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USA PATRIOT Act, Title I Title I: Enhancing Domestic Security against Terrorism is the first of ten titles which comprise the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism bill passed in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Title I contains six sections, which, in turn, establish a fund for counterterrorist actions, condemn discrimination against Arab and Muslim Americans, increase funding for the FBI's Technical Support Center, allow for military assistance in some situations involving weapons of mass destruction when requested by the Attorney General, expanded the National Electronic Crime Task Force, and expanded the President's authority and abilities in case of terrorism.
USA PATRIOT Act, Title III, Subtitle A The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It has ten titles, with the third title ("Title III: International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001") written to prevent, detect, and prosecute international money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
USA PATRIOT Act, Title III, Subtitle B The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It has ten titles, with the third title ("Title III: International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001") written to prevent, detect, and prosecute international money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX Title IX: Improved Intelligence is the ninth of ten titles which comprise the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism bill passed in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It contains 6 articles regarding the capture of terrorists.
USA PATRIOT Act, Title V Title V: Removing obstacles to investigating terrorism is the fifth of ten titles which comprise the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism bill passed in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It contains 8 sections regarding the capture and prosecution of terrorists.
USA PATRIOT Act, Title VI Title VI: Providing for victims of terrorism, public safety officers and their families is the sixth of ten titles which comprise the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism bill passed in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It provides aid to the families of Public Safety Officers who were injured or killed in terrorist attacks, and amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984.
USA PATRIOT Act, Title VII Title VII: Increased information sharing for critical infrastructure protection is the seventh of ten titles which comprise the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism bill passed in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Title VII has one section.
USA PATRIOT Act, Title VIII Title VIII: Strengthening the criminal laws against terrorism is the eighth of ten titles which comprise the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism bill passed in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Title VIII contains 17 sections and creates definitions of terrorism, and establishes or re-defines rules with which to deal with it.
USA PATRIOT Act, Title X Title X: Miscellaneous is the last of ten titles which comprise the USA PATRIOT Act, a bill passed in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. It contains 16 sections that do not fall under other titles in the act.
USA Perpignan Union Sportive Arlequins Perpignan (French) or Unió Esportiva Arlequins de Perpinyà (Catalan), generally abbreviated as USAP in both languages, is a Catalan French rugby union club that plays in the city of Perpignan in Pyrénées-Orientales. It currently competes in the Top 14, the top level of the French league system.
USA Radio Network The USA Radio Network is a syndicator of talk radio programming established in 1985. It provides programming to approximately 1,100 radio stations around the world, including the Armed Forces Radio Network and XM Satellite Radio.
USA Rock Paper Scissors League The United States of America Rock Paper Scissors League is a national competition league for the hand game rock paper scissors. The first national champion was crowned on 9 April, 2006 at the USARPS League Championship, which was held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada and televised by the A&E Network on 12 June.
USA Roller Sports USA Roller Sports (USARS), formerly the United States Amateur Confederation of Roller Skating, is the national governing body of competitive roller sports (inline skating and roller skating) in the United States. It is recognized by the International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS) and the United States Olympic Committee.
USA South Athletic Conference The USA South Athletic Conference (formerly the Dixie Conference and the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member schools are located in North Carolina and Virginia.
USA Swimming USA Swimming is the national governing body of competitive swimming in the United States. It is charged with selecting the United States Olympic Swimming team, and any other teams which officially represent the United States, as well as the overall organization and operation of the sport.
USA Taekwondo USA Taekwondo is the national governing body of Taekwondo in the United States of America. Formerly known as the United States Taekwondo Union (USTU), it has complete authority over all decisions regarding US national junior and senior team selections.
USA Today Minor League Player of the Year Award Listed below in chronological order are the Minor League Baseball players chosen by USA Today as recipients of the USA Today Minor League Player of the Year Award. Since 1988 the award is given to a single minor league player and is judged by Usa Today baseball experts as having had the most outstanding season.
USA Track and Field USA Track and Field (USATF) is the national governing body for the sport of track and field (or athletics) in the United States. Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USATF is a non-profit organization with a membership of approximately 100,000.
USA Weightlifting USA Weightlfiting or USAW is the national governing body overseeing the sport of Olympic weightlifting in the United States. USAW is a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), responsible for conducting Olympic weightlifting programs throughout the country, and a member of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
USA-1 (truck) USA-1 is a monster truck that was competing during the eighties and nineties, named after a Chevrolet ad campaign. Owned by Everett Jasmer, USA-1 stopped racing in the early 90's, after the folding of the TNT Monster Truck Racing Series.
