    - detraction and pollution of nature through the activities of man
    - development activities
    - diplomatic activity
    - domestic activity
    - dominant activity
    - duplication of activities
    - economic activity
    - environmental activity
    - escalation of terrorist activities
    - espionage activities
    - exposure of unlawful activities
    - extension of IRA activity to Europe
    - factional activities
    - family planning activities
    - field activities     - flurry of diplomatic activities
    - follow-up activity
    - forecasting activity
    - foreign economic activities
    - foreign policy activities
    - fruitful activity
    - full activity
    - generalization of the activities
    - global activities
    - government activities
    - government research activities
    - growing activity
    - guerilla activity
    - heightened activity
    - high priority activities
    - hostile activities
    - human rights activity
    - humanitarian activities
    - ideological activities
    - illegal activities
    - illicit activity
    - industrial activity
    - ineffective activities
    - information activities
    - intellectual activities
    - intelligence activities
    - intensification of activity
    - intensive activity
    - interconnected activities
    - international activities
    - investment activities
    - involvement in espionage activities for a country
    - know-how activity
    - labor activities
    - legislative activity
    - leisure activity
    - leisure-time activity
    - level of activities
    - long-term activity
    - manifestation of activities
    - mass communication activities
    - military activities
    - multifaceted activity
    - nationalist activities
    - nonmarket activities
    - nonprofit activities
    - nuclear related activities
    - operational activities
    - opposition activity
    - organizational activities
    - parliamentary activities
    - peaceful activities
    - permitted activities
    - political activity
    - practical activity
    - primary activity
    - priority activities
    - pro-American activities
    - production activity
    - productive activity
    - professional activity
    - profit-making activity
    - profit-seeking activity
    - program activities
    - prohibited activities
    - project activities
    - promotional activities
    - propaganda activities
    - provocative activities
    - public activities
    - public relations activities
    - R & D activities
    - range of activity
    - rebel activities
    - recurring activities
    - regular government activities
    - relaxation of political activities
    - renewed activity
    - research activities
    - research and development activities
    - Resistance activities
    - revival of activities
    - revolutionary activities
    - sabotage activities
    - scientific activities
    - scope of activities
    - seat of activities
    - secessionist activities
    - secondary activities
    - service activities
    - set of activities
    - social and political activity
    - space activities
    - spate of terrorist activity
    - special activities
    - speculative activities     - statistical data processing activities
    - subsequent activity
    - subversive activities
    - subversive and terrorist activities
    - supporting activity
    - tactical activities
    - take-over activity
    - technical assistance activities
    - terrorist activities
    - time-limited activity
    - trading activities
    - treatment of economic activity
    - undercover activities
    - underground activities
    - underhand activities
    - uninterrupted activity
    - union activities
    - verification activities
    - vigorous activity
    - volume of activity
    - wartime activities
    - work activities
    - world business activities

