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ACeS ( PT Asia Cellular Satellite ) was a regional satellite telecommunications company based in Jakarta , Indonesia . It offered GSM -like satellite telephony services to Asian market. The coverage area included Indonesia , Malaysia , Thailand , Philippines , Sri Lanka , Vietnam , China and India . The company operate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACeS
In organic chemistry , AD-mix is a commercially available mixture of reagents that acts as an asymmetric catalyst for various chemical reactions, including the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes . The two letters AD, stand for asymmetric dihydroxylation. The mix is available in two variations, "AD-mix α"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD-mix
ADAHELI , ADvanced Astronomy for HELIophysics, is an Italian solar satellite project for the investigation of solar activity and dynamics. [ 1 ] It is designed to investigate the fast dynamics of the solar photosphere and chromosphere performing visible and NIR broad-band and monochromatic observations. [ 2 ] On board...
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1BKC , 1ZXC , 2A8H , 2DDF , 2FV5 , 2FV9 , 2I47 , 2M2F , 2OI0 , 3B92 , 3CKI , 3E8R , 3EDZ , 3EWJ , 3G42 , 3KMC , 3KME , 3L0T , 3L0V , 3LE9 , 3LEA , 3LGP , 3O64 6868 11491 ENSG00000151694 ENSMUSG00000052593 P78536 Q9Z0F8 NM_003183 NM_001382777 NM_001382778 NM_021832 NM_001277266 NM_009615 NM_001291871 NP_003174 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAM17
ADInstruments is an international company that produces data acquisition and analysis systems for the life sciences industry. It is headquartered in Dunedin , New Zealand, and has more than 170 staff worldwide. Voted a finalist in Kenexa/JRA Top 10 Best Place to work in 2009, [ 1 ] 2010, [ 2 ] 2011 [ 3 ] and 2012, [ 4 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADInstruments
ADL , Astronomsko društvo Labod (Slovenian for Cygnus Astronomical Society ) is the most active Slovenian astronomical society. It organises astronomy camps, lectures for youths and similar events. [ 1 ] The activity field of organization covers various fields of astronomy: planetary astrophotography , photometry of v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADL_astronomical_society
ADMAR , an initialism for the German title Abgesetzte Darstellung von MADAP Radar data , was the predecessor product of CIMACT . The EUROCONTROL software product ADMAR did combine and merge several civilian surveillance- and military sensor data sources with Flight plan data sources. After data correlation it was able...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADMAR
ADME is the four-letter abbreviation (acronym) for absorption , distribution , metabolism , and excretion , and is mainly used in fields such as pharmacokinetics and pharmacology . The four letter stands for descriptors quantifying how a given drug interacts within body over time. The term ADME was first introduced in ...
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Since Dimitri Mendeleev formulated the periodic law in 1871, and published an associated periodic table of chemical elements , authors have experimented with varying types of periodic tables including for teaching, aesthetic or philosophical purposes. Earlier, in 1869, Mendeleev had mentioned different layouts includi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADOMAH_(periodic_table)
ADP-ribosylation is the addition of one or more ADP-ribose moieties to a protein . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a reversible post-translational modification that is involved in many cellular processes, including cell signaling , DNA repair , gene regulation and apoptosis . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Improper ADP-ribosylation has been implicated...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADP-ribosylation
Adenine nucleotide translocator ( ANT ), also known as the ADP/ATP translocase ( ANT ), ADP/ATP carrier protein ( AAC ) or mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier, exchanges free ATP with free ADP across the inner mitochondrial membrane . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ANT is the most abundant protein in the inner mitochondrial membrane and belong...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADP/ATP_translocase
ADRON-RM (Autonomous Detector of Radiation of Neutrons Onboard Rover at Mars) is a neutron spectrometer to search for subsurface water ice and hydrated minerals . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This analyser is part of the science payload on board the European Space Agency 's Rosalind Franklin rover , [ 5 ] tasked to search for bio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADRON-RM
ADR , formally the Agreement of 30 September 1957 concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road is a 1957 United Nations treaty that governs transnational transport of hazardous materials. "ADR" is derived from the French name for the treaty: A ccord relatif au transport international des marchandise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADR_(treaty)
