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| x NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA |
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's mission...
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United States of America | US of A |
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North...
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Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus | CWRC |
The Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus (CWRC) is a large bi-partisan Congressional Member Organization in the U.S. House of Representatives formed to support the National Wildlife Refuge System through legislation, funding, and education.
The...
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Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation | LASER |
A laser is a device that emits light (electromagnetic radiation) through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of photons. The term "laser" originated as an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of...
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome | AIDS |
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is syndrome resulting from the acquired deficiency of cellular immunity caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is characterized by the reduction of the Helper T-lymphocytes in the peripheral blood...
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Central Intelligence Agency | CIA |
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, with responsibility for providing national security...
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National Security Agency | NSA |
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S....
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| x ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | ASCII |
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII, pronunciation: /ˈæski/ ASS-kee;) is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other...
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| x YAGO | Yet Another General Ontology | YAGO |
YAGO (Yet Another General Ontology (?)) is a huge semantic knowledge base. Currently, YAGO knows over 1.7 million entities (like persons, organizations, cities, etc.). It knows about 14 million facts about these entities. A Web-Interface allows...
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| x FOAF | Friend of a Friend | FOAF |
FOAF (an acronym of Friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to describe him or herself. FOAF allows groups of people to describe...
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| x Description of a Project | Description of a Project | DOAP |
Description of a Project (DOAP) is an RDF schema and XML vocabulary to describe software projects, and in particular open-source. It was created and initially developed by Edd Dumbill to convey semantic information associated with open-source...
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| x Suggested Upper Merged Ontology | Suggested Upper Merged Ontology | SUMO |
The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology or SUMO is an upper ontology intended as a foundation ontology for a variety of computer information processing systems. It was originally developed by the Teknowledge Corporation and now is maintained by...
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Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer | UMBEL |
UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) is a lightweight ontology structure for relating Web content and data to a standard set of subject concepts. Its purpose is to provide a fixed set of reference points in a global...
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| x Systems Biology Ontology |
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Systems Biology Ontology | SBO |
The Systems Biology Ontology (SBO) is a set of controlled, relational vocabularies of terms commonly used in Systems Biology, and in particular in computational modeling. SBO is part of the BioModels.net effort.
The rise of Systems Biology, seeking...
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Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities | SIOC |
Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities Project (SIOC - pronounced "shock") is a Semantic Web technology. SIOC provides methods for interconnecting discussion methods such as blogs, forums and mailing lists to each other. It consists of the SIOC...
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| x Representational State Transfer | Representational State Transfer | REST |
Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed systems such as the World Wide Web. REST has emerged over the past few years as a predominant Web service design model. REST has increasingly displaced other...
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| x SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol | SOAP |
SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks. It relies on Extensible Markup Language (XML) for its message...
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Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems | SKOS |
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a family of formal languages designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading systems, or any other type of structured controlled vocabulary. SKOS is built...
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Attention Profiling Markup Language | APML |
APML (Attention Profiling Mark-up Language) is an XML-based format for expressing a person's interests and dislikes.
APML allows people to share their own personal attention profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists...
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| x Web Ontology Language | Web Ontology Language | OWL |
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. The languages are characterised by formal semantics and RDF/XML-based serializations for the Semantic Web. OWL is endorsed by the World Wide...
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Resource Description Framework | RDF |
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web.
RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax defines an abstract syntax on which RDF is based, and which serves to link its concrete syntax to its formal semantics... |
| x World Wide Web Consortium | World Wide Web Consortium | W3C |
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).
Founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT and currently headed by him, the consortium is made up of member organizations...
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Application Programming Interface | API |
An application programming interface (API) is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other. An API may include specifications for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables....
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| x Persistent organic pollutant | Persistent organic pollutant | POP |
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. Because of this, they have been observed to persist in the environment, to be capable...
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| x SADDLE | SPARQL Service Advertisement and Discovery Language | SADDLE | ||
| x XPath | XML Path Language | XPath |
XPath (XML Path Language) is a language for selecting nodes from an XML document. In addition, XPath may be used to compute values (strings, numbers, or boolean values) from the content of an XML document. The current version of the language is...