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  • 7 near cash

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    гос. фин. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    This paper provides background information on the framework for the planning and control of public expenditure in the UK which has been operated since the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It sets out the different classifications of spending for budgeting purposes and why these distinctions have been adopted. It discusses how the public expenditure framework is designed to ensure both sound public finances and an outcome-focused approach to public expenditure.
    The UK's public spending framework is based on several key principles:
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    consistency with a long-term, prudent and transparent regime for managing the public finances as a whole;
    " "
    the judgement of success by policy outcomes rather than resource inputs;
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    strong incentives for departments and their partners in service delivery to plan over several years and plan together where appropriate so as to deliver better public services with greater cost effectiveness; and
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    the proper costing and management of capital assets to provide the right incentives for public investment.
    The Government sets policy to meet two firm fiscal rules:
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    the Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending; and
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    the Sustainable Investment Rule states that net public debt as a proportion of GDP will be held over the economic cycle at a stable and prudent level. Other things being equal, net debt will be maintained below 40 per cent of GDP over the economic cycle.
    Achievement of the fiscal rules is assessed by reference to the national accounts, which are produced by the Office for National Statistics, acting as an independent agency. The Government sets its spending envelope to comply with these fiscal rules.
    Departmental Expenditure Limits ( DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
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    Departmental Expenditure Limit ( DEL) spending, which is planned and controlled on a three year basis in Spending Reviews; and
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    Annually Managed Expenditure ( AME), which is expenditure which cannot reasonably be subject to firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest, and payments to EU institutions.
    More information about DEL and AME is set out below.
    In Spending Reviews, firm DEL plans are set for departments for three years. To ensure consistency with the Government's fiscal rules departments are set separate resource (current) and capital budgets. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    To encourage departments to plan over the medium term departments may carry forward unspent DEL provision from one year into the next and, subject to the normal tests for tautness and realism of plans, may be drawn down in future years. This end-year flexibility also removes any incentive for departments to use up their provision as the year end approaches with less regard to value for money. For the full benefits of this flexibility and of three year plans to feed through into improved public service delivery, end-year flexibility and three year budgets should be cascaded from departments to executive agencies and other budget holders.
    Three year budgets and end-year flexibility give those managing public services the stability to plan their operations on a sensible time scale. Further, the system means that departments cannot seek to bid up funds each year (before 1997, three year plans were set and reviewed in annual Public Expenditure Surveys). So the credibility of medium-term plans has been enhanced at both central and departmental level.
    Departments have certainty over the budgetary allocation over the medium term and these multi-year DEL plans are strictly enforced. Departments are expected to prioritise competing pressures and fund these within their overall annual limits, as set in Spending Reviews. So the DEL system provides a strong incentive to control costs and maximise value for money.
    There is a small centrally held DEL Reserve. Support from the Reserve is available only for genuinely unforeseeable contingencies which departments cannot be expected to manage within their DEL.
    AME typically consists of programmes which are large, volatile and demand-led, and which therefore cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits. The biggest single element is social security spending. Other items include tax credits, Local Authority Self Financed Expenditure, Scottish Executive spending financed by non-domestic rates, and spending financed from the proceeds of the National Lottery.
    AME is reviewed twice a year as part of the Budget and Pre-Budget Report process reflecting the close integration of the tax and benefit system, which was enhanced by the introduction of tax credits.
    AME is not subject to the same three year expenditure limits as DEL, but is still part of the overall envelope for public expenditure. Affordability is taken into account when policy decisions affecting AME are made. The Government has committed itself not to take policy measures which are likely to have the effect of increasing social security or other elements of AME without taking steps to ensure that the effects of those decisions can be accommodated prudently within the Government's fiscal rules.
    Given an overall envelope for public spending, forecasts of AME affect the level of resources available for DEL spending. Cautious estimates and the AME margin are built in to these AME forecasts and reduce the risk of overspending on AME.
    Together, DEL plus AME sum to Total Managed Expenditure (TME). TME is a measure drawn from national accounts. It represents the current and capital spending of the public sector. The public sector is made up of central government, local government and public corporations.
    Resource and Capital Budgets are set in terms of accruals information. Accruals information measures resources as they are consumed rather than when the cash is paid. So for example the Resource Budget includes a charge for depreciation, a measure of the consumption or wearing out of capital assets.
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    Non cash charges in budgets do not impact directly on the fiscal framework. That may be because the national accounts use a different way of measuring the same thing, for example in the case of the depreciation of departmental assets. Or it may be that the national accounts measure something different: for example, resource budgets include a cost of capital charge reflecting the opportunity cost of holding capital; the national accounts include debt interest.
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    Within the Resource Budget DEL, departments have separate controls on:
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    Near cash spending, the sub set of Resource Budgets which impacts directly on the Golden Rule; and
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    The amount of their Resource Budget DEL that departments may spend on running themselves (e.g. paying most civil servants’ salaries) is limited by Administration Budgets, which are set in Spending Reviews. Administration Budgets are used to ensure that as much money as practicable is available for front line services and programmes. These budgets also help to drive efficiency improvements in departments’ own activities. Administration Budgets exclude the costs of frontline services delivered directly by departments.