AE1/AE3 is an antibody cocktail that is used in immunohistochemistry , being generally positive in the cytoplasm of carcinomas (cancers of epithelial origin). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The antibody cocktail binds to cytokeratin 1 - 8, 10, 14 - 16 and 19 (but not CK17 or CK18). [ 1 ] It is therefore used as a marker of carcinomas, s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AE1/AE3
The AES11 standard published by the Audio Engineering Society provides a systematic approach to the synchronization of digital audio signals. [ 1 ] AES11 recommends using an AES3 signal to distribute audio clocks within a facility. In this application, the connection is referred to as a Digital Audio Reference Signal (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES11
AES47 is a standard which describes a method for transporting AES3 professional digital audio streams over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. The Audio Engineering Society (AES) published AES47 in 2002. The method described by AES47 is also published by the International Electrotechnical Commission as IEC 6236...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES47
AES50 is an Audio over Ethernet protocol for multichannel digital audio . It is defined in the AES50-2011 standard for High-resolution multi-channel audio interconnection (HRMAI) . [ 2 ] [ 1 ] AES50 is based on the SuperMAC protocol created by Sony Pro Audio Lab (now Oxford Digital [ 3 ] ). The preliminary standard wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES50
AES52 is a standard first published by the Audio Engineering Society in March 2006 that specifies the insertion of unique identifiers into the AES3 digital audio transport structure. The AES3 transport stream continues to be used extensively in both discrete and network based audio systems alongside audio stored as fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES52
The AES coarse-groove calibration discs (AES-S001-064) are a boxed set of two identical discs, one for routine use, one for master reference . The intent is to characterize the reproduction chain for the mass transfer of coarse-groove records to digital media , much like using a photographic calibration reference in im...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES64
AES67 is a technical standard for audio over IP and audio over Ethernet (AoE) interoperability. The standard was developed by the Audio Engineering Society and first published in September 2013. It is a layer 3 protocol suite based on existing standards and is designed to allow interoperability between various IP-based...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES67
Asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) is most versatile and most widely used sub-technique within the family of field flow fractionation (FFF) methods. AF4 can be used in aqueous and organic solvents and is able to characterize nanoparticles, polymers and proteins. The theory for AF4 was conceived in 1986 an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFFFF
AFGROW (Air Force Grow) is a Damage Tolerance Analysis (DTA) computer program that calculates crack initiation, fatigue crack growth, and fracture to predict the life of metallic structures. Originally developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory , AFGROW [ 1 ] is mainly used for aerospace applications, but can be ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFGROW
AFIB Technology (sometimes referred to as Microlife AFIB Technology ) is a feature in sphygmomanometer devices that is designed to detect and monitor the incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The technology was designed, patented, and is currently used by the Microlife Corporation . It has been the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFIB_Technology
An AFm phase is an "alumina, ferric oxide, monosubstituted" phase, or aluminate ferrite monosubstituted, or Al 2 O 3 , Fe 2 O 3 mono, in cement chemist notation (CCN). AFm phases are important hydration products in the hydration of Portland cements and hydraulic cements . They are crystalline hydrates with generic, si...
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AFt Phases refer to the calcium Aluminate Ferrite trisubstituted, or calcium aluminate trisubstituted, phases present in hydrated (or hardened) cement paste (HCP) in concrete . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Calcium aluminates can form complex salts in combination with different types of anions . Two series of calcium aluminates are kno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFt_phases
The Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development ( AGARD ) [ 1 ] was an agency of NATO that existed from 1952 to 1996. AGARD was founded as an Agency of the NATO Military Committee. It was set up in May 1952 with headquarters in Neuilly sur Seine , France . In a mission statement in the 1982 History it publi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGARD
AGARD-B is a standard wind tunnel model (calibration model) that is used to verify, by comparison of test results with previously published data, the measurement chain in a wind tunnel . Together with its derivative AGARD-C it belongs to a family [ 1 ] of AGARD standard wind tunnel models. Its origin dates to the year ...
