| Acronym | Meaning |
| GULAG | Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh LAGerei I Kolonii (Russian ??????? ?????????? ????????????? ???????? ??????? ? ??????? |
| PWR | Pressurized Water Reactor |
| Q1 | First Quarter |
| ISSCR | International Society For Stem Cell Research |
| B&W | Babcock & Wilcox - Black And White - Bowers & Wilkins |
| RT | PCR -Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Or Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction. Clarified With Real Time RT-PCR Or Reverse Transcriptase RT-PCR Where Appropriate. |
| ISA | Individual Savings Account - Industry Standard Architecture - Instruction Set Architecture - International Seabed Authority |
| UFO | Unidentified Flying Object - United Farmers Of Ontario |
| ECBR | European Coalition For Biomedical Research |
| EDAC | Error Detection And Correction |