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Advanced Function Presentation Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) is an IBM architecture and family of associated printer software and hardware that provides document and information presentation control independent of specific applications and devices.
Advanced glycation endproduct Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs) are the result of a chain of chemical reactions after an initial glycation reaction. The intermediate products are known, variously, as Amadori, Schiff base and Maillard products, named after the researchers who first described them.
Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments The Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) project is a consortium of NASA, the FAA, the general aviation industry and a number of universities. Its goal is to create a Small Aviation Transportation System (SATS) as an alternative to short-range automotive trips for both private and business transportation needs.
Advanced Graphics Architecture Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) was the name used for the improved graphics chipset of the third generation Amiga computers at the beginning of the 1990s (Second generation had ECS). In the United States AGA was originally called AA for Advanced Architecture, whereas in Europe the name was changed to AGA to reflect that it largely improved the graphical subsystem (opposed to the architecture in its entirety), and to avoid trademark issues.
Advanced Hair Studio Advanced Hair Studio is hair loss treatment company founded in Australia by Carl Howell that has approximately 70 treatment centres worldwide. They regularly advertise on TV and in newspapers using celebrity endorsements, usually from Antipodian sportsmen.
Advanced Heavy Water Reactor The Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) is a proposed heavy water moderated nuclear power reactor that will be the next generation design of the PHWR type. It is now being developed at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and aims to meet the objectives of using thorium fuel cycles for commercial power generation.
Advanced Higher (Scottish) The Advanced Higher is a non-compulsory qualification which forms part of the Scottish secondary education system. It is normally taken by students aged around 17-18 after they have completed Highers, which in turn are the main university entrance qualification.
Advanced Host Controller Interface The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a hardware mechanism that allows software to communicate with Serial ATA devices such as host bus adapters which are designed to offer features not offered by Parallel ATA controllers besides higher speeds, like hot-plugging and native command queuing. The specification details a system memory structure for computer hardware vendors, in order to transfer data between system memory and the device.
Advanced Host Monitor Advanced Host Monitor is a network monitoring and system management tool that continuously monitors servers' availability and performance. In the event of network errors, Advanced Host Monitor will alert the network administrator or even solve the problem.
Advanced Chemistry Advanced Chemistry is a German hip hop band from Heidelberg, a scenic city in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, South Germany. Advanced Chemistry was founded in 1987 by Toni L, Linguist, Gee-One, DJ Mike MD (Mike Dippon) and MC Torch.
Advanced Chess Advanced Chess (sometimes called cyborg chess) is a relatively new form of chess, first introduced by grandmaster Garry Kasparov, with the objective of a human player and a computer chess program playing as a team against other such pairs. Many Advanced Chess proponents have stressed that Advanced Chess has merits in:
Advanced IRB The term "Advanced IRB" or "A-IRB" is an abbreviation of "Advanced Internal Rating Based Approach" and it refers to a set of credit risk measurement techniques proposed under Basel II capital adequacy rules for banking institutions.
Advanced Key Advanced key is the electronic access and authorization system which is available as an option in several cars. The advanced key allows the driver to keep the car key in his or her pocket when unlocking and starting the automobile.
Advanced Level The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in the United Kingdom, usually taken by students in the final two years of secondary education (commonly called the Sixth Form), after they have completed IGCSE or GCSE exams. It is a non-compulsory qualification taken by students in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Advanced Life Support Advanced Life Support (ALS) is a treatment consensus for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in cardiac arrest and related medical problems, as agreed in Europe by the European Resuscitation Council, most recently in 2005. It is practiced by in-hospital cardiac arrest teams, which generally consist of junior doctors from various specialties (anesthetics, general or internal medicine).
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (known by the acronym ALSA) is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of sound-card hardware, and graceful handling of multiple sound devices in a system, goals which it has largely met.
Advanced meat recovery Advanced meat recovery (AMR) is a slaughterhouse process by which residual meat trimmings are extracted from bones and other carcass materials. This meat is comparable in appearance, texture, and composition to meat trimmings and similar meat products derived by hand.