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AGILE ( Italian : Astro-Rivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero ) was an X-ray and gamma ray astronomical satellite of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Launched in 2007, it de-orbited in February 2024. [ 3 ] AGILE's mission was to observe gamma-ray sources in the universe. AGILE is an Italian high-energy astrophysics miss...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGILE_(satellite)
AI-assisted reverse engineering (AIARE) is a branch of computer science that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) , notably machine learning (ML) strategies, to augment and automate the process of reverse engineering . The latter involves breaking down a product, system, or process to comprehend its structure, design...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_reverse_engineering
AIDA is a freeware computer program that permits the interactive simulation of plasma insulin and blood glucose profiles for demonstration, teaching , self-learning, and research purposes. [ 1 ] Originally developed in 1991, [ 2 ] it has been updated and enhanced since, and made available without charge from 1996 on th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDA_interactive_educational_freeware_diabetes_simulator
Aluminium fluoride is an inorganic compound with the formula Al F 3 . It forms hydrates AlF 3 · x H 2 O . Anhydrous AlF 3 and its hydrates are all colorless solids. Anhydrous AlF 3 is used in the production of aluminium. Several occur as minerals. Aside from anhydrous AlF 3 , several hydrates are known. With the formu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIF3
AIMAll is a multiplatform , quantum chemistry software package whose primary purpose is to perform quantitative and visual Atoms in Molecules (AIM) analyses. It requires molecular wave function files from ab initio or density functional theory calculations as input. AIMAll is used and cited in many peer-reviewed resear...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIMAll
AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) refers to the use of artificial intelligence , machine learning , and big data analytics to automate and enhance data center management . It helps organizations manage complex IT environments by detecting, diagnosing, and resolving issues more efficiently than tradition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIOps
The AIR Shipper is a regulatory manual utilized by air shippers for shipping dangerous goods . [ 1 ] A.I.R. Shipper is the first regulations publication recognized by the International Civil Aviation Organization [ 2 ] and is developed in compliance with ICAO standards. [ 3 ] A.I.R. Shipper is published by Labelmaster,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR_Shipper
AIS receiver station receive telegrams from near by vessels via VHF data (about 162 MHz) and sending it to Automatic identification system to be recorded and used for vessel tracking and other purpose. Related standards This technology-related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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An AI Safety Institute ( AISI ), in general, is a state-backed institute aiming to evaluate and ensure the safety of the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, also called frontier AI models . [ 1 ] AI safety gained prominence in 2023, notably with public declarations about potential existential risks from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Safety_Institute
In the field of artificial intelligence (AI) design, AI capability control proposals, also referred to as AI confinement , aim to increase our ability to monitor and control the behavior of AI systems, including proposed artificial general intelligences (AGIs), in order to reduce the danger they might pose if misaligne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_capability_control
AI safety is an interdisciplinary field focused on preventing accidents, misuse, or other harmful consequences arising from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It encompasses machine ethics and AI alignment , which aim to ensure AI systems are moral and beneficial, as well as monitoring AI systems for risks and enhan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety
In the history of artificial intelligence , an AI winter is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research. [ 1 ] The field has experienced several hype cycles , followed by disappointment and criticism, followed by funding cuts, followed by renewed interest years or even decades later. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
AJ alloys ( AJ52 and AJ62 ) are die castable alloys of magnesium that have good creep resistance at high temperature. They contain magnesium , aluminium , and strontium . [ 1 ] In the names the 'J' refers to Strontium. AJ52 has higher creep resistance, and AJ62 has better castability. Both are used in the BMW magnes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJ_alloys
In condensed matter physics , the Affleck–Kennedy–Lieb–Tasaki ( AKLT ) model is an extension of the one-dimensional quantum Heisenberg spin model . The proposal and exact solution of this model by Ian Affleck , Elliott H. Lieb , Tom Kennedy and Hal Tasaki [ ja ] [ 1 ] provided crucial insight into the physics of the sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKLT_model
80709 100182 ENSG00000106948 ENSMUSG00000039158 Q7Z591 Q80VW7 NM_030767 NM_001317950 NM_001317952 NM_001045514 NM_001305432 NP_001304879 NP_001304881 NP_110394 NP_001038979 NP_001292361 AKNA is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AKNA gene . The protein is an AT-hook transcription factor which contains...
