Abbreviations and Acronyms: The Case of Tlhalosi ya Medi ya Setswana

Was what ail'd ya what kill'd ya?

Making use of those Union Army veterans for whom death certificates are available, we compare the conditions with which they were diagnosed by Civil War pension surgeons to the causes of death on the certificates. We divide the data between those veterans who entered the pension system early because of war injuries and those who entered the pension system after the 1890 reform that made it avai...

‘ ‘ Foiling the Cracker ’ ’ : yA

c Unix. When Unix was younger, the password encryption algorithm was a simulation of the M-209 ipher machine used by the U.S. Army during World War II [Morris1979]. This was a fair encryption s t mechanism in that it was difficult to invert under the proper circumstances, but suffered in that it wa oo fast an algorithm. On a PDP-11/70, each encryption took approximately 1.25ms, so that it was p...

Acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.

Abbreviations and Acronyms

AAMI American Association of Medical Instrumentation ACCP American College of Chest Physicians ACD-A Anticoagulant dextrose solution A ACE-I Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor(s) ADQI Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative AHCPR Agency for Health Care Policy and Research AKD Acute kidney diseases and disorders AKI Acute kidney injury AKIN Acute Kidney Injury Network ANP Atrial natriuretic pepti...

Anaesthesia acronyms and abbreviations.

When the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of a journal changes then it is customary to mark the occasion with an Editorial in the first edition of the journal compiled by the new EIC. So I decided not to do that. This looked as if it would be a momentous year for European Anaesthesiology (EA). I could feel it in my bones, as my grandmother used to say. I decided instead to go for an Editorial mid-year. Th...