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Assisted Places Scheme The Assisted Places Scheme was a scheme established in the UK by the Conservative government in 1980 by which children who could not afford to go to fee-paying independent schools were provided with free or subsidised places if they were able to pass the school's entrance examination.
Assisted reproductive technology Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is a general term referring to methods used to achieve pregnancy by artificial or partially artificial means. It includes taking medications to induce ovulation, or in vitro fertilization among other techniques.
Assisted take off Any system for helping aircraft into the air (as opposed to strictly under its own power), is known as assisted take off. The reason it might be needed is due to the aircraft's weight exceeding the normal maximum take off weight, insufficient power, or the available runway length may be insufficient, or a combination of all three factors.
Assistive technology Assistive Technology (AT) is a generic term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices and the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. AT promotes greater independence for people with disabilities by enabling them to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to or changed methods of interacting with the technology needed to accomplish such tasks.
Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI) is a toolkit-neutral way of providing accessibility facilities in applications, developed by the GNOME project. Toolkits provide a logical representation of the content of the application, and helpful assistants like screen readers or magnifiers can then allow disabled persons browse and interact with the applications.
Assiti Shards series The Assiti Shards series are several loosely related book series in the literary subgenre alternate history of science fiction. Each story-line is based in a different milieu— its own literally alternative world (see multiverses)— and each is generated by an Assiti Shards Event, which is the literary mechanism that ties them all together.
Assize of Arms The Assize of Arms of 1181 is a legal precedent decided by King Henry II of England and developed in common law jurisdictions ever since guaranteeing a right to bear arms. Having inherited the English common law legal system, the Assize of Arms formed part of the legal basis for the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Assize of Bread and Ale The Assize of Bread and Ale (Latin: Assisa panis et cervisiæ) was a 13th-century statute in late medieval English law that set standards of quality, measurement, and pricing for bakers and brewers. This statute is usually attributed to act 51 Hen.
Assize of Northampton The Assize of Northampton, largely based on the Assize of Clarendon of 1166, is among a series of measures taken by King Henry II of England which solidified the rights of the knightly tenants and made all possession of land subject to and guaranteed by royal law.
Assizes of Ariano The Assizes of Ariano were a series of laws promulgated in the summer of 1140 at Ariano, near Benevento in the Mezzogiorno, by Roger II of Sicily. Having recently pacified the peninsula, constantly in revolt, he had decided to make a move to more centralised government.
Assizes of Capua The Assizes of Capua were the first of two great legislative acts of the reign of Frederick I of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor. They were the first, promulgated at Capua in 1220, before the Constitutions of Melfi of 1231.
Assizes of Jerusalem As Peter Edbury says, "one group of sources from the Latin East that have long excited the attention of scholars are the legal treatises often known collectively, if somewhat misleadingly, as the Assises of Jerusalem." (Peter W.
Assjack Assjack is the metalcore/psychobilly band led by Hank Williams III. Assjack is one of the three features of Hank Williams III's live show, and they started off playing the Hellbilly material throughout 1999-2002, until they evolved in to a strictly hardcore/punk metal band.
Assmannshausen Assmannshausen is, since the incorporation in 1977, a quarter of the "RĂĽdesheim on the Rhine" in Germany. It has a lithium spring, baths and a Kurhaus, and is famed for its red wine (Assmannshauser), which resembles light Burgundy.
Associação Académica do Fogo Associação Académica do Fogo (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Asosiason Akadémika du Fogu, São Vicente Crioulo: Associação Akadémica d' Fogo) is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Boa Vista Island League in Cape Verde. The team is based in the island of Fogo.
Associação Brasileira de Estatística Associação Brasileira de Estatística (Brazilian Statistics Association), also know as ABE (pronounced A-B-E), is a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the development and application of statistical science, and sometimes acts as a debate place for any professional body that has interest in statistics.
Associação dos Amigos do Mindelo para a Defesa do Ambiente The Associação dos Amigos do Mindelo para a Defesa do Ambiente (AAMDA, first part, the Mindelo Friendship Association), is the only government organization in Vila do Conte, Portugal. It was founded in 1992.
Associação dos Escoteiros de Portugal The Associação dos Escoteiros de Portugal (AEP, Scout Association of Portugal) is a youth organization concerned with eduaction and the development of civil character. It was the first Scouting organization in Portugal, being established in 1913, and was a founding member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM).
Associação dos Escuteiros de Cabo Verde The Associação dos Escuteiros de Cabo Verde, the national Scouting organization of Cape Verde, was founded in 2002, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement that year. The Associação dos Escuteiros de Cabo Verde has 733 members as of 2004.
