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A Abbreviations and Acronyms
Pages 191-195

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... APPENDIX A Abbreviations and Acronyms ADDS African Data Dissemination Service ADS Astrophysics Data System ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ATM asynchronous transfer mode AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer BASIS Battelle Automatic Search Information System CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDF Collider Detector at Fermilab CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center CD-ROM Compact Disk-Read Only Memory CEC Commission of the European Communities CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Sciences Information Network CINDAS Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis COBIOTECH Committee for Biotechnology (ICSU) CODATA Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU)
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... 192 DIS DMC DNA DOC DOD DOE DOI DVD ENDF/B ENSDF EOS EOSAT EOSDIS EPA EROS ESA FAME FAO FDSN FITS FTP GIS GMT MD-ROM HEP HIPPI HST HTML HTTP IAEA ICSU IEEE IETF IFS IGBP IITF IMPACT IPng BITS OF POWER data indexing system; data and information system Data Management Center (IRIS) deoxyribonucleic acid Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Energy Department of the Interior digital versatile disk Evaluated Nuclear Data File/B Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File Earth Observing System Earth Observation Satellite Company Earth Observing System Data and Information System Environmental Protection Agency Earth Resources Observation Systems European Space Agency Fatty Acid Methyl Ester Food and Agriculture Organization Federation of Digital Seismic Networks Flexible image transport system file transfer protocol Geographic Information System Greenwich mean time high density-read only memory high-energy physics high-performance parallel interface Hubble Space Telescope HyperText Mark-up Language HyperText Transfer Protocol International Atomic Energy Agency International Council of Scientific Unions Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Internet Engineering Task Force International Foundation for Science International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Information Infrastructure Task Force Information Market Policy Action Program Internet Protocol next generation
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... "plain old" telephone service Patent and Trademark Office .
From page 194...
... 194 BITS OF POWER PTT Post, Telephone, and Telegraph ministry RNA ribonucleic acid SGML Standard Generalized Mark-up Language SIMBAD set of identifications, measurements, and bibliography for astronomical data SMART System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text SMTP Simple Message Transfer Protocol SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol SOTER Soils and Terrain Digital Database SPECINFO a database from Chemical Concepts GmbH containing digitized nuclear magnetic resonance data and infrared spectra for chemical compounds STAIRS Storage and Information Retrieval System ST-ECF Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility STN Science and Technology Network International STScI Space Telescope Science Institute TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TM Thematic Mapper TRIPS Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Agreement on TWAS Third World Academy of Sciences UC University of California UNCED United Nations Commission on Economic Development UNCTAD United Nations Commission on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNEP United Nations Environment Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Orga nization UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization URL uniform resource locator URN uniform resource name USAID United States Agency for International Development USGS United States Geological Survey USNC-CODATA United States National Committee for CODATA VITA Volunteers in Technical Assistance VHS video home system
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... APPENDIX A WDC WHO WIPO WMO WTO WWW 195 World Data Center World Health Organization World Intellectual Property Organization World Meteorological Organization World Trade Organization World Wide Web

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