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• HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus I
• US — United States of America
• LAN — Local Area Network
• HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
• CPR — Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol
• CMAP — Compound Muscle Action Potential
• MM — Millimeter
• CO2 — Carbon Dioxide
• WWW — World Wide Web
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• A — Ampere
• CSA — Canadian Space Agency
• ICD — Interface Control Document
• WHO — World Health Organization
• DBMS — Database Management System
• ESA — European Space Agency
• UCAAD — University Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity
• QC — Quality Control
• H2O2 — Hydrogen Peroxide
• UK — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• A BY E — Admission by Exception
• ISO — International Organization for Standardization
• CHF — Congestive Heart Failure
• CBF — Cerebral Blood Flow
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• AATSR — Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• AU — Astronomical Unit
• CD — Compact Disc
• CSF — Cerebrospinal Fluid
• FET — Field Effect Transistor
• MB — Megabyte
• AD — Atopic Dermatitis
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• APU — Auxiliary Power Unit
• CV — Curriculum Vitae
• CGI — Clinical Global Impression
• CAIS — Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• ADH — Antidiuretic Hormone
• AS — Aortic Stenosis
• ADS — Astrophysics Data System
• CS — Computer Science
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• AC — Alternating Current
• SIR — Shuttle Imaging Radar
• CBO — Congressional Budget Office
• CNS — Central Nervous System
• PCB — Polychlorinated Biphenyls

• BTW — By The Way
• TB — Tuberculosis
• ASAP — Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• CAD — Coronary Artery Disease
• OSO — Orbiting Solar Observatory
• UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• PT — Physical Therapy
• DOT — Department of Transport
• HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• LCD — Liquid Crystal Display
• CA — cytosine arabinoside
• BAC — Boeing Aerospace Company
• BBT — Basal Body Temperature
• AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (see also SIDS and HIV)
• WAN — Wide Area Network
• CBC — Complete Blood Count
• GSE — Ground Support Equipment
• CGI — Common Gateway Interface
• AGL — Above Ground Level
• R&D — Research & Development
• RF — Radio Frequency
• WWW — World Weather Watch
• ASR — Airport Surveillance Radar
• N2O — nitrous oxide (anesthetic)
• GO — Guest Observer
• DME — Durable Medical Equipment
• MDCK — Madin-Darby Canine Kidney
• DO — Dissolved Oxygen
• GIS — Geographic Information System
• IP — Internet Protocol
• NIEO — New International Economic Order
• FOV — Field Of View (satellite)
• ICU — Intensive Care Unit
• CRS — Congressional Research Service
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)
• ACS — American College of Surgeons
• N2O5 — nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride
• SIG — Special Interest Group
• AF — Air Force
• DILHR — Department of Industry Labor and Human Relations
• MSDS — Material Safety Data Sheets
• CO — Carbon Monoxide
• CIO — Chief Information Officer
• MRI — Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• SUV — Sport Utility Vehicle
• CAP — College of American Pathologists
• BOD — Biological Oxygen Demand
• BFGF — Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• GCM — General Circulation Model

• ATM — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• EC — European Commission
• SQA — Software Quality Assurance
• IPY — International Polar Year
• POE — Point of Entry
• NM — Nanometer
• BAS — British Antarctic Survey
• CIN — Conjunctival Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• NO — Nitric Oxide
• BCC — Basal Cell Carcinoma
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• ANC — Absolute Neutrophil Count
• MSFC — Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL)
• ADL — Avionics Development Laboratory
• BASDAI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index
• KG — Kilogram
• RIXOS — ROSAT International X-Ray optical Survey
• BMA — British Medical Association
• CFC-12 — CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12
• APD — Avalanche Photo Diode
• CDF — Common Data Format
• LPG — Liquid Petroleum Gas
• DTE — Data Terminal Equipment
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• A.K.A. — Also Known As
• PR — Precipitation Radar
• EGA — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
• TBC — To Be Confirmed
• CBD — Common Bile Duct
• TED — Total Energy Detector
• A-SCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• SPR — Software Problem Report
• ATS — applications technology satellite
• OP — Office of the President
• SEM — Space Environment Monitor
• AJ — Astronomical Journal
• OPD — Outpatient Department
• HMO — Health Maintenance Organization
• NIF — National Ignition Facility
• PA — Preliminary Assessment
• AM — Amplitude Modulation
• CAPE — Convective Available Potential Energy
• PDF — Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat)
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• HV — High Voltage
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• ANP — Atrial Natriuretic Peptide
• DPI — Department of Public Instruction
• PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer

• ARA — Attitude Reference Assembly
• UNCLOS — United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (policy treaty)
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View
• MHS — Microwave Humidity Sounder
• SISEX — Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
• ARDS — Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• A-SAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
• CLD — Chronic Lung Disease
• TAO — Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
• COFR — Certificate of Flight Readiness
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• EMF — Electromotive Force
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• CCB — Calcium Channel Blocker
• DFRC — Dryden Flight Research Center
• AMS — American Meteorological Society
• ARE — Antioxidant Response Element
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• OPS — Operations
• CTS — Canadian Technology Satellite
• NSTS — National Space Transportation System
• FCOS — Flight Computer Operating System (Orbiter)
• ACR — Active Cavity Radiometer
• NASP — National Aerospace Plane
• IRB — Institutional Review Board
• NHLBI — National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• ATSR — Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• AOS — Acquisition Of Signal
• SME — Solar Mesosphere Explorer
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• GMP — Good Manufacturing Practice
• ERS — Environmental Research Satellite
• RTF — Return To Flight
• RCS — Revision Control System
• AP — Anomalous Propagation
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• MFA — Manned Flight Awareness
• AMU — Atomic Mass Unit
• S-GCOS — Space-Based Global Change Observation System
• CGD — Chronic Granulomatous Disease
• CRO — Contract Research Organization
• DC — Direct Current
• SWT — Science Working Team
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• LVS — Launch Vehicle Simulator
• XPM — Cross-Phase Modulation
• PU — Propellant Utilization
• GO — General Observer
• JSC — Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
• RS — Remote Sensing

• CH — Channel
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
• API — Application Programming Interface
• CA — Cancer Antigen
• LF — Low Frequency
• FSA — Flexible Spending Account
• AIS — Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• DCP — Defined Contribution Plan
• AIS — Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• ABA — American Bar Association
• ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
• CH — Chronic Hepatitis
• NEMS — NASA Equipment Management System
• ACP — Acyl-Carrier Protein
• DNS — Domain Name System
• PDP — Postinsertion Deorbit Preparation
• EMAIL — Electronic Mail
• O3 — Ozone
• CH4 — Methane, Natural Gas
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• CW — Continuous Wave
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• PS — PostScript
• ENVISAT — European Space Agency Environmental Satellite
• PPM — parts per million
• CRF — Case Report Form
• PPO — Preferred provider organization
• AR — Androgen Receptor
• ACF — Asymmetric Crying Facies
• CAM — Cell Adhesion Molecule
• APC — Activated Protein C
• TB — Terabyte
• CML — Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• ND — NASA Document
• HF — High Frequency
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• MOSPO — Mobile Satellite Photometric Observatory
• CHD — Coronary Heart Disease
• MOL — Manned Orbital Laboratory
• CVS — Concurrent Versions System
• EM — Electromagnetic
• GUI — Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
• W — Watt
• CD — Celiac Disease
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• CDL — California Digital Library
• AHA — American Hospital Association

• TWP — Tropical Western Pacific
• BBS — Bulletin Board System
• SH — Southern Hemisphere
• AIS — Adenocarcinoma in Situ
• AP — Acid Phosphatase
• PSD — Power Spectral Density
• AIL — Avionics Integration Laboratories
• CLD — Chronic Liver Disease
• AR — Aspect Ratio
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• DEC — Declination
• ADA — Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 (Text Of ADA Legislation)
• SMPTRB — Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Requirement Board
• PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency
• MCP — Microchannel Plate
• DG — Dentate Gyrus
• WG — Working Group
• MERSAT — Meteorology And Earth Observation Satellite
• ADEOS — ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite (Japan)
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• UNEP — United Nations Environment Program
• ATA — Alimentary Toxic Aleukia
• AIP — Acute Intermittent Porphyria
• CD-ROM — Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory
• ERSIR — Earth Resources Shuttle Imaging Radar
• CK — Creatine Kinase
• RDBMS — Relational Database Management System
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• THR — Thrust
• HCFA — Health Care Financing Administration
• DORIS — Doppler Orbitography And Radiopositioning Integrated By Satellite (EOS)
• AA — Acrylic Acid
• DDT — Dichloro Diphenyl Trichlorethane
• COBE — Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (NASA)
• SSV — Space Shuttle Vehicle
• LARC — Langley Research Center (NASA)
• APP — Amyloid Precursor Protein
• SCR — Software Change Request
• HADCM — Hadley Center Model
• JOP — Jupiter Orbiter Probe
• COMSAT — Communications Satellite Corporation
• CTM — Chemical Transport Model
• OPS — Optical Sensor
• CF — Cystic Fibrosis
• DIAL — Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing)
• TM — Telemetry
• AFM — Atomic Force Microscope
• MOD — Maximum Operating Depth
• EU — European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
• CDM — Clean Development Mechanism

• LSSL — Life Sciences Space Laboratory
• OIG — Office of Inspector General
• NIOSH — National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• FITS — Flexible Image Transport System
• CORSA — Cosmic Radiation Satellite
• IOSH — Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
• GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
• AES — Agricultural Experiment Station
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• ASC — Ambulatory Surgery Center
• TFT — Thin Film Transistor
• ALPEX — Alpine Experiment
• COMET — Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training (NOAA and UCAR)
• AAMI — Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• IPA — Individual Practice Association
• MRC — Medical Research Council
• LPLWS — Launch Pad Lightning Warning System
• ACF — Autocorrelation Function
• AFB — Air Force Base (USAF)
• MSW — Municipal Solid Waste
• ARS — Acute Radiation Syndrome
• ABR — Auditory Brainstem Response
• CDH — Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
• EUVE — Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (NASA Satellite)
• LE — Low Energy
• O2 — Oxygen
• E&CE — Electrical and Computer Engineering
• AAD — Australian Antarctic Division
• FTE — Full Time Equivalent
• E-LIDAR — Experimental LIDAR
• CHIME — College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
• EAP — Education Abroad Program
• ESDAC — European Space Data Center
• CC — Combined Cycle
• PPB — parts per billion (109)
• ADR — Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator
• CCD — Central Core Disease
• AAS — Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
• CSU — Cleveland State University
• PV — Potential Vorticity
• SSI — Space Studies Institute
• QA — Center for Quality Assurance in International Education
• ETS — Educational Testing Service
• ROSAT — Roentgen Satellite
• USP — United States Pharmacopeia
• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• ARF — Acute Rheumatic Fever
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• MIPS — Merritt Island Press Site
• NAM — National Association of Manufacturers

• ODP — Ozone Depletion Potential
• CE — Cholesterol Ester
• TMAPI — Topic Map Application Programming Interface
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• ISA — Instrument Society of America
• CH3CL — Methyl Chloride
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• HE — High Energy
• HADRT — Hadley Center Radiosonde temperature
• AO — Acridine Orange
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
• VT — Visual Testing
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• ATP — Adult Treatment Panel
• DMS — Dynamic Message Sign
• CCTV — Closed-circuit television
• UEA — University of East Anglia
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• ASCA — Advanced Satellite for Cosmology & Astrophysics
• IDE — Investigational Device Exemption
• AIS — Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• TIPS — Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
• ARC — Arctic Research Commission
• ARDS — Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• BAD — Bipolar Affective Disorder
• AID — Artificial Insemination Donor
• ASTER — Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS)
• 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.")
• CIN — Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• UC — University of California
• CFS — Cubic Feet per Second
• ERS — Earth Resources Satellite
• AFTN — Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodule
• JD — Julian Day
• FD — Flight Dynamics
• AICE — American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• AT&T — American Telephone & Telegraph
• SPMP — Software Project Management Plan
• COSSH — Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
• AIN — Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• HF — Hydrogen Fluoride
• ABS — acute bacterial sinusitis
• AMA — Advanced Maternal Age
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• SAW — Surface Acoustic Wave
• GSI — Graduate Student Instructor
• SEC — Sun-Earth Connection
• IRIS — Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
• CIP — Cast-In-Place

