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Unified Medical Language System
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a National Library of Medicine project, begun in 1986, that integrates biomedical vocabularies so computer systems can share health data.
Unified Model
The Unified Model is the Met Office's Fortran-based model simulating atmosphere, ocean, and land for weather forecasting and climate projection, with one codebase running from urban-scale forecasts to century-long climate simulations.
Unified Modeling Language
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a standardized visual modeling language for software systems, created by Booch, Rumbaugh, and Jacobson and standardized by the Object Management Group in 1997.
Unified multimodal autoregressive generation
Unified multimodal autoregressive generation is a method in which a single autoregressive Transformer generates interleaved text, images, and audio by predicting every modality as tokens from one shared vocabulary.
Unified Namespace
A Unified Namespace (UNS) is an industrial data architecture pattern in which every plant system, from PLCs to ERP, shares data through one MQTT topic hierarchy.
Unified Parallel C
Unified Parallel C (UPC) is an extension of the C programming language for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, following the partitioned global address space model.
Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale
The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) grades the motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson's disease; its 2008 revision, the MDS-UPDRS, is the standard in care and research.
Unified Patent Court
Unified Patent Court (UPC): international European patent court under the 19 February 2013 UPC Agreement, in force 1 June 2023, with exclusive jurisdiction over Unitary and European patents in 18 bound states.
Unified Payments Interface
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is India's real-time, interoperable mobile payment system, launched in April 2016 by NPCI, which moves money instantly between accounts at any bank.
Unified power flow controller
The unified power flow controller (UPFC) is a FACTS device that independently controls active and reactive power on a transmission line by injecting a series voltage.
Unified Process
The Unified Process (Rational Unified Process) is a use-case driven, architecture-centric software engineering framework with four iterative phases, inception, elaboration, construction, and transition, using UML.
Unified Purchase and Sale of Grain
Unified Purchase and Sale of Grain (统购统销) was a Chinese state policy, adopted in 1953, under which the state monopolized grain purchase and rationed sale.
Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC, Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya) was a Catalan communist party founded in 1936 and dissolved into Iniciativa per Catalunya in 1997.
Unified Soil Classification System
The Unified Soil Classification System (USCS) is an engineering soil classification, standardized as ASTM D2487, that assigns soils two-letter group symbols based on particle size and plasticity.
Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia
The Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia (Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia, CSUTCB), founded in 1979, is Bolivia's largest federation of peasant unions.
Unified Task Force
Unified Task Force (UNITAF), US-led multinational force in Somalia, December 1992 to May 1993, authorized by UN Security Council resolution 794 (1992) under Chapter VII to secure humanitarian relief during famine, succeeded by UNOSOM II on 4 May 1993.
Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Unified Team (Équipe Unifiée, EUN), the Commonwealth of Independent States delegation of former Soviet republics except the Baltics at Barcelona 1992; competed under the Olympic flag and topped the medal table with 45 gold, 112 total.
Unified Team at the Olympics
The Unified Team (Unified Team) was the combined Olympic team of most former Soviet republics, competing in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and the Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Unified Team at the Paralympics
Unified Team (EUN) was the delegation of former Soviet Union Para athletes at the 1992 Paralympics: third at Tignes-Albertville Winter Games (21 medals) and eighth at Barcelona Summer Games (45 medals), before dissolving into separate NPCs by 1994.
Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology
The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) is a survey-based model that predicts technology acceptance through four determinants, presented by Venkatesh and colleagues in 2003.
Unified Thread Standard
The Unified Thread Standard (UTS) is the inch-based screw thread standard for interchangeable fasteners in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, adopted in 1948.
Unifonic
Unifonic is a Saudi Arabian customer engagement and CPaaS company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Riyadh, letting enterprises reach customers over SMS, WhatsApp, and voice.
Uniform
Uniform: standardized clothing identifying members of an organization, spanning military, work, school, and sports dress. Covers functions, fashion crossover, and competitive swimwear as a regulated case study.
Uniform (2003 film)
Uniform (制服) is Diao Yinan's 2003 debut feature, a Chinese crime drama about a tailor who impersonates a policeman using an unclaimed uniform; it won Vancouver's Dragons and Tigers Award.
Uniform algebra
A uniform algebra is a closed subalgebra of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space, containing the constants and separating points, studied for uniform approximation.
Uniform Building Code
The Uniform Building Code (UBC) was a model building code published in California from 1927 to 1997, used mainly in the western United States and known for its seismic provisions.
Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
UCCJEA, Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act: 1997 uniform state law replacing the UCCJA, setting home-state priority jurisdiction and interstate enforcement of custody orders; adopted in 49 states plus DC, territories; Massachusetts excepted.
Uniform Civil Code
The Uniform Civil Code (UCC), also called the Common Civil Code, is a proposed common civil law for India covering marriage, divorce, adoption and succession, replacing religion-based personal laws.
Uniform Code of Military Justice
Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), 10 U.S.C. ch. 47, the U.S. military criminal code enacted May 5, 1950, effective 1951, covering courts-martial, Article 15 punishment, and special trial counsel.
Uniform Commercial Code
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC): joint ALI–Uniform Law Commission model code governing US commercial transactions, adopted in some form by every state and DC; first offered 1951, Pennsylvania first adopter; 2022 amendments add Article 12 on digital assets.