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Glenside (SEPTA station) Glenside is a SEPTA Regional Rail station along the SEPTA Main Line at the intersections of Easton Road and Glenside Avenue in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Glenside Station is the northern terminus of the R1 Airport line as an independent designation, although many R1 trains continue to Warminster.
Glenties Glenties (Na Gleannta in Irish, meaning "The Glens") is a small town in the northwest of Ireland in central County Donegal. The town is situated where two glens meet, northwest of the Blue Stack Mountains, near the confluence of two rivers.
Glentress Forest Glentress Forest is located near Peebles in the Scottish Borders, about 30 miles south of Edinburgh. Part of the Tweed Valley Forest Park along with Traquair Forest in Innerleithen, it is the home of a mountain biking centre which is one of the 7stanes mountain bike trails operated throughout southern Scotland by the Forestry Commission.
Glenuig Glenuig is a small village in Moidart, Lochaber, Highland, on the west coast of Scotland comprising of around 60 people. It is around 30 miles west of Fort William and 20 miles from Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly point of the mainland of the island of Great Britain.
Glenunga International High School Glenunga International High School (informally known as Glenunga or GIHS) is one of the leading publicly funded schools in South Australia . It is located approximately four km from the city centre of Adelaide in the suburb of Glenunga, between L'Estrange St and Conyngham St, adjoining the major thoroughfare Glen Osmond Road.
Glenurquhart Glenurquhart (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Urchardain) is a glen running to the west of village of Drumnadrochit in the Highland region of Scotland, essentially from Loch Ness at Urquhart Bay in the east to Corrimony and beyond in the west. The River Enrick runs along its length, passing through Loch Meikle.
Glenurquhart Shinty Club Glenurquhart Shinty Club is a shinty team which plays in Drumnadrochit on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland. It draws its players from the part of the Great Glen which encompasses Drumnadrochit, Lewiston and Glen Urquhart.
Glenvale, Queensland Glenvale is a district that comprises part of greater Toowoomba's western suburbs. During the 1990s and first years of the 21st century it was a hive of new construction, new housing estates (developments) opening almost monthly.
Glenveagh Glenveagh (Irish:Gleann Bheatha) — covering 11 hectares of hillside above Glenveagh Castle on the shore of Lough Veagh (Irish:Loch Gleann Bheatha), some 13 km from Churchill in County Donegal, Ireland — forms the heart of the Glenveagh National Park (Irish:Páirc Naisiúnta Gleann Bheatha). The network of mainly informal gardens displays a multitude of exotic and delicate plants from as far afield as Chile, Madeira and Tasmania, all sheltered by windbreaks of pine trees and ornamental rhododendrons.
Glenveagh Castle Glenveagh Castle (Irish: Caisleán Ghleann Bheatha ) is a large castellated Mansion house built in the Scottish Baronial style, situated within Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal, Ireland. The castle was built between 1870 and 1873 and consists of a four storey rectangular keep surrounded by a garden, and has a backdrop of some 16,540 hectares (40,873 acres) of mountains, lakes, glens and woods complete with a herd of red deer.
Glenview State Bank Glenview State Bank (or GSB as it is commonly referrred to) is a family owned bank head-quartered in Glenview, Illinois. It was founded in 1921 and has assets of over 800 million dollars with seven locations in Glenview, Northfield, Northbrook, and Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Glenview, Kentucky Glenview is a city located in northeastern Jefferson County, Kentucky, along the Ohio River. The population was 558 at the 2000 census, and 636 by the 2005 census estimate, giving it the fastest growth rate of any location in Jefferson County.
Glenway Wescott Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was an American novelist and essayist, author of such works as the short story collection, Goodbye, Wisconsin (1928), and the novels The Grandmothers (1927), The Pilgrim Hawk (1940), and Apartment in Athens (1945), as well as the essay collection Images of Truth (1962).
Glenwood Bridge The Glenwood Bridge is a cantilever bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which carries Pennsylvania Route 885 over the Monongahela River. It was constructed about 1970 to replace an old decayed unsafe iron bridge.
Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas) The Glenwood Cemetery is located at 2525 Washington Avenue in Houston, Texas. It is situated between Washington Avenue on the North side and Memorial Drive on the South side, the latter overlooking Buffalo Bayou.
Glenwood High School (Illinois) Glenwood High School of Chatham, Illinois is a public school located just south of Springfield, Illinois. As the only public high school serving the Ball-Chatham School District, Glenwood accommodates all children from Chatham, Glenarm, and portions of Springfield.
Glenwood, Lane County, Oregon Glenwood, Lane County, Oregon is an unincorporated community located between Springfield and Eugene, in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is located on the route of the former Pacific Highway (now Franklin Boulevard).
Glenwood, Manitoba The Rural Municipality of Glenwood is located in the southwestern corner of Manitoba, and is only 47 kilometres southwest of Manitoba's second largest city, Brandon. The municipality's largest town, Souris, provides the advantage of great shops, services and tourist attractions.
Glenwood, New South Wales Glenwood is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Despite being in the Blacktown council region, it is considered to be "Gateway to the Hills District" because it is so close to Norwest, Kellyville and Baulkham Hills, yet being close to Blacktown.
Gley soil Gley soil in soil science is a type of hydric soil which exhibits a greenish-blue-grey soil color due to wetland conditions. On exposure to the air, gley colors are transformed to a mottled pattern of reddish, yellow or orange patches.
Gli3 Gli3 is a known transcriptional repressor but may also have a positive transcriptional function.Taipale and Beachy, 2001fJacob and Briscoe, 2003 Gli3 represses dHand and Germlin which are involved in developing digitste et al.
Gliadin Gliadin is a glycoprotein, present in wheat and some other cereals, best known for its role, along with glutenin, in the formation of gluten. It is around 60 percent soluble in ethanol and sports only intramolecule disulfide links.
Gliadorphin Gliadorphin (also known as gluteomorphin) is an opioid peptide which is formed during digestion of the gliadin component of the gluten protein. It's usually broken down into amino acids by digestion enzymes, but in some individuals they are not.
Glial cell Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are non-neuronal cells that provide support and nutrition, maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and participate in signal transmission in the nervous system. In the human brain, glia are estimated to outnumber neurons by about 10 to 1.
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor Glial cell line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) is a small protein that potently promotes the survival of many types of neurons. The most prominent feature of GDNF is its ability to support the survival of dopaminergic and motorneurons.
Glial fibrillary acidic protein Glial fibrillary acidic protein or GFAP is a type III protein of the intermediate filament principally found in astrocytes in the central nervous system, but can also be found in Neurons, Hepatic stellate cells, Kidney mesangial cells, Pancreatic Stellate cells, and Leydig Cells. It has a role in the Cytoskeleton of the Astrocyte and possibly many other stelate shaped cells.
Glibenclamide Glibenclamide (INN), also known as glyburide (USAN), is an anti-diabetic drug in a class of medications known as sulfonylureas, used in the treatment of type II diabetes. The drug works by inhibiting ATP-sensitive potassium channels in pancreatic beta cells.
Glico Morinaga case The Glico-Morinaga case, also known by its official designation Metropolitan Designated Case 114, was a famous extortion case in Japan, primarily directed at the Japanese industrial confectionaries Ezaki Glico and Morinaga, and currently remains unsolved. The entire case spanned 17 months from the initial kidnapping of the president of Glico to the last known communication from the prime suspect, a person or group known only as the "The Monster with 21 Faces.
Glidden Tour The Glidden Tours were promotional events held during the automotive Brass Era by the American Automobile Association (AAA). The AAA, a proponent for safer roads, acceptance of the automobile and automotive-friendly legislation, started the tour to promote public acceptance and bring awareness of their goals.
Glide API Glide was a proprietary 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx used on their Voodoo graphics cards. It was dedicated to gaming performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data formats identical to those used internally in their cards.
Glide bomb A glide bomb is an aerial bomb that is modified with aerodynamic surfaces to modify its flight path from a purely ballistic one, to a flatter, gliding, one. This extends the range between the launch aircraft and the target.
