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Attitude and Heading Reference Systems Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) are 3-axis sensors that provide heading, attitude and yaw information for aircraft. AHRS are designed to replace traditional mechanical gyroscopic flight instruments and provide superior reliability and accuracy.
Attitude indicator An attitude indicator (AI), aka gyro horizon or artificial horizon, is an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the airplane relative to the ground. It indicates pitch (fore and aft tilt) and roll (side to side tilt), and is considered the most important instrument for flight in instrument meteorological conditions.
Attitude Records (UK) Attitude Records is the name of a London, England label founded by the pop/rock star Gary Glitter, who formed it in the early-1990s after his contract with Virgin Records expired. In an interview at the time, Glitter said "I decided to put my money where my mouth is and launch my own label"
Attitude Records (US) Attitude Records is the name of a Jacksonville, Florida, based record label specializing mostly in Hip-Hop and Miami Bass music. It was setup by Jeff Cohen as an offshoot of his record distribution company, Dolphin Distributors.
Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists is an influential anthology of alternative comics, photos and artists' interviews edited by Universal Press Syndicate editorial cartoonist Ted Rall. It focuses on cartoonists whose work appears in alternative weekly newspapers with a view toward defining a new genre of political comics that, in Rall's words, are "too alternative for the mainstream and too mainstream for the underground.
Attitudes (Lorie album) Attitudes is French pop singer Lorie's third studio album, and her fourth album overall. It has a self-admitted rockier sound than the singer's first two records and was released on 19 January 2004 in two versions: a regular, jewel case release and a limited edition digipak also containing a DVD and six stickers featuring the best-selling singing star.
Attitudes toward wolves Throughout the centuries, widely varying human attitudes toward wolves have been highly-charged and often colored by fear and misunderstanding. As a result, the Gray Wolf has been extirpated in much of Europe and the U.
Attleborough railway station Attleborough railway station is a railway station serving the town of Attleborough in the English county of Norfolk. It is served by local services operated by Central Trains and 'one' on the Breckland Line from Norwich to Peterborough and Cambridge.
Attock Petroleum The Attock Petroleum Limited (APL) is the only fourth Oil Marketing Company in Pakistan to be granted a license in February, 1998. Attock Petroleum is part of the Attock Group of Companies, which is the only fully integrated Group in the Oil & Gas sector of Pakistan involved in Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing.
Attophysics Attophysics is a branch of Physics wherein attosecond duration pulses of electrons or photons are used to probe dynamic processes in matter with unprecedented time resolution. This branch of Physics which involves studying some of the fastest physical events is also known as Attoscience.
Attorney at law An attorney at law (also known simply an attorney or lawyer) in the United States is a person licensed to practice law by the highest court of a state or other jurisdiction. Alternate terms include attorney-at-law and attorney and counselor (or counsellor) at law.
Attorney at law (Japan) form a legal profession in Japan. Attorneys at law are the only individuals authorized to represent others in district courts, high courts, and the Supreme Court, and are also authorized to give advice regarding any matter of law.
Attorney General In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General or Attorney-General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.
Attorney General (Mexico) In Mexico the Office of the Attorney General (Spanish: ProcuradurĂ­a General de la RepĂşblica) is an institution belonging to the Federal executive branch that is responsible of the investigation and prosecution of federal crimes.
Attorney General for England and Wales Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known simply as the Attorney General, is the chief legal adviser of the Crown in England and Wales. He or she represents the Queen and the Government in court, and has supervisory powers over prosecutions, which are the responsibility of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Attorney General of Delaware The Attorney General of Delaware is an elected four-year executive branch office, the holder of which is the head of the Department of Justice for the state. The office existed in various forms prior to the ratification of the State Constitution of 1776 which carried on an existing colonial tradition granting the Governor the power to appoint the Attorney General for a five-year tenure.
Attorney General of Hawaii The Attorney General of Hawaii is the State Attorney General and the chief legal and law enforcement officer of the State of Hawaii. He or she is appointed by the governor and is responsible for advising the various agencies and departments of the executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch of the state government.