• RAM — random-access memory
• DOC — Doctor
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• CLS — Cloud Lidar System
• NAD — Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
• BIT — Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
• CD — Conduct Disorder
• DOJ — Department of Justice (US)
• AHR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
• GB — Gigabyte
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• CLO — Chlorine Monoxide
• AMD — Acid Maltase Deficiency
• AD — Autosomal Dominant
• DDD — Detailed Design Document
• CTE — Charge Transfer Efficiency
• CCF — Cross-Correlation Function
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• PS — Project Scientist
• SIR — Spaceborne Imaging Radar
• NCCLS — National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
• ATN — Acute Tubular Necrosis
• EDAS — Eta Data Assimilation System
• CONUS — Continental United States (48 Contiguous States and DC)
• ELS — Eastern Launch Site
• MAP — Mesoscale Alpine Programme
• FDA — Food Drug Administration
• NRC — National Response Center
• CHB — Chronic Hepatitis B
• CA — Carbonic Anhydrase
• IR — Infrared
• BNSC — British National Space Centre
• SRB — Surface Radiation Budget
• OH — Hydroxyl Radical
• MAGSAT — Magnetometer Satellite
• AS — Asperger Syndrome
• COSTAR — Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
• IST — Instrument Support Terminal
• FY — Fiscal Year
• NRC — National Research Council (Canada)
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• PM — Particulate Matter
• UT — University of Tennessee
• MEM — Meteoroid Exposure Module
• CIS — Carcinoma in Situ
• CCRS — Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• CCA — Common Carotid Artery
• CAD — Computer Aided Designer
• CAL/VAL — Calibration/Validation
• SUM — Software User's Manual

• AVNIR — advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer
• UW — University of Washington
• CBF — Ciliary Beat Frequency
• CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
• ADD — Architectural Design Document
• HOPPS — Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
• LMSS — Lunar Mapping and Survey System
• EOL — End Of Life
• RA — Right Ascension
• SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• IA — Interactive
• MFPE — Mission from Planet Earth
• APCR — Activated Protein C Resistance
• BPS — bits per second
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• MPS — Materials Processing in Space
• EDC — EROS Data Center
• CDM — Common Data Model
• NOSS — National Oceanic Satellite System
• CAPD — Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• CLAH — Congenital Lipoid Adrenal Hyperplasia
• HNO3 — Nitric Acid
• ALT — Radar Altimeter
• EMT — Extraordinary Masochistic Tendencies (joke At Expense Of Emergency Medical Technicians)
• OAQPS — Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
• UT — Universal Time
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
• NPD — NASA Policy Directive
• MTPE — Mission To Planet Earth
• CC — Colon Cancer
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
• AR — Autosomal Recessive
• IDC — Indirect Costs
• DDS — Domestic Data Service
• TRI — Toxics Release Inventory
• NTP — National Toxicology Program
• AOA — Airborne Optical Adjunct
• AR — Aortic Regurgitation
• AMM — Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia
• NCOS — National Commission on Space
• JEM — Japanese Experiment Module
• DBP — Defined Benefit Plan
• BRO — Bromine Monoxide
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• VLF — Very Low Frequency
• NOS — National Ocean Service
• CHB — congenital heart block
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• XRONOS — Time-Series analysis package, part of XANADU

• P-N — Positive-Negative
• DTS — Data Transfer System
• BAEPS — Brain Stem Auditory Evoked Potentials
• STI — Steel Tank Institute
• AO — Agent Orange
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• OSS — Office of Space Sciences
• AFSCN — Air Force Space Command network
• CDC — Cell Division Cycle
• CE — Cooperative Extension
• MGMA — Medical Group Management Association
• AME — Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess
• PLSL — Propellants and Life Support Laboratory
• IC — Instrument Controller
• IEC — International Electrotechnical Commission
• SBSTA — Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
• REM — Rocket Engine Module
• DMI — Danish Meteorological Institute
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• CDA — Command and Data Acquisition
• NSSL — National Severe Storms Laboratory
• A3RI — Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• OAR — Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
• PC — Personal computer (host)
• CG — Complementation Group
• AOM — Acute Otitis Media
• ACC — Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
• NPI — Norwegian Polar Institute
• DOS — Disk Operating System
• ACRIM — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS)
• POGO — Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• AHO — Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy
• NCSU — North Carolina State University
• PSCL — Propellant Systems Cleaning Laboratory
• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• APR — Acute Phase Response
• AD — Applicable Document
• AAAS — American Association for the Advancement of Science
• MEO — Mid Earth Orbit
• RD — Reference Document
• CON — Certificate Of Need
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• JRC — Joint Research Center
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• CHD — Congenital Heart Disease
• ECS — EOSDIS Core System
• GWP — global warming potential (climate)
• SCF — Standard Cubic Foot
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.

• DMERC — Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier
• AARP — American Association of Retired Persons
• PCA — Principal Component Analysis
• ROI — Return on Investment
• SPAS — Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German)
• ABL — Acute Basophilic Leukemia
• CAP — Catabolite Activator Protein
• SNR — Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• ATCC — American Type Culture Collection
• GSC — Guide Star Catalog
• CNG — Compressed natural gas
• ASD — Autism Spectrum Disorder
• SOC — Space Operations Center
• WRT — "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
• CC — Clomiphene Citrate
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
• SPART — Space Research and Technology
• SPP — Solar Physics Payload
• DASD — Direct Access Storage Device
• XFDS — XMM Flight Dynamics System
• CD — Coeliac Disease
• AR — Aldose Reductase
• CCA — Chromated Copper Arsenate
• ITCZ — Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
• ISAS — Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan)
• MMDA — Michigan Medical Device Association
• OSSA — Office of Space Sciences and Applications
• SAM — Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• AK — Actinic Keratosis
• RALPH — Reduction and Acquisition of Lunar Pulse Heights
• MMA — Minnesota Medical Association
• MHW — Ministry of Health and Welfare
• SEOS — Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite
• ALERT — Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time
• DCP — Data Collection Platform
• JOI — Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• UBA — Umweltbundesamt
• WEC — World Energy Council
• TOVS — TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
• HTTPS — HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
• RPM — Revolutions Per Minute, (Rotations Per Minute)
• ADT — Actual Dive Time
• WLAN — Wireless Local Area Network
• I&T WG — Integration and Test Working Group
• HOP — High Output Paraffin
• DSP — Digital Signal Processor
• DNV — Det Norske Veritas
• CG — Ciliary Ganglion
• AFV — Amniotic Fluid Volume
• COTS — Commercial Off the Shelf Software

• SI — Solar Influences
• ICF — Instrument Control Facility
• RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging
• STEP — Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project
• APL — Applied Physics Laboratory (at Johns Hopkins)
• CHC — Clathrin Heavy Chain
• SAO — Semi-Annual Oscillation
• SRSS — Shuttle Range Safety System
• RSRM — Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor
• CEN — Committee European de Normalisation
• AMML — Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• CV — Cataclysmic Variable
• M — Million
• CAP — Capital Accumulation Provision
• SSM/I — Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
• SESL — Space Environment Simulation Laboratory
• CH — Cluster Headache
• ICE — International Cometary Explorer
• AERONOX — Impact of NOx Emissions from Aircraft upon the Atmosphere
• DSMB — Data Safety Monitoring Board
• MPE — Mission to Planet Earth
• QRSL — quick-reaction space laboratory
• XFTS — XMM File Transfer System
• AURA — Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
• CEL — Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia
• PCMDI — Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
• CADIC — Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• RM — Radiation Monitor
• RMS — Royal Meteorological Society
• ABM — Agaricus Blazei Murill
• CITECH — Center for Information on Technology in Healthcare
• APBD — adult polyglucosan body disease
• UCOLASC — University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication
• UCORP — University Committee on Research Policy
• BAFME — Benign Adult Familial Myoclonic Epilepsy
• XIDT — X-Ray Identification Team
• CID — Combined Immunodeficiency Disease
• GTI — Good Time Interval
• MMI — Man-Machine Interface
• ADC — Affiliated Data Center
• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• CCD — Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge.
• RVU — Relative Value Unit
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• AMA — American Medical Association
• ASE — Aerospace Support Equipment
• H2O — Water (vapor)
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

• NGI — Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
• SIB — Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• APEC — Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli
• CDR — Common Deleted Region
• STC — Science and Technology Center
• ADPKD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• ATM — Atmospheric Transport Model
• ALV — Avian Leukosis Virus
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• PBX — Public Branch Exchange
• NEMA — National Electric Manufacturer's Association
• ARC — Ames Research Center (NASA)
• ALL — Adult Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• CFTD — Congenital Fiber-Type Disproportion
• KHZ — kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
• CG — Center of Gravity (DXS)
• C — Centigrade
• ASAP — Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• ABHI — Association of British Health-Care Industries
• CST — Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
• 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
• EC — European Community
• UCI — University of California, Irvine
• EAS — External Anal Sphincter
• ACE — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• CMP — Competitive Medical Plan
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• QM — Qualification Model
• HIRA — Health Industry Representatives Association
• SAR — synthetic aperture radar (satellite)
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• CGL — Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy
• UCP&T — University Committee on Privilege and Tenure
• C — Celsius
• BFH — Benign Familial Hematuria
• LBNL — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
• DTED — Digital Terrain Elevation Data (dee-ted)
• AMI — Active Microwave Instrument
• BEN — Balkan endemic nephropathy
• DTS — Digital Transmission Systems, Inc.
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
• AH — Amphipathic Helix
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• VDC — Voltage Direct Current
• UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
• MDT — Maximum Dive Time
• DOL — United States Department of Labor

• ARISTOTELES — Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
• CAI — Complete Androgen Insensitivity
• DYAX — Dyax Corp.
• ASQ — Autism Screening Questionnaire
• PREST — Policy Research in Engineering, Science & Technology
• MFCS — Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
• IUPAC — International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• UCM-TF — University of California, Merced Task Force
• MDS — Medium Deep Survey
• MUX — Multiplexer
• OM — Optical Monitor
• ASI — Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• NRS — Natural Reserve System
• AMDT — Adjusted Maximum Dive Time
• DOS — United States Department of State
• RDP — Recreational Dive Planner
• ABLE — Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• NSSDC — National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• CRO2 — Chromium Oxide
• FFRDC — Federally Funded Research & Development Center
• FTC — Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu)
• BDV — Border Disease Virus
• EUD — Exploration of the Universe Division
• EFM — Electrostatic Force Microscopy
• TTA — Time to Apogee
• ERA — Employee Reimbursement Account
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility
• NOX — Nitrogen Oxide
• LH — Labor-Hour
• CFC-11 — CCl3F, trichlorofluoromethane, Freon-11
• CAI — Codon Adaptation Index
• ESPI — European Space Policy Institute
• INT — Isaac Newton Telescope
• TC — Telecommand
• CREST — Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (Puerto Rico)
• MOM — Mission Operations Manager
• CHAMEX — Cloud Height And Motion EXperiment
• BIBEX — Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme)
• AOL — Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR
• CSIRO — Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
• CAA — Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990)
• JAMA — Journal of the American Medical Association
• APL — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
• TDT — Total Dive Time
• ASA — Antarctic Support Associates
• WHT — William Herschel Telescope
• CETP — Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein
• AWACS — Airborne Warning And Control System
• NIC — National Ice Center

• TAG — Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds
• NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
• AA — Ascorbic Acid
• FFW — Feet of Fresh Water
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• LEGRI — Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager
• ABBA — Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm
• GCP — Good Clinical Practice
• CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
• AA — Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
• AEP — American Electric Power Company, Inc.
• EIA — Extended Interaction Amplifier
• ARMS — Amplification Refractory Mutation
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
• UCR&J — University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction
• ADA — Automatic Data Acquisition
• HALLIP — Heterogeneous and Liquid Phase Processes (EUROTRAC)
• ADF — Amsterdam density functional
• LHV — lower heating value
• ARMD — Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• FACS — Facilities Assignment and Control System
• UCMEXUS — UC Institute for Mexico and the United States
• G — Gram (g)
• DAT — Digital Audio Tape
• KB — Kilobyte: One thousand and twenty-four bytes kbps kilo bit per second
• GHZ — Gigahertz
• BD — binding domain
• TGT — TDRSS Ground Terminal
• GOES — Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• MAHLOVS — Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
• AK — Adenylate Kinase
• CLD — combined lipase deficiency
• CALTRANS — California Department of Transportation
• SEASTAR — Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS
• AURIO — Auroral Imaging Observatory
• TOD — Theoretical Ocean Depth
• SOM — Spacecraft Operations Manager
• ASHP — American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
• DUART — Dual Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
• PPMV — Parts Per Million by Volume
• ADVAMED — Advanced Medical Technology Association
• UCACCORD — UC All Campus Collaboration on Outreach and Dissemination
• BSI — British Standards Institution
• AGNIC — Agriculture Network Information Center
• CIIP — Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudoobstruction
• POS — Point of Service Plan
• CINO3 — chlorine nitrate
• GAO — Government Accountability Office [formerly the General Accounting Office]
• ISU — International Space University
• BBXRT — Broadband XRay Telescope

