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• EDAS — Eta Data Assimilation System
• CPR — Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• CF — Cystic Fibrosis
• HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus I
• CHF — Congestive Heart Failure
• LAN — Local Area Network
• US — United States of America
• AD — Atopic Dermatitis
• AA — Ascorbic Acid
• HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
• AHRQ — Agency for Health, Research, and Quality
• E-LIDAR — Experimental LIDAR
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• DO — Dissolved Oxygen
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• MM — Millimeter
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol
• OPS — Operations
• MUX — Multiplexer
• CMAP — Compound Muscle Action Potential
• RDF — Combustion of Refuse Derived Fuels
• ADH — Antidiuretic Hormone
• NHLBI — National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• ASD — Atrial Septal Defect
• AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (see also SIDS and HIV)
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• ALL — Adult Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• AS — Aortic Stenosis
• H2O2 — Hydrogen Peroxide
• UNCLOS — United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (policy treaty)
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• AAS — Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
• ICD — Interface Control Document
• A BY E — Admission by Exception
• CO2 — Carbon Dioxide
• A — Ampere
• UK — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• RF — Radio Frequency
• WWW — World Wide Web
• BTW — By The Way
• AD — autistic disorder
• WHO — World Health Organization
• QC — Quality Control
• LCD — Liquid Crystal Display
• ISO — International Organization for Standardization
• CSA — Canadian Space Agency
• IP — Internet Protocol
• CAIS — Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• GO — General Observer

• NIEO — New International Economic Order
• AC — Alternating Current
• W — Watt
• FET — Field Effect Transistor
• UCAAD — University Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity
• ESA — European Space Agency
• DBMS — Database Management System
• CGI — Clinical Global Impression
• ANP — Atrial Natriuretic Peptide
• AATSR — Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• CD — Compact Disc
• FTE — Full Time Equivalent
• PPM — parts per million
• CBO — Congressional Budget Office
• CC — Colon Cancer
• CV — Curriculum Vitae
• CSF — Cerebrospinal Fluid
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• RIXOS — ROSAT International X-Ray optical Survey
• UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
• GIS — Geographic Information System
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• FOV — Field Of View (satellite)
• CBF — Cerebral Blood Flow
• CO — Carbon Monoxide
• HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• ACF — Autocorrelation Function
• CS — Computer Science
• CNS — Central Nervous System
• CBC — Complete Blood Count
• MB — Megabyte
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)
• DOT — Department of Transport
• AU — Astronomical Unit
• MDCK — Madin-Darby Canine Kidney
• CFC-12 — CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12
• R&D — Research & Development
• MSDS — Material Safety Data Sheets
• CGI — Common Gateway Interface
• N2O — nitrous oxide (anesthetic)
• CAD — Coronary Artery Disease
• TB — Tuberculosis
• CIN — Conjunctival Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• BFGF — Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• ATM — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• APU — Auxiliary Power Unit
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

• BASDAI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index
• N2O5 — nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride
• AGL — Above Ground Level
• PDF — Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat)
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• MRI — Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• ADS — Astrophysics Data System
• SIR — Shuttle Imaging Radar
• WAN — Wide Area Network
• API — Application Programming Interface
• A-SCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• PCB — Polychlorinated Biphenyls
• A-SAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
• A.K.A. — Also Known As
• CRS — Congressional Research Service
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• ICU — Intensive Care Unit
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View
• ATN — Acute Tubular Necrosis
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• PT — Physical Therapy
• CIO — Chief Information Officer
• ANC — Absolute Neutrophil Count
• BAEPS — Brain Stem Auditory Evoked Potentials
• AF — Air Force
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• ASAP — Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
• EC — European Commission
• XPM — Cross-Phase Modulation
• WWW — World Weather Watch
• BOD — Biological Oxygen Demand
• BBT — Basal Body Temperature
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• BAC — Boeing Aerospace Company
• RDBMS — Relational Database Management System
• HMO — Health Maintenance Organization
• BSE — Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• AM — Amplitude Modulation
• SMD — Science Mission Division
• GSE — Ground Support Equipment
• GUI — Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
• ASR — Airport Surveillance Radar
• CCTV — Closed-circuit television
• ARDS — Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• OSO — Orbiting Solar Observatory
• AF — Amniotic Fluid
• RAM — random-access memory

• CC — Colorectal Carcinoma
• OPD — Outpatient Department
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• END — Equivalent Narcotic Depth
• ACS — American College of Surgeons
• ALPEX — Alpine Experiment
• POE — Point of Entry
• CCD — Classic Cleidocranial Dysplasia
• E&CE — Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ACRIM — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS)
• CA — cytosine arabinoside
• KG — Kilogram
• NCCLS — National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
• DTE — Data Terminal Equipment
• EU — European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
• DME — Durable Medical Equipment
• ADA — Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 (Text Of ADA Legislation)
• DDT — Dichloro Diphenyl Trichlorethane
• CRO — Contract Research Organization
• DCP — Defined Contribution Plan
• SQA — Software Quality Assurance
• GMP — Good Manufacturing Practice
• ABR — Auditory Brainstem Response
• ATS — applications technology satellite
• CBD — Common Bile Duct
• BIT — Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
• S-GCOS — Space-Based Global Change Observation System
• ABA — American Bar Association
• ACDP — Ancient Conserved Domain Protein
• O3 — Ozone
• SIG — Special Interest Group
• ARE — Antioxidant Response Element
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• CEN — Committee European de Normalisation
• DILHR — Department of Industry Labor and Human Relations
• CAP — College of American Pathologists
• NM — Nanometer
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• CH4 — Methane, Natural Gas
• SUV — Sport Utility Vehicle
• ABMT — Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• CAPE — Convective Available Potential Energy
• BCC — Basal Cell Carcinoma
• ATA — Alimentary Toxic Aleukia
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• GO — Guest Observer
• LPG — Liquid Petroleum Gas
• APD — Avalanche Photo Diode

• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• BMA — British Medical Association
• NO — Nitric Oxide
• EMF — Electromotive Force
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• DNS — Domain Name System
• HADRT — Hadley Center Radiosonde temperature
• GCM — General Circulation Model
• HADCM — Hadley Center Model
• SISEX — Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
• DC — Direct Current
• EOL — End Of Life
• CGD — Chronic Granulomatous Disease
• DIAL — Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing)
• CRF — Case Report Form
• HCFA — Health Care Financing Administration
• AGA — appropriate for gestational age
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
• PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
• CHD — Coronary Heart Disease
• ADL — Avionics Development Laboratory
• CONUS — Continental United States (48 Contiguous States and DC)
• AARP — American Association of Retired Persons
• ATSDR — Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
• TBC — To Be Confirmed
• CDF — Common Data Format
• ADPKD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• ACF — Asymmetric Crying Facies
• IPY — International Polar Year
• EGA — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
• RCS — Revision Control System
• CAD — Computer Aided Designer
• PPO — Preferred provider organization
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• QA — Center for Quality Assurance in International Education
• IRB — Institutional Review Board
• AJ — Astronomical Journal
• RPM — Revolutions Per Minute, (Rotations Per Minute)
• CIMSS — Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• NAI — No Action Indicated (Most Favorable Food & Drug Administration Post-inspection Classification)
• DOJ — Department of Justice (US)
• AMU — Atomic Mass Unit
• COFR — Certificate of Flight Readiness
• HV — High Voltage
• ARA — Attitude Reference Assembly
• FSA — Flexible Spending Account
• CW — Continuous Wave
• AMS — American Meteorological Society
• BBS — Bulletin Board System

• PS — PostScript
• IOSH — Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
• MSFC — Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL)
• FY — Fiscal Year
• LF — Low Frequency
• CCB — Calcium Channel Blocker
• ACP — Acyl-Carrier Protein
• TED — Total Energy Detector
• AIS — Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
• ALV — Avian Leukosis Virus
• CLD — Chronic Lung Disease
• HOPPS — Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
• MHS — Microwave Humidity Sounder
• SPR — Software Problem Report
• BAS — British Antarctic Survey
• CRO2 — Chromium Oxide
• CEL — Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia
• SEM — Space Environment Monitor
• PR — Precipitation Radar
• BAFME — Benign Adult Familial Myoclonic Epilepsy
• ASD — Autism Spectrum Disorder
• UNEP — United Nations Environment Program
• ROI — Return on Investment
• NIOSH — National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• APP — Amyloid Precursor Protein
• NEMS — NASA Equipment Management System
• CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
• IUPAC — International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• JSC — Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
• CML — Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer
• PA — Preliminary Assessment
• AMM — Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia
• CVS — Concurrent Versions System
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• AOS — Acquisition Of Signal
• SAST — Science Analysis Software Team
• ITCZ — Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
• FDA — Food Drug Administration
• DPI — Department of Public Instruction
• CH — Chronic Hepatitis
• AAAS — American Association for the Advancement of Science
• OP — Office of the President
• HF — High Frequency
• NSTS — National Space Transportation System
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• AAMI — Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• CCD — Central Core Disease
• PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency
• P-N — Positive-Negative

• GB — Gigabyte
• A3RI — Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute
• EMT — Extraordinary Masochistic Tendencies (joke At Expense Of Emergency Medical Technicians)
• FCOS — Flight Computer Operating System (Orbiter)
• ACR — Active Cavity Radiometer
• ATSR — Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• DOS — Disk Operating System
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• ISAMS — Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
• CTS — Canadian Technology Satellite
• NIF — National Ignition Facility
• AHA — American Hospital Association
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• CLD — Chronic Liver Disease
• EM — Electromagnetic
• CA — Cancer Antigen
• BASIC — Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• PSD — Power Spectral Density
• PC — Personal computer (host)
• XFDS — XMM Flight Dynamics System
• CAPD — Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• ERS — Environmental Research Satellite
• DFRC — Dryden Flight Research Center
• NASP — National Aerospace Plane
• ATCC — American Type Culture Collection
• HIV — Hair Is Vanishing. Amusing alternative interpretation (thanks EP) contrasting with the seriousness of the more usual meaning of Human Immunodeficiency Virus.HIVIHusband Is Village Idiot. (ODSA) Classic nurses' shorthand.
• SME — Solar Mesosphere Explorer
• COMSAT — Communications Satellite Corporation
• AAMC — American Association of Medical Colleges
• CH — Channel
• MSW — Municipal Solid Waste
• DNV — Det Norske Veritas
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• CK — Creatine Kinase
• CAI — Codon Adaptation Index
• TAO — Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
• HNO3 — Nitric Acid
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• AP — Anomalous Propagation
• RS — Remote Sensing
• COBE — Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (NASA)
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• EFM — Electrostatic Force Microscopy
• IEC — International Electrotechnical Commission
• MFA — Manned Flight Awareness
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• PDP — Postinsertion Deorbit Preparation
• TB — Terabyte

• CFS — Cubic Feet per Second
• CAM — Cell Adhesion Molecule
• DASD — Direct Access Storage Device
• ASC — Ambulatory Surgery Center
• AAD — Australian Antarctic Division
• CTM — Chemical Transport Model
• LVS — Launch Vehicle Simulator
• SNR — Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• AFM — Atomic Force Microscope
• MERSAT — Meteorology And Earth Observation Satellite
• NAM — National Association of Manufacturers
• PU — Propellant Utilization
• WRT — "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
• IR — Infrared
• AMD — Acid Maltase Deficiency
• WG — Working Group
• PPB — parts per billion (109)
• TFT — Thin Film Transistor
• DTED — Digital Terrain Elevation Data (dee-ted)
• OAI — Official Action Indicated (serious Food & Drug Administration post-inspection classification)
• SH — Southern Hemisphere
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• AIP — Acute Intermittent Porphyria
• AIS — Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• AFB — Air Force Base (USAF)
• AMA — American Medical Association
• I&T WG — Integration and Test Working Group
• ENVISAT — European Space Agency Environmental Satellite
• H2O — Water (vapor)
• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• AT&T — American Telephone & Telegraph
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• MCP — Microchannel Plate
• AP — Acid Phosphatase
• MRC — Medical Research Council
• MOL — Manned Orbital Laboratory
• CD — Celiac Disease
• CH3CL — Methyl Chloride
• DG — Dentate Gyrus
• RTF — Return To Flight
• TIPS — Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
• LPLWS — Launch Pad Lightning Warning System
• AA — Acrylic Acid
• CLAH — Congenital Lipoid Adrenal Hyperplasia
• AICE — American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• ADMCKD — Autosomal Dominant Medullary Cystic Disease
• AIS — Adenocarcinoma in Situ

