| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCS | Soil Conservation Service |
| HSF | Heat Shock Factors |
| DSA | Dynamic Strain Aging |
| EQCM | Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance |
| ECM | Embedded Cluster Method (in Electronic-structure Calcns.) |
| DBE | Distorted-wave Born Exchange |
| EFA | Envelope Function (i.e. |
| NBRF | National Biomedical Research Foundation |
| FBC | Fluidized Bed Combustor |
| TCA | Total Constituent Analysis |