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National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA |
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, pronounced /ˈnæsə/) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29,...
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| x United States of America |
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United States of America | US of A |
The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America,...
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| x Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus |
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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 called stimulated emission. Laser light is usually spatially coherent, which means that the light either is emitted in a narrow, low-divergence beam, or can be...
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome | AIDS |
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system...
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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 independent agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United States policymakers.
It is the successor...
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| x United States National Security Agency |
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National Security Agency | NSA |
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States government, administered as part of the United States Department of Defense. Created on November 4, 1952 by President Harry S....
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| x ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | ASCII |
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (acronym: ASCII; pronounced /ˈæski/, ASS-kee) is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and...
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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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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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Description of a Project | DOAP |
Description of a Project (DOAP) is an RDF schema and XML vocabulary to describe open-source projects. It was created and initially developed by Edd Dumbill to convey semantically information associated with open-source software projects. It is...
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| x Suggested Upper Merged Ontology |
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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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Systems Biology Ontology | SBO |
SBO is the Systems Biology Ontology project, another cornerstone of the BioModels.net effort. The goal of SBO is to develop Controlled vocabularies and ontologies tailored specifically for the kinds of problems being faced in Systems biology,...
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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 hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term Representational State Transfer (REST) was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his...
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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) as its message...
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Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems | SKOS |
Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems (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 capturing 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, and is endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium. This family of languages is based on two (largely, but not entirely, compatible) semantics:...
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| x Resource Description Framework | Resource Description Framework | RDF |
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It has come to be used as a general method for conceptual description or modeling of information...
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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 and headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full...
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| x Application programming interface | Application Programming Interface | API |
An application programming interface (API) is an interface that a software program implements in order to allow other software to interact with it; much in the same way that software might implement a user interface in order to allow humans to...
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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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Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language | XHTML |
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, 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...
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| x Richard | Richard | Rick | ||
| x Joshua | Joshua | Josh |
Joshua is a Biblical masculine given name derived from the Hebrew Yehoshua (יהושע), which has a meaning similar to "God rescues" or "God is salvation". As a result of the origin of the name, a majority of people before the 17th Century who have 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 a organization in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
MBT was founded by Mohammed Amanullah Khan as a result of a split from the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimen. Khan formed MBT in 1993 after...
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| x Massachusetts business trust | Massachusetts business trust | MBT |
A Massachusetts business trust or MBT is a legal trust set up for the purposes of business, but not necessarily in the state of Massachusetts. They may also be referred to as an unincorporated business organization or UBO.
Many businesses are formed...
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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 form 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 software testing in which test cases are derived in whole or in part from a model that describes some (usually functional) aspects of the system under test (SUT).
The model is usually an abstract, partial presentation of the...
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Bibliographic Ontology | BIBO | |
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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 typically refers to both the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures and the 9-character alphanumeric security identifiers that they distribute for all North American securities for the purposes of facilitating...
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Alabama | AL |
Alabama /ˌæləˈbæmə/ (help·info) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States of America. 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....
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Alaska | AK |
Alaska ( /əˈlæskə/ (help·info)) is the largest state of the United States of America 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...
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| x Esquire |
Esquire (abbreviated Esq.) is a term of British origin (from French "écuyer", squire), originally used to denote social status. Ultimately deriving from the medieval squires who assisted knights, the term came to be used automatically by men of...
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| x Patrick | Patrick | Pat |
Patrick is a name derived from either the Latin name "Patricius" (patrician, i.e. nobleman) or from an earlier Celtic name. It was Gaelicised as Pádraic or Pádraig, and owing to the importance of Saint Patrick in Irish history, it is an especially...
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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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