• ND — NASA Document
• OCONUS — Outside Continental United States
• LARC — Langley Research Center (NASA)
• COTS — Commercial Off the Shelf Software
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• EMAIL — Electronic Mail
• APC — Activated Protein C
• MOSPO — Mobile Satellite Photometric Observatory
• AFTN — Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodule
• XFTS — XMM File Transfer System
• SESL — Space Environment Simulation Laboratory
• ACML — Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• BNSC — British National Space Centre
• ADEOS — ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite (Japan)
• AFV — Amniotic Fluid Volume
• VLF — Very Low Frequency
• SWT — Science Working Team
• THR — Thrust
• AIL — Avionics Integration Laboratories
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• CDL — California Digital Library
• ABPM — ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system
• DEC — Declination
• HTTPS — HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
• BPS — bits per second
• ARS — Acute Radiation Syndrome
• SMPTRB — Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Requirement Board
• CD-ROM — Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory
• ADPKD — Adult Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• AD — Autosomal Dominant
• CNG — Compressed natural gas
• CFC — Chloro Fluoro Carbon
• OPS — Optical Sensor
• DOC — Doctor
• SSV — Space Shuttle Vehicle
• DORIS — Doppler Orbitography And Radiopositioning Integrated By Satellite (EOS)
• AH — adrenal hypoplasia
• FITS — Flexible Image Transport System
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• AR — Androgen Receptor
• CDH — Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• ATP — Adult Treatment Panel
• SONAR — (DOD) A sonic device used primarily for the detection and location of underwater objects.(This term is derived from the words "sound navigation and ranging.")
• NAD — Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
• ARDS — Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
• AR — Aspect Ratio
• CDM — Clean Development Mechanism

• CST — Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
• ERSIR — Earth Resources Shuttle Imaging Radar
• KHZ — kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
• ODP — Ozone Depletion Potential
• AMML — Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• NSIDC — National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• FTC — Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
• CIN — Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• SSI — Space Studies Institute
• CIS — Carcinoma in Situ
• AMA — Advanced Maternal Age
• GAO — Government Accountability Office [formerly the General Accounting Office]
• JOP — Jupiter Orbiter Probe
• AO — Acridine Orange
• NEMA — National Electric Manufacturer's Association
• IRIS — Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
• CGMP — Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• ABS — acute bacterial sinusitis
• CORSA — Cosmic Radiation Satellite
• ADR — Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator
• ROSAT — Roentgen Satellite
• CE — Cholesterol Ester
• SPMP — Software Project Management Plan
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
• XRONOS — Time-Series analysis package, part of XANADU
• AIN — Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• FD — Flight Dynamics
• CETP — Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein
• UCORP — University Committee on Research Policy
• C — Centigrade
• LSSL — Life Sciences Space Laboratory
• CITECH — Center for Information on Technology in Healthcare
• OIG — Office of Inspector General
• DDD — Detailed Design Document
• CHD — Congenital Heart Disease
• NRC — National Research Council (Canada)
• TWP — Tropical Western Pacific
• CIDI — Composite International Diagnostic Interview
• CC — Combined Cycle
• AES — Agricultural Experiment Station
• SCR — Software Change Request
• NRC — National Response Center
• APR — Acute Phase Response
• O2 — Oxygen
• TMAPI — Topic Map Application Programming Interface
• CHIME — College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
• MMDA — Michigan Medical Device Association
• DOL — United States Department of Labor

• ARF — Acute Rheumatic Fever
• PHRMA — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (formerly PMA, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
• IST — Instrument Support Terminal
• CCA — Common Carotid Artery
• AVNIR — advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer
• DSP — Digital Signal Processor
• EUVE — Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (NASA Satellite)
• RPM — Resale Price Maintenance. The UK Net Book Agreement, as was. Means by which retail prices are controlled by primary suppliers. (Alternatively, Revolutions Per Minute, as in engine speed and 78, 33 and 45 records. In years to come how many people will know
• CCHS — Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
• IPA — Individual Practice Association
• COMET — Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training (NOAA and UCAR)
• AID — Artificial Insemination Donor
• MOD — Maximum Operating Depth
• ERS — Earth Resources Satellite
• XIDT — X-Ray Identification Team
• CCF — Cross-Correlation Function
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• OSHA — Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970)
• UCP&T — University Committee on Privilege and Tenure
• DMS — Dynamic Message Sign
• BCAA — branched chain amino acids
• RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging
• APCR — Activated Protein C Resistance
• HE — High Energy
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• ISA — Instrument Society of America
• TM — Telemetry
• MIPS — Merritt Island Press Site
• ACH — Active Chromatin Hub
• UCOLASC — University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication
• AR — Autosomal Recessive
• USP — United States Pharmacopeia
• PV — Potential Vorticity
• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• ESDAC — European Space Data Center
• BAD — Bipolar Affective Disorder
• ASTER — Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS)
• UEA — University of East Anglia
• SAW — Surface Acoustic Wave
• CAL/VAL — Calibration/Validation
• BASFI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index
• MAHLOVS — Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
• ASCA — Advanced Satellite for Cosmology & Astrophysics
• ASQ — Autism Screening Questionnaire
• ISAS — Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan)
• BEN — Balkan endemic nephropathy
• AHR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
• BDV — Border Disease Virus
• CLO — Chlorine Monoxide

• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• HF — Hydrogen Fluoride
• APBD — adult polyglucosan body disease
• CGM — Computer Graphics Metafile
• AOA — Airborne Optical Adjunct
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu)
• CAA — Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990)
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• UC — University of California
• CSU — Cleveland State University
• UCM-TF — University of California, Merced Task Force
• AIS — Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
• MGMA — Medical Group Management Association
• ETS — Educational Testing Service
• IDE — Investigational Device Exemption
• LE — Low Energy
• LMSS — Lunar Mapping and Survey System
• ARC — Arctic Research Commission
• EAP — Education Abroad Program
• ABS — Antenatal Bartter Syndrome
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• PM — Particulate Matter
• AATP — Acquired Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
• COSSH — Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
• MAP — Mesoscale Alpine Programme
• TNT — Tri-nitro-toulene
• CHB — Chronic Hepatitis B
• SUM — Software User's Manual
• CADIC — Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas
• NPD — NASA Policy Directive
• ABL — Acute Basophilic Leukemia
• ELS — Eastern Launch Site
• ECS — EOSDIS Core System
• SCF — Standard Cubic Foot
• HALLIP — Heterogeneous and Liquid Phase Processes (EUROTRAC)
• UCMEXUS — UC Institute for Mexico and the United States
• CHB — congenital heart block
• SRB — Surface Radiation Budget
• CDRH — Center for Devices and Radiological Health (Food & Drug Administration)
• MTPE — Mission To Planet Earth
• ADHSP — Autosomal Dominant Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• CTE — Charge Transfer Efficiency
• M — Million
• ADPLD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Liver Disease
• CCRS — Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• CIDP — Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
• SAO — Semi-Annual Oscillation
• ABHI — Association of British Health-Care Industries
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)

• AK — Actinic Keratosis
• NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
• GSI — Graduate Student Instructor
• OAQPS — Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
• DMERC — Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier
• SO4 — Sulfate radical
• MEM — Meteoroid Exposure Module
• EDC — EROS Data Center
• UCACCORD — UC All Campus Collaboration on Outreach and Dissemination
• BRO — Bromine Monoxide
• CDM — Common Data Model
• UCR&J — University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction
• JD — Julian Day
• AME — Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess
• NTP — National Toxicology Program
• WLAN — Wireless Local Area Network
• CA — Carbonic Anhydrase
• DSMB — Data Safety Monitoring Board
• VT — Visual Testing
• CIP — Cast-In-Place
• ADRV — Adult Diarrhea Rotavirus
• CDA — Command and Data Acquisition
• CLS — Cloud Lidar System
• HTML — Hyper Text Markup Language
• ALT — Radar Altimeter
• TAG — Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds
• OH — Hydroxyl Radical
• SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• CDC — Cell Division Cycle
• CBF — Ciliary Beat Frequency
• POS — Point of Service Plan
• AFIGE — Asymmetric Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis
• AOM — Acute Otitis Media
• TRI — Toxics Release Inventory
• IDC — Indirect Costs
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU)
• AURIO — Auroral Imaging Observatory
• CD — Conduct Disorder
• KB — Kilobyte: One thousand and twenty-four bytes kbps kilo bit per second
• CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
• MPS — Materials Processing in Space
• AHO — Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• HEW — Half Energy Width
• DTS — Data Transfer System
• APL — Applied Physics Laboratory (at Johns Hopkins)
• SIR — Spaceborne Imaging Radar
• SEC — Sun-Earth Connection
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• SCB — Software Control Board

• COSTAR — Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
• MAGSAT — Magnetometer Satellite
• CAP — Catabolite Activator Protein
• CG — Center of Gravity (DXS)
• BCRP — Breast Cancer Resistance Protein
• ACE — Angiotensin Converting Enzyme
• ARC — Ames Research Center (NASA)
• DMI — Danish Meteorological Institute
• JEM — Japanese Experiment Module
• CCC — Cholangiocellular Carcinoma
• GSC — Guide Star Catalog
• IC — Instrument Controller
• OSS — Office of Space Sciences
• CDART — Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool
• ACC — Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
• CALTRANS — California Department of Transportation
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• GWP — global warming potential (climate)
• ASHP — American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
• MFPE — Mission from Planet Earth
• NOSS — National Oceanic Satellite System
• C — Celsius
• AURA — Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
• ASI — Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• CMP — Competitive Medical Plan
• STEP — Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project
• DCP — Data Collection Platform
• JOI — Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• RA — Right Ascension
• CCD — Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge.
• NCOS — National Commission on Space
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization (ICSU)
• EPTOX — Extraction Procedure Toxicity
• CHAMEX — Cloud Height And Motion EXperiment
• RVU — Relative Value Unit
• AR — Aldose Reductase
• AR — Aortic Regurgitation
• RD — Reference Document
• ABM — Agaricus Blazei Murill
• IA — Interactive
• ADD — Architectural Design Document
• CAFS — Conotruncal Anomaly Face Syndrome
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
• BAEP — Brainstem Acoustic Evoked Potentials
• MITI — Ministry of International Trade & Industry (Japan)
• MEO — Mid Earth Orbit
• UT — Universal Time
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
• CCA — Chromated Copper Arsenate

• HCHO — formaldehyde (also written as CH2O)
• UW — University of Washington
• NAFTA — North American Free Trade Agreement
• NO2 — Nitrogen Dioxide
• AS — Asperger Syndrome
• ALERT — Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time
• SPAS — Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German)
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility
• OAR — Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
• ASQ — Alpha System Qualification
• STI — Steel Tank Institute
• CALLA — common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen
• CG — Complementation Group
• ADF — Amsterdam density functional
• AO — Agent Orange
• POGO — Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• UT — University of Tennessee
• REM — Rocket Engine Module
• JRC — Joint Research Center
• G — Gram (g)
• TOVS — TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
• GCP — Good Clinical Practice
• NSSL — National Severe Storms Laboratory
• DDS — Domestic Data Service
• AERONOX — Impact of NOx Emissions from Aircraft upon the Atmosphere
• AD — Applicable Document
• BAP — Bacterial Alkaline Phosphatase
• EC — European Community
• CON — Certificate Of Need
• MBPS — Megabits per second
• DAT — Digital Audio Tape
• MMI — Man-Machine Interface
• APEC — Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli
• CFC-11 — CCl3F, trichlorofluoromethane, Freon-11
• ANF — Atrial Natriuretic Factor
• NCSU — North Carolina State University
• PLSL — Propellants and Life Support Laboratory
• AFRRI — (U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
• CGL — Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy
• CDT — Cytolethal Distending Toxin
• PS — Project Scientist
• NOS — National Ocean Service
• AWACS — Airborne Warning And Control System
• CHC — Clathrin Heavy Chain
• SBSTA — Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
• AFOSR — Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA)
• AFSCN — Air Force Space Command network
• GHZ — Gigahertz
• DBP — Defined Benefit Plan

• CE — Cooperative Extension
• B-ISDN — Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
• NSSDC — National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• CFTD — Congenital Fiber-Type Disproportion
• UNCCD — United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• ISU — International Space University
• FFRDC — Federally Funded Research & Development Center
• CD — Coeliac Disease
• CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution)
• ECOSOC — Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
• LBNL — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
• DOS — United States Department of State
• BLAST — Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
• ICF — Instrument Control Facility
• CGAP — Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
• BIBEX — Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme)
• SAR — synthetic aperture radar (satellite)
• UBA — Umweltbundesamt
• SPART — Space Research and Technology
• ACF — Aberrant crypt foci
• PCA — Principal Component Analysis
• PSCL — Propellant Systems Cleaning Laboratory
• EIA — Extended Interaction Amplifier
• ADMI — American Dye Manufacturers Institute
• MHW — Ministry of Health and Welfare
• AASE — Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
• SEOS — Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite
• NPI — Norwegian Polar Institute
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
• HOP — High Output Paraffin
• CID — Combined Immunodeficiency Disease
• CAP — Capital Accumulation Provision
• IEA — International Energy Agency (Paris)
• HHS — Health and Human Services Department
• MPE — Mission to Planet Earth
• CDR — Common Deleted Region
• AAH — Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia
• ADC — Affiliated Data Center
• GHTF — Global Harmonization Task Force
• MMA — Minnesota Medical Association
• OSSA — Office of Space Sciences and Applications
• ADNFLE — Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
• AE — Adverse Event
• ASM — American Society for Microbiology
• SOC — Space Operations Center
• ASE — Aerospace Support Equipment
• HIRA — Health Industry Representatives Association
• ABBA — Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm
• AAAS — Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