Associação Desportiva do Bairro Associação Desportiva do Bairro (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Asosiason Disportiva du Bairru) s a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island League South Zone in Cape Verde. It is based in the island of Santiago.
Associação Desportiva São Caetano Associação Desportiva São Caetano is a Brazilian football team based on the city of São Caetano, Brazil, part of the São Paulo greater metropolitan area. The team is dubbed Azulão (Big Blue), after the shirt colour.
Associação Gaita-de-fole The Associação Gaita-de-fole (Bagpipe Society) is a non-profitable organization, founded officially in 1994 by enthusiasts of the Portuguese folk traditions - specially the related with the Galician and Transmontan bagpipes. The volunteers contribute in a variety of ways, as craftsmen, musicians, anthropologists and teachers, from professionals to amateurs.
Associação Guias de Portugal The Associação Guias de Portugal (AGP; Guide Association of Portugal) is the national Guiding association of Portugal. Guiding in Portugal started in 1919 and became a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1963.
Associação Portuguesa de Desportos Associação Portuguesa de Desportos, usually called Portuguesa or Lusa, is a sports club, and a traditional Brazilian football team from São Paulo in São Paulo state, founded on August 14, 1920 by the Portuguese population of the city.
Associate Justice Associate Justice or Associate Judge is the title for a member of a judicial panel who is not the Chief Justice. Associate Justice is used for members of the United States Supreme Court and some state supreme courts.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines is one of 15 members of the Philippine Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines. The Chief Justice presides over the High Court, but carries only 1 of the 15 votes in the court.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States. The number of Associate Jusitices is determined by the United States Congress and is currently eight, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869.
Associate Minister of National Defence (Canada) A member of the Canadian cabinet, the Associate Minister of National Defence (French: Ministre associé de la Défense nationale) was responsible for various files within the defence department as assigned by the Prime Minister or Defence Minister.
Associate of King's College The Associateship or Associate of King's College award has been the degree-equivalent qualification of King's College London since 1833 It is the original qualification that the university awarded to its students.
Associate Parliamentary Group An Associate Parliamentary Group is similar to an All-Party Parliamentary Group except that for the latter only Members of the House of Commons or Lords have voting rights, whereas an Associate Parliamentary Group additionally allows voting rights to persons who are neither.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church is a small denomination, formed from the merger of the Associate (Seceder) and the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) churches in Philadelphia in 1782. It is a conservative denomination and is one of the oldest in the United States.
Associate Specialist In the United Kingdom, an associate specialist doctor is one who is appointed to a permanent position in the middle ranks. The rank is the highest that a doctor not seeking to be made a consultant may achieve, and is usually confered upon staff grade doctors after several years experience (although it is possible to go from specialist registrar to associate specialist if one chooses at that stage to leave the consultant career path).
Associate's degree An associate's degree is an academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges and some bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years. Common abbreviations are AA (Associate of Arts), AS (Associate of Science), AAS (Associate of Applied Science; or in some cases, Associate of Arts and Sciences), AOS (Associate of Occupational Studies), ABA (Associate of Business Administration), AAT (Associate of Arts in Teaching), and AGS (Associate of General Studies).
Associated Artists Productions Associated Artists Productions was a distributor of theatrical feature films and short subjects for television founded in 1953 and headed by Elliott Hyman. In 1956, AAP purchased the pre-1948 Warner Bros film library which included every feature film and most short subjects the studio released prior to 1948 including the Merrie Melodies and color Looney Tunes.
Associated bundle In mathematics, the theory of fiber bundles with a structure group G (a topological group) allows an operation of creating an associated bundle, in which the typical fiber of a bundle changes from F_1 to F_2, which are both topological spaces with a group action of G. For a fibre bundle F with structure group G, the transition functions of the fibre (i.
Associated Baptist Press Associated Baptist Press is an independent religion news agency based in Jacksonville, Florida created by and for Baptists to provide daily coverage of Baptist news, and general news of interest to Baptists and other Christians.
Associated Bible Students The Associated Bible Students is the branch of the Bible Student movement that follows the teachings and views of Charles Taze Russell, best known as "Pastor Russell". The Bible Students practice regular reading and study of the Bible and hold Bible Study classes utilizing the six volumes of "Studies in the Scriptures", written by Pastor Russell.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music or ABRSM is an educational body that provides examinations in music. Often referred to simply as the "Associated Board", or "the Royal Schools of Music", the organisation is based in London, but runs examination centres all over the world.