Advanced Manufacturing Park The Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) is a 100 acre manufacturing technology park on the Rotherham – Sheffield border at Waverley in South Yorkshire, facing the Sheffield Business Park across the Parkway. Technologies on the AMP centre on materials and structures, covering metallic and composite materials, typically used in precision industries including; aerospace, automotive, sport, environmental and energy, oil and gas, defence and construction.
Advanced Medical Directive An Advanced Medical Directive is a medical guideline which pertains to treatment preferences, including the designation of a surrogate decision-maker in the event that a patient should become unable to make medical decisions on their own behalf. These generally fall into three categories: living will, power of attorney, and health care proxy.
Advanced Metering Infrastructure Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) or Advanced Metering Management (AMM) refers to systems that measure, collect and analyse energy usage, from advanced devices such as water meters, electricity meters and gas meters, through various communication media on request or on a pre-defined schedule. This infrastructure includes hardware, software, communications, customer associated systems and data management software.
Advanced Mezzanine Card Advanced Mezzanine Cards are printed circuit boards (PCBs) that follow a specification of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG), with more than 100 companies participating. Known as AdvancedMC™, the official specification designation is AMC.
Advanced Mobile Telephone System The Advanced Mobile Telephone System (not to be confused with Advanced Mobile Phone System) was a 0G method of radio communication, mainly used in Japanese portable radio systems. It, like its successor HCMTS, operated on the 900 MHz band.
Advanced Modular Vehicle The Patria AMV 8x8 (Armoured Modular Vehicle) is a multi-role military vehicle produced by Finnish manufacturer Patria. The first prototype was produced in 2001 and first vehicles delivered to the Finnish Army in 2003.
Advanced Multi-Band Excitation Advanced Multi-Band Excitation is a speech coding standard developed by Digital Voice Systems, Inc. It is used by the Inmarsat and Iridium satellite telephony systems, certain channels on XM Satellite Radio, G4GUO protocol for high frequency amateur radio and is the vocoder for OpenSky Trunked Radio Systems.
Advanced Multi-Mission Operations System The Advanced Multi-Mission Operations System (AMMOS) is a common set of services and tools created by the Interplanetary Network Directorate, a division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for use in JPL's operation of spacecraft. These tools include a means by which mission planning and analysis can be undertaken, as well as developing pre-planned command sequences for the spacecraft.
Advanced Open Water Diver Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD) is a scuba diving certification level provided by several diver training agencies, such as PADI, SSI and UEF. The certification level is roughly equivalent the CMAS ** Diver qualification, although some differences occur.
Advanced practice nurse Advanced Practice Nurses (APN), also known as Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs), are Registered Nurses with advanced education, knowledge, skills, and scope of practice. Most APNs possess a master's or doctoral degree in nursing and may also sit for additional certification examinations.
Advanced process control Advanced process control (APC) is a broad term within the control theory. It is composed of different kinds of process control tools, for example, model predictive control (MPC), statistical process control (SPC), Run2Run (R2R), fault detection and classification (FDC), sensor control and feedback systems.
Advanced Packaging Tool Advanced Packaging Tool, or APT, is a package management system used by Debian GNU/Linux and its derivatives. APT simplifies the process of managing software on Unix systems, by automating the retrieval, configuration and installation of software packages, either from binary files or by compiling source code.
Advanced Parking Guidance System Advance Parking Guidance System (APGS) is an automatic parking system developed by Toyota Motor Corporation for its latest Lexus models and also the hybrid Prius models. On vehicles equipped with the APGS, via an in-dash screen and button controls, the car will park itself with little input from the user.
Advanced PC Media LLC Steve Sinchak, president and CEO, founded Advanced PC Media LLC (APCM) in April 2001. Formally known as Steve Sinchak Media, APCM creates and manages some of the most recognized Microsoft® - related Web sites, including: Tweaks.
Advanced Photon Source The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory is a national synchrotron-radiation light source research facility funded by the United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Argonne National Laboratory is managed by the University of Chicago for the U.