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| x SPARQL S-Expressions | SPARQL S-Expressions | SSE | ||
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| x XHTML | Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language | XHTML |
XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written.
While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined...
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| x Richard | Richard | Rick | ||
| x Joshua | Joshua | Josh |
Joshua is a Biblical given name derived from the Hebrew Yehoshua (יהושע). Although it is often etymologized as related to the root for "salvation," e.g. as "Jehovah rescues" or "Jehovah is salvation"., the form of the word does not support this...
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| x Mahindra British Telecom | Mahindra British Telecom | MBT |
Mahindra British Telecom (MBT) now known as Tech Mahindra Ltd. is a joint venture between Mahindra and Mahindra and British Telecommunications plc (BT) with M&M; holding 57% and BT holding 43% of the equity. Tech Mahindra has its headquarters at...
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| x Majlis Bachao Tehreek | Majlis Bachao Tehreek | MBT |
Majlis Bachao Tehreek (Save Majlis Movement), is an organization in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) was founded by Mohammed Amanullah Khan as a result of a split from the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimen....
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| x Massachusetts business trust | Massachusetts business trust | MBT |
A Massachusetts Business Trust (MBT) is a legal trust set up for the purposes of business, but not necessarily one that is operated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. They may also be referred to as an Unincorporated Business Organization or UBO....
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| x Master of Business & Technology | Master of Business & Technology | MBT |
The Master of Business & Technology ( MBT ) is an innovative graduate business program similar to techno management MBAs, but aimed at experienced managers and professionals who want to expand their career choices by broadening their business...
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Mechanical biological treatment | MBT |
A mechanical biological treatment system is a type of waste processing facility that combines a sorting facility with a form of biological treatment such as composting or anaerobic digestion. MBT plants are designed to process mixed household waste...
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| x Mentalization based treatment | Mentalization based treatment | MBT |
Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) is an innovative form of psychodynamic psychotherapy, developed and manualised by Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman. MBT has been designed for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), who suffer from...
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Model-based testing | MBT |
Model-based testing is the application of Model based design for designing and optimally executing the necessary artifacts to perform software testing. Models can be used to represent the desired behavior of the System Under Test (SUT), or to...
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laugh out loud | LOL |
LOL, an abbreviation for laughing out loud, or laugh out loud, is a common element of Internet slang. It was used historically on Usenet but is now widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication. It...
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| x CUSIP | Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures |
The acronym CUSIP historically refers to the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, which was founded in 1964, during the paper crunch in Wall Street. This 9-character alphanumeric code identifies any North American security for...
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Human immunodeficiency virus |
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening...
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Alabama | AL |
Alabama (/ˌæləˈbæmə/) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th...
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Alaska | AK |
Alaska (/əˈlæskə/) is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south,...
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| x Esquire |
Esquire (abbreviated Esq.) is a term of West European origin. In Great Britain and Northern Ireland, it is a title of respect previously accorded to men of higher social rank, but which has since come to be used, with no precise significance, as a...
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| x Patrick | Patrick | Pat |
Patrick is a name derived from the Latin name Patricius (patrician, i.e. "nobleman"). Owing to the importance of Saint Patrick in Irish history, it is an especially popular name in Ireland. Other versions of Patrick include Padraic, Pádraig, Pat,...
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Generational suffix abbreviation for Junior indicating that the person is a child of a parent with the exact same name.
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Algemene Centrale der Liberale Vakbonden van België | ACLVB |
The General Confederation of Liberal Trade Unions of Belgium (ACLVB/CGSLB) is one of three trade union federations in Belgium. It was founded before the turn of the 20th century, and represents 230,000 workers. It organizes unions directly, without...
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| Allgemeine Zentrale der Liberalen Gewerkschaften Belgiens | AZLGB | |||
| x Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. |
The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences is an academic journal published by the New York Academy of Sciences. It is one of the oldest science journals still being published, having been founded in 1823.
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| x Ontario Universities' Application Centre | Ontario Universities' Application Centre | OUAC |
The Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC) is a non-profit organization that acts as a central bureau for managing the processing of applications to universities in the Canadian province of Ontario. The OUAC was founded in 1971 by the...
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