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Aluminium toxicity in people on dialysis is a problem for people on haemodialysis . Aluminium is often found in unfiltered water used to prepare dialysate . The dialysis process does not efficiently remove excess aluminium from the body, so it may build up over time. [ 2 ] Aluminium is a potentially toxic metal, and a...
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Aluminon , the tri ammonium salt of aurintricarboxylic acid , is a dye often used to detect the presence of the aluminium ion in an aqueous solution. Aluminon forms a red complex salt in combination with Al 3+ . [ 1 ] In addition to its use in qualitative inorganic analysis , aluminon has applications in pigment produ...
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Aluminothermic reactions are exothermic chemical reactions using aluminium as the reducing agent at high temperature. The process is industrially useful for production of alloys of iron . [ 1 ] The most prominent example is the thermite reaction between iron oxides and aluminium to produce iron itself: This specific ...
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In mathematics and more precisely in functional analysis , the Aluthge transformation is an operation defined on the set of bounded operators of a Hilbert space . It was introduced by Ariyadasa Aluthge to study p-hyponormal linear operators . [ 1 ] Let H {\displaystyle H} be a Hilbert space and let B ( H ) {\displayst...
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AlvaDesc [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a commercial software application for the calculation and analysis of molecular descriptors , fingerprints, and structural patterns. Developed by Alvascience , alvaDesc is used in cheminformatics and quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) modeling to numerically describe molecular s...
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Alvaro Alonso Barba was a Catholic priest and metallurgist born in Lepe , a town in the province of Seville, in Andalusia, Spain, in 1569 . He was baptized on November 15, 1569, which, according to the customs of Spain at that time, indicates that he was born a few days earlier. [ 1 ] Antonio (1786) says, "Baeticus ex ...
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Alvircept sudotox is a form of recombinant CD4 derived from Pneumonas aeruginosa exotoxin A, or 'PE40, which has a size of 59,187 daltons and is an anti-viral agent. [ 1 ] This biochemistry article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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In mathematics , the Alvis–Curtis duality is a duality operation on the characters of a reductive group over a finite field , introduced by Charles W. Curtis ( 1980 ) and studied by his student Dean Alvis ( 1979 ). Kawanaka ( 1981 , 1982 ) introduced a similar duality operation for Lie algebras . Alvis–Curtis duality ...
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Alvéole is a French company based in Paris and founded in 2010 by Quattrocento, [ 1 ] a business accelerator company in the life science field, in collaboration with researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research with expertise in bioengineering and cell imaging. Alvéole is specialized in the deve...
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Alza Corporation was an American pharmaceutical and medical systems company. [ 1 ] Founded in 1968 by Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni ; the company's name is a portmanteau of his name. Alza was a major pioneer in the field of drug delivery systems, bringing over 20 prescription pharmaceutical products to market, and employing...
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Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative ( ADNI ) is a multisite study that aims to improve clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). [ 1 ] This cooperative study combines expertise and funding from the private and public sector to study subjects with AD, as well as those who may ...
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the Hispanic/Latino population is becoming a topic of interest in AD research as Hispanics and Latinos are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer's Disease and underrepresented in clinical research. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] AD is a neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the presence of amyloid-bet...
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Americium(III) nitrate is an inorganic compound , a salt of americium and nitric acid with the chemical formula Am(NO 3 ) 3 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The compound is soluble in water and radioactive. Reaction of americium and nitric acid: Americium(III) nitrate thermally decomposes to form americium(III) oxide . [ citation...
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Americium(III) hydroxide is a radioactive inorganic compound with the chemical formula Am ( O H ) 3 . It consists of one americium atom and three hydroxy groups . It was first discovered in 1944, closely related to the Manhattan Project . However, these results were confidential and were only released to the public in ...
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Americium(III) oxide or americium sesquioxide is an oxide of the element americium . It has the empirical formula Am 2 O 3 . Since all isotopes of americium are only artificially produced, americium (III) oxide has no natural occurrence. The colour depends on the crystal structure, of which there are more than one. It ...