• DPU — data processing unit
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• CE — Caenorhabditis elegans
• ANF — Atrial Natriuretic Factor
• SO4 — Sulfate radical
• MBPS — Megabits per second
• MTS — Microwave Temperature Sounder
• IEA — International Energy Agency (Paris)
• BLAST — Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
• AAMC — American Association of Medical Colleges
• DFAD — Digital Feature Analysis Data (dee-fad)
• DHS — Data Handling Subsystem
• PHRMA — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (formerly PMA, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
• CAPS — Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
• AMTS — Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder
• MOP — Mortgage Origination Program
• ACE — Angiotensin Converting Enzyme
• 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.
• NDVI — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• ICC — Instrument Control Center
• MITI — Ministry of International Trade & Industry (Japan)
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• BASFI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index
• RSS — root-sum-square
• IDTF — Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility
• CFS — Cancer Family Syndrome
• CALLA — common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization (ICSU)
• CGM — Computer Graphics Metafile
• KM — Kilometer (1,000 meters)
• ADMCKD — Autosomal Dominant Medullary Cystic Disease
• CHA — Congenital Hypoplastic Anemia
• EBI — European Bioinformatics Institutetute
• NDA — New Drug Application
• FIRST — Far Infrared Space Telescope
• AP — alkaline phosphatase
• CIDS — Circular Intensity Differential Scattering
• CLP — Chlorine Loading Potential
• EC — executive committee
• ATD — ASPHYXIATING THORACIC DYSTROPHY
• HEW — Half Energy Width
• VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution)
• CME — Cystoid Macular Edema
• EBCDIC — Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• AMIA — The American Medical Informatics Association
• AGEP — Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis
• CFCS — Chlorofluorocarbons
• NSIDC — National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• CCT — Computer Compatible Tape
• DO — Diving Officer

• AFOSR — Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA)
• FOM — Figure Of Merit
• ALADIN — Interactive sky atlas developed by CDS Strasbourg
• BC — Breast Cancer
• AL — Ad libitum
• CIDI — Composite International Diagnostic Interview
• CDRH — Center for Devices and Radiological Health (Food & Drug Administration)
• GARP — Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA)
• AFIGE — Asymmetric Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis
• MASER — microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
• HHS — Health and Human Services Department
• ABD — Actin Binding Domain
• GSM — Ground Segment Manager
• ARA — American Rheumatism Association
• NAI — No Action Indicated (Most Favorable Food & Drug Administration Post-inspection Classification)
• CDART — Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool
• UNCCD — United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• CAMP — Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate
• PHS — Public Health Service (U.S.)
• JHIT — Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance
• CAH — Chronic Active Hepatitis
• BDT — Binary Decision Tree
• CMD — Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
• OCONUS — Outside Continental United States
• CSI — Construction Specifications Institute
• SIMD — Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor)
• AACC — American Association for Clinical Chemists
• CARDS — Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set
• AAAS — Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
• ASM — American Society for Microbiology
• CCHB — Complete Congenital Heart Block
• MSLP — Mean Sea Level Pressure
• BAS — British Andrology Society
• NO2 — Nitrogen Dioxide
• AAH — Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia
• ACH — Active Chromatin Hub
• ADMI — American Dye Manufacturers Institute
• JFET — junction field effect transistor
• ETAC — Environmental Technical Applications Center (USAF)
• ABPM — ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system
• GCC — Global Change Category
• JIM — Job Information Memorandum
• CPL — Cloud Physics Lidar
• WIPP — Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes)
• KBPS — KiloBytes per second
• RSO — Resident Space Object
• MDD — Medical Device Directive
• NASPY — North American Society of Electro Physiology and Pacing
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU)
• ISY — International Space Year (1992)

• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• K — Kelvin (absolute temperature scale)
• APA — Administrative Procedure Act
• BPI — bits per inch
• OTF — On-Target Flag
• CGMP — Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate
• HCHO — formaldehyde (also written as CH2O)
• ALCL — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
• FWHM — Full Width, Half Maximum
• CGAP — Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
• CZCS — Coastal Zone Color Scanner
• CAFS — Conotruncal Anomaly Face Syndrome
• DEMUX — Demultiplexer
• CEF — chick embryo fibroblast
• CIC — Circulating Immune Complex
• DOF — Department of Finance
• AFOS — Automation of Field Operations and Services
• BAEP — Brainstem Acoustic Evoked Potentials
• ASQ — Alpha System Qualification
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System
• BSE — Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• AE — Adverse Event
• CL — Cleft Lip
• AGA — appropriate for gestational age
• ERS — ESA Remote Sensing Satellite
• MIP — Minimum Ionising Particle
• CCHS — Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
• BA — biliary atresia
• CLRI — Central Leather Research Institute
• BMFT — Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (Germany)
• CISS — Chromosome In Situ Suppression
• CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• ADCA — autosomal-dominant cerebellar ataxia
• ISEE — International Sun-Earth Explorer
• STP — standard temperature and pressure (0° and 1 atm)
• B-ISDN — Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
• ABMT — Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant
• AGC — atypical glandular cells
• SSD — Software Specification Document
• KBPS — kilobits per second
• BCR — Breakpoint Cluster Region
• S/W — Software
• PPT — parts per trillion (1012)
• ACA — Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans
• II — Interdisciplinary Investigator
• ARHSP — Autosomal Recessive Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• CMU — Concrete Masonry Unit
• BA — benzoic acid
• SWHG — Social Welfare History Group
• AMSU-A — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS

• AI — Association Index
• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• ARH — Autosomal Recessive Hypercholesterolemia
• SRD — Software Requirements Document
• ISO 14155 — Current Widely Accepted Standard
• USLE — Universal Soil Loss Equation (erosion Model)
• ECOSOC — Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
• SPADE — Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
• CDC — Centers for Disease Control
• CA — Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator. (See also TSO).
• EPTOX — Extraction Procedure Toxicity
• NMC — National Meteorological Center (US)
• ADC — Analogue to Digital Converter
• MCP — Multi Channel Plate
• BCAA — branched chain amino acids
• SID — Structure Identifier
• DWS — Doppler Wind Sensor
• ATS — Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome
• ECC — Electrochemical Concentration Cell
• IRAS — Infrared Astronomy Satellite
• CIE — Chinese Institute of Electronics
• CCI — Canadian Circumpolar Institute
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• NIEHS — National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (National Institutes of Health)
• ITCZ — Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater)
• EVA — Extra-Vehicular Activity
• ARCD — Acquired Renal Cystic Disease
• CC — corpus callosum
• SVT — System Validation Test
• LIS — Lightning Imaging Sensor
• ADCI — American Die Casting Institute
• CDI — Color Doppler Imaging
• ADPEO — Autosomal Dominant Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia
• MASSMEDIC — Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council
• OSHA — Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970)
• DCIEM — Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine
• SNRI — Sierra Nevada Research Institute
• SHEIR — Society of Higher Education & Industrial Research
• ALSPP — Atmospheric and Land Surface Processes Project
• IGAC — International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program of the IGBP
• GCOS — Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU)
• RPE — Relative Pointing Error
• AMC — Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
• CG — Celera Genomics Corporation
• CCITT — Comit? Consultatif International T?l?graphique et T?l?phonique
• AGWP — Absolute Global Warming Potential
• CB — cord blood
• DTS — Digital Termination Service
• CZMA — US Coastal Zone Management Act
• TNT — Tri-nitro-toulene

• NSC — Norwegian Space Center
• MSS — Mission Support System
• BASIC — Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• CD — Chemistry Division
• AO — aldehyde oxidase
• CH — Centrosome hyperamplification
• MAFI — Medical Alert Foundation International
• ADRV — Adult Diarrhea Rotavirus
• PD — Photo Diode
• IRTS — Infrared Temperature Sounder
• IASI — Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• AF — Amniotic Fluid
• TRMM — Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (US-Japan)
• CGL — Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia
• ADG — Average Daily Gain
• BAL — Bronchial Alveolar Lavage
• ACARS — Aeronautical Radio, Inc. Communication and Recording System
• CEI — Converting Enzyme Inhibitor
• GERB — Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• BEL — Bovine Embryonic Lung
• SARSAT — Search and Rescue Satellite
• AGE — Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
• HTML — Hyper Text Markup Language
• DOI — Department of the Interior (US)
• DSC — Direct Satellite Communications
• DAAC — Distributed Active Archive Center
• IMS — Information Management System (LTPP)
• ISTP — International Solar Terrestrial Physics
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• ANN — Artificial Neural Network
• EJ — Expansion Joint
• RTCS — Real-Time Computer System
• IDL — Interactive Data Language
• ERBE — Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• CBER — Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• BLCMD — BiLevel CoMmanD (DXS)
• CAK — Cell Adhesion Kinase
• CM — cytoplasmic membrane
• SO2 — Sulfur Dioxide
• CD-ROM — Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
• MF/MAGNOLIA — Magnetic Field Experiment
• DDE — Distributive Data Environment (McIDAS)
• SDC — Swiss Development Corporation
• LWIR — Long-Wavelength Infrared
• AFRRI — (U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
• TOGA/COARE — Toga/Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
• CDT — Cytolethal Distending Toxin
• DHHS — Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
• INPAC — Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
• DOY — Day of Year

• END — Equivalent Narcotic Depth
• ARSS — Autonomous Replication Sequences
• S/C — Spacecraft
• ASMT — American Society for Medical Technology
• UTLS — Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere
• AIMS — Ancestry informative markers
• GCRP — Global Change Research Program
• AGMK — African Green Monkey Kidney
• HCIS — Health Care Information System
• AP — acute pancreatitis
• AK — acetate kinase
• OBDH — On-Board Data Handler
• AZOOR — Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy
• CCR — Complex Chromosome Rearrangement
• NCI — National Cancer Institute, USA
• CMHC — Community Mental Health Center
• AAOE — Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
• AL — annulate lamellae
• WFC — World Food Council
• KJ — kilojoule (energy measure)
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia
• CCC — Cholangiocellular Carcinoma
• CLH — Cutaneous Lymphoid Hyperplasia
• CHR — complete hematologic response
• ADHSP — Autosomal Dominant Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• MB — Millibar(s)
• AO — Amine Oxidase
• CONACYT — Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
• PI — Principle Investigator
• AADC — Aromatic Acid Decarboxylase
• FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• DMAC — Diving Medical Advisory Committee
• AP — Adenomatous POLYPs
• ALD — alcoholic liver diseases
• ABC — Autism Behavior Checklist
• ALS — Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis
• ASOS — Automated Surface Observing System
• AFT — Acute Functional Tolerance
• DLT — Digital Linear Tape
• CIASTA — Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Terrestrial Applications
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fuer Normung
• TM — Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
• CCGA — Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs
• DISEL — Diseno e Ingenieria de Systemas Electronicos
• CD — cytochalasin D
• CEL — Carboxyl Ester Lipase
• ACML — Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• ASEC — Applied Solar Energy Corporation

• ADOM — Acid Deposition And Oxidant Model (air Pollution)
• ADNFLE — Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
• CAE — Childhood Absence Epilepsy
• UNCED — United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
• CE — central element
• AD — autistic disorder
• HRI — High Resolution Imager
• CALGB — Cancer and Leukemia Group B
• APHA — American Pharmaceutical Association
• ATSDR — Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
• IGBP — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• DOH — Department of Health (various countries)
• DGVM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM)
• DEMA — Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association
• UCAR — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• RID — Review Item Discrepancy
• CIRRIS — Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument for Shuttle
• SDE — Software Development Environment
• NWS — National Weather Service (formerly U.S. Weather Bureau)
• SPOT — Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (France)
• AM — Acral Melanoma
• ATM — Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutant
• AH — adrenal hypoplasia
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
• CBB — Common Bacterial Blight
• CCAM — Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation
• SEU — Structure and Evolution of the Universe
• NHC — United States National Hurricane Center
• ICSU — International Council of Scientific Unions
• AGR — accessory gene regulator
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• AIL — Advance Intercross Line
• CMA — Chemical Manufacturers Association
• CRADA — Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (with National Institutes of Health)
• NABR — National Association for Biomedical Research
• RA — Regulatory Affairs
• NAFTA — North American Free Trade Agreement
• BED — Bornholm Eye Disease
• TSE — Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
• HIAA — Health Insurance Association of America
• HIS — Health Information Systems
• AASE — Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
• TA — Teaching Assistant
• CC — colorectal cancer
• CBPI — Cytokinesis-Block Proliferation Index
• BEI — Backscattered Electron Imaging (electron microscopy technique)
• AN — Anorexia Nervosa
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fur Normung
• ADNIV — Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy
• APTTS — Activated Partial Thromboplastin Times

• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP)
• CCE — Comprehensive Clinical Examination
• AEV — Avian Erythroblastosis Virus
• ACE — Accessory Cholera Enterotoxin
• CLA — Cutaneous Lymphocyte Antigen
• CS&S — Computer Sciences and Statistics (UW-MSN)
• UH — University of Heidelberg
• CART — Classification And Regression Tree (method In Statistical Analysis)
• AQCR — Air Quality Control Region (US) (environment)
• BAV — Bicuspid Aortic Valve
• CIDP — Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
• AP — arterial pressure
• EIR — Environmental Impact Report
• DSDP — Deep-Sea Drilling Project
• CSREES — Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• CITA — Center for IT Accommodation (GSA)
• AGFS — Aviation Gridded Forecast System
• PS/2 — Personal System/2 (Microsoft)
• NO3 — Nitrate Radical
• APLS — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemias
• ALP — Automated Linkage Preprocessor
• DCM — Dispersion Compensation Module
• JCAHO — Joint Committee on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• HALOE — Halogen Occultation Experiment
• CCA — Cortical cerebellar atrophy
• BEV — Baboon Endogenous Virus
• MIP — Mission Implementation Plan
• AD — Alzheimer Disease
• ASE — Absence Status Epilepticus
• ORATOS — Orbit and Attitude Operating System
• SAFISY — Space Agency Forum on the International Space Year (1992)
• CBT — Cord Blood Transplant
• ASV — Avian Sarcoma Virus
• JCCT — Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (US-China)
• IOLM — International Organization of Legal Metrology
• NED — Network of Egghead Divers
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multiple Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• GBPS — Gigabits per second
• STA — Science and Technology Agency (Japan)
• MERIS — Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• ASAIO — American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• AP — accelerated phase
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• EOSP — Earth Observing Scanner Polarimeter
• CCF — Current Calibration File
• IWGDMGC — Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
• CKII — Casein Kinase II
• NCSC — National Council of Senior Citizens
• SORI — Subcommittee on Research Initiatives
• CWB — Central Weather Bureau (Taiwan)

• CD — cortical dysplasia
• AWD — Alive With Disease
• CALAS — Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System
• BISA — Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy (Belgium)
• VOS — Voluntary Observing Ship
• LRA — Laser Retroreflector Array
• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• MTBE — Methyl Tert-butyl Ether
• AFG — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• EPACT — Energy Policy Act of 1992 (US)
• UNFCCC — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• ASFV — African Swine Fever Virus
• APM — Affected Pedigree Member
• CENELEC — European Committee for Electromechanical Standardisation
• BDV — Borna Disease Virus
• ADCLS — Advanced Data Collection and Location System
• D/C — diarrhea constipation
• MT — Measured Time
• COAPEC — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate
• CRO — Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
• AFES — Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study
• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• AAU — Association of American Universities
• ACEC — Area of Critical Environmental Concern
• FFM — Full Face Mask
• ORA — FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs
• AS — Asparagine Synthetase
• CBCL — Child Behavior Checklist
• HCFCS — Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
• EADS — Engineering and Data Analysis System
• AFGF — Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• BUFR — Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data)
• ACD — Avellino Corneal Dystrophy
• SZA — Solar Zenith Angle
• ADPLD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Liver Disease
• DLCF — Data Link Control Field
• BCRP — Breast Cancer Resistance Protein
• ARJP — Autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• MJD — Modified Julian Date
• AAD — Age at Diagnosis
• CAD — Cold Agglutinin Disease
• MTPPI — Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute
• DOA — Department of Administration (US)
• GGS — Global Geospace Science
• CEC — Commission of the European Communities ;
• MKS — meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS")
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• AAP — amino acid permease
• NCC — Network Control Center (GSFC)

• EAA — Experiment Aircraft Association
• CH — chloral hydrate
• HFMA — Healthcare Financial Management Association
• EAD — Equivalent Air Depth
• KEV — kilo electron volts
• AABR — Automated Auditory Brainstem Response
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• AB — Alcian Blue
• BFCNS — Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons
• AH — absorptive hypercalciuria
• HCL — Hydrogen Chloride
• NCEP — National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center)
• DIU — Detector Interface Unit (DXS)
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• AICR — American Institute for Cancer Research
• V&V — Validation & Verification
• CIT — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• SCB — Software Control Board
• FGP — Faculty Grants Program
• RDF — Combustion of Refuse Derived Fuels
• RSNA — The Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
• APRE — Acute Phase Response Element
• MAGSAT — Magnetic Field Satellite
• IES — Institute of Environmental Sciences
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program
• FNRS — Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium)
• APECED — Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy-Candidiasis-Ectodermal Dystrophy
• PXP — XMM Project Payload
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission (ESA)
• CMS — Correctional Medical Services
• DES — Divers Environmental Survey
• CLP — Chromosome Length Polymorphism
• CES — Central Excitatory State
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• APKD — Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease
• NRCS — Natural Resources Conservation Service
• AS — Active sleep
• PROM — Programmable Read Only Memory (chip)
• ID — IDentifier
• FTS — File Transfer System
• CLG — Certified Local Government
• CEES — Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
• BACT — Best Available Control Technology
• BAUD — one bit per second
• GENEMIS — Generation of European Emission Data (EUROTRAC)
• CDV — Canine Distemper Virus
• ASCRS — American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery's
• QAO — Quality Assurance Office
• CE — cornified envelope
• GAC — Global Area Coverage

• SAA — Solar Aspect Angle
• ADOA — Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy
• HIMSS — Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• CEOS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• AMV — Avian Myeloblastosis Virus
• AWI — Alfred Wegener Institute
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (EOS)
• CCMV — Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus
• DPV — Diver Propulsion Vehicle
• DCTD — Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• IMAU — Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht
• ECMWF — European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• AGU — American Geophysical Union
• CAR — Cell Adhesion Regulator
• CIN — Chronic Idiopathic Neutropenia
• CCR — Continuous Complete Remission
• SEA — Slovak Energy Agency
• EOSAT — Earth Observation Satellite Co.
• ALTS — Atypical Lipomatous Tumors
• GTE — Global Tropospheric Experiment
• ADAAC — Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center
• CSG — Council of State Governments
• ADL — Acid Detergent Lignin
• ASD — Atrial Septal Defect
• CTD — Conductivity, Temperature and Depth
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• AJ — adherens junction
• INPE — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
• DIFAX — Digital Facsimile
• MEDEC — Medical Devices Canada
• EMEX — Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment
• CPI — characters per inch
• AGL — Acute Granulocytic Leukemia
• CFC — Chloro Fluoro Carbon
• CH — cystic hygroma
• ACC — Australian Cancer Council
• CGH — Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis
• ESL — English as a second language
• ADALT — Advanced Radar Altimeter
• SCOR — Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research Seasat Sea Satellite
• AER — Apical Ectodermal Ridge
• VAI — Voluntary Action Indicated (Food & Drug Administration postaudit inspection classification)
• CRU — Climate Research Unit (East Anglia)
• AGI — Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
• CES — Cat Eye Syndrome
• NH3 — Ammonia
• BFNC — Benign Familial Neonatal Convulsions
• CCR — Cost-Charge Ratio
• LIMS — Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
• PSSM — Polish Society for Sexual Medicine

• UCSF — University of California, San Francisco
• APC — Ambulatory Payment Class
• CAN — Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
• X-SAR — X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• GOSTA — Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas
• AD — Agar Dilution
• CAA — Chronic Aplastic Anemia
• OAC — Orbital Activation and Checkout
• CBI — Confederation of British Industries
• AEG — Acidic Epididymal Glycoprotein
• HIBCC — Health Industry Business Communications Council
• METEOSAT — Geosynchronous Meteorology Satellite (ESA)
• GTCE — Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
• DPSS — Data Processing Services Subsystem
• ALC — Anaplastic Large Cell
• ISSC — International Social Science Council
• AAO — Age At Onset
• GOME — Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• BB — Borrelia burgdorferi
• DUD — duodenal ulcer disease
• UCAP — University Committee on Academic Personnel
• MCP — Meteorological Communications Package
• CMK — Cytidine Monophosphate Kinase
• NAHIT — National Alliance for Health Information Technology
• PSS — Procedures, Specifications and Standards
• MDDI — Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry
• JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency
• ART — Assisted Reproductive Technology
• HCN — Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen
• SODAR — Sound Detection And Ranging (meteorological Instrument)
• NDSTC — Naval Dive and Salvage Training Center
• CHED — Congenital Heredity Endothelial Dystrophy
• XSCS — XMM MOC Control System
• NUST — National University of Science and Technology
• MEDGV — Germany's Medical Equipment Safety Law
• CALS — College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (UW–Madison)
• ALSC — Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation
• CGC — Climate and Global Change
• AEL — After Egg Laying
• ACGM — Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
• PPQA — Pre-Product Quality Assurance
• ED — Department of Education (US)
• AD — axiodistal
• PCF — Pounds per cubic foot
• ALADIN — Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument
• CFH — Complement Factor H
• AE — anion exchanger
• AUL — Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
• ISAMS — Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
• ARA — AppleTalk Remote Access

• MOZIAC — Measurement of Ozone on Airbus in-service Aircraft
• LSPDF — Life Science Payload Development Facility
• UNITAR — United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Response
• DP — dermal papilla
• CAA — California Alumni Association
• CLAES — Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)
• AHRQ — Agency for Health, Research, and Quality
• EESC — Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine
• OPEP — Organisation des Pays Exportateurs de Pétrole
• CNA — Comisión Nacional del Agua (Mexico)
• IAPM — International Association of Medical Prosthesis Manufacturers
• CIRA — COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere
• ICD-9-CM — International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition
• AMOS — Automated Meteorological Observing System
• BIO — Biotechnology Industry Organization
• WMREI — Waste Management Research and Education Institute
• MIR — Management Information Report
• CTI — Charge Transfer Inefficiency
• DAMTP — Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (Cambridge)
• UNECE — United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
• RT — Real Time (R/T Preferred)
• EUDRA — European Drug Regulatory Authorities Network
• ALCLS — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphomas
• RMS — Root-Mean-Square
• GRID — Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)
• AAPC — Attenuated Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
• HIB — Health Insurance Bureau (Japan)
• EASOE — European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
• AAUC — Alumni Associations of the University of California
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL)
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• CLMA — Clinical Laboratory Management Association
• CKI — casein kinase I
• ACF — Aberrant crypt foci
• AACI — Association of American Cancer Institutes
• CDGE — Constant Denaturant Gel Electrophoresis
• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• NLN — National League for Nursing
• AY — Academic Year
• OASH — Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
• CGAM — Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
• MPIC — Max Planck Institut für Chemie (Germany)
• NGDC — National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
• CHR — Complete Hematologic Remission
• AE — Assemble Axial Elements
• ACF — Aberrant Crypt Focus
• CE — ciliary epithelium
• ALP — ATHEROGENIC LIPOPROTEIN PHENOTYPE

• HYREX — Hydrological Radar Experiment
• CITRIS — Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
• CHPA — Consumer Healthcare Products Association
• AAU — Acute Anterior Uveitis
• J.S.D. — Doctor of the Science of Law
• TUV — Technische Uberwachungs-Vereine
• EODRS — Earth observation data retrieval system
• DSMA — Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance
• CRG — Council for Responsible Genetics
• AHSRL — Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar
• ESE — Earth Science Enterprise
• CRREL — Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE)
• GPSDR — Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
• POL — Physician's Office Laboratory
• CAMP — Childhood Asthma Management Program
• F&A — Facilities and Administrative
• CCD — Calcite Compensation Depth
• EOF — Empirical Orthogonal Function
• UNEX — University Extension
• ACOS — Attitude and Orbit Control System
• CEO — Centre for Earth Observation
• LITE — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• AEA — Atomic Energy Authority
• STAR — Satellite for Telecommunication Applications and Research
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• BCS — Broadband Cable System (UW)
• FCCC — For the Framework Convention on Climate Change
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• ASH — American Society of Hematology's
• CMA — China Meteorological Administration
• UCRP — University of California Retirement Plan
• FDLI — Food and Drug Law Institute
• MSU — Memphis State University
• LEOP — Launch and Early Orbit Phase
• DNR — Department of Natural Resources
• CITE — Chemical Instrument Test and Evaluation (NASA GTE)
• ACSYS — Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP)
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• MICR — Magnetic-Ink Character Recongnition
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• BEF — Bromine Efficiency Factor
• CCFDN — Congenital cataracts facial dysmorphism neuropathy
• OST — Office of Science and Technology
• AHH — anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
• CB — carotid body
• ASMD — Anterior Segment Mesenchymal Dysgenesis
• NWP — Numerical Weather Prediction
• AO — active oxygen
• APC — Academic Planning Council
• ORS — Outer root sheath

