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Acura Acura (アキュラ) is a brand name used by the Japanese car manufacturer Honda in the US, Canada and Hong Kong since March 1986 to market luxury automobiles and near-luxury vehicles. The brand was introduced to Mexico in 2004 and to the Chinese market in 2006.
Acura Classic The Acura Classic is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every summer at the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament beginning in 2004.
Acura CSX The Acura CSX is an Acura badged version of the Japanese 2006 Honda Civic that replaces the Acura EL and the now-discontinued RSX as Acura's entry-level car. It is essentially a luxury version of the Honda Civic.
Acura EL In 1997, the Acura EL was born as a compact entry-level luxury car developed by Honda as an entry-level vehicle (the EL in the car name), and sold only in Canada. The car had two different generations, and was sold from 1997 to 2005.
Acura Integra The Acura Integra, sold as a Honda in most of the world, was a small, sporty vehicle sold primarily as a hatchback. It was Acura's smallest, least expensive model, designed to offer a competitor to vehicles like the Volkswagen Golf GTI, which was the most well known and popular "hot hatch" of the 1980s when the Integra was introduced.
Acura MDX The Acura MDX (Honda MDX in Japan and Australia) is a mid-size luxury crossover SUV produced by the Japanese automaker Acura since the 2001 model year. The MDX is the first crossover SUV to have third-row seating.
Acura RDX The Acura RDX is Acura’s first compact luxury crossover SUV. Originally previewed as the Acura RD-X concept car, the production RDX had its debut at the 2006 New York Auto Show and went on sale in on August 11, 2006.
Acura RSX The Acura RSX is an automobile sold by Honda. In North America and Hong Kong, the vehicle was marketed as the replacement for the Acura-badged version of the Integra, however Honda continues to sell the vehicle as the Honda Integra in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.
Acura SLX The Acura SLX was a lightly upgraded Isuzu Trooper sold by Acura as a luxury sport utility vehicle beginning in 1996, due to the increasing popularity of SUVs at the time. It was released at the same time as the Lexus LX and it was only sold in the US.
Acura TL The Acura TL is a compact executive car from Honda's luxury Acura marque. It was introduced in 1996 to supplant the Acura Vigor and was a rebadged Japan-market Honda Inspire sedan until the third-generation version.
Acura TSX The Acura TSX is an automobile manufactured by Honda, introduced about April 2003, sold in North America to compete in the entry-level luxury car segment against the Volvo S40, Mercedes-Benz C-Class 230; BMW 3 Series 328i and Lexus IS 250.
Acushnet River The Acushnet River is the largest river feeding into the Buzzards Bay watershed in southeastern Massachusetts. The name "Acushnet" comes from the Wampanoag "Cushnea," meaning "as far as the waters," originally designating the fact that the tribe which sold the land to the Puritans inhabited the lands leading up to the river.
Acute abdomen The term acute abdomen refers to an emergency situation in medicine, namely an acute onset of symptoms and signs around the abdomen, indicating severe underlying disease. Urgent and specific treatment is needed and may be life-saving.
Acute accent The acute accent (  ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin and Greek scripts. The word acute is derived from the Latin acutus ("sharp"), itself a loan translation of the Greek (oxýs).
Acute Assessment Unit An Acute Assessment Unit, or Acute Admissions Unit, often abbreviated to AAU is a department in a UK hopsital which is part of the A&E department. The Acute Assessment Unit acts as a gateway between a patient's GP, A&E and the wards of the hospital.
Acute care Acute care refers to necessary treatment of a disease for only a short period of time in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness. Many hospitals are acute care facilities with the goal of discharging the patient as soon as the patient is deemed healthy and stable, with appropriate discharge instructions.
Acute coronary syndrome An acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a set of signs and symptoms suggestive of sudden cardiac ischemia, usually caused by disruption of atherosclerotic plaque in an epicardial coronary artery. The acute coronary syndromes include Unstable Angina (UA), Non-ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI), and ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI), commonly referred to as a heart attack.
