Quesitons about designing a race...

[Claymore 2002]

I have searched through the Posts and have not been able to find a thread dealing with this particular quesiton, so here goes:

What, exatcly, do the percentages in the Race characteristics mean?

E.g. If I set my intelligence to +10%, what effect does this have? Does it mean that I get a 10% bonus to my reseach points each turn? Does it mena I get an extra 10% of research points on turn 1?

The critical issue for me is, are these bonuses given per turn? per game year? per what??????

Thanks,

Claymore