A multinational corporation is a company that does business in a select few countries around the world and operates facilities such as warehouses or distribution centres in at least one foreign country. (Business Development Bank of Canada, 2024. Glossary. Multinational corporation. https://www.bdc.ca/en/articles-tools/entrepreneur-toolkit/templates-business-guides/glossary/multinational-corporation)
A place on the coast where ships may moor in shelter, especially one protected from rough water by piers, jetties, and other artificial structures. (FAOLEX. 2025. Glossary https://www.fao.org/faolex/)
Traditional medicine is the sum total of the knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health, as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illnesses. (WHO General Guidelines for Methodologies on Research and Evaluation of Traditional Medicine (WHO/EDM/TRM/2000.1), p. 1)
Transnational corporations refers to international organizations (usually, international nongovernmental organizations) that "transcend" the idea of a nation-state, acting at a geographical scale larger than that of states, so as to take into account the interests of a supranational entity. (Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_organization and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnationality)
A Potyvirus containing single-stranded RNA, infecting plants from the Liliiflorae family as well as the Leguminosae family, transmitted by aphids and sap, causing symptoms in its hosts such as mosaicism ranging from bright light yellow to dark green, leaf deformation, apical necrosis, and rosette formation. (Translated from http://terim.tuba.gov.tr/)
Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of one genotype to produce more than one phenotype when exposed to different environments. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotypic_plasticity)
The balance of nature, also known as ecological balance, is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis, which is to say that a small change (the size of a particular population, for example) will be corrected by some negative feedback that will bring the parameter back to its original "point of balance" with the rest of the system. (Wikipedia, 2024. Balance of nature. [Cited 12 November 2024]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_nature)
The movement of the charged molecules in solution in an electrical field. The solution is generally held in a porous support medium, such as a gel made of starch, agar, or polyacrylamide. Electrophoresis is generally used to separate molecules from a mixture, based upon differences in net electrical charge and also by size or geometry of the molecules, dependent upon the characteristics of the gel matrix. (IAEA. 2006. SIT-Glossary https://nucleus-qa.iaea.org/sites/naipc/twd/Pages/SIT-Glossary.aspx)
Wood from trees that produce flowers and have broad leaves and the seeds of which are enclosed in seed-bearing structures or fruit. (FAO and Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, the United Republic of Tanzania. 2024. Forests for a sustainable future: education modules for primary schools – Teacher's book: Module 2 Forests, health and well-being. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc4630en)
