| Acronym | Meaning |
| HESI | Health And Environmental Sciences Institute |
| X-SAR | X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| RCR | Replication-competent Retrovirus |
| MIDAS | Microimaging Dust Analysis System |
| IDAF | Interacting Distributed Approximating Function (propagator |
| CARB | California Air Resources Board |
| FAAO | Free-atom Atomic Orbital |
| TDCHF | Time-dependent Coupled Hartree-Fock |
| ERCAM | Emission Reduction And Cost Analysis Model |
| SF1 | Steroidogenic Factor 1 |