    The Budget preceding a Spending Review sets an overall envelope for public spending that is consistent with the fiscal rules for the period covered by the Spending Review. In the Spending Review, the Budget AME forecast for year one of the Spending Review period is updated, and AME forecasts are made for the later years of the Spending Review period.
    The 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review ( CSR), which was published in July 1998, was a comprehensive review of departmental aims and objectives alongside a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to determine the best way of delivering the Government's objectives. The 1998 CSR allocated substantial additional resources to the Government's key priorities, particularly education and health, for the three year period from 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
    Delivering better public services does not just depend on how much money the Government spends, but also on how well it spends it. Therefore the 1998 CSR introduced Public Service Agreements (PSAs). Each major government department was given its own PSA setting out clear targets for achievements in terms of public service improvements.
    The 1998 CSR also introduced the DEL/ AME framework for the control of public spending, and made other framework changes. Building on the investment and reforms delivered by the 1998 CSR, successive spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004 have:
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    provided significant increase in resources for the Government’s priorities, in particular health and education, and cross-cutting themes such as raising productivity; extending opportunity; and building strong and secure communities;
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    enabled the Government significantly to increase investment in public assets and address the legacy of under investment from past decades. Departmental Investment Strategies were introduced in SR2000. As a result there has been a steady increase in public sector net investment from less than ¾ of a per cent of GDP in 1997-98 to 2¼ per cent of GDP in 2005-06, providing better infrastructure across public services;
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    introduced further refinements to the performance management framework. PSA targets have been reduced in number over successive spending reviews from around 300 to 110 to give greater focus to the Government’s highest priorities. The targets have become increasingly outcome-focused to deliver further improvements in key areas of public service delivery across Government. They have also been refined in line with the conclusions of the Devolving Decision Making Review to provide a framework which encourages greater devolution and local flexibility. Technical Notes were introduced in SR2000 explaining how performance against each PSA target will be measured; and
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    not only allocated near cash spending to departments, but also – since SR2002 - set Resource DEL plans for non cash spending.
    To identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead, on 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007.
    A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 11. Allocations for 2007-08 will be held to the agreed figures already announced by the 2004 Spending Review. To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of preparatory work over 2006 involving:
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    an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR. The assessment will inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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    an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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    to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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    further development of the efficiency programme, building on the cross cutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
    The 2007 CSR also offers the opportunity to continue to refine the PSA framework so that it drives effective delivery and the attainment of ambitious national standards.
    Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were introduced in the 1998 CSR. They set out agreed targets detailing the outputs and outcomes departments are expected to deliver with the resources allocated to them. The new spending regime places a strong emphasis on outcome targets, for example in providing for better health and higher educational standards or service standards. The introduction in SR2004 of PSA ‘standards’ will ensure that high standards in priority areas are maintained.
    The Government monitors progress against PSA targets, and departments report in detail twice a year in their annual Departmental Reports (published in spring) and in their autumn performance reports. These reports provide Parliament and the public with regular updates on departments’ performance against their targets.
    Technical Notes explain how performance against each PSA target will be measured.
    To make the most of both new investment and existing assets, there needs to be a coherent long term strategy against which investment decisions are taken. Departmental Investment Strategies (DIS) set out each department's plans to deliver the scale and quality of capital stock needed to underpin its objectives. The DIS includes information about the department's existing capital stock and future plans for that stock, as well as plans for new investment. It also sets out the systems that the department has in place to ensure that it delivers its capital programmes effectively.
    This document was updated on 19 December 2005.
    Near-cash resource expenditure that has a related cash implication, even though the timing of the cash payment may be slightly different. For example, expenditure on gas or electricity supply is incurred as the fuel is used, though the cash payment might be made in arrears on aquarterly basis. Other examples of near-cash expenditure are: pay, rental.Net cash requirement the upper limit agreed by Parliament on the cash which a department may draw from theConsolidated Fund to finance the expenditure within the ambit of its Request forResources. It is equal to the agreed amount of net resources and net capital less non-cashitems and working capital.Non-cash cost costs where there is no cash transaction but which are included in a body’s accounts (or taken into account in charging for a service) to establish the true cost of all the resourcesused.Non-departmental a body which has a role in the processes of government, but is not a government public body, NDPBdepartment or part of one. NDPBs accordingly operate at arm’s length from governmentMinisters.Notional cost of a cost which is taken into account in setting fees and charges to improve comparability with insuranceprivate sector service providers.The charge takes account of the fact that public bodies donot generally pay an insurance premium to a commercial insurer.the independent body responsible for collecting and publishing official statistics about theUK’s society and economy. (At the time of going to print legislation was progressing tochange this body to the Statistics Board).Office of Government an office of the Treasury, with a status similar to that of an agency, which aims to maximise Commerce, OGCthe government’s purchasing power for routine items and combine professional expertiseto bear on capital projects.Office of the the government department responsible for discharging the Paymaster General’s statutoryPaymaster General,responsibilities to hold accounts and make payments for government departments and OPGother public bodies.Orange bookthe informal title for Management of Risks: Principles and Concepts, which is published by theTreasury for the guidance of public sector bodies.Office for NationalStatistics, ONS60Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYOverdraftan account with a negative