• BCP — Basal Cell Papilloma
• ARVD — arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
• IPEM — Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• ACMSU — Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Support Unit
• DEED — Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
• OEC — Olfactory Ensheathing Cell
• CPSC — Consumer Product Safety Commission
• ENSO — El Niño/Southern Oscillation
• HMMR — High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
• ADC — Atlantic Data Coverage (Meteosat)
• DPR — Dual Precipitation Radar
• POES — Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite
• PSU — power supply unit
• USPHS — United States Public Health Service
• TMPSU — Telescope Module Power Supply Unit
• EOSDIS — Earth Observing System Data and Information System (sic FCW 9/97)
• IMB — Investigator of Micro-Biosphere
• AFLPS — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms
• UAF — University of Alaska Fairbanks
• BRG — Bureau des Ressources Génétiques
• EGSE — Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• MIAA — Medical Industry Association of Australia
• AMANDA — Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array
• CG — cortical granule
• PPR — problems with the Photopolarimeter Radiometer
• MITRE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment
• CBSCT — Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
• CMG — Computer Measurement Group
• OAI — Official Action Indicated (serious Food & Drug Administration post-inspection classification)
• CNES — Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France)
• PPS — XMM Pipeline Processing Subsystem
• MPIA — Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie (Germany)
• RASS — radio-acoustic sounding system
• ASE — Air-Sea Exchange experiment (EUROTRAC)
• EMC — Environmental Modeling Center
• CA — Contagious agalactia
• ABA — Agaricus Bisporus Agglutinin
• ALF — automated laser fluorescence
• CCLRC — Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• BCNS — Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome
• AARI — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)
• LIGG — Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology
• CNRM — Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques(France)
• AO — announcement of opportunity
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program)
• GCE — Ground-base Cloud Experiment (EUROTRAC)
• NHGRI — National Human Genome Research Institute
• LANDSAT — Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
• DLR — Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany)
• CAC — Coronary Artery Calcification

• RADARSAT — Radar Satellite
• DMIC — Deputy Meteorologist-In-Charge (NWS)
• ACD — Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS)
• HIDA — Health Industry Distributors Association
• CF — Culture fluid
• EE — End-to-End
• AHRR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor
• AIMBE — American Insitute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• EDIS — Environmental Data and Information Service
• MOSS — Market-Oriented Sector Selective
• QSR — Quality System Regulation
• CMD — Cartilage Matrix Deficiency
• OAD — Orbit and Attitude Division
• CLL — Chronic Lymphoid Leukaemia
• LRDP — Long Range Development Plan
• MODIS-T — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt
• ERSC — Environmental Remote Sensing Center (IES)
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
• RPOS — Re-planned Preferred Observation Schedule
• CSA — Canadian Standards Association (like UL)
• CFTR — cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator protein
• APPS — Acute Phase Proteins
• CG — Comparative Genometrics
• TOO — Target Of Opportunity
• SSALT — Solid-State radar Altimeter
• TAE — Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface)
• CIIT — Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
• NAREGI — National Research Grid Initiative
• TIROS — Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
• CTD — Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
• AMIP — Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• CEFS — chicken embryonic fibroblasts
• AMOS — Air Force Maui Optical System
• UCSB — University Of California Santa Barbara
• AS — Alport syndrome
• CCRCC — Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
• ASG — Accessory Sex Glands
• EUMETSAT — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• LMSC — Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation
• ARC — Arctic Radiation and Chemistry experiment
• NOY — total active nitrogen
• ASF — African Swine Fever
• APAG — Academic Policy Advisory Group
• AFLP — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphic
• CM — complete mole
• CPC — Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center)
• CPEC — California Postsecondary Education Commission
• WEFAX — Weather Facsimile
• GFLOPS — Billions of Floating Point Instructions per Second
• HCMM/AEM-1 — Heat Capacity Mapping Mission/Applications Explorer Mission

• AO — Airway obstruction
• DEM — Digital Electronics Module
• CALLA — Common Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Antigen
• AREP — Assembly Representation
• VIS — Visible
• ADRP — Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa
• NCDC — National Climatic Data Center
• RNLI — Royal National Lifeboat Institution
• AMSR-E — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS
• PMR — Pressure Modulator Radiometer
• JIF — Japan-Indonesia Science and Technology Forum
• SCATT — SCATTerometer
• CBFB — Core Binding Factor Beta
• AC — Adenylyl Cyclase
• DLESE — The Digital Library for Earth System Education
• ARPS — Advanced Regional Prediction System
• IUCRP — Industry University Cooperative Research Program
• GLOMAC — Global Modelling of Atmospheric Chemistry (EUROTRAC)
• BCTV — Beet Curly Top Virus
• CISH — Chromosome in Situ Hybridisation
• SMMR — Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
• HRPT — High Resolution Picture Transmission
• DLL — Dynamic Link Libraries
• EBTC — Edison BioTechnology Center
• AIEE — American Institute for Electrical Engineers
• ITE — Institute for Terrestrial Ecology
• DS2 — Second Dark Spot (Neptune)
• AIPS — Astronomical Image Processing System
• ICAIR — International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research
• ASHOE — Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
• ACLL — Atypical Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• IGAP — International Global Aerosol Program
• AMPS — Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System
• CFP — Cyan Fluorescent Protein
• CD — Campomelic dysplasia
• CGN — Cerebellar Granule Neurons
• CAA — Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
• CCO — Cytochrome C Oxidase
• CIRTL — Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning
• IPOC — International Partner Operations Center
• OHTA — Office of Health Technology Assessment
• CSES — Center for the Study of Earth from Space (Univ of Colorado)
• NIWA — National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
• OSCAR — Online Services for Curriculum and Articulation Review
• DCA — Division of Community Assistance
• ARNT — Ah Receptor Nuclear Translocator
• FDAMA — FDA Modernization Act of 1997
• CITE — Cargo Integration and Test Equipment (DXS)
• UEXT — University Extension
• IST — integrated systems test

• SAFIRE — Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Research Experiment (TOGA)
• BODC — British Oceanographic Data Centre
• AMDM — Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers
• PMEL — Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)
• CMDL — Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder
• AAD — Acidic Activation Domain
• NIGMS — National Institute Of General Medical Sciences (NIH)
• BCAC — Basal Cell Adenocarcinoma
• TWIP — Terminal Weather Information for Pilots
• AII — Angiotensin II
• PMA — Premarket Application
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
• ARS — Autonomous Replication Sequence
• MST — Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere (Radar)
• CACD — Central Areolar Choroidal Dystrophy
• PRO — Professional Review Organization
• AN — Aspergillus Nidulans
• MLS — Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
• NAGRA — Native American Graves Repatriation Act
• DNAG — Decade of North American Geology
• MH — Message Handling
• TOMS — Transactions On Mathematical Software
• ADI — Autosomal Dominant Ichthyosis
• CAPE — Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment (STORM)
• SERC — Science and Engineering Research Council
• ADU — Analogue to Digital Unit
• SIGMA — High Energy X-ray Instrument
• INSA — Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
• MTDC — Modified Total Direct Costs
• ACIS — ACademic Information Services (IBM)
• FM — Frequency Modulator
• CTP — Cloud-Top Pressure
• UPC — Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• CSIS — Centralized Storm Information System
• AGM — African green monkey
• CLD — Congenital Lactase Deficiency
• CGH — Comparative Gene Hybridization
• AEP — Alkaline Extracellular Protease
• NAVSTAR — Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging
• AK — Arginine kinase
• AHL — Acyl Homoserine Lactone
• ATMOS — Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy
• HDIF — Health Care Data Interchange Format
• SWIRLS — Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
• LERTS — Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en TeledetectionSpatiale (France)
• FASTEX — Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track EXperiment
• ARPKD — Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
• PX — XMM Project
• SERI — Solar Energy Research Institute

• WASC — Western Association of Schools and Colleges
• URD — User Requirements Document
• GLOSS — Global Sea Level Observing System (of IOC)
• DMAP — Digital MAPping, charting and geodesy analysis program
• 2MASS — Two-Micron All-Sky Survey
• PT — Pass-Through
• TOASTE — Transport of Ozone and Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange
• UOEAP — Universitywide Office of the Education Abroad Program
• CLAG — Cytoadherence Linked Asexual Gene
• AE — Acrodermatitis Enteropathica
• AD — After Disease
• ACDS — Astronomical Catalogues Database Subsystem
• SNR — Super Nova Remnant
• GLP — Good Laboratory Practice
• BOREAS — Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study
• AH — aniline hydrochloride
• TIROS — Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (POES)
• AUP — Adjusted Unbiased Prediction
• ATF — Aphid Transmission Factor
• NDIU — Network Data Interface Unit
• CAMS — Cell Adhesion Molecules
• BAC — Bovine Artificial Chromosome
• IPAR — Intercepted Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• CIRES — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (US)
• AI — Aromatase Inhibitor
• AS — Angelman Syndrome
• SCPI — Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
• HAPEX — Hydrological Atmospheric Pilot Experiment
• CDS — commonly deleted segment
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror Mission
• GEDEX — Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment
• PAB — Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau (Japan)
• ECCLS — European Committee on Clinical Laboratory Standards
• CC — Cumulus cells
• ASU — Astronomical Server URL
• UCSD — University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California)
• ATD — Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
• AR — apoptotic rate
• SPO — Sponsored Projects Office
• AEH — Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia
• CCM — Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
• SAFARI — Southern African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative (BIBEX)
• ECRI — Emergency Care Research Institute
• DMS — DiMethylSulphide
• AIBS — American Institute of Biological Sciences
• JGOFS — Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
• AOT — Aerosol Optical Thickness
• HOX — odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2)
• AODC — Association of Offshore Diving Contractors
• CDCR — Conceptual Design and Cost Review

• POEMS — Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
• AWD — abnormal wing discs
• GEOSAT — Geodesy Satellite (Navy)
• EDAC — Error Detection And Correction
• DE — Detector Electronics (DXS)
• AT — Arabidopsis thaliana
• AVF — Abdominal Visceral Fat
• ODF — Observation Data File
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multinucleocapsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• NMAM — NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
• COCIR — Coordination Committee of the Radiological and Electromedical Industries
• RVAU — Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
• MAESA — Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• NAD — Nitric Acid Dihydrate
• SNPA — Subnetwork Point of Attachment
• CI — Continuous Infusion
• GHTF — Global Harmonization Task Force
• TROPOZ — Tropospheric Ozone Expedition
• MOHMATN — Met Office Historical night Marine Air Temperature
• OGIST — Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• NIR — Near Infrared
• NODIS — NSSDC Online Data and Information System Services System
• PDR — Physician’s Desk Reference
• BITNET — Because It's Time Network
• PROPAC — Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
• ASS — Arginosuccinate Synthetase
• AOT — Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumour
• USFS — United States Forest Service
• APP — AVHRR Polar Pathfinder
• INPA — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (Brazil)
• HCPCS — Health Care Common Procedure Coding System
• EMDM — European Medical Device Manufacturer
• COR — Committee on Research
• ALL — Acute Lymphatic Leukemia
• CGCP — Canadian Global Change Program
• NESHAP — National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• QSO — Quasar|Quasi-Stellar Object
• MOPH — Ministry of Public Health
• CCK — Cancer Center Karolinska
• EML — Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)
• CHI — California Healthcare Institute
• AES — Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
• HPB — Health Protection Board (Canada)
• AIEOP — Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• CAPPI — Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
• FAHS — Federation of American Health Systems
• HSQB — Health Standard and Quality Bureau
• DISK — magnetic media (floppies)
• FDRG — Faculty Discipline Review Group

