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• CPR — Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• EDAS — Eta Data Assimilation System
• OPS — Operations
• CF — Cystic Fibrosis
• LAN — Local Area Network
• CCM — Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
• HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus I
• A BY E — Admission by Exception
• US — United States of America
• H2O2 — Hydrogen Peroxide
• CHF — Congestive Heart Failure
• AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (see also SIDS and HIV)
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol
• BTW — By The Way
• PPM — parts per million
• E-LIDAR — Experimental LIDAR
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• UK — United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
• ICD — Interface Control Document
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• CCTV — Closed-circuit television
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• WRT — "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
• FTE — Full Time Equivalent
• IP — Internet Protocol
• MM — Millimeter
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• PDF — Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat)
• A-SCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• PS — PostScript
• UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• N2O — nitrous oxide (anesthetic)
• AC — Alternating Current
• AA — Ascorbic Acid
• A-SAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
• A — Ampere
• GUI — Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
• QC — Quality Control
• ISO — International Organization for Standardization
• AD — Atopic Dermatitis
• XFTS — XMM File Transfer System
• API — Application Programming Interface
• R&D — Research & Development
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)
• CO2 — Carbon Dioxide
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• WHO — World Health Organization

• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• UCAAD — University Committee on Affirmative Action and Diversity
• ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
• CBC — Complete Blood Count
• A.K.A. — Also Known As
• RF — Radio Frequency
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• N2O5 — nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride
• RDF — Combustion of Refuse Derived Fuels
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• LCD — Liquid Crystal Display
• RPM — Revolutions Per Minute, (Rotations Per Minute)
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• BASDAI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index
• BAEPS — Brain Stem Auditory Evoked Potentials
• MRI — Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• DO — Dissolved Oxygen
• E&CE — Electrical and Computer Engineering
• MSDS — Material Safety Data Sheets
• ATM — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• GIS — Geographic Information System
• S-GCOS — Space-Based Global Change Observation System
• EU — European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
• FET — Field Effect Transistor
• FY — Fiscal Year
• ADH — Antidiuretic Hormone
• CMAP — Compound Muscle Action Potential
• HTTP — Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• NIEO — New International Economic Order
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• HADCM — Hadley Center Model
• WWW — World Wide Web
• QA — Center for Quality Assurance in International Education
• I&T WG — Integration and Test Working Group
• CV — Curriculum Vitae
• BAFME — Benign Adult Familial Myoclonic Epilepsy
• A3RI — Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institute
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• HADRT — Hadley Center Radiosonde temperature
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
• XIDT — X-Ray Identification Team
• CGI — Clinical Global Impression
• UCP&T — University Committee on Privilege and Tenure
• XFDS — XMM Flight Dynamics System
• AM — Amplitude Modulation
• TBC — To Be Confirmed
• CD — Compact Disc
• UCORP — University Committee on Research Policy

• ESA — European Space Agency
• CAD — Computer Aided Designer
• BIT — Binary Digit (either 0 Or 1)
• NCCLS — National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
• AHRQ — Agency for Health, Research, and Quality
• RAM — random-access memory
• P-N — Positive-Negative
• UCM-TF — University of California, Merced Task Force
• UNCLOS — United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (policy treaty)
• FOV — Field Of View (satellite)
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• UCR&J — University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction
• FDA — Food Drug Administration
• UCOLASC — University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication
• DOT — Department of Transport
• CBO — Congressional Budget Office
• CAIS — Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• CNS — Central Nervous System
• BBS — Bulletin Board System
• CIO — Chief Information Officer
• KG — Kilogram
• AMA — American Medical Association
• HALLIP — Heterogeneous and Liquid Phase Processes (EUROTRAC)
• UCMEXUS — UC Institute for Mexico and the United States
• DCP — Defined Contribution Plan
• AARP — American Association of Retired Persons
• EOL — End Of Life
• WAN — Wide Area Network
• GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
• MAHLOVS — Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
• UCACCORD — UC All Campus Collaboration on Outreach and Dissemination
• AGL — Above Ground Level
• HMO — Health Maintenance Organization
• ASD — Atrial Septal Defect
• PC — Personal computer (host)
• CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
• CSA — Canadian Space Agency
• RDBMS — Relational Database Management System
• NM — Nanometer
• IUPAC — International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• CO — Carbon Monoxide
• ADA — Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 (Text Of ADA Legislation)
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• AS — Aortic Stenosis
• PPO — Preferred provider organization
• DOS — Disk Operating System
• CIDI — Composite International Diagnostic Interview
• CST — Central Standard Time (UTC-6 Hours)
• CONUS — Continental United States (48 Contiguous States and DC)
• ROI — Return on Investment

• NHLBI — National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• ALPEX — Alpine Experiment
• MUX — Multiplexer
• PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• CGI — Common Gateway Interface
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• DNS — Domain Name System
• 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
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology
• TB — Tuberculosis
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• PT — Physical Therapy
• SQA — Software Quality Assurance
• UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
• CAD — Coronary Artery Disease
• CRS — Congressional Research Service
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• BPS — bits per second
• DBMS — Database Management System
• EC — European Commission
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• DOJ — Department of Justice (US)
• GMP — Good Manufacturing Practice
• CSF — Cerebrospinal Fluid
• MB — Megabyte
• LPG — Liquid Petroleum Gas
• ICU — Intensive Care Unit
• POE — Point of Entry
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu)
• W — Watt
• URD — User Requirements Document
• AAS — Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
• ALL — Adult Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• AAAS — American Association for the Advancement of Science
• ABA — American Bar Association
• DC — Direct Current
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• CH4 — Methane, Natural Gas
• CH — Channel
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• PPMV — Parts Per Million by Volume
• WWW — World Weather Watch
• UNEP — United Nations Environment Program
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• APU — Auxiliary Power Unit

• CS — Computer Science
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• NAM — National Association of Manufacturers
• CFC-12 — CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12
• DOL — United States Department of Labor
• STP — standard temperature and pressure (0° and 1 atm)
• OAI — Official Action Indicated (serious Food & Drug Administration post-inspection classification)
• LF — Low Frequency
• OSHA — Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970)
• XPM — Cross-Phase Modulation
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
• PCB — Polychlorinated Biphenyls
• CRO — Contract Research Organization
• IR — Infrared
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• GAO — Government Accountability Office [formerly the General Accounting Office]
• FTC — Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
• IOSH — Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
• AT&T — American Telephone & Telegraph
• NEMA — National Electric Manufacturer's Association
• EMT — Extraordinary Masochistic Tendencies (joke At Expense Of Emergency Medical Technicians)
• AD — autistic disorder
• ITCZ — Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
• BOD — Biological Oxygen Demand
• CIN — Conjunctival Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• CLD — Chronic Liver Disease
• BFGF — Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• AF — Air Force
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View
• M — Million
• FSA — Flexible Spending Account
• CNG — Compressed natural gas
• CAA — Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990)
• DTE — Data Terminal Equipment
• ATN — Acute Tubular Necrosis
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• EM — Electromagnetic
• ACF — Autocorrelation Function
• KHZ — kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
• HTML — Hyper Text Markup Language
• CCHS — Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization (ICSU)
• AMM — Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia
• AAMC — American Association of Medical Colleges
• HCFA — Health Care Financing Administration
• TIPS — Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• COTS — Commercial Off the Shelf Software

• HHS — Health and Human Services Department
• BASIC — Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• O2 — Oxygen
• OPD — Outpatient Department
• POS — Point of Service Plan
• AICE — American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• CEN — Committee European de Normalisation
• 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.")
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• NRC — National Research Council (Canada)
• BCC — Basal Cell Carcinoma
• ECOSOC — Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
• CAPD — Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• WFC — World Food Council
• NIOSH — National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• AU — Astronomical Unit
• ANP — Atrial Natriuretic Peptide
• CW — Continuous Wave
• O3 — Ozone
• AATSR — Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• GB — Gigabyte
• CRF — Case Report Form
• EFM — Electrostatic Force Microscopy
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
• ANC — Absolute Neutrophil Count
• ALV — Avian Leukosis Virus
• DME — Durable Medical Equipment
• PPB — parts per billion (109)
• CG — Center of Gravity (DXS)
• 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.
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• UNCED — United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
• SPMP — Software Project Management Plan
• NAFTA — North American Free Trade Agreement
• SNR — Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• UNFCCC — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• DOC — Doctor
• AY — Academic Year
• ARDS — Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• BBT — Basal Body Temperature
• ASR — Airport Surveillance Radar
• AAMI — Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
• DSP — Digital Signal Processor
• ADS — Astrophysics Data System
• CALTRANS — California Department of Transportation
• SCB — Software Control Board
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• ODP — Ozone Depletion Potential

• ATS — applications technology satellite
• MBPS — Megabits per second
• CAI — Codon Adaptation Index
• ACP — Acyl-Carrier Protein
• CDRH — Center for Devices and Radiological Health (Food & Drug Administration)
• EMF — Electromotive Force
• G — Gram (g)
• SISEX — Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• H2O — Water (vapor)
• C — Celsius
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU)
• CBF — Cerebral Blood Flow
• ARC — Ames Research Center (NASA)
• CVS — Concurrent Versions System
• USLE — Universal Soil Loss Equation (erosion Model)
• APEC — Avian Pathogenic Escherichia Coli
• GO — General Observer
• CFS — Cubic Feet per Second
• SSI — Space Studies Institute
• C — Centigrade
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• BASFI — Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index
• ATCC — American Type Culture Collection
• RIXOS — ROSAT International X-Ray optical Survey
• IEC — International Electrotechnical Commission
• CIDP — Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
• BNSC — British National Space Centre
• EGA — Enhanced Graphics Adapter
• VLF — Very Low Frequency
• SCR — Software Change Request
• HNO3 — Nitric Acid
• ASD — Autism Spectrum Disorder
• SCPI — Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments
• CTM — Chemical Transport Model
• CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• HTTPS — HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
• AHA — American Hospital Association
• IRB — Institutional Review Board
• SIG — Special Interest Group
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• BAC — Boeing Aerospace Company
• DDT — Dichloro Diphenyl Trichlorethane
• CPI — characters per inch
• ACS — American College of Surgeons
• NO — Nitric Oxide
• ISAS — Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan)
• UNITAR — United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• ASAP — Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
• BMA — British Medical Association

• AMU — Atomic Mass Unit
• AIS — Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
• ARE — Antioxidant Response Element
• ESL — English as a second language
• KM — Kilometer (1,000 meters)
• CG — Celera Genomics Corporation
• CAPE — Convective Available Potential Energy
• CC — Colon Cancer
• CBD — Common Bile Duct
• ABR — Auditory Brainstem Response
• ASQ — Alpha System Qualification
• UNCCD — United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• TAG — Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control Agents of Weeds
• ASM — American Society for Microbiology
• AFB — Air Force Base (USAF)
• GCOS — Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU)
• HF — High Frequency
• AGU — American Geophysical Union
• MDCK — Madin-Darby Canine Kidney
• CIN — Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• AMML — Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• RCS — Revision Control System
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• CHD — Coronary Heart Disease
• BSE — Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• CGD — Chronic Granulomatous Disease
• CCD — Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge.
• ACRIM — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS)
• TFT — Thin Film Transistor
• CITECH — Center for Information on Technology in Healthcare
• CRO2 — Chromium Oxide
• NEMS — NASA Equipment Management System
• NRC — National Response Center
• LBNL — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
• DOS — United States Department of State
• DILHR — Department of Industry Labor and Human Relations
• ATA — Alimentary Toxic Aleukia
• BLAST — Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• GSE — Ground Support Equipment
• SIR — Shuttle Imaging Radar
• GHZ — Gigahertz
• AGA — appropriate for gestational age
• WG — Working Group
• DASD — Direct Access Storage Device
• CDF — Common Data Format
• NAD — Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
• COMSAT — Communications Satellite Corporation
• FCCC — For the Framework Convention on Climate Change
• KB — Kilobyte: One thousand and twenty-four bytes kbps kilo bit per second

• ASI — Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• PRF — Pulse Repetition Frequency
• VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution)
• CK — Creatine Kinase
• JSC — Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
• CLD — Chronic Lung Disease
• GRID — Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)
• OSO — Orbiting Solar Observatory
• WLAN — Wireless Local Area Network
• RT — Real Time (R/T Preferred)
• EC — European Community
• AAU — Association of American Universities
• OCONUS — Outside Continental United States
• HOPPS — Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System
• HV — High Voltage
• TB — Terabyte
• AURA — Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
• DTED — Digital Terrain Elevation Data (dee-ted)
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• CML — Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• AFV — Amniotic Fluid Volume
• DDD — Detailed Design Document
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• CMHC — Community Mental Health Center
• SUV — Sport Utility Vehicle
• NDA — New Drug Application
• AJ — Astronomical Journal
• CCD — Classic Cleidocranial Dysplasia
• NAAQS — National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
• PSD — Power Spectral Density
• ADL — Avionics Development Laboratory
• CGAP — Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
• CCA — Common Carotid Artery
• DNV — Det Norske Veritas
• AFT — Acute Functional Tolerance
• ACF — Asymmetric Crying Facies
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• APD — Avalanche Photo Diode
• SPR — Software Problem Report
• ATSDR — Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
• FFW — Feet of Fresh Water
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• ARDS — Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging
• AE — Adverse Event
• CAP — College of American Pathologists
• CIE — Chinese Institute of Electronics
• CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• LHV — lower heating value
• CADIC — Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas

• CO-I — Co-Investigator
• NABR — National Association for Biomedical Research
• AFM — Atomic Force Microscope
• ARA — Attitude Reference Assembly
• AOS — Acquisition Of Signal
• NAI — No Action Indicated (Most Favorable Food & Drug Administration Post-inspection Classification)
• TNT — Tri-nitro-toulene
• NSSDC — National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• MRC — Medical Research Council
• AF — Amniotic Fluid
• COBE — Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (NASA)
• AMS — American Meteorological Society
• HCHO — formaldehyde (also written as CH2O)
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• JAMA — Journal of the American Medical Association
• WASC — Western Association of Schools and Colleges
• CDM — Clean Development Mechanism
• ABL — Acute Basophilic Leukemia
• CGM — Computer Graphics Metafile
• MSW — Municipal Solid Waste
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
• DIAL — Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing)
• ADC — Astronomical Data Center
• HEW — Half Energy Width
• ABMT — Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant
• PHS — Public Health Service (U.S.)
• CINO3 — chlorine nitrate
• CONACYT — Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• RID — Review Item Discrepancy
• USP — United States Pharmacopeia
• KJ — kilojoule (energy measure)
• CH — Chronic Hepatitis
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• ASQ — Autism Screening Questionnaire
• SDE — Software Development Environment
• B-ISDN — Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
• CC — Combined Cycle
• CBCL — Child Behavior Checklist
• BAS — British Andrology Society
• SERC — Science and Engineering Research Council
• KBPS — kilobits per second
• CEL — Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• CCE — Comprehensive Clinical Examination
• CID — Combined Immunodeficiency Disease
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• AIN — Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• CC — Colorectal Carcinoma