balance.Parliament’s formal agreement to authorise an activity or expenditure.Prerogative powerspowers exercisable under the Royal Prerogative, ie powers which are unique to the Crown,as contrasted with common-law powers which may be available to the Crown on the samebasis as to natural persons.Primary legislationActs which have been passed by the Westminster Parliament and, where they haveappropriate powers, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Begin asBills until they have received Royal Assent.arrangements under which a public sector organisation contracts with a private sectorentity to construct a facility and provide associated services of a specified quality over asustained period. See annex 7.5.Proprietythe principle that patterns of resource consumption should respect Parliament’s intentions,conventions and control procedures, including any laid down by the PAC. See box 2.4.Public Accountssee Committee of Public Accounts.CommitteePublic corporationa trading body controlled by central government, local authority or other publiccorporation that has substantial day to day operating independence. See section 7.8.Public Dividend finance provided by government to public sector bodies as an equity stake; an alternative to Capital, PDCloan finance.Public Service sets out what the public can expect the government to deliver with its resources. EveryAgreement, PSAlarge government department has PSA(s) which specify deliverables as targets or aimsrelated to objectives.a structured arrangement between a public sector and a private sector organisation tosecure an outcome delivering good value for money for the public sector. It is classified tothe public or private sector according to which has more control.Rate of returnthe financial remuneration delivered by a particular project or enterprise, expressed as apercentage of the net assets employed.Regularitythe principle that resource consumption should accord with the relevant legislation, therelevant delegated authority and this document. See box 2.4.Request for the functional level into which departmental Estimates may be split. RfRs contain a number Resources, RfRof functions being carried out by the department in pursuit of one or more of thatdepartment’s objectives.Resource accountan accruals account produced in line with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).Resource accountingthe system under which budgets, Estimates and accounts are constructed in a similar wayto commercial audited accounts, so that both plans and records of expenditure allow in fullfor the goods and services which are to be, or have been, consumed – ie not just the cashexpended.Resource budgetthe means by which the government plans and controls the expenditure of resources tomeet its objectives.Restitutiona legal concept which allows money and property to be returned to its rightful owner. Ittypically operates where another person can be said to have been unjustly enriched byreceiving such monies.Return on capital the ratio of profit to capital employed of an accounting entity during an identified period.employed, ROCEVarious measures of profit and of capital employed may be used in calculating the ratio.Public Privatepartnership, PPPPrivate Finance Initiative, PFIParliamentaryauthority61Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYRoyal charterthe document setting out the powers and constitution of a corporation established underprerogative power of the monarch acting on Privy Council advice.Second readingthe second formal time that a House of Parliament may debate a bill, although in practicethe first substantive debate on its content. If successful, it is deemed to denoteParliamentary approval of the principle of the proposed legislation.Secondary legislationlaws, including orders and regulations, which are made using powers in primary legislation.Normally used to set out technical and administrative provision in greater detail thanprimary legislation, they are subject to a less intense level of scrutiny in Parliament.European legislation is,however,often implemented in secondary legislation using powers inthe European Communities Act 1972.Service-level agreement between parties, setting out in detail the level of service to be performed.agreementWhere agreements are between central government bodies, they are not legally a contractbut have a similar function.Shareholder Executive a body created to improve the government’s performance as a shareholder in businesses.Spending reviewsets out the key improvements in public services that the public can expect over a givenperiod. It includes a thorough review of departmental aims and objectives to find the bestway of delivering the government’s objectives, and sets out the spending plans for the givenperiod.State aidstate support for a domestic body or company which could distort EU competition and sois not usually allowed. See annex 4.9.Statement of Excessa formal statement detailing departments’ overspends prepared by the Comptroller andAuditor General as a result of undertaking annual audits.Statement on Internal an annual statement that Accounting Officers are required to make as part of the accounts Control, SICon a range of risk and control issues.Subheadindividual elements of departmental expenditure identifiable in Estimates as single cells, forexample cell A1 being administration costs within a particular line of departmental spending.Supplyresources voted by Parliament in response to Estimates, for expenditure by governmentdepartments.Supply Estimatesa statement of the resources the government needs in the coming financial year, and forwhat purpose(s), by which Parliamentary authority is sought for the planned level ofexpenditure and income.Target rate of returnthe rate of return required of a project or enterprise over a given period, usually at least a year.Third sectorprivate sector bodies which do not act commercially,including charities,social and voluntaryorganisations and other not-for-profit collectives. See annex 7.7.Total Managed a Treasury budgeting term which covers all current and capital spending carried out by the Expenditure,TMEpublic sector (ie not just by central departments).Trading fundan organisation (either within a government department or forming one) which is largely orwholly financed from commercial revenue generated by its activities. Its Estimate shows itsnet impact, allowing its income from receipts to be devoted entirely to its business.Treasury Minutea formal administrative document drawn up by the Treasury, which may serve a wide varietyof purposes including seeking Parliamentary approval for the use of receipts asappropriations in aid, a remission of some or all of the principal of voted loans, andresponding on behalf of the government to reports by the Public Accounts Committee(PAC).62Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARY63Managing Public MoneyValue for moneythe process under which organisation’s procurement, projects and processes aresystematically evaluated and assessed to provide confidence about suitability, effectiveness,prudence,quality,value and avoidance of error and other waste,judged for the public sectoras a whole.Virementthe process through which funds are moved between subheads such that additionalexpenditure on one is met by savings on one or more others.Votethe process by which Parliament approves funds in response to supply Estimates.Voted expenditureprovision for expenditure that has been authorised by Parliament. Parliament ‘votes’authority for public expenditure through the Supply Estimates process. Most expenditureby central government departments is authorised in this way.Wider market activity activities undertaken by central government organisations outside their statutory duties,using spare capacity and aimed at generating a commercial profit. See annex 7.6.Windfallmonies received by a department which were not anticipated in the spending review.
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    Англо-русский экономический словарь > near cash