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ALC-0159 is a PEG /lipid conjugate (i.e. PEGylated lipid), specifically, it is the N,N -di myristyl amide of 2-hydroxyacetic acid , O-pegylated to a PEG chain mass of about 2 kilo daltons (corresponding to about 45-46 ethylene oxide units per molecule of N,N -dimyristyl hydroxyacetamide). It is a non-ionic surfactant ...
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ALG1-CDG is an autosomal recessive congenital disorder of glycosylation caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in ALG1 . The first cases of ALG1-CDG were described in 2004, and the causative gene was identified at the same time. This disorder was originally designated CDG-IK, under earlier nomenclature for congenita...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALG1-CDG
ALIL pseudoknot is an RNA element that induces frameshifting in bacteria. The expression of a minority of genes requires frameshifting to occur where the frequency of frameshifting is increased by a RNA secondary structure located on the 3' side of the shift site. This structure can be either a pseudoknot or a stem-loo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALIL_pseudoknot
7840 236266 ENSG00000116127 ENSMUSG00000063810 Q8TCU4 Q8K4E0 NM_015120 NM_001378454 NM_145223 NP_055935 NP_660258 Alstrom syndrome 1 also known as ALMS1 is a protein which in humans is encoded by the ALMS1 gene . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 2 (2p13.2) on the plus (Watson) s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALMS1
ALTQ ( ALTernate Queueing ) is the network scheduler for Berkeley Software Distribution . ALTQ provides queueing disciplines, and other components related to quality of service (QoS), required to realize resource sharing. It is most commonly implemented on BSD-based routers . ALTQ is included in the base distribution ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTQ
The AMC Model 20 is an automotive axle manufactured by American Motors Corporation (AMC) and AM General . The AMC 20 is a carrier-tube axle, which is where the axle tubes press into the housing, and the cover is bolted to the rear. [ 1 ] They have an 8 + 7 ⁄ 8 -inch (230 mm) ring gear and use a 29 spline axle shaft. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_20
The Computerized Engine Control or Computerized Emission Control (CEC) system is an engine management system designed and used by American Motors Corporation (AMC) and Jeep on 4- and 6-cylinder engines of its own manufacture from 1980 to 1990. [ 1 ] It is one of the three major components for proper engine operation: t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_computerized_engine_control
AMOLED ( active-matrix organic light-emitting diode ; / ˈ æ m oʊ ˌ l ɛ d / ) is a type of OLED display device technology. OLED describes a specific type of thin-film-display technology in which organic compounds form the electroluminescent material, and active matrix refers to the technology behind the addressing of pi...
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5' AMP-activated protein kinase or AMPK or 5' adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase is an enzyme (EC 2.7.11.31) that plays a role in cellular energy homeostasis, largely to activate glucose and fatty acid uptake and oxidation when cellular energy is low. It belongs to a highly conserved eukaryotic protein fa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMP-activated_protein_kinase
AMPAC is a general-purpose semiempirical quantum chemistry program. It is marketed by Semichem, Inc. [ 1 ] and was developed originally by Michael Dewar and his group. The first version of AMPAC (2.1) was made available in 1985 through the Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange (QCPE). Subsequent versions were released t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPAC
AMSilk is an industrial supplier of synthetic silk biopolymers . [ 1 ] The polymers are biocompatible and breathable. [ 2 ] The company was founded in 2008 and has its headquarters at Campus Neuried in Munich . [ 3 ] AMSilk is an industrial biotechnology company with a proprietary production process for their silk mate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSilk
In mathematics , the inequality of arithmetic and geometric means , or more briefly the AM–GM inequality , states that the arithmetic mean of a list of non-negative real numbers is greater than or equal to the geometric mean of the same list; and further, that the two means are equal if and only if every number in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM–GM_inequality
The AN/MRN-1 was an instrument approach localizer used by the Army Air Force during and after World War II . It was standardized on 3 July 1942. It replaced the SCR-241, and was a component of SCS-51. The transmitter provides a signal to guide the RC-103 equipped aircraft to the centerline of a runway. The set radiate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/MRN-1
The Raytheon AN/MSQ-18 Battalion Missile Operations System [ 1 ] ( AN/TSQ-38 for the helicopter-transportable variant) [ 2 ] was a Project Nike command, control, and coordination system for "each associated missile battery" to control a Nike missile as directed from a Raytheon AN/MSQ-28 at the Army Air Defense Command ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/MSQ-18_Battalion_Missile_Operations_System
