| Acronym | Meaning |
| CIRES | Cooperative Institute For Research In Environmental Sciences |
| ACAMS | Automatic Continuous Air Monitoring System |
| OTC | Organic Toxic Compound |
| IAD | Ion Assisted Deposition |
| HCC | Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
| AGE | Advanced Glycosylation End Product |
| TMD | Transmembrane Domain |
| COMP | Cartilage Oligomeric Matrix Protein |
| PAS | Photoacoustic Spectroscopy |
| B2B | Boundary(-corrected) Second Born (for Scattering) |