  • 8 Método de la Secuencia Crítica

    Ex. This system for planning and scheduling work, sometimes called Critical Path Method (CPM), involves: 1) identifying all of the key activities in a particular project; 2) devising the sequence of activities and arranging them in a flow diagram; and finally 3) assigning durations of time for the performance of each phase of the work to be done.
    * * *

    Ex: This system for planning and scheduling work, sometimes called Critical Path Method (CPM), involves: 1) identifying all of the key activities in a particular project; 2) devising the sequence of activities and arranging them in a flow diagram; and finally 3) assigning durations of time for the performance of each phase of the work to be done.

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  • 9 diagrama de flujo

    INFORMÁTICA flow chart
    * * *
    (n.) = flow diagram, flow chart [flowchart/flow-chart]
    Ex. This system for planning and scheduling work, sometimes called Critical Path Method (CPM), involves: 1) identifying all of the key activities in a particular project; 2) devising the sequence of activities and arranging them in a flow diagram; and finally 3) assigning durations of time for the performance of each phase of the work to be done.
    Ex. A flow chart can be a valuable tool in thinking through the main tasks and functions in a department and in helping to streamline processes.
    * * *
    (n.) = flow diagram, flow chart [flowchart/flow-chart]

    Ex: This system for planning and scheduling work, sometimes called Critical Path Method (CPM), involves: 1) identifying all of the key activities in a particular project; 2) devising the sequence of activities and arranging them in a flow diagram; and finally 3) assigning durations of time for the performance of each phase of the work to be done.

    Ex: A flow chart can be a valuable tool in thinking through the main tasks and functions in a department and in helping to streamline processes.

    * * *
    flow chart

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  • 10 verplanen

    I v/t
    1. (Gelder) budget; (Zeit) plan; seine Zeit verplant haben be fully booked; meine Urlaubstage habe ich schon verplant my holiday (Am. vacation) is all booked up (with various activities) already
    2. (falsch planen) plan wrong; (verschätzen) miscalculate
    II v/refl plan wrong, get one’s planning wrong
    * * *
    ver|pla|nen ptp verplant
    1. vt
    Zeit to book up; Geld to budget

    jdn verplánen (inf) — to fill up all sb's spare time (for him/her)

    2. vr
    to plan badly or wrongly; (= falsch berechnen) to miscalculate
    * * *
    ver·pla·nen *
    vt
    ▪ etw \verplanen to plan sth badly [or wrongly]; (falsch berechnen) to miscalculate sth
    ▪ etw [für etw akk] \verplanen to mark off sep sth [for sth]
    einen Etat \verplanen to plan a budget
    einen bestimmten Tag für eine Konferenz/eine Veranstaltung \verplanen to plan [to have] a conference/an event on a particular day
    ▪ [für etw akk] verplant sein to be booked up [or have no time] [for sth]
    * * *
    2) (festlegen, einteilen) book <person, time> up; commit <money, reprint>
    * * *
    A. v/t
    1. (Gelder) budget; (Zeit) plan;
    seine Zeit verplant haben be fully booked;
    meine Urlaubstage habe ich schon verplant my holiday (US vacation) is all booked up (with various activities) already
    2. (falsch planen) plan wrong; (verschätzen) miscalculate
    B. v/r plan wrong, get one’s planning wrong
    * * *
    2) (festlegen, einteilen) book <person, time> up; commit <money, reprint>

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  • 11 visitar

    v.
    to visit.
    el médico visitó al paciente the doctor called on o visited the patient
    Ricardo visita a María Richard visits Mary.
    Ricardo visita la casa de María Richard visits Ann's house.
    El turista visita la ciudad The tourist visits the city.
    * * *
    1 (ir a ver a alguien) to visit, pay a visit to, call on, go and see
    2 (lugar) to visit, see
    3 (inspeccionar) to inspect, visit, examine
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    VT (gen) to visit; (brevemente) to call on

    5.000 personas han visitado ya la exposición — 5,000 people have already visited the exhibition

    2.
    VI
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) < persona> to visit, visit with (AmE)
    b) < lugar> to visit
    2.
    visitarse v pron (recípr) to visit each other
    * * *
    = pay + a visit, visit, drop in, pay + visit, drop in on, make + the rounds, tour, check out, take + a trip to.
    Ex. Interestingly enough, Green himself had paid a visit to the 'Manchester Reference Library' where he was shown round by the librarian, Andrea Crestadoro, now best remembered as the pioneer of permuted keyword indexes.
    Ex. Interested parties can book time to visit our stores, but this is often inconvenient for them and expensive in terms of staff time.
    Ex. The library needs to be developed as the focal point of the community, a place where the public can drop in for all kinds of activities, not necessarily book-related or 'cultural'.
    Ex. A mobile library paid weekly visits to the workers getting the pipeline across the Volga.
    Ex. I'm already planning a quick train ride to Edinburgh to see the art museums there an drop in on the Edinburgh Festival.
    Ex. You may have seen the lines making the rounds of library e-mail: 'A Zen librarian searched for 'nothing' on the Internet and received 28 million hits'.
    Ex. A 5-day symposium was held at Champagne Public Library and an exhibition toured the public libraries of the state.
    Ex. Where problems do arise it is sensible to check out the training programme before blaming the assistant for poor performance of duties.
    Ex. I have always thought that it would be neat to take a trip to Israel -- as a Christian it would be so historically mind blowing.
    ----
    * visitar a = drop by.
    * visitar a Alguien = look + Nombre + up.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) < persona> to visit, visit with (AmE)
    b) < lugar> to visit
    2.
    visitarse v pron (recípr) to visit each other
    * * *
    = pay + a visit, visit, drop in, pay + visit, drop in on, make + the rounds, tour, check out, take + a trip to.

