AGROVOC

Conjugated protein-carbohydrate compounds including mucins, mucoid, and amyloid glycoproteins. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2014/MB_cgi?mode=&index=5767&field=all&HM=&II=&PA=&form=&input=)

In scientific usage, a phenomenon is any event that is observable, however common it might be, even if it requires the use of instrumentation to observe, record, or compile data concerning it. In natural sciences, a phenomenon is an observable happening or event. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon)

It consists of a cone shaped body, normally made of four panels, ending in a codend with lateral wings extending forward from the opening. It is usually much larger than a bottom trawl and designed and rigged to fish in midwater, including in the surface water. (Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO, 2017 (http://www.fao.org/fishery/geartype/207/en))

Countour bunding is practice of building earthen walls or barriers built across a slope (along the contours) to act as a barrier to runoff. (Adapted from http://www.fao.org/3/ad083e/ad083e07.htm and https://www.exploraedu.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/GLOSSARIO-GARDENS_LR.pdf)

Heat sterilization using an autoclave, a device that sterilizes instruments or other objects using steam under pressure. The length of time required for sterilization depends on temperature, vacuum, and pressure. (Adapted from CDC, 2024. Glossary from the Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities (2008). https://www.cdc.gov/infection-control/hcp/disinfection-sterilization/glossary.html)

Chemicals which contain hydrogen and carbon, and which evaporate easily. (FAOTERM)

A process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation. (UNGA (United Nations General Assembly). 2016. Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction. Seventy-first session, Agenda item 19 (c), A/71/644. New York, USA. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/852089)

In an organic arsenic compound, the arsenic atom is attached to a carbon that may, for example, be part of a sugar molecule such as ribose. Organic arsenic compounds exist mainly in fish and shellfish. (https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health/what-difference-between-organic-and-inorganic-arsenic AND https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Arsenic_FactSheet.html)