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FIA European Championships for Rallycross Drivers The FIA European Championships for Rallycross Drivers is a Rallycross competition series whos forerunner (the Embassy/ERA European Rallycross Championship) was established in 1973. For 1976 the FIA adopted the motorsport of Rallycross and awarded the first official European title.
FIA GT Championship The FIA GT Championship is a sports car racing series organized by the Stéphane Ratel Organisations (SRO) at the behest of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship is mostly concentrated in Europe, but throughout the years has visited other continents, most lately visiting Asia.
FIA GT3 European Championship The FIA GT3 European Championship is a sports car racing series organized by the Stéphane Ratel Organisations (SRO) and regulated by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It is a championship derived from the international FIA GT Championship, but meant to provide competition for more amateur racers in closer to production machines.
FIA International Court of Appeal The FIA International Court of Appeal is the final appeal tribunal for international motor sport. Established under the FIA Statutes and the FIA’s International Sporting Code it resolves disputes brought before it by any of motor sport’s National Sporting Authorities world-wide, or by the President of the FIA.
FIA Sportscar Championship The FIA Sportscar Championship was a sports car racing series created by John Mangoletsi and was eventually taken control of by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It was a series similar to the FIA GT Championship, concentrating on two classes of open-cockpit sportscars in endurance races mostly around Europe.
FIACAT FIACAT (International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture) is an International Non-Governmental Organization founded in 1987. It campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs.
FIACAT - International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture FIACAT (International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture) is an International Non-Governmental Organization founded in 1987. It campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs.
FIAP FIAP (Fédération Internationale d'Art Photographique) is an international federation which affiliates as operational members, the national associations of photography. FIAP counts more than 85 national associations in the five continents and represents the benefits of nearly one million individual photographers.
FIAPF The FIAPF (Fedération International des Associations de Producteurs de Films; English: International Federation of Film Producers Associations), created in 1977, is an organization composed with 31 member associations from 25 of the leading audiovisual production countries. FIAPF is also in charge of supervising international film festivals, including some of the world's most important ones.
FIATECH FIATECH is a non-profit construction-industry research, development, and deployment (RD&D) consortium that focuses on the fast-track development and deployment of technologies to improve the life-cycle processes of capital projects. Membership includes facilities owners, operators, contractors, suppliers, government agencies and academic institutions.
FIBA Africa Championship The FIBA Africa Championship (alternatively the FIBA African Championship) is the men's basketball continental championship of Africa, played biennially under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body, and the African zone thereof. The tournament also serves to qualify teams for participation in the quadrennial FIBA World Championship.
FIBA Asia Championship The FIBA Asia Championship for Men (formerly Asian Basketball Confederation Championship) is a tournament which takes place every two years between teams of the continent. This is the Asian qualifying tournament for the FIBA World Championships.
FIBA World Championship for Women The FIBA World Championship for Women (also called the Basketball World Championship for Women) is a world basketball tournament for women's national teams held quadrennially. It is held on the same cycle and in the same year as the FIBA World Championship (for Men), but in a different country.
FIBArk FIBArk stands for "First in Boating the Arkansas" -- it's a festival that started in the 1950s. The history actually began in 1949 when two friends bet each other who'd win a race from Salida, CO to Cañon City, CO on the Arkansas River.
FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is an association of business organisations in India. FICCI is one if the main organizations to fund and support many governmental and non-governmental educational institutes.
FICON project The FICON (Fighter Conveyor) program was conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a B-36 Peacemaker bomber carrying an F-84 parasite fighter in its bomb bay. This article also covers a similar parasite fighter experiment called Project Tom-Tom.
FIDE Album The FIDE Albums are publications of world chess governing body, FIDE, via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC), containing the best chess problems and studies of a certain period (usually three years in length).
FIDE Master FIDE Master (FM) is a title awarded by the world chess governing body, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE). Introduced in 1978, FM ranks below the titles of International Master and International Grandmaster, but ahead of Candidate Master.
FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 The FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 was a chess match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik, and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. The match, which was won by Kramnik, determined, for the first time in 13 years, the undisputed World Chess Champion.
FIDIC The acronym FIDIC stands for Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils, French for the International Federation of Consulting Engineers. The fact that the organisation has a French title bears testimony to its foundation in 1913 by three countries each wholly or partly francophone.
FIDIS FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) is a large EU-sponsored project targeting various aspects of digital identity and privacy. The partners of the project are universities and companies working in areas related to digital identity.
FIDO (device) FIDO (Fog Intensive Dispersal Operation) was a British World War II device for the dispersal of fog from around the runways of RAF bomber stations allowing the landing of aircraft returning from raids over Germany in poor visibility.
FIDOF International Federation of Festival Organizations or FIDOF (Federation Internationale des Organisations de Festivals) is a non-profit organization to hold and organize festivals worldwide. It was estblished in 1966 and headquartered in California, United States, with President professor Armando Moreno.
FIELD Magazine FIELD Magazine is a twice yearly journal that aims to publish the very best of contemporary poetry and poetics. FIELD is published by the Oberlin College Press and has released spring and fall issues each year since its founding at Oberlin College in 1969.
FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the international governing body of association football. Its headquarters are in Zürich, Switzerland, and its current president is Sepp Blatter.
FIFA '97 FIFA 97 (also known as FIFA Soccer 97) is a video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts based around the game of football (soccer). It was released for the PC on 24 June 1996 and versions for PlayStation, SNES, Sega Mega Drive and Sega Saturn followed.
