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Glossary

PROMISLingua has a very innovative approach which requires a common understanding and a common nomenclature. The following section presents a list of specialist words and their definitions

Packet
A bundle of data transmitted over a network. Packets have no set size; they can range from one character to hundreds of characters.

Source: Learning Circuits

Participant
Means a beneficiary or a member.

Source: European Commission

Parties
Means the Community and the beneficiary(ies).

Source: European Commission

Password
Secret code of letters and numbers needed to gain access to a time-sharing computer or FTP system, or to protect Web pages.
PDA (personal digital assistant)
Handheld computer device used to organize personal information such as contacts, schedules, and so forth. Data can usually be transferred to a desktop computer by cable or wireless transmission.

Source: Learning Circuits

PDF (Portable Document Format)
File format developed by Adobe Systems to enable users of any hardware or software platform to view documents exactly as they were created – with fonts, images, links, and layouts as they were originally designed.

Source: Learning Circuits

Peer-to-peer network (P2P)
A communications network that enables users to connect their computers and share files directly with other users, without having to go through a centralized server. Groove is an example of an application that runs on a peer-to-peer network.

Source: Learning Circuits

People (structure) A3
All types of people (stakeholders) within an organisation and interacted with externally. People may occupy a post within an organisation and additionally be appointed to a role such as being the appointed first aider or to manage a specific project.

Source: PROMIS@Service

Perl
Perl is a general-purpose programming language invented in 1987 by Larry Wall. With over one million users worldwide, it has become the language of choice for Web development, text processing, Internet services, mail filtering, graphical programming, systems administration, and every other task requiring portable and easily-developed solutions.
Personalization
Tailoring Web content to an individual user. Can be accomplished by a user entering preferences or by a computer guessing about the user s preferences.

Source: Learning Circuits

PHP
PHP  (Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc.
PHP can be written as scripts that reside on the server and may produce HTML output that downloads to the web browser. Alternatively, PHP can be embedded within HTML pages that are then saved with a .php file extension.
Ping
Packet InterNet Groper is a program and UNIX command that helps testing and debugging network and/or Internet connections. An 'Echo' command is sent to a specified computer and then waits for a response. The result is a report that displays the success or failure, usually a report back of a timed response in seconds, of the intended action.
Pixel (Picture Element)
Tiny dots that make up a computer image. The more pixels a computer monitor can display, the better the image resolution and quality. On a color monitor, every pixel is composed of a red, a green, and a blue dot that are small enough to appear as a single entity.

Source: Learning Circuits

Plan
‘Plan’ forms the first stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle.
Planning establishes the objectives to be achieved and the processes and related structural elements required to achieve them.

Source: PROMIS@Service

Plan, Do, Check, Act PDCA
The PDCA is a natural cycle used by conscious animals to assess what must be done to perform something successfully before doing it, together with checking success and finally reviewing and taking action to continually improve when it it is done again.

Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl

Plug-and-play
The ability of a personal computer s operating system to recognize and install with little to no intervention by the user new peripheral devices that are added to the computer.

Source: Learning Circuits

Plug-in
An accessory program that adds capabilities to the main program. Used on Webpages to display multimedia content.

Source: Learning Circuits

PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
The patent-free graphics compression format developed by Macromedia expected to replace GIF. PNG offers advanced graphics features such as 48-bit color.

Source: Learning Circuits

Point-to-multipoint
Transmission between multiple locations using a bridge.

Source: Learning Circuits

Point-to-point
Transmission between two locations.

Source: Learning Circuits

POP (Post Office Protocol)
The set of rules and standards that govern the retrieval of email messages from a mail server.

Source: Learning Circuits

Portal
A Website that acts as a doorway to the Internet or a portion of the Internet, targeted towards one particular subject. Also see learning portal.

Source: Learning Circuits

Post
To place a message in a public message forum. Also, to place an HTML page on the World Wide Web.

Source: Learning Circuits

Power users
Advanced, sophisticated users of technology (usually a computer application or an operating system) who know more than just the basics needed to operate it.

Source: Learning Circuits

PPP
A software package that enables a user to connect directly to the Internet over a telephone line.

Source: Learning Circuits

Pre-Existing Know-How
"Pre-existing know-how" means information, other than knowledge, held by the participants prior to the conclusion of the grant agreement or the membership agreement or acquired in parallel with them and necessary for carrying out the project, as well as copyright or rights attaching to such information following applications for, or the issue or registration of, patents, designs and models, plant varieties, additional certificates or other similar forms of protection.