• SRSS — Shuttle Range Safety System
• PPMV — Parts Per Million by Volume
• AEH — Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia
• RSRM — Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor
• GOES — Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• LHV — lower heating value
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• CH — Cluster Headache
• JAMA — Journal of the American Medical Association
• AL — Ad libitum
• SPP — Solar Physics Payload
• CCHB — Complete Congenital Heart Block
• CINO3 — chlorine nitrate
• AGNIC — Agriculture Network Information Center
• ATM — Atmospheric Transport Model
• ESL — English as a second language
• ARISTOTELES — Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
• DPU — data processing unit
• CBPI — Cytokinesis-Block Proliferation Index
• ARMD — Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• LEGRI — Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager
• CC — Clomiphene Citrate
• GCOS — Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU)
• AGC — atypical glandular cells
• SAM — Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• ADOA — Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy
• AFT — Acute Functional Tolerance
• VAI — Voluntary Action Indicated (Food & Drug Administration postaudit inspection classification)
• ICE — International Cometary Explorer
• AAU — Association of American Universities
• WEC — World Energy Council
• NDVI — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• CMHC — Community Mental Health Center
• CG — Ciliary Ganglion
• CDC — Centers for Disease Control
• KBPS — kilobits per second
• EAS — External Anal Sphincter
• ADT — Actual Dive Time
• RALPH — Reduction and Acquisition of Lunar Pulse Heights
• NOX — Nitrogen Oxide
• DEMUX — Demultiplexer
• AGU — American Geophysical Union
• KM — Kilometer (1,000 meters)
• CV — Cataclysmic Variable
• SSM/I — Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
• AABR — Automated Auditory Brainstem Response
• CIE — Chinese Institute of Electronics
• QRSL — quick-reaction space laboratory
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• ACE — Accessory Cholera Enterotoxin

• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• WFC — World Food Council
• APL — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
• CAI — Complete Androgen Insensitivity
• ACE — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• BFH — Benign Familial Hematuria
• ADCP — Adenosine Deaminase Complexing Protein
• UNCED — United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
• AEV — Avian Erythroblastosis Virus
• CSIRO — Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• PCMDI — Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
• RTCS — Real-Time Computer System
• ADCI — American Die Casting Institute
• DTS — Digital Transmission Systems, Inc.
• GTI — Good Time Interval
• CMA — Chemical Manufacturers Association
• GEMS — Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP)
• ARMS — Amplification Refractory Mutation
• BAL — Bronchial Alveolar Lavage
• AAD — Age at Diagnosis
• CG — Celera Genomics Corporation
• PBX — Public Branch Exchange
• ADPSP — Autosomal Dominant Pure Spastic Paraplegia
• AAOE — Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
• BMFT — Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (Germany)
• CMD — Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
• ISO 14155 — Current Widely Accepted Standard
• CIDS — Circular Intensity Differential Scattering
• NGI — Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
• RMS — Royal Meteorological Society
• ASV — Avian Sarcoma Virus
• AMC — Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
• ABLE — Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• CAMP — Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate
• ARCD — Acquired Renal Cystic Disease
• AOL — Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR
• CHA — Congenital Hypoplastic Anemia
• FOM — Figure Of Merit
• CLH — Cutaneous Lymphoid Hyperplasia
• DUART — Dual Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
• BAV — Bicuspid Aortic Valve
• CAC — Coronary Artery Calcification
• AH — Amphipathic Helix
• BSI — British Standards Institution
• EBCDIC — Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• AAU — Acute Anterior Uveitis
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multiple Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• ADA — Automatic Data Acquisition
• DFAD — Digital Feature Analysis Data (dee-fad)

• TC — Telecommand
• CFCS — Chlorofluorocarbons
• GRID — Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)
• AWD — Alive With Disease
• ASAP — Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation
• NDA — New Drug Application
• SIB — Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• STC — Science and Technology Center
• AAO — Age At Onset
• IASI — Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• ADCA — autosomal-dominant cerebellar ataxia
• CGL — Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia
• SI — Solar Influences
• HCN — Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen
• BCR — Breakpoint Cluster Region
• AMI — Active Microwave Instrument
• BC — Breast Cancer
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• RID — Review Item Discrepancy
• NABR — National Association for Biomedical Research
• CISS — Chromosome In Situ Suppression
• FCCC — For the Framework Convention on Climate Change
• AEP — American Electric Power Company, Inc.
• CPI — characters per inch
• AFLPS — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms
• AE — Acrodermatitis Enteropathica
• TTA — Time to Apogee
• ICC — Instrument Control Center
• ABA — Agaricus Bisporus Agglutinin
• CLP — Chromosome Length Polymorphism
• CE — Caenorhabditis elegans
• STP — standard temperature and pressure (0° and 1 atm)
• VDC — Voltage Direct Current
• JFET — junction field effect transistor
• BAS — British Andrology Society
• UCI — University of California, Irvine
• AADC — Aromatic Acid Decarboxylase
• AFGF — Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• PHS — Public Health Service (U.S.)
• AK — Adenylate Kinase
• DGVM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM)
• ACA — Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans
• BPI — bits per inch
• AGMK — African Green Monkey Kidney
• CAH — Chronic Active Hepatitis
• AEG — Acidic Epididymal Glycoprotein
• APECED — Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy-Candidiasis-Ectodermal Dystrophy
• AMIA — The American Medical Informatics Association
• ETAC — Environmental Technical Applications Center (USAF)
• FWHM — Full Width, Half Maximum

• CONACYT — Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
• USLE — Universal Soil Loss Equation (erosion Model)
• PPT — parts per trillion (1012)
• ALS — Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis
• CME — Cystoid Macular Edema
• ASOS — Automated Surface Observing System
• AGE — Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
• NWS — National Weather Service (formerly U.S. Weather Bureau)
• MFCS — Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
• SIMD — Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor)
• QM — Qualification Model
• ADNIV — Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy
• ITCZ — Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater)
• FACS — Facilities Assignment and Control System
• NCI — National Cancer Institute, USA
• IDL — Interactive Data Language
• CLP — Chlorine Loading Potential
• RM — Radiation Monitor
• CDV — Canine Distemper Virus
• CZCS — Coastal Zone Color Scanner
• KBPS — KiloBytes per second
• SARSAT — Search and Rescue Satellite
• CLD — combined lipase deficiency
• IMS — Information Management System (LTPP)
• ASMT — American Society for Medical Technology
• NIC — National Ice Center
• DLT — Digital Linear Tape
• AB — Alcian Blue
• BBXRT — Broadband XRay Telescope
• ADVAMED — Advanced Medical Technology Association
• KJ — kilojoule (energy measure)
• CALL — Common Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• ARHSP — Autosomal Recessive Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• MASER — microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
• RSS — root-sum-square
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• MTS — Microwave Temperature Sounder
• AAD — Acidic Activation Domain
• LH — Labor-Hour
• URD — User Requirements Document
• SEASTAR — Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS
• CEF — chick embryo fibroblast
• DOY — Day of Year
• ARA — American Rheumatism Association
• AACC — American Association for Clinical Chemists
• MDD — Medical Device Directive
• HCL — Hydrogen Chloride
• AMTS — Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder
• CKII — Casein Kinase II
• AARI — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)

• EGSE — Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• AMAD — Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
• EMC — Environmental Modeling Center
• AP — alkaline phosphatase
• FIRST — Far Infrared Space Telescope
• ACF — Aberrant Crypt Focus
• MSLP — Mean Sea Level Pressure
• GERB — Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• DHHS — Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
• CFS — Cancer Family Syndrome
• AA — Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
• CBCL — Child Behavior Checklist
• SAA — Solar Aspect Angle
• ABD — Actin Binding Domain
• CACD — Central Areolar Choroidal Dystrophy
• APA — Administrative Procedure Act
• AO — aldehyde oxidase
• FFW — Feet of Fresh Water
• TUV — Technische Uberwachungs-Vereine
• EUD — Exploration of the Universe Division
• ERBE — Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• AL — annulate lamellae
• NMC — National Meteorological Center (US)
• ADPEO — Autosomal Dominant Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• NO3 — Nitrate Radical
• TGT — TDRSS Ground Terminal
• CREST — Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (Puerto Rico)
• NASPY — North American Society of Electro Physiology and Pacing
• INT — Isaac Newton Telescope
• CFH — Complement Factor H
• K — Kelvin (absolute temperature scale)
• ADO — Allelic Drop Out
• CIRA — COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere
• CCE — Comprehensive Clinical Examination
• APHA — American Pharmaceutical Association
• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• MAGSAT — Magnetic Field Satellite
• CDI — Color Doppler Imaging
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia
• IDTF — Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility
• FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• ESPI — European Space Policy Institute
• DHS — Data Handling Subsystem
• MERIS — Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• MOM — Mission Operations Manager
• NCC — Network Control Center (GSFC)
• FAHS — Federation of American Health Systems
• AACI — Association of American Cancer Institutes
• AQCR — Air Quality Control Region (US) (environment)

• AMSU-A — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS
• CBER — Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• ANN — Artificial Neural Network
• RMS — Root-Mean-Square
• CA — Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator. (See also TSO).
• CCAM — Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation
• ATD — ASPHYXIATING THORACIC DYSTROPHY
• NRCS — Natural Resources Conservation Service
• MDS — Medium Deep Survey
• CMK — Cytidine Monophosphate Kinase
• UNITAR — United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• AGEP — Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis
• UTLS — Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere
• WIPP — Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes)
• RDP — Recreational Dive Planner
• CSI — Construction Specifications Institute
• MSS — Mission Support System
• CGH — Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis
• BEI — Backscattered Electron Imaging (electron microscopy technique)
• AGL — Acute Granulocytic Leukemia
• EC — executive committee
• CC — corpus callosum
• ERS — ESA Remote Sensing Satellite
• CALAS — Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System
• EVA — Extra-Vehicular Activity
• CKI — casein kinase I
• CRADA — Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (with National Institutes of Health)
• CLRI — Central Leather Research Institute
• SO2 — Sulfur Dioxide
• JAAME — Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment
• HALOE — Halogen Occultation Experiment
• SPADE — Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
• BFCNS — Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons
• HDF — Hierarchical Data Format
• DOH — Department of Health (various countries)
• APTTS — Activated Partial Thromboplastin Times
• CCK — Cancer Center Karolinska
• GTE — Global Tropospheric Experiment
• UNFCCC — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System
• MOP — Mortgage Origination Program
• SCPI — Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
• AER — Apical Ectodermal Ridge
• BIO — Biotechnology Industry Organization
• LIMS — Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
• BA — benzoic acid
• CBFB — Core Binding Factor Beta
• GARP — Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA)
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program
• EIR — Environmental Impact Report

• ACARS — Aeronautical Radio, Inc. Communication and Recording System
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• AFOS — Automation of Field Operations and Services
• MDT — Maximum Dive Time
• CDCR — Conceptual Design and Cost Review
• AFC — Amniotic Fluid Cells
• ADG — Average Daily Gain
• CZMA — US Coastal Zone Management Act
• CIIP — Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudoobstruction
• NRS — Natural Reserve System
• EOSAT — Earth Observation Satellite Co.
• AGWP — Absolute Global Warming Potential
• S/W — Software
• AMOS — Automated Meteorological Observing System
• CLA — Cutaneous Lymphocyte Antigen
• ADALT — Advanced Radar Altimeter
• DCIEM — Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine
• ASFV — African Swine Fever Virus
• AI — Association Index
• ID — IDentifier
• ARH — Autosomal Recessive Hypercholesterolemia
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• WHT — William Herschel Telescope
• CSREES — Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• CLL — Chronic Lymphoid Leukaemia
• FFM — Full Face Mask
• GBPS — Gigabits per second
• ABC — Autism Behavior Checklist
• DOI — Department of the Interior (US)
• NAREGI — National Research Grid Initiative
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP)
• AIMS — Ancestry informative markers
• ECC — Electrochemical Concentration Cell
• IRAS — Infrared Astronomy Satellite
• DWS — Doppler Wind Sensor
• NCEP — National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center)
• HCIS — Health Care Information System
• CL — Cleft Lip
• IWGDMGC — Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
• CCT — Computer Compatible Tape
• AGI — Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
• CMU — Concrete Masonry Unit
• NHC — United States National Hurricane Center
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• CART — Classification And Regression Tree (method In Statistical Analysis)
• BTD — Brightness Temperature Difference
• EASOE — European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
• LIS — Lightning Imaging Sensor
• PDUFA — Prescription Drug User Fee Act (1992, U.S.)
• DSDP — Deep-Sea Drilling Project

