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InstaFinder InstaFinder is a Browser Helper Object. By downloading and installing this software, all typing errors in the address bar will cause the browser to be redirected to the InstaFinder's search page, instead of your normal one.
Instagib Instagib is an alternate gametype in many first-person shooter games where a single shot can instantly kill an enemy from any range. All players carry only a single weapon, which usually has unlimited ammunition and can fire lethal shots at incredibly high velocity, but with a slow rate of fire.
Installation art Installation art is art that uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way we experience a particular space. Installation art is not necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can refer to any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces.
Installation testing Implementation Testing or sometimes called Installation testing is typically completed by the software testing engineer in conjunction with the configuration manager. Implementation Testing is usually defined as testing which takes place using the compile version of code into the Testing environment or pre-production environment which may or may not make it into Production.
Installed base Installed base is a measure of the number of units of a particular type of system (usually a computing platform) actually in use, as opposed to market share, which only reflects sales over a particular period. Because installed base includes machines that may have been in use for many years, it is usually a higher figure than market share.
Installer VISE Installer VISE is an installer maker that supports Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows by MindVision Software. Originally created Mac-only, it was one of the most popular installer makers for the platform, now surpassed by Apple's Installer.
Installfest An InstallFest is an event, generally sponsored by a local Linux User Group or university, at which people get together to do mass installations of computer operating systems or software, most often the Linux operating system and other open source software.
Installment Note An installment note is a form of promissory note calling for payment of both principal and interest in specified amounts, or specified minimum amounts, at specific time intervals. This periodic reduction of principal amortizes the loan.
Installment plan An installment plan (in British English instalment), is a method of buying on credit, enabling people to buy goods and sometimes services with payments over an extended period, without having to pay much or any money at time of the purchase. Banks or other financial firms provide the money at varying interest rates from low to extraordinarily high.
Installment sale In US tax law, an installment sale is a sale of an asset such a property or business where you receive at least one payment after the tax year of the sale. If you dispose of property in an installment sale, you report part of your gain when you receive each installment payment.
Instamatic Instamatic was the name of a long-running series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak beginning in 1963. The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing a generation to low-cost photography and spawning numerous imitators.
Instance (World of Warcraft) Instances, also known as instance dungeons or simply "dungeons", are special areas in World of Warcraft of which many copies can exist at once. "Instance" can also refer to a particular copy of such an area.
Instance dungeon In MMORPGs, an instance dungeon is a special area, typically a dungeon, that generates a new copy, or instance, of the dungeon map for each group that enters the area. This saves server work and ensures that there will never be competition (kill stealing, spawn camping) over resources such as mobs within the instance and that player characters experience minimum lag.
Instant Classic Instant Classic is a collection of stories, prose, comics and experiments on the topic of film, theater, music, literature and art by Brian Carroll. The site started in May 12 2003 and was primarily a comic about filmmaking characters Author Donathan and Kate Hearst.
Instant death In journalism, instant death, death occurring instantaneously, and dying instantly describe various situations where a person dies at the scene of their cause of death. Often, the term to 'died instantly' is used as a polite way of saying 'died rather messilly', for example after being cut in half; the victim is certainly to be dead but not necessarily at that instant (instantly non-recoverable).
Instant gentrification Real time or Instant Gentrification is a phrase coined by Columbia University's Larrin Devereaux in attempt to define both the devastation and opportunities presented by manmade or natural disasters affecting a previously less desirable area such as New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, thus making the redevelopment process virtually instant or in real time.
Instant Insanity The "instant insanity" puzzle consists of four cubes with faces colored with four colors (red, blue, green, and white commonly). The object of the puzzle is to stack these cubes in a column so that each side (front, back, left, and right) of the stack shows each of the four colors.
Instant mashed potato Instant mashed potatoes are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing, and drying to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted in the home in seconds by adding hot water or milk, producing a close approximation of mashed potatoes with very little expenditure of time and effort. They come in many different flavours, including (non-exhaustively) chive, garlic, and butter.
Instant Payment Notification Instant Payment Notification (IPN) is a way to allow online retailers to handle real-time purchase confirmation and server-to-server communication. This allows the retailer to store transaction or order information in its own database to track its own sales data internally.
Instant-runoff voting Instant runoff voting (IRV) is a voting system used for single winner elections in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. In an IRV election, if no candidate receives an overall majority of first preferences the candidates with fewest votes are eliminated one by one, and their votes transferred according to their second and third preferences (and so on) and all votes retallied, until one candidate achieves a majority.
Instantaneously trained neural networks In the artificial intelligence topic of machine learning, probably the best known example of an instant-training network is the Willshaw network, and its descendant the ADAM network (Advanced Distributed Associative Memory). These are both associative networks; this is an example of supervised learning.
Instantiation principle The instantiation principle is a concept in philosophy that states that if something has a property, then necessarily that "something" must exist. For it not to exist would be a property without an essence, which is impossible.
Instanton An instanton or pseudoparticle is a notion appearing in theoretical and mathematical physics. It is a classical solution to equations of motion with a finite, non-zero action, either in quantum mechanics or in quantum field theory.
Instauratio Instauratio is an Ancient Roman term referring to the redoing of a ceremony or ritual that has gone awry in some fashion, no matter how minorly. The Romans were extremely legalistic and any slip-up in ceremony could offend some deity or cause the deity to ignore the ceremony completely.
Instead (song) "Instead" is the fifth single from Stacie Orrico's second album Stacie Orrico. It was originally rumoured to be the follow-up single to "I Promise" but "I Could Be The One" was released instead.