    Ex: Interestingly enough, Green himself had paid a visit to the 'Manchester Reference Library' where he was shown round by the librarian, Andrea Crestadoro, now best remembered as the pioneer of permuted keyword indexes.

    Ex: Interested parties can book time to visit our stores, but this is often inconvenient for them and expensive in terms of staff time.
    Ex: The library needs to be developed as the focal point of the community, a place where the public can drop in for all kinds of activities, not necessarily book-related or 'cultural'.
    Ex: A mobile library paid weekly visits to the workers getting the pipeline across the Volga.
    Ex: I'm already planning a quick train ride to Edinburgh to see the art museums there an drop in on the Edinburgh Festival.
    Ex: You may have seen the lines making the rounds of library e-mail: 'A Zen librarian searched for 'nothing' on the Internet and received 28 million hits'.
    Ex: A 5-day symposium was held at Champagne Public Library and an exhibition toured the public libraries of the state.
    Ex: Where problems do arise it is sensible to check out the training programme before blaming the assistant for poor performance of duties.
    Ex: I have always thought that it would be neat to take a trip to Israel -- as a Christian it would be so historically mind blowing.
    * visitar a = drop by.
    * visitar a Alguien = look + Nombre + up.

    * * *
    visitar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹amigo/familiar/enfermo› to visit, visit with ( AmE)
    el Rey visitó a los heridos the King visited o went to see the injured
    2 ‹país/museo/fábrica› to visit
    visitaron todos los museos de Boston they visited o went to every museum in Boston
    3 ( Inf) ‹sitio web› to visit
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    visitar ( conjugate visitar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹ persona› to visit, visit with (AmE)

    b) ‹ lugar› to visit

    visitarse verbo pronominal ( recípr) to visit each other
    visitar verbo transitivo to visit
    ' visitar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    franquicia
    - ver
    - gustar
    English:
    call
    - call back
    - call in
    - call on
    - come over
    - come round
    - drop in
    - drop round
    - pop in
    - pretence
    - pretense
    - pretext
    - see
    - stop by
    - tour
    - visit
    - worth
    - go
    - sight
    - take
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [amigo, enfermo] to visit
    2. [ciudad, museo] to visit
    3. [sujeto: médico] to visit, to call on;
    el médico visitó al paciente the doctor called on o visited the patient
    * * *
    v/t
    1 visit
    2
    :
    el doctor no visita los lunes the doctor isn’t on duty Mondays
    * * *
    : to visit
    * * *
    1. (en general) to visit
    2. (médico) to see [pt. saw; pp. seen]

    Spanish-English dictionary > visitar

  • 12 business plan

    Gen Mgt
    a document describing the current activities of a business, setting out its aims and objectives and how they are to be achieved over a set period of time. A business plan may cover the activities of an organization or a group of companies, or it may deal with a single department within the organization. In the former case, it is sometimes referred to as a corporate plan. The sections of a business plan usually include a market analysis describing the target market, customers, and competitors, an operations plan describing how products and services will be developed and produced, and a financial section providing profit, budget, and cash flow forecasts, annual accounts, and financial requirements. Businesses may use a business plan internally as a framework for implementing strategy and improving performance or externally to attract investment or raise capital for development plans. A business plan may form part of the overall planning process, or corporate planning, within an organization and be used for the implementation of corporate strategy.

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  • 13 critical-path method

    Gen Mgt, Ops
    a network analysis planning technique used especially in project management to identify the activities within a project that are critical for its success.
         In critical-path method, individual activities within a project and their duration are recorded in a diagram or flow chart. A critical path is plotted through the diagram, showing the sequence in which activities must be completed in order to complete the project in the shortest amount of time, incurring the least cost.

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  • 14 PERT (Técnica para la Evaluación y Revisión de Programas)

    Nota: Método utilizado en la planificación y distribución de cualquier proyecto a realizar por una biblioteca o centro de documentación.
    Ex. Just as with other techniques of control in the planning process already discussed, in PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) one must be able to state objectives, then activities must be enumerated and estimates must be given for the time required for each of these activities.