FIFA '98: Road To World Cup FIFA 98: Road to World Cup (commonly abbreviated to FIFA 98) is a video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts based around the game of football (soccer). It was released for the PC on 17 June 1997 and versions for PlayStation, SNES, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn Game Boy and Sega Mega Drive followed.
FIFA 100 The FIFA 100 was unveiled on March 4, 2004 at a gala ceremony in London to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international governing body of football. The list contains the world-renowned Brazilian striker Pelé's choice of the "greatest living footballers".
FIFA Confederations Cup The FIFA Confederations Cup is a football (soccer) tournament for national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships (CAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, AFC, OFC, CONCACAF), along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country, to bring the number of teams up to eight.
FIFA Football 2004 FIFA Football 2004 (also known as FIFA Soccer 2004 and commonly abbreviated to FIFA 04) is a video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts based around the game of football (soccer). It was released in October 2003 with the tagline "Create Brilliance".
FIFA Futsal World Cup 2004 The 2004 edition of the FIFA Futsal World Championship was held between November 21 and December 5 in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (officially "Chinese Taipei" for political reasons). It was the fifth World Championship held under the aegis of football's world governing body.
FIFA Manager FIFA Manager (short: FIFAM) is the english name for a football management series of video games from Bright Future (in older releases EA sports) and published by Electronic Arts. The game was called Total Club Manager (short: TCM) until the name changed to FIFA Manager with the FIFAM 06.
FIFA series The FIFA series is a popular series of football (soccer) video games, released yearly by EA under the EA Sports label. Since its debut release in late 1993, it has been one of the most profitable and well known video game franchises.
FIFA Soccer Manager FIFA Soccer Manager (or simply FSM) is a 1997 football managing computer game developed and published by Electronic Arts by their EA Sports label. It was followed by the Premier League Manager and the Total Club Manager series.
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, scheduled for the first time in 2008, will be the world championship of football for female players under the age of 17. It is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
FIFA U-17 World Cup The FIFA U-17 World Cup, formerly the FIFA U-17 World Championship and before the FIFA U-16 World Championship, is the world championship of football for male players under the age of 17 and is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The first edition was hosted by China in 1985 and was won by Nigeria.
FIFA U-20 World Cup The FIFA U-20 World Cup, formerly known as the FIFA World Youth Championship (the new name for the competition will be used for the first time in the 2007), is the world championship of football for male players under the age of 20 and is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The Championship has been awarded every two years since the first tournament in 1977.
FIFA Women's World Cup The FIFA Women's World Cup is the most important championship in international football competition for women. Organised by FIFA, the sport's largest global governing body, the first Women's World Cup tournament was held in 1991, 61 years after the men's first World Cup.
FIFA Women's World Cup 2003 qualification (UEFA) In the UEFA qualification for FIFA Women's World Cup 2003, the 16 teams belonging to the First Category of European women's football were drawn into four groups, from which the group winners qualify for the World Cup finals. The winner of the Qualifying Playoffs between the Runner-ups of each four group will also qualify.
FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 qualification (UEFA) In the UEFA qualification for FIFA Women's World Cup 2007, the 25 teams belonging to the First Category of European women's football were drawn into five groups, from which the group winners qualified for the World Cup finals. The qualifiers begun on 9 July 2005 and concluded on 30 September 2006, with five teams qualified: Denmark, England, Germany, Norway and Sweden.
FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 The FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 will be the first Women's World Cup to be competitively chosen under standard bidding procedures since the 1999 Cup in the USA. The 2003 event was originally awarded to China, but due to the SARS outbreak it was relocated to the United States as an emergency measure.
FIFA Women's World Rankings The FIFA Women's World Rankings for football (soccer) were introduced in July 2003 as a follow-on to the existing FIFA World Rankings for men. FIFA Women's World Rankings attempt to compare the strength of internationally active teams at any given time and ranks FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying teams.
FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international football (soccer) competition contested by the men's national football teams of the member nations of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.
FIFA World Cup Finals This is a list of all the finals of the FIFA World Cups, including results and host nations. The competion has been played since 1930 and is governed by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
FIFA World Cup hat-tricks This is a list of all hat-tricks scored during FIFA World Cups; that is, the occasions when a footballer has scored three or more goals in a single football World Cup Finals match (not including FIFA World Cup qualification matches). Scoring a hat-trick in a World Cup is a relatively rare event: only 48 hat-tricks have been scored in over 700 matches in the 18 editions of the World Cup tournament.
FIFA World Cup hosts Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The choice of location was highly controversial, given the three week boat journey between South America and Europe, the two centres of strength in football at the time.
FIFA World Cup mascot Each FIFA World Cup since 1966 has its own mascot. World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot, and one of the first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition.
FIFA World Cup qualification FIFA World Cup qualification is the process a national football (soccer) team goes through to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals, or, more commonly known as the FIFA World Cup. FIFA World Cup is a global event, and qualification is used to reduce the large field of participants from about 200 to 32.
FIFA World Cup Trophy The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have represented victory: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.
FIFA World Cup video games FIFA has licensed FIFA World Cup video games since 1986, of which only a few were received positively by the critics, but given the popularity of the competition, they all did positively on the market, and the license is one of the most sought-after. Originally in the hands of U.
FIFA World Player of the Year The FIFA World Player of the Year is a football award given annually to the male and female player who are thought to be the best in the world, based on votes by coaches and captains of international teams. In a voting system based on a type of a Borda count, each coach gets three votes, worth five points, three points and one point, and the winners are ordered based on total number of points.