USA/USSR Joint Statement on Uniform Acceptance of Rules of International Law Governing Innocent Passage The Joint Statement by the USA and the USSR (the superpowers of the time) was made to counteract state activity to restrict the passage of ships carrying potentially hazardous materials through states' territorial sea, culminating mainly from the Basel Convention 1989. It was made on 23 September 1989
USAAF bombardment group A United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) bombardment group was a military combat unit during the Second World War. The Air Force equivalent of an infantry regiment, the bombardment or bomb group was the basic tactical control and administrative organization in all theaters of operation, and was commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel.
USAF Historical Research Agency defines Wings Official explanations of the "Wing" structure of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command are provided by the Organizational History Branch, Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, located with the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. In U.
USAF Histporical Research Agency defines Wings Official explanations of the "Wing" structure of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command are provided by the Organizational History Branch, Research Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency, located with the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. In U.
USAF Shihan A Shihan in the United States Aikido Federation (USAF) is a high-ranking instructor of Aikido, holding the rank of at least 6th dan, associated with Aikikai Hombu Dojo through the USAF. Initially, the only Shihan in America came directly from Hombu Dojo, but since 2004, several notable North American instructors have been granted the title by Hombu Dojo as well.
USAir Flight 1016 USAir Flight 1016 was a regularly scheduled flight between Columbia, South Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina. Saturday, July 2, 1994, the plane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 registered N954VJ departed Columbia Metropolitan Airport at 18:15 EST
USAir Flight 1493 USAir Flight 1493 was a Boeing 737-300 commercial jet en route from Syracuse Hancock International Airport, New York to Los Angeles International Airport, California via Port Columbus International Airport, Ohio on 1 February 1991. Immediately after landing on runway 24L at Los Angeles International Airport, it collided with SkyWest Flight 5569, a twin-engine turbo-prop Fairchild Metro III plane en route to Palmdale, California.
USAir Flight 405 USAir Flight 405 was a Fokker F-28 departing on March 22, 1992 from LaGuardia Airport (New York City) for Cleveland, Ohio. Due to a delay at the gate, a large amount of ice collected on the wings and airframe.
USAir Flight 427 US Airways Flight 427 was a scheduled flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a final destination of West Palm Beach, Florida. The flight crashed on September 8, 1994, killing everyone on board.
USAir Flight 5050 USAir Flight 5050 was scheduled to be flown from New York's La Guardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina on September 20th, 1989. This was a replacement for flight 1846 on this route which had earlier been cancelled.
USARRAY USARRAY is one of the three components of the Earthscope project, funded by the National Science Foundation and conducted in partnership with the USGS and NASA. A major goal of USARRY is to collect detailed seismic images of the North American lithosphere.
USAS (application) The USAS application suite is a series of diverse and relatively complex mainframe applications written for the Unisys 1100-series, 2200-series, and Clearpath IX environments. These applications are generally intended for use in the airline, transportation, and hospitality industries.
USAS AMERICAN MARINER The refurbished World War II Liberty Ship, the SS George Calvert, existed as the USAS (United States Army Ship) American Mariner only from early 1959 to December 31, 1963. During this period, she was assigned to DAMP Project by ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency, now known as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA), to attempt to collect radar signature data on incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Caribbean, the South Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.
USAT Argentina USAT Argentina sometimes called the SS Argentina is a ship that was built in 1929 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. The ship was originally named SS Pennsylvania as a luxury liner and launched 10 July 1929.
USAT Meigs The USAT Meigs, a United States Army transport vessel (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the USS Meigs), was sunk in Darwin Harbour during the first Japanese air raid against the Australia mainland on February 19 1942.
USATC S160 Class The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotive designed for use in Europe during World War II for heavy freight work. A total of 2120 were built and they worked on railroads across the world, including Austria, Great Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, the USSR, Turkey and Spain.
USB cell A USB cell is a rechargeable cell that is charged through any standard USB port. Produced by Moxia, the rechargeable cartridge resembles two AA batteries fused together, and can be charged via a computer using a built-in USB port.
USB communications device class USB communications device class (or "USB CDC") is a composite Universal Serial Bus device class. It provides you with a single device class, but there may be more than one interfaces implemented such as a custom control interface, data interface, audio and mass storage related interfaces etc.
USB core The USB Core is a subsystem in the Linux computer operating system, with a specific application programming interface (API) to support USB devices and host controllers. Its purpose is to abstract all hardware or device dependent parts by defining a set of data structures, macros and functions.