• CCB — Calcium Channel Blocker
• DHHS — Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
• GO — Guest Observer
• UC — University of California
• AMD — Acid Maltase Deficiency
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
• CAL/VAL — Calibration/Validation
• CCF — Cross-Correlation Function
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
• IEA — International Energy Agency (Paris)
• MSFC — Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL)
• SAR — synthetic aperture radar (satellite)
• SCF — Standard Cubic Foot
• GCM — General Circulation Model
• UEA — University of East Anglia
• CFC — Chloro Fluoro Carbon
• LARC — Langley Research Center (NASA)
• ACF — Aberrant crypt foci
• AHO — Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy
• ACR — Active Cavity Radiometer
• MASER — microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
• NOX — Nitrogen Oxide
• CD — Celiac Disease
• ABPM — ambulatory blood pressure monitoring system
• AIS — Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
• SMD — Science Mission Division
• ADPKD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• CDC — Child Development Centre
• BPI — bits per inch
• EIGA — European Industrial Gases Association
• END — Equivalent Narcotic Depth
• CH3CL — Methyl Chloride
• ADF — Amsterdam density functional
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• ISO 14155 — Current Widely Accepted Standard
• CA — cytosine arabinoside
• PM — Particulate Matter
• HF — Hydrogen Fluoride
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• AGC — atypical glandular cells
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• APP — Amyloid Precursor Protein
• DPU — data processing unit
• AH — adrenal hypoplasia
• TMAPI — Topic Map Application Programming Interface
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• ADHSP — Autosomal Dominant Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• CAMP — Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate

• CALAS — Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System
• MHS — Microwave Humidity Sounder
• PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer
• IMS — Information Management System (LTPP)
• MITI — Ministry of International Trade & Industry (Japan)
• DSMB — Data Safety Monitoring Board
• ANF — Atrial Natriuretic Factor
• AA — Acrylic Acid
• GWP — global warming potential (climate)
• ARS — Acute Radiation Syndrome
• CALLA — common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen
• STSCI — Space Telescope Science Institute
• CCK — Cancer Center Karolinska
• DG — Dentate Gyrus
• SEM — Space Environment Monitor
• MITRE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment
• AOM — Acute Otitis Media
• DPI — Department of Public Instruction
• ACDP — Ancient Conserved Domain Protein
• AWACS — Airborne Warning And Control System
• CA — Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator. (See also TSO).
• PHRMA — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (formerly PMA, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
• ATSR — Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• SO2 — Sulfur Dioxide
• MERSAT — Meteorology And Earth Observation Satellite
• SUM — Software User's Manual
• AIP — Acute Intermittent Porphyria
• BAS — British Antarctic Survey
• EOF — Empirical Orthogonal Function
• DOH — Department of Health (various countries)
• ID — IDentifier
• DLT — Digital Linear Tape
• AP — Acid Phosphatase
• CFCS — Chlorofluorocarbons
• ACE — Angiotensin Converting Enzyme
• CIS — Carcinoma in Situ
• CARA — Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
• TED — Total Energy Detector
• CD-ROM — Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
• CHD — Congenital Heart Disease
• AFOSR — Air Force Office Of Scientific Research(USA)
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• CFH — Complement Factor H
• NASP — National Aerospace Plane
• DAT — Digital Audio Tape
• AURIO — Auroral Imaging Observatory
• SO4 — Sulfate radical
• CCD — Central Core Disease
• CSA — Canadian Standards Association (like UL)
• APL — Applied Physics Laboratory (at Johns Hopkins)

• BAP — Bacterial Alkaline Phosphatase
• AID — Artificial Insemination Donor
• DORIS — Doppler Orbitography And Radiopositioning Integrated By Satellite (EOS)
• S/W — Software
• AQCR — Air Quality Control Region (US) (environment)
• CLAH — Congenital Lipoid Adrenal Hyperplasia
• CIMSS — Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• NOS — National Ocean Service
• AEP — American Electric Power Company, Inc.
• IPY — International Polar Year
• AOA — Airborne Optical Adjunct
• DTS — Data Transfer System
• CAC — Coronary Artery Calcification
• ADEOS — ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite (Japan)
• ALS — Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis
• ISU — International Space University
• AAH — Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia
• AFTN — Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodule
• BAD — Bipolar Affective Disorder
• COFR — Certificate of Flight Readiness
• GBPS — Gigabits per second
• SAO — Semi-Annual Oscillation
• EUVE — Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (NASA Satellite)
• NWS — National Weather Service (formerly U.S. Weather Bureau)
• GCP — Good Clinical Practice
• ERS — Environmental Research Satellite
• TCI/TK — Tool Control Language and Toolkit
• CDA — Command and Data Acquisition
• SAW — Surface Acoustic Wave
• EIR — Environmental Impact Report
• MKS — meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS")
• RS — Remote Sensing
• NTP — National Toxicology Program
• SME — Solar Mesosphere Explorer
• NSTS — National Space Transportation System
• BBC — Bilateral Breast Cancer
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• RVU — Relative Value Unit
• BCAA — branched chain amino acids
• FOM — Figure Of Merit
• AMA — Advanced Maternal Age
• ETS — Educational Testing Service
• HCL — Hydrogen Chloride
• CETP — Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein
• AAD — Australian Antarctic Division
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• CDT — Cytolethal Distending Toxin
• GOES — Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• PV — Potential Vorticity

• OH — Hydroxyl Radical
• ISAMS — Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
• ISA — Instrument Society of America
• PR — Precipitation Radar
• AIL — Avionics Integration Laboratories
• CDART — Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool
• IV&V — independent verification and validation
• ENVISAT — European Space Agency Environmental Satellite
• OP — Office of the President
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• GLP — Good Laboratory Practice
• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• EIA — Extended Interaction Amplifier
• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility
• MFA — Manned Flight Awareness
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• NO3 — Nitrate Radical
• LED — Liquid Emitting Diode
• ASOS — Automated Surface Observing System
• BBD — Benign Breast Disease
• CTS — Canadian Technology Satellite
• IRIS — Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• BACT — Best Available Control Technology
• AIS — Adenocarcinoma in Situ
• ADNFLE — Autosomal Dominant Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
• BDV — Border Disease Virus
• K — Kelvin (absolute temperature scale)
• BEN — Balkan endemic nephropathy
• LPLWS — Launch Pad Lightning Warning System
• CG — Complementation Group
• APR — Acute Phase Response
• CCA — Chromated Copper Arsenate
• CLO — Chlorine Monoxide
• APL — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
• CWA — Clean Water Act (1977)
• ASCA — Advanced Satellite for Cosmology & Astrophysics
• LE — Low Energy
• MFCS — Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
• MMI — Man-Machine Interface
• SAA — Solar Aspect Angle
• UCI — University of California, Irvine
• DCP — Data Collection Platform
• MPS — Materials Processing in Space
• ERSIR — Earth Resources Shuttle Imaging Radar
• NCI — National Cancer Institute, USA
• AFIGE — Asymmetric Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis
• XRONOS — Time-Series analysis package, part of XANADU
• EGSE — Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• APC — Activated Protein C

• NIF — National Ignition Facility
• AES — Agricultural Experiment Station
• AK — Actinic Keratosis
• CDH — Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
• EPACT — Energy Policy Act of 1992 (US)
• EDC — EROS Data Center
• AEV — Avian Erythroblastosis Virus
• CCE — Charge Collection Efficiency
• CA — Cancer Antigen
• CE — Cholesterol Ester
• CHAMEX — Cloud Height And Motion EXperiment
• ERS — Earth Resources Satellite
• APECED — Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy-Candidiasis-Ectodermal Dystrophy
• PA — Preliminary Assessment
• SWT — Science Working Team
• IST — Instrument Support Terminal
• MCP — Microchannel Plate
• LVS — Launch Vehicle Simulator
• ACML — Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
• CNRS — Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
• ABHI — Association of British Health-Care Industries
• DEC — Declination
• IDE — Investigational Device Exemption
• SBSTA — Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
• DFAD — Digital Feature Analysis Data (dee-fad)
• APA — Administrative Procedure Act
• OIG — Office of Inspector General
• CDV — Canine Distemper Virus
• DOY — Day of Year
• GEMS — Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP)
• EBCDIC — Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
• SH — Southern Hemisphere
• EMAIL — Electronic Mail
• FITS — Flexible Image Transport System
• MOSPO — Mobile Satellite Photometric Observatory
• CRADA — Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (with National Institutes of Health)
• SCOPE — Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)
• DOI — Department of the Interior (US)
• ASTER — Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS)
• OSS — Office of Space Sciences
• NDVI — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• FCOS — Flight Computer Operating System (Orbiter)
• TAO — Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
• MOL — Manned Orbital Laboratory
• AP — Anomalous Propagation
• CLH — Cutaneous Lymphoid Hyperplasia
• AHR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
• SIMD — Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor)
• CCRS — Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• CGMP — Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate

• CME — Cystoid Macular Edema
• AL — Ad libitum
• BRO — Bromine Monoxide
• ATP — Adult Treatment Panel
• AME — Apparent Mineralocorticoid Excess
• ROSAT — Roentgen Satellite
• ND — NASA Document
• ASHP — American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
• CHL — Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma
• CZMA — US Coastal Zone Management Act
• BFF — Bovine Follicular Fluid
• AIMS — Ancestry informative markers
• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• FD — Flight Dynamics
• EVA — Extra-Vehicular Activity
• THR — Thrust
• CMS — Correctional Medical Services
• ASC — Ambulatory Surgery Center
• HCIS — Health Care Information System
• PU — Propellant Utilization
• CAH — Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
• CEF — chick embryo fibroblast
• CDC — Centers for Disease Control
• AABR — Automated Auditory Brainstem Response
• NIEHS — National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (National Institutes of Health)
• CHA — Congenital Hypoplastic Anemia
• CGL — Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy
• ADR — Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator
• AFRRI — (U.S.) Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
• CAM — Cell Adhesion Molecule
• UPC — Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• NCSU — North Carolina State University
• PDP — Postinsertion Deorbit Preparation
• SSV — Space Shuttle Vehicle
• CZCS — Coastal Zone Color Scanner
• APCR — Activated Protein C Resistance
• HE — High Energy
• MIPS — Merritt Island Press Site
• HCN — Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen
• CTI — Charge Transfer Inefficiency
• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• LSSL — Life Sciences Space Laboratory
• AOS — Active Oxygen Species
• AR — Aspect Ratio
• CD — Conduct Disorder
• OPS — Optical Sensor
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• AATP — Acquired Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
• ARF — Acute Rheumatic Fever
• TRMM — Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (US-Japan)

• ABS — acute bacterial sinusitis
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• CHB — Chronic Hepatitis B
• ASE — Absence Status Epilepticus
• APTTS — Activated Partial Thromboplastin Times
• NPD — NASA Policy Directive
• AVS — Aortic Valve Stenosis
• ANN — Artificial Neural Network
• DMS — Dynamic Message Sign
• ACLL — Atypical Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• DFRC — Dryden Flight Research Center
• CGL — Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia
• DEMUX — Demultiplexer
• CHB — congenital heart block
• NO2 — Nitrogen Dioxide
• ADPKD — Adult Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
• ADD — Architectural Design Document
• TMU — Transmission Message Unit
• CART — Classification And Regression Tree (method In Statistical Analysis)
• AMC — Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
• JHIT — Joint Healthcare Information Technology Alliance
• AIS — Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
• APHA — American Pharmaceutical Association
• CMD — Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
• CCS — clear cell sarcoma
• MTPE — Mission To Planet Earth
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• ADO — Allelic Drop Out
• CHR — complete hematologic response
• NSIDC — National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration
• RTF — Return To Flight
• ACH — Active Chromatin Hub
• DMERC — Durable Medical Equipment Regional Carrier
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• OCS — Outer Continental Shelf (oil)
• SARA — Superfund Amendment And Reauthorization Act
• ADPLD — Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Liver Disease
• CHIME — College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
• MGMA — Medical Group Management Association
• ALT — Radar Altimeter
• FFRDC — Federally Funded Research & Development Center
• CLD — combined lipase deficiency
• CMP — Competitive Medical Plan
• CG — Ciliary Ganglion
• TOVS — TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
• GHTF — Global Harmonization Task Force
• OTEC — ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
• AGWP — Absolute Global Warming Potential
• ABLE — Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment

• ABS — Antenatal Bartter Syndrome
• CMU — Concrete Masonry Unit
• CIP — Cast-In-Place
• SMPTRB — Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Requirement Board
• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• HOCL — Hypochlorous Acid
• DSDP — Deep-Sea Drilling Project
• BSI — British Standards Institution
• AGNIC — Agriculture Network Information Center
• AAOE — Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
• ACA — Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans
• ADMCKD — Autosomal Dominant Medullary Cystic Disease
• UT — Universal Time
• IA — Interactive
• AFSCN — Air Force Space Command network
• CISS — Chromosome In Situ Suppression
• AASE — Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
• CIC — Circulating Immune Complex
• ARMD — Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• RMS — Root-Mean-Square
• SAST — Science Analysis Software Team
• NHC — United States National Hurricane Center
• JFET — junction field effect transistor
• LMSS — Lunar Mapping and Survey System
• ADALT — Advanced Radar Altimeter
• CDL — California Digital Library
• CD-ROM — Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory
• S&T — Directorate for Science and Technology
• CG — Chorionic Gonadotropin
• ADG — Average Daily Gain
• BCRP — Breast Cancer Resistance Protein
• CAFS — Conotruncal Anomaly Face Syndrome
• AVNIR — advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer
• SRD — Software Requirements Document
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• TWP — Tropical Western Pacific
• AR — Autosomal Recessive
• ARISTOTELES — Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
• PPT — parts per trillion (1012)
• ITCZ — Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater)
• NSSL — National Severe Storms Laboratory
• AEH — Atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia
• AGE — Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
• MB — Millibar(s)
• AO — Acridine Orange
• KBPS — KiloBytes per second
• BIO — Biotechnology Industry Organization
• IDL — Interactive Data Language
• ICC — Instrument Control Center
• CAP — Catabolite Activator Protein