• CAD — Coronary Atherosclerotic Disease
• NREL — National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly SERI)
• SPOT — Systeme Pour L'Observation De La Terre (France)
• SVF — Software Validation Facility
• SPARC — Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change
• JEM-X — Joint European Monitor for X-rays
• CO-I — Co-Investigator
• HEDIS — Healthplan Employee Data and Information
• LOICZ — Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (IGBP)
• LEFI — Local Electric Field Instrument
• NIGEC — National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• APLP — Amplified Product Length Polymorphism
• MPI — Max Planck Institut (Germany)
• PXS — XMM Project Spacecraft
• LLC — Limited Liability Partnership
• IDS — Interdisciplinary Science
• SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• EEC — European Economic Commission
• ADPKD — Adult Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• CDTS — cytolethal distending toxins
• MRIF — Multicampus Research Incentive Fund
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
• AHF — Attitude History File
• AGN — Active Galaxy Nucleus
• RTNEPH — real-time nephanalysis
• SEC — Science Executive Committee of the IWG
• SLIES — Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer
• GAIM — Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modeling
• AATP — Acquired Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
• DANR — Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• ALH — Atypical Lobular Hyperplasia
• DU — Dobson Unit
• DIS — Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP)
• CEF — Chicken embryonic fibroblast
• HIRDLS — HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS)
• ANNS — Artificial Neural Networks
• TIRS — Thermal Infrared Scanner
• CFAS — Colonization factor antigens
• IRICP — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• SESAME — Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Middle Latitude Experiment
• RTK — Right-To-Know
• CACGP — Commission For Atmospheric Chemistry And Global Pollution
• S&T — Directorate for Science and Technology
• GCDIS — US Global Change Data and Information System
• OOD — Object-Oriented Design
• CAF — Conotruncal Anomaly Face
• LR — Laser Retroreflector
• UHV — Ultra-high Vacuum
• ARP — Aldehyde Reactive Probe
• ALL — Acute Lymphoblastic

• BOL — Beginning of Life
• EDMA — European Diagnostics Manufacturer's Association
• MCIDAS — Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
• IEOS — International Earth Observing System
• CGAT — Chromaffin Granule Amine Transporter
• CDOS — Customer Data and Operations System
• AWIPS-90 — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's
• OLS — Optical Line Scanner
• MDC — Major Diagnostics Category
• NNF — National Nanofabrication Facility
• AS — Acid Succinate
• AOS — Allene Oxide Synthase
• CI — Cytoplasmic incompatibility
• ARRP — Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic
• HOCL — Hypochlorous Acid
• SOAPEX — Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry EXperiment
• PDUFA — Prescription Drug User Fee Act (1992, U.S.)
• ALEXI — Atmospheric Land EXchange Inversion (CIMSS)
• ICH — International Conference of Harmonization
• AAM — Atmospheric Angular Momentum
• CLIVAR — Climate Variability and Predictability program
• ADC — Astronomical Data Center
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)
• WPD — War Plans Division
• HDF — Hierarchical Data Format
• IV&V — independent verification and validation
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• LACTOZ — Laboratory Studies of Chemistry Related to Tropospheric Ozone (EUROTRAC)
• KOPRI — Korea Polar Research Institute
• PSF — Point-Spread Function
• ALPTRAC — High Alpine Aerosol and Snow Chemistry Study (EUROTRAC)
• CCE — Charge Collection Efficiency
• BDMV — Bean Dwarf Mosaic Virus
• APVS — Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome
• CFC — Chloroflourocarbon
• CH — Calponin homology
• CD — Cowden Disease
• ARF — Alternative Reading Frame
• AIRS — Acute Insulin Responses
• BCCS — Basal Cell Carcinomas
• AE — Attaching and effacing
• ISTAHC — International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
• AER — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• NH — Northern Hemisphere
• PPRC — Physician Payment Review Commission
• JFMDA — Japan Federation of Medical Device Associations
• NAEI — National Atmospheric Emission Inventory (UK)
• SST — Sea surface temperature
• EXPRESSO — Experiment for Regional Sources and Sinks of Oxidants

• ATLID — Atmospheric LIDAR
• BIATEX — Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Pollutants (EUROTRAC)
• MEDMARC — Medical Device Material Assurance and Reinsurance Company, Ltd.
• SEAWIFS — Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
• CCS — clear cell sarcoma
• IPE — Institute of Physics of the Earth
• RUC — Roskilde University Center
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Remission
• DSB — Direct Sounding Broadcast
• NDBC — National Data Buoy Center
• OCCM — Ocean Carbon Cycle Model
• ARGOS — Argos Data Collection and Location System (France)
• BD — Bipolar Disorder
• MEDSUN — Medical Device Surveillance Network
• CDR — Complementary determining regions
• RAPS — Regulatory Affairs Professional Society
• UCLA — University of California, Los Angeles
• UCEP — University Committee on Educational Policy
• CM — contrast media
• AE — Atmosphere Explorer
• IOTP — International Ozone Trands Panel
• STRATOZ — Stratospheric Ozone Expedition
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• NDPD — National Data Processing Division (EPA)
• ARSLOE — Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment
• NAAQS — National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
• HDP — Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• XTE — X-Ray Timing Explorer
• AH — adenomatous hyperplasia
• CDF — Cation Diffusion Facilitator
• EIGA — European Industrial Gases Association
• ASCT — Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
• DAN — Diver’s Alert Network
• NHIB — National Health Insurance Bureau (Taiwan)
• AINA — Arctic Institute of North America
• CICS — Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (U.Maryland)
• STREAM — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiment by Aircraft Measurements
• CAMEX — CMOS Amplifier and Multiplexing Chip
• ASF — Abdominal Subcutaneous Fat
• AF — activation function
• CDF — Cerebellar Deficient Folia
• LED — Low Energy Detector
• QBO — Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.)
• AI — allelic imbalance
• EVC — Executive Vice Chancellor
• BC — breast carcinoma
• OFS — Orbiter Flight Simulator
• AMOG — Adhesion Molecule on Glia
• XMCS — XMM MissionControl System
• CERES — Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System

• SWIR — Short-Wavelength Infrared
• NISTEP — National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
• AMTIC — Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center
• OBSM — On-Board Software Maintenance
• WETNET — Network for Distribution and Joint Analysis of SSM/I Data (MSFC)
• ASSIST — Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer
• CSEPA — Chinese State Environment Protection Agency (China)
• CIBD — Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• GLRS-A — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Altimeter (see GLAS)
• BCCP — Biotin Carboxyl Carrier Protein
• AAL — Alternaria Alternata Lycopersici
• DBI — Digital Bus Interface
• AOS — Active Oxygen Species
• ACC — Atlantic Climate Change
• AI — Amelogenesis imperfecta
• CE — conventional electrophoresis
• CFPS — culture filtrate proteins
• CEQA — California Environmental Quality Act
• AA — Acrylonitrile And Acrylamide
• CET — Central England Temperature
• BARC — Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
• SMS/GOES — Synchronous Meteorological Satellite/Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• DST — Data Systems Test
• VAN — Value-Added Network
• TRACT — Transport of Pollutants over Complex Terrain (EUROTRAC)
• ASADA — Automated Smoke/Aerosol Detection Algorithm
• AOIPS — Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System
• APC — Anterior polar cataract
• OCS — Outer Continental Shelf (oil)
• PAGES — Past Global Changes (IGBP)
• BUV — Backscattered UltraViolet
• AMV — Avian Myoblastosis Virus
• ADEM — Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management
• CA — cerebellar atrophy
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Centre
• AI — apoptotic index
• CDM — Chemically Defined Medium
• BAL — Biphenotypic Acute Leukemia
• CFSS — common fragile sites
• PGS — Proposal Generation System
• MOTIE — Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (Korea)
• EINSTEIN — Einstein Observatory
• PBPK — Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic
• AROA — Autosomal Recessive Ocular Albinism
• SORG — Stratospheric Ozone Review Group
• IPC — Imaging Proportional Counter
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• ABI — Advanced Baseline Imager (GOES)
• BANF — Bilateral Acoustic Neurofibromatosis
• APAFO — Advanced Particles And Fields Observer

• MRI — Meteorlogical Research Institute (Japan)
• PIEAS — Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Appliead Sciences
• IPEI — Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument
• CAC — Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (York, Canada)
• SPSO — Science Processing Support Office
• JAAME — Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment
• TERSE — Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
• AFC — Amniotic Fluid Cells
• CIAP — Climatic Impact Assessment Program
• CEC — critical electrolyte concentration
• TERI — Tata Energy Research Institute
• AHCS — Anterior Horn Cells
• CEA — Collie Eye Anomaly
• VNIR — Visible And Near InfraRed
• ADCC — Autosomal Dominant Congenital Cataract
• BCC — Burkholderia Cepacia Complex
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• PDA — Parenteral Drug Association
• UCB — University of California, Berkeley
• AVHRR GAC — AVHRR Global Area Coverage
• EXOSAT — European X-Ray Observatory Satellite
• CTD — Chemical Technology Division (ORNL)
• CDA — congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
• ANT — Attention Network Test
• AF — Archaeoglobus Fulgidus
• BACS — bacterial artificial chromosomes
• ACIS — Automated Cellular Imaging System
• DWS — Division of Water Supply
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic leukosis
• UTC — Universal Time Coordinate
• IRMM — Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements
• BBD — Benign Breast Disease
• GISS — Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
• ADPSP — Autosomal Dominant Pure Spastic Paraplegia
• CEC — Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC)
• NCBI — National Center for Biotechnology Information
• STSCI — Space Telescope Science Institute
• APP — Abeta precursor protein
• MCR — Main Control Room
• MOS-1 — Marine Observation Satellite (Japan)
• ICR — Indirect Cost Recovery
• CFRI — Central Fuel Research Institute (India)
• SSSM — Scandinavian Society for Sexual Medicine
• CDLS — Cornelia De Lange Syndrome
• ESSA — Environmental Science Services Administration (preceded NOAA)
• ANA — Autoantibody to Nuclear Antigen
• NAT — Nitric Acid Trihydrate (polar Stratosphere Cloud Aerosol)
• AGT — average generation time
• ARF — An Ancillary Response File
• AM — Achillea Millefolium

• AEEC — attaching and effacing Escherichia coli
• EMCU — EPIC MOS Camera Head Unit
• RGS — Reflection Grating Spectrometer
• SCOS — Spacecraft Control and Operations System
• CLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• CHL — Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma
• UWERN — University WEather Research Network
• NERI — National Environmental Research Institute
• CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• AWPD — Assessment and Watershed Protection Division
• NMAI — National Museum of the American Indian
• CIMO — Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
• APTI — Air Pollution Training Institute
• ASCP — American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• AD — Affecting Disease
• AFM — Array File Maker
• AP — Apple Proliferation
• CIV — Chilo Iridescent Virus
• EATD — European Association of Technical Divers
• CAS — Centre for Atmospheric Science (Cambridge, UK)
• CICA — Center for Innovative Computer Applications
• MESSR — Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
• VIRTEM — Validation of IASI Radiative Transfer: Experiments and Modelling
• MENARG — Middle East and North Africa Research Group
• LCLIYMUUCADULFW.S — le cock la in your mouth until u choke and die u lazy fucking whore. slut
• GISST — Global sea Ice Coverage and Sea Surface Temperature
• AMAD — Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
• FBTR — Fast Breeder Test Reactor
• CIRRUS — Cloud InfraRed Radiometer for UnESS
• MEI — Medical Economic Index
• CMCS — cultured mast cells
• CM — cutaneous melanoma
• ALT — Atypical Lipomatous Tumor
• PCS — Payload Calibration Subsystem
• ADO — Allelic Drop Out
• INTEGRAL — International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
• CAT — Carbon Dioxide Absorption Technique
• NODS — NASA Ocean Data System
• DPS — Division of Planetary Science
• EPCU — EPIC pn Camera Head Unit
• USBR — United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI)
• VISSR — Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (GOES)
• CESD — Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease
• NEXRAD — Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS)
• NETC — National Environmental Technology Centre (UK)
• GSITT — Segment Integration and Test Team
• DAO — Data Assimilation Office (NASA)
• HFC — HydroFluoroCarbon
• ATF — anti-activating transcription factor
• UCAF — University Committee on Academic Freedom

• APKC — atypical protein kinase C
• DPS — Detector Power Supply
• SPAC — State Pharmaceutical Administration of China
• ASA — Academic Staff Assembly
• EBW — Electron Beam Welding
• GTS — Global Telecommunications System (WMO and
• ARE — Androgen Response Elements
• ACOE — Army Corps of Engineers
• AT — The Ataxia Teleangiectasia
• MLOPEX — Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemistry Experiment
• BAHC — Biosphere Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (IGBP programme)
• TNT — Trinitrotoluene
• GOMOS — Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
• DC — Detector Controller (DXS)
• CIRAC — Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry
• MNBIO — Minnesota Biotechnology
• CFA — Cyclopropane fatty acids
• POLDER — Polarization and Directionality of Reflectances
• ASD — Aspartate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase
• AMLS — Acute Myelogenous Leukemias
• AD — Arginine Deiminase
• UBA — Universal Breathing Apparatus
• CODAR — COrrelation Detection And Ranging
• AH — anterior horn
• CA — Colorectal Adenoma
• CST — Convective-Stratiform Technique
• AC — Academic Council
• EDU — Event Detection Unit
• ARIC — Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
• ERSAF — Environment Remote Sensing Analysis Facility
• WCSAR — Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics
• GCTE — Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Program of the IGBP
• CFC — Continuous-Flow Centrifugation
• CITE — Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation
• RNA — Ribose Nucleic Acid
• CECS — cerebral endothelial cells
• URSI — Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale
• APL — Acute Progranulocytic Leukemia
• ITTP — Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
• SSS — Social Studies of Science
• BDA — Bile Duct Adenoma
• ISLSCP — International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
• SBUV — Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment)
• EUCOMED — European Confederation of Medical Suppliers Associations
• CCA — Current Cost Accounting
• ARS — Antigen recognition sites
• JCMM — Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology
• CFHT — Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, on Mauna Kea
• AGCI — Aspen Global Change Institute
• CDC — Child Development Centre