FIFA World Ranking system 1999-2006 The FIFA men's ranking system 1999-2006 is a calculation technique previously used by FIFA for ranking men's national teams in football (soccer). The ranking system was introduced by FIFA in 1999, as an update to an earlier system, and was replaced after the 2006 World Cup with a simplified system.
FIFA World Rankings The FIFA World Rankings is a ranking system for men's national teams in football (soccer). The teams of the member nations of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
FIFE FIFE, which stands for Flexible Isometric Fallout(-like) Engine, is an open source game engine in development written in C++ using the cross-platform Simple DirectMedia Layer media library. It strives to be a development platform for the creation of isometric games (e.
FIFO FIFO is an acronym for First In, First Out. This expression describes the principle of a queue or first-come, first-served (FCFS) behavior: what comes in first is handled first, what comes in next waits until the first is finished, etc.
FIFPro The Fédération International de Footballeurs Professionels, usually known by the abbreviation FIFPro, is a worldwide representative organization for professional football players. At the moment there are 42 national players associations who are member of FIFPro.
FII Foreign Institutional Investor [FII] is used to denote an investor - mostly of the form of an institution or entity, which invests money in the financial markets of a country different from the one where in the institution or entity was originally incorporated.
FIITJEE FIITJEE or Forum for IIT-JEE is a for-profit coaching institute in India for the IIT-JEE, AIEEE and other entrance examinations for bachelor's courses in engineering. The main FIITJEE center is in Kalu Sarai, Delhi, though FIITJEE now has correspondence courses throughout India and has also opened coaching centers at multiple points in cities across India.
FILA Law Review The FILA Law Review is an independent non-profit journal edited and published in French and English by the Editorial Committee of the Franco-Indian Lawyers Association. It is the only law review dedicated to fostering greater understanding between legal practitioners and decision-makers in the two countries.
FIM-92 Stinger The FIM-92 Stinger is a man portable infra-red homing surface-to-air missile developed in the United States and used by all the US armed services, with whom it entered service in 1981. The basic Stinger missile has to date been responsible for 270 confirmed kills of aircraft.
FINA Water Polo World League The FINA Water Polo World League was begun in 2002 to capitalize on increased worldwide popularity of water polo created by recent Olympic games, especially in Europe, North America and Australia. Competition between the world’s best male players began on national teams in a season format with a prize of half a million dollars at the league championship.
FINAL DISTANCE "FINAL DISTANCE" is Utada Hikaru's 9th single and the 1st single on her Deep River album. "FINAL DISTANCE" is the first song that Utada Hikaru's husband Kazuaki Kiriya filmed the music video to.
FINE Brand FINE is a registered trademark stationed out of Jordan and part of the conglomerate Nuqul Group. Its establishment was in 1958 and FINE's main line of business is hygienic products, which include tissues, toilet paper, diapers, sanitary napkins, adult briefs, pocket tissues among others.
FINEX The FINEX process is an innovative, next generation iron making technology developed by Siemens VAI and POSCO. Molten iron is produced directly using iron ore fines and non-coking coal rather than processing through sintering and coke making which had been essential to traditional blast furnace methods.
FINO In computer science, FINO is a jocular scheduling algorithm. It is an acronym for "First In Never Out" as opposed to traditional "first in first out" and "last in first out" algorithms.
FINSIA The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) is a professional institute for practitioners in the financial industry in Australia and New Zealand. FINSIA was formed in 2005 by the merger of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance (AIBF), founded 1886 and the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA), founded 1966.
FIPRESCI FIPRESCI (short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique), in English known as International Federation of Film Critics, comprised of the national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June, 1930 in Paris.
FIPS 201 FIPS 201 (Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 201) is a United States federal government standard that specifies Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements for Federal employees and contractors.
FIREFLY Tonics FIREFLY Tonics is an English producer of fruit juice drinks with added herbal extracts. The range includes a number of functional drinks that feature such botanical extracts as Angelica, Damiana, Muira Puama and Jasmine Flower mixed with fruit juices such as Peach and Blueberry.
FIRST FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 in order to develop ways to excite students about engineering and technology. The first event was the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which is designed to inspire high school students to become engineers by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers to develop a robot.
FIRST Lego League The FIRST Lego League (also known by its acronym FLL) is a competition for elementary and middle school students (ages 9-14, 9-16 in Europe), arranged by the FIRST organization. Each year the contest focuses on a different topic related to the sciences.
FIRST Robotics Competition The FIRST Robotics Competition is a high school robotics competition organized by FIRST. As of late 2006, over 1,300 high school teams of 30,000 students from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ghana, and more compete to build 120 pound robots that can complete a task that changes every year.
FIRST Vex Challenge The FIRST Vex™ Challenge (FVC) is a mid-level robotics competition targeted toward high-school aged students. It offers the traditional challenge of a FIRST competition but with a more accessible and affordable robotics kit.
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women. Championship events include nordic skiing's three disciplines: cross country skiing, ski jumping, and nordic combined (the latter being a combination sport consisting of both cross-country skiing and ski jumping).
FISIM FISIM stands for Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured. For example, the difference between interest paid by consumers and interest received by lenders through the value of financial intermediation to borrowers and/or lenders.
FITS Liberator The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator is a free plugin for Adobe Photoshop, which makes it possible to process and edit astronomical science data in the FITS format to produce stunning images of the universe.
FIU Stadium FIU Stadium is a stadium located at the University Park campus of Florida International University in Miami, Florida. It is primarily used for American football and track and field, serving as the home venue of the Golden Panthers football and track and field teams.