Attorney General of Ontario The Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario is responsible for providing a fair and accessible justice system which reflects the needs of the diverse communities it serves across government and the province. It strives to manage the justice system in an equitable, affordable and accessible way throughout the province.
Attorney's fee Attorney's fees (note that the use of the word 'attorney' connotes lawyers broadly: solicitors and barristers) are the costs of legal representation that an attorney's client or a party to a lawsuit incurs. Attorney's fees are assessed in a number of ways, usually set by contract in advance of the representation, including by billable hours, flat fees, or contingent fees.
Attorney-client privilege Attorney-client privilege is a legal concept that protects communications between a client and his or her attorney and keeps those communications confidential. This privilege encourages open and honest communication between clients and attorneys.
Attorney-General (New Zealand) The Attorney-General is a political office in New Zealand. It is simultaneously a ministerial position and an administrative office, and has responsibility for supervising New Zealand law and advising the government on legal matters.
Attorney-General for Ireland The Attorney-General for Ireland was an Irish and then (from the Act of Union 1800) United Kingdom government office. The holder was senior to the Solicitor-General for Ireland, and advised the Crown on Irish legal matters.
Attorney-General of Australia The Attorney-General of Australia is the chief law officer of the Crown and a member of the Federal Cabinet. In theory, he or she is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Prime Minister, and serves at the Governor-General's pleasure.
Attorney-General of Western Australia The Attorney-General of Western Australia is the member of the Government of Western Australia responsible for maintenance and improvement of Western Australia's system of law and justice. Before the advent of representative government in 1870, the title was Advocate-General of Western Australia.
Attraction (grammar) Attraction is the process by which a relative pronoun takes on -- that is, is "attracted to" -- the case of its antecedent, rather than having the case appropriate to its function in the relative clause. For example, in this English sentence, the relative pronoun has the appropriate case, namely, the accusative:
Attractive nuisance doctrine Under the attractive nuisance doctrine of the law of torts, a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by a hazardous object or condition on the land that is likely to attract children, who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object or condition. The doctrine has been applied to hold landowners liable for injuries caused by abandoned cars, piles of lumber or sand, trampolines, and swimming pools.
Attractor In dynamical systems, an attractor is a set to which the system evolves after a long enough time. For the set to be an attractor, trajectories that get close enough to the attractor must remain close even if slightly disturbed.
Attribute clash Attribute clash (or colour clash) was a display artefact caused by limitations in the graphics circuitry of a number of early colour 8-bit home computers — most notably the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It has since been considered an element of Spectrum user culture.
Attribute grammar An Attribute grammar is a formal way to define attributes for the productions of a formal grammar, associating these attributes to values. The evaluation occurs in the nodes of the abstract syntax tree, when the language is processed by some parser or compiler.
Attribute-value pair Attribute-value pairs are a fundamental data representation in many computing systems and applications. Designers often desire an open-ended data structure that allows for future extension without modifying existing code or data.
Attribute-value system An attribute-value system is a basic knowledge representation framework comprising a table with columns designating "attributes" (also known as "properties", "predicates," "features," or "dimensions," depending on the context) and rows designating "objects" (also known as "entities," "instances," or "exemplars"). Each table cell therefore designates the value of a particular attribute on a particular object.
Attribution (copyright) In copyright law, attribution is the requirement to acknowledge or credit the author of a work which is used or appears in another work. Attribution is required by most copyright and copyleft licenses, such as GNUFDL and CC-by.
Attribution of recent climate change Attribution of recent climate change is the problem of discovering what mechanisms are responsible for observed changes in climate. The endeavour centers on the observed changes over the last century and in particular over the last 50 years, when observations are best and human influence greatest.
Attribution theory Attribution theory is a field of social psychology, which was born out of the theoretical models of Fritz Heider, Harold Kelley, Edward E. Jones, and Lee Ross and then developed by psychologists such as Bernard Weiner.