• CA — Cerebellar Ataxia
• DBU — Digital Bus Unit
• AO&SS — Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
• RNMI — Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• AK — Adenosine Kinase
• CAV — Coronary Artery Vasculopathy
• DWPC — Division of Water Pollution Control
• ARD — Adult Refsum Disease
• CBN — Cellular Blue Nevi
• ALVS — Avian Leukosis Viruses
• EBC — Executive Budget Committee
• IMG — Interferometric Monitor of Greenhouse Gases
• SCOPE — Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)
• HAACP — Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points Program
• PMIR — Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
• INRA — Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France)
• APSU — Austin Peay State University
• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• FDH — Fixed Dynamical Heating
• CSG — Clock Sequence Generator
• UCMC — University of California Marine Council
• APBSCT — Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant
• AGSP — Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme
• SI — Systeme International
• CH — Channel Header
• ABS — Antenatal Bartter Syndrome
• ARVC — arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
• SAT — Sulphuric Acid Tetrahydrate
• NEIC — National Enforcement Investigations Center
• TGMI — Tennessee Government Management Institute
• INDA — Investigational New Drug Application
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• CD — Conjugated dienes
• CARA — Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
• TCI/TK — Tool Control Language and Toolkit
• FDDI — Fibre Distributed Data Interface
• BFF — Bovine Follicular Fluid
• CMAP — Climate Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Program
• AVS — Aortic Valve Stenosis
• APTF — Admissions Processing Task Force
• ACCS — Acinar Cell Carcinomas
• CI — Chromosome Index
• RANN — Research Applied to National Needs (NSF)
• NORSAR — Norwegian Seismic Array
• SCARABE — Scanning Radiation Budget Experiment
• CIFAR — Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
• ETTP — East Tennessee Technology Park
• MOSS — Manned Orbital Space Station
• NASSH — North American Society for Sport History
• LQHUW — Large Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste

• OCTS — Japanese Ocean Color Temperature Scanner
• CDIAC — Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente
• ATR — Acid Tolerance Response
• ASPS — Affected Sibling Pairs
• APC — Ateles Paniscus Chamek
• CDFG — California Department of Fish and Game's
• TIR — Thermal Infrared
• ALU — Arithmetic (and) Logic Unit
• ARF — Ancillary Response Function
• AM — Admixture Mapping
• ACNPV — Autographa Californica Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• AL — Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL)
• NHRI — National Hydrology Research Institute
• MOUT — Message Out
• NSTX — Neosaxitoxin
• FIRETRACC — Firn Record of Trace Gases Relevant to Atmospheric Chemical Change
• JEOS — Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
• ORR — Oak Ridge Reservation
• NASA — National Aeronautic & Space Administration
• APMI — American Powder Metallurgy Institute
• CRF — Calibration Resource File
• UADE — Unanticipated Adverse Device Effects
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia
• AP — amyloid plaques
• HRDI — High Resolution Doppler Imager
• APM — Academic Personnel Manual
• ADH — Atypical Duct Hyperplasia
• ICOLC — International Consortium of Library Consortia
• ERD — Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER)
• CM — Centimetre
• EMCS — EPIC MOS Camera System
• AEDU — Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit
• PI — Position Invariant
• CHAT — Choline Acetyltransferase
• BTD — Brightness Temperature Difference
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer
• SUPARCO — Space of Upper Atmosphere Research Committee
• NBIOME — Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
• UART — Universal Asynchronous Receive and Transmit
• AN — accessory nuclei
• CMS — Configuration Management System
• CCBS — Calcium Channel Blockers
• ARCI — Autosomal Recessive Congenital Ichthyosis
• CBV — Coxsackie B Viruses
• WMF — Windows Metafile
• BDC — Bellini Duct Carcinoma
• PIDAS — Portable Instantaneous Display and Analysis Spectrometer
• ERL — Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)
• BDGP — Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
• IPA — Institute for Polyacryclate Sciences

• SMDA — Safe Medical Devices Act (1990)
• CC — Cell Counts
• CEP — Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria
• UCR — University of California, Riverside's
• CL — cystic lymphangioma
• MTI — Minnesota Technology Inc
• CDIC — cytoplasmic dynein intermediate chain
• DRIBU — DRIfting BUoy data
• OAL — ODF Access Layer
• BC — Brain Cancer
• USAEC — United States Army Corps of Engineers
• UARC — University Affiliated Research Center
• ADAM — Astronomical Data Acquisition and Management
• ITIR — Infrared Thermal Imaging Radiometer (renamed ASTER)
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring
• PSPC — Position Sensitive Proportional Counters
• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• PROS — X-Ray data analysis package, part of IRAFm supported by CfA
• MRF — Met Office Research Flight
• AVCS — Advanced Vidicon Camera System
• NMDC — National Medical Device Coalition
• MRT — Mission Readiness Test
• HEASARC — High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Centre
• TDG — Tennessee Division of Geology
• CLAVR — Clouds from AVHRR
• UCD — University of California, Davis
• AL — Acute Leukemia
• AE — Axial Element
• CCR — Carbon Catabolite Repression
• ALE/GAGE — Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment/Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• CBB — Coomassie Brilliant Blue
• AIRS — Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS)
• BBV — Black Beetle Virus
• CFC — GM-colony forming cell
• UCRS — University of California Retirement System
• ACI — Alloy Casting Institute
• AIST — Advanced Industrial Science Technology
• AIED — Aland Island Eye Disease
• NILU — Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• CHLC — Cooperative Human Linkage Center
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE)
• EPG — Engineering Proposal Generation
• LWIR — long-wavelength (thermal) infrared
• CSI — Coastal Studies Institute (LSU)
• NPOP — NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
• DEFA — Digital Event Filter and Address Encoder
• AS — Alagille Syndrome
• QSIT — Quality System Inspection Technique
• CONUS — Continental U.S.
• AHA — Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia

• CAR — Constitutive Androstane Receptor
• MDR — Medical Device Register
• APL — Altered Peptide Ligand
• AIM — Acute Infectious Mononucleosis
• CC — Cellular Cycle
• CALPIRG — The California Public Interest Research Group
• EMAE — EPIC MOS Analogue Electronics
• ABC — aneurysmal bone cyst
• AFA — Ankyloblepharon Filiforme Adnatum
• AS — Ankylosing Spondylitis
• CM — Cardiac Myxoma
• RDE — RGS Digital Electronic Unit
• OTEC — ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
• NPOESS — National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
• DISC — optical media (CDs)
• IRI — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• BS — Binary Star
• ESMR — Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
• RAF — Radiation Amplification Factor
• STE — Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange
• AI — Adiposity Index
• AISA — Acquired Idiopathic Sideroblastic Anemia
• CDS — Correlated Double Sampler
• BBC — Bilateral Breast Cancer
• CM — cisterna magna
• CF — colony formation
• JCEE — Joint Conference of EARMA and Euroscience
• CHH — Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone
• CI — Cerebral Infarction
• DRG — Diagnosis-Related Groups
• ITT — Integration and Test Team
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• LAMBADA — Large Scale Atmospheric Moisture Balance of Amazonia using Data Assimilation (BAHC/GEWEX)
• EPCE — EPIC pn Control Electronics Unit
• KORDI — Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
• BCR — B Cell Receptor
• URGENT — Urban ReGeneration and the ENvironmenT
• CBDMP — California Birth Defects Monitoring Program
• EXPORT — European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport
• BOARS — Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools
• BF — Basal Forebrain
• NCTRS — Network Command and Telemetry Router System
• BD — Birth Defects
• DXS — Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer
• UCR — University of California at Riverside
• CIMSS — Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• ORAU — Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• CWA — Clean Water Act (1977)
• RAPS — radiologists, anesthesiologists, and pathologists
• GMSLP — Global Mean Sea Level Pressure

• UCPB — University Committee on Planning and Budget
• CANS — Central Auditory Nervous System
• DNH — Division of Natural Heritage
• CB — Chromatoid Body
• NAMES — National Association of Medical Equipment Services
• NAHC — National Association of Home Care
• CLNS — Connectionless Network Services
• STERAO — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone
• ADCP — Adenosine Deaminase Complexing Protein
• JANET — Joint Academic Network
• MD — Medium Frequency
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
• PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration
• TCP/IP — Networking Protocol used on Internet
• CM — Capillary malformation
• MPI — Minnesota Project Innovation
• AAR — abnormal anaphase resolution
• CID — Combined Immune Deficiency
• CRI — Committee on Research Initiatives
• APC — Adenomatosis Polyposis Coli
• CB — Ciliary Body
• MM — Mirror Model
• CRIS — Cross-track Infrared Sounder
• BCP — Basic Calcium Phosphate
• SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
• NNPI — Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information
• CALL — Common Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• AMLL — Acute Mixed Lineage Leukemia
• CD — Canavan disease
• ASP — The Abnormal Spindle Protein
• ESSHC — European Social Science History Conference
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• PWSA — Ports and Waterways Safety Act
• CCV — Channel Catfish Virus
• PSC — Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic)
• TBW — To Be Written
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflective Distribution Function
• DPD — Data Processing Division
• CEL — Conserved Effector Locus
• CFAG — cystic fibrosis antigen
• ECA — Effective Cloud Amount
• XIE — X-Ray Imaging Experiment
• HIRIS — High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• UCT — Universal Time Code
• AR — Acrosome reaction
• METEOR — USSR Operational Weather Satellite
• ESOC — European Satellite Operation Centre
• IMDA — Independent Medical Distributors Association
• CDC — Cell Division Control
• ASICS — Acid Sensing Ion Channels

• JERS-1 — Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
• AOD — Autoimmune Ovarian Dysgenesis
• APB — Alternative Pyrimidine Biosynthetic
• CE — colony efficiency
• HRSA — U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
• ARNSHL — Autosomal Recessive Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss
• PRIC — Polar Research Institute of China
• SLASIAC — Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee
• HIRS — High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
• EPDH — EPIC pn Data Handling Unit
• VIRSR — Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
• KANUPP — Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
• DBRA — Division of Biometry and Risk Assessment
• AF — ameloblastic fibroma
• PHA — Pulse Height Analyzer
• CD — Chromatin Diminution
• MIDAS — Munich Interactive Data Analysis System
• APE — Airborne Polar Experiment
• CL — chromosome loss
• CAPE — Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester
• BA — Brucella Abortus
• SIP — Sickness Index Profile
• ADO — Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis
• CCA — Conventional Cytogenetic Analysis
• BF — Bacteroides Fragilis
• DESY — Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
• PM — Protocol Machine
• AIMS — Australian Institute of Marine Science
• JETRO — Japan External Trade Organization
• NILU — Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning
• CGKD — Complex Glycerol Kinase Deficiency
• ERAD — Economic and Regulatory Analysis Division
• SMD — Science Mission Division
• TSTRP — Toxic Substance Research and Training Program
• SDSD — Satellite Data Services Division
• UCOP — University of California, Office of the President
• ODBMS — Object-Oriented Data-Base Management System
• AMS — atypical mole syndrome
• ABCS — Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
• CA — Constitutively Active
• CL — Crithidia luciliae
• VIRS — Visible Infrared Scanner
• OSU — Oregon State University
• ACDP — Ancient Conserved Domain Protein
• ESDD — Earth Science Data Directory
• PSDF — Power Spectral Density Function
• SIR-C — Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
• CSU — Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• CCS — Chromatin Conformational State
• UM — Unified Model