Acute HIV infection Acute HIV infection typically occurs two to four weeks after exposure to HIV. While many individuals do not experience any symptoms during this period, fever, headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, aching muscles, mouth and esophagus ulcers, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, or a rash may be observed.
Acute phase protein Acute-phase proteins are a class of proteins whose plasma concentrations increase (positive acute phase proteins) or decrease (negative acute phase proteins) in response to inflammation. This response is called the acute-phase reaction.
Acy, Louisiana Acy, Louisiana is a small unincorporated community in the southeastern part of the state. Acy is located about 30 miles southeast of Baton Rouge and about 45 miles northwest of New Orleans on Louisiana state highway 22 in the parish of Ascension.
Acyanotic heart defect An acyanotic heart defect is any heart defect of a group of structural congenital heart defects, comprising approximately 75% of all congenital heart defects. It can be subdivided into two groups depending on whether there is shunting of the blood from the left vasculature to the right (left to right shunt) or no shunting at all.
Acyl carrier protein The acyl carrier protein (ACP) is an important component in both fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis with the growing chain bound during synthesis as a thiol ester at the distal thiol of a 4'-phophopantethiene moiety. The protein is expressed in the inactive apo form and the 4'-phosphopantetheine moiety must be post-translationally attached to a conserved serine residue on the ACP by the action of holo-acyl carrier protein synthase (ACPS) a phosphopantetheinyl transferase.
Acyl carrier protein synthase Acyl carrier protein synthases (ACPS) are members of the family of phosphopantethienyl transferases responsible for the conversion of the inactive apo-Acyl carrier protein from fatty acid or polyketide biosynthesis into the active holo form through the post-translational addition of a 4'-phosphopantethiene chain derived from coenzyme A.
Acyl chloride In organic chemistry, an acyl chloride (or acid chloride) is an organic compound which is a reactive derivative of a carboxylic acid. As part of its molecular structure, an acyl chloride has the reactive functional group -CO-Cl.
Acylal Acylals in organic chemistry are a group of chemical compounds sharing a functional group with the general structure R-C(OOCR)2. Acylals can be obtained by reaction of aldehydes with acetic anhydride and a suitable catalyst for instance with sulfated zirconia at low temperatures when used as protective groups for aldehydes.
Acylsilane Acylsilanes are a group of chemical compounds sharing a common functional group with the general structure R(CO)-SiR3. Acylsilanes are starting compounds in the Brook rearrangement with vinyl lithium compounds to silyl enol ethers .
Acyutah In Hinduism, Acyutah is another name of Vishnu or God and appears as the 100th and 318th names in the Vishnu sahasranama. According to Adi Sankara's commentary on the Vishnu sahasranama, Acyutah means One who will never lose His inherent nature and powers (i.
AC (complexity) AC is a hierarchy of complexity classes used in circuit complexity. Each class, ACi, consists of the languages recognized by Boolean circuits with unlimited-fanin AND gates and OR gates, using depth O(log^i n) and a polynomial number of gates.
AC Cambrai Athletic Club Cambrésien is a French association football team founded in 1919. They are based in Cambrai, France and are currently playing in the Championnat de France Amateurs 2 Group A, the fifth tier in the French football league system.
AC Greyhound The AC Greyhound (1959-1963) was a 2+2 version of the Ace and Aceca automobiles made by AC Cars of Thames Ditton, Surrey, England. The Greyhound, of which 82 examples were built, had a two-door, four-seater aluminum body, and inherited most of the technical components of the Ace and Aceca:
AC NM AE T1 mine The AC NM AE T1 (Mina Anti-Carro Não-Magnética Alto Explosiva modello T1) is a Brazilian minimum metal anti-tank blast mine. The mine is believed to be in service with the Brazilian army, although production of the mine ceased in 1989.
AC power Power is defined as the rate of flow of energy past a given point. In alternating current circuits, energy storage elements such as inductance and capacitance may result in periodic reversals of the direction of energy flow.
AC Propulsion AC Propulsion is a San Dimas, California, USA company founded in 1992 by Alan Cocconi who is currently the company's CEO. They produce goods such as electric vehicle drive systems and their top of the line electric sports car, the AC Propulsion tzero.