Glide Foundation The Glide Foundation is a charity organization based in San Francisco. It is known for working with investor Warren Buffett who has donated the proceeds from his eBay "Power Lunch with Warren Buffett" auctions to Glide.
Glide language The Glide language, or simply Glide, is a highly-abstract visual constructed language created by Diana Reed Slattery and features prominently in her science fiction novel The Maze Game. It exists in both the novel and the real world as a written form and as a gestured language.
Glide Memorial Church Glide Memorial Church is a Methodist church in San Francisco, California that opened in 1931. Although conservative until the 1960s, since then it has served as a counter-culture rallying point and has been one of the most prominently progressive churches in the United States.
Glide ratio Glide ratio, also called, Lift-to-drag ratio, glide number, or finesse,is an aviation term that refers to the distance an aircraft will move forward for any given amount of lost altitude (the cotangent of the downward angle). Alternatively it is also the forward speed divided by sink speed (unpowered aircraft):
Glide reflection In geometry, a glide reflection is a type of isometry of the Euclidean plane: the combination of a reflection in a line and a translation along that line. Reversing the order of combining gives the same result.
Glide step Glide step is a form of movement used by marching bands to minimize upper body movement enabling musicians to play their instruments and march without air-stream interruptions. Standardizing the style of marching also serves to add to the visual effect of a marching band.
Glide Technologies Glide Technologies is a private company that produces web-based productivity software for corporate communications and public relations professionals. Glide Technologies is based in London UK and is a leading UK provider to bluechip organisations.
Glideascope Glideascope is a London based downtempo/trip-hop artist and producer, who has pioneered a direction in the genre of downtempo music which he terms 'Audio Cinematography'. With heavy use of cinematic undertones, blissful melodies and lo-fi beats.
Glider Badge The Glider Badge was a decoration of the United States Army which was first created in June 1944. The award was originally intended to recognize those members of the Army who had been trained in glider assault tactics and was presented upon completion of a combat glider flight into enemy held territory.
Glider Infantry Regiment The Glider Infantry Regiments were specialised airborne regiments unique to World War II. The concept of deploying infantrymen and materiel into combat using gliders was initially developed by the Germans, however it was the Allies who applied it to a greater degree.
Glider Pilot Regiment The Glider Pilot Regiment was a specialist British unit of the Second World War. The Regiment was responsible for crewing the British Army's cargo gliders and saw action in the European Theatre in support of Allied airborne operations.
Gliding Gliding (also known as soaring) is a recreational activity and competitive sport in which pilots fly un-powered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes. Properly, the term gliding refers to descending flight of a heavier-than-air craft, whereas soaring is the correct term to use when the craft gains altitude or speed from rising air.
Gliding ant Gliding ants are arboreal ants of several different genera that are able to control the direction of their descent when falling from a tree in order to land on the trunk before reaching the unfamiliar and potentially hazardous understory.
Gliding mammal There are a number of gliding mammals, including the Colugo or flying lemur, the flying mouse, and the Wrist-winged gliders which are a family of gliding possums (including the Squirrel Glider and the Sugar Glider)
Glienicke Bridge The Glienicke bridge is a bridge in Berlin which spans the Havel River to connect the cities of Berlin and Potsdam. Because the Soviet Union and the United States used it three times to exchange captured spies during the Cold War, the bridge was referred to as the Bridge of Spies by the media.
Glienicke Palace Glienicke Palace is located on the Island of Wannsee, near the Glienicke Bridge, on the B1 across from the Glienicke Hunting Lodge. It was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for Prince Carl of Prussia in 1826, The building, originally merely a cottage, was turned into a summer palace in the late classical style.
Gliese 436 Gliese 436 (Gl 436), is a dim 11th magnitude red dwarf star about 30 light years from Earth in the constellation of Leo. It is orbited by at least one planet with evidence from the Radial velocity measurements indicating a possible additional companion of unknown mass orbiting further out.
Gligar are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Gligar in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Glimmer Glass Bridge The Glimmer Glass Bridge is a more than 100 year old bridge located in the town of Manasquan, New Jersey. It is owned by the County of Monmouth and facilitates traffic from Brielle Road over the Glimmer Glass, a navigable tidal inlet of the Manasquan River.