• BD — binding domain
• TDT — Total Dive Time
• LANDSAT — Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
• AP — arterial pressure
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• CBN — Cellular Blue Nevi
• LITE — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• OM — Optical Monitor
• AMDT — Adjusted Maximum Dive Time
• CIT — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• CIC — Circulating Immune Complex
• CCRCC — Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
• CB — cord blood
• EBI — European Bioinformatics Institutetute
• EPACT — Energy Policy Act of 1992 (US)
• HMMR — High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
• HRI — High Resolution Imager
• ISTP — International Solar Terrestrial Physics
• EIGA — European Industrial Gases Association
• AZOOR — Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy
• HCFCS — Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
• BOL — Beginning of Life
• X-SAR — X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• PREST — Policy Research in Engineering, Science & Technology
• ISEE — International Sun-Earth Explorer
• ALP — ATHEROGENIC LIPOPROTEIN PHENOTYPE
• ERA — Employee Reimbursement Account
• CHED — Congenital Heredity Endothelial Dystrophy
• ASA — Antarctic Support Associates
• CDC — Child Development Centre
• ALD — alcoholic liver diseases
• JHIT — Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance
• CEFS — chicken embryonic fibroblasts
• AII — Angiotensin II
• ISY — International Space Year (1992)
• GGS — Global Geospace Science
• ACCS — Acinar Cell Carcinomas
• GCC — Global Change Category
• AAP — amino acid permease
• EAA — Experiment Aircraft Association
• BBD — Benign Breast Disease
• CFA — colony forming assay
• MASSMEDIC — Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council
• LRA — Laser Retroreflector Array
• IAPM — International Association of Medical Prosthesis Manufacturers
• DDE — Distributive Data Environment (McIDAS)
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• CAK — Cell Adhesion Kinase
• CARDS — Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set

• BA — biliary atresia
• BUFR — Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data)
• CEOS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• GTCE — Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
• MB — Millibar(s)
• ICSU — International Council of Scientific Unions
• AGFS — Aviation Gridded Forecast System
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• PSU — power supply unit
• ALTS — Atypical Lipomatous Tumors
• FDLI — Food and Drug Law Institute
• INPAC — Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
• BFNC — Benign Familial Neonatal Convulsions
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• DYAX — Dyax Corp.
• APAG — Academic Policy Advisory Group
• AK — acetate kinase
• BDT — Binary Decision Tree
• CIV — Chilo Iridescent Virus
• ACNPV — Autographa Californica Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• CM — cytoplasmic membrane
• DANR — Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• IGAC — International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program of the IGBP
• ARP — Aldehyde Reactive Probe
• CFP — Cyan Fluorescent Protein
• AM — Acral Melanoma
• ATM — Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutant
• ACLL — Atypical Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• BDV — Borna Disease Virus
• ADCLS — Advanced Data Collection and Location System
• ADC — Analogue to Digital Converter
• CEES — Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
• ASCRS — American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery's
• ALSPP — Atmospheric and Land Surface Processes Project
• CHPA — Consumer Healthcare Products Association
• ADI — Autosomal Dominant Ichthyosis
• SNPA — Subnetwork Point of Attachment
• BED — Bornholm Eye Disease
• AEL — After Egg Laying
• BEL — Bovine Embryonic Lung
• CAD — Cold Agglutinin Disease
• BFIC — Benign Familial Infantile Convulsions
• UNECE — United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
• NIEHS — National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (National Institutes of Health)
• CAE — Childhood Absence Epilepsy
• ARPKD — Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
• WEFAX — Weather Facsimile
• DAAC — Distributed Active Archive Center
• NISTEP — National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program)

• AMSR-E — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS
• CD — Chemistry Division
• TOD — Theoretical Ocean Depth
• CALGB — Cancer and Leukemia Group B
• JERS-1 — Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
• CIRRIS — Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument for Shuttle
• LEOP — Launch and Early Orbit Phase
• SRD — Software Requirements Document
• EOF — Empirical Orthogonal Function
• AO — Amine Oxidase
• SERC — Science and Engineering Research Council
• KEV — kilo electron volts
• RPE — Relative Pointing Error
• SSD — Software Specification Document
• CEI — Converting Enzyme Inhibitor
• AMOS — Air Force Maui Optical System
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• STSCI — Space Telescope Science Institute
• CC — colorectal cancer
• JIM — Job Information Memorandum
• CPL — Cloud Physics Lidar
• AJ — adherens junction
• CIASTA — Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Terrestrial Applications
• GCRP — Global Change Research Program
• RSO — Resident Space Object
• DIFAX — Digital Facsimile
• EMEX — Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment
• AUL — Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
• NSC — Norwegian Space Center
• II — Interdisciplinary Investigator
• AMLL — Acute Mixed Lineage Leukemia
• OPEP — Organisation des Pays Exportateurs de Pétrole
• IDS — Interdisciplinary Science
• CCR — Complex Chromosome Rearrangement
• CLAES — Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
• CGN — Cerebellar Granule Neurons
• CD-ROM — Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
• TRMM — Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (US-Japan)
• AY — Academic Year
• AOS — Active Oxygen Species
• CCM — Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
• AHRR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor
• ASAIO — American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• CSA — Canadian Standards Association (like UL)
• ART — Assisted Reproductive Technology
• AVF — Abdominal Visceral Fat
• ACD — Avellino Corneal Dystrophy
• ECMWF — European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• CCMV — Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus
• CRU — Climate Research Unit (East Anglia)

• DOF — Department of Finance
• DXS — Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer
• CARA — Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• RSNA — The Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
• CD — cortical dysplasia
• AP — acute pancreatitis
• CPSC — Consumer Product Safety Commission
• SWHG — Social Welfare History Group
• IGBP — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• CES — Cat Eye Syndrome
• CRREL — Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE)
• HIRS — High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
• CBB — Common Bacterial Blight
• CCFDN — Congenital cataracts facial dysmorphism neuropathy
• ESE — Earth Science Enterprise
• AGR — accessory gene regulator
• BAL — Biphenotypic Acute Leukemia
• ED — Department of Education (US)
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multinucleocapsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• SAFIRE — Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission
• CFTR — cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator protein
• WASC — Western Association of Schools and Colleges
• AES — Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
• CCITT — Comit? Consultatif International T?l?graphique et T?l?phonique
• CIIT — Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
• EXOSAT — European X-Ray Observatory Satellite
• NAAQS — National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
• AE — anion exchanger
• ARVD — arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
• CTD — Conductivity, Temperature and Depth
• ICR — Indirect Cost Recovery
• CHH — Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone
• ASEC — Applied Solar Energy Corporation
• HIAA — Health Insurance Association of America
• BLCMD — BiLevel CoMmanD (DXS)
• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• ACC — Australian Cancer Council
• AHL — Acyl Homoserine Lactone
• SOM — Spacecraft Operations Manager
• SVT — System Validation Test
• DEMA — Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association
• DO — Diving Officer
• AICR — American Institute for Cancer Research
• EDAC — Error Detection And Correction
• APKD — Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease
• FTS — File Transfer System
• TMR — TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS)
• SMMR — Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
• CE — ciliary epithelium

• CBT — Cord Blood Transplant
• IV&V — independent verification and validation
• MCP — Meteorological Communications Package
• ALCL — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
• QAO — Quality Assurance Office
• CE — cornified envelope
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• MIAA — Medical Industry Association of Australia
• JIF — Japan-Indonesia Science and Technology Forum
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• AFLP — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphic
• MAFI — Medical Alert Foundation International
• ALADIN — Interactive sky atlas developed by CDS Strasbourg
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL)
• AO — Airway obstruction
• CALLA — Common Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Antigen
• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• OASH — Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
• CO-I — Co-Investigator
• CH — Centrosome hyperamplification
• LEFI — Local Electric Field Instrument
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
• ADRP — Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa
• CCI — Canadian Circumpolar Institute
• SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• EJ — Expansion Joint
• CDF — Cerebellar Deficient Folia
• SLIES — Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer
• CRO — Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
• CHR — complete hematologic response
• PROM — Programmable Read Only Memory (chip)
• ACEC — Area of Critical Environmental Concern
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
• SEU — Structure and Evolution of the Universe
• DUD — duodenal ulcer disease
• TM — Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
• BCAC — Basal Cell Adenocarcinoma
• ADC — Astronomical Data Center
• GAC — Global Area Coverage
• ADCC — Autosomal Dominant Congenital Cataract
• CAPS — Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
• MCP — Multi Channel Plate
• GSM — Ground Segment Manager
• AN — Aspergillus Nidulans
• AISA — Acquired Idiopathic Sideroblastic Anemia
• ADOM — Acid Deposition And Oxidant Model (air Pollution)
• CSIS — Centralized Storm Information System
• CEL — Carboxyl Ester Lipase
• RASS — radio-acoustic sounding system

• ATMOS — Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy
• ASPS — Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma
• IPEM — Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• AC — Adenylyl Cyclase
• MITRE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment
• J.S.D. — Doctor of the Science of Law
• CMS — Correctional Medical Services
• NDIU — Network Data Interface Unit
• CAMS — Cell Adhesion Molecules
• LWIR — Long-Wavelength Infrared
• SEU — Single Event Upset
• CIRAC — Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry
• SNRI — Sierra Nevada Research Institute
• GOME — Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• PS/2 — Personal System/2 (Microsoft)
• BACT — Best Available Control Technology
• RNA — Ribose Nucleic Acid
• HIS — Health Information Systems
• ALSC — Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation
• S/C — Spacecraft
• AO — active oxygen
• NWP — Numerical Weather Prediction
• ALADIN — Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument
• INDA — Investigational New Drug Application
• SID — Structure Identifier
• AEV — Avian Encephalomyelitis Virus
• BD — Bipolar Disorder
• NCSC — National Council of Senior Citizens
• EAD — Equivalent Air Depth
• OTF — On-Target Flag
• SPOT — Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (France)
• ALT — Atypical Lipomatous Tumor
• MESSR — Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
• UCAR — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• CG — cortical granule
• MIP — Minimum Ionising Particle
• CDTS — cytolethal distending toxins
• MIR — Management Information Report
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia
• EEC — European Economic Commission
• AAUC — Alumni Associations of the University of California
• AD — Agar Dilution
• CBSCT — Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
• BCNS — Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome
• CDGE — Constant Denaturant Gel Electrophoresis
• IRTS — Infrared Temperature Sounder
• APLS — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemias
• AIL — Advance Intercross Line
• ASE — Absence Status Epilepticus

• JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency
• BEV — Baboon Endogenous Virus
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• AMV — Avian Myeloblastosis Virus
• AIBS — American Institute of Biological Sciences
• POES — Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite
• ARSS — Autonomous Replication Sequences
• ARJP — Autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism
• CAR — Cell Adhesion Regulator
• ARF — Alternative Reading Frame
• CCR — Cost-Charge Ratio
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)
• NCBI — National Center for Biotechnology Information
• BCP — Basal Cell Papilloma
• TA — Teaching Assistant
• CD — cytochalasin D
• AP — accelerated phase
• GLOSS — Global Sea Level Observing System (of IOC)
• AH — absorptive hypercalciuria
• CAPPI — Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
• CE — central element
• OEC — Olfactory Ensheathing Cell
• HIBCC — Health Industry Business Communications Council
• AO — announcement of opportunity
• VOS — Voluntary Observing Ship
• RT — Real Time (R/T Preferred)
• SHEIR — Society of Higher Education & Industrial Research
• EDIS — Environmental Data and Information Service
• HYREX — Hydrological Radar Experiment
• ACD — Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS)
• AAPC — Attenuated Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
• CAA — Chronic Aplastic Anemia
• CLMA — Clinical Laboratory Management Association
• SDE — Software Development Environment
• HRSA — U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
• DAN — Diver’s Alert Network
• TIRS — Thermal Infrared Scanner
• SBUV — Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment)
• JGOFS — Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
• AE — Assemble Axial Elements
• CDIC — cytoplasmic dynein intermediate chain
• AOIPS — Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System
• CFRI — Central Fuel Research Institute (India)
• DISEL — Diseno e Ingenieria de Systemas Electronicos
• TWIP — Terminal Weather Information for Pilots
• NAHIT — National Alliance for Health Information Technology
• AT — Arabidopsis thaliana
• BODC — British Oceanographic Data Centre
• SODAR — Sound Detection And Ranging (meteorological Instrument)
• APL — Altered Peptide Ligand