AC Transit AC Transit (in full, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) is a regional bus agency serving parts of Alameda County and Contra Costa County in the western coastal area of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, AC Transit runs "Transbay" routes across San Francisco Bay to the city of San Francisco, and selected areas in San Mateo County and Santa Clara County.
AC-2 (cable system) AC-2 or Atlantic Crossing 2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the USA and the UK. Different telecommunications companies give this cable system different names, so it is also known as 'Yellow'.
AC-47 Spooky The Douglas AC-47 Spooky was the first in a series of gunships developed by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. It was felt that more firepower than could be provided by light and medium attack aircraft was needed in some situations when ground forces called for close air support.
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock AC/DC: Let There Be Rock is a live concert motion picture featuring the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released theatrically in September 1980 (see 1980 in music). It was also released on videotape the same year.
ACADM ACADM (acyl-Coenzyme A dehydrogenase, C-4 to C-12 straight chain) is a gene that provides instructions for making an enzyme called acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase that is important for breaking down (degrading) a certain group of fats called medium-chain fatty acids. These fatty acids are found in foods such as milk and certain oils, and they are also stored in the body's fat tissue.
ACASS ACASS, or Architect-Engineer Contract Administration Support System, was developed in 1975, in response to The 1972 Brooks Architect-Engineer Act, Public Law 92-582 (see external link below). The Brooks Act requires the public announcement of requirements for A–E services by Federal agencies (with some exceptions provided by other statutes); selection of the most highly qualified firms based on demonstrated competence and professional qualifications; and the negotiation of a fair and reasonable price, starting with the highest qualified firm.
ACÉPO The Association des conseils scolaires des écoles publiques de l'Ontario changed its name in 2006 from Association des conseillères et des conseillers des écoles publiques de l'Ontario to better reflect its membership. The Association, whose acronym remains ACÉPO, is composed of 4 different French-language school boards (FLSBs) in the province of Ontario.
ACC - Big Ten Challenge Beginning in 1999, the ACC - Big Ten Challenge is an in-season NCAA college basketball series, matching up NCAA teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big Ten Conference. ESPN was a key part of the creation of the challenge, and holds the broadcast rights to all the games.
ACC Athlete of the Year The Atlantic Coast Conference Athlete of the Year award is given to the male and female athlete who show extraordinary talent throughout the entire season. The award is decided by members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
ACC Championship Game The ACC Championship Game is a football game held by the Atlantic Coast Conference each year to determine its champion. The game pits the Coastal Division champion against the Atlantic Division champion after the regular season has been completed.
ACC Liverpool ACC LIVERPOOL (Arena and Convention Centre Liverpool) is the proposed title for an arena currently being built on the Liverpool waterfront. Opening in January 2008, the arena and conference centre will have a capacity of 10,000 and will provide a total of 7,000 square metres of exhibition space.
ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year The Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year award is given to the player who shows extraordinary talent throughout the entire season. The award is decided by members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
ACC Wednesday ACC Wednesday appears every Wednesday with the biggest college basketball games in the Atlantic Coast Conference in primetime during the regular season on ESPN. The official name is ACC Wednesday presented by Staples.
ACCBank ACCBank plc is a commercial bank in Ireland that focuses on agriculture, business and personal banking. The bank has its origins in the Agricultural Credit Corporation set up in 1927 in the Irish Free State to finance agriculture, the bank was successful and lead to the creation of the Industrial Credit Company which was modelled on it and provided finance to industry.
ACCEPT ACCEPT is the primary nongovernmental organization advocating for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Romania. It is based in Bucharest and also acts as the Romanian representative at ILGA-Europe.
ACCESS (Australia) ACCESS is the youth network of the New South Wales branch of The Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australia's preeminent non-government institution dealing with all aspects of Australia's foreign relations and international affairs.
ACCS ACCS is the $500M NATO Air Command and Control System programme, which is intended to replace the existing air command and control systems in Europe from 2009 onwards. At the highest level it comprises the Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) from which the air battle is run.