FIVB World League 2006 The FIVB World League 2006 was a Volleyball tournament played by 16 countries from July 14 to August 27. The finals were held in Moscow, Russia, and it's won by Brazil getting the World League title for the fourth straight year.
FIVB World Rankings The FIVB World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of FIVB, volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their competitions results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
FIX protocol The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol developed for international real-time exchange of information related to the securities transactions and markets. It is a self-describing protocol in many ways similar to other self-describing protocols such as the newer XML; however largely because its use and general acceptance predates XML it remains much more common than XML in securities trading systems.
Fjallsárlón Fjallsárlón is a glacier lake at the south end of the Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull. Fjallsjökull which is part of the bigger glacier reaches down to the water of the lake and some ice-bergs are drifting by on its surface.
Fjölnir Fjölnir, Fjölner, Fjolner or Fjolne (1st century BC - early 1st century AD) was a Swedish king of the House of Yngling, at Gamla Uppsala. He appears in a semi-mythological context as the son of Freyr and Gerd.
Fjölsvinnsmál Fjölsvinnsmál or The Sayings of Fjölsvinnr is the second of two Old Norse poems which comprise the Svipdagsmál, The Lay of Svipdagr. In the first poem, Svipdagr enlists the aid of his dead mother, Gróa, a witch, to assist him in the completion of a task set by his cruel stepmother.
Fjölvar In Norse mythology, Fjölvar was a being, possibly a giant, with whom Odin spent time fighting and seducing women on the island of Algroen ("all green"). This episode was recounted by Odin himself in disguise while boasting of his martial skill and sexual prowess to Thor in the poem Hárbardsljód.
Fjerritslev Fjerritslev is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in North Jutland County on the northwest coast of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 290 km², and has a total population of 8,480 (2005).
Fjord A fjord (or fiord) is a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes, which results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. Typical characteristics of a fjord include: a narrow inlet, a bottom that is glacially eroded significantly below sea level (allowing deep-draft vessels to navigate easily), steep-sided walls which continue to descend below the sea surface, greater depths in the upper and middle reaches than on the seaward side, and communication with the open sea.
Fjord of the Mountains Fjord of the Mountains, also known as "Channel of the Mountains", is located to the west of Puerto Natales, Chile and inside the boundaries of the Alacalufes National Reserve. It stretch 66 km from north to south in the middle of
FjordgĂĄrd FjordgĂĄrd is a small fishing village on the north point of Senja, the second largest island in Norway. FjordgĂĄrd lies on the west side of the fjord Ărnfjorden, which is a continuation of the fjord Ăyfjorden.
Fjords (board game) Fjord is a tile-based German-style board game designed by Franz-Benno Delonge and published in 2005 by Hans im GlĂĽck and Rio Grande Games. Unlike other games in the genre, Fjord is strictly limited to two players, dubbed black and white.
Fjuckby (; UN/LOCODE:SE UPP) is a village in Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden, located about 15 km north of the central city Uppsala along European route E4. The village has a population of 65 people (as of 2000) within an area of 18 hectares.
FJ Fury The North American FJ Fury was the first operational jet aircraft in United States Navy service. Ordered in late 1944 as the XFJ-1 in competition with proposals from Douglas and Vought, the Fury began as a straight-wing, tricycle gear fighter with a single turbojet passing through the fuselage.
FK Belasica Belasica GC(also known as FK Belasica Geras Cunev ) is a macedonian football club currently playing in the countries secound division after failing to avoid relegation in the 2005/2006 season where it finished 12th (last). The team was formed in 1922 and is from the macedonian town of Strumica and play at the Mladost Stadium which holds a capacity of around 6 500 spectators.
FK Marila PĹ™Ăbram FK Marila PĹ™Ăbram is a Czech football club from PĹ™Ăbram. The team originated from two clubs, the 1967 Champions Cup semifinalist Dukla Praha, which tradition it carries, and FC PĹ™Ăbram, merged together in 1996.
FK Pacific FK Pacific are an American soccer team, founded in 2003. The team is a member of the Pacific Coast Soccer League (PCSL), a recognised Division III league in the American Soccer Pyramid which features teams from western Canada and the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America.
FK Pirmasens FK Pirmasens is a German football club in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team was formed as the football section of the gymnastics and sports club TV Pirminia Pirmasens in 1903 and became independent in 1914.
FK Radnik Bijeljina Fudbalski Klub Radnik (Cyrillic: ФК Радник, English: Football Club Radnik) is a football club playing in the city of Bijeljina, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The club was promoted to the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the 2005/2006 season.
FK Rudar Ugljevik FK Rudar is a football club from the town of Ugljevik, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently, FK Rudar is in the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the club played in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 2004/2005 season.
FK-space In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a FK-space or Fréchet coordinate space is a sequence space equipped with a topological structure such that it becomes a Fréchet space. FK-spaces with a normable topology are called BK-spaces.
FKBP FKBP, or FK506 binding protein, is a family of proteins that have prolyl isomerase activity and are related to the cyclophilins in function, though not in amino acid sequence. FKBPs have been identified in many eukaryotes from yeast to humans and function as protein folding chaperones for proteins containing proline residues.
FKU FKU stands for "First Kid Up", which designates a time of day: the time at which the first child in a family awakes. Typically, this time also marks the end of sleep for at least one adult of the family, and is thus a significant daily event in the life of parents.