• CEA — Collie Eye Anomaly
• LRDP — Long Range Development Plan
• LSPDF — Life Science Payload Development Facility
• DPV — Diver Propulsion Vehicle
• HDP — Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• CH — chloral hydrate
• EUMETSAT — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• ATS — Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome
• ASF — African Swine Fever
• CANS — Central Auditory Nervous System
• ADAAC — Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center
• DIS — Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP)
• VIS — Visible
• HFMA — Healthcare Financial Management Association
• ALCLS — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphomas
• CTI — Charge Transfer Inefficiency
• UCSF — University of California, San Francisco
• AN — Anorexia Nervosa
• NCDC — National Climatic Data Center
• CDOS — Customer Data and Operations System
• AS — Asparagine Synthetase
• ALF — automated laser fluorescence
• APRE — Acute Phase Response Element
• ALH — Atypical Lobular Hyperplasia
• BCTV — Beet Curly Top Virus
• APM — Affected Pedigree Member
• NODS — NASA Ocean Data System
• ICH — International Conference of Harmonization
• CCA — Cortical cerebellar atrophy
• PMEL — Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)
• COAPEC — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate
• FAUI — Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors
• PD — Photo Diode
• CIBD — Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• AI — Amelogenesis imperfecta
• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• CFPS — culture filtrate proteins
• PSF — Point-Spread Function
• ALP — Automated Linkage Preprocessor
• GEDEX — Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment
• GPSDR — Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
• CAA — Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
• INSA — Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
• AD — axiodistal
• AODC — Association of Offshore Diving Contractors
• AEA — Atomic Energy Authority
• CEC — critical electrolyte concentration
• CAV — Coronary Artery Vasculopathy
• ECRI — Emergency Care Research Institute
• CG — Comparative Genometrics

• CDR — Complementary determining regions
• DLCF — Data Link Control Field
• CDA — congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
• PROPAC — Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
• APBSCT — Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant
• TSE — Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
• DAMTP — Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (Cambridge)
• MOUT — Message Out
• ICD-9-CM — International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition
• ANA — Autoantibody to Nuclear Antigen
• EXPRESSO — Experiment for Regional Sources and Sinks of Oxidants
• MOPH — Ministry of Public Health
• CEF — Chicken embryonic fibroblast
• CNES — Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France)
• USPHS — United States Public Health Service
• AAR — abnormal anaphase resolution
• NASSH — North American Society for Sport History
• DTS — Digital Termination Service
• ACMSU — Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Support Unit
• CCF — Current Calibration File
• LORAN — Long Range Navigational System
• CLAG — Cytoadherence Linked Asexual Gene
• SPAC — State Pharmaceutical Administration of China
• AF — activation function
• CAN — Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
• CFAS — Colonization factor antigens
• DCM — Dispersion Compensation Module
• HIMSS — Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• AMTIC — Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center
• ASHOE — Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
• CEP — Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria
• ISSC — International Social Science Council
• AVHRR GAC — AVHRR Global Area Coverage
• JCCT — Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (US-China)
• CFC — Chloroflourocarbon
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
• DSMA — Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance
• IPOC — International Partner Operations Center
• CRG — Council for Responsible Genetics
• AE — Axial Element
• CAMP — Childhood Asthma Management Program
• RADARSAT — Radar Satellite
• CITRIS — Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
• ARC — Arctic Radiation and Chemistry experiment
• CI — Cerebral Infarction
• STA — Science and Technology Agency (Japan)
• CEC — Commission of the European Communities ;
• DMAC — Diving Medical Advisory Committee
• AP — Adenomatous POLYPs
• BCCS — Basal Cell Carcinomas

• IMAU — Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht
• AS — Alport syndrome
• FDH — Fixed Dynamical Heating
• CCE — Charge Collection Efficiency
• AMIP — Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• USFS — United States Forest Service
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• AEP — Alkaline Extracellular Protease
• NAT — Nitric Acid Trihydrate (polar Stratosphere Cloud Aerosol)
• CCGA — Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs
• CLD — Congenital Lactase Deficiency
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Response
• AIEOP — Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica
• CH — contact hypersensitivity
• ACASS — Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System
• AHF — Altered Hepatic Foci
• DMAP — Digital MAPping, charting and geodesy analysis program
• CB — Ciliary Body
• NGDC — National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
• TOASTE — Transport of Ozone and Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange
• ICOLC — International Consortium of Library Consortia
• SCATT — SCATTerometer
• AP — amyloid plaques
• APC — Ambulatory Payment Class
• ADH — Atypical Duct Hyperplasia
• APC — Anterior polar cataract
• MF/MAGNOLIA — Magnetic Field Experiment
• ARCI — Autosomal Recessive Congenital Ichthyosis
• CES — Central Excitatory State
• CMS — Configuration Management System
• GOSTA — Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas
• CISH — Chromosome in Situ Hybridisation
• MRI — Meteorlogical Research Institute (Japan)
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• AI — Aromatase Inhibitor
• ICAIR — International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research
• ORATOS — Orbit and Attitude Operating System
• SSALT — Solid-State radar Altimeter
• IEOS — International Earth Observing System
• OHTA — Office of Health Technology Assessment
• WCSAR — Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics
• AWIPS-90 — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's
• MRT — Mission Readiness Test
• PI — Principle Investigator
• SDC — Swiss Development Corporation
• BARC — Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
• MKS — meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS")
• QSO — Quasar|Quasi-Stellar Object
• CAPE — Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment (STORM)
• ARVC — arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

• MTPPI — Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fuer Normung
• UCRP — University of California Retirement Plan
• BANF — Bilateral Acoustic Neurofibromatosis
• CLIVAR — Climate Variability and Predictability program
• SZA — Solar Zenith Angle
• TOGA/COARE — Toga/Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
• CI — Continuous Infusion
• ACGM — Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
• MJD — Modified Julian Date
• CIN — Chronic Idiopathic Neutropenia
• AHH — anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
• ACIS — Automated Cellular Imaging System
• MAESA — Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• BBC — Bilateral Breast Cancer
• IMB — Investigator of Micro-Biosphere
• UAF — University of Alaska Fairbanks
• V&V — Validation & Verification
• MPI — Max Planck Institut (Germany)
• ASMD — Anterior Segment Mesenchymal Dysgenesis
• CCS — clear cell sarcoma
• ALL — Acute Lymphatic Leukemia
• ISTAHC — International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
• EOSP — Earth Observing Scanner Polarimeter
• CS&S — Computer Sciences and Statistics (UW-MSN)
• NEXRAD — Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS)
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission (ESA)
• GLP — Good Laboratory Practice
• CH — cystic hygroma
• MEDEC — Medical Devices Canada
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• TNT — Trinitrotoluene
• DLR — Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany)
• ITE — Institute for Terrestrial Ecology
• GTS — Global Telecommunications System (WMO and
• ACOE — Army Corps of Engineers
• ASCT — Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
• NH3 — Ammonia
• AMANDA — Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array
• EESC — Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine
• BAUD — one bit per second
• MCIDAS — Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
• HIDA — Health Industry Distributors Association
• CBV — Coxsackie B Viruses
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction
• ANNS — Artificial Neural Networks
• ATF — Aphid Transmission Factor
• UH — University of Heidelberg
• CAPD — Chronic Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• IUCRP — Industry University Cooperative Research Program

• BC — breast carcinoma
• MT — Measured Time
• AMPS — Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System
• AAL — Alternaria Alternata Lycopersici
• CHR — Complete Hematologic Remission
• CDS — commonly deleted segment
• AMOG — Adhesion Molecule on Glia
• ACSYS — Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP)
• ARNT — Ah Receptor Nuclear Translocator
• CFC — Continuous-Flow Centrifugation
• CTP — Cloud-Top Pressure
• AE — Attaching and effacing
• DRG — Diagnosis-Related Groups
• AOT — Aerosol Optical Thickness
• CMA — China Meteorological Administration
• ALVS — Avian Leukosis Viruses
• GLI — Global Imager
• IPEI — Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument
• APPS — Acute Phase Proteins
• SORI — Subcommittee on Research Initiatives
• EFPIA — European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
• DSC — Direct Satellite Communications
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• KOPRI — Korea Polar Research Institute
• CH — Calponin homology
• NIR — Near Infrared
• ADLTE — Autosomal Dominant Lateral Temporal Epilepsy
• GLAS — Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
• CCR — Continuous Complete Remission
• IRI — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• CF — Correction Factor
• CPC — Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center)
• CGH — Comparative Gene Hybridization
• NH — Northern Hemisphere
• UPC — Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• AGM — African green monkey
• CM — complete mole
• MPIA — Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie (Germany)
• FNRS — Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium)
• MTBE — Methyl Tert-butyl Ether
• DSB — Direct Sounding Broadcast
• EOSDIS — Earth Observing System Data and Information System (sic FCW 9/97)
• NTS — Nevada Test Site
• DPR — Dual Precipitation Radar
• SERI — Solar Energy Research Institute
• NREL — National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly SERI)
• UCLA — University of California, Los Angeles
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Response
• HSQB — Health Standard and Quality Bureau
• BAERS — Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses

• APC — Adenomatosis Polyposis Coli
• NAVSTAR — Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging
• DLS — Dynamic Limb Sounder
• DLL — Dynamic Link Libraries
• EUDRA — European Drug Regulatory Authorities Network
• PPR — problems with the Photopolarimeter Radiometer
• AH — adenomatous hyperplasia
• AHF — Attitude History File
• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• CHD — Congenital Heart Defect
• BDC — Bellini Duct Carcinoma
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer
• CESD — Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease
• HIRDLS — HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS)
• CA — Contagious agalactia
• AUP — Adjusted Unbiased Prediction
• DU — Dobson Unit
• DES — Divers Environmental Survey
• JCAHO — Joint Committee on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• AWD — abnormal wing discs
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
• ACOS — Attitude and Orbit Control System
• CEO — Centre for Earth Observation
• HOX — odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2)
• LIGG — Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology
• CGAM — Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
• HAPEX — Hydrological Atmospheric Pilot Experiment
• DPSS — Data Processing Services Subsystem
• AR — adaptive response
• CLG — Certified Local Government
• CITE — Chemical Instrument Test and Evaluation (NASA GTE)
• ARS — Autonomous Replication Sequence
• CCO — Cytochrome C Oxidase
• CESH — Comparative Expressed Sequence Hybridization
• AMV — Avian Myoblastosis Virus
• ABCS — Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
• AUM — Asymmetric Unit Membrane
• NNF — National Nanofabrication Facility
• BB — Borrelia burgdorferi
• AR — apoptotic rate
• ARIC — Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
• CBB — Coomassie Brilliant Blue
• CWA — Clean Water Act (1977)
• IAS — Interactive Analysis Subsystem
• HIMSS — high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder
• DOA — Department of Administration (US)
• AER — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• MOS-1 — Marine Observation Satellite (Japan)
• BCC — Burkholderia Cepacia Complex
• CA — Cerebellar Ataxia

• PSS — Procedures, Specifications and Standards
• CIAP — Climatic Impact Assessment Program
• RA — Regulatory Affairs
• AIM — Acute Infectious Mononucleosis
• AROA — Autosomal Recessive Ocular Albinism
• FASTEX — Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track EXperiment
• CWB — Central Weather Bureau (Taiwan)
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
• HCMM/AEM-1 — Heat Capacity Mapping Mission/Applications Explorer Mission
• EML — Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)
• MOZIAC — Measurement of Ozone on Airbus in-service Aircraft
• PMIR — Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
• CSG — Clock Sequence Generator
• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• MLS — Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
• STE — Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange
• AOT — Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumour
• BDMV — Bean Dwarf Mosaic Virus
• NED — Network of Egghead Divers
• EBC — Executive Budget Committee
• RA — Radar Altimeter (R/A Preferred)
• LLC — Limited Liability Partnership
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• DIU — Detector Interface Unit (DXS)
• CDLS — Cornelia De Lange Syndrome
• ATLID — Atmospheric LIDAR
• AGT — average generation time
• AVS — Aortic Valve Stenosis
• ADL — Acid Detergent Lignin
• ASE — Air-Sea Exchange experiment (EUROTRAC)
• RTNEPH — real-time nephanalysis
• ERD — Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER)
• SWIRLS — Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
• CHL — Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma
• NERI — National Environmental Research Institute
• MPIC — Max Planck Institut für Chemie (Germany)
• GCE — Ground-base Cloud Experiment (EUROTRAC)
• CENELEC — European Committee for Electromechanical Standardisation
• HRPT — High Resolution Picture Transmission
• CIRES — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (US)
• ERL — Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)
• BRG — Bureau des Ressources Génétiques
• CCV — Channel Catfish Virus
• JEOS — Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
• PSSM — Polish Society for Sexual Medicine
• ANLL — Acute Nonlymphoid Leukemia
• WMREI — Waste Management Research and Education Institute
• SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• SPARC — Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change
• AAU — Association of African Universities

