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Scientific acronyms and abbreviations from different fields.
AAAS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
international non-profit organization promoting science
AAPS
Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences
North American based membership organization promoting citizen science
ACP
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
scientific journal
ADI
Arab Development Institute
Arab institute founded in Tripoli in 1972, with a branch opened in Beirut in 1976. It was concerned with scientific and technical research and studies in various fields and specializations at the national and regional levels.
AMS
accelerator mass spectrometry
technique of chemical analysis
ANL
Argonne National Laboratory
science and engineering research national laboratory in Lemont, IL, United States
APA
American Psychological Association
scientific and professional organization headquartered in the Washington, D.C.
ASA
Analytical Science Advances
scientific journal
ASA
Academy of Sciences of Albania
Albania's highest‑level national academy of sciences
ASM
American Society for Microbiology
American scholarly society focused on microbiology
BAS
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
academy of sciences
BAS
Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
science academy
BIOS
BIOS Scientific Publishers
defunct biosciences publisher
CA
cellular automaton
discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology and microstructure modeling
CAS
Chemical Abstracts Service
division of the American Chemical Society
CAST
China Academy of Space Technology
Chinese space agency and subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
CCC
chlormequat chloride
chemical compound
CIS
Communications in Inorganic Synthesis
Academic journal published by Universidad de Santiago, covering the subjects: Science: Chemistry: Inorganic chemistry
CRI
Crown Research Institute
type of corporatised Crown entity in New Zealand charged with conducting scientific research (e.g. AgResearch), different from the Association of Crown Research Institutes
CSA
Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences
North American based membership organization promoting citizen science
CSE
Council of Science Editors
United States-based nonprofit organization that supports editorial practice among scientific writers
DD
difference in differences
social sciences statistical technique that mimics an experimental research design using observational study data by studying the differential effect of a treatment on a 'treatment group' versus a 'control group' in a natural experiment
DDT
Drug Discovery Today
peer-reviewed scientific journal
DSS
Digitized Sky Survey
digitization of several astronomical surveys by the Space Telescope Science Institute
ENT
Star Trek: Enterprise
American science fiction television series
GR
general relativity
standard and classical physics theory of gravity and space
GSA
Geological Society of America
nonprofit organization for the advancement of geoscience
HER
hydrogen evolution reaction
the cathodic reaction in electrochemical water splitting
HHG
high harmonic generation
laser science process
IAS
International Association of Sedimentologists
scientific association located in Ghent, Belgium
ICS
International Commission on Stratigraphy
commission of the IUGS tasked with the scientific definitions of geological stratigraphy of the Earth
IIA
independence of irrelevant alternatives
axiom of decision theory and various social sciences
IPA
International Phonetic Association
organization that promotes the scientific study of phonetics
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
scientific intergovernmental body
IS
Information Systems
Scientific journal
ISC
International Science Council
global non-governmental organization representing natural and social sciences
JAS
Jinnah Antarctic Station
antarctic scientific research station operated by Pakistan
JTC
Journal of Tropical Coleopterology
international peer-reviewed open access scientific journal
JTCAM
Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics
scientific journal
MAG
Magnetometer
scientific instrument on the Juno orbiter