USB human interface device class The USB human interface device class ("USB HID class") is a USB device class that describes human interface devices such as computer keyboards, computer mice, game controllers, and alphanumeric display devices. The USB HID class is defined in a number of documents provided by the USB Implementers Forum's Device Working Group.
USB Implementers Forum The USB Implementers Forum, USB-IF, is a non-profit organisation to promote and support the Universal Serial Bus. Its main activities are the promotion and marketing of USB, the maintenance of the specification, and a compliance program.
USB mass storage device class The USB mass storage device class is a set of computing communications protocols defined by the USB Implementers Forum that run on the Universal Serial Bus. The standard provides an interface to a variety of storage devices.
USB video device class The USB video device class (also USB video class or UVC) is a USB device class that describes devices capable of streaming video like webcams, digital camcorders, analog video converters, television tuners, and still-image cameras.
USC Center for Visual Anthropology The USC Center for Visual Anthropology or CVA, is a part of the department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. It was created by anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff and was directed by ethnographic filmmaker Tim Asch from 1983 until his death in 1994.
USC Center on Public Diplomacy The University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy is a joint academic research, teaching and training center created and run jointly by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences' School of International Relations.
USC Corte Union Sportive des Clubs du Cortenais is a French association football team founded in 1908. They are based in Corte, Haute-Corse, France and are currently playing in the Championnat de France Amateurs 2 Group C, the fifth tier in the French football league system.
USC Interactive Media Division The 's School of Cinematic Arts's Interactive Media Division first accepted students in . In addition to coursework in film production, screenwriting, and animation, students in the division study across three disciplines within interactive media: , , and .
USC Physical Education Building The University of Southern California's oldest on campus athletic building is home to the 1,000 seat north gym as well as the campus' first indoor swimming facilities. Up until 2006 the USC Trojans basketball team held pratice in the North Gym.
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education The Shoah Foundation or Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation or Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a non-profit organization established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. The original aim of the foundation was to record testimonies of all of the remaining survivors of the Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah) as a collection of videotaped interviews.
USC School of Cinematic Arts The USC School of Cinematic Arts, formerly named the School of Cinema-Television (CNTV), is a film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications - Columbia, South Carolina The School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina offers a broad spectrum of undergraduate majors -- print and broadcast journalism, visual communications, public relations and advertising.
USC Thornton School of Music The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, founded in 1884 and dedicated in 1999, is one of the premiere music schools on the West Coast. Founded only four years after the University itself, the Thornton school is located in the heart of the USC University Park Campus, south of downtown Los Angeles.
USC Title 18, Section 1001 This statute generally prohibits lying to or concealing information from a federal official. The purpose of is to "punish those who render positive false statements designed to pervert or undermine functions of governmental departments and agencies.
USC Trojans baseball The University of Southern California Trojans baseball program, established in 1888, is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Pacific Ten Conference, and is currently coached by Chad Kreuter.
USC Trojans basketball The University of Southern California Trojans basketball programs are college basketball teams that compete in the Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and represent the University of Southern California on the court.
USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies The USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (WIES) is an environmental research and education facility run by the University of Southern California in Two Harbors, California on Catalina Island approximately 22 miles (35 km) south-southwest of Los Angeles. The facility is a part of USC's National Sea Grant.
USCG Air Station Bermuda The USCG detachment in Bermuda operated air-sea rescue services, moved from the US Naval Station to Kindley Field, in November 1963 until the withdrawal of its HU-16 Grumman Albatross flying boats in 1965. The role was subsequently filled by helicopter]s.
USCG Long Range Interceptor The USCG Long Range Interceptor is an 11 meter high speed launch designed to be launched from cutters, at speed, from a rear launching ramp. The Long Range Interceptor is a rigid hull inflatable, powered by water-jets, for intercepting and boarding suspect vessels.
USCG Medium Endurance Cutter The United States Coast Guard's fleet contains numerous smaller vessels, and about three dozen large icebreakers, High Endurance cutters and Medium Endurance cutters. There are three legacy vessels, the Alex Haley, Acushnet and the Storis.
USCG Polar Class Icebreaker The USCG Polar class of heavy icebreakers consists of three vessels, the USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), the USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11), and the USCGC Healy (WAGB-20). These cutters, specifically designed for open-water icebreaking have reinforced hulls, special icebreaking bows, and a system that allows rapid shifting of ballast to increase the effectiveness of their icebreaking.
USCG Short Range Prosecutor The United States Coast Guard (USCG) Short Range Prosecutor is a 7 metre, high speed launch designed to be launched from cutters, at speed, from a rear launching ramp. The Short Range Prosecutor is a rigid-hull inflatable, powered by water-jets, for intercepting and boarding suspect vessels.