Instil Instil was a band from New Jersey, doomed to obscurity by a short lifespan and by the total overshadowing of their accomplishments by the band later formed by Justin, Tom, and Jon, You and I (band). Releasing only a single 7" on the now defunct Spiritfall Alliance in 1997, members of Instil are now in Track of Monarchs and In First Person.
Instinct theory Instinct Theory is a theory that all actions, thoughts, and intents can be traced back to being caused by instinct. Human actions such as ridiculing others can be thought to be akin to an animal attacking a younger animal of the same species so as to deter them from trying to usurp a leader in the pack.
Instinctive aiming Instinctive aiming is a technique used by trained archers and marksmen to improve general accuracy when using a bow, firearm, or other ranged weapon. By developing a feel for a given weapon such as a pistol, the shooter can become so accustomed to the weapon's weight and where it is aimed that they can remain relatively accurate without the need to focus on the sights of the gun to aim.
Instinctive Shooting International International Security Instructors or ISI (originally Instinctive Shooting International) is a security company specializing in the deployment of security forces to disaster areas. The company provides made-to-scale protection and private law enforcement solutions in multiple countries.
Institut Biblique VIE Institut Biblique VIE, in the province of Quebec, Canada is a French training center of the Christian and Missionary Alliance offering college level ministry certificates. It is affiliated with Université de Montréal to offer post-secondary credit.
Institut canadien de Montréal The Institut canadien de Montréal was founded on December 17, 1844, by a group of 200 young liberal professionals in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Institute was a public library and debating room for the literary and scientific society that would later come into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.
Institut canadien de Québec The Institut canadien de Québec was founded by Marc-Aurèle Plamondon on January 17 1848, 4 years after the founding of the Institut canadien de Montréal. Originally a library open to its members, it became public in 1897.
Institut Constant de Rebecque The Institut Constant de Rebecque is a Swiss free-market, classical liberal and libertarian think tank founded in January 2005 in Lausanne, named after writer and political philosopher Benjamin Constant. It is active in issues such as institutional competition, tax policy, health care and education.
Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques The Institutes of Political Studies (French: Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques), or IEPs, are nine publicly owned institutions of higher learning in France. They are located in Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg and Toulouse, and their vocation is the study and research of contemporary political science.
Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence The Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, also known as IEP d'Aix-en-Provence is a political science grande école, founded in 1956 on the premises of the old University of Provence Faculty of Law. It is located in Aix-en-Provence and can be found opposite the Cathédrale Saint Sauveur on Rue Gaston de Saporta.
Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques de Bordeaux Sciences Po Bordeaux, or Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques (IEP) de Bordeaux, is a French political science grande Ă©cole situated on the university campus of Pessac, 8 km from the centre of Bordeaux, set up in 1948.
Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques de Rennes The Rennes Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Rennes (IEP) was founded in 1991, and is a part of the Sciences-Po group of higher education schools along with those in Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Paris, Strasbourg and Toulouse.
Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg The Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, also known as IEP Strasbourg or Sciences Po Strasbourg was the second IEP to be founded, the 9th october 1945Décret n° 45–2287 du 9 octobre 1945 portant création de l'Institut d'études politiques de l'université de Strasbourg, publié au Journal Officiel de la République française du 10 octobre 1945, p. 6383, after the IEP Paris (Sciences Po).
Institut d'EstadĂstica de Catalunya The Institut d'EstadĂstica de Catalunya (Institute of Statistics of Catalonia, usually referred to by its acronym IDESCAT) is the official body responsible for collecting and publishing statistics in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. It is under the responsibility of the Department of the Economy and Finances of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Institut d'Estudis Catalans The Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute for Catalan Studies, or IEC) is an academic institution, based in Barcelona, whose Philological Section promulgates official standards for the Catalan language as used in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris Institut d'études politiques de Paris (English: Paris Institute of Political Studies), often referred to as Sciences Po (pronounced see-ahns po), is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. Sciences Po has traditionally educated the French political and diplomatic elite, but its academic focus spans not only the political and economic sciences, but also law, communications, finance, business, management, and journalism.
Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise The École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Enterprise or ENSIIE or Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise, IIE is one of the French public Grandes écoles of engineering. It is specialised in Computer Science.
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire The Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IBMC) is a research institute for molecular biology attached to the Centre national de la recherche scientifique as an Institut Fédératif de Recherche du CNRS.
Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles The Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles ("Institute for the chemistry of natural substances") is part of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France's most prominent public research organization. It is located at Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris.
Institut de pastorale des Dominicains Institut de pastorale des Dominicains is the Montreal, Quebec branch of the Dominican University College / Collège Universitaire Dominicain, a Roman Catholic university based in Ottawa, Ontario. The Institut offers offers, in French, programs in pastoral or liturgical theology or in catechism, leading to university certificates and bachelor's degrees.
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP; French for "Institute of Geophysics, Paris") is a French research and higher education establishment located in Paris, dedicated to the study of the Earth (geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and seismology). Its main location is presently inside the Jussieu Campus in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, although plans are underway to move the institute to a dedicated facility adjacent to the Jardin des Plantes.
Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique The Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique (IRAM) operates two observatories at millimetre wavelengths, which are open to the international astronomical community: The 30-m single-dish telescope on Pico Veleta (2850 m), located in Sierra Nevada (Spain), and the six-antenna interferometer on the Plateau de Bure (2550 m) in the French Alps. Both sites are at high altitude to reduce the absorption by water vapour.
Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire The French Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) ("Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute") is a public official establishment with an industrial and commercial aspect (EPIC) created by the AFSSE Act (Agence française de sécurité sanitaire environnementale - French Agency of Sanitary Environmental Security) and by the February 22, 2002 decreed n°2002-254. The IRSN is placed under the conjoint authority of the Defence minister, the Environmental minister, the Industry minister and the Health and Research minister.
