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Admiel Kosman
Admiel Kosman (אדמיאל קוסמן, born 1957) is an Israeli poet and Talmud scholar who is a professor at the University of Potsdam and has published nine books of Hebrew poetry.
Admilparant
Admilparant (BMS-986278) is Bristol Myers Squibb's oral LPA1 receptor antagonist for pulmonary fibrosis; phase 2 showed slowed FVC decline in IPF and PPF, and phase 3 ALOFT-IPF met its primary endpoint at 60 mg.
Administered Pricing Mechanism (India)
The Administered Price Mechanism (APM) is India's system of government-set prices, applied to petroleum products from 1975 until its dismantling in 2002 and still applied to natural gas from ONGC and Oil India nomination fields.
Administration of Muslim Law Act
The Administration of Muslim Law Act (AMLA) is a Singapore statute, passed in 1966 and in force from 1968, that regulates Muslim religious affairs and establishes a Syariah Court.
Administration of Rome's water supply
The administration of Rome's water supply was run by a senatorial curator aquarum, established in 11 BC, with a staff of about 700 slaves maintaining the aqueducts.
Administrative Appeals Tribunal
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal reviewed Australian government administrative decisions on their merits from 1976 until its abolition in 2024, when it was replaced by the Administrative Review Tribunal.
Administrative Council of Jabal Bashan
Administrative Council of Jabal Bashan (مجلس الإدارة في جبل باشان), also called the Administration Council in Jabal Bashan, is an unrecognized Druze de facto authority in Suwayda, Syria, established 7 April 2026 by Hikmat al-Hijri under judge Shadi Fayez Murshid, replacing the Supreme Legal Committee.
Administrative Council of Mount Lebanon
The Administrative Council of Mount Lebanon was a twelve-member confessional council created in 1861 to assist and check the mutasarrif of the Ottoman Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifiyya.
Administrative counties of England
Administrative counties of England were local government counties created by the Local Government Act 1888, redefined in 1933, and abolished on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, which replaced them with metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties.
Administrative distance
Administrative distance (AD) is a router-local numeric ranking of how trusted each routing information source is; when multiple sources offer the same prefix, the route with the lowest AD is installed.
Administrative districts of Serbia
Administrative districts (upravni okruzi) are Serbia's 29 state-administration territorial units, formed by government decree, corresponding to NSTJ3/NUTS 3, grouped under five statistical regions, with Belgrade as a special unit.
Administrative division
Administrative division: sub-national political and administrative units below state level, such as provinces, counties, and regions. Distinguished from statistical geographies by legal documentation, official representation, and boundary change procedures.
Administrative divisions of Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary was a dual monarchy from the 1867 Compromise until its dissolution in 1918, split into Cisleithania and Transleithania, which included the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia.
Administrative divisions of China
Administrative divisions of China (行政区划): the constitutional three-tier system of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, with 34 province-level units including Hong Kong and Macao SARs, and a de facto four-level hierarchy.
Administrative divisions of France
Administrative divisions of France: communes, departments, regions, special-status and overseas collectivities in a unitary state. 17 regions (5 overseas), 101 departments, about 34,875 communes, governed by free administration under Constitution Title XII.
Administrative divisions of Georgia (country)
Administrative divisions of Georgia (საქართველო): unitary state with autonomous republics of Adjara and Abkhazia, 64 single-tier municipalities (5 self-governed cities, 59 communities), regions as state planning units, under the 2014 Local Self-Government Code.
Administrative divisions of India
Administrative divisions of India: 28 states and 8 union territories, subdivided into districts, sub-districts, and local units; shaped by the States Reorganisation Act 1956 and later reorganization acts including Jammu and Kashmir 2019.
Administrative divisions of Mexico
Administrative divisions of Mexico: a federal republic of 32 entities (31 states plus Mexico City with its 16 alcaldías) and 2,441 free municipalities under Articles 40, 115, and 124, with limited fiscal autonomy and coordinated metropolitan zones such as the 84-unit ZMVM.
Administrative divisions of Moldova
The administrative divisions of Moldova are organized in two levels: first-level villages, towns, and municipalities, and second-level units including 32 districts, Gagauzia, Chișinău, Bălți, Bender, and left-bank units.
Administrative divisions of New York (state)
Administrative divisions of New York State: counties, cities, towns, and villages as municipal corporations, with 57 counties outside New York City, 62 cities, 933 towns, 532 villages, hamlets without government, and home rule under Article IX.
Administrative divisions of South Korea
Administrative divisions of South Korea: 17 first-tier units (Seoul, 6 metropolitan cities, Sejong, 6 provinces, 3 special self-governing provinces), three-level hierarchy under the Local Autonomy Act, 226 municipalities, and history from 1948.
Administrative divisions of the Qing dynasty
Administrative divisions of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911): provinces, prefectures (fu), zhili zhou, zhili ting, and about 1,600 counties, plus distinct frontier systems in Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the northeast, reformed after 1909 and converted to counties after 1912.
Administrative divisions of Ukraine
The administrative divisions of Ukraine, fixed by the Constitution, comprise the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 24 oblasts, and Kyiv and Sevastopol, divided into districts and territorial communities.
Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council
Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council (AJTC), UK advisory non-departmental public body established by the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 to oversee administrative justice, tribunals, and inquiries; replaced the Council on Tribunals and was abolished in August 2013.
Administrative law
Administrative law, also called administrative law doctrine, governs the creation and operation of government agencies, their rulemaking and adjudication, and judicial review, defined by the US APA and reshaped by Loper Bright, Jarkesy, and Slaughter.
Administrative license suspension
Administrative license suspension, also called administrative license revocation, is a civil action suspending a driver's license immediately after a drunk-driving arrest, before criminal proceedings conclude.
Administrative Litigation Law
The Administrative Litigation Law (行政诉讼法) is the name of two Republican Chinese statutes governing suits against administrative organs: the Beiyang government's 1914 law, China's first, and the Nationalist government's 1932 law.
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AO): judicial-branch agency created by the Act of August 7, 1939, providing budget, statistics, IT, and administrative support to the federal courts under the Judicial Conference, led by a Director appointed by the Chief Justice.
Administrative Reforms Commission
The Administrative Reforms Commission is an Indian commission of inquiry appointed by the Union Government to recommend reforms to public administration; two have existed, in 1966 and 2005.
Administrative Reforms of Borommatrailokkanat
The Administrative Reforms of Borommatrailokkanat were the reorganization of Ayutthaya's government by King Trailok, reigning 1448 to 1488, separating civil and military administration under two grand ministers.