USCG transportable port security boat The 25 ft. (8 m) Transportable Port Security Boat (TPSB): (AKA The Guardian) is a twin outboard motor, open deck, all weather, high performance, moderately-armed platform capable of operating in inner harbor/near shore environments in light sea conditions.
USCG Treasury Class Cutter The Treasury-class high endurance cutters were a group of 7 ships launched by the United States Coast Guard between 1936 and 1937. These ships were also collectively known as the "327's" as they were all 327 feet in length.
USCGC Acacia (WLB-406) The USCGC Acacia (WLB 406) was second to the last of a fleet of 39 similar 180-foot seagoing buoy tenders completed during World War II. The Acacia was named after the United States Lighthouse Service ship Acacia, the only Lighthouse Service vessel sunk during World War II.
USCGC Alert (WMEC-630) USCGC Alert (WMEC-630) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter and is the last 210-foot medium endurance cutter constructed. The keel was laid on January 5, 1968 at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, and she was commissioned on Coast Guard Day, August 4, 1969.
USCGC Bibb (WPG-31) The USCGC Bibb was a 327-foot Secretary-Class (also known as "Treasury Class") Coast Guard ship (WPG-31) commissioned in 1936. Seven similar "combat cutters" were built and named for secretaries of the United States Treasury.
USCGC Bramble (WLB-392) The USCGC Bramble (WLB-392) was built by Zenith Dredge Company in Duluth, Minnesota. Bramble's preliminary design was completed by the United States Lighthouse Service and the final design was produced by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth.
USCGC Conifer (WLB-301) The USCGC Conifer (WLB 301) was a 180 foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender. Conifer and her sister ships, commonly referred to as "one-eighties", served as the backbone of the Coast Guard fleet for over 50 years before their replacement by the newer Juniper-class cutters.
USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716) The USCGC Dallas, originally commissioned in 1967 at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, is the sixth high endurance cutter to bear the name Alexander J. Dallas, the Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison (1814-1816).
USCGC Eagle Two ships of the United States Coast Guard have borne the name USCGC Eagle, in honor of the eagle, any of the various large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, including members of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus, marked by a powerful hooked bill, long broad wings, and strong, soaring flight. Four ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, an antecedent of the Coast Guard, had also been named "Eagle".
USCGC Forward (WMEC-911) USCGC Forward (WMEC-911) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. Named for Walter Forward, fifteenth United States Secretary of the Treasury, she was constructed by Robert Derecktor Shipyard Incorporated, Middletown, Rhode Island and delivered 4 August, 1990.
USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) USCGC Healy is a research icebreaker put into commission in 1999 by the United States Coast Guard. She was constructed by Avondale Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana and named in honor of Captain "Hell Roaring" Michael A.
USCGC Itasca (1929) The USCGC Istasca was a United States Coast Guard vessel launched on 16 November 1929 and commissioned 12 July 1930. The ship was decommissioned in 1941 on lend lease to the United Kingdom and was returned to the United States in 1946.
USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) The United States Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw (WAGB-83) is a 290 foot vessel specifically designed for ice breaking duties on the Great Lakes. She was built by the American Shipbuilding Company in Toledo, Ohio, and launched in 1944 at a cost of $10.
USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) is a 240 foot vessel built as a heavy icebreaker for operations on the North American Great Lakes for the United States Coast Guard. She should not be confused with a namesake ship, the USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83), which was decommissioned on June 10, 2006.
USCGC Mohawk (WMEC-913) USCGC Mohawk (WMEC-913) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. She was launched September 9, 1989 at Robert Derecktor Shipyard Incorporated of Middletown, Rhode Island and commissioned March 1991.
USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC-722) USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC 722), commissioned on March 10, 1969, was the eighth of twelve 378-foot "Hamilton" class High Endurance Cutters (WHECs) built by Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana. First homeported at Governors Island, New York, Morgenthau was active in the Vietnam War, conducting underway replenishment, naval gunfire support, and patrol duties off the coast of Vietnam until relieved by a 311' cutter in 1971.
USCGC Munro (WHEC-724) USCGC Munro (WHEC-724) is a High Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard, named for Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919–1942), currently the only Coast Guardsman to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
USCGC Onondaga (WPG-79) USCGC Onondaga (WPG-79), a United States Coast Guard cutter, was built by Defoe Boat Works in Bay City, Michigan, commissioned on 11 September 1934. From her commissioning until 1941, Onondaga was stationed at Astoria, Oregon, where she performed important law enforcement duties and rendered much assistance to ships in distress.