The AN/PSN-13 Defense Advanced GPS Receiver ( DAGR ; colloquially, " dagger ") is a handheld GPS receiver used by the United States Department of Defense and select foreign military services. It is a military-grade, dual-frequency receiver, and has the security hardware necessary to decode the encrypted P(Y)-code GPS s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/PSN-13_Defense_Advanced_GPS_Receiver
ANARESAT or Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions Satellite is a communication solution using Intelsat Geostationary communication satellites to allow Australian Antarctic Division sites to communicate. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The installation includes a 7.3 m dish antenna, and a large dark dome to protect the satell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANARESAT
255239 244859 ENSG00000170209 ENSMUSG00000032257 Q8NFD2 Q8BZ25 NM_178510 NM_172922 NM_001376951 NP_848605 NP_766510 NP_001363880 Ankyrin repeat and kinase domain containing 1 ( ANKK1 ) also known as protein kinase PKK2 or sugen kinase 288 ( SgK288 ) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ANKK1 gene . T...
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ANNINE-6plus is a water soluble voltage sensitive dye (also called potentiometric dyes ). This compound was developed at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany. [ 1 ] It is used to optically measure the changes in transmembrane voltage of excitable cells, including neurons, skeletal and cardiac myocytes. ...
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In statistical physics , the axial (or anisotropic ) next-nearest neighbor Ising model , usually known as the ANNNI model , is a variant of the Ising model . In the ANNNI model, competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions couple spins at nearest and next-nearest neighbor sites along one of the c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANNNI_model
ANOVA–simultaneous component analysis ( ASCA or ANOVA-SCA ) is a statistical technique used to analyze complex datasets, particularly those arising from designed experiments with multiple factors , notably in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics . It combines the principles of two other methods: Analy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOVA–simultaneous_component_analysis
The ANRORC mechanism in organic chemistry describes a special type of substitution reaction . ANRORC stands for A ddition of the N ucleophile, R ing O pening, and R ing C losure in nucleophilic attack on ring systems [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and it helps to explain product formation and distribution in some nucleophilic subst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANRORC_mechanism
ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013 , published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is the current American National Standard on Acoustical Terminology. [ 1 ] ANSI S1.1 was first published in 1960 and has its roots in a 1942 standard published by the American Standards Association , the predecessor of ANSI. [ 2 ] It in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/ASA_S1.1-2013
ANSI/ISA-95 , or ISA-95 as it is more commonly referred, is an international standard from the International Society of Automation for developing an automated interface between enterprise and control systems. This standard has been developed for global manufacturers. It was developed to be applied in all industries, an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI/ISA-95
ANSI T1.413 is a technical standard that defines the requirements for the single asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) for the interface between the telecommunications network and the customer installation in terms of their interaction and electrical characteristics. ADSL allows the provision of voiceband services ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_T1.413_Issue_2
ANSI escape sequences are a standard for in-band signaling to control cursor location, color, font styling, and other options on video text terminals and terminal emulators . Certain sequences of bytes , most starting with an ASCII escape character and a bracket character, are embedded into text. The terminal interpre...
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AN codes are error-correcting code that are used in arithmetic applications. [ 1 ] Arithmetic codes were commonly used in computer processors to ensure the accuracy of its arithmetic operations when electronics were more unreliable. Arithmetic codes help the processor to detect when an error is made and correct it. W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN_codes
The AN thread (also A-N ) is a particular type of fitting used to connect flexible hoses and rigid metal tubing that carry fluid. It is a US military-derived specification that dates back to World War II and stems from a joint standard agreed upon by the Army Air Corps and Navy, hence AN. The Air Corps-Navy involvement...