Institut de veille sanitaire The French Institut de veille sanitaire (Sanitary Surveillance Institute) is a Health minister public establishment. Its mission is to survey the health of the population and, if required (for example in the case of an epidemics), to alert the administration, health specialists and the whole of the population.
Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg The Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg or European Institute for Higher Business Studies, is a business school in France. The Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg (IECS) was created in 1919 in Strasbourg.
Institut fĂĽr Rundfunktechnik The Institut fĂĽr Rundfunktechnik GmbH (IRT) is the research centre of the German broadcasters (ARD / ZDF / DLR), Austria's broadcaster (ORF) and the Swiss public broadcaster (SRG/SSR). It is located in Munich and is responsible for the research and standardisation of broadcasting technology.
Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft The Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality.
Institut français d'opinion publique The Institut français d'opinion publique (IFOP) is an international marketing firm, whose motto is "Global strength in marketing intelligence". It's CEO is Laurence Parisot, who is also the current leader of the MEDEF French employers' trade union.
Institut français du pétrole The Institut français du pétrole (IFP, French Institute of Oil) is an independent research organisation in France. It was founded in 1944 under the name of the Institut du pétrole, des carburants et des lubrifiants (Institute of Oil, Fuels and Lubricants).
Institut Florimont Institut Florimont was founded in 1905 by the Congrégation des Missionnaires de Saint François de Sales, soon after a law in France prohibited religious congregations of any persuasion. The Institut Florimont started out as a private catholic french-speaking boarding school for boys, it is now co-ed and open to external day-students.
Institut Français de Recherche en Iran The Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (in Persian: Moassese-ye Irân-shenâsi-e Farânse) is an archeological and historical institute located in Tehran, which is part of the cultural wing of the French embassy. It studies ancient Persian antiquities.
Institut GĂ©ographique National The Institut GĂ©ographique National (English: National geographic institute) or IGN is a French public state administrative establishment, whose task is to produce and maintain geographical information for France and its overseas departments and territories.
Institut national d'études démographiques The Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED - National Institute of Demographic Studies) is a French public establishment. It was created on October 24, 1945 by the ordonnance n°45-2499, which dissolved Alexis Carrel's Fondation française pour l'Étude des problèmes humains ("French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems").
Institut national de la recherche scientifique The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (French, National Institute of Scientific Research) is the research-oriented branch of Université du Québec. INRS conducts research in four broad sectors: water, earth and the environment; energy, materials and telecommunications; human, animal and environmental health; and urbanization, culture and society.
Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique The Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. Created in 1967 at Rocquencourt near Paris, INRIA (The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) is a public scientific and technological establishment (EPST) under the double supervision of the French Research Ministry and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry.
Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon The Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G) is a French grande école. It was created in 1971 by merging the Institut national agronomique (Paris) and the École nationale supérieure d'Agronomie de Grignon, thus having a history that goes back to 1826.
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique The Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) is a French public research institute dedicated to scientific studies surrounding the problems of agriculture. It was founded in 1946, and is a public scientific and technological establishment (EPST) under the joint authority of the Ministries of research and Agriculture.
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules The Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules is a French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique institute created in 1971. Its purpose is "to promote and unite research activities in the various fields of physics".
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon INSA Lyon is a comprehensive University of Science and Technology with post-baccalauréat (A-Levels) admission. The five-year curriculum aims at training engineers who possess humane qualities and are well versed in the primary areas of science and engineering.
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes or INSA de Rennes is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs, a School of Engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research and part of the INSA's network.
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen INSA de Rouen ( literally the National Institute of Applied Sciences ) is a French grande école, that is to say a five-year curriculum aims at training engineers who possess humane qualities and are well versed in the primary areas of science and engineering. Located on Mont Saint Aignan campus and on Madrillet campus in the suburbs of Rouen, this school accommodate more than 1300 students who specialize in one of the 6 particular fields available in Rouen for the 3 last years.
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes or INSA Toulouse is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs, a School of Engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research and part of the INSA's network.
Institut National des Télécommunications The Institut National des Télécommunications (INT) is a French Grande Ecole located in Evry, south from Paris. It was formerly a research centre for France Telecom, and later turned into the leading institute for higher studies and research on the Telecom and ICT management.
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble The Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) (Grenoble Institute of Technology or GIT)Since May 2006 and the creation of its new website, INPG has chosen this name to communicate its image across the borders. In the past, names such as Grenoble National Polytechnical Institute or National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble were sometimes used.
Institut pour la DĂ©fense de la DĂ©mocratie The institut pour la DĂ©fense de la DĂ©mocratie (institute for the Defense of Democracy) is a French Think Tank, it provides information, analysis and research on democracy and freedom. It is a non-profit association and considers itself secularist and apolitical.
Institut Supérieur d'Électronique et du Numérique The Institut Supérieur d'Électronique et du Numérique, or ISEN, is a group composed of 3 French Grandes écoles, whose main site is the school ISEN-Lille, which was founded in 1956 by the French minister Norbert Ségard.
Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace The Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace or ISAE is the putative name for the French aerospace engineering university in Toulouse, resulting from the merger of SUPAERO and the ENSICA, which is scheduled to take place in September 2007. The aim of this move is to augment the international visibility of SUPAERO and the ENSICA (which both depend from the French Ministry of Defense), by sharing their faculty and experimental means.
Institut Teknologi Bandung Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) (Indonesian: Institut Teknologi Bandung) was established in 1920 as Technische Hogeschool te Bandung (THB). It was also the place where Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, earned his engineering degree in civil engineering.