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Americium(II) bromide or americium dibromide is the chemical compound , a salt composed of an americium cation in the +2 oxidation state and 2 bromide ions in each formula unit, with the formula AmBr 2 . [ 1 ] This inorganic compound –related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Americium(III) bromide or americium tribromide is the chemical compound composed of americium and bromine with the formula AmBr 3 , with americium in a +3 oxidation state. The compound is a crystalline solid. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] This inorganic compound –related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Americium(II) chloride , also known as dichloroamericium , is the chemical compound composed of americium and chloride with the formula AmCl 2 . [ 1 ] This inorganic compound –related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Americium(III) chloride or americium trichloride is the chemical compound composed of americium and chlorine with the formula AmCl 3 . This salt forms pink hexagonal crystals. In the solid state each americium atom has nine chlorine atoms as near neighbours, at approximately the same distance, in a tricapped trigonal ...
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Americium(III) fluoride or americium trifluoride is the chemical compound composed of americium and fluorine with the formula AmF 3 . It is a water soluble, pink salt. This inorganic compound –related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Americium(IV) fluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula AmF 4 . It is a tan solid. In terms of its structure, solid AmF 4 features 8-coordinate Am centers interconnected by doubly bridging fluoride ligands. [ 1 ] This inorganic compound –related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Americium(II) iodide is the inorganic compound with the formula AmI 2 . [ 1 ] It is a black solid which crystallizes in the same motif as strontium bromide . [ 2 ] This inorganic compound –related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Americium(III) iodide or americium triiodide is the chemical compound , a salt composed of americium and iodine with the formula AmI 3 . Americium(III) iodide can be prepared by reacting americium(III) chloride with ammonium iodide : [ 2 ] Americium(III) iodide takes the form of yellow crystals. The crystal form is o...
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Americium(III) nitrate is an inorganic compound , a salt of americium and nitric acid with the chemical formula Am(NO 3 ) 3 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The compound is soluble in water and radioactive. Reaction of americium and nitric acid: Americium(III) nitrate thermally decomposes to form americium(III) oxide . [ citation...
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Americium dioxide (AmO 2 ) is a black [ 2 ] compound of americium . In the solid state, AmO 2 adopts a fluorite structure (like CaF 2 ). [ 3 ] It is used as a source of alpha particles . The demand for americium dioxide stems from the difficulty of storing the element americium as a solution of americium(III) chloride...
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The Amadori rearrangement is an organic reaction describing the acid or base catalyzed isomerization or rearrangement reaction of the N - glycoside of an aldose or the glycosylamine to the corresponding 1- amino -1- deoxy - ketose . [ 1 ] The reaction is important in carbohydrate chemistry , specifically the glycation ...
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An amagat (denoted amg or Am [ 1 ] ) is a practical unit of volumetric number density . Although it can be applied to any substance at any conditions, it is defined as the number of ideal gas molecules per unit volume at 1 atm (101.325 kPa ) and 0 °C (273.15 K ). [ 2 ] It is named after Émile Amagat , who also has Amag...
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Amagat's law or the law of partial volumes describes the behaviour and properties of mixtures of ideal (as well as some cases of non-ideal) gases. It is of use in chemistry and thermodynamics . It is named after Émile Amagat . Amagat's law states that the extensive volume V = Nv of a gas mixture is equal to the sum of...
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In the mathematical field of model theory , the amalgamation property is a property of collections of structures that guarantees, under certain conditions, that two structures in the collection can be regarded as substructures of a larger one. This property plays a crucial role in Fraïssé's theorem , which characteris...
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Amalie L. Frischknecht is an American theoretical polymer physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque , New Mexico. She was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2012 for "her outstanding contributions to the theory of ionomers and nanocomposites including the development and applicati...
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Amanda Bosh is an American planetary scientist and observational astronomer best known for her work on small Solar System objects. She is the Executive Director of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona [ 1 ] and is involved which the Lowell Observatory Native American Outreach program, which she co-founded. In 1987...