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AOAC International is a 501(c) non-profit scientific association with headquarters in Rockville, Maryland . It was founded in 1884 as the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) and became AOAC International in 1991. It publishes standardized, chemical analysis methods designed to increase confidence in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOAC_International
In 2006, the Internet company AOL released a large excerpt from its web search query logs to the public. AOL did not identify users in the report , but personally identifiable information was present in many of the queries. This allowed some users to be identified by their search queries. Although AOL took down the fil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release
APBS (previously also Advanced Poisson-Boltzmann Solver ) is a free and open-source software for solving the equations of continuum electrostatics intended primarily for the large biomolecular systems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is available under the BSD license . PDB2PQR prepares the protein structure files from Protein Data Ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APBS_(software)
The APE(X)C , or All Purpose Electronic (X) Computer series was designed by Andrew Donald Booth at Birkbeck College , London in the early 1950s. His work on the APE(X)C series was sponsored by the British Rayon Research Association . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although the naming conventions are slightly unclear, it seems the first m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEXC
The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity , is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water: if its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks. API gravity is thus an inverse measure of a petroleum liquid's densi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_gravity
An API oil–water separator is a device designed to separate gross amounts of oil and suspended solids from industrial wastewater produced at oil refineries , petrochemical plants , chemical plants , natural gas processing plants and other industrial oily water sources. The API separator is a gravity separation device d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API_oil–water_separator
APL Materials is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the American Institute of Physics . The editor-in-chief is Bo Wang ( Beijing Institute of Technology ). It covers bioinspired materials, magnetic materials , photovoltaics , tissue engineering , and various other topics. According to the Journ...
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APV was the name of a company making process equipment , and remains as a brand name. It was founded in 1910 as the Aluminium Plant & Vessel Company Limited, fabricating equipment for breweries and vegetable oil in Wandsworth . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the 1950s it moved to Crawley and expanded considerably, under the name A.P....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APV_plc
The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria ( APWEN ) was established in 1982 by Nigerian engineer Joana Maduka . It is a division of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). [ 1 ] According to the body's leadership, APWEN was founded by six women and now has a membership of over 3,000 people with chapt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APWEN
Advanced Placement ( AP ) Calculus (also known as AP Calc , Calc AB / BC , AB / BC Calc or simply AB / BC ) is a set of two distinct Advanced Placement calculus courses and exams offered by the American nonprofit organization College Board . AP Calculus AB covers basic introductions to limits , derivatives , and integr...
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In biochemistry and molecular genetics , an AP site ( apurinic/apyrimidinic site ), also known as an abasic site , is a location in DNA (also in RNA but much less likely) that has neither a purine nor a pyrimidine base, either spontaneously or due to DNA damage . It has been estimated that under physiological conditio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_site
AQUAL is a theory of gravity based on Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), but using a Lagrangian . It was developed by Jacob Bekenstein and Mordehai Milgrom in their 1984 paper, "Does the missing mass problem signal the breakdown of Newtonian gravity?" , [ 1 ] as well as a 1986 paper by Milgrom. [ 2 ] "AQUAL" stands fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQUAL
AQuoSA (Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture) [ 1 ] is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel . The project features a flexible, portable, lightweight and open architecture for supporting QoS related services on the top of a general-purpose opera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQuoSA
Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission ( ARCADE ) is a program which utilizes high-altitude balloon instrument package intended to measure the heating of the universe by the first stars and galaxies after the big bang and search for the signal of relic decay or annihilation. In July 2006 ...