Advanced Placement Program The Advanced Placement Program, commonly known as Advanced Placement, or AP, is a United States and Canada-based program that offers high school students the opportunity to receive university credit for their work during high school, as well as a standard measure of achievement in a particular course. Measured by the number of students that enroll in AP courses and take AP exams, AP United States History is the most popular test.
Advanced Planning & Scheduling Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) refers to a manufacturing management process by which raw materials and production capacity are optimally allocated to meet demand. APS is especially well-suited to environments where simpler planning methods can not adequately address complex trade-off's between competing priorities.
Advanced Power Management Advanced Power Management (APM) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.
Advanced Product Quality Planning Advance Product Quality Planning (or APQP) is a framework of procedures and techniques used to develop products in industry, particularly the automotive industry. It is quite similar to the concept of Design For Six Sigma (DFSS).
Advanced Query Tool Advanced Query Tool (AQT) is a Microsoft Windows based SQL query software tool that facilitates the administration of, and executing queries against the most common database management systems. AQT is created by a small New Zealand software company, Cardett, and is distributed and supported through the Internet.
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the [of the global Internet].
Advanced RISC Computing Advanced RISC Computing is a specification promulgated by a defunct consortium of computer manufacturers (the Advanced Computing Environment project), setting forth a standard MIPS RISC-based computer hardware and firmware environment.
Advanced stop line An advanced stop line (ASL), bike box (Canada), or cycle reservoir (UK) is a type of road marking used at signalised road junctions. The intent is to allow certain types of vehicle a head start when the traffic signal changes from red to green.
Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics ASCA (formerly named ASTRO-D) is Japan's fourth cosmic X-ray astronomy mission, and the second for which the United States is providing part of the scientific payload. The satellite was successfully launched February 20, 1993.
Advanced Simulated Radar Client Advanced Simulated Radar Client (ASRC) is a PC-based software application that simulates the radar systems and displays of real-world air traffic controllers when connected to the VATSIM network of massively-multiplayer air traffic and flight simulation.
Advanced Simulation and Computing Program The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (formerly called Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, or ASCI) is a supercomputing initiative of the United States government, created to help the maintenance of the United States nuclear arsenal after the 1992 moratorium on nuclear testing.
Advanced Soaring Concepts Apex The Advanced Soaring Concepts Apex was a remotely-piloted sailplane designed to take part in a NASA study of high-altitude aerodynamics. It was planned to lift the aircraft to around 100,000 ft (30,487 m) by balloon and release it there.
Advanced Space Vision System The Advanced Space Vision System (also known as the Space Vision System or by its acronym SVS) is a computer vision system designed primarily for International Space Station (ISS) assembly. The system uses regular 2D cameras in the Space Shuttle bay, on the Canadarm, or on the ISS along with cooperative targets to calculate the 3D position of an object.
Advanced Squad Leader Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) is a tactical-level board wargame that simulates actions of approximately company or battalion size in World War II. It is a detailed game system for two or more players (with solitaire play also possible).
Advanced Squad Leader Modules Modules for the game Advanced Squad Leader contained all the equipment needed to actually play the game. There are twelve official so-called "core" modules that contain the essential components for a complete order of battle of all major nationalities to participate in the Second World War.
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System The Advanced - Surface Movement Guidance and Control System is a system at airports that uses surveillance sources such as Primary surveillance radar, Secondary surveillance radar and Surface Movement Radar to provide an accurate picture of the activity on the airport surface in order to prevent accidents.
Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Windows Media framework.
Advanced tactical center The Advanced Tactical Center, aka ATC, is a trademark for a series software tools, enhancing the planning capabilities in tactics-oriented computer games. The ATCs are developed and maintained by Foolish Entertainment.
Advanced tactical laser The advanced tactical laser (ATL) program is a US military program to mount a high energy laser damage weapon on a platform such as the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft or an AC-130 gunship. The laser is expected to complement the airborne laser and is envisaged to have a tactical range of perhaps twenty kilometers with a payload of about 5,000–7,000 kg.
Advanced tongue root In phonetics, advanced tongue root, abbreviated ATR or +ATR, or expanded, is the expansion of the pharyngeal cavity by moving the base of the tongue forward, and often lowering the larynx, during the pronunciation of a vowel. The lowering of the larynx sometimes adds a breathy quality to the vowel.