• AFGF — Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor
• CRO — Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope
• MOM — Mission Operations Manager
• AUM — Asymmetric Unit Membrane
• CSU — Cleveland State University
• JOI — Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multiple Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• ASE — Aerospace Support Equipment
• CORSA — Cosmic Radiation Satellite
• AOL — Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR
• SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• BARC — Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
• AI — Association Index
• AMIA — The American Medical Informatics Association
• PDR — Physician’s Desk Reference
• QSR — Quality System Regulation
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)
• X-SAR — X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• DUART — Dual Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
• WEC — World Energy Council
• IDTF — Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility
• EAP — Education Abroad Program
• RSS — root-sum-square
• AAAS — Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
• CCRCC — Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
• HIAA — Health Insurance Association of America
• EOSAT — Earth Observation Satellite Co.
• MRT — Mission Readiness Test
• RD — Reference Document
• CLMA — Clinical Laboratory Management Association
• JEM — Japanese Experiment Module
• TNT — Trinitrotoluene
• CFA — colony forming assay
• PDUFA — Prescription Drug User Fee Act (1992, U.S.)
• IDC — Indirect Costs
• ACE — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• ARMS — Amplification Refractory Mutation
• 2MASS — Two-Micron All-Sky Survey
• MSS — Mission Support System
• ABM — Agaricus Blazei Murill
• ECRI — Emergency Care Research Institute
• SESL — Space Environment Simulation Laboratory
• AGL — Acute Granulocytic Leukemia
• NCEP — National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center)
• SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• SWHG — Social Welfare History Group
• ECS — EOSDIS Core System
• ICF — Instrument Control Facility
• CMA — Chemical Manufacturers Association

• AR — Androgen Receptor
• CCAM — Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation
• TM — Telemetry
• IRAS — Infrared Astronomy Satellite
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• BIBEX — Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme)
• DADS — Data Archive and Distribution System
• DGVM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM)
• ESE — Earth Science Enterprise
• CTE — Charge Transfer Efficiency
• CSU — Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• NIR — Near Infrared
• ACC — Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
• EMC — Environmental Modeling Center
• NCC — Network Control Center (GSFC)
• SRB — Surface Radiation Budget
• EDAC — Error Detection And Correction
• CART — Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM)
• JOP — Jupiter Orbiter Probe
• AMAD — Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
• RTCS — Real-Time Computer System
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL)
• CDC — Cell Division Cycle
• AARI — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)
• CCO — Cytochrome C Oxidase
• MOD — Maximum Operating Depth
• ASV — Avian Sarcoma Virus
• BFH — Benign Familial Hematuria
• ABD — Actin Binding Domain
• IDS — Interdisciplinary Science
• CALL — Common Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• NRCS — Natural Resources Conservation Service
• APBD — adult polyglucosan body disease
• VAI — Voluntary Action Indicated (Food & Drug Administration postaudit inspection classification)
• AAD — Age at Diagnosis
• AFLP — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphic
• CDR — Common Deleted Region
• PS/2 — Personal System/2 (Microsoft)
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• AD — Applicable Document
• CAI — Complete Androgen Insensitivity
• J.D. — Juris Doctor degree
• CCC — Cholangiocellular Carcinoma
• CDLS — Cornelia De Lange Syndrome
• IPA — Individual Practice Association
• ESDAC — European Space Data Center
• AD — Autosomal Dominant
• EPTOX — Extraction Procedure Toxicity
• SPAS — Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German)
• CFTD — Congenital Fiber-Type Disproportion

• MMDA — Michigan Medical Device Association
• CDM — Common Data Model
• LRA — Laser Retroreflector Array
• JD — Julian Day
• ADRV — Adult Diarrhea Rotavirus
• COMET — Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training (NOAA and UCAR)
• FWHM — Full Width, Half Maximum
• AADC — Aromatic Acid Decarboxylase
• CAE — Childhood Absence Epilepsy
• ISY — International Space Year (1992)
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
• CHH — Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone
• CKII — Casein Kinase II
• AZOOR — Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy
• ADCI — American Die Casting Institute
• LIS — Lightning Imaging Sensor
• ASSIST — Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer
• MPE — Mission to Planet Earth
• NOSS — National Oceanic Satellite System
• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• COSSH — Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities
• BCR — Breakpoint Cluster Region
• TM — Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
• ALERT — Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time
• ADI — Autosomal Dominant Ichthyosis
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• TA — Teaching Assistant
• STEP — Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project
• CSI — Construction Specifications Institute
• ARC — Arctic Research Commission
• AP — alkaline phosphatase
• CLP — Chromosome Length Polymorphism
• AA — Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
• ERBE — Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• ERD — Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER)
• ELS — Eastern Launch Site
• APKD — Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease
• AEG — Acidic Epididymal Glycoprotein
• CHR — Complete Hematologic Remission
• APL — Altered Peptide Ligand
• ASMT — American Society for Medical Technology
• MAGSAT — Magnetometer Satellite
• CCHB — Complete Congenital Heart Block
• CBF — Ciliary Beat Frequency
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcemia
• GSI — Graduate Student Instructor
• CEC — critical electrolyte concentration
• GCRP — Global Change Research Program
• AR — Aortic Regurgitation

• SARSAT — Search and Rescue Satellite
• ACOE — Army Corps of Engineers
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program)
• CDF — Cerebellar Deficient Folia
• FDLI — Food and Drug Law Institute
• AAD — Acidic Activation Domain
• ALH — Atypical Lobular Hyperplasia
• EJ — Expansion Joint
• SI — Solar Influences
• LRDP — Long Range Development Plan
• AOT — Aerosol Optical Thickness
• ECMWF — European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• CFP — Cyan Fluorescent Protein
• CFC-11 — CCl3F, trichlorofluoromethane, Freon-11
• MDD — Medical Device Directive
• ISTP — International Solar Terrestrial Physics
• DMI — Danish Meteorological Institute
• BC — Breast Cancer
• RA — Research Assistant
• AHRR — Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor
• ICH — International Conference of Harmonization
• OAR — Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
• NAREGI — National Research Grid Initiative
• VDC — Voltage Direct Current
• CBPI — Cytokinesis-Block Proliferation Index
• OAQPS — Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
• AER — Apical Ectodermal Ridge
• PCMDI — Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
• AFLPS — Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms
• NISTEP — National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
• AWD — Alive With Disease
• AMSU-A — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS
• ICSU — International Council of Scientific Unions
• SAM — Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• CSREES — Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• TDT — Total Dive Time
• CAH — Chronic Active Hepatitis
• AUL — Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
• ACCS — Acinar Cell Carcinomas
• NCOS — National Commission on Space
• HCFCS — Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
• BOL — Beginning of Life
• MEM — Meteoroid Exposure Module
• CMK — Cytidine Monophosphate Kinase
• AS — Asperger Syndrome
• CEI — Converting Enzyme Inhibitor
• V&V — Validation & Verification
• CEP — Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria
• NREL — National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly SERI)
• CSIRO — Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (Australia)

• COSTAR — Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement
• ATS — Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome
• CIT — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• STE — Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange
• CLAES — Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
• CALLA — Common Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Antigen
• CKI — casein kinase I
• LITE — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• TTA — Time to Apogee
• HDF — Hierarchical Data Format
• CLL — Chronic Lymphoid Leukaemia
• ICR — Indirect Cost Recovery
• DRG — Diagnosis-Related Groups
• CLIVAR — Climate Variability and Predictability program
• CD — Coeliac Disease
• BEL — Bovine Embryonic Lung
• BCP — Basal Cell Papilloma
• CBER — Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• AO — announcement of opportunity
• VIS — Visible
• ADC — Affiliated Data Center
• HRSA — U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
• ADMI — American Dye Manufacturers Institute
• MTDC — Modified Total Direct Costs
• CH — Cluster Headache
• DG — Directorate-General (EU) (government)
• AR — Aldose Reductase
• CLRI — Central Leather Research Institute
• VT — Visual Testing
• MSLP — Mean Sea Level Pressure
• GSC — Guide Star Catalog
• CIDS — Circular Intensity Differential Scattering
• NMC — National Meteorological Center (US)
• ADOA — Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy
• CACD — Central Areolar Choroidal Dystrophy
• TAE — Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface)
• ECC — Electrochemical Concentration Cell
• AES — Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
• ICE — International Cometary Explorer
• CHC — Clathrin Heavy Chain
• TRI — Toxics Release Inventory
• CIN — Chronic Idiopathic Neutropenia
• TSE — Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
• GTI — Good Time Interval
• ACD — Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS)
• BUFR — Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data)
• CE — Caenorhabditis elegans
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• GTE — Global Tropospheric Experiment
• UTC — Universal Time Coordinate

• ARPKD — Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease
• KEV — kilo electron volts
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• HBR — Hydrogen Bromide
• RMS — Royal Meteorological Society
• UCAR — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• UBA — Umweltbundesamt
• ABA — Agaricus Bisporus Agglutinin
• IPEI — Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument
• UW — University of Washington
• MERIS — Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
• AGEP — Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis
• ADAAC — Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center
• CAPE — Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment (STORM)
• ADPSP — Autosomal Dominant Pure Spastic Paraplegia
• AGMK — African Green Monkey Kidney
• CH — congenital hypothyroidism
• AMSR-E — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS
• STI — Steel Tank Institute
• CES — Cat Eye Syndrome
• DTS — Digital Transmission Systems, Inc.
• UTLS — Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere
• ADCLS — Advanced Data Collection and Location System
• CRREL — Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE)
• DCIEM — Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine
• GAC — Global Area Coverage
• FTS — File Transfer System
• PSU — power supply unit
• IGBP — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• AE — Acrodermatitis Enteropathica
• CEFS — chicken embryonic fibroblasts
• REM — Rocket Engine Module
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program
• CEES — Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
• GPSDR — Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
• AAU — Acute Anterior Uveitis
• MAP — Mesoscale Alpine Programme
• J.S.D. — Doctor of the Science of Law
• TIROS — Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (POES)
• CA — Carbonic Anhydrase
• ORU — Organized Research Unit
• IWGDMGC — Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
• AMOS — Automated Meteorological Observing System
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer
• AAUC — Alumni Associations of the University of California
• OSSA — Office of Space Sciences and Applications
• MAGSAT — Magnetic Field Satellite
• EE — End-to-End
• UT — University of Tennessee
• CDCR — Conceptual Design and Cost Review

• AIBS — American Institute of Biological Sciences
• AFOS — Automation of Field Operations and Services
• ADCP — Adenosine Deaminase Complexing Protein
• AO — Agent Orange
• DIS — Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP)
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission
• AAO — Age At Onset
• AO — aldehyde oxidase
• SPADE — Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
• UCB — University of California, Berkeley
• GGS — Global Geospace Science
• AMTS — Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder
• SSD — Software Specification Document
• UNECE — United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
• SSM/I — Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
• MFPE — Mission from Planet Earth
• TUV — Technische Uberwachungs-Vereine
• CLS — Cloud Lidar System
• MTS — Microwave Temperature Sounder
• TGT — TDRSS Ground Terminal
• AB — Alcian Blue
• LIMS — Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
• HOP — High Output Paraffin
• OASH — Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
• ARCD — Acquired Renal Cystic Disease
• ASCT — Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
• ACARS — Aeronautical Radio, Inc. Communication and Recording System
• CEC — Commission of the European Communities ;
• RNA — Ribose Nucleic Acid
• PSCL — Propellant Systems Cleaning Laboratory
• CMD — Cartilage Matrix Deficiency
• AIL — Advance Intercross Line
• AOC — Allene Oxide Cyclase
• ALD — alcoholic liver diseases
• AACC — American Association for Clinical Chemists
• BAEP — Brainstem Acoustic Evoked Potentials
• SLIES — Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer
• CLD — Congenital Lactase Deficiency
• SMDA — Safe Medical Devices Act (1990)
• HRI — High Resolution Imager
• AODC — Association of Offshore Diving Contractors
• CAMS — Cell Adhesion Molecules
• PSF — Point-Spread Function
• ATD — ASPHYXIATING THORACIC DYSTROPHY
• ACF — Aberrant Crypt Focus
• IASI — Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• ED — Department of Education (US)
• LSPDF — Life Science Payload Development Facility
• CAPPI — Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
• FAHS — Federation of American Health Systems

• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• ERS — ESA Remote Sensing Satellite
• POGO — Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• DBP — Defined Benefit Plan
• IC — Instrument Controller
• SEC — Sun-Earth Connection
• CCR — Cost-Charge Ratio
• AICR — American Institute for Cancer Research
• CGH — Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis
• AGFS — Aviation Gridded Forecast System
• SPART — Space Research and Technology
• PROM — Programmable Read Only Memory (chip)
• ADC — Analogue to Digital Converter
• SNPA — Subnetwork Point of Attachment
• CEC — Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC)
• WEFAX — Weather Facsimile
• CDA — congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
• EEC — European Economic Commission
• NCDC — National Climatic Data Center
• DU — Dobson Unit
• ABBA — Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm
• PCA — Principal Component Analysis
• DLR — Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany)
• IEOS — International Earth Observing System
• BDC — Bellini Duct Carcinoma
• SPP — Solar Physics Payload
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
• QAO — Quality Assurance Office
• ARA — American Rheumatism Association
• MDR — Medical Device Register
• NAVSTAR — Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging
• CON — Certificate Of Need
• SEOS — Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite
• LEGRI — Low Energy Gamma-Ray Imager
• FFM — Full Face Mask
• RADARSAT — Radar Satellite
• CEOS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• CAK — Cell Adhesion Kinase
• CIIT — Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
• CHED — Congenital Heredity Endothelial Dystrophy
• EUMETSAT — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• ADCA — autosomal-dominant cerebellar ataxia
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System
• DAAC — Distributed Active Archive Center
• DLS — Dynamic Limb Sounder
• MEO — Mid Earth Orbit
• BAV — Bicuspid Aortic Valve
• CERES — Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System
• EDIS — Environmental Data and Information Service
• CLA — Cutaneous Lymphocyte Antigen