USCGC Papaw (WLB-308) USCGC Papaw (WLB-308) was a sea-going buoy tender whose design is based on the pre-World War II United States Lighthouse Service Tenders. The original design was modified to provide an armored cutter capable of wartime missions in addition to her primary mission of Aids to Navigation.
USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) is a United States Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker. Commissioned in 1978, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle along with her sister ship, Polar Star (WAGB-10).
USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) is a United States Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker. Commissioned in 1976, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle along with her sister ship, Polar Sea (WAGB-11).
USCGC Redbud (WLB-398) The USCGC Redbud (WLB-398) was one of 20 "C" class 180-foot buoy tenders that entered service during World War II. She was assigned to the 7th Naval District and was based out of Miami, Florida, where she serviced aids to navigation.
USCGC Sequoia (WLB-215) USCGC Sequoia (WLB-215) is an active duty United States Coast Guard buoy tender. The primary missions of the ship is to maintain large ocean buoys, protect the marine environment, participate in search and rescue and conduct ice breaking operations.
USCGC Spar (WLB-206) The USCGC Spar (WLB-206) is a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender home-ported in Kodiak, Alaska. The ship tends buoys in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and has acquired the nickname Aleutian Keeper.
USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) was a United States Coast Guard Wind-class icebreaker. The Staten Island is actually the original Northwind; the original Northwind was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend Lease program in 1944 almost immediately after being commissioned.
USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166) USCGC Tamaroa (WAT/WMEC-166) was a United States Coast Guard cutter, originally the United States Navy salvage tug USS Zuni (ATF-95). Following the USGC custom of naming cutters after Native American tribes, she is named after the Tamaroa tribe of the Illiniwek tribal group.
USCGC Triton (WPC-116) USCGC Triton (WPC-116), a steel-hulled, diesel-powered Thetis-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard, was the fourth commissioned ship of the United States to be named for Triton, a Greek demigod of the sea who was the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. She served almost simultaneously with the submarine of the same name.
USCGC Vigilant (WMEC-617) USCGC Vigilant (WMEC-617) is a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. She is the twelfth cutter to bear the name Vigilant, dating back to 1790 when the original Vigilant was built for the Revenue Cutter Service.
USCGC White Alder The USCGC White Alder (WLM/WAGL-541) was the former Navy lighter, YF-417. The United States Coast Guard acquired a total of eight of these former Navy YF-257-class lighters between 1947-1948 for conversion to coastal buoy tenders.
USDA soil taxonomy USDA Soil Taxonomy developed by United States Department of Agriculture and the National Cooperative Soil Survey provides an elaborate classification of soil types according to several parameters (most commonly their properties) and in several levels: Order, Suborder, Great Group, Subgroup, Family, and Series.
USENET Cookbook The USENET Cookbook was an experiment in electronic publishing conducted by Brian Reid in 1985-1987, several years before the Web. Reid distinguishes between electronic printing (the production of individual documents) and electronic publishing (the full process including dissemination).
USENIX The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Technical Association. It was founded in 1975 under the name "Unix Users Group", focusing primarily on the study and development of Unix and similar systems.
USENIX Annual Technical Conference The USENIX Annual Technical Conference is a conference of computing professions sponsored by the USENIX association. The conference includes computing tutorials, technical sessions for presenting refereed papers, SIG meetings, and BoFs.
USER USER is an international recording artist who earned his chops in the techno-industrial period of the 1990s playing guitar with such notable bands as Atlantic recording artists MOEV (Crucify me, Yeah whatever) and the singer Dean Russell created music project Bacteria.
USF Sun Dome The USF Sun Dome is a 55,000 square-foot multi-purpose entertainment/sports facility on the campus of the University of South Florida, which is located in Tampa, Florida. It is located on the southeastern side of campus, and is home to the men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams.
USFMEP The United States Federation for Middle East Peace (USFMEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization which promotes the United Nations commitment to international peace and justice through educational programs, public relations and community outreach efforts.
USFR Media Group USFR Media Group is a media group based in Houston, Texas. USFR owns the America One television network and publishes western lifestyle magazines, Western & English Today and Cowboys & Indians magazines.
USGENE USGENE is The USPTO Genetic Sequence Database. The database is compiled by SequenceBase Corporation from published patent application and issued patent data licensed from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
USGS DEM The USGS DEM standard is a geospatial file format developed by the United States Geological Survey for storing a digital elevation model (or surface elevation). It is an open standard, and is used throughout the world.

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