Attrition (band) Attrition is an electronic music band, formed in Coventry, England in 1980 by Martin Bowes and Julia Niblock. Influenced by punk's do-it-yourself aesthetic, Attrition appeared on compilation cassettes featuring contemporaries such as Portion Control, Konstruktivits, Chris and Cosey, Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound, Metamorphosis et al.
Attrition (website) Attrition is an information security-related website, updated at least weekly by an all-volunteer staff. Until 21 May 2001, Attrition maintained the largest mirror of defaced (or cracked) websites available on the world wide web.
Attrition warfare Attrition warfare is a strategic concept which states that to win a war, one's enemy must be worn down to the point of collapse by continuous losses in personnel and materiel. The war will usually be won by the side with greater such reserves.
Attu Island Attu is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, making it the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska and the United States. Attu Station, the only inhabited area on the island, is actually located at 52°51' north latitude, 173°11' east longitude, technically making it the easternmost point of Alaska (and the United States) in the eastern hemisphere.
Attucks Theatre The Attucks Theatre, located in Norfolk, Virginia, was financed, designed and constructed by African American entrepreneurs in 1919. The theatre was named in honor of Crispus Attucks, an African American who was the first patriot to lose his life in the Revolutionary War.
Attundaland Attundaland or the land of the eight hundreds has since 1296 been a part of the province of Uppland. Its name refers to its role of providing 800 men and 32 ships for the leidang of the Swedish kings at Uppsala.
Attunement Attunement is a process, similar to synchronization, wherein previously diffuse systems come into alignment, often spontaneously. It is therefore distinct from synchronized dancing, swimming, or other human aesthetic activities that are preplanned, practiced and then performed.
Attur Attur is a city and a municipality in Salem district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated approximately 55 km to the east of Salem on the road to the town of Kallakuruchi (the route is well served by a number of bus lines).
Atturnato faciendo vel recipiendo Atturnato faciendo vel recipiendo is an old writ which an individual owing suit to a county, hundred, or other court, and desiring to make an attorney appear for him there, whom he doubts the sheriff or steward will not otherwise admit, purchases to command him to receive such attorney, and admit his appearance by him.
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, located approximately 60 miles (100 km) west of Houston, Texas, is one of the largest remnants of coastal prairie habitat remaining in southeast Texas and home to one of the last populations of the critically endangered Attwater's prairie-chicken, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem.
Atua (district) Atua is the most ancient district of Samoa, now consisting of most of the eastern half of Upolu but also traditionally incorporates Tutuila and once all of Upolu and Savaii. The capital is Aleipata at Saleaaumua.
Atucha I nuclear power plant Atucha I is one of two operational nuclear power plants of Argentina. It is located in the town of Lima, Zárate, province of Buenos Aires, about 100 km from Buenos Aires City, on the right-hand shore of the Paraná de las Palmas River.
Atucha II nuclear power plant Atucha II is a projected nuclear power plant in Argentina, located in Lima, Buenos Aires, on a site next to Atucha I. Its construction started in 1980, but it has never been finished (it is complete by around 80%).
Atuk Atuk is the name of a screenplay adaptation based on the 1963 novel The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler. It is basically a fish out of water comedy of a proud, mighty Eskimo hunter trying to adapt to life in the big city.
Atul Agnihotri Atul Agnihotri (Hindi: अतुल अग्निहोत्रि, Urdu: اَتُل اَگنِہوترِ), born in 1970, is a Bollywood actor whose career stretches back to 1983, with over a dozen films. His cousin is actress Rati Agnihotri.
Atul Gawande Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Atul Chitnis Atul Chitnis (1962-) is an Indian consulting technologist known for his work in the fields of data networks, internet and intranets, Linux and Free and Open Source Software and mobile computing in India. He is also the founder of FOSS.
Atum Atum (alternatively spelled Tem, Temu, Tum, and Atem) is an early deity in Egyptian mythology, whose cult centred on the Ennead of Heliopolis. Originally associated with the earth, Atum gradually became considered to be the sun, as it passes the horizon.