Advanced transportation controller The advanced transportation controller (ATC) is a standardization effort being undertaken by the United States Department of Transportation as part of their Intelligent transportation system (ITS) efforts. The ATC is being developed to provide an open platform for hardware and software for a wide variety of ITS applications.
Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System (ATARS) is a system for image acquisition, data storage, and data link used by the United States Marine Corps on it F/A-18D Hornet aircraft. It consists of the Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System (ATARS) with infrared and visible light sensors, two digital tape recorders, and a Reconnaissance Management System (RMS); an interface with the APG-73 Radar Upgrade (Phase II) which records synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery; and a digital data link mounted in a centerline pod.
Advanced Tactical Fighter The Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) contract was a demonstration and validation program undertaken by the United States Air Force to develop a next-generation air superiority fighter to counter emerging worldwide threats, including development and proliferation of Soviet-era Su-27 'Flanker'-class fighter aircraft.
Advanced Technologies Academy Advanced Technologies Academy (A-Tech, ATA, A-TECH) is a public magnet school in Las Vegas, Nevada with a focus on integrating technology with academics. The magnet school program was founded in 1994 and is part of the Clark County School District.
Advanced Technology Center (DBCC) The Advanced Technology Center or ATC is a two year technical college located in Daytona Beach, Florida in the United States. This technical college carries courses such as Computer Technology, Construction, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Automotive Services.
Advanced Technology Group Larry Tesler of Apple Computer started Advanced Technology Group in October 1986 to study long term research into future technologies that were beyond the time frame or organizational scope of any individual product group. Over the next decade it was lead by Dave Nagel, Rick LeFaivre, and Don Norman.
Advanced Technology Solar Telescope The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is a large solar telescope facility that is being studied by the National Solar Observatory for construction atop the Haleakala volcano on the pacific island of Maui. The site was selected for its clear daytime atmospheric seeing conditions and its extremely clear skies (enabling study of the solar corona).
Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture is the largest specification effort in the history of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG), with more than 100 companies participating. Known as AdvancedTCA™, the official specification designation is PICMG 3.
Advanced Third Reich Advanced Third Reich (A3R - 1992) is a board wargame originally designed by Bruce Harper and published by Avalon Hill, who then sold the license to Hasbro. The game was marketed as "the ultimate World War II strategy game".
Advanced Train Control System Advanced Train Control System, usually called ATCS, is a set of specifications designed to document the stated requirements of railroad operational and technical professionals concerning ATCS hardware and software. These specifications are designed to facilitate compatibility and standardization without limiting the internal design approaches of individual suppliers.
Advanced Transfer Cache The Advanced Transfer Cache (ATC) is Intel's name for the L2 cache contained within their processors, starting with the Pentium III "Coppermine". In "Coppermine" it offered a significant boost in cache performance resulting in notable per clock performance gains for the CPU when compared to its predecessor, "Katmai".
Advanced Trauma Life Support "Advanced Trauma Life Support" is a training program in the management of acute trauma cases (requiring surgical emergency care), developed in 1976 by the American College of Surgeons. The program has been adopted worldwide in over 30 countries; its goal is to teach a simplified and standardized approach to trauma patients.
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) is a space-borne sensor embarked on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) family of polar orbiting platforms. AVHRR instruments measure the reflectance of the Earth in 5 relatively wide (by today's standards) spectral bands.
Advanced Visualization Studio Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), is a music visualization plugin for Winamp designed by Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp itself. Its highly customizable design allows users to create their own visualization effects, or presets, which are featured on numerous websites, such as Winamp.
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) is a technologically advanced information processing, display, and telecommunications system that is the cornerstone of the United States National Weather Service's (NWS) modernization and restructuring. AWIPS is an interactive computer system that integrates all meteorological and hydrological data, and all satellite and radar data and enables the forecaster to prepare and issue more accurate and timely forecasts and warnings.