ACCURATE ACCURATE (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections) was established in 2005 by a group of computer scientists, psychologists and policy experts to address problems with electronic voting. The NSF funded organization seeks to provide reference materials about electronic voting for use by policy makers, vendors, the elections community and the general public.
ACE (editor) ACE - a collaborative editor is a platform-independent, collaborative real-time editor. It is a real-time cooperative editing system that allows multiple geographically dispersed users to view and edit a shared text document at the same time.
ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge The ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1990 as part of a joint effort with federal and state government agencies, private conservation groups and local landowners to preserve and protect the ACE Basin area. The Ashepoo River, Combahee River, and Edisto River which give the basin its name, combine to create one of the largest undeveloped estuaries on the Atlantic Coast.
ACE Film Festival The ACE Film Festival (The American Cinematic Experience Film Festival) is a film festival held annually in New York City, New York. According to its official website, unlike most American film festivals, it focuses purely on showcasing domestic-made works "in an effort to strengthen and promote pride in American independent cinema".
ACE Gallery ACE gallery is a large art gallery based in Los Angeles, California, USA, founded in 1961 by the gallery's director Douglas Chrismas, ACE gallery has a history of installing ambitious exhibitions. ACE gallery currently has two functioning gallery spaces in Los Angeles and Beverley hills, both in California.
ACE inhibitor ACE inhibitors, or inhibitors of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme, are a group of pharmaceuticals that are used primarily in treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure, in most cases as the drugs of first choice.
ACE Rent A Car ACE Rent A Car is a privately held business founded in 1966 by Robert Sorenson. Originally, Sorenson owned two car washes in Indianapolis and added 10 Volkswagons to meet the rental needs of the surrounding neighborhoods.
ACEA agreement The ACEA agreement refers to a voluntary agreement between the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) and the European Commission to limit the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by passenger cars sold in Europe. Signed in 1998, the agreement seeks to achieve an average of 140 gram CO2/km by 2008 for new passenger sold by the association's cars in Europe.
ACED Magazine ACED Magazine is an entertainment and lifestyle online publication aimed primarily at readers in their teens and twenties, with appeal for people of all ages. It currently caters to over 3,000,000 monthly readers.
ACELP Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction or ACELP is a speech encoding algorithm where a limited set of pulses is distributed as excitation to linear prediction filter. The ACELP method is widely employed in current speech coding standards such as AMR, EFR, AMR-WB and ITU-T G-series standards G.
ACES (computational chemistry) Aces II (Advanced Concepts in Electronic Structure Theory) is a computational chemistry package written and maintained by the research group of Rod Bartlett, at the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida. It contains an implementation of various electronic structure theory methods related to coupled cluster.
ACES (nutritional supplement) Antioxidant supplements with varying amounts of carotene(s) for (pro) vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and Selenium are known by the acronym, ACES. The commercial ACES formulas are a first generation, high potency, combined antioxidant that vary in component concentrations, specific components or source, and their ratio according to manufacturer and are available as both tablet and capsule.
ACES Educational Center for the Arts ACES Educational Center for the Arts, or ECA, is an American public arts magnet high school located in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. It offers five departments in the visual and performing arts: Music, Dance, Theatre, Creative Writing, and Visual Arts.
ACET The ACET Centre is located in The University of Reading, UK. The major aim of the Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies (ACET) is to demonstrate and promote new ways of doing multidisciplinary research based on the approach of "scientific discovery through advanced computing".
ACETTPEI The Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists of Prince Edward Island ( ACETTPEI ) is Prince Edward Island's independent certifying body for engineering/applied science technicians and technologists.
ACF River Basin The ACF River Basin refers to the watershed of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee/Flint River Basin, in the USA, which begins in northern Georgia and flows into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachicola Bay, near Apalachicola, Florida.
ACF2 ACF2 (Access Control Facility) is a commercial discretionary access control software security system developed for MVS (z/OS), VS1 and VM (z/VM) by SKK, Inc. (Barry Schrager, Eb Klemens, and Scott Kruger) in 1978.
ACFC The American Coalition of Fathers & Children (ACFC) is an organization that promotes the reform of family law to eliminate parental segregation and replace it with equal parenting rights & responsibilities.