• AOD — Autoimmune Ovarian Dysgenesis
• AH — aniline hydrochloride
• TIROS — Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (POES)
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolemia
• CBI — Confederation of British Industries
• ABI — Advanced Baseline Imager (GOES)
• BC — Brain Cancer
• AIPS — Astronomical Image Processing System
• AMLS — Acute Myelogenous Leukemias
• AD — Arginine Deiminase
• EBW — Electron Beam Welding
• ALC — Anaplastic Large Cell
• BEF — Bromine Efficiency Factor
• SSMS — Society for Sexual Medicine of Slovenia
• CALS — College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (UW–Madison)
• SAFISY — Space Agency Forum on the International Space Year (1992)
• INRA — Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France)
• UCAP — University Committee on Academic Personnel
• CA — cerebellar atrophy
• URSI — Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale
• OSCAR — Online Services for Curriculum and Articulation Review
• CITE — Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation
• ILE — Institute for Labor and Employment
• FDDI — Fibre Distributed Data Interface
• CEC — Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC)
• AD — Alzheimer Disease
• CFF — Cystic Fibrosis Factor
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• GFLOPS — Billions of Floating Point Instructions per Second
• ASCP — American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• UCSB — University Of California Santa Barbara
• NPOESS — National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
• TOMS — Transactions On Mathematical Software
• OBDH — On-Board Data Handler
• BISA — Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy (Belgium)
• CF — Clastogenic factor
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
• AFG — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• IES — Institute of Environmental Sciences
• AE — Atmosphere Explorer
• ATR — Acid Tolerance Response
• CPEC — California Postsecondary Education Commission
• S&T — Directorate for Science and Technology
• METEOSAT — Geosynchronous Meteorology Satellite (ESA)
• CNRM — Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques(France)
• BCE — Bovine Capillary Endothelial
• FGP — Faculty Grants Program
• CDF — Cation Diffusion Facilitator
• CAA — California Alumni Association
• JEM-X — Joint European Monitor for X-rays

• TMU — Transmission Message Unit
• ORA — FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs
• NORDA — Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity
• AINA — Arctic Institute of North America
• AN — accessory nuclei
• LED — Low Energy Detector
• QBO — Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.)
• ARPS — Advanced Regional Prediction System
• MDDI — Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry
• UNEX — University Extension
• SOAPEX — Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry EXperiment
• SARA — Superfund Amendment And Reauthorization Act
• IGAP — International Global Aerosol Program
• AS — Angelman Syndrome
• CAF — Conotruncal Anomaly Face
• NHGRI — National Human Genome Research Institute
• GOMOS — Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
• TAE — Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface)
• FDAMA — FDA Modernization Act of 1997
• ASADA — Automated Smoke/Aerosol Detection Algorithm
• BDA — Bile Duct Adenoma
• CI — Cytoplasmic incompatibility
• CDM — Chemically Defined Medium
• F&A — Facilities and Administrative
• UTC — Universal Time Coordinate
• SIGMA — High Energy X-ray Instrument
• MTDC — Modified Total Direct Costs
• AIED — Aland Island Eye Disease
• IPC — Imaging Proportional Counter
• DBU — Digital Bus Unit
• NPOP — NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
• CAR — Constitutive Androstane Receptor
• AWI — Alfred Wegener Institute
• CH — congenital hypothyroidism
• CGC — Climate and Global Change
• OST — Office of Science and Technology
• PDA — Parenteral Drug Association
• AFA — Ankyloblepharon Filiforme Adnatum
• BITNET — Because It's Time Network
• CDS — Correlated Double Sampler
• CB — carotid body
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic leukosis
• AL — Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL)
• AS — alternative splicing
• PPRC — Physician Payment Review Commission
• CGCP — Canadian Global Change Program
• NESHAP — National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• CHI — California Healthcare Institute
• BCP — Basic Calcium Phosphate
• AM — Admixture Mapping

• TMPSU — Telescope Module Power Supply Unit
• ASPS — Affected Sibling Pairs
• DP — dermal papilla
• AREP — Assembly Representation
• GCDIS — US Global Change Data and Information System
• CCLRC — Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• AIEE — American Institute for Electrical Engineers
• J.D. — Juris Doctor degree
• APLP — Amplified Product Length Polymorphism
• NHRI — National Hydrology Research Institute
• AD — After Disease
• CMCS — cultured mast cells
• FBTR — Fast Breeder Test Reactor
• AI — Apoptosis Index
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror Mission
• CITA — Center for IT Accommodation (GSA)
• EODRS — Earth observation data retrieval system
• APB — Alternative Pyrimidine Biosynthetic
• ILAS — Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
• CMG — Computer Measurement Group
• OAC — Orbital Activation and Checkout
• CCBS — Calcium Channel Blockers
• EADS — Engineering and Data Analysis System
• ASD — Aspartate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase
• AS — Active sleep
• CD — Campomelic dysplasia
• CBPP — Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
• CA — Colorectal Adenoma
• BCCP — Biotin Carboxyl Carrier Protein
• CART — Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM)
• TIROS — Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
• CTD — Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
• CTD — Chemical Technology Division (ORNL)
• AOCS — Attitude and Orbit Control and Measurement Subsystem
• ABC — aneurysmal bone cyst
• AIRS — Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS)
• UCSD — University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California)
• APL — Acute Progranulocytic Leukemia
• ALE/GAGE — Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment/Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• CMD — Cartilage Matrix Deficiency
• CFSS — common fragile sites
• POEMS — Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
• NIGMS — National Institute Of General Medical Sciences (NIH)
• CONUS — Continental U.S.
• ASH — American Society of Hematology's
• HOCL — Hypochlorous Acid
• DEED — Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
• AK — Arginine kinase
• AEEC — attaching and effacing Escherichia coli
• HPB — Health Protection Board (Canada)

• ASS — Arginosuccinate Synthetase
• RVAU — Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
• AIRS — Acute Insulin Responses
• CF — colony formation
• CEC — Chick Embryo Cells
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fur Normung
• NIGEC — National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• CF — culture filtrate
• ORS — Outer root sheath
• BFF — Bovine Follicular Fluid
• RUC — Roskilde University Center
• PXP — XMM Project Payload
• NHIB — National Health Insurance Bureau (Taiwan)
• ARA — AppleTalk Remote Access
• CAD — Coronary Atherosclerotic Disease
• HEAO-1 — NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission
• NLN — National League for Nursing
• CERES — Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System
• CM — cutaneous melanoma
• CER — Common Eliminated Region
• MENARG — Middle East and North Africa Research Group
• SHM — Social History of Medicine
• MOSS — Market-Oriented Sector Selective
• BOREAS — Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study
• CC — Carney complex
• INTEGRAL — International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
• BAC — Bovine Artificial Chromosome
• STAR — Satellite for Telecommunication Applications and Research
• SSDF — Space Science Development Facility
• IST — integrated systems test
• ALL — Acute Lymphoblastic
• BDGP — Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
• DBRA — Division of Biometry and Risk Assessment
• CL — chromosome loss
• CE — conventional electrophoresis
• MST — Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere (Radar)
• PDR — Physician’s Desk Reference
• SCOPE — Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)
• DCTD — Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• XSCS — XMM MOC Control System
• CC — congenital cataract
• JETRO — Japan External Trade Organization
• ARRP — Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa
• NILU — Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning
• QSR — Quality System Regulation
• CGAT — Chromaffin Granule Amine Transporter
• EE — End-to-End
• ATD — Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
• AOS — Allene Oxide Synthase
• SST — Sea surface temperature

• CSG — Council of State Governments
• ITT — Integration and Test Team
• SPSO — Science Processing Support Office
• MIP — Mission Implementation Plan
• CLD — Cholestatic Liver Disease
• PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration
• IOLM — International Organization of Legal Metrology
• ANT — Attention Network Test
• AI — Adiposity Index
• BACS — bacterial artificial chromosomes
• LRPT — low-resolution picture transmission
• CNA — Comisión Nacional del Agua (Mexico)
• COR — Committee on Research
• HBR — Hydrogen Bromide
• APC — Academic Planning Council
• NAG — Numerical Algorithms Group Inc.
• DLESE — The Digital Library for Earth System Education
• ACDS — Astronomical Catalogues Database Subsystem
• HIB — Health Insurance Bureau (Japan)
• PPS — XMM Pipeline Processing Subsystem
• CM — contrast media
• CRIS — Cross-track Infrared Sounder
• CM — Capillary malformation
• CIFAR — Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
• CDIAC — Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente
• KANUPP — Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
• D/C — diarrhea constipation
• AFES — Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study
• XIE — X-Ray Imaging Experiment
• CIRRUS — Cloud InfraRed Radiometer for UnESS
• MEI — Medical Economic Index
• ESSHC — European Social Science History Conference
• HIRLAM — High-Resolution Limited Area Model
• HRDI — High Resolution Doppler Imager
• CSES — Center for the Study of Earth from Space (Univ of Colorado)
• OCS — Outer Continental Shelf (oil)
• NIWA — National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
• GAIM — Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modeling
• ATF — anti-activating transcription factor
• UCAF — University Committee on Academic Freedom
• APKC — atypical protein kinase C
• CITE — Cargo Integration and Test Equipment (DXS)
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE)
• ARPS — Affected Relative Pairs
• ADO — Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis
• BF — Bacteroides Fragilis
• OOD — Object-Oriented Design
• NUST — National University of Science and Technology
• MEDGV — Germany's Medical Equipment Safety Law
• STR — Star TRacker

• JET-X — Joint European Telescope for X-ray astronomy
• DNR — Department of Natural Resources
• UCRS — University of California Retirement System
• ECCLS — European Committee on Clinical Laboratory Standards
• CLAVR — Clouds from AVHRR
• DCA — Division of Community Assistance
• UCD — University of California, Davis
• CCR — Carbon Catabolite Repression
• AVHRR LAC — AVHRR Local Area Coverage
• JFMDA — Japan Federation of Medical Device Associations
• NOY — total active nitrogen
• SSSM — Scandinavian Society for Sexual Medicine
• CD — Conjugated dienes
• INPA — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (Brazil)
• GISS — Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
• ACIS — ACademic Information Services (IBM)
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (EOS)
• ASH — Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy
• CMDL — Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)
• TERI — Tata Energy Research Institute
• ICWG — International Coordination Working Group
• INPE — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
• ENSO — El Niño/Southern Oscillation
• ADC — Atlantic Data Coverage (Meteosat)
• NAD — Nitric Acid Dihydrate
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• APVS — Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome
• MH — Message Handling
• 2MASS — Two-Micron All-Sky Survey
• SCOR — Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research Seasat Sea Satellite
• CD — Canavan disease
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic lymphoma
• AM — Achillea Millefolium
• ADCAS — Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxias
• CBDMP — California Birth Defects Monitoring Program
• TMC — Thinking Machine Corporation
• CMAP — Climate Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Program
• WFC — Wide-Field Camera
• NAMES — National Association of Medical Equipment Services
• GLOMAC — Global Modelling of Atmospheric Chemistry (EUROTRAC)
• CAA — Congenital Aural Atresia
• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
• CA — chromosome aberration
• JANET — Joint Academic Network
• OCCM — Ocean Carbon Cycle Model
• CIMO — Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
• AP — Apple Proliferation
• RGS — Reflection Grating Spectrometer
• SESAME — Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Middle Latitude Experiment

• APMI — American Powder Metallurgy Institute
• PSC — Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic)
• PWSA — Ports and Waterways Safety Act
• ASTEX — Atlantic STratus EXperiment
• NNPI — Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information
• CBAH — Conjugated Bile Acid Hydrolase
• ODBMS — Object-Oriented Data-Base Management System
• AIMBE — American Insitute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• CF — Culture fluid
• ARNSHL — Autosomal Recessive Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss
• CDC — Cell Division Control
• IMDA — Independent Medical Distributors Association
• AI — allelic imbalance
• SNR — Super Nova Remnant
• GEOSAT — Geodesy Satellite (Navy)
• EINSTEIN — Einstein Observatory
• CCA — Current Cost Accounting
• ARS — Antigen recognition sites
• UHV — Ultra-high Vacuum
• IPAR — Intercepted Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• CODAR — COrrelation Detection And Ranging
• CM — Cardiac Myxoma
• GLRS-R — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Ranger
• OGIST — Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• CFC — GM-colony forming cell
• CCD — Calcite Compensation Depth
• CECS — cerebral endothelial cells
• AMFR — Autocrine Motility Factor Receptor
• AI — apoptotic index
• OAD — Orbit and Attitude Division
• LMSC — Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation
• MDMA — Medical Device Manufacturers Association
• QSIT — Quality System Inspection Technique
• CD — Congenital Defects
• AAM — Atmospheric Angular Momentum
• CCS — Chromatin Conformational State
• ISLSCP — International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
• ED — Energy Division
• OCTS — Japanese Ocean Color Temperature Scanner
• EMCU — EPIC MOS Camera Head Unit
• NDBC — National Data Buoy Center
• CC — cervical carcinoma
• APP — AVHRR Polar Pathfinder
• APSU — Austin Peay State University
• CD — Cowden Disease
• ATC — Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
• CNSI — California NanoSystems Institute
• MSU — Memphis State University
• DADS — Data Archive and Distribution System
• PMR — Pressure Modulator Radiometer

