| CSTP | Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy |
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| MBP | major basic protein; maltose-binding protein; management by policy; mannose-binding protein; mean bl... |
| PAC | papular acrodermatitis of childhood; parent-adult-child; pericarditis-arthropathy-camptodactyly [syn... |
| ICD | I-cell disease; immune complex disease; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; impulse-control diso... |
| CFSTI | Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information |
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| nutrition policy | Governmental guidelines and objectives pertaining to public food supply and nutrition including recommendations for healthy diet and changes in food habits to ensure healthy diet. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| office | 1. That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices. "I would I could do a good office between you." (Shak) 2. A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office. 3. A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new. "Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office." (Rom. Xi. 13) 4. That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; answering to duty in intelligent beings. "They [the eyes] resign their office and their light." (Shak) "Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the earth." (Milton) "In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms." (Sir I. Newton) 5. The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office. 6. The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office. 7. The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. "As for the offices, let them stand at distance." (Bacon) 8. Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service. "This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person." (Evelyn) Holy office. Same as Inquisition. Houses of office. Same as def. 7 above. Little office, the finding of an inquest of office. See Inquest. Office holder. See Officeholder in the Vocabulary Origin: F, fr. L. Officium, for opificium; ops ability, wealth, holp + facere to do or make. See Opulent, Fact. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| office automation | Use of computers or computer systems for doing routine clerical work, e.g., billing, records pertaining to the administration of the office, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| office management | Planning, organizing, and administering activities in an office. (12 Dec 1998) |
| office nursing | Nursing practice limited to assisting a physician in his private office. (12 Dec 1998) |
| office visits | Visits made by patients to health service providers' offices for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. (12 Dec 1998) |
| organizational policy | A course or method of action selected, usually by an organization, institution, university, society, etc., from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions and positions on public matters. It does not include internal policy relating to the organization and administration within the corporate body, for which organization and administration is available. (12 Dec 1998) |
| family planning policy | A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, to guide and determine present and future decisions on population control by limiting the number of children or controlling fertility, notably through family planning and contraception within the nuclear family. (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states office of economic opportunity | A division of the executive branch of the united states government concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs relative to the provision of opportunities for economic advancement. (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states office of research integrity | An office of the united states public health service organised in june 1992 to promote research integrity and investigate misconduct in research supported by the public health service. It consolidates the office of scientific integrity of the national institutes of health and the office of scientific integrity review in the office of the assistant secretary for health. The ori is in the office of the assistant secretary for health and its director reports directly to the assistant secretary for health, department of health and human services. (ri newsletter, 1993 jan; 1(1):1) (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states office of technology assessment | An office established to help congress participate and plan for the consequences of uses of technology. It provides information on both the beneficial and adverse effects of technological applications. (12 Dec 1998) |
| models, statistical | Statistical formulations or analyses which, when applied to data and found to fit the data, are then used to verify the assumptions and parameters used in the analysis. Examples of statistical models are the linear model, binomial model, polynomial model, two-parameter model, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| statistical distributions | The complete summaries of the frequencies of the values or categories of a measurement made on a group of items, a population, or other collection of data. The distribution tells either how many or what proportion of the group was found to have each value (or each range of values) out of all the possible values that the quantitative measure can have. (12 Dec 1998) |
| statistical genetics | The study of the applications of principles of statistics to problems in genetics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| statistical model | A formal representation for a class of processes that allows a means of analyzing results from experimental studies, such as the Poisson model or the general linear model; it need not propose a process literally interpretable in the context of the individual case. (05 Mar 2000) |