Advanced Wireless Services Advanced Wireless Services, also known as AWS-1, is a wireless telecommunications technology, used for mobile data services, video, and messaging. AWS-1 is used in the United States and replaces the spectrum formerly allocated to Multipoint Multichannel Distribution Service, sometimes referred to as Wireless Cable.
Advancement and recognition in the Boy Scouts of America Since its inception, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has had a tradition of advancement, honors and recognition. A fundamental purpose of advancement is the self-confidence a young man or woman acquires from his participation in Scouting.
Advancement for the Islands (m-l) Oyggjaframi (marx-leninistar) or OF(m-l) - Advancement for the Islands (Marxist-Leninist) - was a communist organization in the Faroe Islands, formed when the Tórshavn section of Oyggjaframi, Færøske Socialister broke away. It published Arbeiðið between 1976 and 1984, and was probably dissolved around 1984.
Advancement of Sound Science Center The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC), formerly the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, is an industry-funded lobby group which promotes the idea that environmental science was "junk science", which should be replaced by "sound science" more favorable to corporate interests. It is operated by Steven Milloy from his home in Potomac, Maryland.
Advancer An advancer, among hunters, is one of the starts or branches of a buck's attire between the back antler and the palm (the flattened part of the antlers). In other words, it is the second branch of a buck's horn.
Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras The journal Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research papers and also notes, expository and survery articles, book reviews, reproduces abstracts and also reports on conferences and workshops in the area of Clifford Algebras and their applications to other branches of mathematics and physics, and in certain cognate areas.
Advances in Physics Advances in Physics, published by Taylor & Francis, is a leading physics journal that focuses on review articles in condensed matter physics. Advances in Physics is consistently ranked as most influential condensed matter physics journal (impact factor 2004, ISI: 15.
Advancing Physics Advancing Physics is an A-level physics course examined by OCR which was developed in association with the Institute of Physics with assessment through written examinations and teacher-assessed coursework. It may also be referred to Physics 'B' to distinguish it from the OCR's other Physics course.
Advantage (cryptography) In cryptography, an adversary's advantage is a measure of how successfully it can attack a cryptographic algorithm, by distinguishing it from an idealized version of that type of algorithm. Note that in this context, the "adversary" is itself an algorithm and not a person.
Advantage Energy Income Fund Advantage Energy Income Fund , is a Canadian oil and gas royalty trust based in Calgary, Alberta. The fund owns and operates several wells located in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, producing the equivalent of 30,000 barrels of oil per day.
Advantage player Advantage player is a term used to describe a person who has the ability to play a casino gambling game so skillfully that even without cheating, that person can negate or reverse the casino's typical built-in house advantage in that game. Examples of advantage play include card counting in blackjack, dice control in craps, and perfect strategy play on some video poker games.
Advantium Advantium is the brand name of an electric food oven produced by General Electric since 1999. Advantium ovens use an intense halogen lamp in addition to microwaves as the source of heat for cooking, either alternating from one to the other or using both at once.
Advection Advection is transport of a conserved scalar quantity in a vector field. A good example is the transport of pollutants or silt in a river: the motion of the water carries these impurities downstream (see pigpen problem).
Advection equation The advection equation is the partial differential equation that governs the motion of a conserved scalar as it is advected by a known velocity field. It is derived using the scalar's conservation law, together with Gauss's theorem, and taking the infinitesimal limit.
Advena The South African nuclear weapons production facility, having been transferred in 1979 from the Pelindaba nuclear research center to the state-owned Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor), was later developed as the Kentron Circle facility. This facility, built in 1980, and located 20km west of Pretoria, was subsequently renamed Advena.
Advent Advent (from the Latin Adventus, implicitly coupled with Redemptoris, "the coming of the Saviour") is a holy season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, also known as the season of Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western Christian year and commences on Advent Sunday.
Adventist baptismal vow The Seventh-day Adventist baptismal vow is a list of 13 belief statements which a person joining the church is expected to agree to. In Adventist understanding baptism, which is a public display of faith in Christ, is associated with officially joining the Adventist church, which is a part of the community of believers in Christ.