ACFID The Australian Council For International Development (ACFID) is an independent national association of Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) working in the field of international aid and development. ACFID has some 80 members.
ACFM When manufacturers list performance for blowers and compressors it is stated as "Capacity" in CFM (Cubic Feet per Minute). This refers to the volume of air at the inlet to the unit, therefore this is often referred to as Inlet CFM (ICFM) or Actual CFM (ACFM).
ACID Pro Sony ACID Pro is the name of the loop-based music production software originally published by Sonic Foundry that is now owned and run by Sony. This software runs on PCs with all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 2000.
ACID64 Player ACID64 Player is a music player application by the High Voltage SID Collection team-member Wilfred Bos, that plays Commodore 64 music files through an MOS Technology SID sound interface device chip, using an instruction cycle-based emulation of the C64's core processors to achieve true fidelity.
ACIIS Automated Criminal Intelligence Information System is an on-line computer application also known as ACIIS. This database is the national intelligence repository for the use of all Criminal Intelligence Service Canada members in Canada.
ACIMED ACIMED (Journal of Information Professionals in Health) is a Spanish language journal of medical informatics published by the National Center of Information on Medical Sciences in Cuba. It was first published in 1993 and is the first Spanish language journal to be published on the subject of medical informatics.
ACIS The 3D ACIS® Modeler (ACIS) is a 3D modelling engine owned by Spatial Corp (formerly Spatial Technology). ACIS is used by many software developers industries such as computer-aided design, (CAD), Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), Computer-aided engineering (CAE), Architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), Coordinate-measuring machine (CMM), 3D animation, and shipbuilding.
ACK (computing) In computing, an ACK (also known as an acknowledgment code) is a signal passed between communicating processes or computers to signify acknowledgement, or receipt of response, as part of a communications protocol. For instance, ACK packets are used in the Transmission Control Protocol to acknowledge the receipt of SYN packets when establishing a connection, data packets while a connection is being used, and FIN packets when terminating a connection.
ACL2 theorem prover ACL2 is a software system consisting of a programming language, an extensible theory in a first-order logic, and a mechanical theorem prover. ACL2 is designed to support automated reasoning in inductive logical theories, mostly for the purpose of software and hardware verification.
ACLU v. NSA ACLU v. NSA is a lawsuit filed on January 17, 2006, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on its own behalf, and on the behalf of three other organizations and five individuals, against the National Security Agency (NSA), to challenge its so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program (see: NSA warrantless surveillance controversy) and the alleged NSA call database.
ACM - Association for Contemporary Music ACM - Association for Contemporary Music (, transliterated ASM - Assotsiatsia Sovremennoi Muzyki) was an alternative organisation of the composers in Russia orientated to the music of avant guarde. {The acronym also refers to the "Association for Computing Machinery" Founded by Nikolai Roslavets] in [[1923, it ran concert series and published magazines propagandizing the modernist music of Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Krenek, Hindemith, etc.
ACM Computers in Entertainment A premier online magazine with an editorial board of more than 100 industry and academic leaders, Association for Computing Machinery's Computers in Entertainment covers a wide range of theoretical and practical computer applications in the field of entertainment. It features video interviews with leading professionals.
ACM Computing Classification System The ACM Computing Classification System is a subject classification system for computer science devised by the Association for Computing Machinery. The system has gone through six revisions, the first version being published in 1964, and revised versions appearing in 1982, 1983, 1987, 1991, and the now current version in 1998.
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated as ACM-ICPC or just ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competition among the universities of the world. The ICPC challenges students to set ever higher standards of excellence for themselves through competition that rewards team work, problem analysis, and rapid software development.
ACM Transactions on Graphics ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) is a quarterly scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of computer graphics. It has been published since the 1970s by the Association for Computing Machinery.
ACMAT ACMAT (Ateliers de Construction MĂ©canique de L'Atlantique), also known as ALM-ACMAT(as of 22 May 2006, a wholly owned subsidiary of Renault Trucks), is a French producer of cross-country and tactical military vehicles since 1958. Known for their reliabiity, simplicity, ruggedness and their 80% commonality of parts, these vehicles were originally targeted at African and Asian countries who could not afford more expensive vehicles.