FIA GT Championship The FIA GT Championship is a sports car racing series organized by the Stéphane Ratel Organisations (SRO) at the behest of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The championship is mostly concentrated in Europe, but throughout the years has visited other continents, most lately visiting Asia.
FIA GT3 European Championship The FIA GT3 European Championship is a sports car racing series organized by the Stéphane Ratel Organisations (SRO) and regulated by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It is a championship derived from the international FIA GT Championship, but meant to provide competition for more amateur racers in closer to production machines.
FIA International Court of Appeal The FIA International Court of Appeal is the final appeal tribunal for international motor sport. Established under the FIA Statutes and the FIA’s International Sporting Code it resolves disputes brought before it by any of motor sport’s National Sporting Authorities world-wide, or by the President of the FIA.
FIA Sportscar Championship The FIA Sportscar Championship was a sports car racing series created by John Mangoletsi and was eventually taken control of by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It was a series similar to the FIA GT Championship, concentrating on two classes of open-cockpit sportscars in endurance races mostly around Europe.
FIACAT FIACAT (International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture) is an International Non-Governmental Organization founded in 1987. It campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs.
FIACAT - International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture FIACAT (International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture) is an International Non-Governmental Organization founded in 1987. It campaigns on behalf of people who are tortured, detained in inhuman conditions, sentenced to death or "disappeared", whatever their origins, political opinions or religious beliefs.
FIAP FIAP (Fédération Internationale d'Art Photographique) is an international federation which affiliates as operational members, the national associations of photography. FIAP counts more than 85 national associations in the five continents and represents the benefits of nearly one million individual photographers.
FIAPF The FIAPF (Fedération International des Associations de Producteurs de Films; English: International Federation of Film Producers Associations), created in 1977, is an organization composed with 31 member associations from 25 of the leading audiovisual production countries. FIAPF is also in charge of supervising international film festivals, including some of the world's most important ones.
FIATECH FIATECH is a non-profit construction-industry research, development, and deployment (RD&D) consortium that focuses on the fast-track development and deployment of technologies to improve the life-cycle processes of capital projects. Membership includes facilities owners, operators, contractors, suppliers, government agencies and academic institutions.
FIBA Africa Championship The FIBA Africa Championship (alternatively the FIBA African Championship) is the men's basketball continental championship of Africa, played biennially under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Basketball, the basketball sport governing body, and the African zone thereof. The tournament also serves to qualify teams for participation in the quadrennial FIBA World Championship.
FIBA Asia Championship The FIBA Asia Championship for Men (formerly Asian Basketball Confederation Championship) is a tournament which takes place every two years between teams of the continent. This is the Asian qualifying tournament for the FIBA World Championships.
FIBA World Championship for Women The FIBA World Championship for Women (also called the Basketball World Championship for Women) is a world basketball tournament for women's national teams held quadrennially. It is held on the same cycle and in the same year as the FIBA World Championship (for Men), but in a different country.
FIBArk FIBArk stands for "First in Boating the Arkansas" -- it's a festival that started in the 1950s. The history actually began in 1949 when two friends bet each other who'd win a race from Salida, CO to Cañon City, CO on the Arkansas River.
FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is an association of business organisations in India. FICCI is one if the main organizations to fund and support many governmental and non-governmental educational institutes.
FICON project The FICON (Fighter Conveyor) program was conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a B-36 Peacemaker bomber carrying an F-84 parasite fighter in its bomb bay. This article also covers a similar parasite fighter experiment called Project Tom-Tom.
FIDE Album The FIDE Albums are publications of world chess governing body, FIDE, via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC), containing the best chess problems and studies of a certain period (usually three years in length).
FIDE Master FIDE Master (FM) is a title awarded by the world chess governing body, Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE). Introduced in 1978, FM ranks below the titles of International Master and International Grandmaster, but ahead of Candidate Master.
FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 The FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 was a chess match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik, and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. The match, which was won by Kramnik, determined, for the first time in 13 years, the undisputed World Chess Champion.
FIDIC The acronym FIDIC stands for Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils, French for the International Federation of Consulting Engineers. The fact that the organisation has a French title bears testimony to its foundation in 1913 by three countries each wholly or partly francophone.
FIDIS FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) is a large EU-sponsored project targeting various aspects of digital identity and privacy. The partners of the project are universities and companies working in areas related to digital identity.
FIDO (device) FIDO (Fog Intensive Dispersal Operation) was a British World War II device for the dispersal of fog from around the runways of RAF bomber stations allowing the landing of aircraft returning from raids over Germany in poor visibility.
FIDOF International Federation of Festival Organizations or FIDOF (Federation Internationale des Organisations de Festivals) is a non-profit organization to hold and organize festivals worldwide. It was estblished in 1966 and headquartered in California, United States, with President professor Armando Moreno.
FIELD Magazine FIELD Magazine is a twice yearly journal that aims to publish the very best of contemporary poetry and poetics. FIELD is published by the Oberlin College Press and has released spring and fall issues each year since its founding at Oberlin College in 1969.
FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the international governing body of association football. Its headquarters are in Zürich, Switzerland, and its current president is Sepp Blatter.
FIFA '97 FIFA 97 (also known as FIFA Soccer 97) is a video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts based around the game of football (soccer). It was released for the PC on 24 June 1996 and versions for PlayStation, SNES, Sega Mega Drive and Sega Saturn followed.
FIFA '98: Road To World Cup FIFA 98: Road to World Cup (commonly abbreviated to FIFA 98) is a video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts based around the game of football (soccer). It was released for the PC on 17 June 1997 and versions for PlayStation, SNES, Nintendo 64 and Sega Saturn Game Boy and Sega Mega Drive followed.