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, (November 10 Institute of Technology, ITS), is a technological institution located in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. This university is one of the top universities in Indonesia and of three public universities in Surabaya, beside Airlangga University and Surabaya State University.
Institute An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose. Often it is a research organization (research institution) created to perform investigations in a certain area or it is a Professional body.
Institute Catholique The Institute Catholique, also known as the Catholic School for Indigent Orphans, was a school founded in the Fauborg Marigny district of New Orleans in 1848 dedicated to providing a free education to African-American orphans. It was the first school in the United States to offer a free education to African-American children.
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (German Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) in an interdisciplinary institute created 1981 in Berlin-Grunewald for studies in natural, social sciences for various research projects.
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities or IATH is a research unit of the University of Virginia. Its goal is to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research.
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training The Institute for Advanced Theatre Training was founded in 1987 by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Institute is considered a professional training program which lasts for two years (five semesters) including a three-month residency at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Moscow, Russia.
Institute for America's Future Institute for America's Future is an American thinktank which distributes reports, gathers and processes information, and does analysis of various progressive causes. It issues of focus include, the environmental, energy, and health care issues, social security, education and congress accountability.
Institute for Anarchist Studies The Institute for Anarchist Studies is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to assist anarchist writers and further develop the theoretical aspects of the anarchist movement. It has given grants to over forty writers, including Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Murray Bookchin, in addition to many lesser known authors.
Institute for Animal Health The Institute for Animal Health is a research institute in the United Kingdom dedicated to the study of infectious diseases of farm animals. It forms part of the UK government's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Institute for Applied Autonomy The Institute for Applied Autonomy is an anonymous activist group which focuses on dissemination of knowledge, autonomy, and methods of self-determination through artistic expression and application of military-like technology to the topics of criminal mischief, decentralized systems and individual autonomy. They are relative to the group Critical Art Ensemble.
Institute for Applied Spiritual Technology The Institute for Applied Spiritual Technology was founded by Bhakti Tirtha Swami, and is a non-profit, non-denominational organization whose staff members represent a variety of spiritual paths and professional backgrounds.
Institute for Canadian Values The Institute for Canadian Values is a private Canadian think-tank promoting conservative social and economic policies. It was founded in March of 2005 by a $250,000 gift from a "retired trucking magnate" named Sidney Harkema.
Institute for Community Studies The Institute of Community Studies based in London is an urban studies think tank. Founded in 1954, it had been the main vehicle through which Michael Young created over 60 organisations including the Open University and the Consumers' Association.
Institute for Complementary Medicine The Institute for Complementary Medicine (ICM), founded in 1982, is a UK charity whose declared mission is to inform the general public on "all aspects" of complementary medicine. To this end, it offers courses and engages in research.
Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs The Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs (ICCA)is a not-for-profit institute based in Frankfurt am Main], [[Germany, that assists companies in mainstreaming their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. It does this by supporting the establishment of CSR and Corporate Culture Departments (CCD) within international corporations.
Institute for Creation Research The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is a biblical research institute based in Santee, California that focuses on constructing and teaching a Young Earth Creationist world view. Espousing Biblical inerrency, it is well known among other creation science organizations, but is met with skepticism by the greater scientific community that does not accept its teachings.
Institute for Creative Technologies The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a research institute of the University of Southern California located in Marina del Rey, California. Among ICT's goals are the advancement of the state-of-the-art in virtual reality and immersive environments, and the creation of the Experience Learning System (ELS) (which provides the ability to learn through active, as opposed to passive, systems).
Institute for Cultural Diplomacy The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) is an international, independent, non-partisan, and non-profit focused on cultural diplomacy with headquarters in the United States and Germany. The institute is at the center of a global network of public sector, private sector, and independent partners.
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) is India's premier think tank of international repute for advanced research in International Relations, especially its strategic and security issues. Funded by the Indian Ministry of Defence, it is an autonomus institute focussing issues of national and international peace and security.
Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in UmeĂĄ DAUM, the Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in UmeĂĄ, is a Swedish governmental archive bureau which collects, preserves, works up and provides information about dialects, place names, folklore culture and local history. DAUM is part of SOFI.
Institute for Economic Studies Created in 1989, the Institute for Economic Studies Europe is a non profit organization with the aim to discover, develop and support the most outstanding people it could find among students, scholars and other intellectuals who share an interest in exploring and applying the principles of classical liberalism.
Institute for Environment and Sustainability The Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) is a specialised institute of the Joint Research Centre directorate of the European Commission, based at Ispra, Italy. Its mission is to provide scientific and technical support to EU policies for the protection of the environment contributing to sustainable development in Europe.
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James Hughes. The IEET is incorporated in the United States as a non-profit 501c3 organization.
Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation The Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation is a political action committee based in Ukraine. It was founded by Borys Tarasyuk as foreign minister of Ukraine, for the stated purpose of campaigning for NATO and European Union membership of Ukraine.
Institute for Financial Management and Research The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, is a leading business school with the objective of molding bright and ambitious young managers into effective executives in a global setting. IFMR’s curriculum offers a mix of theory and simulated real life exposure.
Institute for Futures Research Established in 1974, the Institute for Futures Research (IFR) is a research institution of the University of Stellenbosch specialising in futures studies primarily as a support service for knowledge and strategic management. The IFR’s research focus is on the following fields of specialisation:
Institute for Global Innovation Management Located in Boston, Massachusetts, the Institute for Global Innovation Management (IGIM) was founded in 2002 as a research institute affiliated with the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. The Institute focuses on applied, practice-oriented research and manages a number of research, education and outreach activities to communicate with academic audiences, students and corporations.
