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Assembly of the International Space Station
The assembly of the International Space Station was the phased on-orbit construction begun in November 1998, joining more than 40 elements delivered by Space Shuttle and Russian rockets.
Assembly of the Poor
The Assembly of the Poor (Thai: Samacha Khon Jon) is a Thai poor people's and peasant movement founded at Thammasat University, Bangkok, in 1995, best known for its 99-day protest before Government House in 1997.
Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Assembly of the Republic (Assembleia da República), Portugal's unicameral 230-member parliament elected by universal suffrage at home and abroad; created by the 1976 Constitution, seat of legislative power and government oversight.
Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia
The Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, known as the Sobranie, was the legislature of Macedonia as a federal unit of Yugoslavia from 1944 until 1990.
Assembly of the Year XIII
The Assembly of the Year XIII (Asamblea del Año XIII) was a constituent congress of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata that met in Buenos Aires from 1813.
Assembly of Vlorë
The Assembly of Vlorë (Kuvendi i Vlorës), also called the National Assembly of Vlorë, declared Albania's independence from the Ottoman Empire in Vlorë on 28 November 1912.
Assembly protein
Assembly protein (InterPro IPR005563) is a protein family of phage maturation proteins mediating virion attachment to host cells, exemplified by the 372-residue Caulobacter phage phiCb5 Mat protein seen bound to Tad pili in cryo-EM structure 8UCR.
Assembly Rooms
Assembly Rooms: public rooms for balls, concerts, and card play, chiefly 18th-century; best known are the Bath Assembly Rooms (1769-1771, John Wood the Younger, Grade I, National Trust), gutted in 1942 and restored 1963, closed 2025-2027 for a £17m Georgian visitor experience.
Assembly theory
Assembly theory, developed by chemist Lee Cronin and physicist Sara Walker, quantifies an object's complexity by the minimum joining operations needed to build it, aiding life detection.
AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI is an American applied AI company founded by Dylan Fox in 2017 that provides speech recognition, speaker identification, and summarization models through a developer API.
AssemblyScript
AssemblyScript is a TypeScript-like programming language that compiles statically, ahead of time, to WebAssembly using the Binaryen compiler toolkit, suited to computation-heavy code such as image manipulation and emulators.
Assemini
Assemini, also known as Assèmini in Sardinian, is a comune of about 25,600 people in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, famed for its ancient ceramics tradition.
Asser
Asser (died 908 or 909) was a Welsh clergyman from St David's who joined King Alfred's court, taught him Latin, and became bishop of Sherborne.
Assertion (software development)
An assertion in software development is a Boolean expression in source code stating a condition that must be true; if false at runtime, the program reports an assertion failure.
Assertive community treatment
Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a community-based mental health care model in which a multidisciplinary team delivers intensive, individualized treatment and support to people with severe mental illness.
Assertiveness
Assertiveness: an adaptive communication style of expressing feelings and needs directly while respecting others, between passivity and aggression. Also called assertiveness training; rooted in Salter's 1949 behavior therapy, now studied in healthcare speaking-up and social anxiety treatment.
Assertiveness training
Assertiveness training, also called assertion training, is a behavioral therapy technique that teaches people to express their needs, wishes, opinions, and feelings directly, reducing anxiety through cognitive restructuring and role play.
Assessment center
An assessment center is a standardized personnel evaluation method in which multiple trained assessors rate candidates across simulated job exercises, used worldwide for selection, promotion, and development.
Assessoria
Assessoria, the Crown Assessor's Court, was a central court of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth serving as the appellate court of last instance in cases brought against royal cities.
Asset
An asset, in financial accounting, is a present economic resource controlled by an entity as a result of past events, with the potential to produce economic benefits.
Asset Administration Shell
The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is a standardized digital representation of an industrial asset, defined by IEC 63278-1:2023 as the basis for Industry 4.0 digital twins.
Asset allocation
Asset allocation is the choice of what mix of stocks, bonds, and cash to hold in a portfolio; research finds it explains about 90% of a fund's return variability over time.
Asset management
Asset management is the business of managing investment portfolios and other assets on behalf of clients, mainly institutions and wealthy individuals, for a fee based on assets under management.
Asset Management Company (venture capital firm)
Asset Management Company is a venture capital firm founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1965 by Franklin "Pitch" Johnson, an early investor in Amgen and Tandem Computers.
Asset Manager Code
The Asset Manager Code of Professional Conduct is a voluntary ethics code published by CFA Institute in 2005 for investment firms managing client assets, with a second edition in 2009 and 2010.
Asset retirement obligation
An asset retirement obligation (ARO) is a legal liability to retire a long-lived asset, like plugging an oil well or decommissioning a nuclear plant, recorded at fair value.
Asset turnover
Asset turnover is a financial ratio measuring how efficiently a company uses its assets to generate revenue, computed as net sales divided by average total assets over a period.
Asset-backed security
An asset-backed security (ABS) is a fixed-income security serviced by cash flows from a pool of assets like auto loans, credit card receivables, or student loans.
Asset-liability management
Asset-liability management (ALM) is the practice of managing a financial institution's assets and liabilities together, so cash flows stay matched as interest rates and liquidity move.
Assets under management
Assets under management (AUM), also known as funds under management, is the total market value of investments a financial institution manages on behalf of its clients, the basis for most management fees.