Glimmerglass State Park Glimmerglass State Park is located near Cooperstown, New York on the shore of Otsego Lake, which is the "Glimmerglass" of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. The park is open year-round.
Glimpses of World History Glimpses of World History, a book written by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1934, is a panoramic sweep of the history of humankind. It is a collection of 196 letters written between 1930-1933, as an introduction to the world history to his daughter Indira, then thirteen years old.
Glinda of Oz Glinda of Oz The full title of the first edition is Glinda of Oz; In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril by the sorcery of Glinda the Good. is the fourteenth Land of Oz book written by children's author L.
Gling-Gló Gling-Gló, released in 1990, is the only album by Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar, consisting of Guðmundur Ingólfsson on piano, Guðmundur Steingrímsson on drums, and Þórður Högnason on bass. Gling-Gló is an Icelandic onomatopoeia whose English equivalent is "Ding Dong," or the sound that a bell makes.
Gliomatosis cerebri Gliomatosis cerebri (infiltrative diffuse astrocytosis) is a rare primary brain tumor. It is commonly characterized by diffuse infiltration of the brain with neoplastic glial cells that affect various areas of the cerebral lobeshttp://rad.
Gliotoxin Gliotoxin is a sulfur-containing antibiotic produced by some unrelated species of pathogenic fungi, such as Aspergillus, Trichoderma, and Penicillium, and by the yeast Candida. It was originally isolated from Gliocladium fimbriatum, and was named accordingly.
Glires Glires (Latin glīrēs, dormice) is a clade consisting of rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas). This hypothesis that these form a monophyletic group has been long debated based on morphological evidence.
Glishkong Glishkong is the use of Korean words (or words derived from Korean words) in an English context or an English dialect mixed with Korean loanwords. It also includes the use of words that are perceived to be Korean, but are in fact not Korean words.
Glissade Glissading is the usually voluntary act of descending a steep slope of snow in a controlled manner either for the sheer thrill of the ride and/or to bypass tedious scree. Glissading is an alternative to plunge stepping and also cuts down on descent time.
Glissando Glissando (plural: glissandi) is a musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another (a "true" glissando, or informally, note bending), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (an "effective" glissando).
Glissando illusion The glissando illusion was first reported and demonstrated by Diana Deutsch in Musical Illusions and Paradoxes, 1995. An auditory illusion, it is created when a sound with a fixed pitch, such as a synthesized oboe tone, is played together with a sine wave gliding up and down in pitch, and they are both switched back and forth between stereo loudspeakers.
Glissandro 70 Glissandro 70 is a Canadian post-rock band, consisting of musicians Craig Dunsmuir and Sandro Perri. The band released its self-titled debut album on Constellation Records in 2006, and also contributed a track to the compilation album See You on the Moon!
Glitch A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations and nature.
Glitch (music) Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. Often considered a sub-genre of intelligent dance music, Glitch eschews traditional instrumentation, preferring instead the use of mechanized and non-natural sounds.
Glitch Mode Recordings Glitch Mode Recordings is a record label that releases heavy electronic music, sometimes referred to as industrial music, industrial rock, coldwave, power noise, digital hardcore, street tek, etc. The roster includes Cyanotic (also the founding members of Glitch Mode) and Rabbit Junk, as well as regular contributions from artists like Iammynewt, Ad·ver·sary, DJ Leslie, Darque Science, genCAB, Acumen Nation, DJ?
Glitching Glitching is the controversial practice of finding and exploiting flaws in modern video games to achieve something that was not intended by the game designers. Gamers who engage in this practice are known as glitchers (or cheaters, depending on whether or not you agree with glitching.
Glitnir Glitnir ("shining") is the hall of Forseti, the Norse god of law and justice, and the seat of justice amongst gods and men. Glitnir is symbolic of the importance of discussion rather than violence as a means of resolution of conflict within the Norse tradition.