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ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (or CAASTRO ) was a collaboration of international astronomers dedicated to wide field astronomy. It was formally launched on 12 September 2011, at Sydney Observatory [ 1 ] and ceased in 2018. CAASTRO aimed to be an international leader in wide-field astronomy . It pla...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_All-Sky_Astrophysics
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage ( CABAH ) is a research centre which focuses on the natural, historic and Indigenous heritage of Australia. Its aim is to increase understanding of the past in order to be able to better adapt and plan for the future. [ 1 ] The facility was opened a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Australian_Biodiversity_and_Heritage
The ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (or FLEET ) is a collaboration of physicists , electrical engineers , chemists and material scientists from seven Australian universities developing ultra-low energy electronics aimed at reducing energy use in information technology (IT). The Ce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Future_Low-Energy_Electronics_Technologies
The ARC fusion reactor (affordable, robust, compact) is a design for a compact fusion reactor developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). ARC aims to achieve an engineering breakeven of three (to produce three times the electricity required to operate the machin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
AREsite is a database of AU-rich elements (ARE) in vertebrate mRNA 3'-untranslated regions ( UTRs ). [ 1 ] AU-rich elements are involved in the control of gene expression. They are the most common determinant of RNA stability in mammalian cells. The most recent version of AREsite is called AREsite 2. [ 2 ] It represent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AREsite
Advanced Rayleigh Guided Ground Layer Adaptive Optics System (ARGOS) is a multi-star adaptive optics system which is built for use with the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). [ 1 ] With ARGOS, both sides of the LBT will be equipped with a multi-laser beacon system and corresponding wavefront sensors. [ 2 ] The artificial...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGOS_(optics_system)
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was an American oncology company, now part of Takeda Oncology, which was founded in 1991 by Harvey J. Berger, M.D. and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts . ARIAD engaged in the discovery, development, and commercialization of medicines for cancer patients. ARIAD’s most prominent drug...
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Antarctic Ross Ice-Shelf Antenna Neutrino Array ( ARIANNA ) is a proposed detector for ultra-high energy astrophysical neutrinos. It will detect coherent radio Cherenkov emissions from the particle showers produced by neutrinos with energies above about 10^17 eV. ARIANNA will be built on the Ross Ice Shelf just off t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIANNA_Experiment
Ariel is a planned space telescope and the fourth medium-class mission of the European Space Agency 's Cosmic Vision programme. The mission is aimed at observing at least 1000 known exoplanets using the transit method , studying and characterising the planets' chemical composition and thermal structures. Compared to th...
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Aeronautical Radio, Incorporated ( ARINC ), established in 1929, was a major provider of transport communications and systems engineering solutions for eight industries: aviation , airports , defense , government , healthcare , networks , security , and transportation . ARINC had installed computer data networks in pol...
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The IEEE International Symposium on Computer Arithmetic ( ARITH ) is a conference in the area of computer arithmetic . [ 1 ] The symposium was established in 1969, initially as three-year event, then as a biennial event, [ 2 ] and, finally, from 2015 as an annual symposium. ARITH topics span from theoretical aspects a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARITH_Symposium_on_Computer_Arithmetic
ARJ ( A rchived by R obert J ung) is a software tool designed in 1991 by Robert K. Jung for creating high-efficiency compressed file archives. ARJ is currently on version 2.86 for MS-DOS and 3.20 for Microsoft Windows and supports 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel architectures. [ 1 ] ARJ was one of many file compressio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARJ
One of the most commonly used in silico approaches for assessing new molecules' activity/property/toxicity is the Quantitative Structure-Activity/Property/Toxicity Relationship ( QSAR /QSPR/QSTR), which generates predictive models for efficiently predicting query compounds . [ 1 ] QSAR/QSPR/QSTR uses numerical chemical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARKA_descriptors_in_QSAR
ARKive was a global initiative with the mission of "promoting the conservation of the world's threatened species, through the power of wildlife imagery", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which it did by locating and gathering films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species into a centralised digital archive. [ 1 ] Its priori...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARKive
ARRAKIHS is a planned astronomical satellite mission by European Space Agency (ESA) . It will study dark matter haloes of galaxies . It was selected in 2022, and is expected to be launched in the early 2030's. ARRAKIHS will observe 75 galaxies for 150 hours each (9750 hours). It is the second F-class ("fast") mission [...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRAKIHS
The ARRIVE guidelines (short for Animals in Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) are a set of guidelines for improving experimental design and reporting standards for animal research, drawn up by the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research . First published in 2010 as a ...
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ARTHUR (an acronym for "artillery hunting radar") is a counter-battery radar system originally developed jointly for and in close co-operation with the Norwegian and Swedish armed forces by Ericsson Microwave Systems in both Sweden and Norway. It is also used by the British Army , under the designation TAIPAN . It is ...
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