Instagib Instagib is an alternate gametype in many first-person shooter games where a single shot can instantly kill an enemy from any range. All players carry only a single weapon, which usually has unlimited ammunition and can fire lethal shots at incredibly high velocity, but with a slow rate of fire.
Installation art Installation art is art that uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way we experience a particular space. Installation art is not necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can refer to any material intervention in everyday public or private spaces.
Installation testing Implementation Testing or sometimes called Installation testing is typically completed by the software testing engineer in conjunction with the configuration manager. Implementation Testing is usually defined as testing which takes place using the compile version of code into the Testing environment or pre-production environment which may or may not make it into Production.
Installed base Installed base is a measure of the number of units of a particular type of system (usually a computing platform) actually in use, as opposed to market share, which only reflects sales over a particular period. Because installed base includes machines that may have been in use for many years, it is usually a higher figure than market share.
Installer VISE Installer VISE is an installer maker that supports Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows by MindVision Software. Originally created Mac-only, it was one of the most popular installer makers for the platform, now surpassed by Apple's Installer.
Installfest An InstallFest is an event, generally sponsored by a local Linux User Group or university, at which people get together to do mass installations of computer operating systems or software, most often the Linux operating system and other open source software.
Installment Note An installment note is a form of promissory note calling for payment of both principal and interest in specified amounts, or specified minimum amounts, at specific time intervals. This periodic reduction of principal amortizes the loan.
Installment plan An installment plan (in British English instalment), is a method of buying on credit, enabling people to buy goods and sometimes services with payments over an extended period, without having to pay much or any money at time of the purchase. Banks or other financial firms provide the money at varying interest rates from low to extraordinarily high.
Installment sale In US tax law, an installment sale is a sale of an asset such a property or business where you receive at least one payment after the tax year of the sale. If you dispose of property in an installment sale, you report part of your gain when you receive each installment payment.
Instamatic Instamatic was the name of a long-running series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak beginning in 1963. The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing a generation to low-cost photography and spawning numerous imitators.
Instance (World of Warcraft) Instances, also known as instance dungeons or simply "dungeons", are special areas in World of Warcraft of which many copies can exist at once. "Instance" can also refer to a particular copy of such an area.
Instance dungeon In MMORPGs, an instance dungeon is a special area, typically a dungeon, that generates a new copy, or instance, of the dungeon map for each group that enters the area. This saves server work and ensures that there will never be competition (kill stealing, spawn camping) over resources such as mobs within the instance and that player characters experience minimum lag.
Instant Classic Instant Classic is a collection of stories, prose, comics and experiments on the topic of film, theater, music, literature and art by Brian Carroll. The site started in May 12 2003 and was primarily a comic about filmmaking characters Author Donathan and Kate Hearst.
Instant death In journalism, instant death, death occurring instantaneously, and dying instantly describe various situations where a person dies at the scene of their cause of death. Often, the term to 'died instantly' is used as a polite way of saying 'died rather messilly', for example after being cut in half; the victim is certainly to be dead but not necessarily at that instant (instantly non-recoverable).
Instant gentrification Real time or Instant Gentrification is a phrase coined by Columbia University's Larrin Devereaux in attempt to define both the devastation and opportunities presented by manmade or natural disasters affecting a previously less desirable area such as New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, thus making the redevelopment process virtually instant or in real time.
Instant Insanity The "instant insanity" puzzle consists of four cubes with faces colored with four colors (red, blue, green, and white commonly). The object of the puzzle is to stack these cubes in a column so that each side (front, back, left, and right) of the stack shows each of the four colors.
Instant mashed potato Instant mashed potatoes are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing, and drying to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted in the home in seconds by adding hot water or milk, producing a close approximation of mashed potatoes with very little expenditure of time and effort. They come in many different flavours, including (non-exhaustively) chive, garlic, and butter.
Instant Payment Notification Instant Payment Notification (IPN) is a way to allow online retailers to handle real-time purchase confirmation and server-to-server communication. This allows the retailer to store transaction or order information in its own database to track its own sales data internally.
Instant-runoff voting Instant runoff voting (IRV) is a voting system used for single winner elections in which voters rank candidates in order of preference. In an IRV election, if no candidate receives an overall majority of first preferences the candidates with fewest votes are eliminated one by one, and their votes transferred according to their second and third preferences (and so on) and all votes retallied, until one candidate achieves a majority.
Instantaneously trained neural networks In the artificial intelligence topic of machine learning, probably the best known example of an instant-training network is the Willshaw network, and its descendant the ADAM network (Advanced Distributed Associative Memory). These are both associative networks; this is an example of supervised learning.
Instantiation principle The instantiation principle is a concept in philosophy that states that if something has a property, then necessarily that "something" must exist. For it not to exist would be a property without an essence, which is impossible.
Instanton An instanton or pseudoparticle is a notion appearing in theoretical and mathematical physics. It is a classical solution to equations of motion with a finite, non-zero action, either in quantum mechanics or in quantum field theory.
Instauratio Instauratio is an Ancient Roman term referring to the redoing of a ceremony or ritual that has gone awry in some fashion, no matter how minorly. The Romans were extremely legalistic and any slip-up in ceremony could offend some deity or cause the deity to ignore the ceremony completely.
Instead (song) "Instead" is the fifth single from Stacie Orrico's second album Stacie Orrico. It was originally rumoured to be the follow-up single to "I Promise" but "I Could Be The One" was released instead.
Instil Instil was a band from New Jersey, doomed to obscurity by a short lifespan and by the total overshadowing of their accomplishments by the band later formed by Justin, Tom, and Jon, You and I (band). Releasing only a single 7" on the now defunct Spiritfall Alliance in 1997, members of Instil are now in Track of Monarchs and In First Person.