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Cetacean population assessment Mark-recapture parameter estimation Line-transect abundance estimation Dr. Amanda Bradford is a marine mammal biologist who is currently researching cetacean population dynamics for the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . [ 1 ] Bradf...
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Amany Mohamed Fekry is an Egyptian physical chemist. She became a professor of physical chemistry at the Cairo University Department of Chemistry. [ 1 ] She also spent some time abroad at University of Lorraine , where she was part of the electroanalytical group for a Science and Technology Development Fund grant in c...
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Roy Charles Amara (7 April 1925 [ 1 ] – 31 December 2007 [ 2 ] ) was an American researcher, scientist , futurist [ 3 ] and president of the Institute for the Future best known for coining Amara's law on the effect of technology . He held a BS in Management, an MS in the Arts and Sciences, and a PhD in Systems Engineer...
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Amasa Stone Bishop (1921 – May 21, 1997) was an American nuclear physicist specializing in fusion physics . He received his B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1943. From 1943 to 1946 he was a member of the staff of Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he ...
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Eufungi Cavalier-Smith , 1981 Amastigomycota or Eufungi is a clade of fungi . It includes all fungi without flagella or centrioles , and with unstacked Golgi apparatus cisternae . Members of this clade are Dikarya and the traditional paraphyletic assemblage " Zygomycota ", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] now divided into several mo...
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The Amaterasu particle , named after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology, was an unexpected ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected in 2021 and later identified in 2023, [ 1 ] using the Telescope Array Project observatory in Utah , United States. It had an energy exceeding 240 exa - electronvolts (EeV) and was inferred...
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An amateur radio repeater is an electronic device that receives a weak or low-level amateur radio signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power, so that the signal can cover longer distances without degradation. Many repeaters are located on hilltops or on tall buildings as the higher location increases ...
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Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. [ 1 ] It powers the Amazon Alexa virtual assistant . In April 2017, the platform was released to the developer community, and suggested that it could be used for conversational interfaces ( chatbots or otherwise) i...
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Amazon Simple Notification Service ( Amazon SNS ) is a notification service provided as part of Amazon Web Services since 2010. It provides a service for sending messages. [ 1 ] Amazon SNS acts as a single message bus that can message to a variety of devices and platforms. [ 2 ] A single code interface can address all...
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Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian [ b ] ( Russian : Виктор Амазаспович Амбарцумян ; Armenian : Վիկտոր Համազասպի Համբարձումյան , Viktor Hamazaspi Hambardzumyan ; 18 September [ O.S. 5 September] 1908 – 12 August 1996) was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. [ 3 ] One of the 20th century's lead...
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Ambergris ( / ˈ æ m b ər ɡ r iː s / or / ˈ æ m b ər ɡ r ɪ s / ; Latin : ambra grisea ; Old French : ambre gris ), ambergrease , or grey amber is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales . [ 1 ] Freshly produced ambergris has a marine, fecal od...
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In chemistry , ambident is a molecule or group that has two alternative and interacting reaction sites, to either of which a bond may be made during a reaction . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ambident dienophile 57 reacts with DAPC 54 at the cyclobutene π-bond to produce ligand 58; in contrast, the related ambident dienophile 59 reacts...
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Ambidirectional dominance occurs in a situation where multiple genes influence a phenotype and dominance is in different directions depending on the gene. For example, for gene A increased height is dominant, while for gene B decreased height is dominant. The opposite situation, where all genes show dominance in the sa...
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In the mathematical subject of topology , an ambient isotopy , also called an h-isotopy , is a kind of continuous distortion of an ambient space , for example a manifold , taking a submanifold to another submanifold. For example in knot theory , one considers two knots the same if one can distort one knot into the othe...
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In mathematics , especially in geometry and topology , an ambient space is the space surrounding a mathematical object along with the object itself. For example, a 1-dimensional line ( l ) {\displaystyle (l)} may be studied in isolation —in which case the ambient space of l {\displaystyle l} is l {\displaystyle l} , o...
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In decision theory and economics , ambiguity aversion (also known as uncertainty aversion ) is a preference for known risks over unknown risks. An ambiguity-averse individual would rather choose an alternative where the probability distribution of the outcomes is known over one where the probabilities are unknown. This...