• VAN — Value-Added Network
• AROA — Autosomal Recessive Ocular Albinism
• TC — Telecommand
• MHW — Ministry of Health and Welfare
• RALPH — Reduction and Acquisition of Lunar Pulse Heights
• SZA — Solar Zenith Angle
• AMOS — Air Force Maui Optical System
• EAA — Experiment Aircraft Association
• SEU — Single Event Upset
• ADVAMED — Advanced Medical Technology Association
• CATS — Comparative Anchor Tagged Sequence
• HIRS — High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
• BBXRT — Broadband XRay Telescope
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• CA — Contagious agalactia
• S/C — Spacecraft
• PLSL — Propellants and Life Support Laboratory
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• AMI — Active Microwave Instrument
• HIRA — Health Industry Representatives Association
• LANDSAT — Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
• ADO — Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis
• AVHRR GAC — AVHRR Global Area Coverage
• MMA — Minnesota Medical Association
• CFC — Chloroflourocarbon
• ATM — Atmospheric Transport Model
• INDA — Investigational New Drug Application
• NIGMS — National Institute Of General Medical Sciences (NIH)
• NPI — Norwegian Polar Institute
• CCITT — Comit? Consultatif International T?l?graphique et T?l?phonique
• CCS — Clinical Classification System
• RSRM — Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor
• AWIPS-90 — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's
• HMMR — High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
• KANUPP — Karachi Nuclear Power Plant
• AACI — Association of American Cancer Institutes
• SPOT — Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (France)
• WCSAR — Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics
• GARP — Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA)
• CM — cytoplasmic membrane
• PSDF — Power Spectral Density Function
• FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• TIRS — Thermal Infrared Scanner
• STC — Science and Technology Center
• AAL — Alternaria Alternata Lycopersici
• BED — Bornholm Eye Disease
• NWP — Numerical Weather Prediction
• CFS — Cancer Family Syndrome
• BFCNS — Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons
• EML — Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)

• SEASTAR — Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS
• AERONOX — Impact of NOx Emissions from Aircraft upon the Atmosphere
• AN — Anorexia Nervosa
• MESSR — Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
• EC — executive committee
• SRSS — Shuttle Range Safety System
• SHEIR — Society of Higher Education & Industrial Research
• PHA — Pulse Height Analyzer
• PI — Principle Investigator
• CE — Cooperative Extension
• SAA — South Atlantic Anomaly
• ITTP — Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
• TWIP — Terminal Weather Information for Pilots
• NCSC — National Council of Senior Citizens
• SIR — Spaceborne Imaging Radar
• UAF — University of Alaska Fairbanks
• CCT — Computer Compatible Tape
• FACS — Facilities Assignment and Control System
• CALGB — Cancer and Leukemia Group B
• EASOE — European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
• USBR — United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI)
• ARH — Autosomal Recessive Hypercholesterolemia
• OOD — Object-Oriented Design
• BMFT — Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (Germany)
• GOME — Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• SAFIRE — Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission
• PBX — Public Branch Exchange
• GTCE — Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
• GCC — Global Change Category
• SST — Sea surface temperature
• RDP — Recreational Dive Planner
• CPSC — Consumer Product Safety Commission
• ATMOS — Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy
• NGDC — National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
• CIBD — Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• AC — Adenylyl Cyclase
• CD — Chemistry Division
• TBW — To Be Written
• ACE — Accessory Cholera Enterotoxin
• VOS — Voluntary Observing Ship
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
• LH — Labor-Hour
• MJD — Modified Julian Date
• LEOP — Launch and Early Orbit Phase
• CIIP — Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudoobstruction
• SSS — Social Studies of Science
• HIS — Health Information Systems
• AL — Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL)
• MIR — Management Information Report
• SOC — Space Operations Center

• RASS — radio-acoustic sounding system
• WIPP — Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (for Nuclear Wastes)
• CEL — Carboxyl Ester Lipase
• CM — complete mole
• ACC — Australian Cancer Council
• IPOC — International Partner Operations Center
• ECCLS — European Committee on Clinical Laboratory Standards
• CDTS — cytolethal distending toxins
• EAS — External Anal Sphincter
• AMLS — Acute Myelogenous Leukemias
• ADA — Automatic Data Acquisition
• OSU — Oregon State University
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• DHS — Data Handling Subsystem
• HCMM/AEM-1 — Heat Capacity Mapping Mission/Applications Explorer Mission
• ART — Assisted Reproductive Technology
• AHCS — Anterior Horn Cells
• LEFI — Local Electric Field Instrument
• RSNA — The Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
• MF/MAGNOLIA — Magnetic Field Experiment
• ETAC — Environmental Technical Applications Center (USAF)
• SDC — Swiss Development Corporation
• ACMNPV — Autographa Californica Multinucleocapsid Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• CAV — Coronary Artery Vasculopathy
• ADNIV — Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy
• CL — Cleft Lip
• CIV — Chilo Iridescent Virus
• CISH — Chromosome in Situ Hybridisation
• ISEE — International Sun-Earth Explorer
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• ALP — ATHEROGENIC LIPOPROTEIN PHENOTYPE
• AK — Adenylate Kinase
• PD — Photo Diode
• ACEC — Area of Critical Environmental Concern
• TMR — TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS)
• DUD — duodenal ulcer disease
• CE — cornified envelope
• NTS — Nevada Test Site
• BAL — Bronchial Alveolar Lavage
• ABC — Autism Behavior Checklist
• BCCS — Basal Cell Carcinomas
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP)
• CLAG — Cytoadherence Linked Asexual Gene
• SPARC — Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change
• CANS — Central Auditory Nervous System
• AHC — Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenital
• NNSA — National Nuclear Security Administration
• ADPEO — Autosomal Dominant Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia
• GTS — Global Telecommunications System (WMO and
• NAHIT — National Alliance for Health Information Technology

• QBO — Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.)
• HOX — odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2)
• BFIC — Benign Familial Infantile Convulsions
• CV — Cataclysmic Variable
• ADT — Actual Dive Time
• AFC — Amniotic Fluid Cells
• ASAP — Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation
• DSB — Direct Sounding Broadcast
• USFS — United States Forest Service
• TOMS — Transactions On Mathematical Software
• JRC — Joint Research Center
• AAP — amino acid permease
• CEF — Chicken embryonic fibroblast
• CDFG — California Department of Fish and Game's
• DSMA — Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance
• AOIPS — Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System
• CGN — Cerebellar Granule Neurons
• LED — Low Energy Detector
• AE — Assemble Axial Elements
• CLG — Certified Local Government
• AER — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• ASF — African Swine Fever
• MDMA — Medical Device Manufacturers Association
• JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency
• QM — Qualification Model
• CIMO — Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
• RSO — Resident Space Object
• CBN — Cellular Blue Nevi
• ALTS — Atypical Lipomatous Tumors
• ARHSP — Autosomal Recessive Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• AN — Aspergillus Nidulans
• SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
• AMLL — Acute Mixed Lineage Leukemia
• AGT — average generation time
• AD — After Disease
• JERS-1 — Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
• PMEL — Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)
• IRI — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• SIGMA — High Energy X-ray Instrument
• AGR — accessory gene regulator
• NCBI — National Center for Biotechnology Information
• CFF — Cystic Fibrosis Factor
• SERI — Solar Energy Research Institute
• OEC — Olfactory Ensheathing Cell
• DDS — Domestic Data Service
• SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• BTD — Brightness Temperature Difference
• CPC — Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center)
• CESD — Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease
• LORAN — Long Range Navigational System

• CDS — commonly deleted segment
• ASMD — Anterior Segment Mesenchymal Dysgenesis
• CREST — Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (Puerto Rico)
• AVHRR LAC — AVHRR Local Area Coverage
• CLAVR — Clouds from AVHRR
• ASCRS — American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery's
• AGI — Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
• PROPAC — Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
• IMB — Investigator of Micro-Biosphere
• CARDS — Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set
• CPL — Cloud Physics Lidar
• CBSCT — Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
• HIDA — Health Industry Distributors Association
• EODRS — Earth observation data retrieval system
• MEI — Medical Economic Index
• GLI — Global Imager
• BODC — British Oceanographic Data Centre
• CFAS — Colonization factor antigens
• ACSYS — Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP)
• AMIP — Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• DOF — Department of Finance
• IRTS — Infrared Temperature Sounder
• DXS — Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer
• DWS — Doppler Wind Sensor
• MEDEC — Medical Devices Canada
• ICD-9-CM — International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition
• GLOSS — Global Sea Level Observing System (of IOC)
• AH — Amphipathic Helix
• HALOE — Halogen Occultation Experiment
• CMS — Configuration Management System
• RA — Regulatory Affairs
• INRA — Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France)
• ATM — Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutant
• ALL — Acute Lymphatic Leukemia
• PCF — Pounds per cubic foot
• MOPH — Ministry of Public Health
• APLS — Acute Promyelocytic Leukemias
• EMEX — Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment
• CMDL — Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder
• CDR — Complementary determining regions
• ARSS — Autonomous Replication Sequences
• JEOS — Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
• FDH — Fixed Dynamical Heating
• CAP — Capital Accumulation Provision
• AAPC — Attenuated Adenomatous Polyposis Coli
• BDT — Binary Decision Tree
• CLP — Chlorine Loading Potential
• CB — Ciliary Body
• UCSF — University of California, San Francisco
• IRIS — Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology

• ARJP — Autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism
• WWSEF — Waterloo-Wellington Science and Engineering Fair
• JET-X — Joint European Telescope for X-ray astronomy
• CDIC — cytoplasmic dynein intermediate chain
• AII — Angiotensin II
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• NEIC — National Enforcement Investigations Center
• CI — Cerebral Infarction
• POES — Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite
• RGS — Reflection Grating Spectrometer
• ASFV — African Swine Fever Virus
• ASHOE — Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
• MASSMEDIC — Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council
• DAL — Data Access Layer
• HFC — HydroFluoroCarbon
• IGAC — International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program of the IGBP
• NPOESS — National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
• AIRS — Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS)
• INSA — Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
• EXPRESSO — Experiment for Regional Sources and Sinks of Oxidants
• ANL — Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia
• RA — Right Ascension
• GMS — Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
• CAA — California Alumni Association
• CC — Clomiphene Citrate
• USPHS — United States Public Health Service
• BEI — Backscattered Electron Imaging (electron microscopy technique)
• BAERS — Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses
• NSC — Norwegian Space Center
• CGAT — Chromaffin Granule Amine Transporter
• CHPA — Consumer Healthcare Products Association
• ASMCS — Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells
• EBC — Executive Budget Committee
• MAESA — Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• ALC — Anaplastic Large Cell
• MEV — mega electron volts
• CFRI — Central Fuel Research Institute (India)
• ATLID — Atmospheric LIDAR
• HFMA — Healthcare Financial Management Association
• AEL — After Egg Laying
• GLAS — Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
• AEP — Alkaline Extracellular Protease
• CH — contact hypersensitivity
• AAR — abnormal anaphase resolution
• SVT — System Validation Test
• CAA — Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
• OAC — Orbital Activation and Checkout
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
• ASD — Aspartate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase
• CTD — Chemical Technology Division (ORNL)

• SSMS — Society for Sexual Medicine of Slovenia
• CE — ciliary epithelium
• ISSC — International Social Science Council
• NASSH — North American Society for Sport History
• ACMSU — Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Support Unit
• AVF — Abdominal Visceral Fat
• UCSB — University Of California Santa Barbara
• MPI — Max Planck Institut (Germany)
• CSIS — Centralized Storm Information System
• SIB — Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• MAPS — Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites
• ARE — Androgen Response Elements
• QRSL — quick-reaction space laboratory
• CIRAC — Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry
• MCIDAS — Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
• ADH — Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolemia
• ASH — Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy
• ALSPP — Atmospheric and Land Surface Processes Project
• BCR — B Cell Receptor
• AHL — Acyl Homoserine Lactone
• CIRA — COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere
• BFNC — Benign Familial Neonatal Convulsions
• ARVD — arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
• EBI — European Bioinformatics Institutetute
• EOSDIS — Earth Observing System Data and Information System (sic FCW 9/97)
• OHTA — Office of Health Technology Assessment
• CCV — Channel Catfish Virus
• CITRIS — Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
• ALF — automated laser fluorescence
• CBV — Coxsackie B Viruses
• UNEX — University Extension
• ACOS — Attitude and Orbit Control System
• OGIST — Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• PRO — Professional Review Organization
• APVS — Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome
• ORATOS — Orbit and Attitude Operating System
• CBT — Cord Blood Transplant
• CFPS — culture filtrate proteins
• CBB — Common Bacterial Blight
• PPRC — Physician Payment Review Commission
• EFPIA — European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
• OST — Office of Science and Technology
• DAMTP — Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (Cambridge)
• NASPY — North American Society of Electro Physiology and Pacing
• NGI — Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
• NAT — Nitric Acid Trihydrate (polar Stratosphere Cloud Aerosol)
• CB — cord blood
• CH — cystic hygroma
• CD — cortical dysplasia
• GCDIS — US Global Change Data and Information System

• DEM — Digital Electronics Module
• UCLA — University of California, Los Angeles
• EBW — Electron Beam Welding
• CFC — Continuous-Flow Centrifugation
• CMCS — cultured mast cells
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• CFTR — cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator protein
• NEXRAD — Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS)
• FIRST — Far Infrared Space Telescope
• OOA — Object-Oriented Analysis
• UCR — University of California, Riverside's
• BDV — Borna Disease Virus
• PPR — problems with the Photopolarimeter Radiometer
• CDOS — Customer Data and Operations System
• SHM — Social History of Medicine
• ANO — Any Other
• ESPI — European Space Policy Institute
• ITT — Integration and Test Team
• ASCP — American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
• ASH — American Society of Hematology's
• DSC — Direct Satellite Communications
• ALSC — Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation
• ADRP — Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa
• AISA — Acquired Idiopathic Sideroblastic Anemia
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• AEV — Avian Encephalomyelitis Virus
• CBPP — Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
• AMOG — Adhesion Molecule on Glia
• II — Interdisciplinary Investigator
• SEU — Structure and Evolution of the Universe
• APC — Ambulatory Payment Class
• CCR — Complex Chromosome Rearrangement
• GEDEX — Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment
• HIMSS — Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• NDIU — Network Data Interface Unit
• CL — cystic lymphangioma
• MCP — Meteorological Communications Package
• ATD — Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
• AO — Amine Oxidase
• CECS — cerebral endothelial cells
• HIMSS — high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder
• ELC — Eligibility in the Local Context
• CLD — Cholestatic Liver Disease
• AMANDA — Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array
• CC — colorectal cancer
• CITE — Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation
• ADH — Atypical Duct Hyperplasia
• CHD — Congenital Heart Defect
• FIRE — First ISCCP Regional Experiment
• CDI — Color Doppler Imaging