Glitten Glittens are dynamic hand warming objects that are a cross between mittens and gloves, forming a convenient winter accessory. The mitten part of the glitten is pulled over the fingertips, turning the fingerless gloves into mittens.
Glitter Glitter is the word used to describe an assortment of very small (roughly 1 mm²) pieces of paper, glass or plastic painted in metallic, neon and iridescent colors to reflect light in a sparkling spectrum. Glitter is usually stored in canisters somewhat similar to salt shakers, which have openings that control the flow of glitter.
Glitter (Gary Glitter album) Glitter was an album released in 1972 by British glam rock singer Gary Glitter, produced by Bell Records. Two tracks, I Didn't Know I Loved You ('Til I Saw You Rock 'N' Roll) and Rock 'N' Roll, the latter a song in two parts, achieved success as singles; each spent time amongst the top forty singles in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Glitter Boy In the Rifts role-playing game, a Glitter Boy is a suit of power armor known for both its highly reflective laser-resistant armor, and the powerful railgun that is the signature weapon of the original model. It is used as a name for the pilots who wear the armor as well.
Glitter Gulch (EP) Glitter Gulch is the name of an EP released by the British group Nine Black Alps in 2006 on Island Records. These are all b-sides from the singles released from their debut album, Everything Is, except for Coldhearted which is a Black session recording.
Glitter Chariot Glitter Chariot (formerly Chariot) is a glitterglam rock ensemble somewhere between the Muppets and Alice Cooper. They formed in 2002 as a "temporary" rock outfit planning on shaking the city of Tampa for one wild night only.
Glitterary Glitterary is office-speak for excessive use of buzzwords, clichés, or catchy phrases in a body of work. Generally, a work is glitterary when these word and phrases are used as fluff in a generally pointless body of work.
Glitterati Glitterati is a 2004 film directed by Roger Avary assembled from the 70 hours of video footage shot for the European sequence of The Rules of Attraction in October of 2002, after the events of 9/11. It serves to expand upon the very minimally detailed and rapidly recapped story told by the character of Victor Ward (portrayed by Kip Pardue, featured in Avary's other film The Rules of Attraction) upon his return to the United States after having traveled extensively around Europe.
Glittercard "Voice of the Year”, ”Shining”, and ”An extraordinary vocal talent", are just some of the superlatives that Norwegian music critics have recently used to described the amber-voiced talent of Torun Eriksen. Upon its release, her debut album Glittercard (Jazzland, 2003) has garnerd considerable accolades from the Norwegian press.
Glitterhouse Records Glitterhouse Records is an independent record label based in Beverungen, Germany. The label specialises in the alternative country genre, and has released material by artists such as 16 Horsepower, The Walkabouts, Willard Grant Conspiracy and Hazeldine.
Glittering generality Glittering generalities are emotionally appealing words so closely associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs that they carry conviction without supporting information or reason. They appeal to emotions such as love of country, home; desire for peace, freedom, glory, honor, etc.
Glivenko-Cantelli class Consider a set S with a sigma algebra of Borel subsets A. For a class of subsets, {mathcal C}={C:Csubset S} and a probability measure P on (S,A) define a random variable (compare with empirical processes indexed by mathcal{C} and KS statistics)
Gliwice Gliwice (pronounce: [gli'viʦε]; ), is an industrial city in southern Poland with 200,361 inhabitants (2004) over the Kłodnica River, about 20 km to the west from Katowice. While it was situated in the Katowice Voivodeship from 1975-1998, Gliwice has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999.
Gliwice County Gliwice County () is a powiat (county) in Poland, in Silesian Voivodeship. The county seat is the city of Gliwice and the powiat includes the area around it, but not the city itself which forms its own separate urban powiat.
Glo Friends Glo Friends are small glow-in-the-dark toys in the shape of insects and other small creatures that were made by Playskool in Britain and were produced in the mid 1980s. Books were also made by Ladybird to accompany each Glo Friend.
Glo Worm Glo Worm was a stuffed toy for young children that glowed in the dark and was designed by Hasbro Preschool and made in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It was the must have toy of 1982 and at Christmas sold out almost immediately much like the Tickle Me Elmo phenomenon in 1996.