FIFA 100 The FIFA 100 was unveiled on March 4, 2004 at a gala ceremony in London to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international governing body of football. The list contains the world-renowned Brazilian striker Pelé's choice of the "greatest living footballers".
FIFA Confederations Cup The FIFA Confederations Cup is a football (soccer) tournament for national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships (CAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, AFC, OFC, CONCACAF), along with the FIFA World Cup champion and the host country, to bring the number of teams up to eight.
FIFA Football 2004 FIFA Football 2004 (also known as FIFA Soccer 2004 and commonly abbreviated to FIFA 04) is a video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts based around the game of football (soccer). It was released in October 2003 with the tagline "Create Brilliance".
FIFA Futsal World Cup 2004 The 2004 edition of the FIFA Futsal World Championship was held between November 21 and December 5 in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (officially "Chinese Taipei" for political reasons). It was the fifth World Championship held under the aegis of football's world governing body.
FIFA Manager FIFA Manager (short: FIFAM) is the english name for a football management series of video games from Bright Future (in older releases EA sports) and published by Electronic Arts. The game was called Total Club Manager (short: TCM) until the name changed to FIFA Manager with the FIFAM 06.
FIFA series The FIFA series is a popular series of football (soccer) video games, released yearly by EA under the EA Sports label. Since its debut release in late 1993, it has been one of the most profitable and well known video game franchises.
FIFA Soccer Manager FIFA Soccer Manager (or simply FSM) is a 1997 football managing computer game developed and published by Electronic Arts by their EA Sports label. It was followed by the Premier League Manager and the Total Club Manager series.
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, scheduled for the first time in 2008, will be the world championship of football for female players under the age of 17. It is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
FIFA U-17 World Cup The FIFA U-17 World Cup, formerly the FIFA U-17 World Championship and before the FIFA U-16 World Championship, is the world championship of football for male players under the age of 17 and is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The first edition was hosted by China in 1985 and was won by Nigeria.
FIFA U-20 World Cup The FIFA U-20 World Cup, formerly known as the FIFA World Youth Championship (the new name for the competition will be used for the first time in the 2007), is the world championship of football for male players under the age of 20 and is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The Championship has been awarded every two years since the first tournament in 1977.
FIFA Women's World Cup The FIFA Women's World Cup is the most important championship in international football competition for women. Organised by FIFA, the sport's largest global governing body, the first Women's World Cup tournament was held in 1991, 61 years after the men's first World Cup.
FIFA Women's World Cup 2003 qualification (UEFA) In the UEFA qualification for FIFA Women's World Cup 2003, the 16 teams belonging to the First Category of European women's football were drawn into four groups, from which the group winners qualify for the World Cup finals. The winner of the Qualifying Playoffs between the Runner-ups of each four group will also qualify.
FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 qualification (UEFA) In the UEFA qualification for FIFA Women's World Cup 2007, the 25 teams belonging to the First Category of European women's football were drawn into five groups, from which the group winners qualified for the World Cup finals. The qualifiers begun on 9 July 2005 and concluded on 30 September 2006, with five teams qualified: Denmark, England, Germany, Norway and Sweden.
FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 The FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 will be the first Women's World Cup to be competitively chosen under standard bidding procedures since the 1999 Cup in the USA. The 2003 event was originally awarded to China, but due to the SARS outbreak it was relocated to the United States as an emergency measure.
FIFA Women's World Rankings The FIFA Women's World Rankings for football (soccer) were introduced in July 2003 as a follow-on to the existing FIFA World Rankings for men. FIFA Women's World Rankings attempt to compare the strength of internationally active teams at any given time and ranks FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying teams.
FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international football (soccer) competition contested by the men's national football teams of the member nations of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.
FIFA World Cup Finals This is a list of all the finals of the FIFA World Cups, including results and host nations. The competion has been played since 1930 and is governed by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
FIFA World Cup hat-tricks This is a list of all hat-tricks scored during FIFA World Cups; that is, the occasions when a footballer has scored three or more goals in a single football World Cup Finals match (not including FIFA World Cup qualification matches). Scoring a hat-trick in a World Cup is a relatively rare event: only 48 hat-tricks have been scored in over 700 matches in the 18 editions of the World Cup tournament.
FIFA World Cup hosts Early World Cups were given to countries at meetings of FIFA's congress. The choice of location was highly controversial, given the three week boat journey between South America and Europe, the two centres of strength in football at the time.
FIFA World Cup mascot Each FIFA World Cup since 1966 has its own mascot. World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot, and one of the first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition.
FIFA World Cup qualification FIFA World Cup qualification is the process a national football (soccer) team goes through to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals, or, more commonly known as the FIFA World Cup. FIFA World Cup is a global event, and qualification is used to reduce the large field of participants from about 200 to 32.
FIFA World Cup Trophy The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have represented victory: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.
FIFA World Cup video games FIFA has licensed FIFA World Cup video games since 1986, of which only a few were received positively by the critics, but given the popularity of the competition, they all did positively on the market, and the license is one of the most sought-after. Originally in the hands of U.
FIFA World Player of the Year The FIFA World Player of the Year is a football award given annually to the male and female player who are thought to be the best in the world, based on votes by coaches and captains of international teams. In a voting system based on a type of a Borda count, each coach gets three votes, worth five points, three points and one point, and the winners are ordered based on total number of points.