Source: European Commission

Pre-financing
Any part of the Community financial contribution which is paid in order to provide advance funds to permit the work on the project to begin, as specified in Article 3.1, point a) of this Annex and any periodic instalments as specified in Article 3.1, point b) of this Annex.

Source: European Commission

Processes (dynamics) B1
Processes transform inputs into outputs and are hosted by structure and its elements.Processes can have desired but also undesired outcomes such as harming people, harming the environment and displeasing customers and other stakeholders.

Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl

Profit
Shall mean any surplus of actual receipts attributable to the project over the costs, whether duly established or confirmed in the case of other outside funding, or whether determined by applying the principles laid down to establish the total actual costs of the project.

Source: European Commission

Program
See application.

Source: Learning Circuits

Project
Means all the work referred to in Annex I to this grant agreement.

Source: European Commission

Project commencement date
Means the date referred to in Article 2.1 of this grant agreement.

Source: European Commission

Project deliverables
Means the reports, requests for payments and financial statements referred to in Article 4 of this grant agreement and Article 4 of this Annex as well as any element designated as such in Annex I to this grant agreement.

Source: European Commission

PROMIS Qualified Consultant
A qualified consultant (ISO and/or EMAS and/or OSHAS and others) or recognized*, experienced and competent technical expert, who provides advice, resources and training to Small and Medium Enterprises and other organisations in required aspects of: • Design and implementation of fully integrated management systems addressing: quality, health, safety and environmental good practice; • Regulatory and management standards compliance; • Risk management; • Performance monitoring; • Change and continual improvement; • Certification of integrated management systems.

Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl

PROMIS@Service
PROMIS@Service, means the company established in May 2008 in Luxembourg to commercialise the PROMIS® solution and services in Europe and beyond

Source: PROMIS@Service Sarl

PROMIS®
PROMIS® means the whole service offered to the customers containing the internet platform, the methodology, the content, including also eLearning, the services and integrated tools. PROMIS comprises two interlinked parts, the Knowledge base, which embraces the first four levels of the Pyramid, and myPROMIS® that is a web based, intranet, as well as software application for hosting an organisation’s integrated management system and its structural and dynamic data.

Source: PROMIS@Service

PROMISLingua®
PROMISLingua® is the co-funded European project aiming at the translation, localisation and implementation of the existing PROMIS® online service (at the moment available in English, German and Italian) in additional six languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Romanian and Hungarian) in order to shorten the time-to-market of PROMIS® and deliver a cost-efficient and easy-to-use Internet based service for Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) management by SMEs and their consultants via multilingual translation and innovative support services. To support the market entry of PROMIS® in 6 additional countries, the PROMIS® technology system will be enhanced and customised to multiple languages with online automated translation systems, Machine Translation, structuring of content, information retrieval.

Source: PROMIS@Service

Protocol
The rules make possible the exchange of messages between users on the Internet, or within any given network. A formal set of standards, rules, or formats for exchanging data that assures uniformity between computers and applications.

Source: Learning Circuits

Proxy servers
A proxy server is a system that caches items from other servers to speed up access. On the Web, a proxy first attempts to find data locally, and if it's not there, fetches it from the remote server where the data resides permanently.
Pull technology
In reference to the Internet or other online services, the technology whereby people use software such as a Web browser to locate and "pull down" information for themselves. See also push technology.

Source: Learning Circuits

Purchase orders or letters of credit
Making compliance with the company policy a contractual obligation for suppliers.

Source: http://www-old.itcilo.org

Push technology
In reference to the Internet or other online services, the technology whereby information is sent directly to a user s computer. See also pull technology.

Source: Learning Circuits

Pyramid (Knowledge Repository)
Pyramid (Knowledge Repository), is the tool to structure, filter and share knowledge from a sector (e.g. Pharma) and/or theme (e.g. Industrial Safety) and/or domain (e.g. Maintenance), which may be prepared and organized by institutions, associations and experts in standard categories or entirely according to the expert’s own choice. Consultants can, for example, use the pyramid to structure their own expertise, as well as to provide links to particular selected content, which they consider interesting or important for their own clients.

Source: PROMIS@Service