• WCRP — World Climate Research Program
• NEIC — National Enforcement Investigations Center
• CDD — Cytidine Deaminase
• MOPITT — Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS)
• UCPB — University Committee on Planning and Budget
• EMCS — EPIC MOS Camera System
• ASIM — American Society of International Medicine
• DEM — Digital Electronics Module
• ABS — Advanced Baseline Sounder
• SPOT — Systeme Pour L'Observation De La Terre (France)
• CFA — Cyclopropane fatty acids
• ARE — Androgen Response Elements
• UOEAP — Universitywide Office of the Education Abroad Program
• ASDS — Atrial Septal Defects
• CEL — Conserved Effector Locus
• CC — Cumulus cells
• HEASARC — High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Centre
• GENEMIS — Generation of European Emission Data (EUROTRAC)
• BE — Branching Enzyme
• HFC — HydroFluoroCarbon
• ASF — Abdominal Subcutaneous Fat
• NBIOME — Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
• EVC — Executive Vice Chancellor
• BCS — Broadband Cable System (UW)
• AMDM — Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers
• FIRE — First ISCCP Regional Experiment
• MODIS-T — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt
• AC — Academic Council
• CL — cystic lymphangioma
• ASSIST — Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer
• AF — ameloblastic fibroma
• PHA — Pulse Height Analyzer
• ACC — Atlantic Climate Change
• APE — Airborne Polar Experiment
• BAF — Bvg accessory factor
• OTEC — ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
• WWSEF — Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair
• EMAE — EPIC MOS Analogue Electronics
• LL.M. — Master of Laws degree
• CGKD — Complex Glycerol Kinase Deficiency
• ADEM — Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management
• CL — Crithidia luciliae
• FM — Frequency Modulator
• PCF — Pounds per cubic foot
• PPQA — Pre-Product Quality Assurance
• ASG — Accessory Sex Glands
• AST — Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing
• GIMMS — Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
• JCMM — Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology
• AHA — Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia

• VNIR — Visible And Near InfraRed
• ARD — Adult Refsum Disease
• AVIRIS — airborne visible and infrared imaging spectrometer
• GMS — Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
• AED — Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
• AST — Arterial Spin Tagging
• PRO — Professional Review Organization
• NAGRA — Native American Graves Repatriation Act
• DNAG — Decade of North American Geology
• SEA — Slovak Energy Agency
• CB — Cajal Bodies
• SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
• PT — Pass-Through
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• MCR — Main Control Room
• TTP — Time to Perigee
• CI — Chromosome Index
• GMSLP — Global Mean Sea Level Pressure
• ORAU — Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Remission
• DNH — Division of Natural Heritage
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
• CAMEX — CMOS Amplifier and Multiplexing Chip
• CBL — Cord Blood Lymphocytes
• CM — Centimetre
• CC — complete chimerism
• ARTS — Assisted Reproductive Technologies
• CUA — Circumpolar Universities Association
• APC — Ateles Paniscus Chamek
• AWPD — Assessment and Watershed Protection Division
• NMAI — National Museum of the American Indian
• RA — Research Assistant
• CDFG — California Department of Fish and Game's
• AJ — Ashkenazi Jewish
• EATD — European Association of Technical Divers
• UCEP — University Committee on Educational Policy
• AT — The Ataxia Teleangiectasia
• CC — Cell Counts
• CG — Chorionic Gonadotropin
• CACGP — Commission For Atmospheric Chemistry And Global Pollution
• ASCII — American Standards Committee for Information Interchange
• SAS — Science Analysis Subsystem
• CAMS — Calibrated Airborne Multispectral Scanner
• CFAG — cystic fibrosis antigen
• DAL — Data Access Layer
• DMIC — Deputy Meteorologist-In-Charge (NWS)
• VAN — Value-Added Network
• UCFW — University Committee on Faculty Welfare
• CGCL — Central Giant Cell Lesion
• ASICS — Acid Sensing Ion Channels

• PSDF — Power Spectral Density Function
• ALEXI — Atmospheric Land EXchange Inversion (CIMSS)
• SIR-C — Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
• CSU — Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• DE — Detector Electronics (DXS)
• MOTIE — Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (Korea)
• ACI — Alloy Casting Institute
• AK — Aspartate kinase
• LWIR — long-wavelength (thermal) infrared
• ASMCS — Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells
• DBI — Digital Bus Interface
• DLC — Distributed Learning Center
• CST — Convective-Stratiform Technique
• ASF — Alaskan SAR Facility
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• UCB — University of California, Berkeley
• CALPIRG — The California Public Interest Research Group
• ITTP — Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
• BBV — Black Beetle Virus
• CIRTL — Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning
• PGS — Proposal Generation System
• AVCS — Advanced Vidicon Camera System
• AL — Acute Leukemia
• AP — Adaptor Protein
• CLASS — Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
• SMS/GOES — Synchronous Meteorological Satellite/Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• TGMI — Tennessee Government Management Institute
• SEAWIFS — Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
• ADU — Analogue to Digital Unit
• APP — Abeta precursor protein
• TOO — Target Of Opportunity
• CHLC — Cooperative Human Linkage Center
• ESDD — Earth Science Data Directory
• APAFO — Advanced Particles And Fields Observer
• AK — Adenosine Kinase
• NDSTC — Naval Dive and Salvage Training Center
• VLA — Very Large Array
• BASE-A — Biomass burning Airborne and Spaceborne Experiment-Amazonia
• DWPC — Division of Water Pollution Control
• AION — Anterior Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy
• TOMUIS — 3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer
• CLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• ESOC — European Satellite Operations Center
• CD — cytosine deaminase
• LAWS — Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA)
• LDO — Locally Designated Officer
• UCMC — University of California Marine Council
• AF — Archaeoglobus Fulgidus
• NMAM — NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
• BBM — anti-brush border membrane

• NDPD — National Data Processing Division (EPA)
• PXS — XMM Project Spacecraft
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• ASP — The Abnormal Spindle Protein
• AS — Anthranilate Synthase
• IPE — Institute of Physics of the Earth
• BF — Basal Forebrain
• CA — Chromatid Aberrations
• NETC — National Environmental Technology Centre (UK)
• UCT — Universal Time Code
• STREAM — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiment by Aircraft Measurements
• EPCU — EPIC pn Camera Head Unit
• USBR — United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI)
• SVF — Software Validation Facility
• CCS — Clinical Classification System
• POLES — Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface
• RAPS — Regulatory Affairs Professional Society
• CID — Combined Immune Deficiency
• AFM — Array File Maker
• CRI — Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University)
• DS2 — Second Dark Spot (Neptune)
• SWIR — Short-Wavelength Infrared
• EPDH — EPIC pn Data Handling Unit
• CAA — Cationic Amino Acid
• ORR — Oak Ridge Reservation
• NBII — National Biological Information Infrastructure
• CE — clonal evolution
• BUV — Backscattered UltraViolet
• PAB — Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau (Japan)
• AHSRL — Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar
• CE — colony efficiency
• PRAREE — Precise Range and Rate Equipment-Extended Version
• SAFARI — Southern African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative (BIBEX)
• ERSC — Environmental Remote Sensing Center (IES)
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Research Experiment (TOGA)
• CET — Central England Temperature
• CCA — Conventional Cytogenetic Analysis
• VIRSR — Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
• CD — Chromatin Diminution
• LR — Laser Retroreflector
• CAPE — Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester
• IRICP — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• AA — Acrylonitrile And Acrylamide
• SCHISM — Science Simulator
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, future NASA mission
• SSS — Social Studies of Science
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic
• AS — Acid Succinate
• CD — circular dichroic
• AVTD — Anomalous Viscosity Time Dependence

• CAS — cellular apoptosis susceptibility
• SPO — Sponsored Projects Office
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• MODB — MOC Operational Database
• NILU — Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• UEXT — University Extension
• ANL — Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program
• CMD — Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
• HDIF — Health Care Data Interchange Format
• LERTS — Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en TeledetectionSpatiale (France)
• APH — Attitude Pointing History
• DG — Directorate-General (EU) (government)
• BCM — Blue Cone Monochromacy
• AS — Ankylosing Spondylitis
• CA — Children Age
• AGSP — Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme
• COVC — Council of Vice Chancellors
• FIRETRACC — Firn Record of Trace Gases Relevant to Atmospheric Chemical Change
• HEDIS — Healthplan Employee Data and Information
• EMDM — European Medical Device Manufacturer
• BCR — B Cell Receptor
• FDR — Flight Dynamics Room
• CE — cellular extract
• TOBI — Towed Ocean Bottom Instrument
• IRMM — Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements
• APTF — Admissions Processing Task Force
• VISSR — Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (GOES)
• CC — Cervical Cancer
• AD — Affecting Disease
• CA — Candida albicans
• ETTP — East Tennessee Technology Park
• CAO — Chlorophyll A Oxygenase
• TIR — Thermal Infrared
• ARF — Ancillary Response Function
• EUV — Extreme Ultra-Violet 2
• EBTC — Edison BioTechnology Center
• RTK — Right-To-Know
• AGN — Active Galaxy Nucleus
• RNLI — Royal National Lifeboat Institution
• XTE — X-Ray Timing Explorer
• MRIF — Multicampus Research Incentive Fund
• CA — Clavulanic Acid
• HROI — High Resolution Optical Instrument
• PDIC — Professional Diving Instructors Corporation International; Diving Instruction Organization.
• BC — blast crisis
• UGAMP — Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme
• IRIS — Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology
• EDMA — European Diagnostics Manufacturer's Association
• DST — Data Systems Test

• CGS — Contiguous Gene Syndromes
• CA — Colanic Acid
• ACSOE — Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment
• SCED — Engineering Department at ESOC
• OCLO — chlorine dioxide
• BCCP — apo-biotin carboxyl carrier protein
• MLOPEX — Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemistry Experiment
• UBA — Universal Breathing Apparatus
• AH — anterior horn
• BA — Brucella Abortus
• PEM — Particle Environment Monitor
• MICR — Magnetic-Ink Character Recongnition
• NODC — National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA)
• NODIS — NSSDC Online Data and Information System Services System
• PERI — Pharmaceutical Education & Research Institute
• ERAD — Economic and Regulatory Analysis Division
• QE — Quantum Efficiency
• OLS — Optical Line Scanner
• CASPR — Cloud and Surface Parameter Retrieval
• VIRS — Visible Infrared Scanner
• CDC — Collecting duct carcinoma
• BD — Birth Defects
• SCRIPPS — Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San
• HCPCS — Health Care Common Procedure Coding System
• AL — Angiotropic lymphoma
• KNMI — Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
• CI — centromeric index
• AS — Alagille Syndrome
• CAD — Cinnamyl Alcohol dehydrogenase
• CCR — Cassette Chromosome Recombinase
• WPD — War Plans Division
• AHCS — Anterior Horn Cells
• DAR — Division of Atmospheric Research (CSIRO)
• CML — Chronic Myelogenic Leukemia
• AS — Aldosterone Synthase
• ACCCI — American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute
• HDU — Header Data Unit
• CF — competence factor
• SPAN — Space Physics Analysis Network
• DWS — Division of Water Supply
• CM — cisterna magna
• UADE — Unanticipated Adverse Device Effects
• CC — Cleavable Complex
• KORDI — Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
• ESSA — Environmental Science Services Administration (preceded NOAA)
• ASPS — Acid Shock Proteins
• CA — Cytogenetic Abnormalities
• CCST — California Council on Science & Technology
• CICS — Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (U.Maryland)
• AR — Acrosome reaction

