| CERCLA | The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act |
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| MICRA | Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act |
| MCCA | Medicare Catastrophic Care Act; Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act |
| OSH | Act Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 |
| comp | comparative; compensation, compensated; complaint; complete; composition; compound, compounded; comp... |
| WCB | Worker's Compensation Board |
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| WC | Workers' Compensation |
| the act | the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act |
| the Act | the Social Security Act |
| ACT | 1-Antichymotrypsin |
| act | 1. That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. "That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love." (Wordsworth) Hence, in specific uses: The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress. A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student. 2. A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. "The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be." (Hooker) 3. Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). "In act to shoot." "This woman was taken . . . In the very act." (John viii. 4) Act of attainder. An inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard. Act of grace, an expression often used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at the beginning of a new reign. Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record. Synonym: See Action. Origin: L. Actus, fr. Agere to drive, do: cf. F. Acte. See Agent. 1. To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food. 2. To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. "He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest." (Pope) 3. To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so. 4. To perform on the stage; to represent a character. "To show the world how Garrick did not act." (Cowper) To act as or for, to do the work of; to serve as. To act on, to regulate one's conduct according to. To act up to, to equal in action; to fulfill in practice; as, he has acted up to his engagement or his advantages. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| resource conservation and recovery act | (RCRA) A federal law regulating solid and hazardous waste. RCRA governs the generation, storage, treatment, transport, and disposal of hazardous waste. (05 Dec 1998) |
| public utility regulatory policies act | (PURPA) A federal law requiring a utility to buy the power produced by a qualifying facility at a price equal to that which the utility would otherwise pay if it were to build its own power plant or buy power from another source. (05 Dec 1998) |
| national environmental policy act | A federal law enacted in 1969 that requires all federal agencies to consider and analyse the environmental impacts of any proposed action. NEPA requires an environmental impact statement for major federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the environment. NEPA requires federal agencies to inform and involve the public in the agency's decision making process and to consider the environmental impacts of the agency's decision. (05 Dec 1998) |
| orphan drug act | Law giving incentives to companies developing a drug for a rare disease. The act gives the developer of the first drug of any one type a 7-year exclusive right to market the new drug. (14 Nov 1997) |
| tax equity and fiscal responsibility act | Pl97-248. Title II of the act specifies "provisions relating to savings in health and income security programs." this includes changes in payment for services, benefits and premiums of medicare as well as changes in provisions under medicaid and other specific programs covered by social security. Title II includes various revenue measures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| employee retirement income security act | A 1974 federal act which preempts states' rights with regard to workers' pension benefits and employee benefits. It does not affect the benefits and rights of employees whose employer is self-insured. (12 Dec 1998) |
| knutson-vandenberg act | (KV) Federal law that allows the U.S. Forest Service to collect money from a timber sale for resource enhancement, protection, and improvement work in the timber sale vicinity. (05 Dec 1998) |
| attenuation compensation | In ultrasonography, an increase in receiver gain with time to compensate for loss in echo amplitude with depth, usually due to attenuation. Synonym: attenuation compensation, depth compensation, time compensation gain, time-compensated gain, time-varied gain control, time-varied gain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gene dosage compensation | The putative mechanism that adjusts the X-linked phenotypes of males and females to compensate for the haploid state in males and the diploid state in females. It is now largely ascribed to lyonization which compensates the mean of the dose but not its variance, which is greater in females. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compensation | In interference microscopy, compensation for the phase difference introduced by the object, measured by introducing a quarter wavelength plate and rotating the analyser: the angle of rotation is proportional to the optical path difference. (18 Nov 1997) |
| compensation neurosis | The development of symptoms of neurosis believed to be motivated by the desire for, and hope of, monetary or interpersonal gain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| workers' compensation | Insurance coverage providing compensation and medical benefits to individuals because of work-connected injuries or disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| depth compensation | In ultrasonography, an increase in receiver gain with time to compensate for loss in echo amplitude with depth, usually due to attenuation. Synonym: attenuation compensation, depth compensation, time compensation gain, time-compensated gain, time-varied gain control, time-varied gain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dosage compensation | <genetics> A genetic regulatory mechanism which operates to equalise the phenotypic expression of characteristics determined by genes on the x chromosome so that they are equally expressed in the xy male and the xx female. (12 Dec 1998) |
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