FIFA World Ranking system 1999-2006 The FIFA men's ranking system 1999-2006 is a calculation technique previously used by FIFA for ranking men's national teams in football (soccer). The ranking system was introduced by FIFA in 1999, as an update to an earlier system, and was replaced after the 2006 World Cup with a simplified system.
FIFA World Rankings The FIFA World Rankings is a ranking system for men's national teams in football (soccer). The teams of the member nations of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
FIFE FIFE, which stands for Flexible Isometric Fallout(-like) Engine, is an open source game engine in development written in C++ using the cross-platform Simple DirectMedia Layer media library. It strives to be a development platform for the creation of isometric games (e.
FIFO FIFO is an acronym for First In, First Out. This expression describes the principle of a queue or first-come, first-served (FCFS) behavior: what comes in first is handled first, what comes in next waits until the first is finished, etc.
FIFPro The Fédération International de Footballeurs Professionels, usually known by the abbreviation FIFPro, is a worldwide representative organization for professional football players. At the moment there are 42 national players associations who are member of FIFPro.
FII Foreign Institutional Investor [FII] is used to denote an investor - mostly of the form of an institution or entity, which invests money in the financial markets of a country different from the one where in the institution or entity was originally incorporated.
FIITJEE FIITJEE or Forum for IIT-JEE is a for-profit coaching institute in India for the IIT-JEE, AIEEE and other entrance examinations for bachelor's courses in engineering. The main FIITJEE center is in Kalu Sarai, Delhi, though FIITJEE now has correspondence courses throughout India and has also opened coaching centers at multiple points in cities across India.
FILA Law Review The FILA Law Review is an independent non-profit journal edited and published in French and English by the Editorial Committee of the Franco-Indian Lawyers Association. It is the only law review dedicated to fostering greater understanding between legal practitioners and decision-makers in the two countries.
FIM-92 Stinger The FIM-92 Stinger is a man portable infra-red homing surface-to-air missile developed in the United States and used by all the US armed services, with whom it entered service in 1981. The basic Stinger missile has to date been responsible for 270 confirmed kills of aircraft.
FINA Water Polo World League The FINA Water Polo World League was begun in 2002 to capitalize on increased worldwide popularity of water polo created by recent Olympic games, especially in Europe, North America and Australia. Competition between the world’s best male players began on national teams in a season format with a prize of half a million dollars at the league championship.
FINAL DISTANCE "FINAL DISTANCE" is Utada Hikaru's 9th single and the 1st single on her Deep River album. "FINAL DISTANCE" is the first song that Utada Hikaru's husband Kazuaki Kiriya filmed the music video to.
FINE Brand FINE is a registered trademark stationed out of Jordan and part of the conglomerate Nuqul Group. Its establishment was in 1958 and FINE's main line of business is hygienic products, which include tissues, toilet paper, diapers, sanitary napkins, adult briefs, pocket tissues among others.
FINEX The FINEX process is an innovative, next generation iron making technology developed by Siemens VAI and POSCO. Molten iron is produced directly using iron ore fines and non-coking coal rather than processing through sintering and coke making which had been essential to traditional blast furnace methods.
FINO In computer science, FINO is a jocular scheduling algorithm. It is an acronym for "First In Never Out" as opposed to traditional "first in first out" and "last in first out" algorithms.
FINSIA The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) is a professional institute for practitioners in the financial industry in Australia and New Zealand. FINSIA was formed in 2005 by the merger of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance (AIBF), founded 1886 and the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA), founded 1966.
FIPRESCI FIPRESCI (short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique), in English known as International Federation of Film Critics, comprised of the national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June, 1930 in Paris.
FIPS 201 FIPS 201 (Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 201) is a United States federal government standard that specifies Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements for Federal employees and contractors.
FIREFLY Tonics FIREFLY Tonics is an English producer of fruit juice drinks with added herbal extracts. The range includes a number of functional drinks that feature such botanical extracts as Angelica, Damiana, Muira Puama and Jasmine Flower mixed with fruit juices such as Peach and Blueberry.
FIRST FIRST, or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 in order to develop ways to excite students about engineering and technology. The first event was the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which is designed to inspire high school students to become engineers by giving them real world experience working with professional engineers to develop a robot.
FIRST Lego League The FIRST Lego League (also known by its acronym FLL) is a competition for elementary and middle school students (ages 9-14, 9-16 in Europe), arranged by the FIRST organization. Each year the contest focuses on a different topic related to the sciences.
FIRST Robotics Competition The FIRST Robotics Competition is a high school robotics competition organized by FIRST. As of late 2006, over 1,300 high school teams of 30,000 students from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ghana, and more compete to build 120 pound robots that can complete a task that changes every year.
FIRST Vex Challenge The FIRST Vex™ Challenge (FVC) is a mid-level robotics competition targeted toward high-school aged students. It offers the traditional challenge of a FIRST competition but with a more accessible and affordable robotics kit.
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships have been held in various numbers and types of events since 1925 for men and since 1954 for women. Championship events include nordic skiing's three disciplines: cross country skiing, ski jumping, and nordic combined (the latter being a combination sport consisting of both cross-country skiing and ski jumping).
FISIM FISIM stands for Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured. For example, the difference between interest paid by consumers and interest received by lenders through the value of financial intermediation to borrowers and/or lenders.
FITS Liberator The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator is a free plugin for Adobe Photoshop, which makes it possible to process and edit astronomical science data in the FITS format to produce stunning images of the universe.