Atuona Bay Atuona Bay (French Baie d'Atuona or Baie Tahauku) is a small inlet on the north shore of Ta‘a ‘Oa (the Bay of Traitors), on the southern coast of Hiva ‘Oa. The bay is traditionally called Vevau in Marquesan.
Atutahi In Māori mythology, Atutahi is the name of Canopus, (Alpha Carinae). Of all the stars known to the Māori, Atutahi had a special place, along with Rigel (Puanga), because of their intimate association with kūmara cultivation.
Atwal Atwal (also Attwal or Athwal) (Hindi: अटवाल, Punjabi: ਅਟਵਾਲ)is a clan name or Gotra of Jats and Dalit clan/sub-caste from the Punjab region of Northern India and Pakistan. Atwal is derived from sanskrit word Attalika meaning 'high hill-tops'.
Atwar Bahjat Atwar Bahjat (; 1976 – 22 February 2006) was an Iraqi journalist and reporter for al-Arabiya television who was abducted and brutally murdered while covering a story. She had previously worked for al-Jazeera].
Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia Philadelphia's city history museum, the Atwater Kent Museum (also known as the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia) was created in 1938 when Philadelphia Mayor S. Davis Wilson and Frances Wistar, president of the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, convinced inventor and radio pioneer A.
Atwater system The Atwater system (after Wilbur Olin Atwater) or derivatives of this system are used for the calculation of the available energy of foods. The system was developed largely from the experimental studies of Atwater and his colleagues in the later part of the last century and the early years of the present one.
Atwater Township, Portage County, Ohio Atwater Township is one of eighteen civil townships in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It is located in the southeastern portion of the county, and borders or touches the following other townships and municipalities:
Atwater Village, Los Angeles, California Atwater Village is a neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles, California. It is bordered by the Los Angeles districts of Los Feliz and the Hollywood Hills of Griffith Park on the west, Silver Lake on the south, and Glassell Park on the southeast, and by the city of Glendale on the north and east.
Atwater-Donnelly Atwater-Donnelly is a long-time Rhode Island folk music group consisting of Aubrey Atwater, Elwood Donnelly, and occasionally other musicians and dancers. They have toured throughout the United States and internationally, playing guitar, banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, tin whistle, limberjack, and other instruments.
Atwima District The Atwima District is a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The Atwima Mponua District was split off by a decree of president John Agyekum Kufuor on November 12, 2003, the remainder is since then officially called the Atwima Nwabiagya District.
Atwood (crater) Atwood is a small lunar impact crater that is located on the Mare Fecunditatis, to the northwest of the prominent Langrenus crater. It forms a triple-crater formation with Naonobu attached to the north rim and Bilharz near the west rim.
Atypical antipsychotic The atypical antipsychotics (also known as second generation antipsychotics) are a class of prescription medications used to treat psychiatric conditions. All atypical antipsychotics are FDA approved for use in the treatment of schizophrenia.
Atypical depression Atypical Depression (AD) is a subtype of Major Depression characterized by mood reactivity — being able to experience improved mood in response to positive events. In contrast, sufferers of "melancholic" depression generally cannot experience positive moods, even when good things happen.
Atypical gender role Gender role is a term used in the social sciences and humanities to denote a set of behavioral norms associated with a given gendered status (also called a gendered identity) in a given social group or system. A person who exhibits a gender role at odds with the norm for their gender and class, in a society, is said to have an atypical gender role.
Atypus affinis The Purseweb spider (Atypus affinis) is a common mygalomorph spider from Europe, found mainly in southern England but ranging as far north as Denmark and as far south as North Africa. It is the only British mygalomorph spider.
Atys (Lully) Atys (Attis) is a tragédie en musique in a prelude and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a French-language libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Fasti. It was premiered at the royal court in Saint-Germain-en-Laye January 10 1676.
AT Attachment AT Attachment (ATA) is a standard interface for connecting storage devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM drives inside personal computers, maintained by X3/INCITS committee T13. Many terms and synonyms for ATA exist, including abbreviations such as IDE, ATAPI, and UDMA.