Instinct theory Instinct Theory is a theory that all actions, thoughts, and intents can be traced back to being caused by instinct. Human actions such as ridiculing others can be thought to be akin to an animal attacking a younger animal of the same species so as to deter them from trying to usurp a leader in the pack.
Instinctive aiming Instinctive aiming is a technique used by trained archers and marksmen to improve general accuracy when using a bow, firearm, or other ranged weapon. By developing a feel for a given weapon such as a pistol, the shooter can become so accustomed to the weapon's weight and where it is aimed that they can remain relatively accurate without the need to focus on the sights of the gun to aim.
Instinctive Shooting International International Security Instructors or ISI (originally Instinctive Shooting International) is a security company specializing in the deployment of security forces to disaster areas. The company provides made-to-scale protection and private law enforcement solutions in multiple countries.
Institut Biblique VIE Institut Biblique VIE, in the province of Quebec, Canada is a French training center of the Christian and Missionary Alliance offering college level ministry certificates. It is affiliated with Université de Montréal to offer post-secondary credit.
Institut canadien de Montréal The Institut canadien de Montréal was founded on December 17, 1844, by a group of 200 young liberal professionals in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Institute was a public library and debating room for the literary and scientific society that would later come into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.
Institut canadien de Québec The Institut canadien de Québec was founded by Marc-Aurèle Plamondon on January 17 1848, 4 years after the founding of the Institut canadien de Montréal. Originally a library open to its members, it became public in 1897.
Institut Constant de Rebecque The Institut Constant de Rebecque is a Swiss free-market, classical liberal and libertarian think tank founded in January 2005 in Lausanne, named after writer and political philosopher Benjamin Constant. It is active in issues such as institutional competition, tax policy, health care and education.
Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques The Institutes of Political Studies (French: Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques), or IEPs, are nine publicly owned institutions of higher learning in France. They are located in Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg and Toulouse, and their vocation is the study and research of contemporary political science.
Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence The Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, also known as IEP d'Aix-en-Provence is a political science grande école, founded in 1956 on the premises of the old University of Provence Faculty of Law. It is located in Aix-en-Provence and can be found opposite the Cathédrale Saint Sauveur on Rue Gaston de Saporta.
Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques de Bordeaux Sciences Po Bordeaux, or Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques (IEP) de Bordeaux, is a French political science grande Ă©cole situated on the university campus of Pessac, 8 km from the centre of Bordeaux, set up in 1948.
Institut d'Ă©tudes politiques de Rennes The Rennes Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Rennes (IEP) was founded in 1991, and is a part of the Sciences-Po group of higher education schools along with those in Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Paris, Strasbourg and Toulouse.
Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg The Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, also known as IEP Strasbourg or Sciences Po Strasbourg was the second IEP to be founded, the 9th october 1945Décret n° 45–2287 du 9 octobre 1945 portant création de l'Institut d'études politiques de l'université de Strasbourg, publié au Journal Officiel de la République française du 10 octobre 1945, p. 6383, after the IEP Paris (Sciences Po).
Institut d'EstadĂstica de Catalunya The Institut d'EstadĂstica de Catalunya (Institute of Statistics of Catalonia, usually referred to by its acronym IDESCAT) is the official body responsible for collecting and publishing statistics in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. It is under the responsibility of the Department of the Economy and Finances of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Institut d'Estudis Catalans The Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute for Catalan Studies, or IEC) is an academic institution, based in Barcelona, whose Philological Section promulgates official standards for the Catalan language as used in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris Institut d'études politiques de Paris (English: Paris Institute of Political Studies), often referred to as Sciences Po (pronounced see-ahns po), is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. Sciences Po has traditionally educated the French political and diplomatic elite, but its academic focus spans not only the political and economic sciences, but also law, communications, finance, business, management, and journalism.
Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise The École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Enterprise or ENSIIE or Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise, IIE is one of the French public Grandes écoles of engineering. It is specialised in Computer Science.
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire The Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IBMC) is a research institute for molecular biology attached to the Centre national de la recherche scientifique as an Institut Fédératif de Recherche du CNRS.
Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles The Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles ("Institute for the chemistry of natural substances") is part of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France's most prominent public research organization. It is located at Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris.
Institut de pastorale des Dominicains Institut de pastorale des Dominicains is the Montreal, Quebec branch of the Dominican University College / Collège Universitaire Dominicain, a Roman Catholic university based in Ottawa, Ontario. The Institut offers offers, in French, programs in pastoral or liturgical theology or in catechism, leading to university certificates and bachelor's degrees.
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP; French for "Institute of Geophysics, Paris") is a French research and higher education establishment located in Paris, dedicated to the study of the Earth (geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and seismology). Its main location is presently inside the Jussieu Campus in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, although plans are underway to move the institute to a dedicated facility adjacent to the Jardin des Plantes.
Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique The Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique (IRAM) operates two observatories at millimetre wavelengths, which are open to the international astronomical community: The 30-m single-dish telescope on Pico Veleta (2850 m), located in Sierra Nevada (Spain), and the six-antenna interferometer on the Plateau de Bure (2550 m) in the French Alps. Both sites are at high altitude to reduce the absorption by water vapour.
Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire The French Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) ("Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute") is a public official establishment with an industrial and commercial aspect (EPIC) created by the AFSSE Act (Agence française de sécurité sanitaire environnementale - French Agency of Sanitary Environmental Security) and by the February 22, 2002 decreed n°2002-254. The IRSN is placed under the conjoint authority of the Defence minister, the Environmental minister, the Industry minister and the Health and Research minister.
