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Ascended master
An ascended master is a being in certain esoteric religions who has overcome death and guides humanity, a concept created by Guy and Edna Ballard in the 1930s.
Asceneuron
Asceneuron SA is a Swiss clinical-stage biotechnology company in Lausanne, founded in 2012 as a spin-out from Merck Serono, developing oral OGA inhibitors against tau aggregation in Alzheimer's; its lead candidate is ASN51.
Ascension of Jesus
The Ascension of Jesus, also known as the Ascension of the Lord, is the Christian belief that the risen Christ was taken up into heaven, commemorated on Ascension Day.
Ascent Venture Partners
Ascent Venture Partners, formerly Pioneer Capital Corporation, is a Boston-area venture capital firm founded in 1985 that invests $2 to $8 million in early-stage B2B technology companies.
Ascenta Capital
Ascenta Capital is a United States venture capital firm founded in 2023 by Evan Rachlin and Lorence Kim that invests in biotech companies in Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials.
Ascenty
Ascenty is a Brazilian data center provider founded in 2010 by Chris Torto and headquartered in Vinhedo, São Paulo, now Latin America's largest data center operator.
Ascertis Credit
Ascertis Credit, formerly BPEA Credit, is an India-based performing private credit fund manager with offices in Mumbai and Delhi, investing in mid-market businesses since 2011.
Asceticism
Asceticism: voluntary, sustained self-discipline and self-denial (from Greek askēsis, athletic training) practiced across Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism to attain a valued spiritual or mental state.
Asch conformity experiments
Asch conformity experiments: Solomon Asch's 1951–1956 line-judgment studies (Asch paradigm) showing unanimous confederate majorities led subjects to give obviously wrong answers in 36.8% of trials; dissent, group size, and culture moderate the effect.
Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός)
Asclepius (Ἀσκληπιός, Aesculapius), Greek god of medicine, son of Apollo; deified mortal healer worshipped at Asclepieia such as Epidaurus through dream incubation, with over 300 sanctuaries across the Greco-Roman world.
Ascletis Pharma
Ascletis Pharma is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded and led by Jinzi Jason Wu, known for the hepatitis C drug Ganovo and the oral GLP-1 obesity drug ASC30.
ASD
ASD (爱仕达) is a Chinese manufacturer of kitchen cookware and small appliances headquartered in Wenling, Zhejiang, founded by Chen Helin, which also makes industrial robots and trades on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
ASEAN
ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is an 11-member intergovernmental bloc founded by the 1967 Bangkok Declaration (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand), governed by consensus and non-interference, with Timor-Leste the newest member.
ASEAN Charter
ASEAN Charter: constituent treaty of ASEAN, adopted 20 November 2007 in Singapore, in force 15 December 2008; confers legal personality, sets Summit, Coordinating and Community Councils, consensus rule, and AICHR; Timor-Leste acceded 2025.
ASEAN Declaration
ASEAN Declaration, or Bangkok Declaration, signed 8 August 1967 in Bangkok by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand; the non-binding founding document establishing ASEAN and its aims.
ASEAN Economic Community
The ASEAN Economic Community is the economic pillar of ASEAN, declared established on 31 December 2015 to free the flow of goods, services, investment, capital, and skilled labor.
ASEAN Free Trade Area
The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) is a preferential tariff arrangement among ASEAN member states, signed in 1992, under which intra-regional tariffs were largely cut to zero.
ASEAN Summit
ASEAN Summit: the supreme policy-making body of ASEAN, its Heads of State or Government meeting twice yearly under the rotating Chairmanship; first held in Bali 1976, 48th Summit in Cebu, Philippines, May 2026, with ASEAN Plus Three and East Asia Summit as related meetings.
ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Area is a free trade agreement binding ten ASEAN states, Australia, and New Zealand, signed in 2009 and in force from 2010.
ASEAN–China Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) is a trade agreement between the ten ASEAN member states and China, signed in 2002 as China's first FTA.
ASEAN–India Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–India Free Trade Area is a preferential trade zone between ASEAN and India, in force for goods since 2010, covering almost 1.8 billion people and a $4.5 trillion economy.
ASEAN–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership
The ASEAN–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP) is a trade agreement between Japan and ASEAN member states, signed in 2008, that eliminates tariffs on most bilateral trade.
ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area
The ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA) is a set of agreements between ASEAN and South Korea, proposed in 2003, that progressively eliminate tariffs on goods and liberalize services and investment.
ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) is a Singapore-based international organization that monitors 14 Asian economies and supports the US$240 billion Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation.
Asebu
Asebu was a coastal state on the Gold Coast of present-day Ghana, remembered for granting the Dutch permission in 1612 to build Fort Nassau, their first fortress there.
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari (آصفہ بھٹو زرداری)
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari (born 1993), Pakistani politician, daughter of Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari; MNA for NA-207 since April 2024 and Pakistan's first non-spouse First Lady; leading polio eradication advocate.
Asemic writing
Asemic writing is wordless, illegible-looking writing with no fixed semantic content, made by poets, calligraphers, and artists. Coined by Tim Gaze and Jim Leftwich in the 1990s; key figures Michaux, Twombly, Barthes, Jacobson; studied in Schwenger's 2019 book.
Asen dynasty
The Asen dynasty (Асеневци) was the ruling house of the Second Bulgarian Empire, founded by the brothers Peter and Asen in the 1185 uprising against Byzantine rule, ruling until 1280.
Asenath
Asenath (Hebrew אָסְנַת, also Aseneth) is the Egyptian wife of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, and mother of Ephraim and Manasseh.
Asexuality
Asexuality (ace) is a sexual orientation of little or no sexual attraction, distinct from celibacy and HSDD. About 1% prevalence; most asexuals are romantic; AVEN founded 2001; split attraction model distinguishes romantic orientation.