AT keyboard The AT keyboard was a keyboard with 84 keys introduced with the IBM PC/AT computer. It succeeded the 83-key PC/XT keyboard and therefore did not have many of the features seen on modern keyboards such as arrow keys and dual ctrl and alt keys.
AT-11 Sniper AT-11 Sniper is the NATO reporting name for the 9M119/9M119M Svir/Refleks laser beam riding guided anti-tank missiles of the former Soviet Union. The two missiles are similar, varying only in range and launch platform.
AT-3 (jet trainer) The AT-3 is an advanced jet trainer operated by the Republic of China Air Force. Sixty of the aircraft were manufactured by the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation of the Republic of China (Taiwan) between 1984 and 1990.
AT-8 Songster AT-8 Songster is the NATO reporting name for the 9K112 Kobra SACLOS radio-command guided anti-tank missile system of the Soviet Union. It is fired from the 125 mm main guns of the T-64 and T-80 series of tanks.
AT-AT The All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT), also called the Imperial Walker, was a major part of the Galactic Empire's army in the fictional Star Wars universe. They were assembled by Kuat Drive Yards, and evolved from the previous built AT-TE Walkers and A5 Juggernaut, made for the Clone Wars.
AT-PT In the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe, the AT-PT (All Terrain Personal Transport) is a single seat light anti-infantry walker developed and used during the latter years of the Old Republic era. It was developed and produced by Rothana Heavy Engineering for use during the Clone Wars, though it saw little actual service during the conflicts.
AT-ST All Terrain Scout Transports are bipedal war machines used by the Galactic Empire in the fictional Star Wars universe. AT-STs were seen in the Battle of Hoth and the Battle of Endor in the movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
AT&L Railroad The AT&L Railroad was started in May 1985 operating about 49 miles ( km) of former Rock Island Railroad track in Oklahoma. It was formed from the North Central Oklahoma Railroad who operated the track prior to 1985.
AT&T Building The AT&T Building, now the Sony Building, is a 37-story highrise in Manhattan, on Madison Avenue between 55th and 56th streets. It was designed by architect Philip Johnson and constructed in 1984, becoming immediately controversial for its ornamental top and spectacular arched entranceway, measuring about seven stories in height.
AT&T Classic The AT&T Classic, formerly known as the BellSouth Classic, and, at its beginning in 1967, the Atlanta Classic, is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. The AT&T Corporation, which acquired the BellSouth Group in 2006, is now the main title sponsor of the tournament.
AT&T Computer Systems AT&T Computer Systems is the generic name for AT&T's unsuccessful attempt to compete in the computer business. In return for divesting the local Bell Operating Companies (Baby Bells), AT&T was allowed to have an unregulated division to sell computer hardware and software.
AT&T Consumer Lease Services Consumer Phone Services LLC, doing business as AT&T Consumer Lease Services, is a New York City-based company managed by Lucent Technologies. The AT&T name is used under license, as the company is in no way affiliated with AT&T.
AT&T Corporate Center The AT&T Corporate Center is the 4th tallest skyscraper in Chicago and 8th tallest in the United States at 1,007 ft (307 m) with 60 floors. Completed in 1989, it sits next to the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago.
AT&T FSM Library The AT&T FSM Library™ is a collection of Unix software tools for creating and manipulating finite state machines, specifically weighted finite-state acceptors and transducers. While completely general, the library was designed for and is being used in speech processing applications, such as speech recognition and speech synthesis.
AT&T Hobbit The Hobbit is a microprocessor design of the early 1990s from AT&T. It developed from their CRISP (C-language Reduced Instruction Set Processor) design that was in turn developed from the C Machine experimental efforts in the late 1980s at Bell Labs.
AT&T Information Systems AT&T Information Systems (ATTIS) was the fully separate subsidiary of AT&T which focused on computer technology ventures and telephone sales, and other unregulated business. It was one of the three core units of AT&T formed after the break up of the Bell System.
