EvaluationIn common usage, evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realisable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to help in decision-making; or to ascertain the degree of achievement or value in regard to the aim and objectives and results of any such action that has been completed.
Impact evaluationImpact evaluation assesses the changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention, such as a project, program or policy, both the intended ones, as well as ideally the unintended ones. In contrast to outcome monitoring, which examines whether targets have been achieved, impact evaluation is structured to answer the question: how would outcomes such as participants' well-being have changed if the intervention had not been undertaken? This involves counterfactual analysis, that is, "a comparison between what actually happened and what would have happened in the absence of the intervention.
100% renewable energy100% renewable energy means getting all energy from renewable resources. The endeavor to use 100% renewable energy for electricity, heating, cooling and transport is motivated by climate change, pollution and other environmental issues, as well as economic and energy security concerns. Shifting the total global primary energy supply to renewable sources requires a transition of the energy system, since most of today's energy is derived from non-renewable fossil fuels.
Network socketA network socket is a software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network. The structure and properties of a socket are defined by an application programming interface (API) for the networking architecture. Sockets are created only during the lifetime of a process of an application running in the node.
Énergie nucléaireSelon le contexte d'usage, le terme d’énergie nucléaire recouvre plusieurs acceptions, toutes liées à la physique et aux réactions de noyaux atomiques. Dans le langage courant, l’énergie nucléaire correspond aux usages civils et militaires de l’énergie libérée lors des réactions de fission nucléaire ou de fusion nucléaire de noyaux atomiques au sein d'un réacteur nucléaire ou lors d'une explosion atomique.
Logiciel multiplateformeUn logiciel multiplateforme est un logiciel conçu pour fonctionner sur plusieurs plateformes informatiques. De nombreux langages de programmation sont considérés être multiplateformes . En effet, il suffit de développer un compilateur destiné à générer un code exécutable compréhensible par chacun des processeurs qu’on désire utiliser. On aurait donc : un seul langage de programmation et un compilateur par type de processeur (des processeurs seraient considérés de même type s'ils sont identiquement structurés).
Plate-forme (informatique)En informatique, une plateforme ou plate-forme est un environnement permettant la gestion ou l'utilisation de services (ou logiciels) applicatifs.