Gloaming (horse) Gloaming was a famous Australian-bred racehorse who raced mainly in New Zealand, but also in Australia where he won 9 of 14 starts. Gloaming raced just after the Great War at the same time as the American all time great Man O' War.
Gloating Gloating is an emotion that is triggered when you are pleased about an event undesirable for another ISBN 0-521-38664-0. It is often felt when you see the other guy mess up and you can hardly keep from smiling.
Glob() glob() is a Unix library function that expands file names using a pattern matching notation reminiscent of regular expression syntax but without the expressive power of true regular expressions. The word "glob" is also used as a noun when discussing a particular pattern, e.
Globacom Globacom is a telecommunication company that was launched particially by the cell phone corporation, Alcatel; in Nigeria by 2003. Not only it offers GSM SIM cards such as the "Classic Package" or the "Premium Package", it is also the second national landline carrier after the Federal-owned NITEL.
Global The adjective "global" and adverb "globally" imply that the verb or noun to which they are applied applies to the entire Earth as one unit. It is sometimes used as a synonym for international/internationally but this is incorrect:
Global (cutlery) Global (often written in all capitalized letters as "GLOBAL") is a Japanese brand of cutlery products made by Yoshikin. Their selection of knives are known for their distinctive one piece, molybdenum/vanadium stainless steel design.
Global 200 The Global 200 is the list of ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as priorities for conservation. According to the WWF, an ecoregion is defined as a "relatively large unit of land or water containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions (Dinerstein et al.
Global alert Global alert is used as the global radio-communications network during times of international crises or threats to international security. Global Alerts are also issued by agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), when there is a perceived threat of international pandemic, (global epidemic), such as the threat of a SARS, (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), pandemic during March 2003, due to its high contagion level which was rapidly spread by travelers sharing international flights.
Global anomaly In theoretical physics, a global anomaly is a type of anomaly: in this particular case, it is a quantum effect that invalidates a large gauge transformations that would otherwise be preserved in the classical theory. This leads to an inconsistency in the theory because the space of configurations which is being integrated over in the functional integral involves both a configuration and the same configuration after a large gauge transformation has acted upon it and the sum of all such contributions is zero and the space of configurations cannot be split into connected components for which the integral is nonzero.
Global aphasia The symptoms of global aphasia are those of severe Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia combined. There is an almost total reduction of all aspects of spoken and written language, in expression as well as comprehension.
Global Address List The Global Address List (GAL) also known as Microsoft Exchange Global Address Book is a directory service within the Microsoft Exchange email system. The GAL contains information for all email users, distribution groups, and Exchange resources.
Global Air Traffic Management Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) is a concept for satellite-based communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management. The Federal Aviation Administration and the International Civil Aviation Organization, a special agency of the United Nations, established GATM standards in order to keep air travel safe and effective in increasingly crowded worldwide air space.
Global AIDS Alliance The Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) is dedicated to mobilizing the political will and financial resources needed to slow, and ultimately stop, the global AIDS crisis and reduce its impacts on poor countries hardest hit by the pandemic. Founded in 2001, GAA has carved out a strategic leadership role in shaping the AIDS policy debate and organizing coalition-based campaigns to speed the pace of the global response to HIV/AIDS.
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization The GAVI Alliance (GAVI) (formerly The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) is an alliance between different stakeholders, in both the private and public sectors, committed to the mission of saving children's lives and protecting people's health through the worldwide expansion of mass vaccination programs.
Global Area Reference System The Global Area Reference System is a standardized geospatial reference system proposed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for use across the United States Department of Defense. It is somewhat similar to the Military grid reference system, but is based on lines of longitude (LONG) and latitude (LAT).
Global Arena Global Arena is a sports facility in Munakata city, Fukuoka prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. It was set up by the President of the Sanix company and includes various sports grounds for rugby union, soccer, tennis etc.
Global Assessment of Functioning The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) is a numeric scale (0 through 100) used by mental health clinicians and doctors to rate the social, occupational and psychological functioning of adults. The scale is presented and described in the DSM-IV-TR on page 32.

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