| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMA | Effective Medium Approximation |
| MC-MBPT | Multiconfiguration Many-body Perturbation Theory |
| TBEH | Tight-binding Extended Hueckel (extended Hueckel Tight-binding) |
| CSIR | Council For Scientific And Industrial Research (South Africa) |
| SPAG | Small Particle Aerosol Generator |
| DGE | Differential Gene Expression |
| NBC | Nuclear, Biological And Chemical |
| GCMS | Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry |
| CVM-CI | Constrained Variational Method-CI |
| NCCAM | National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine |