Glossary.md

Glossary

Bold terms or expressions means those were added after the completion of the previous sprint.

Terms or Expression (EN)	Termo ou Expressão (PT)	Description (EN)
Administrator	Administrador	A person responsible for carrying out the administration of a business or organization.
Adverse Reactions	Reações adversas	An adverse effect is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention, such as surgery.
Algorithm	Algoritmo	A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end.
Application User	Utilizador da Aplicação	A person that is going to use the application as a client
Application	Aplicação	A program that performs a particular task or set of tasks.
Asymptotic Behavior	Comportamento Assintótico	The asymptotic behavior of sequences of random variables – that is, the behavior of infinitely long sequences of random variables – is an involved mathematical concept but it has important implications for the statistical analysis of data from large samples.
Benchmark Algorithm	Algoritmo de Referência	In statistical learning benchmarking is the methodology of comparing learners or algorithms with respect to a certain performance measure.
Brute-Force Algorithm	Algoritmo de Força Bruta	In computer science, brute-force search or exhaustive search, also known as generate and test, is a very general problem-solving technique and algorithmic paradigm that consists of systematically enumerating all possible candidates for the solution and checking whether each candidate satisfies the problem's statement.
CamelCase	CamelCase	CamelCase is a naming convention in which a name is formed of multiple words that are joined together as a single word with the first letter of each of the multiple words capitalized so that each word that makes up the name can easily be read.
Centers	Centros	The point from which an activity or process is directed, or on which it is focused.
Client	Cliente	A person served by or utilizing the services of a social agency.
Computational Complexity	Complexidade Computacional	In computer science, the computational complexity or simply complexity of an algorithm is the amount of resources required to run it. Particular focus is given to time and memory requirements.
Contiguous	Contíguo	Being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point.
Coordinator	Coordenador	A person whose job is to organize events or activities and to negotiate with others in order to ensure they work together effectively.
Default	Predefinição	A preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer.
Digital Certificate	Certificado Digital	An official document that states that the information on it is true, however it's in a digital format.
Dosage Scheme	Esquema de Dosagem	The size, frequency and number of doses of a given vaccine.
Employee	Funcionário	A person employed for wages or salary, especially at non-executive level.
Entries and Exits List	Lista de Entradas e Saídas	List of people that have entered and exited the vaccination center
FIFO Queue	Fila FIFO	A FIFO queue is a queue that operates on a first-in, first-out (FIFO) principle. This means that the request (like a customer in a store or a print job sent to a printer) is processed in the order in which it arrives.
GHD	DGS	Acronym for General Health Directorate.
GRHC	AGES	Acronym for Groupings of Health Centers.
Given Vaccine	Vácina administrada	The vaccine that was administered to the patient.
Healthcare Center	Centro de cuidados de saúde	A healthcare center is one of a network of clinics staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses providing healthcare services to people in a certain area.
JUnit5	JUnit5	JUnit 5 is the updated version of the highly popular testing library for Java applications, JUnit.
JaCoCo	JaCoCo	JaCoCo runs as a Java agent. It's responsible for instrumenting the byte code while running the tests. JaCoCo drills into each instruction, and shows which lines are exercised during each test
JavaFX 11	JavaFX 11	JavaFX is a modern, efficient, and fully featured toolkit for developing rich client applications.
Javadoc	Javadoc	Javadoc is a documentation tool for the Java programming language. The document it creates from the Java sources is in HTML format and describes the application programming interface.
Mass Vaccination Center	Centro de Vacinação em Massa	Mass vaccination centes are similar to healthcare centers but usually only administer one type of vaccine during pandemic events.
NHS	SNS	Acronym for National Health Service.
Nurse	Enfermeira	A person skilled or trained in caring for sick or injured people.
Outbreak	Surto	A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease.
Performance	Desempenho	The execution of an action.
RHA	ARS	Acronym for Regional Health Administration.
Receptionist	Rececionista	A receptionist is an employee taking an office or administrative support position.
SMS	SMS	Acronym for Short Message Service.
SNS User	Utilizador SNS	SNS User is a person that is registered in the SNS system
SVG	SVG	Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a web-friendly vector file format. As opposed to pixel-based raster files like JPEGs, vector files store images via mathematical formulas based on points and lines on a grid.
Slot	Intervalo	A time when something can happen or is planned to happen, especially when it is one of several possible times.
System	Sistema	A group of devices or artificial objects or an organization forming a network especially for distributing something or serving a common purpose.
Time Complexity	Complexidade Temporal	Time complexity is the amount of time taken by an algorithm to run, as a function of the length of the input. It measures the time taken to execute each statement of code in an algorithm.
Type of Vaccine	Tipo de Vácina	Related to the kind of virus that the vaccine cures
User Info	Informação do Utilzador	Health related information about an user
User Waiting List	Lista de espera de Utilizadores	List of users who're waiting in the vaccination center to be vaccinated
User	Utilizador	A person who uses or operates something.
Vaccination Center	Centro de Vacinação	In our case, it includes mass vaccination centers and healthcare centers, linking both because they share the vaccination process
Vaccination Process	Processo de Vacinação	The entire process from start to finish that an user has to endure in order to complete their vaccination
Vaccine Appointment	Agendamento de Vacinas	An arrangement for a meeting with the vaccination center in order to be administered a vaccine
Vaccine	Vacina	A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.