• CCBS — Calcium Channel Blockers
• ARP — Aldehyde Reactive Probe
• AP — arterial pressure
• DPSS — Data Processing Services Subsystem
• CTD — Conductivity, Temperature and Depth
• INT — Isaac Newton Telescope
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• JAAME — Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment
• IAPM — International Association of Medical Prosthesis Manufacturers
• CRU — Climate Research Unit (East Anglia)
• NH3 — Ammonia
• CAD — Cold Agglutinin Disease
• ACNPV — Autographa Californica Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
• PS — Project Scientist
• ANA — Autoantibody to Nuclear Antigen
• PREST — Policy Research in Engineering, Science & Technology
• NODS — NASA Ocean Data System
• GAIM — Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modeling
• CRIS — Cross-track Infrared Sounder
• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
• NHGRI — National Human Genome Research Institute
• RM — Radiation Monitor
• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• AVCS — Advanced Vidicon Camera System
• SPAC — State Pharmaceutical Administration of China
• AEA — Atomic Energy Authority
• AL — annulate lamellae
• MEDGV — Germany's Medical Equipment Safety Law
• NIC — National Ice Center
• SEAWIFS — Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
• GIMMS — Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
• MOP — Mortgage Origination Program
• CHI — California Healthcare Institute
• AS — Alport syndrome
• ORR — Oak Ridge Reservation
• ATC — Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
• BACS — bacterial artificial chromosomes
• CF — Correction Factor
• SMMR — Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
• NORDA — Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity
• AMFR — Autocrine Motility Factor Receptor
• HIRDLS — HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS)
• UH — University of Heidelberg
• TIROS — Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
• ABCS — Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
• STA — Science and Technology Agency (Japan)
• ACASS — Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance System
• EAD — Equivalent Air Depth
• TOGA/COARE — Toga/Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
• TTP — Time to Perigee

• WCRP — World Climate Research Program
• AMTIC — Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center
• GOMOS — Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
• DLL — Dynamic Link Libraries
• OLS — Optical Line Scanner
• AMV — Avian Myeloblastosis Virus
• CCS — Chromatin Conformational State
• SIO — Scripps Institutetution of Oceanography
• SBUV — Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment)
• SOAPEX — Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry EXperiment
• JGOFS — Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• IGAP — International Global Aerosol Program
• AMPS — Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System
• CCFDN — Congenital cataracts facial dysmorphism neuropathy
• CL — chromosome loss
• AA — Acrylonitrile And Acrylamide
• UCR — University of California at Riverside
• GISS — Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
• BAL — Biphenotypic Acute Leukemia
• NERI — National Environmental Research Institute
• UCRP — University of California Retirement Plan
• BEV — Baboon Endogenous Virus
• CAR — Constitutive Androstane Receptor
• CMD — Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
• CGC — Climate and Global Change
• APBSCT — Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant
• JIF — Japan-Indonesia Science and Technology Forum
• DYAX — Dyax Corp.
• AE — anion exchanger
• CAN — Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
• PSC — Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic)
• AIED — Aland Island Eye Disease
• LWIR — Long-Wavelength Infrared
• AFA — Ankyloblepharon Filiforme Adnatum
• BD — binding domain
• GERB — Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• CDCS — Cri Du Chat Syndrome
• JIM — Job Information Memorandum
• LMSC — Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation
• ADEM — Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management
• CAMP — Childhood Asthma Management Program
• JANET — Joint Academic Network
• BD — Bipolar Disorder
• CEA — Collie Eye Anomaly
• APPS — Acute Phase Proteins
• MLS — Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
• AOT — Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumour
• DANR — Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• ASPS — Affected Sibling Pairs

• AHF — Altered Hepatic Foci
• CE — central element
• CC — corpus callosum
• NIWA — National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
• DEMA — Diving Equipment Manufacturers Association
• POEMS — Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
• CCA — Cortical cerebellar atrophy
• EXOSAT — European X-Ray Observatory Satellite
• OM — Optical Monitor
• ERM — EPIC Radiation Monitor
• ALADIN — Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument
• CA — cerebellar atrophy
• ARVC — arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
• HSQB — Health Standard and Quality Bureau
• NDPD — National Data Processing Division (EPA)
• CM — Centimetre
• DMAP — Digital MAPping, charting and geodesy analysis program
• AAU — Association of African Universities
• BA — benzoic acid
• CBFB — Core Binding Factor Beta
• CES — Central Excitatory State
• BDA — Bile Duct Adenoma
• ASAIO — American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• OAD — Orbit and Attitude Division
• SPSO — Science Processing Support Office
• ICWG — International Coordination Working Group
• TERI — Tata Energy Research Institute
• BRG — Bureau des Ressources Génétiques
• CNA — Comisión Nacional del Agua (Mexico)
• TOASTE — Transport of Ozone and Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange
• AP — acute pancreatitis
• CDGE — Constant Denaturant Gel Electrophoresis
• BCNS — Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome
• CM — cutaneous melanoma
• CF — Culture fluid
• XIE — X-Ray Imaging Experiment
• ARCI — Autosomal Recessive Congenital Ichthyosis
• LL.M. — Master of Laws degree
• ABC — aneurysmal bone cyst
• NRS — Natural Reserve System
• RVAU — Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
• CCMV — Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus
• CGCP — Canadian Global Change Program
• ORAU — Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• CIASTA — Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Terrestrial Applications
• ASPS — Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma
• AED — Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
• SODAR — Sound Detection And Ranging (meteorological Instrument)
• CAA — Congenital Aural Atresia

• NNPI — Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information
• MTBE — Methyl Tert-butyl Ether
• ADOM — Acid Deposition And Oxidant Model (air Pollution)
• CS&S — Computer Sciences and Statistics (UW-MSN)
• DAN — Diver’s Alert Network
• MDS — Medium Deep Survey
• SDSD — Satellite Data Services Division
• ESDD — Earth Science Data Directory
• MRI — Meteorlogical Research Institute (Japan)
• BC — breast carcinoma
• INPAC — Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
• DNR — Department of Natural Resources
• PMIR — Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
• AOCS — Attitude and Orbit Control and Measurement Subsystem
• AS — Acid Succinate
• CCGA — Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs
• CSG — Council of State Governments
• CDM — Chemically Defined Medium
• AE — Attaching and effacing
• RAL — Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
• CMA — China Meteorological Administration
• ALVS — Avian Leukosis Viruses
• FASTEX — Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track EXperiment
• AVIRIS — airborne visible and infrared imaging spectrometer
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)
• IPEM — Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• ACD — Avellino Corneal Dystrophy
• POGO — Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• LCLIYMUUCADULFW.S — le cock la in your mouth until u choke and die u lazy fucking whore. slut
• ACIS — Automated Cellular Imaging System
• AIRS — Acute Insulin Responses
• APAG — Academic Policy Advisory Group
• AGM — African green monkey
• OBSM — On-Board Software Maintenance
• POWER — Program on Workable Energy Regulation
• ALCL — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
• CDF — Cation Diffusion Facilitator
• ARIC — Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
• UCSC — University of California, Santa Cruz (since 1965; Santa Cruz, California)
• GLRS-R — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Ranger
• CL — Crithidia luciliae
• F&A — Facilities and Administrative
• CFSS — common fragile sites
• POSS II — Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, second version
• RANN — Research Applied to National Needs (NSF)
• AHH — anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
• MOPITT — Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS)
• ILAS — Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
• AK — acetate kinase
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Response

• CM — Capillary malformation
• CDIAC — Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente
• PAB — Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau (Japan)
• SCATT — SCATTerometer
• CESH — Comparative Expressed Sequence Hybridization
• WBDCS — Wide-Band Data Collection System
• ARPS — Affected Relative Pairs
• SPAN — Space Physics Analysis Network
• CST — Convective-Stratiform Technique
• ALE/GAGE — Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment/Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• DEED — Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development
• ADCC — Autosomal Dominant Congenital Cataract
• DIFAX — Digital Facsimile
• NIGEC — National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• NED — Network of Egghead Divers
• AM — Achillea Millefolium
• TMC — Thinking Machine Corporation
• MAFI — Medical Alert Foundation International
• ASEC — Applied Solar Energy Corporation
• VIRSR — Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
• ARTS — Assisted Reproductive Technologies
• EUV — Extreme Ultra-Violet 2
• CRI — Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University)
• ILE — Institute for Labor and Employment
• DO — Diving Officer
• CFAG — cystic fibrosis antigen
• ASADA — Automated Smoke/Aerosol Detection Algorithm
• BA — biliary atresia
• CAR — Cell Adhesion Regulator
• BITNET — Because It's Time Network
• MWIR — medium-wavelength infrared
• AMV — Avian Myoblastosis Virus
• NESHAP — National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• H/K — Housekeeping
• GFLOPS — Billions of Floating Point Instructions per Second
• AIM — Acute Infectious Mononucleosis
• VLA — Very Large Array
• LERTS — Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en TeledetectionSpatiale (France)
• LAWS — Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA)
• CAPP — Concerted Action Polyp Prevention
• AMDT — Adjusted Maximum Dive Time
• CF — Clastogenic factor
• CDD — Cytidine Deaminase
• AJ — adherens junction
• APRE — Acute Phase Response Element
• AE — Atmosphere Explorer
• CA — chromosome aberration
• CER — Common Eliminated Region
• BAUD — one bit per second

• DDE — Distributive Data Environment (McIDAS)
• CLASS — Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
• MOSS — Market-Oriented Sector Selective
• CAMS — Calibrated Airborne Multispectral Scanner
• JETRO — Japan External Trade Organization
• AS — Asparagine Synthetase
• CGKD — Complex Glycerol Kinase Deficiency
• AUP — Adjusted Unbiased Prediction
• JCCT — Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (US-China)
• BEF — Bromine Efficiency Factor
• CALS — College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (UW–Madison)
• NOY — total active nitrogen
• MCR — Main Control Room
• DAR — Division of Atmospheric Research (CSIRO)
• ED — Energy Division
• AION — Anterior Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy
• ACGM — Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
• ARF — Alternative Reading Frame
• EUD — Exploration of the Universe Division
• IPE — Institute of Physics of the Earth
• RTNEPH — real-time nephanalysis
• NAG — Numerical Algorithms Group Inc.
• CORP — Corporation
• AP — Apple Proliferation
• AIEE — American Institute for Electrical Engineers
• AIPS — Astronomical Image Processing System
• AHF — Attitude History File
• DST — Data Systems Test
• CAA — Chronic Aplastic Anemia
• BCAC — Basal Cell Adenocarcinoma
• MOZIAC — Measurement of Ozone on Airbus in-service Aircraft
• AT — Arabidopsis thaliana
• AWI — Alfred Wegener Institute
• AP — Adenomatous POLYPs
• SWIRLS — Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
• MENARG — Middle East and North Africa Research Group
• LLC — Limited Liability Partnership
• NBII — National Biological Information Infrastructure
• EPCU — EPIC pn Camera Head Unit
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
• AMLR — Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction
• CCM — community climate model
• ASPS — Acid Shock Proteins
• RUC — Roskilde University Center
• IUCRP — Industry University Cooperative Research Program
• HIB — Health Insurance Bureau (Japan)
• SVF — Software Validation Facility
• ERA — Employee Reimbursement Account
• ALCLS — Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphomas
• EMDU — EPIC MOS Data Handling Unit

• CAPD — Chronic Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
• CM — Cardiac Myxoma
• CD — Chromatin Diminution
• STR — Star TRacker
• DPV — Diver Propulsion Vehicle
• DLCF — Data Link Control Field
• CI — Continuous Infusion
• UCRS — University of California Retirement System
• ORISE — Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
• FDDI — Fibre Distributed Data Interface
• CC — congenital cataract
• CF — Cladosporium fulvum
• I&T — Integration and Testing
• NHRI — National Hydrology Research Institute
• CML — Chronic Myelogenic Leukemia
• AFG — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• AO — active oxygen
• HIBCC — Health Industry Business Communications Council
• DS2 — Second Dark Spot (Neptune)
• ERAD — Economic and Regulatory Analysis Division
• CH — Centrosome hyperamplification
• TES — Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS)
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE)
• NILU — Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• AS — Ankylosing Spondylitis
• AM — Acral Melanoma
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• WHT — William Herschel Telescope
• NDBC — National Data Buoy Center
• GEMS — Great Expectations in Math & Science Program
• DPR — Dual Precipitation Radar
• OPEP — Organisation des Pays Exportateurs de Pétrole
• CEC — Chick Embryo Cells
• EESC — Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine
• BOREAS — Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study
• ASF — Abdominal Subcutaneous Fat
• ERICA — Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones Over the Atlantic
• CAD — Coronary Atherosclerotic Disease
• ATR — Acid Tolerance Response
• COAPEC — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate
• ALT — Atypical Lipomatous Tumor
• ASDS — Atrial Septal Defects
• AH — adenomatous hyperplasia
• ORA — FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs
• JCAHO — Joint Committee on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• AD — Agar Dilution
• ANNS — Artificial Neural Networks
• APKC — atypical protein kinase C
• MTI — Minnesota Technology Inc
• SCHISM — Science Simulator

• BB — Borrelia burgdorferi
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program
• CA — Cerebellar Ataxia
• INPE — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
• MOUT — Message Out
• BISA — Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy (Belgium)
• BADC — British Atmospheric Data Centre
• AS — alternative splicing
• CGH — Comparative Gene Hybridization
• ADCAS — Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxias
• AP — accelerated phase
• INTEGRAL — International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
• CMG — Computer Measurement Group
• NHIB — National Health Insurance Bureau (Taiwan)
• ICAIR — International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research
• EATD — European Association of Technical Divers
• SOM — Spacecraft Operations Manager
• STG — Steering Group
• NNF — National Nanofabrication Facility
• DESY — Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
• SNRI — Sierra Nevada Research Institute
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror Mission
• ABI — Advanced Baseline Imager (GOES)
• APAFO — Advanced Particles And Fields Observer
• AWD — abnormal wing discs
• AF — activation function
• HK — HouseKeeping Data
• ATF — Aphid Transmission Factor
• NODC — National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA)
• KOPRI — Korea Polar Research Institute
• XSCS — XMM MOC Control System
• SSSM — Scandinavian Society for Sexual Medicine
• NERC — National Environmental Research Council
• CI — centromeric index
• MDT — Maximum Dive Time
• MOSS — Manned Orbital Space Station
• APLP — Amplified Product Length Polymorphism
• MDA — Medical Device Amendments
• FBTR — Fast Breeder Test Reactor
• CF — culture filtrate
• BLCMD — BiLevel CoMmanD (DXS)
• CGAM — Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling
• AO — Airway obstruction
• HEAO-1 — NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission
• STP — Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• HRPT — High Resolution Picture Transmission
• ODBMS — Object-Oriented Data-Base Management System
• CCA — Current Cost Accounting
• LWIR — long-wavelength (thermal) infrared
• BE — Branching Enzyme