AT&T Park AT&T Park (formerly SBC Park and Pacific Bell Park) is an open-air baseball stadium, home to the San Francisco Giants of the National League. The park is located at 24 Willie Mays Plaza, at the corner of 3rd Street and King Street in the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
AT&T Pro-Am The AT&T National Pro-Am, an event originally known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur, or just the Crosby Clambake, is a PGA Tour golf tournament that is held every year at Pebble Beach, California, in the United States. The tournament is typically held during the month of February on three different courses, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Poppy Hills Golf Course and Spyglass Hill Golf Course.
AT2 mine The AT2 mine is a scatterable anti-tank mine developed by Dynamit Nobel. It can be scattered from artillery rockets or from mine laying systems, and is currently in service with the British, German and Norwegian armies.
AT91SAM AT91SAM (AT91SAM Smart ARM-based Microcontrollers) are a family of Atmel microcontrollers based on the 32-bit RISC microprocessors from ARM. They include embedded Flash and SRAM memories together with a number of peripherals and standard communications and networking interfaces.
ATA 300 ATA Spec 300 is a specification that establishes the airline transport industry's requirements for the design, development and procurement of effective packaging of supplies and equipment shipped to a customer airline.
ATA over Ethernet ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is a network protocol developed by the Brantley Coile Companydesigned for accessing ATA] storage devices over [[Ethernet networks. It gives the possibility to build SANs with low-cost, standard technologies.
ATASCII The ATASCII character set, from ATARI Standard Code for Information Interchange, alternatively ATARI ASCII, is the variation on ASCII used in the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. The first of this family were the Atari 400 and 800, released in 1979, and later models were released throughout the 1980s.
ATC (band) ATC was a pop group based in Germany, although the four members each came from different countries—Joseph "Joey" Murray from New Zealand, Sarah Egglestone from Australia, Tracey Elizabeth Packham from England, and Livio Salvi from Italy.
ATC code N07 ATC code N07 is a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System. It refers to nervous system drugs other than anesthetics, analgesics, antiepileptics, anti-parkinson drugs, psycholeptics and psychoanaleptics (which are included in other parts of ATC code N).
ATCO ATCO Ltd. () is an Alberta based corporation with operating subsidiaries in electric and natural gas utility operations, independent power operations, production, storage, processing, gathering, delivery of natural gas, technical facilities management for the industrial, defence, and transportation sectors, the manufacture, sale and leasing of industrial shelters and industrial noise abatement technologies.
ATCO Electric ATCO Electric is an electric utility company. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, ATCO Electric transmits and distributes electricity to two thirds of Alberta, namely in north and east-central Alberta, as well as communities in the Yukon and North West Territories.
ATDI / Sunshine ATDI / Sunshine is a split EP released in 2000 by At the Drive-In and Sunshine. Anchored by the much more prominent At the Drive-In, the split – released on the independent record label Big Wheel Recreation – is actually dominated by songs by the European-import, Sunshine: their three tracks elapse almost two-thirds of the album.
ATE Bank The ATE Bank, also or rarely the the Agricultural Bank of Greece (Greek: Agrotiki Trapeza tis Ellados) is a Greek agricultural banking service used primarily for rural areas. Its headquarters is in Athens, the national capital and has hundreds of branches across Greece.
ATF Fire Research Laboratory The Fire Research Laboratory (FRL) is part of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), an investigative agency within the United States Department of Justice. Located in Beltsville, Maryland, the FRL is an innovative partnership among law enforcement, fire services, public safety agencies, academia and the private sector that uses the most advanced scientific, technical, educational, and training methods to make the ATF and its partners leaders in fire investigation science to serve and protect the public.
ATFA The American Task Force Argentina, or ATFA was formed in November of 2006 in response to concerns over Argentina’s handling of its sovereign debt default. The Task Force works with international lawmakers, the media, creditors and other interested parties in the United States, Argentina, Europe, Asia and Latin America to educate the public and raise awareness about the hazards associated with the Argentine government’s failure to address its default in accordance with international norms.

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