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Ambo Mineral Water is a brand of naturally-carbonated bottled mineral water , sourced from the springs in Ambo Senkele, [ 1 ] near the town of Ambo [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in central Ethiopia . It is a popular drink in Ethiopia, [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and has been described as the "oldest modern mineral water" [ 1 ] and Ethiopia's "old...
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The ambush hypothesis is a hypothesis in the field of molecular genetics that suggests that the prevalence of “hidden” or off-frame stop codons in DNA selectively deters off-frame translation of mRNA to save energy, molecular resources, and to reduce strain on biosynthetic machinery by truncating the production of non-...
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In software engineering , an amelioration pattern is an anti-pattern formed when an existing software design pattern was edited (i.e. rearranged, added or deleted) to better suit a particular problem so as to achieve some further effect or behavior. In this sense, an amelioration pattern is transformational in characte...
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Amelogenins are a group of protein isoforms produced by alternative splicing or proteolysis from the AMELX gene, on the X chromosome , and also the AMELY gene in males, on the Y chromosome . [ 1 ] They are involved in amelogenesis , the development of enamel . [ 2 ] Amelogenins are type of extracellular matrix protein,...
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Amena Karimyan (born November 1, 1996 Herāt ) is an Afghan astronomer and women's rights activist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is also a civil engineer and founder of the Kayhana Astronomical Group , an organization that encourages young women and women in the field of astronomy. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She was ranked as one of the 100 ...
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An amenable number is a positive integer for which there exists a multiset of as many integers as the original number that both add up to the original number and when multiplied together give the original number. To put it algebraically, for a positive integer n , there is a multiset of n integers { a 1 , ..., a n }, f...
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Amenorrhea or amenorrhoea is the absence of a menstrual period in a female organism who has reached reproductive age. [ 1 ] Physiological states of amenorrhoea are most commonly seen during pregnancy and lactation ( breastfeeding ). [ 1 ] In humans, it is where a woman or girl who has reached reproductive age who is no...
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The American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by the American Association of Immunologists (AAI). It has been awarded annually to a single AAI member since 1994. [ 1 ] Source: [ 19 ]
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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ( AASHTO ) is a standards setting body which publishes specifications, test protocols , and guidelines that are used in highway design and construction throughout the United States. Despite its name, the association represents not only highways but ...
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AATCC—the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists— is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit professional association that provides test method development, quality control materials, educational development, and networking for textile and apparel professionals throughout the world. The American Association of Text...
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The American Association of Variable Star Observers ( AAVSO ) is an international nonprofit organization. Founded in 1911, the organization focuses on coordinating, analyzing, publishing, and archiving variable star observations made largely by amateur astronomers . [ 1 ] The AAVSO creates records that establish light ...
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The 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) took place in Washington, D.C. , Jan. 3 to Jan. 7, 2010. It is one of the largest astronomy meetings ever to take place as 3,500 astronomers and researchers were expected to attend and give more than 2,200 scientific presentations. The meeting was actually bi...
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The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) is an organization founded in 1957 for research in control theory . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] AACC is a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and is an association of the control systems divisions of nine member societies: The American Control Conference (AC...
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The American Bureau of Shipping ( ABS ) is an American maritime classification society established in 1862. [ 1 ] Its stated mission is to promote the security of life, property, and the natural environment, primarily through the development and verification of standards for the design, construction and operational mai...
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The American Ceramic Society ( ACerS ) is a nonprofit organization of professionals for the ceramics community, with a focus on scientific research , emerging technologies, and applications in which ceramic materials are an element. [ 2 ] ACerS is located in Westerville, Ohio . ACerS comprises more than 11,000 members...
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The American Chemical Society ( ACS ) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry . Founded in 1876 at New York University , the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering , and ...
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American Chemistry Council ( ACC ), known as the Manufacturing Chemists' Association [ 2 ] at its founding in 1872 [ 3 ] then as the Chemical Manufacturers' Association [ 4 ] (from 1978 until 2000 [ 5 ] [ 6 ] ), is an industry trade association for American chemical companies, based in Washington, D.C. The mission of ...