Associated British Corporation Associated British Corporation (otherwise known as ABC Television or ABC Weekend TV) was one of a number of commercial television companies set up in the 1950s by cinema chains in an attempt to safeguard their business by getting involved in television which was taking away their cinema audiences. In this case, the parent company was the Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), who initially did not wish to become involved in the new broadcasting system, but were persuaded to do so by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) and the head of their Pathé News subsidiary Howard Thomas, who became the new company's managing director.
Associated communes of France In France, associated communes (French: communes associées) were created by the Commune Merger Act of July 16, 1971 (also called the Marcellin Act). It permits the formerly independent communes to maintain certain institutions, such as
Associated Catholic Colleges - Victoria (ACC) The Associated Catholic Colleges - Victoria (ACC) is a group of thirteen Catholic boys schools in Victoria, Australia. The Association was formed in 1948, although a similar Association involving a number of schools conducted by the Christian Brothers was competing from 1910-1947.
Associated Colleges of the Midwest The Associated Colleges of the Midwest, ACM, is a consortium of fourteen leading liberal arts colleges located in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It was founded in 1958 with the purpose of enriching the curricula of its member colleges in ways they could not accomplish alone.
Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities (ACTC), a consortium of five private liberal arts colleges, all located in either Minneapolis or Saint Paul, Minnesota. This program allows students to take classes at any of the associated campuses as long as the class is not offered at their home university.
Associated Collegiate Press The Associated Collegiate Press (official site) is the largest and oldest national membership organization for college student media in the United States. The ACP is a division of the National Scholastic Press Association.
Associated Content Associated Content is a website where anyone can create an article, submit an image, post a video or audio clip. The online community of Content Producers can share their expertise, foster new relationships, learn about new topics, collaborate with others or just voice their opinion.
Associated Dry Goods Associated Dry Goods (ADG) was a chain of department stores that merged with May Department Stores in 1986. It was founded in 1916 as an association of independent stores called American Dry Goods based in New York City.
Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria The Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria (AGSV) are a group of nine independent schools in Victoria, Australia, formed in 1920. The AGSV provides the basis for interschool sporting competition between the nine member schools in a range of sports.
Associated Grocers Associated Grocers is a retailers' cooperative that distributes full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Originally founded in 1934, it also provides retail services to independent groceries in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam.
Associated Grocers of Louisiana Associated Grocers of Louisiana is a retailers' cooperative serving over 260 independent supermarkets in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and Arkansas. It was founded in May 23, 1950 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates.
Associated Grocers of Maine Associated Grocers of Maine is a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. It was founded in 1953 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates.
Associated Grocers of New England Associated Grocers of New England (AGNE) is a retailers' cooperative serving over four hundred independent supermarkets in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It was founded in 1946 as New Hampshire Wholesale Grocers and took the present name in 1969.
Associated Grocers of the South Associated Grocers of the South was founded in 1927 by 13 local grocery store owners from Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States. Led by Larry Grimes, they chose to establish a retailers' cooperative to compete against the emerging chain stores.
Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto is a private traditional elementary (nursery to Grade 5) and middle school (Grade 6 to Grade 8) Jewish day school with two campuses in Toronto, Ontario and one campus in Thornhill, Ontario. The three branches are; the Kamin Education Centre (Bet Hayeled – Gr.
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) is an accredited seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, affiliated with Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA. Besides serving Mennonites from North America and other continents, AMBS is approved by the United Methodist Church for training of its ministers.
Associated Motorcycles Associated Motorcycles (AMC) was a British motorcycle manufacturer founded, by the Collier brothers, as a parent company for the Matchless and AJS motorcycle companies. It later absorbed Francis-Barnett, James, and Norton before incorporation into Norton-Villiers.
Associated Northcliffe Digital Associated Northcliffe Digital ("AND") is the digital publishing arm of Associated Newspapers and Northcliffe Newspapers Group, part of the Daily Mail and General Trust. It was formed in mid-2006 from Associated New Media, Associated New Ventures and Northcliffe Electronic Publishing.
Associated Presbyterian Churches The Associated Presbyterian Churches (APC) is a small Scottish Christian denomination (with some representation in Canada and New Zealand), formed in 1989 from part of the community of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
Associated Press Athlete of the Year The first and most prestigious Athlete of the Year award in the United States was initiated by the Associated Press (AP) in 1931. At a time when women in sports were never given the same recognition as men, the AP offered a male and a female athlete of the year award to either a professional or amateur athlete.