• SIR-C — Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
• NPOP — NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
• CC — Carney complex
• BF — Basal Forebrain
• SSC-DB — Survey Science Centre Database
• UCD — University of California, Davis
• VIRS — Visible Infrared Scanner
• CBB — Coomassie Brilliant Blue
• ENSO — El Niño/Southern Oscillation
• POLES — Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface
• DTS — Digital Termination Service
• QSIT — Quality System Inspection Technique
• SSI — Serial Synchronous Interface
• DBU — Digital Bus Unit
• AHA — Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia
• CAPS — Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
• VNIR — Visible And Near InfraRed
• CSG — Clock Sequence Generator
• APMI — American Powder Metallurgy Institute
• CD — Cowden Disease
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fur Normung
• SEAWIFS — sea-viewing wide-field sensor
• LRPT — low-resolution picture transmission
• NACNEMS — North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
• FNRS — Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium)
• ERL — Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)
• D/C — diarrhea constipation
• CEL — Conserved Effector Locus
• NSI — Nordic Sami Institute
• BANF — Bilateral Acoustic Neurofibromatosis
• OCLO — chlorine dioxide
• CDC — Cell Division Control
• IOA — Institute Of Astronomy (Cambridge)
• IPC — Imaging Proportional Counter
• APSU — Austin Peay State University
• CA — Colorectal Adenoma
• PDTS — PPS Data Transfer System
• AIEOP — Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica
• CG — Comparative Genometrics
• TOO — Target Of Opportunity
• DIU — Detector Interface Unit (DXS)
• IES — Institute of Environmental Sciences
• CH — congenital hydrocephalus
• IMDA — Independent Medical Distributors Association
• POEM — Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission (ESA)
• ALADIN — Interactive sky atlas developed by CDS Strasbourg
• MPIC — Max Planck Institut für Chemie (Germany)
• PEM — Particle Environment Monitor
• CRG — Council for Responsible Genetics
• CG — cortical granule

• AP — amyloid plaques
• AC — Amylose Content
• PSS — Procedures, Specifications and Standards
• CGS — Contiguous Gene Syndromes
• CAF — Conotruncal Anomaly Face
• NUST — National University of Science and Technology
• ARNT — Ah Receptor Nuclear Translocator
• ASU — Astronomical Server URL
• ARC — Arctic Radiation and Chemistry experiment
• QSO — Quasar|Quasi-Stellar Object
• ISTAHC — International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
• AK — Arginine kinase
• CENR — Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
• CBS — classic Bartter syndrome
• MIAA — Medical Industry Association of Australia
• HDP — Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• DWS — Division of Water Supply
• PT — Pass-Through
• ACSOE — Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment
• APC — Academic Planning Council
• NAMES — National Association of Medical Equipment Services
• CNRM — Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques(France)
• AM — Admixture Mapping
• DSWM — Division of Solid Waste Management
• CI — Coccidioides immitis
• STC — Steering Committee
• ITE — Institute for Terrestrial Ecology
• ICOLC — International Consortium of Library Consortia
• HED — High Energy Detector
• AN — accessory nuclei
• AOD — Autoimmune Ovarian Dysgenesis
• MRU — Multicampus Research Unit
• ACI — Alloy Casting Institute
• EVC — Executive Vice Chancellor
• EADS — Engineering and Data Analysis System
• FAUI — Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors
• NAD — Nitric Acid Dihydrate
• UHV — Ultra-high Vacuum
• SCRIPPS — Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San
• TOMUIS — 3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer
• CCF — Current Calibration File
• SCOR — Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research Seasat Sea Satellite
• CF — colony formation
• CNES — Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France)
• CMAP — Climate Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Program
• CD — cytochalasin D
• ACDS — Astronomical Catalogues Database Subsystem
• SNR — Super Nova Remnant
• ARIEL-6 — UK X-Ray Astronomy Satellite launched 1979
• CCA — Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly

• ASIM — American Society of International Medicine
• BCCP — Biotin Carboxyl Carrier Protein
• OTF — On-Target Flag
• RTK — Right-To-Know
• OSCAR — Online Services for Curriculum and Articulation Review
• AGCI — Aspen Global Change Institute
• AMDM — Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers
• LR — Laser Retroreflector
• CAPE — Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester
• RPE — Relative Pointing Error
• IMAU — Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht
• BCCP — apo-biotin carboxyl carrier protein
• JFMDA — Japan Federation of Medical Device Associations
• AOS — Allene Oxide Synthase
• AE — Axial Element
• MTPPI — Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute
• DOA — Department of Administration (US)
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (EOS)
• CIAP — Climatic Impact Assessment Program
• ARD — Adult Refsum Disease
• CC — cervical carcinoma
• NAGRA — Native American Graves Repatriation Act
• SI — Systeme International
• RA — Radar Altimeter (R/A Preferred)
• CH — chloral hydrate
• ORS — Outer root sheath
• CC — Cervical Cancer
• GMSLP — Global Mean Sea Level Pressure
• AHR — Ability of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Receptor
• BDGP — Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
• GCE — Ground-base Cloud Experiment (EUROTRAC)
• PRIC — Polar Research Institute of China
• CID — Combined Immune Deficiency
• NBIS — Northern Biosphere Information System
• CAO — Chlorophyll A Oxygenase
• IPAR — Intercepted Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• SPOT — Systeme Pour L'Observation De La Terre (France)
• FGP — Faculty Grants Program
• PSSM — Polish Society for Sexual Medicine
• NMDC — National Medical Device Coalition
• TOD — Theoretical Ocean Depth
• ANLL — Acute Nonlymphoid Leukemia
• WMF — Windows Metafile
• STAR — Satellite for Telecommunication Applications and Research
• AGC — Advanced Gastric Carcinoma
• CBI — Confederation of British Industries
• HAACP — Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points Program
• LACTOZ — Laboratory Studies of Chemistry Related to Tropospheric Ozone (EUROTRAC)
• BBV — Black Beetle Virus
• CDC — Collecting duct carcinoma

• DISEL — Diseno e Ingenieria de Systemas Electronicos
• URSI — Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale
• EPCE — EPIC pn Control Electronics Unit
• COR — Committee on Research
• IBIS — Image on-Board INTEGRAL Spacecraft
• CPEC — California Postsecondary Education Commission
• AEEC — attaching and effacing Escherichia coli
• ADLTE — Autosomal Dominant Lateral Temporal Epilepsy
• CCI — Canadian Circumpolar Institute
• NBIOME — Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
• GOSTA — Global Ocean Surface Temperature Atlas
• CACGP — Commission For Atmospheric Chemistry And Global Pollution
• CENELEC — European Committee for Electromechanical Standardisation
• APC — Adenomatosis Polyposis Coli
• EUDRA — European Drug Regulatory Authorities Network
• ASA — Antarctic Support Associates
• HYREX — Hydrological Radar Experiment
• SMS/GOES — Synchronous Meteorological Satellite/Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• NILU — Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning
• ARNSHL — Autosomal Recessive Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss
• SSDF — Space Science Development Facility
• CE — colony efficiency
• DCM — Dispersion Compensation Module
• AS — Active sleep
• BDMV — Bean Dwarf Mosaic Virus
• ACC — Atlantic Climate Change
• AD — axiodistal
• ALP — Automated Linkage Preprocessor
• TGMI — Tennessee Government Management Institute
• UCSD — University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California)
• ASP — Apoptosis Specific Protein
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Centre
• AR — apoptotic rate
• HPB — Health Protection Board (Canada)
• AO&SS — Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
• OCTS — Japanese Ocean Color Temperature Scanner
• RNMI — Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• WCSP — World Congress of Science Producers
• MIP — Minimum Ionising Particle
• JEM-X — Joint European Monitor for X-rays
• MPIA — Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie (Germany)
• FDR — Flight Dynamics Room
• CIRRIS — Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument for Shuttle
• UCT — Universal Time Code
• AS — Angelman Syndrome
• AFES — Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study
• CC — Cell Counts
• AH — absorptive hypercalciuria
• DBRA — Division of Biometry and Risk Assessment
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Response

• CA — Clavulanic Acid
• DPD — Data Processing Division
• AC — Academic Council
• CD — Campomelic dysplasia
• SAFISY — Space Agency Forum on the International Space Year (1992)
• AI — Amelogenesis imperfecta
• BER — Base Excision Repair (biology)
• CFC — GM-colony forming cell
• CWB — Central Weather Bureau (Taiwan)
• RFC — RGS Focal Camera Unit
• CD — Canavan disease
• ESSHC — European Social Science History Conference
• CA — Cytogenetic Abnormalities
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic lymphoma
• DP — dermal papilla
• AREP — Assembly Representation
• CAA — Cationic Amino Acid
• GGI — GPS Geoscience Instrument
• AI — Apoptosis Index
• DB — Diversion Box
• PDA — Parenteral Drug Association
• ACCCI — American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute
• IFS — SSC-SOC Interface Sub-system
• CEQA — California Environmental Quality Act
• UCAP — University Committee on Academic Personnel
• NH — Northern Hemisphere
• CCR — Carbon Catabolite Repression
• INPA — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (Brazil)
• CD — Congenital Defects
• TCP/IP — Networking Protocol used on Internet
• GSM — Ground Segment Manager
• ESMR — Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
• CH — Calponin homology
• ASS — Arginosuccinate Synthetase
• CCR — Continuous Complete Remission
• EOSP — Earth Observing Scanner Polarimeter
• NLN — National League for Nursing
• CC — Cumulus cells
• AQS — Air Quality System
• AAM — Atmospheric Angular Momentum
• SAMS — stratospheric and mesopheric sounder
• BF — Bacteroides Fragilis
• NODIS — NSSDC Online Data and Information System Services System
• CODAR — COrrelation Detection And Ranging
• NDO — National Diving Officer
• OAL — ODF Access Layer
• DCA — Division of Community Assistance
• AL — Acute Leukemia
• SPO — Sponsored Projects Office
• SCOS — Spacecraft Control and Operations System

• DWPC — Division of Water Pollution Control
• UCM — University of California, Merced
• CAMEX — CMOS Amplifier and Multiplexing Chip
• CCR — Complete Cytogenetic Remission
• LIGG — Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology
• IRICP — International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
• ABS — Advanced Baseline Sounder
• ASCII — American Standards Committee for Information Interchange
• UKMO — United Kingdom Meteorological Office
• UEXT — University Extension
• BC — Brain Cancer
• LTMS — Local Time Management System
• GCF — Ground Calibration File
• PARE — Physiological & Anatomical Rodent Experiment
• DLC — Distributed Learning Center
• BCC — British Coal Corporation
• FDAMA — FDA Modernization Act of 1997
• OLA — Off-Line Analysis
• SID — Structure Identifier
• UCR — University Of Costa Rica
• ADL — Acid Detergent Lignin
• SSO — Solar System Object
• NMAI — National Museum of the American Indian
• NORSAR — Norwegian Seismic Array
• EMCU — EPIC MOS Camera Head Unit
• WMRS — White Mountain Research Station
• ANT — Attention Network Test
• LDO — Locally Designated Officer
• CA — Cytogenetic Aberrations
• CDS — Correlated Double Sampler
• NETC — National Environmental Technology Centre (UK)
• BCTV — Beet Curly Top Virus
• AINA — Arctic Institute of North America
• EMCS — EPIC MOS Camera System
• APTF — Admissions Processing Task Force
• TIR — Thermal Infrared
• MT — Measured Time
• AI — Aromatase Inhibitor
• PSPC — Position Sensitive Proportional Counters
• ECA — Effective Cloud Amount
• EPG — Engineering Proposal Generation
• BCG — bacillus of Calmette and Guérin
• LSU — Louisana State University
• APB — Alternative Pyrimidine Biosynthetic
• EMAE — EPIC MOS Analogue Electronics
• CITE — Chemical Instrument Test and Evaluation (NASA GTE)
• ARRP — Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa
• ACIS — ACademic Information Services (IBM)
• DIN — Deutsches Institut fuer Normung
• CI — Cephalic Index

• DPSS — Data Product Screening Sub-system
• EPCS — EPIC pn Camera System
• MH — Message Handling
• CB — carotid body
• NIRP — National Institute for Radiation Protection
• CI — Chromosome Index
• ESSA — Environmental Science Services Administration (preceded NOAA)
• WFC — Wide-Field Camera
• MODIS — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
• TMPSU — Telescope Module Power Supply Unit
• HAPEX — Hydrological Atmospheric Pilot Experiment
• APC — Anterior polar cataract
• HRDI — High Resolution Doppler Imager
• AH — aniline hydrochloride
• NDSC — Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change
• DES — Divers Environmental Survey
• CEO — Centre for Earth Observation
• CUCEA — Council of the University of California Emeriti Association
• CAAS — Contracted Advisory & Assistance Services
• ECB — Educational Communications Board
• SSALT — Solid-State radar Altimeter
• AK — Adenosine Kinase
• WPD — War Plans Division
• APP — AVHRR Polar Pathfinder
• IOLM — International Organization of Legal Metrology
• HIRLAM — High-Resolution Limited Area Model
• APU — Academic Program Unit
• ER-2 — Earth Resources, #2
• ASSA — Aminopterin Syndrome Sine Aminopterin
• GLOMAC — Global Modelling of Atmospheric Chemistry (EUROTRAC)
• UART — Universal Asynchronous Receive and Transmit
• CCST — California Council on Science & Technology
• ARPS — Advanced Regional Prediction System
• WETNET — Network for Distribution and Joint Analysis of SSM/I Data (MSFC)
• FDRG — Faculty Discipline Review Group
• ANDI — American Nitrox Divers Incorporated
• APC — Ateles Paniscus Chamek
• CM — contrast media
• ASCA — Japanese X-Ray Astronomy satellite launched 1993
• CIRRUS — Cloud InfraRed Radiometer for UnESS
• EDU — Event Detection Unit
• MBBNET — Minnesota Biomedical Business Network
• RAID — Redundant of Inexpensive Discs
• RMF — REDISTRIBUTION MATRIX FILE
• BAC — Bovine Artificial Chromosome
• CITE — Cargo Integration and Test Equipment (DXS)
• AD — Arginine Deiminase
• NMAM — NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods
• USCE — United States Corps of Engineers
• DCTD — Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis

• SIP — Sickness Index Profile
• MCP — Multi Channel Plate
• CI — cardiac involvement
• TDG — Tennessee Division of Geology
• CI — Cytoplasmic incompatibility
• AP — Adaptor Protein
• BCC — Burkholderia Cepacia Complex
• OCCM — Ocean Carbon Cycle Model
• ARGOS — Argos Data Collection and Location System (France)
• AS — Alagille Syndrome
• SORI — Subcommittee on Research Initiatives
• ASP — The Abnormal Spindle Protein
• OBDH — On-Board Data Handler
• AP — Alkaline Protease
• CF — competence factor
• CM — cisterna magna
• DPU — digital processing unit
• ESD — Environmental Sciences Division (ORNL)
• SLASIAC — Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee
• UCEP — University Committee on Educational Policy
• PROS — X-Ray data analysis package, part of IRAFm supported by CfA
• QE — Quantum Efficiency
• AIMBE — American Insitute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• GENEMIS — Generation of European Emission Data (EUROTRAC)
• PAGES — Past Global Changes (IGBP)
• PDIC — Professional Diving Instructors Corporation International; Diving Instruction Organization.
• CIRTL — Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning
• MODIS-T — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt
• ERSC — Environmental Remote Sensing Center (IES)
• ASICS — Acid Sensing Ion Channels
• MDDI — Medical Device and Diagnostics Industry
• AI — allelic imbalance
• KNMI — Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
• ARS — Autonomous Replication Sequence
• PERI — Pharmaceutical Education & Research Institute
• AF — ameloblastic fibroma
• OIU — Observer Interface Unit
• RMF — Response Matrix File
• PGS — Proposal Generation System
• CD — Conjugated dienes
• KORDI — Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
• AST — Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing
• GFURD — Ground Facilities User Requirements Document
• DMAC — Diving Medical Advisory Committee
• WDC — World Data Centre
• BCM — Blue Cone Monochromacy
• DNAG — Decade of North American Geology
• OGIP — Office of Guest Investigator Programs
• MODIS-N — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Nadir
• UCPB — University Committee on Planning and Budget

• AD — Affecting Disease
• AS — Argininosuccinate Synthetase
• EDH — EPIC Data Handling Unit
• GCTE — Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Program of the IGBP
• HEASARC — High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Centre
• CITA — Center for IT Accommodation (GSA)
• NIMBUS — NASA Meteorological Satellites (1 through 7)
• ISLSCP — International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
• APM — Affected Pedigree Member
• USAEC — United States Army Corps of Engineers
• AR — adaptive response
• EXPORT — European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport
• AMS — atypical mole syndrome
• NIES — National Institute For Environmental Studies (Japan)
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
• ASP — Audiogenic seizure Prone
• ODF — Observation Data File
• UOEAP — Universitywide Office of the Education Abroad Program
• WMREI — Waste Management Research and Education Institute
• AS — Aldosterone Synthase
• CM — Congenital Malformations
• DODS — Distributed Ocean Data System
• CAMEX — Convection and Moisture Experiment
• CE — cellular extract
• DXRB — Diffuse X-Ray Background
• IFS — Integrated Forecast System
• AEDU — Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit
• STREAM — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiment by Aircraft Measurements
• EPDH — EPIC pn Data Handling Unit
• CA — Chromosome Analysis
• CCLRC — Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• FIMR — Finnish Institute of Marine Research
• ERMS — EPIC Radiation Monitor System
• BUV — Backscattered UltraViolet
• CBAH — Conjugated Bile Acid Hydrolase
• ARS — Antigen recognition sites
• CD — Crohn disease
• MICR — Magnetic-Ink Character Recongnition
• CTD — Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
• UBA — Universal Breathing Apparatus
• MODB — MOC Operational Database
• CBDMP — California Birth Defects Monitoring Program
• CTP — Cloud-Top Pressure
• BIATEX — Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Pollutants (EUROTRAC)
• APL — Acute Progranulocytic Leukemia
• AH — Albumen Height
• EMDM — European Medical Device Manufacturer
• TERSE — Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
• AN — Alkaline Nuclease
• CCR — Cassette Chromosome Recombinase

• CLSM — confocal laser scan microscope
• PWSA — Ports and Waterways Safety Act
• UCMC — University of California Marine Council
• ALL — acute lymphoblastic leukosis
• AU — Atomic Units
• DNH — Division of Natural Heritage
• CC — complete chimerism
• CUA — Circumpolar Universities Association
• CIRES — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (US)
• ARF — Ancillary Response Function
• BCRS — Breakpoint Cluster Regions
• IOSDL — Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Deacon Laboratory
• CE — clonal evolution
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Research Experiment (TOGA)
• GEOSAT — Geodesy Satellite (Navy)
• SCED — Engineering Department at ESOC
• AK — Aspartate kinase
• DRH — Division of Radiological Health
• CHLC — Cooperative Human Linkage Center
• CHF — Calibration History File
• RDE — RGS Digital Electronic Unit
• CALPIRG — The California Public Interest Research Group
• CE — conventional electrophoresis
• AI — apoptotic index
• CAS — cellular apoptosis susceptibility
• ADU — Analogue to Digital Unit
• IWC — Instream Waste Concentration
• BLIS — Boundary Layer Instrumentation System
• MIP — Mission Implementation Plan
• APTI — Air Pollution Training Institute
• DISK — magnetic media (floppies)
• CLNS — Connectionless Network Services
• STERAO — Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone
• NASA — National Aeronautic & Space Administration
• GISST — Global sea Ice Coverage and Sea Surface Temperature
• UADE — Unanticipated Adverse Device Effects
• HC — Heater Controller
• BBM — anti-brush border membrane
• MPE — Max Planck Institut fur Extaterrestrische Physik, Garching
• IGETC — Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
• ERSAF — Environment Remote Sensing Analysis Facility
• BCE — Bovine Capillary Endothelial
• AM — Affected Male
• CSES — Center for the Study of Earth from Space (Univ of Colorado)
• ASTEX — Atlantic STratus EXperiment
• LORAN — Long-Range Navigation
• IST — integrated systems test
• CGCL — Central Giant Cell Lesion
• NINA — Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
• CCA — Conventional Cytogenetic Analysis

• AXAF — Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, future NASA mission
• EROS — Earth Resources Observing System
• PCMS — PPS Control & Monitoring System
• AVTD — Anomalous Viscosity Time Dependence
• CCP — Cytochrome C Peroxidase
• CADC — Canadian Astrophysical Data Centre
• OAB — Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
• MEDSUN — Medical Device Surveillance Network
• CONUS — Continental U.S.
• CAT — Common Arterial Trunk
• JCEE — Joint Conference of EARMA and Euroscience
• FIRETRACC — Firn Record of Trace Gases Relevant to Atmospheric Chemical Change
• AST — Arterial Spin Tagging
• RPS — Remote Proposal Submission
• IFCC — International Federation of Clinical Chemists
• CHAMMP — Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics Program
• ASE — Air-Sea Exchange experiment (EUROTRAC)
• CA — Chromatid Aberrations
• OMC — Optical Monitoring Camera
• BB — Bacterial Blight
• K-S — Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic
• GLRS-A — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Altimeter (see GLAS)
• CFA — Cyclopropane fatty acids
• ALU — Arithmetic (and) Logic Unit
• MRIF — Multicampus Research Incentive Fund
• OODBMS — Object-Oriented Data-Base Management System
• RPOS — Re-planned Preferred Observation Schedule
• MOTIE — Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (Korea)
• EINSTEIN — Einstein Observatory
• UCAF — University Committee on Academic Freedom
• AIST — Advanced Industrial Science Technology
• MIDAS — Munich Interactive Data Analysis System
• AU — Activity Units
• COCIR — Coordination Committee of the Radiological and Electromedical Industries
• DRIBU — DRIfting BUoy data
• BC — Burkholderia cepacia
• CRYSYS — Cryospheric System
• ALL — Acute Lymphocytic
• CD — circular dichroic
• MEDMARC — Medical Device Material Assurance and Reinsurance Company, Ltd.
• PPQA — Pre-Product Quality Assurance
• EPIC — European Photon Imaging Camera
• RAF — Radiation Amplification Factor
• AGSP — Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme
• LOICZ — Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (IGBP)
• AR — Acrosome reaction
• UT-K — University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• CBL — Cord Blood Lymphocytes
• MOHSST — Met Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature
• HIRIS — High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

• TOBI — Towed Ocean Bottom Instrument
• MIRD — Mission Implementation Requirements Documents
• IMPAC — Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum
• SESAME — Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Middle Latitude Experiment
• EBTC — Edison BioTechnology Center
• ASR — acoustic startle response
• CANSO — California Articulation Number System Office
• ISME — Instrument Software Maintenance Environment
• UNIPROT — Universal Protein Resource
• DEFA — Digital Event Filter and Address Encoder
• DE — Detector Electronics (DXS)
• ISSP — Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy
• MOHMATN — Met Office Historical night Marine Air Temperature
• MST — Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere (Radar)
• DBI — Digital Bus Interface
• CAPSTRANS — Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies
• BA — Bone Age
• MOS-1 — Marine Observation Satellite (Japan)
• BD — Birth Defects
• CC — Cellular Cycle
• ASP — Agouti Signaling Protein
• CTS — Committee on Teaching of Science
• GRO — Gamma-Ray Observatory
• AF — Archaeoglobus Fulgidus
• SEA — Slovak Energy Agency
• EMCR — EPIC MOS Control,Event Analyzer and Recognition Unit
• PXP — XMM Project Payload
• MGLS — Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium
• CHAT — Choline Acetyltransferase
• RAPS — Regulatory Affairs Professional Society
• ISIM — Instrument Simulator
• SWIR — Short-Wavelength Infrared
• SASI — Statistical Analysis Systems Institute (Raleigh, North Carolina)
• ALEXI — Atmospheric Land EXchange Inversion (CIMSS)
• AMSAS — AOA Meteorological Satellite Analysis System
• ALL — Acute Lymphoblastic
• MSU — Memphis State University
• IMG — Interferometric Monitor of Greenhouse Gases
• APID — APPLICATION IDENTIFIER
• POSIX — Portbale Operating System Interface
• IAS — Interactive Analysis Subsystem
• HCPCS — Health Care Common Procedure Coding System
• ETTP — East Tennessee Technology Park
• AWPD — Assessment and Watershed Protection Division
• ICB — Instrument Control Bus
• HKD — Housekeeping Data
• CD — cytosine deaminase
• RIS — reflector in space (laser beam adsorption, measures O3, CFCs, etc.)
• ARIEL-5 — UK X-Ray Astronomy Satellite launched 1974
• PRAREE — Precise Range and Rate Equipment-Extended Version

• LU — Leicester University
• METEOSAT — Geosynchronous Meteorology Satellite (ESA)
• BCP — Basic Calcium Phosphate
• CITA — Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
• PIDAS — Portable Instantaneous Display and Analysis Spectrometer
• CC — Conventional Cytogenetic
• MRF — Met Office Research Flight
• XTE — X-Ray Timing Explorer
• UCOP — University of California, Office of the President
• CASPR — Cloud and Surface Parameter Retrieval
• SAS — Science Analysis Subsystem
• ADAM — Astronomical Data Acquisition and Management
• BC — blast crisis
• CH — cuticular hydrocarbon
• OFS — Orbiter Flight Simulator
• BCS — Broadband Cable System (UW)
• GSRR — Ground Segment Requirements Review
• IFOP — Instrument Flight Operation Plan
• BA — Brucella Abortus
• AESA — Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• CCD — Calcite Compensation Depth
• UCCP — UC College Preparatory Initiative
• CRCC — Cancer Research Coordinating Committee
• FM — Frequency Modulator
• NAEI — National Atmospheric Emission Inventory (UK)
• GINGA — Japanese X-Ray astronomy mission launched 1987
• CA — Cavernous Angiomas
• NDC — National Diving Council
• CLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK)
• CAD — Cinnamyl Alcohol dehydrogenase
• ESOC — European Satellite Operations Center
• UACB — Undergraduate Admissions Coordination Board
• RGA — RGS Grating Assembly
• HDU — Header Data Unit
• SCSI — Small Computer Systems Interface, a common disc interface
• KAL — Keep Alive Loop
• SUPARCO — Space of Upper Atmosphere Research Committee
• NARSTO — North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
• CICS — Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (U.Maryland)
• I&R — Instruction & Research
• CSEPA — Chinese State Environment Protection Agency (China)
• AFM — Array File Maker
• VCP — Voluntary Cooperation Program (Equipment and Services) (UN)
• DMIC — Deputy Meteorologist-In-Charge (NWS)
• AP — Arbitrarily Primed
• EDMA — European Diagnostics Manufacturer's Association
• ATF — anti-activating transcription factor
• UCO — UC Observatories
• AH — anterior horn
• BAF — Bvg accessory factor

• APF — Attitude Parameter File
• ERMD — EPIC Radiation Monitor Detector
• AM — Alveolar Macrophage
• AD — Alzheimer Disease
• MOS — Metal Oxide Semi-conductor
• BIO — Bedford Institute of Oceanography
• UM — Unified Model
• LQHUW — Large Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste
• NAHC — National Association of Home Care
• HDIF — Health Care Data Interchange Format
• ESIS — European Southern Observatory
• NSTX — Neosaxitoxin
• PXS — XMM Project Spacecraft
• CH — Channel Header
• AVR — Acute Vascular Rejection
• CICA — Center for Innovative Computer Applications
• ODS — Operational Data Server
• AP — Antimicrobial Peptides
• COHMEX — Cooperative Huntsville Meteorological Experiment
• ACDS — Archival Catalogue and Database Subsystem
• MIPAS — Michelson Interferometric Passive Atmosphere Sounder
• XMCS — XMM MissionControl System
• MPU — Mission Planning Unit
• CA — common antigen
• RAE — RGS Analogue Electronics
• IFOP — Instrument Flight Operation Procedures
• JCMM — Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology
• TRC — The Research Corporation
• CET — Central England Temperature
• SMHI — Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
• DP — Data Products
• DLS — Division of Laboratory Services
• IRMM — Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements
• APP — Abeta precursor protein
• APH — Attitude Pointing History
• ADC — Atlantic Data Coverage (Meteosat)
• AI — Adiposity Index
• CB — Cajal Bodies
• BUCHE — ButyrylCholine Estérase
• AS — Anthranilate Synthase
• OBS — On-Board Software
• ICU — Instrument Controller Unit
• CB — Chromatoid Body
• SOR — Standing Orders of the Regents
• CD — Cone Degeneration
• ISS — Integrated Switching System
• NIPR — National Institute of Polar Research
• MLOPEX — Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemistry Experiment
• POLDER — Polarization and Directionality of Reflectances
• VILSPA — Villafranca Station at Villafranca del Castillo, Spain