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The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ( ACCCE , formerly ABEC or Americans for Balanced Energy Choices ) is a U.S. non-profit advocacy group representing major American coal producers, utility companies and railroads. [ 5 ] The organization seeks to influence public opinion and legislation in favor of coal-...
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American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) is a United States-based professional society for health care professionals in the field of occupational safety and health . ACOEM is the pre-eminent physician-led organization that champions the health of workers, safety of workplaces, and quality of ...
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The American Council of Engineering Companies ( ACEC ) is the oldest and largest business association of engineering companies. It is organized as a federation of 52 state and regional councils with national headquarters in Washington, D.C., comprising thousands of engineering practices throughout the country. It admin...
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The American Crystallographic Association, Inc. ( ACA ) is a non-profit, scientific organization for scientists who study the structure of matter via crystallographic methodologies. Since its founding in 1949 it has amassed over 2000 members worldwide. The association meets annually in July and has several interest gr...
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The American Gas Association ( AGA ) is an American trade organization founded in 1918 representing and advocating on behalf of local energy companies which deliver natural gas throughout the United States. [ 3 ] The American Gas Association was formed in June 1918 after the merger of the American Gas Institute and th...
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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ) is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering . The AIAA is the U.S. representative on the International Astronautical Federation and the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences. In 2015, it had more than 30,000 members among ...
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The American Institute of Chemical Engineers ( AIChE ) is a professional organization for chemical engineers . [ 1 ] AIChE was established in 1908 to distinguish chemical engineers as professionals independent of chemists and mechanical engineers . Currently, AIChE has over 60,000 members from over 110 countries [ 2 ]...
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The American Institute of Chemists ( AIC ) is an organization founded in 1923 with the goal of advancing the chemistry profession in the United States . [ 1 ] The institute is known for its yearly awards recognizing contributions of individuals in this field of work. The American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal , giv...
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The American Institute of Electrical Engineers ( AIEE ) was a United States –based organization of electrical engineers that existed from 1884 through 1962. On January 1, 1963, it merged with the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) to form the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) . The 1884 founders...
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The American Journal of Translational Research is an open-access medical journal published by e-Century Publishing Corporation . [ 1 ] The journal covers translational research of medical science and the relevant biomedical research areas. It was established in 2009. The editor-in-chief is Wen-Hwa Lee ( University of C...
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American Machinists' Handbook was a McGraw-Hill reference book similar to Industrial Press 's Machinery's Handbook . (The latter title, still in print and regularly revised, is the one that machinists today are usually referring to when they speak imprecisely of "the machinist's handbook" or "the machinists' handbook"....
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The American National Standards Institute ( ANSI / ˈ æ n s i / ⓘ AN -see ) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. [ 3 ] The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with intern...
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The American Nuclear Society (ANS) is an international, not-for-profit organization of scientists, engineers, and industry professionals that promote the field of nuclear engineering and related disciplines. ANS is composed of three communities: professional divisions, local sections/plant branches, and student sectio...
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The American Oil Chemists' Society ( AOCS ) is an international professional organization based in Urbana, Illinois dedicated to providing the support network for those involved with the science and technology related to fats , oils , surfactants , and other related materials. Founded in 1909, AOCS has approximately 2...
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The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ( ASBMB ) is a learned society that was founded on December 26, 1906, at a meeting organized by John Jacob Abel ( Johns Hopkins University ). [ 1 ] The roots of the society were in the American Physiological Society , which had been formed some 20 years earlie...
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The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research ( ASBMR ) is a professional, scientific and medical society established in 1977 to promote excellence in bone and mineral research and to facilitate the translation of that research into clinical practice. The ASBMR has a membership of nearly 4,000 physicians, basic re...
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The American Society for Engineering Education ( ASEE ) is a non-profit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and engineering technology education. The purpose of ASEE is the advancement of education in all of its functions which pertain to engineering and allied branches...