Associated Press College Football Player of the Year Award The Associated Press College Football Player of the Year Award has been awarded annually since 1998 to the most outstanding collegiate football player in the country. The winner is chosen by a vote of AP sportswriters and sports editors from throughout the country.
Associated Public Schools of Victoria The Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) are a group of eleven independent schools in Victoria, Australia. Since 1900 the schools have been competing in sporting competitions, including the Head of the River rowing regattas, the APS Combined Swimming & Diving and the APS Athletics.
Associated RC18T The Associated RC18T is a 1/18th-scale, ready-to-run electric stadium truck made by Associated Electrics of Costa Mesa, California. A mechanically similar monster truck version with slightly different bodywork similar to the 1/8-scale, nitromethane-powered Associated "Monster GT" and all-terrain tires with unique "AE" tread pattern is sold as the RC18MT.
Associated state An associated state is the minor partner of a formal, free relationship between a political territory with a degree of statehood and a (usually larger) nation, for which no other specific term, such as protectorate, is adopted. The details of such "free association" are contained in a Compact of Free Association or Associated Statehood Act and are specific to the countries involved.
Associated Shades The Associated Shades are a group of famous dead people appearing in some of John Kendrick Bangs' works. They are a sort of corporation, which first appears in A House-Boat on the Styx, and are also something of an exclusive club.
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) is a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1880 and is one of the trade unions representing train drivers (the other is the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, [RMT]).
Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering The Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering (ASBME) is an undergraduate student organization for biomedical engineering students at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Associated Students of Michigan State University The Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU) is the undergraduate student government of Michigan State University. It is unusual amongst university student governments for its decentralized bicameral structure, its nonpartisan politics, and the relative ease of getting elected to one of its posts.
Associated Students of the University of California The Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) is the student government representing the students of UC Berkeley. It has historically been the most autonomous student government of any university in the United States and arguably the most self-aggrandizing.
Associated Students of the University of Hawaii The Associated Students of the University of Hawaiʻi (ASUH) is the undergraduate student government representing all full-time, classified, undergraduate students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. ASUH was chartered by the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents in 1912 and is now in its 94th year of serving and representing students.
Associated Students of the University of Missouri The Associated Students of the University of Missouri (ASUM) is a non-profit student association formed in 1975 to lobby the state and federal governments on behalf of the students of the University of Missouri System.
Associated Students of the University of Washington The Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW) is the student government on campus at the University of Washington. It is funded and supported by student fees, and provides services that directly and indirectly benefit them.
Associated Supermarkets Associated Supermarkets is a retailers' cooperative of grocery stores based in New York City, with locations in Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, and New Jersey. The Associated name has been in existence for over 50 years.
Associated Universities, Inc Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) is a not-for-profit science management corporation that operates the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Associated-Rediffusion Associated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion, London, was the British ITV contractor for London, on weekdays between 1954 (transmissions started on September 22, 1955) and July 29, 1968. Its headquarters were at Television House in Kingsway, London.
Association (astronomy) An association (astronomy) is a combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures from which cosmic rays have been removed. WFPC2 associations constitute one type of association and are tools in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive for using data from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).
Association (ecology) An association is the "ultimate classification level" of ecological systems. Local conditions permit several understory species to coexist with the same overstory dominants, and associations refer to the many co-occurring species rather than just the few dominant ones.
Association (psychology) In psychology and marketing, two concepts or stimuli are associated when the experience of one leads to the effects of another, due to repeated pairing. This is sometimes called Pavlovian association for Ivan Pavlov's pioneering of classical conditioning.
Association de Karaté japonais du Québec The Association de Karaté japonais du Québec or Association of Japanese Karate of Quebec (AJKQ) is a non-profit organization having the objective of teaching the traditional type of karate shotokan in Quebec.
Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessinée The Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessinée is a French association of comics critics and journalists who gave the Prix Bloody Mary from 1984 to 2003 and the Prix de la critique from 2004 to now. Moreover, every year, this association publishes a report about the state of the comics industry in France.
Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l'Europe The Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l'Europe (AEGEE), also known as the European Students' Forum, is one of Europe's largest interdisciplinary student organizations. It takes its name AEGEE from the Aegean sea, one of the birthplaces of democracy, and from the first parliament established during the French Revolution, the Etats Généraux.
Association des Guides du Tchad The Association des Guides du Tchad (AGT, Guide Association of Chad) is the national Guiding organization of Chad. The girls-only organization is an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
Association des Guides et Scouts de Monaco Monaco has one of the world's smallest national Scouting and Guiding organizations, the Association des Guides et Scouts de Monaco (AGSM). The association has about 71 members (48 Scouts, 23 Guides - as of 2003).
