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Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (電波産業会)
The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB, 電波産業会) is a Japanese standards development organization for radio systems in telecommunications and broadcasting, established in Tokyo in 1995.
Association of Tennis Professionals
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), men's professional tennis governing body founded 1972 at the US Open; first executive director Jack Kramer; runs ATP Tour, Challenger Tour, Champions Tour, and PIF ATP Rankings.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is an American nonprofit, founded in 1967, supporting writers and university creative writing programs through its large annual conference.
Association rule learning
Association rule learning, also called association rule mining, is a data mining method that finds if-then relationships between items in large transaction databases, used in market basket analysis.
Association scheme
An association scheme is a finite set whose ordered pairs are partitioned into regular associate classes, whose adjacency matrices span an algebra, central to algebraic combinatorics.
Association Typographique Internationale
The Association Typographique Internationale, or ATypI, is an international nonprofit for typography and typeface design, founded in 1957 by Charles Peignot and best known for its annual conference.
Associative array
An associative array is an abstract data type storing key–value pairs, also called a map, dictionary, or hash, where each key maps to at most one value.
Associative property
The associative property, also called the associative law, says regrouping operands does not change a binary operation's result; addition and multiplication have it, while subtraction and division do not.
Associative versus dissociative N2 reduction pathways
Associative versus dissociative N2 reduction pathways are the two mechanistic families for reducing dinitrogen to ammonia; dissociation cleaves the triple bond first, as in Haber–Bosch.
Assonance
Assonance (also vowel rhyme, vocalic rhyme): repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words, especially stressed syllables; from Latin assonare. Distinct from rhyme, alliteration, and consonance; foundational to the Chanson de Roland.
Assumed modes method
The assumed modes method (AMM) is a discretization technique that converts a flexible structure's infinite-dimensional dynamics into a low-order finite model by truncating its deflection to a few low-frequency modes.
Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk
Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk (Свияжск Успенский монастырь): Russian Orthodox monastery in Tatarstan founded 1555, cathedral 1556-1560 with rare 16th-century frescoes, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2017.
Assumption of Mary
The Assumption of Mary, also called the Feast of Assumption, is the Catholic dogma, defined by Pope Pius XII in 1950, that Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven.
Assumption University (Worcester)
Assumption University (Worcester), formerly Assumption College, is a private Catholic liberal arts university in Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1904 by the Augustinians of the Assumption; it became a university in 2020 with five schools.
Assunta
Assunta is an elegiac love poem by Polish Romantic poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written in 1870 about a poet's love for a speechless orphaned girl.
Assunta Spina (1915 film)
Assunta Spina (1915) is an Italian silent drama by Gustavo Serena and Francesca Bertini, adapted from Salvatore Di Giacomo's 1909 Neapolitan play, produced by Caesar Film, a landmark of early Italian cinematic realism.
Assur
Assur (Ashur, Qal'at Sherqat) is the ancient Tigris city in northern Iraq, first capital and religious center of the Assyrian Empire, origin of the Old Assyrian trade network to Kanesh, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003.
Assur archive of Middle Assyrian texts
The Assur archive of Middle Assyrian texts is a body of cuneiform tablets from Assur, the Assyrian capital in Iraq, excavated chiefly by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft between 1903 and 1914.
Aššur-daʾʾinanni
Aššur-daʾʾinanni was a Neo-Assyrian eunuch official who served King Tiglath-pileser III as governor of Mazamua and gave his name to the year 733 BC, the year of the campaign against Damascus.
Aššur-etil-ilāni
Aššur-etil-ilāni (Aššur-etel-ilāni), son of Ashurbanipal, was a late Neo-Assyrian king (reign dated 630–627 or 631–627 BC), installed as a minor by the chief eunuch Sîn-šuma-līšir, who held real power; succeeded by his brother Sîn-šarra-iškun.
Assur-nada
Assur-nada (Aššur-nāda) was an Old Assyrian merchant of the 19th century BC, eldest son of Aššur-idī and chief agent of the family firm at Kanesh in Anatolia.
Assurance (statistics)
Assurance, also known as average power, is a Bayesian alternative to statistical power for clinical trial sample size, averaging power over a prior for the unknown treatment effect.
Assurance services
Assurance services are independent professional services that improve the quality of information for decision makers, covering financial audits, service-organization controls, and sustainability reporting under standards such as ISSA 5000.
Assuras
Assuras (Ἄσσουρος), a Roman colonial city in Byzacena, North Africa, whose ruins stand at Henchir Zanfour, Kef Governorate, Tunisia; colonia Iulia Assuras with gate arches, an 80 m theatre, and Augustan tower-mausolea.
Assurbanipal's campaign against Yauta' of Qedar
Assurbanipal's campaign against Yauta' (Uate') of Qedar was a series of Assyrian military operations in North Arabia, begun around 652 BC when Yauta' joined a Babylonian revolt.
Assurbanipal's campaigns against Elam
Assurbanipal's campaigns against Elam were Assyrian wars fought between 664 and 646 BC against successive Elamite kings, ending with the sack of Susa and the destruction of Elam as a regional power.
Assured Healthcare Partners
Assured Healthcare Partners is a New York-based investment firm that invests exclusively in healthcare companies, spun out of BlueMountain Capital Management in 2021 and led by founder Jim Pieri.
AssuredPartners Group LP
AssuredPartners Group LP is the holding vehicle through which GTCR and Apax Partners held AssuredPartners, sold to Arthur J. Gallagher for $13.45 billion in 2025.
Assuwa
Assuwa was a coalition of twenty-two states in northwestern Anatolia, defeated by the Hittite king Tudhaliya I/II around 1430 BC; its allies included Wilusiya and Taruisa, likely Troy.
Assyria
Assyria: ancient Mesopotamian kingdom centered on Ashur on the Tigris, known in Old, Middle, and Neo-Assyrian phases. It grew into the Near East's dominant empire (over one million square kilometers) before Babylonian-Mede forces destroyed Nineveh in 612 BCE; royal resistance ended in 609 BCE.