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The American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) is an international professional society that is focused on promoting and advancing the field of Engineering Management. The subject of Engineering Management is concerned with the management of people and projects in a technological or engineering systems context....
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The American Society for Mass Spectrometry ( ASMS ) is a professional association based in the United States that supports the scientific field of mass spectrometry . As of 2018, the society had approximately 10,000 members primarily from the US, but also from around the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The society holds a large ann...
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The American Society for Precision Engineering is a non-profit member association, founded in 1986, dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences and technology of precision engineering , to promote its dissemination through education and training, [ 1 ] and its use by science and industry. The American Society for Precis...
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The American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) is a professional organization of scientists and technical professionals in the brewing , malting , and allied industries. It publishes a journal , the Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists . Multiple books have used data conducted by the ASBC. Rebecca New...
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The American Society of Civil Engineers ( ASCE ) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia , it is the oldest national engineering society in the United States. [ 3 ] Its constitution was based on the older Bos...
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers ( ASME ) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via " continuing education , training and professional development , codes and standards ,...
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The American Society of Naval Engineers ( ASNE ) is a professional association of naval engineers . Naval Engineering includes all arts and sciences as applied in the research, development, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and logistic support of surface and subsurface ships and marine craft; naval and ma...
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ASPE is the American Society of Professional Estimators. It was founded in 1956 [ 1 ] by about 20 cost estimators in Los Angeles, California. [ 2 ] In 1974, there were 10 chapters totalling 600 members. By 1977, there were 23 chapters totalling 1500 members. The society's web page states that there are thousands [ clar...
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The American Society of Safety Professionals ( ASSP ), formerly known as American Society of Safety Engineers ( ASSE ), is a global organization of occupational safety and health (OSH) professional members who manage, supervise, research and consult on work-related OSH concerns across all industries. Society members us...
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American Society on Aging ( ASA ) is a professional association in the United States dedicated to enhancing the knowledge and skills of those working with and on behalf of older adults . Founded in 1954 as the Western Gerontological Society, it has since grown to be one of the largest and most diverse aging organizatio...
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The American Standard Safety System , or ASSS, is a connection system for gas cylinders with a volume exceeding 25 cubic feet. The connections differ in thread type and size, right and left-handed threading, internal and external threading, and nipple-seat design. This variability reduces the risk of errors such as adm...
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The American Super Computing Leadership Act ( H.R. 2495 ) is a bill that would require the United States Department of Energy to improve and increase its use of high-end computers, especially exascale computing , through an organized research program. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The bill was introduced into the United States House of...
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American Superconductor Corporation ( AMSC ) is an American energy technologies company headquartered in Ayer , Massachusetts . The firm specializes in using superconductors for the development of diverse power systems, including but not limited to superconducting wire. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Moreover, AMSC employs superconductor...
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American Tower Corporation (also referred to as American Tower or ATC ) is an American real estate investment trust which owns, develops and operates wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure in several countries. It is headquartered in Boston , Massachusetts . As of December 31, 2024, [update] the company ...
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American Water Works Association ( AWWA ) is an international non-profit , scientific and educational association founded to improve water quality and supply. Established in 1881, it is a lobbying organization representing a membership (as of 2024) of around 50,000 members worldwide. [ 2 ] AWWA members include: water ...
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The American Welding Society (AWS) was founded in 1919 as a non-profit organization to advance the science, technology and application of welding and allied joining and cutting processes, including brazing , soldering and thermal spraying . Headquartered in Doral, Florida , and led by a volunteer organization of offic...
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American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of structural carpentry are often defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, tim...
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Americium ( 95 Am) is an artificial element , and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all artificial elements, it has no known stable isotopes . The first isotope to be synthesized was 241 Am in 1944. The artificial element decays by ejecting alpha particles . Americium has an atomic number of 95 (the...
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Americium hexafluoride is a hypothetical inorganic chemical compound of americium and fluorine with the chemical formula AmF 6 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Synthesis by fluorination of americium tetrafluoride was unsuccessfully attempted in 1990. [ 3 ] A thermochromatographic identification in 1986 remains inconclusive. [ 4 ] Calcula...
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