Adventist Health International Adventist Health International (AHI) is a multinational, nonprofit corporation with headquarters in Loma Linda, California. AHI was established to provide coordination, consultation, management, and technical assistance to hospitals and health care services operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, primarily in developing countries.
Adventist opposition to unions The Adventist Church is opposed to Unionization of its hospitals and businesses. Critics have claimed that this has been a method used by the church to prevent employees from demanding protection of workers' rights and improved benefits and treatment by management.
Adventist Society for Religious Studies The Adventist Society for Religious Studies is a Seventh-day Adventist scholastic community whose purpose is “to provide intellectual and social fellowship among its members and encourage scholarly pursuits in all religious studies disciplines, particularly with reference to the Seventh-day Adventist tradition.” It was formally organized in New York City in 1979.
Adventist World Adventist World is a monthly international magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church published by the Review and Herald Publishing Association. Editors are based in Silver Spring, Maryland and Seoul, Korea.
Adventitious Adventitious, in botany, refers to structures that develop in an unusual place, and in medicine, it refers to conditions acquired after birth. This article discusses adventitious roots, buds and shoots, that are very common in vascular plants.
Adventure An adventure is an activity that is comprised of risky or uncertain experiences that are undertaken at least in part for the sake of physical or emotional excitement. The term is more popularly used in reference to physical activities that have some potential for danger, such as orienteering, skydiving, mountain climbing, and extreme sports.
Adventure (Atari 2600) Adventure is a 1980 video game for the Atari 2600 video game console and is considered the first action-adventure game. Its creator, Warren Robinett, also introduced the first widely known Easter egg to the gaming world (several Fairchild Channel F titles predate Adventures Easter egg, however).
Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, adventure or module is a term for pre-packaged books or box sets that help the dungeonmaster to manage the plot or story of a game. The term adventure is currently the preferred term.
Adventure (role-playing games) An adventure is either a published or otherwise written collection of plot, character, and location details used by a gamemaster to manage the plot or story in a role-playing game. Each adventure is based upon a particular gaming genre and is normally designed for use with a specific game or gaming system.
Adventure Activities Licensing Authority The Adventure Activities Licensing Authority (AALA) is an independent licensing authority for outdoor activity centers in Great Britain. Under the guidance of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), a government body charged with overseeing health and safety in all workplaces, AALA inspect and issue licences to providers.
Adventure Aquarium The Adventure Aquarium, formerly the New Jersey State Aquarium, is a for-profit educational entertainment attraction operated in Camden, New Jersey on the Delaware River waterfront, leased by real estate developer Steiner + Associates. It opened on May 25, 2005 in its current form, featuring about eight thousand animals living in varied forms of semi-aquatic and oceanic habitats.
Adventure board game An adventure board game is a board game in which each player is represented by a token which represents a different character, giving the game some similarity to a role-playing game adventure. As with many role-playing games, many adventure board games have fantasy themes, though may also have other themes, such as science fiction or ancient tomb raiding.
Adventure Bay, Tasmania Adventure Bay is the name of both a township and a geographical feature on the eastern side of Bruny Island, Tasmania. It was named after the ship HMS Adventure used by Captain James Cook during his second circumnavigation of the globe in the early 1770s, and was subsequently used as an anchorage by many other early expeditions including Captain William Bligh in the HMS Bounty.
Adventure capital A tentative and risky investment made by an entrepreneur who found success in another area of business or by a company who is looking to expand and grow in different areas. The person or company who is willing to invest money in a venture that is just starting out is sometimes referred to as an “angel” because many others are too hesitant to front money for such a new group, innovation, or technology which might fail.
Adventure Comics Adventure Comics is a comic book series published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983. It ran for 503 issues (472 of those after the title changed to Adventure Comics), making it the fifth-longest-running DC series, behind Detective Comics, Action Comics, Superman and Batman.
Adventure Construction Set Adventure Construction Set (ACS) is a program used to construct Ultima-type games, written by graphic adventure game pioneer Stuart Smith and published in 1985 by Electronic Arts. The game was produced by Don Daglow, with art by Smith and Connie Goldman and music by Dave Warhol.

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