• AJ — Ashkenazi Jewish
• ESTEC — European Space TEchnical Center
• P/A — PreAmplifier
• CFHT — Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, on Mauna Kea
• CAC — Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (York, Canada)
• ASUC — Associated Students of the University of California
• SORG — Stratospheric Ozone Review Group
• NISDN — Narrowband Integrated-Services Digital Network
• DISC — optical media (CDs)
• APE — Airborne Polar Experiment
• NCTRS — Network Command and Telemetry Router System
• CA — Constitutively Active
• LAMBADA — Large Scale Atmospheric Moisture Balance of Amazonia using Data Assimilation (BAHC/GEWEX)
• CIFAR — Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
• NDSTC — Naval Dive and Salvage Training Center
• ARA — AppleTalk Remote Access
• UVPI — Ultraviolet Plume Instrument
• RGS — Reflection Grating Subsytem
• SEC — Science Executive Committee of the IWG
• OTAC — Observing Time Allocation Committee
• WSAD — Websphere Studio Application Developer
• AS — autologous serum
• QLA — Quicklook Analysis
• SHF — Short History File
• AHSRL — Arctic High Spectral Resolution Lidar
• AWD — Abdominal Wall Defects
• RPC — RGS Power Converter
• UGAMP — Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme
• ITIR — Infrared Thermal Imaging Radiometer (renamed ASTER)
• BC — Binucleated Cells
• UCFW — University Committee on Faculty Welfare
• NEJAC — National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
• GSR — Graduate Student Researcher
• EFSC — Eastern Food Science Conference
• MOC — XMM Mission Operation Centre
• DPP — Digital Preprocessor
• ODE — Office of Device Evaluation
• CNSI — California NanoSystems Institute
• HTRM — High Time Resolution Mode
• AL — Angiotropic lymphoma
• BOARS — Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools
• BASE-A — Biomass burning Airborne and Spaceborne Experiment-Amazonia
• PGO — Principal Guest Observer
• CA — Children Age
• IOTP — International Ozone Trands Panel
• EMSS — Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey
• HER — High Energy Resolution
• SOE — Security of Employment
• CA — Candida albicans
• TSTRP — Toxic Substance Research and Training Program

• OECA — Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
• CSMP — Climate System Modeling Project
• APM — Academic Personnel Manual
• AK — activated killer
• PN — p-type/n-type semiconductor
• AM — arbuscular mycorrhizal
• ASA — Academic Staff Assembly
• MSIM — Mirror Simulator
• SAFARI — Southern African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative (BIBEX)
• DPI — Derived Product Imagery
• MMIC — Medical Manufacturers' Information Council
• DENIS — Deep Near-Infra-red Survey
• HTR — High Time Resolution
• ISVF — Instrument Validation Facility
• POL — Physician's Office Laboratory
• MTSU — Middle Tennessee State University's
• SIO — Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
• ST-ECF — Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
• SCARABE — Scanning Radiation Budget Experiment
• ICAS — Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senate
• METEOR — USSR Operational Weather Satellite
• ISI — Infrared Space Observatory
• OBSW — On-Board Software
• MPI — Minnesota Project Innovation
• EPDU — EPIC pn Data Handling Unit
• STSCI — Space Telescope Institute
• ASI — Advanced Study Institute (NATO)
• UARC — University Affiliated Research Center
• COVC — Council of Vice Chancellors
• ASG — Accessory Sex Glands
• IPF — Immediate Parameter File
• PX — XMM Project
• CI — chromosomal instability
• ARSLOE — Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment
• MOD — Mission Operations Department
• STRATOZ — Stratospheric Ozone Expedition
• RNLI — Royal National Lifeboat Institution
• CCN — Cloud Condensation Nucleus
• SCANSCAT — scanning scatterometer
• AGN — Active Galaxy Nucleus
• MDC — Major Diagnostics Category
• CARE — Cholesterol and Recurrent Events
• PRARE — Precise Range and Rate Equipment
• CDS — Centre de Donnees Stellaires
• OPSNET — Operational Network
• DMS — DiMethylSulphide
• ACUNS — Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
• PMA — Premarket Application
• JOIDES — Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling
• GT — Guaranteed Time

• UT-BATTELLE — University of Tennessee-Battelle
• VISSR — Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (GOES)
• OPIA — Optical Precision Instrument Associates
• RAPS — radiologists, anesthesiologists, and pathologists
• GSITT — Segment Integration and Test Team
• DAO — Data Assimilation Office (NASA)
• DLESE — The Digital Library for Earth System Education
• SDF — Slew Data File
• TRACT — Transport of Pollutants over Complex Terrain (EUROTRAC)
• ML — Maximum-Likelihood
• NACD — National Association for Cave Diving
• SDOH — SOC Data Operations Handbook
• DOIT — Department Of Information Technology (UW-MSN)
• COTF — Commission on the Future
• PBPK — Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic
• EUCOMED — European Confederation of Medical Suppliers Associations
• LDRD — Laboratory-Directed Research and Development
• PHA — Pulse Height Amplitude
• EPOS — Enhanced Preferred Observation Schedule
• NEDU — Naval Experimental Diving Unit
• ERME — EPIC Radiation Monitor Electronics
• PPG — Preliminary Planning Guide
• SIMBAD — Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data
• HSPC — Human Subjects Protection Committee
• P&T — Privilege & Tenure Committee
• CRF — Calibration Resource File
• TIMEX — Time Multiplexer
• CAS — Centre for Atmospheric Science (Cambridge, UK)
• CWS — Committee on World Standards
• HEDIS — Healthplan Employee Data and Information
• OSW — OM Science Window
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring
• CIDC — Climatology Interdisciplinary Data Collection
• HROI — High Resolution Optical Instrument
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflective Distribution Function
• MMDB — Mirror Metrology Database
• TDF — Transaction Data File
• AT — Autologous Transplantation
• ISS — Instrument Software System
• TROPOZ — Tropospheric Ozone Expedition
• EPVC — EPIC pn Low Voltage Converter Unit
• TSU — Tennessee State University
• EHWD — Enhanced Hot Water Drill
• UER — University-Emeriti Relations Committee
• CAL-ISI — California Institutes for Science & Innovation
• EMCH — EPIC MOS Focal Camera Head Unit
• UCEI — UC Energy Institute
• MD — Medium Frequency
• OM1 — OM Telescope Unit
• XID — X-Ray Identification

• VIRTEM — Validation of IASI Radiative Transfer: Experiments and Modelling
• BD — Bone Density
• PPS — XMM Pipeline Processing Subsystem
• UCOC — University Committee on Committees
• SAG — Science Advisory Group
• ARF — An Ancillary Response File
• ISA — Institute for System Analysis
• IDOH — Instrument Data Operations Handbook
• COR — Council of Research
• DAC — Digital to Analogue Conversion
• RGIT — Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology
• VOB — Vertical Optical Branch
• AMW-DB — Archive of Multi-Wavelength Data
• CSI — Coastal Studies Institute (LSU)
• CA — Colanic Acid
• WIMP — Window, Icon, Menu and Pop-up
• DPS — Detector Power Supply
• EPEA — EPIC p-n Event Analyser
• SCIAMACHY — SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter For Atmospheric CHartographY
• SGS — Sequence Generation Subsystem
• SOPH — SOC Operation Procedures Handbook
• UWERN — University WEather Research Network
• BS — Binary Star
• LEDPA — Least Environmental Damaging Plan Alternative
• AT — The Ataxia Teleangiectasia
• EUVE — Extreme Ultra-Violet Explorer
• CVS — Concurrent Version System
• MNBIO — Minnesota Biotechnology
• ASTERIX — X-Ray astronomy data analysis package for Starlink ADAM environment
• PERL — Interactive programming language available for Unix
• SPE — Solar Proton Event
• SASS — Standard Analysis Software System
• CAR — Cytokinetic Actomyosin Ring
• SOVT — System Operations Validation Tests
• CA — Cyclopiazonic Acid
• AE — Effective Area
• SPACON — Spacecraft Controller
• JPOP — Japanese Polar Orbiting Platform
• CC — Cleavable Complex
• DPS — Division of Planetary Science
• PI — Position Invariant
• ICC — Intersegmental Coordinating Committee
• BAHC — Biosphere Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (IGBP programme)
• STD — Salinity/Temperature/Depth
• GRD — Government Relations Director
• LOS — Loss of Signal
• FTOOLS — FITS-based software utilities developed at GSFC
• USCOE — United States Corps of Engineers
• UCEAP — University Committee on Education Abroad Program
• PIEAS — Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Appliead Sciences

• CSM — Comprehensive System Model
• URGENT — Urban ReGeneration and the ENvironmenT
• XSELECT — Data selection and binning tool, part of FTOOLS package
• SDM — SOC Development Manager
• EPCH — EPIC pn Focal Camera Head Unit
• SIP — Scientific Operations Centre Implementation Plan
• CAL — Calibration Access Layer
• SSID — Survey Science Interface Document
• NWRI — National Water Research Institute (Canada)
• CSIM — Cosmic Simulator
• IPA — Institute for Polyacryclate Sciences
• AI — Allele Imbalance
• SRAM — Sequential Random Access Memory
• BC — Branhamella catarrhalis
• AIMS — Australian Institute of Marine Science
• ISI — Institutes for Science and Innovation
• PMC — Pressure-Modulator Cell
• CD — Complete Deficiency
• SAT — Sulphuric Acid Tetrahydrate
• POCE — Pantone Open Color Environment
• IPP — Instrument Programmable Parameter
• PMS — Payload Monitoring Subsystem
• TGEI — Tennessee Government Executive Institute
• DPSST — Data Product Screening Software Team
• ESOC — European Satellite Operation Centre
• MDR — Medical Device Reports
• DCR — Dedicated Control Room
• EXSAS — Extended Scientific Analysis System
• PM — Protocol Machine
• CCLRC — Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
• CH — Cerebral Hemispheres
• SQHUW — Small Quantity Handlers of Universal Waste
• SSC — Survey Science Centre for XMM
• OSF1 — Open Systems Foundation brand of Unix
• CAN — California Articulation Number
• OSIM — OM Simulator
• BF — Bomb Factory
• CRI — Committee on Research Initiatives
• EMCV — EPIC MOS Low Voltage Converter Unit
• UCOPE — University Committee on Preparatory Education
• MM — Mirror Model
• BC — biotin carboxylase
• D-E — Dermoepidermal
• UNIS — University Centre in Svalbard
• MA — Medical Alley
• POS — Preferred Observation Schedule
• ED — Event Designator
• WCSJ — World Conference of Science Journalists
• MVCA — Minnesota Venture Capital Association
• NEFCO — Nordic Environment Finance Corporation

• SSD — Space Science Department
• SPEVAL — Spacecraft Evaluation System
• SSRD — Specific Science Requirements Document
• CAT — Carbon Dioxide Absorption Technique
• SCIGETC — Science Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
• SPI — Spectrometer for INTEGRAL
• PSF — Planning Skeleton File
• SUTI — Sensitive but Unclassified Technical Information
• ASF — Alaskan SAR Facility
• AMS — Archive Management Subsystem
• PCS — Payload Calibration Subsystem
• SMT — Software Maintenance Team
• MSSL — Mullard Space Science Laboratory, College London
• ANRHRD — Air, Noise and Radiation Health Research Division
• XSPEC — X-Ray spectral analysis package, part of XANADU
• APS — Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndromes
• OM2 — OM Digital Electronics Unit
• ISDN — Switching Digital Network
• AGO — automated geophysical observatories
• XIMAGE — Image Display Package, part of XANADU
• CC — Condensed chromatin
• RTA — Real-Time Analysis
• REACH — REmote Access to Circular History-files
• NAS — National Academy of the Sciences
• EPS — European Polar Satellite
• PIER — Public Interest Energy Research Program
• POC — Panel of Counselors
• SLATEC — Sanida Los Alamos Technical Exchange Committee
• DC — Detector Controller (DXS)
• CDT — Catalogues and Databases Team
• MA — Mirror Assembly
• BC — Bovine Conglutinin
• UOSAT — University Of Surrey Satellite
• BHTA — British Healthcare Trades Industry
• PPM — Position and Proper Motion
• PMR — Pressure Modulator Radiometer
• SA — Astrophysics Division
• ALPTRAC — High Alpine Aerosol and Snow Chemistry Study (EUROTRAC)
• RRA — ROSAT Results Archive
• CPG — Calibration Proposal Generation
• RSIM — RGS Simulator
• SMM — Stratosphere Mesosphere Model
• SIRD — SOC Implementation Requirements Document
• COC — Committee on Committees
• COC — Council of Chancellors
• CTTCA — California Technology Trade & Commerce Agency
• WCPS — Women's Caucus for Political Science
• OSC — Offline Satellite Calibration
• APM — Automatic Plate Measurement
• SD — Screening Device

• PMU — Payload Monitoring Unit
• CC — Classical Cytogenetic
• CCC — California Community Colleges
• ISI — Institute for Scientific Information
• CFA — Centre for Astrophysics
• PRF — Point Response Subsystem
• SOC — Science Operations Centre for XMM
• DAP — Dual Admissions Program
• EARTHKAM — Earth Knowledge Acquired By Middle-schoolers
• CMS — Control & Monitoring System
• PHS — Proposal Handling Subsystem
• SS — Survey Scientist for XMM
• ODS — Observation Datafile Subsystem
• SFOM — SOC Facility Operations Manual
• SCISIM — Science Simulator
• ICS — Instrument Command Sequence
• AIP — Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
• SIP — Short Implementation Plan
• BSM — Baseline Spectroscopy
• PST — Project Science Team
• SIM — Simulation Section
• SCC — Spacecraft Coordinates
• MP — Mission Planning

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