Institut de veille sanitaire The French Institut de veille sanitaire (Sanitary Surveillance Institute) is a Health minister public establishment. Its mission is to survey the health of the population and, if required (for example in the case of an epidemics), to alert the administration, health specialists and the whole of the population.
Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg The Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg or European Institute for Higher Business Studies, is a business school in France. The Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures de Strasbourg (IECS) was created in 1919 in Strasbourg.
Institut fĂĽr Rundfunktechnik The Institut fĂĽr Rundfunktechnik GmbH (IRT) is the research centre of the German broadcasters (ARD / ZDF / DLR), Austria's broadcaster (ORF) and the Swiss public broadcaster (SRG/SSR). It is located in Munich and is responsible for the research and standardisation of broadcasting technology.
Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft The Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality.
Institut français d'opinion publique The Institut français d'opinion publique (IFOP) is an international marketing firm, whose motto is "Global strength in marketing intelligence". It's CEO is Laurence Parisot, who is also the current leader of the MEDEF French employers' trade union.
Institut français du pétrole The Institut français du pétrole (IFP, French Institute of Oil) is an independent research organisation in France. It was founded in 1944 under the name of the Institut du pétrole, des carburants et des lubrifiants (Institute of Oil, Fuels and Lubricants).
Institut Florimont Institut Florimont was founded in 1905 by the Congrégation des Missionnaires de Saint François de Sales, soon after a law in France prohibited religious congregations of any persuasion. The Institut Florimont started out as a private catholic french-speaking boarding school for boys, it is now co-ed and open to external day-students.
Institut Français de Recherche en Iran The Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (in Persian: Moassese-ye Irân-shenâsi-e Farânse) is an archeological and historical institute located in Tehran, which is part of the cultural wing of the French embassy. It studies ancient Persian antiquities.
Institut GĂ©ographique National The Institut GĂ©ographique National (English: National geographic institute) or IGN is a French public state administrative establishment, whose task is to produce and maintain geographical information for France and its overseas departments and territories.
Institut national d'études démographiques The Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED - National Institute of Demographic Studies) is a French public establishment. It was created on October 24, 1945 by the ordonnance n°45-2499, which dissolved Alexis Carrel's Fondation française pour l'Étude des problèmes humains ("French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems").
Institut national de la recherche scientifique The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (French, National Institute of Scientific Research) is the research-oriented branch of Université du Québec. INRS conducts research in four broad sectors: water, earth and the environment; energy, materials and telecommunications; human, animal and environmental health; and urbanization, culture and society.
Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique The Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics. Created in 1967 at Rocquencourt near Paris, INRIA (The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) is a public scientific and technological establishment (EPST) under the double supervision of the French Research Ministry and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry.
Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon The Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA P-G) is a French grande école. It was created in 1971 by merging the Institut national agronomique (Paris) and the École nationale supérieure d'Agronomie de Grignon, thus having a history that goes back to 1826.
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique The Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) is a French public research institute dedicated to scientific studies surrounding the problems of agriculture. It was founded in 1946, and is a public scientific and technological establishment (EPST) under the joint authority of the Ministries of research and Agriculture.
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules The Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules is a French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique institute created in 1971. Its purpose is "to promote and unite research activities in the various fields of physics".
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon INSA Lyon is a comprehensive University of Science and Technology with post-baccalauréat (A-Levels) admission. The five-year curriculum aims at training engineers who possess humane qualities and are well versed in the primary areas of science and engineering.
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes or INSA de Rennes is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs, a School of Engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research and part of the INSA's network.
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen INSA de Rouen ( literally the National Institute of Applied Sciences ) is a French grande école, that is to say a five-year curriculum aims at training engineers who possess humane qualities and are well versed in the primary areas of science and engineering. Located on Mont Saint Aignan campus and on Madrillet campus in the suburbs of Rouen, this school accommodate more than 1300 students who specialize in one of the 6 particular fields available in Rouen for the 3 last years.
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes or INSA Toulouse is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs, a School of Engineering, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research and part of the INSA's network.
Institut National des Télécommunications The Institut National des Télécommunications (INT) is a French Grande Ecole located in Evry, south from Paris. It was formerly a research centre for France Telecom, and later turned into the leading institute for higher studies and research on the Telecom and ICT management.
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble The Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) (Grenoble Institute of Technology or GIT)Since May 2006 and the creation of its new website, INPG has chosen this name to communicate its image across the borders. In the past, names such as Grenoble National Polytechnical Institute or National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble were sometimes used.
Institut pour la DĂ©fense de la DĂ©mocratie The institut pour la DĂ©fense de la DĂ©mocratie (institute for the Defense of Democracy) is a French Think Tank, it provides information, analysis and research on democracy and freedom. It is a non-profit association and considers itself secularist and apolitical.
Institut Supérieur d'Électronique et du Numérique The Institut Supérieur d'Électronique et du Numérique, or ISEN, is a group composed of 3 French Grandes écoles, whose main site is the school ISEN-Lille, which was founded in 1956 by the French minister Norbert Ségard.
Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace The Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace or ISAE is the putative name for the French aerospace engineering university in Toulouse, resulting from the merger of SUPAERO and the ENSICA, which is scheduled to take place in September 2007. The aim of this move is to augment the international visibility of SUPAERO and the ENSICA (which both depend from the French Ministry of Defense), by sharing their faculty and experimental means.
Institut Teknologi Bandung Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) (Indonesian: Institut Teknologi Bandung) was established in 1920 as Technische Hogeschool te Bandung (THB). It was also the place where Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, earned his engineering degree in civil engineering.
