| Acronym | Meaning |
| AIEE | American Institute For Electrical Engineers |
| RPMI | Roswell Park Memorial Institute |
| FASEB | Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology |
| HFDA | Hexafluoroisopropylidene-2 |
| ATRA | All-trans-retinoic Acid |
| AAV | Adeno-associated Virus |
| OVD | Optically Variable Device |
| FFCA | Federal Facility Compliance Act |
| CTIOSA | Charge-transfer Infinite Order Sudden Approxn. |
| XFH | X-ray Fluorescence Holography |