• PPG — Preliminary Planning Guide
• AST — Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing
• CLD — Cholestatic Liver Disease
• CAT — Common Arterial Trunk
• IWC — Instream Waste Concentration
• CFF — Cystic Fibrosis Factor
• DAP — Dual Admissions Program
• BFIC — Benign Familial Infantile Convulsions
• BC — Burkholderia cepacia
• LL.M. — Master of Laws degree
• MOC — XMM Mission Operation Centre
• CNSI — California NanoSystems Institute
• ACCCI — American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute
• STR — Star TRacker
• AST — Arterial Spin Tagging
• AS — Aldosterone Synthase
• ADLTE — Autosomal Dominant Lateral Temporal Epilepsy
• CA — Children Age
• GLAS — Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
• LAWS — Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA)
• CF — competence factor
• RA — Radar Altimeter (R/A Preferred)
• BBM — anti-brush border membrane
• NACNEMS — North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
• WMRS — White Mountain Research Station
• BCM — Blue Cone Monochromacy
• CML — Chronic Myelogenic Leukemia
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
• POSIX — Portbale Operating System Interface
• AL — Angiotropic lymphoma
• CDC — Collecting duct carcinoma
• UER — University-Emeriti Relations Committee
• HIMSS — high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder
• ADCAS — Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxias
• WCRP — World Climate Research Program
• TMC — Thinking Machine Corporation
• MGLS — Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium
• DCR — Dedicated Control Room
• IFS — Integrated Forecast System
• AS — alternative splicing
• HBR — Hydrogen Bromide
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
• CH — congenital hypothyroidism
• XID — X-Ray Identification
• DLS — Dynamic Limb Sounder
• CENR — Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
• CAA — Congenital Aural Atresia
• NTS — Nevada Test Site
• ASPS — Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma
• MOS — Metal Oxide Semi-conductor

• ERME — EPIC Radiation Monitor Electronics
• OM1 — OM Telescope Unit
• CI — Coccidioides immitis
• CCS — Clinical Classification System
• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
• CA — chromosome aberration
• CA — Chromosome Analysis
• BAERS — Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses
• AJ — Ashkenazi Jewish
• CFA — colony forming assay
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Response
• NBII — National Biological Information Infrastructure
• ASDS — Atrial Septal Defects
• ANLL — Acute Nonlymphoid Leukemia
• TES — Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS)
• GRD — Government Relations Director
• LORAN — Long Range Navigational System
• CAMS — Calibrated Airborne Multispectral Scanner
• TMU — Transmission Message Unit
• BCE — Bovine Capillary Endothelial
• BCRS — Breakpoint Cluster Regions
• ASCII — American Standards Committee for Information Interchange
• SAG — Science Advisory Group
• ACSOE — Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment
• AHC — Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenital
• XIMAGE — Image Display Package, part of XANADU
• ER-2 — Earth Resources, #2
• BADC — British Atmospheric Data Centre
• CC — Cervical Cancer
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction
• OPIA — Optical Precision Instrument Associates
• CBL — Cord Blood Lymphocytes
• PRAREE — Precise Range and Rate Equipment-Extended Version
• DB — Diversion Box
• MRU — Multicampus Research Unit
• CA — Colanic Acid
• GSRR — Ground Segment Requirements Review
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolemia
• AM — arbuscular mycorrhizal
• BE — Branching Enzyme
• CG — Chorionic Gonadotropin
• ARIEL-6 — UK X-Ray Astronomy Satellite launched 1979
• EUV — Extreme Ultra-Violet 2
• CRI — Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University)
• HEAO-1 — NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission
• CBPP — Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
• UCSC — University of California, Santa Cruz (since 1965; Santa Cruz, California)
• SCIAMACHY — SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter For Atmospheric CHartographY
• AU — Activity Units
• BER — Base Excision Repair (biology)

• APID — APPLICATION IDENTIFIER
• BCCP — apo-biotin carboxyl carrier protein
• EFSC — Eastern Food Science Conference
• EROS — Earth Resources Observing System
• IFOP — Instrument Flight Operation Procedures
• ILE — Institute for Labor and Employment
• IRIS — Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology
• EMDU — EPIC MOS Data Handling Unit
• PN — p-type/n-type semiconductor
• CESH — Comparative Expressed Sequence Hybridization
• DAL — Data Access Layer
• CRCC — Cancer Research Coordinating Committee
• CD — circular dichroic
• ASP — Apoptosis Specific Protein
• AH — Albumen Height
• NDC — National Diving Council
• UCR — University Of Costa Rica
• SIO — Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
• EHWD — Enhanced Hot Water Drill
• PERL — Interactive programming language available for Unix
• AK — Aspartate kinase
• KNMI — Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
• MMDB — Mirror Metrology Database
• WBDCS — Wide-Band Data Collection System
• GLI — Global Imager
• SSDF — Space Science Development Facility
• BLIS — Boundary Layer Instrumentation System
• ANL — Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia
• GIMMS — Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
• CCR — Cassette Chromosome Recombinase
• CF — Cladosporium fulvum
• CMD — Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
• ED — Energy Division
• NERC — National Environmental Research Council
• SSO — Solar System Object
• CCD — Classic Cleidocranial Dysplasia
• GEMS — Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP)
• AESA — Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• PERI — Pharmaceutical Education & Research Institute
• CAAS — Contracted Advisory & Assistance Services
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, future NASA mission
• CART — Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM)
• OIU — Observer Interface Unit
• SSMS — Society for Sexual Medicine of Slovenia
• WWSEF — Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair
• ECB — Educational Communications Board
• COVC — Council of Vice Chancellors
• MDA — Medical Device Amendments
• ESOC — European Satellite Operations Center
• CLSM — confocal laser scan microscope

• ATC — Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
• RPS — Remote Proposal Submission
• CAPP — Concerted Action Polyp Prevention
• HDU — Header Data Unit
• AVR — Acute Vascular Rejection
• AP — Alkaline Protease
• CB — Cajal Bodies
• APU — Academic Program Unit
• ODS — Operational Data Server
• ORISE — Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
• PDTS — PPS Data Transfer System
• XSELECT — Data selection and binning tool, part of FTOOLS package
• MWIR — medium-wavelength infrared
• SMHI — Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
• AVHRR LAC — AVHRR Local Area Coverage
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• MOPITT — Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS)
• AHR — Ability of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Receptor
• BAP — Bacterial Alkaline Phosphatase
• BB — Bacterial Blight
• NAG — Numerical Algorithms Group Inc.
• SOE — Security of Employment
• CF — culture filtrate
• CC — Cleavable Complex
• TTP — Time to Perigee
• ICWG — International Coordination Working Group
• EFPIA — European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
• HKD — Housekeeping Data
• APS — Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndromes
• TOMUIS — 3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer
• DG — Directorate-General (EU) (government)
• AED — Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
• ASP — Agouti Signaling Protein
• CADC — Canadian Astrophysical Data Centre
• ORU — Organized Research Unit
• ACASS — Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System
• POWER — Program on Workable Energy Regulation
• AEV — Avian Encephalomyelitis Virus
• CA — Candida albicans
• ASIM — American Society of International Medicine
• AS — Argininosuccinate Synthetase
• ANDI — American Nitrox Divers Incorporated
• CH — contact hypersensitivity
• NBIS — Northern Biosphere Information System
• CAO — Chlorophyll A Oxygenase
• SHF — Short History File
• AI — Allele Imbalance
• UCOPE — University Committee on Preparatory Education
• SOR — Standing Orders of the Regents
• OTAC — Observing Time Allocation Committee

• CC — complete chimerism
• WSAD — Websphere Studio Application Developer
• ICC — Intersegmental Coordinating Committee
• HIRLAM — High-Resolution Limited Area Model
• CM — Congenital Malformations
• AIP — Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
• LRPT — low-resolution picture transmission
• EPCS — EPIC pn Camera System
• POGO — Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• SPACON — Spacecraft Controller
• GRO — Gamma-Ray Observatory
• UACB — Undergraduate Admissions Coordination Board
• CEC — Chick Embryo Cells
• CAA — Cationic Amino Acid
• ASR — acoustic startle response
• CA — Clavulanic Acid
• AP — Arbitrarily Primed
• SHM — Social History of Medicine
• AK — activated killer
• AI — Apoptosis Index
• NSI — Nordic Sami Institute
• WCPS — Women's Caucus for Political Science
• ISI — Institutes for Science and Innovation
• BC — blast crisis
• CC — Conventional Cytogenetic
• DXRB — Diffuse X-Ray Background
• ILAS — Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
• NIRP — National Institute for Radiation Protection
• SIRD — SOC Implementation Requirements Document
• ASSA — Aminopterin Syndrome Sine Aminopterin
• AMSAS — AOA Meteorological Satellite Analysis System
• UCEAP — University Committee on Education Abroad Program
• SAMS — stratospheric and mesopheric sounder
• AGC — Advanced Gastric Carcinoma
• CAPD — Chronic Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• COTF — Commission on the Future
• IOA — Institute Of Astronomy (Cambridge)
• SIP — Short Implementation Plan
• CHD — Congenital Heart Defect
• AC — Amylose Content
• CCLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
• SDF — Slew Data File
• SCIGETC — Science Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
• NIPR — National Institute of Polar Research
• IGETC — Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
• STP — Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• CITA — Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
• ASMCS — Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells
• NISDN — Narrowband Integrated-Services Digital Network
• RMF — Response Matrix File

• CDCS — Cri Du Chat Syndrome
• TMR — TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS)
• DLC — Distributed Learning Center
• CAPSTRANS — Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies
• ED — Event Designator
• BAF — Bvg accessory factor
• AR — adaptive response
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• ASI — Advanced Study Institute (NATO)
• PHA — Pulse Height Amplitude
• LTMS — Local Time Management System
• CASPR — Cloud and Surface Parameter Retrieval
• UKMO — United Kingdom Meteorological Office
• EPDU — EPIC pn Data Handling Unit
• MPU — Mission Planning Unit
• AWD — Abdominal Wall Defects
• QE — Quantum Efficiency
• STG — Steering Group
• CLASS — Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
• NIES — National Institute For Environmental Studies (Japan)
• AP — Adaptor Protein
• CAS — cellular apoptosis susceptibility
• CI — cardiac involvement
• CH — Cerebral Hemispheres
• IFOP — Instrument Flight Operation Plan
• CUCEA — Council of the University of California Emeriti Association
• ISS — Instrument Software System
• SQHUW — Small Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste
• DRH — Division of Radiological Health
• LDRD — Laboratory-Directed Research and Development
• ASH — Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy
• BCG — bacillus of Calmette and Guérin
• OCLO — chlorine dioxide
• SMT — Software Maintenance Team
• MSIM — Mirror Simulator
• SIO — Scripps Institutetution of Oceanography
• ASUC — Associated Students of the University of California
• EPS — European Polar Satellite
• CD — Congenital Defects
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program
• CAD — Cinnamyl Alcohol dehydrogenase
• ASP — Audiogenic seizure Prone
• AOC — Allene Oxide Cyclase
• CTS — Committee on Teaching of Science
• ICB — Instrument Control Bus
• VLA — Very Large Array
• BASE-A — Biomass burning Airborne and Spaceborne Experiment-Amazonia
• SMM — Stratosphere Mesosphere Model
• AION — Anterior Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy
• GEMS — Great Expectations in Math & Science Program

• JET-X — Joint European Telescope for X-ray astronomy
• ACUNS — Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
• SCHISM — Science Simulator
• ANRHRD — Air, Noise and Radiation Health Research Division
• EPOS — Enhanced Preferred Observation Schedule
• AOCS — Attitude and Orbit Control and Measurement Subsystem
• POS — Preferred Observation Schedule
• SPE — Solar Proton Event
• NODC — National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA)
• PARE — Physiological & Anatomical Rodent Experiment
• DENIS — Deep Near-Infra-red Survey
• TGEI — Tennessee Government Executive Institute
• LDO — Locally Designated Officer
• CA — Cytogenetic Aberrations
• CWS — Committee on World Standards
• CHAMMP — Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics Program
• CC — cervical carcinoma
• UT-BATTELLE — University of Tennessee-Battelle
• CI — chromosomal instability
• AM — Alveolar Macrophage
• EMCH — EPIC MOS Focal Camera Head Unit
• SCRIPPS — Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San
• SCISIM — Science Simulator
• ERMD — EPIC Radiation Monitor Detector
• BSM — Baseline Spectroscopy
• PMC — Pressure-Modulator Cell
• UCCP — UC College Preparatory Initiative
• H/K — Housekeeping
• OLA — Off-Line Analysis
• DP — Data Products
• AS — Anthranilate Synthase
• AGO — automated geophysical observatories
• MOHSST — Met Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature
• CA — Chromatid Aberrations
• WFC — Wide-Field Camera
• ASPS — Acid Shock Proteins
• LEDPA — Least Environmental Damaging Plan Alternative
• CE — cellular extract
• CA — Cytogenetic Abnormalities
• HER — High Energy Resolution
• AP — Antimicrobial Peptides
• LU — Leicester University
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic lymphoma
• BD — Bone Density
• EMSS — Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey
• UT-K — University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• SSD — Space Science Department
• POC — Panel of Counselors
• SIMBAD — Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data
• AE — Effective Area