• CENR — Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
• FDRG — Faculty Discipline Review Group
• AS — Argininosuccinate Synthetase
• MOSS — Manned Orbital Space Station
• CA — Chromosome Analysis
• NBIS — Northern Biosphere Information System
• AI — Allele Imbalance
• POLDER — Polarization and Directionality of Reflectances
• EDH — EPIC Data Handling Unit
• XMCS — XMM MissionControl System
• FIMR — Finnish Institute of Marine Research
• DPU — digital processing unit
• WETNET — Network for Distribution and Joint Analysis of SSM/I Data (MSFC)
• CC — Conventional Cytogenetic
• AM — Affected Male
• APM — Academic Personnel Manual
• AK — activated killer
• GCTE — Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Program of the IGBP
• SDSD — Satellite Data Services Division
• PAGES — Past Global Changes (IGBP)
• CH — cuticular hydrocarbon
• OFS — Orbiter Flight Simulator
• BADC — British Atmospheric Data Centre
• AMSAS — AOA Meteorological Satellite Analysis System
• NEJAC — National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
• IOA — Institute Of Astronomy (Cambridge)
• DPS — Detector Power Supply
• AT — Autologous Transplantation
• HK — HouseKeeping Data
• RPOS — Re-planned Preferred Observation Schedule
• WBDCS — Wide-Band Data Collection System
• EROS — Earth Resources Observing System
• OBSM — On-Board Software Maintenance
• CDCS — Cri Du Chat Syndrome
• ERICA — Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones Over the Atlantic
• CITA — Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
• PRIC — Polar Research Institute of China
• COCIR — Coordination Committee of the Radiological and Electromedical Industries
• PMA — Premarket Application
• BC — Burkholderia cepacia
• MOHMATN — Met Office Historical night Marine Air Temperature
• POL — Physician's Office Laboratory
• PSPC — Position Sensitive Proportional Counters
• AMS — atypical mole syndrome
• NMDC — National Medical Device Coalition
• CA — Constitutively Active
• NAEI — National Atmospheric Emission Inventory (UK)
• BIATEX — Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Pollutants (EUROTRAC)
• MEDMARC — Medical Device Material Assurance and Reinsurance Company, Ltd.
• DP — Data Products

• MWIR — medium-wavelength infrared
• EXPORT — European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport
• NERC — National Environmental Research Council
• TERSE — Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
• AGCI — Aspen Global Change Institute
• CF — Cladosporium fulvum
• ARGOS — Argos Data Collection and Location System (France)
• MEDSUN — Medical Device Surveillance Network
• NAHC — National Association of Home Care
• APS — Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndromes
• AESA — Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• ESMR — Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
• CLSM — confocal laser scan microscope
• PARE — Physiological & Anatomical Rodent Experiment
• CAPP — Concerted Action Polyp Prevention
• IFCC — International Federation of Clinical Chemists
• POGO — Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• NASA — National Aeronautic & Space Administration
• UACB — Undergraduate Admissions Coordination Board
• CAS — Centre for Atmospheric Science (Cambridge, UK)
• STRATOZ — Stratospheric Ozone Expedition
• LOICZ — Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (IGBP)
• CB — Chromatoid Body
• BB — Bacterial Blight
• UART — Universal Asynchronous Receive and Transmit
• MAPS — Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites
• ORU — Organized Research Unit
• UCOPE — University Committee on Preparatory Education
• CCA — Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly
• SMDA — Safe Medical Devices Act (1990)
• GLRS-A — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Altimeter (see GLAS)
• MNBIO — Minnesota Biotechnology
• ARIEL-6 — UK X-Ray Astronomy Satellite launched 1979
• ASR — acoustic startle response
• JPOP — Japanese Polar Orbiting Platform
• ECA — Effective Cloud Amount
• MDC — Major Diagnostics Category
• EDU — Event Detection Unit
• ERSAF — Environment Remote Sensing Analysis Facility
• PROS — X-Ray data analysis package, part of IRAFm supported by CfA
• AEDU — Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit
• AM — arbuscular mycorrhizal
• WMF — Windows Metafile
• ASA — Academic Staff Assembly
• ASSA — Aminopterin Syndrome Sine Aminopterin
• RMF — REDISTRIBUTION MATRIX FILE
• CH — Cerebral Hemispheres
• DMS — DiMethylSulphide
• AIST — Advanced Industrial Science Technology
• BCG — bacillus of Calmette and Guérin

• MIDAS — Munich Interactive Data Analysis System
• UCSC — University of California, Santa Cruz (since 1965; Santa Cruz, California)
• BER — Base Excision Repair (biology)
• OAL — ODF Access Layer
• SLASIAC — Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee
• RDE — RGS Digital Electronic Unit
• BA — Bone Age
• CI — cardiac involvement
• OSU — Oregon State University
• ASU — Astronomical Server URL
• CA — Cavernous Angiomas
• PMC — Pressure-Modulator Cell
• NCTRS — Network Command and Telemetry Router System
• SORG — Stratospheric Ozone Review Group
• CC — Cellular Cycle
• ASP — Audiogenic seizure Prone
• AO&SS — Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
• RNMI — Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• ODF — Observation Data File
• PX — XMM Project
• DISK — magnetic media (floppies)
• RANN — Research Applied to National Needs (NSF)
• AE — Effective Area
• SCOS — Spacecraft Control and Operations System
• STERAO — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone
• RAF — Radiation Amplification Factor
• RPS — Remote Proposal Submission
• SI — Systeme International
• CA — Cytogenetic Aberrations
• CH — Channel Header
• ARSLOE — Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment
• CRF — Calibration Resource File
• CM — Congenital Malformations
• CICA — Center for Innovative Computer Applications
• VIRTEM — Validation of IASI Radiative Transfer: Experiments and Modelling
• SAA — South Atlantic Anomaly
• BOARS — Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools
• ORISE — Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
• ARF — An Ancillary Response File
• CCM — community climate model
• SUPARCO — Space of Upper Atmosphere Research Committee
• GSITT — Segment Integration and Test Team
• DAO — Data Assimilation Office (NASA)
• HIRIS — High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• ISI — Infrared Space Observatory
• DPS — Division of Planetary Science
• PI — Position Invariant
• AU — Atomic Units
• WSAD — Websphere Studio Application Developer
• AS — autologous serum

• CRI — Committee on Research Initiatives
• ALU — Arithmetic (and) Logic Unit
• MPE — Max Planck Institut fur Extaterrestrische Physik, Garching
• CSEPA — Chinese State Environment Protection Agency (China)
• BAHC — Biosphere Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (IGBP programme)
• MIRD — Mission Implementation Requirements Documents
• DODS — Distributed Ocean Data System
• DPD — Data Processing Division
• AP — Arbitrarily Primed
• ISI — Institutes for Science and Innovation
• IFOP — Instrument Flight Operation Procedures
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring
• OGIP — Office of Guest Investigator Programs
• CD — Crohn disease
• UCEAP — University Committee on Education Abroad Program
• DB — Diversion Box
• SAMS — stratospheric and mesopheric sounder
• CFHT — Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, on Mauna Kea
• PIEAS — Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Appliead Sciences
• DEFA — Digital Event Filter and Address Encoder
• CUCEA — Council of the University of California Emeriti Association
• ANO — Any Other
• EPG — Engineering Proposal Generation
• LTMS — Local Time Management System
• DRIBU — DRIfting BUoy data
• CEQA — California Environmental Quality Act
• GCF — Ground Calibration File
• OIU — Observer Interface Unit
• DENIS — Deep Near-Infra-red Survey
• LACTOZ — Laboratory Studies of Chemistry Related to Tropospheric Ozone (EUROTRAC)
• TROPOZ — Tropospheric Ozone Expedition
• CRCC — Cancer Research Coordinating Committee
• ASP — Apoptosis Specific Protein
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Centre
• AH — Albumen Height
• GGI — GPS Geoscience Instrument
• UCR — University of California at Riverside
• OLA — Off-Line Analysis
• TCI/TK — Tool Control Language and Toolkit
• AM — Alveolar Macrophage
• PDTS — PPS Data Transfer System
• EPCE — EPIC pn Control Electronics Unit
• DRH — Division of Radiological Health
• AN — Alkaline Nuclease
• CAT — Common Arterial Trunk
• MD — Medium Frequency
• LQHUW — Large Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste
• CBS — classic Bartter syndrome
• ASP — Agouti Signaling Protein
• CHAMMP — Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics Program

• WMRS — White Mountain Research Station
• CRYSYS — Cryospheric System
• PMS — Payload Monitoring Subsystem
• AP — Alkaline Protease
• NACNEMS — North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
• GISST — Global sea Ice Coverage and Sea Surface Temperature
• IOTP — International Ozone Trands Panel
• BD — Bone Density
• CH — congenital hydrocephalus
• MGLS — Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium
• MOHSST — Met Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature
• IFS — Integrated Forecast System
• NARSTO — North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
• AHC — Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenital
• ER-2 — Earth Resources, #2
• NIRP — National Institute for Radiation Protection
• SOR — Standing Orders of the Regents
• APTI — Air Pollution Training Institute
• CATS — Comparative Anchor Tagged Sequence
• BC — biotin carboxylase
• SCANSCAT — scanning scatterometer
• STP — Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• UCR — University of California, Riverside's
• AMS — Archive Management Subsystem
• CA — common antigen
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflective Distribution Function
• UCOP — University of California, Office of the President
• STG — Steering Group
• ADAM — Astronomical Data Acquisition and Management
• AIMS — Australian Institute of Marine Science
• LORAN — Long-Range Navigation
• ASCA — Japanese X-Ray Astronomy satellite launched 1993
• CHAT — Choline Acetyltransferase
• MODIS-N — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Nadir
• OPIA — Optical Precision Instrument Associates
• MRU — Multicampus Research Unit
• CAMEX — Convection and Moisture Experiment
• AGC — Advanced Gastric Carcinoma
• DPI — Derived Product Imagery
• CAC — Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (York, Canada)
• PBPK — Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic
• EUCOMED — European Confederation of Medical Suppliers Associations
• PIDAS — Portable Instantaneous Display and Analysis Spectrometer
• NIPR — National Institute of Polar Research
• MTI — Minnesota Technology Inc
• AU — Activity Units
• IMPAC — Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum
• ALPTRAC — High Alpine Aerosol and Snow Chemistry Study (EUROTRAC)
• MEV — mega electron volts
• BCC — British Coal Corporation

• TDG — Tennessee Division of Geology
• PM — Protocol Machine
• POSIX — Portbale Operating System Interface
• BLIS — Boundary Layer Instrumentation System
• ST-ECF — Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
• AOC — Allene Oxide Cyclase
• CA — Cyclopiazonic Acid
• GFURD — Ground Facilities User Requirements Document
• WCSP — World Congress of Science Producers
• CLNS — Connectionless Network Services
• I&T — Integration and Testing
• UWERN — University WEather Research Network
• CC — Classical Cytogenetic
• JCEE — Joint Conference of EARMA and Euroscience
• CI — chromosomal instability
• ECB — Educational Communications Board
• KAL — Keep Alive Loop
• EPCS — EPIC pn Camera System
• AHR — Ability of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Receptor
• UCOC — University Committee on Committees
• CAT — Carbon Dioxide Absorption Technique
• SEC — Science Executive Committee of the IWG
• CC — Condensed chromatin
• METEOR — USSR Operational Weather Satellite
• EPIC — European Photon Imaging Camera
• CI — Coccidioides immitis
• CCN — Cloud Condensation Nucleus
• MPI — Minnesota Project Innovation
• SHF — Short History File
• NORSAR — Norwegian Seismic Array
• IPA — Institute for Polyacryclate Sciences
• CVS — Concurrent Version System
• DC — Detector Controller (DXS)
• CD — Cone Degeneration
• PCS — Payload Calibration Subsystem
• BCRS — Breakpoint Cluster Regions
• DAC — Digital to Analogue Conversion
• HED — High Energy Detector
• TES — Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS)
• BC — Binucleated Cells
• TRACT — Transport of Pollutants over Complex Terrain (EUROTRAC)
• TSTRP — Toxic Substance Research and Training Program
• COHMEX — Cooperative Huntsville Meteorological Experiment
• CCLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
• DOIT — Department Of Information Technology (UW-MSN)
• GSRR — Ground Segment Requirements Review
• CSI — Coastal Studies Institute (LSU)
• NIMBUS — NASA Meteorological Satellites (1 through 7)
• IFOP — Instrument Flight Operation Plan
• EFSC — Eastern Food Science Conference

• USAEC — United States Army Corps of Engineers
• ASI — Advanced Study Institute (NATO)
• UARC — University Affiliated Research Center
• SIP — Sickness Index Profile
• DISC — optical media (CDs)
• HAACP — Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points Program
• ANRHRD — Air, Noise and Radiation Health Research Division
• CAAS — Contracted Advisory & Assistance Services
• DESY — Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
• MTSU — Middle Tennessee State University's
• JOIDES — Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling
• SQHUW — Small Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste
• IWC — Instream Waste Concentration
• UM — Unified Model
• MVCA — Minnesota Venture Capital Association
• CTS — Committee on Teaching of Science
• UCEI — UC Energy Institute
• TCP/IP — Networking Protocol used on Internet
• SCARABE — Scanning Radiation Budget Experiment
• ERME — EPIC Radiation Monitor Electronics
• BS — Binary Star
• UVPI — Ultraviolet Plume Instrument
• AVR — Acute Vascular Rejection