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  • 15 PERT

    PERT (Técnica para la Evaluación y Revisión de Programas)
    Nota: Método utilizado en la planificación y distribución de cualquier proyecto a realizar por una biblioteca o centro de documentación.

    Ex: Just as with other techniques of control in the planning process already discussed, in PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) one must be able to state objectives, then activities must be enumerated and estimates must be given for the time required for each of these activities.

    Spanish-English dictionary > PERT

  • 16 network analysis

    Gen Mgt, Ops
    any of a set of techniques developed to aid the planning, monitoring, and controlling of complex projects and project resources. Network analysis is a tool of project management that involves breaking down a project into component parts or individual activities and recording them on a network diagram or flow chart. The resulting chart shows the interaction and interrelations between activities and can be used to determine project duration, time and resource limitations, and cost estimates. Constituent techniques include the criticalpath method and the program evaluation and review technique.

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  • 17 project

    Gen Mgt
    a set of activities designed to achieve a specified goal, within a given period of time. Projects focus on activities outside the routine operations of an organization. They vary immensely in size, scope, and complexity and often involve drawing together resources from different parts of an organization for the duration of the project. The process of planning and completing projects is known as project management.

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  • 18 lie

    I 1. I
    1) let the book lie оставь книгу там, где она лежит; that great temple where the bones of so many heroes lie знаменитый собор, где погребены останки стольких героев; the snow did not lie снег быстро стаял
    2) he knows where his interests lie он знает, что ему выгодно; where does happiness lie? в чем счастье?
    2. II
    1) lie somewhere lie here (there, everywhere, etc.) лежать /валяться/ здесь и т.д., have you lain here all day? вы пролежали здесь весь день?; here lies John Smith здесь покоится прах Джона Смита
    2) lie at some time how does the matter lie at present? в каком состоянии находятся /как обстоят/ дела в настоящее время?
    3. IV
    || lie face downward лежать ничком; lie face upward лежать лицом вверх /на спине/
    4. XIV
    lie doing smth. lie reading (looking around, waiting, etc.) читать и т. д. лежа; lie crying лежать и плакать
    5. XV
    lie in some state lie asleep [лежать и] спать; lie half-awake наполовину /не совсем еще/ проснуться; he was lying half-asleep он лежал в полусне, он [лежал и] дремал; lie still (rigid, motionless, etc.) лежать спокойно /тихо/ и т.д., lie ill [in bed] болеть, лежать в постели; lie open быть открытым; lie dead лежать мертвым; lie helpless лежать в беспомощном состоянии; lie waste /barren/ быть заброшенным; the land lies waste земля не обрабатывается /заброшена/; lie idle лежать, ничего не делая, валяться без дела; money lies idle in the bank деньги в банке лежат без движения /мертвым капиталом/; the factory has been lying idle for a year фабрика не работает /стоит/ уже год; the snow lies deep снег лежит толстым слоем; the principle lies deep in human nature эта черта присуща человеку /укоренилась в человеке/; lie heavy on smb.'s conscience лежать тяжким грузом у кого-л. на совести; lie high (low, far away, etc.) лежать /находиться/ высоко и т. д.
    6. XVI
    1) lie он smth. lie on the table (on the ground, on the floor, on the bed, on a couch, on the damp grass, etc.) лежать /валяться/ на столе и т. д., lie on one's back (on one's side) лежать на спине (на боку); lie on one's face лежать ничком; all the responsibility lies on his shoulders вся ответственность лежит на нем; lie in smth. lie in the dust (in a box, in a junk room, etc.) лежать /валяться/ в пыли и т. д.; lie in bed with flu болеть гриппом; don't lie in bed all morning не валяйся в постели все утро; ships lie in the harbour корабли стоит в гавани; lie in one's grave лежать в могиле; lie in the churchyard покоиться на кладбище; lie in Westminster (in Plymouth, etc.) быть похороненным в Вестминстере и т. д., lie in prison сидеть /томиться/ в тюрьме; lie in ambush сидеть в засаде; lie in wait for smb. подстерегать кого-л.; lie in ruins (in ashes) лежать в развалинах /в руинах/; lie with smth. on (to, in, etc.) smth. lie with one's head on the pillow (with one's legs on the floor, with one's face to the east,lie with one's back to the wall, etc.) лежать головой на подушке и т. д.; lie with smth. in some state lie with one's eyes open (with one's mouth shut, etc.) лежать с открытыми глазами и т. д; lie about smth. lie about the room (about the beach, about the territory, etc.) валяться /лежать, быть разбросанным/ по всей комнате и т. д.; lie around smb. ruins lay all around us повсюду /вокруг нас/ лежали руины; lie over smth. a white mist lay over London Лондон был окутан белым туманом