ACNielsen ACNielsen is an international marketing research firm, based in Schaumburg, Illinois. The company serves the consumer goods market with research on market performance and dynamics, solving marketing and sales problems, and identifying market growth opportunities.
ACOLOP ACOLOP stands for Associação dos Comités Olímpicos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (), which is an Olympic-related non-profit organisation officially established on June 8, 2004, in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded by the NOCs of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (China), Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe; it also includes Equatorial Guinea as an associate member.
ACORD ACORD, the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, is the insurance industry's nonprofit standards developer, a resource for information about object technology, EDI, XML and electronic commerce in the United States and abroad.
ACORN (demographics) ACORN (acronym for A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods) is a geodemographic information system categorising all United Kingdom postcodes into various types based upon census data and other information such as lifestyle surveys.
ACP-EU Development Cooperation Development cooperation between the European Union and the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP countries) is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2007. Although bilateral relations have always been and still remain one of the main features of modern development cooperation, it was the Treaty of Rome in 1957 which first established a collective European development policy.
ACS National Historical Chemical Landmarks The ACS National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program was launched by the American Chemical Society in 1992 and has recognized over 50 landmarks to date. The project is part of the ACS Division of the History of Chemistry and has the aim of compiling "an annotated roster for chemists and chemical engineers, students, educators, historians, and travelers.
ACSE Association Control Service Element (ACSE) is the OSI method for establishing a call between two application programs. ACSE checks the identities and contexts of the application entities, and could apply an authentication security check.
ACSSB ACSSB (Amplitude Companded Single Sideband) is a narrowband modulation method using a single sideband with a pilot tone, allowing an expander in the receiver to restore the amplitude that was severely compressed by the transmitter. (Note that most of the noise reduction circuits used in audio recording are also variations of companding.
ACT (examination) The ACT, formerly the ACT Assessment, is a college-entrance achievement test produced by ACT, Inc. It emerged in 1959 as a competitor to the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, now the SAT Reasoning Test.
ACT (Nasdaq) ACT, or Automated Confirmation of Transactions, is a Nasdaq Stock Market system for reporting and clearing trades. In contrast to QSR (Qualified Special Representative) clearing via NSCC, which requires multiple relationships between broker/dealers and clearing firms, ACT facilitates the simplifies the process of clearing by providing a single counterparty to interact with.
ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union The ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union is the governing body for rugby union in the Australian Capital Territory and southern regions of New South Wales. The union is represented by one team in the Super 14 competition, the Brumbies.
ACT Corrective Services ACT Corrective Services is a component of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Department of Justice and Community Safety (JACS) in Canberra, Australia. It is responsible for a wide range of activities and services in the area aimed at protecting the community and reducing offending behaviour.
ACT Memorial The ACT Memorial is an Australian war memorial honouring men and women associated with the Australian Capital Territory who served in a number of conflicts and peacekeeping missions throughout the world. Located in Canberra, on London Circuit, opposite Civic Square, the ACT Memorial consists of two primary components: a physical memorial, and a web site providing public access to a database of names and information about those honoured by the memorial.
ACT New Zealand ACT New Zealand is a free market liberal party in the New Zealand Parliament. According to current party leader Rodney Hide the party stands for individual freedom, personal responsibility (trusting people), doing the best for our natural environment and for smaller, smarter government in its goals of a prosperous economy, a strong society, and a quality of life that is the envy of the world Rodney Hide, "Speech to ACT Auckland Regional Conference, 30 July 2006".
ACT Scaling Test The ACT Scaling Test (AST) is a test of aptitude in studies for Year 12 students in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) set by the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies (BSSS). It is used to rank students and colleges for the calculation of a Universities Admission Index (UAI).
ACT UP/Golden Gate In 1990, the ACT UP chapter in San Francisco split into two chapters, the San Francisco chapter and the Golden Gate chapter. The catalyst for this was over decision-making processes, although it also involved many larger issues.

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