Association des Scouts du Burundi The Association des Scouts du Burundi, the national Scouting organization of Burundi, was founded in 1940, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1979. The coeducational Association des Scouts du Burundi has 6,505 members as of 2004.
Association des Scouts du Canada L'Association des Scouts du Canada (ASC) is a World Organization of the Scout Movement member along with Scouts Canada in Canada. It is a unique situation, Canada being the only country having two membership in the WOSM.
Association des Scouts du Niger The Association des Scouts du Niger (in local languages Iskutun Niger and Nizer Skutey), the national Scouting organization of Niger, was founded in 1947, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1996. The coeducational Association des Scouts du Niger has 4,347 members as of 2004.
Association des Scouts du Rwanda The Association des Scouts du Rwanda (ASR, Scout Association of Rwanda) is the national Scouting organization of Rwanda. Scouting in Rwanda was founded in 1940 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) in 1975.
Association des Scouts et Guides de Mauritanie The Association des Scouts et Guides de Mauritanie (), the national Scouting organization of Mauritania, was founded in 1946, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1983 and is also an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The coeducational Association des Scouts et Guides de Mauritanie has about 4,200 members (3,724 Scouts and 456 Guides) as of 2004.
Association des Scouts et Guides du Congo The Association des Scouts et Guides du Congo (ASGC, Guide and Scout association of the Congo) is the national Scouting and Guiding organization of the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville). The coeducational organization was founded in 1992 and has about 40 groups with 3 000 membersUN NGO directory.
Association des Scouts et Guides du Sénégal The Association des Scouts et Guides du Sénégal (SGdS, Scout and Guide Association of Senegal) is one of Senegal's Scouting and Guiding organizations. Its Scout section is member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement via the Confédération Sénégalaise du Scoutisme.
Association des Veuves du Genocide Association des Veuves du Genocide (AVEGA) is a Rwandan association formed to help widows, orphans and others who lost family members in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. AVEGA was founded in October 1995 by 50 women who had survived the killings but lost their husbands.
Association fallacy An association fallacy is a type of logical fallacy which asserts that qualities of one are inherently qualities of another, merely by association. The two types are sometimes referred to as "guilt by association" and "honor by association.
Association for Automated Reasoning The Association for Automated Reasoning (AAR) is a non-profit corporation that serves as an association of researchers working on automated theorem proving, automated reasoning, and related fields. It organizes the CADE and IJCAR conferences and publishes a roughly quarterly newsletter.
Association for Behavior Analysis The Association for Behavior Analysis is an organization dedicated to promoting the experimental, theoretical, and applied analysis of behavior. It encompasses contemporary scientific and social issues, theoretical advances, and the dissemination of professional and public information.
Association for Business Communication The Association for Business Communication (ABC) is the primary academic organization for the field of business communication scholarship, research, education and practice. It mission statement on its website reflects this: “The Association for Business Communication (ABC) is an international organization committed to fostering excellence in business communication scholarship, research, education, and practice.
Association for Career and Technical Education The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) is the largest American national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for successful careers. ACTE's core purpose is to provide leadership in developing an educated, prepared, and competitive workforce.
Association for Civil Rights in Israel The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Hebrew: האגודה לזכויות האזרח בישראל) was created as an independent non-partisan organization to protect human rights and civil rights in Israel and the territories under its control.
Association for Computational Linguistics The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation. An annual meeting is held each summer in locations where significant computational linguistics research is carried out.
Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter The Association for Computing Machinery - University of the Philippines Student Chapter, or UP ACM is the first and only chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery in the Philippines. Based in the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines, the student organization is a three-time winner of the international ACM Chapter Excellence Awards.
Association for Consciousness Exploration The Association for Consciousness Exploration (ACE) is an American networking organization, best known for hosting the annual Starwood Festival in Sherman, New York (a six-day summer camping event featuring live entertainment and classes on a variety of subjects including world spirituality and culture, consciousness, holistic health and other topicsKrassner (2005)Vale and Sulak (2001)), and the annual WinterStar Symposium in Dellroy, Ohio Association for Consciousness Exploration: The WinterStar Festival, usually held in February. The organization was founded in 1983 by members of the "Chameleon Club", and their fictional founder, C.
Association for Cultural Freedom The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an anti-communist advocacy group founded in 1950. In 1967, it was revealed that the United States Central Intelligence Agency was instrumental in the establishment of the group, and it was subsequently renamed the International Association for Cultural Freedom (IACF).
Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood The Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) () is a pro-democracy political party in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It was established in October 26 1986.

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