    2) lie in (among, to, etc.) smth. lie in the mountains (among pretty scenery, below the castle) to the west of the city, etc.) находиться /быть расположенным/ в горах и т. д., the village lies on a plain деревня находится /лежит, стоит, раскинулась/ посреди равнины; London lies on the Thames Лондон стоит на Темзе; the town lies on the right bank of the river город раскинулся на правом берегу реки; а road lies along a stream (along the coast, along the valley, among bushes, through the woods, etc.) дорога идет /проходит/ вдоль ручья и т. д.; my house lies on his way мой дом находится у него на пути; the ocean lay at our feet [внизу] у наших ног /под нами/ лежал /простирался/ океан; а town lay before us перед нашим взором раскинулся город; а long journey lies before you вам предстоит длинное путешествие; the world (a splendid future, a brilliant career, etc.) lies before you перед вами открыт весь мир и т. д.; the philosophy (the principle, the theory, etc.) that lies at the bottom /at the base/ of their activities философия и т. д., лежащая / которая лежит/ в основе их деятельности; lie between life and death находиться между жизнью и смертью; the truth lies between these extremes истину следует искать между этими крайностями; as much as lies in my power насколько это в моей власти; I will do all that lies in my power я сделаю все, что в моих силах; the problem lies outside our present inquiry эта проблема не входит в данное исследование; lie with smb. the fault (the responsibility, etc.) lies with him (with the teacher, with the government officials, etc.) он и т. д. виноват. это его и т. д. вина; with whom does the blame lie? кто виноват?; the choice lies with you вам предоставляется право выбора; it lies with smb. to do smth. it lies with you to decide (to take the initiative, to prove smth., to make excuses, to make amends, to watch over the child, etc.) право решать и т. д. предоставляется вам
    3) lie in smth. lie in education ( in contentment, in one's character, in smb.'s weakness, etc.) основываться на образовании и т. д., the point /the nub/ of the story lies in its humour соль рассказа в его юморе /объясняется его юмором/; the trouble lies in the engine неполадки /причину неполадок/ следует искать в моторе; his talents do not lie in that direction его способности проявляются в другой области
    7. XVII
    lie in doing smth. his future lies in farming (in acting, in fencing, etc.) его будущее в сельском хозяйстве и т. д.; the success of this venture lies in planning успех этого мероприятия зависит от того, какой будет разработан план; the point lies more in telling that in the tale дело не в самом рассказе, а в том, как его рассказывают
    II 1. I
    he is lying он лжет; stop lying хватит врать!; lie but don't overdo it ври, да не завирайся; that clock must be lying эти часы, должно быть, врут /идут неправильно/; the camera doesn't lie камера не искажает
    2. II
    lie in some manner lie intentionally (readily, unknowingly, shamelessly, brazenly, glibly, plausibly, etc.) намеренно /сознательно/ и т. д. лгать; lie unblushingly врать и не краснеть; she never lies она никогда не лжет /не говорят неправды/
    3. XVI
    lie to smb. he lied to me он мне солгал /сказал неправду/; she never lied to her husband она никогда не лгала своему мужу; lie about smb., smth. she lied about you она вас оболгала; there is no doubt he is lying about it насчет этого он, несомненно, врет id lie in one's teeth нагло лгать
    4. XVIII
    lie oneself into (out of) smth. he lied himself into the theatre он попал в театр с помощью лжи: he lied himself into trouble ложь довела его до беды; he lied himself out of trouble /out of a difficulty, out of a scrape/ он выпутался из неприятностей при помощи лжи
    5. XIX1
    lie like smb. lie like a child (like a lawyer, like any card-player, etc.) врать как ребенок и т. д.
    6. XXI1
    lie smb. out of smth. she lied him out of his money она вытянула у него деньги обманным путем || lie one's way into smth. обманным путем проникнуть куда-л.; he managed to lie his way into the director's office ему удалось придумать какой-то предлог, чтобы попасть в кабинет директора; he lied his way into the job он заполучил эту работу обманным путем; lie one's way out of smth. обманным путем выпутаться из чего-л.; lie one's way out of difficulty /out of trouble, out of a scrape/ выпутаться из затруднительного положения при помощи лжи
    7. XXII
    lie smb. into (out of) doing smth. she lied him into going with her она наплела с три короба, и ему пришлось пойти с ней; he lied her out of going with him он наговорил ей всяких небылиц, чтобы она с ним не ходила

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  • 19 new product development

    Mktg
    the processes involved in getting a new product or service to market. The traditional product development cycle, the stage-gate model, embraces the conception, generation, analysis, development, testing, marketing, and commercialization of new products or services. Alternative models of new product development fall into two broad categories: accelerating time to market models and integrated implementation models. These strive to achieve both flexibility and acceleration of development. All activities such as design, production planning, and test marketing are performed in parallel rather than going through a sequential linear progression.
    Abbr. NPD

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  • 20 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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