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, (November 10 Institute of Technology, ITS), is a technological institution located in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. This university is one of the top universities in Indonesia and of three public universities in Surabaya, beside Airlangga University and Surabaya State University.
Institute An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose. Often it is a research organization (research institution) created to perform investigations in a certain area or it is a Professional body.
Institute Catholique The Institute Catholique, also known as the Catholic School for Indigent Orphans, was a school founded in the Fauborg Marigny district of New Orleans in 1848 dedicated to providing a free education to African-American orphans. It was the first school in the United States to offer a free education to African-American children.
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (German Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) in an interdisciplinary institute created 1981 in Berlin-Grunewald for studies in natural, social sciences for various research projects.
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities or IATH is a research unit of the University of Virginia. Its goal is to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research.
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training The Institute for Advanced Theatre Training was founded in 1987 by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Institute is considered a professional training program which lasts for two years (five semesters) including a three-month residency at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Moscow, Russia.
Institute for America's Future Institute for America's Future is an American thinktank which distributes reports, gathers and processes information, and does analysis of various progressive causes. It issues of focus include, the environmental, energy, and health care issues, social security, education and congress accountability.
Institute for Anarchist Studies The Institute for Anarchist Studies is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to assist anarchist writers and further develop the theoretical aspects of the anarchist movement. It has given grants to over forty writers, including Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Murray Bookchin, in addition to many lesser known authors.
Institute for Animal Health The Institute for Animal Health is a research institute in the United Kingdom dedicated to the study of infectious diseases of farm animals. It forms part of the UK government's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Institute for Applied Autonomy The Institute for Applied Autonomy is an anonymous activist group which focuses on dissemination of knowledge, autonomy, and methods of self-determination through artistic expression and application of military-like technology to the topics of criminal mischief, decentralized systems and individual autonomy. They are relative to the group Critical Art Ensemble.
Institute for Applied Spiritual Technology The Institute for Applied Spiritual Technology was founded by Bhakti Tirtha Swami, and is a non-profit, non-denominational organization whose staff members represent a variety of spiritual paths and professional backgrounds.
Institute for Canadian Values The Institute for Canadian Values is a private Canadian think-tank promoting conservative social and economic policies. It was founded in March of 2005 by a $250,000 gift from a "retired trucking magnate" named Sidney Harkema.
Institute for Community Studies The Institute of Community Studies based in London is an urban studies think tank. Founded in 1954, it had been the main vehicle through which Michael Young created over 60 organisations including the Open University and the Consumers' Association.
Institute for Complementary Medicine The Institute for Complementary Medicine (ICM), founded in 1982, is a UK charity whose declared mission is to inform the general public on "all aspects" of complementary medicine. To this end, it offers courses and engages in research.
Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs The Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs (ICCA)is a not-for-profit institute based in Frankfurt am Main], [[Germany, that assists companies in mainstreaming their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. It does this by supporting the establishment of CSR and Corporate Culture Departments (CCD) within international corporations.
Institute for Creation Research The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is a biblical research institute based in Santee, California that focuses on constructing and teaching a Young Earth Creationist world view. Espousing Biblical inerrency, it is well known among other creation science organizations, but is met with skepticism by the greater scientific community that does not accept its teachings.
Institute for Creative Technologies The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a research institute of the University of Southern California located in Marina del Rey, California. Among ICT's goals are the advancement of the state-of-the-art in virtual reality and immersive environments, and the creation of the Experience Learning System (ELS) (which provides the ability to learn through active, as opposed to passive, systems).
Institute for Cultural Diplomacy The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) is an international, independent, non-partisan, and non-profit focused on cultural diplomacy with headquarters in the United States and Germany. The institute is at the center of a global network of public sector, private sector, and independent partners.
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) is India's premier think tank of international repute for advanced research in International Relations, especially its strategic and security issues. Funded by the Indian Ministry of Defence, it is an autonomus institute focussing issues of national and international peace and security.
Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in UmeĂĄ DAUM, the Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in UmeĂĄ, is a Swedish governmental archive bureau which collects, preserves, works up and provides information about dialects, place names, folklore culture and local history. DAUM is part of SOFI.
Institute for Economic Studies Created in 1989, the Institute for Economic Studies Europe is a non profit organization with the aim to discover, develop and support the most outstanding people it could find among students, scholars and other intellectuals who share an interest in exploring and applying the principles of classical liberalism.
Institute for Environment and Sustainability The Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) is a specialised institute of the Joint Research Centre directorate of the European Commission, based at Ispra, Italy. Its mission is to provide scientific and technical support to EU policies for the protection of the environment contributing to sustainable development in Europe.
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James Hughes. The IEET is incorporated in the United States as a non-profit 501c3 organization.
Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation The Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation is a political action committee based in Ukraine. It was founded by Borys Tarasyuk as foreign minister of Ukraine, for the stated purpose of campaigning for NATO and European Union membership of Ukraine.
Institute for Financial Management and Research The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, is a leading business school with the objective of molding bright and ambitious young managers into effective executives in a global setting. IFMR’s curriculum offers a mix of theory and simulated real life exposure.
Institute for Futures Research Established in 1974, the Institute for Futures Research (IFR) is a research institution of the University of Stellenbosch specialising in futures studies primarily as a support service for knowledge and strategic management. The IFR’s research focus is on the following fields of specialisation:
Institute for Global Innovation Management Located in Boston, Massachusetts, the Institute for Global Innovation Management (IGIM) was founded in 2002 as a research institute affiliated with the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. The Institute focuses on applied, practice-oriented research and manages a number of research, education and outreach activities to communicate with academic audiences, students and corporations.
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