FIU Stadium FIU Stadium is a stadium located at the University Park campus of Florida International University in Miami, Florida. It is primarily used for American football and track and field, serving as the home venue of the Golden Panthers football and track and field teams.
FIVB World League 2006 The FIVB World League 2006 was a Volleyball tournament played by 16 countries from July 14 to August 27. The finals were held in Moscow, Russia, and it's won by Brazil getting the World League title for the fourth straight year.
FIVB World Rankings The FIVB World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of FIVB, volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their competitions results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
FIX protocol The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol developed for international real-time exchange of information related to the securities transactions and markets. It is a self-describing protocol in many ways similar to other self-describing protocols such as the newer XML; however largely because its use and general acceptance predates XML it remains much more common than XML in securities trading systems.
Fjallsárlón Fjallsárlón is a glacier lake at the south end of the Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull. Fjallsjökull which is part of the bigger glacier reaches down to the water of the lake and some ice-bergs are drifting by on its surface.
Fjölnir Fjölnir, Fjölner, Fjolner or Fjolne (1st century BC - early 1st century AD) was a Swedish king of the House of Yngling, at Gamla Uppsala. He appears in a semi-mythological context as the son of Freyr and Gerd.
Fjölsvinnsmál Fjölsvinnsmál or The Sayings of Fjölsvinnr is the second of two Old Norse poems which comprise the Svipdagsmál, The Lay of Svipdagr. In the first poem, Svipdagr enlists the aid of his dead mother, Gróa, a witch, to assist him in the completion of a task set by his cruel stepmother.
Fjölvar In Norse mythology, Fjölvar was a being, possibly a giant, with whom Odin spent time fighting and seducing women on the island of Algroen ("all green"). This episode was recounted by Odin himself in disguise while boasting of his martial skill and sexual prowess to Thor in the poem Hárbardsljód.
Fjerritslev Fjerritslev is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in North Jutland County on the northwest coast of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 290 km², and has a total population of 8,480 (2005).
Fjord A fjord (or fiord) is a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes, which results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. Typical characteristics of a fjord include: a narrow inlet, a bottom that is glacially eroded significantly below sea level (allowing deep-draft vessels to navigate easily), steep-sided walls which continue to descend below the sea surface, greater depths in the upper and middle reaches than on the seaward side, and communication with the open sea.
Fjord of the Mountains Fjord of the Mountains, also known as "Channel of the Mountains", is located to the west of Puerto Natales, Chile and inside the boundaries of the Alacalufes National Reserve. It stretch 66 km from north to south in the middle of
FjordgĂĄrd FjordgĂĄrd is a small fishing village on the north point of Senja, the second largest island in Norway. FjordgĂĄrd lies on the west side of the fjord Ărnfjorden, which is a continuation of the fjord Ăyfjorden.
Fjords (board game) Fjord is a tile-based German-style board game designed by Franz-Benno Delonge and published in 2005 by Hans im GlĂĽck and Rio Grande Games. Unlike other games in the genre, Fjord is strictly limited to two players, dubbed black and white.
Fjuckby (; UN/LOCODE:SE UPP) is a village in Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden, located about 15 km north of the central city Uppsala along European route E4. The village has a population of 65 people (as of 2000) within an area of 18 hectares.
FJ Fury The North American FJ Fury was the first operational jet aircraft in United States Navy service. Ordered in late 1944 as the XFJ-1 in competition with proposals from Douglas and Vought, the Fury began as a straight-wing, tricycle gear fighter with a single turbojet passing through the fuselage.
FK Belasica Belasica GC(also known as FK Belasica Geras Cunev ) is a macedonian football club currently playing in the countries secound division after failing to avoid relegation in the 2005/2006 season where it finished 12th (last). The team was formed in 1922 and is from the macedonian town of Strumica and play at the Mladost Stadium which holds a capacity of around 6 500 spectators.
FK Marila PĹ™Ăbram FK Marila PĹ™Ăbram is a Czech football club from PĹ™Ăbram. The team originated from two clubs, the 1967 Champions Cup semifinalist Dukla Praha, which tradition it carries, and FC PĹ™Ăbram, merged together in 1996.
FK Pacific FK Pacific are an American soccer team, founded in 2003. The team is a member of the Pacific Coast Soccer League (PCSL), a recognised Division III league in the American Soccer Pyramid which features teams from western Canada and the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America.
FK Pirmasens FK Pirmasens is a German football club in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team was formed as the football section of the gymnastics and sports club TV Pirminia Pirmasens in 1903 and became independent in 1914.
FK Radnik Bijeljina Fudbalski Klub Radnik (Cyrillic: ФК Радник, English: Football Club Radnik) is a football club playing in the city of Bijeljina, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The club was promoted to the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the 2005/2006 season.
FK Rudar Ugljevik FK Rudar is a football club from the town of Ugljevik, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently, FK Rudar is in the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the club played in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 2004/2005 season.
FK-space In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics a FK-space or Fréchet coordinate space is a sequence space equipped with a topological structure such that it becomes a Fréchet space. FK-spaces with a normable topology are called BK-spaces.
FKBP FKBP, or FK506 binding protein, is a family of proteins that have prolyl isomerase activity and are related to the cyclophilins in function, though not in amino acid sequence. FKBPs have been identified in many eukaryotes from yeast to humans and function as protein folding chaperones for proteins containing proline residues.
FKU FKU stands for "First Kid Up", which designates a time of day: the time at which the first child in a family awakes. Typically, this time also marks the end of sleep for at least one adult of the family, and is thus a significant daily event in the life of parents.
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