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Association football positions
Association football positions: goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, and forward roles on the pitch, their history from the 2-3-5 pyramid and W-M to hybrid roles like the false nine and inverted full-back, and how data analysis now defines player roles.
Association football tactics
Association football tactics: team systems of positioning, pressing, and movement in soccer, from the 2-3-5 pyramid and W-M to total football, tiki-taka, and gegenpressing, described through formations such as 4-4-2 and 4-2-3-1.
Association for Advancing Automation
The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) is an American trade association in Ann Arbor, Michigan, formed in 2021 and serving more than 1,200 companies in robotics, machine vision, and motion control.
Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics is an international society for computational linguistics, founded in 1962. It maintains the ACL Anthology, which contains over 131,000 papers.
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, Inc.) is the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. Founded in 1947, it had more than 100,000 members by 2014.
Association for Electronic Music
The Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) is a not-for-profit global trade association for the electronic and dance music industry, launched at MIDEM by Ben Turner and Kurosh Nasseri.
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 U.S. 576 (2013): unanimous US Supreme Court case holding isolated human genes like BRCA1 and BRCA2 are unpatentable products of nature, while synthetic cDNA remains patent eligible.
Association for Recorded Sound Collections
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), founded in 1966, is a nonprofit based in Eugene, Oregon, dedicated to preserving and studying sound recordings of all genres and formats.
Association for Symbolic Logic
The Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) is an international organization founded in 1936 that supports research in logic and publishes three journals with Cambridge University Press.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), founded in 1979, is a nonprofit scientific society that runs the annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), formerly the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, is an international scientific society for freshwater and marine researchers.
Association Guillaume Budé
The Association Guillaume Budé is a French learned society founded in 1917 to publish Greek and Latin authors, best known for the bilingual Budé series of classical texts.
Association mapping
Association mapping tests whether individual genetic variants show statistical associations with a trait across many unrelated individuals, usually as genome-wide association studies, to locate trait-influencing loci.
Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema
The Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema (AOMA) was an Islamic reformist organization founded by Abdelhamid Ben Badis in Constantine, Algeria, in 1931, under French colonial rule.
Association of American Medical Colleges
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), founded 1876 in Philadelphia, nonprofit representing 174 US and Canadian medical schools, 400+ teaching hospitals; runs MCAT, AMCAS, ERAS; co-sponsors LCME accreditation; led by David Skorton until 2027.
Association of American Railroads
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing U.S. freight railroads since 1934, setting safety and interchange standards for North American rail.
Association of American Universities
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an invitation-only group of leading research universities in the United States and Canada, founded in 1900 to standardize graduate study.
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is a global professional body for accountants, founded in 1904, which sets and examines the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification for over 266,100 members in 179 countries.
Association of Commonwealth Universities
Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU): global university network founded 1913 in London, Royal Charter 1963, 400+ member universities in 40+ Commonwealth countries, administering Commonwealth scholarships and higher education policy work.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was an American grassroots organization founded in 1970 in Little Rock, Arkansas, that advocated for low- and moderate-income families.
Association of Equipment Manufacturers
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) is a Milwaukee-based North American trade association for off-road equipment makers, formed in 2002 and producer of the CONEXPO-CON/AGG trade show.
Association of Film Commissioners International
Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI), founded 1975, is the global 501(c)(3) nonprofit for film commissions on six continents, headquartered in Beverly Hills, offering certification, AFCI University training, best practices, and events like Cineposium and the Cannes Global Film Commission Network Summit.
Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners
The Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE), founded by 35 specialists in Chicago in 1969, is the international professional organization for firearm and toolmark identification.
Association of German National Jews
Verband nationaldeutscher Juden (Association of German National Jews), extreme assimilationist right-conservative German-Jewish organization founded 1921 by Max Naumann, ~3,500 members, anti-Zionist, banned by Nazis 18 November 1935.
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) is a trade association founded in 1967, representing appliance makers in the United States and Canada and developing performance standards.
Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations
The Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF), founded in 1984 in Lausanne, is a Swiss association of IOC-recognized federations whose sports are not on the Olympic program.
Association of Issuing Bodies
The Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) is a Brussels-based non-profit association, founded in 2002, whose government-appointed members administer guarantee-of-origin certificates and operate the European Energy Certificate System.
Association of Moving Image Archivists
The Association of Moving Image Archivists is an international nonprofit professional association dedicated to the preservation of film, video, and digital moving image media, formalized in 1991 and based in California.
Association of Nigerian Authors
The Association of Nigerian Authors is a Nigerian nonprofit literary association founded by Chinua Achebe on 27 June 1981 at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, awarding annual literary prizes.
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC), US-founded 1987 nonprofit professional nursing organization for HIV/AIDS care; publishes JANAC, runs HANCB certification, 40-plus chapters, about 2,500 members.