AMS
Encyclopedia
Companies
- AMS (Advanced Music Systems)AMS (Advanced Music Systems)AMS were a manufacturer of professional studio equipment. The company later merged with Neve Electronics to form the award winning AMS Neve Ltd company, who received an Emmy in 1992 and a Grammy in 2000.-Background:...
- Auxiliary Medical ServicesAuxiliary Medical ServicesAuxiliary Medical Service is a well-trained, committed voluntary medical and health services provider in Hong Kong. Its mission is to supply effectively and efficiently regular services to maintain the health and well-being of people in Hong Kong....
- Austria Mikro Systeme, the old name of austriamicrosystems
- American Management SystemsAmerican Management SystemsAmerican Management Systems was a high technology and management consulting firm, founded in 1970 by a group of five former Defense Department officials who had worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson administration...
- AMS PicturesAMS PicturesAMS Pictures, founded in 1982, is the largest creative media company in the American south headquartered in Dallas, Texas. In 1996, AMS finished construction on their...
- Arbiter Modeling Systems Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
- Association of Muslim SchoolsAssociation of Muslim SchoolsThe Association of Muslim Schools is a global network of Muslim faith-based educational institutes.The Association supports and develops full-time Muslim Schools...
Transport
- Amsterdam (Amtrak station)Amsterdam (Amtrak station)The Amsterdam Amtrak station is an Amtrak train station in Amsterdam, New York. It is located at 466 West Main Streeton the West end of the city and is also a popular railfanning location on the busy CSX Chicago Line, which sees 70–80 freight trains per day.While the station is located along the...
in New York (Amtrak station code) - Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (IATA airport code)
Health and medicine
- Acute mountain sickness, a form of altitude sicknessAltitude sicknessAltitude sickness—also known as acute mountain sickness , altitude illness, hypobaropathy, or soroche—is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude...
- Acute muscle sorenessAcute muscle sorenessAcute muscle soreness is the pain felt in muscles during and immediately after strenuous physical exercise. The pain appears within a minute of contracting the muscle and disappears within two or three minutes or up to several hours after relaxing it....
- Altered mental status
Substances
- AMS is an abbreviation for sodium 2-anthraquinonesulfonateSodium 2-anthraquinonesulfonateSodium 2-anthraquinonesulfonate is a water-soluble anthraquinone derivative.-Digester additive in papermaking:AMS is used as a catalyst in production of alkaline pulping in the soda process. It goes through a redox cycle similar to that of anthraquinone to give a catalytic effect. AMS was...
- Allyl methyl sulfideAllyl methyl sulfideAllyl methyl sulfide is an organosulfur compound with the chemical formula CH2CHCH2SCH3. The molecule features two functional groups, an allyl and a sulfide. It is a colourless liquid with a strong odor characteristic of alkyl sulfides. It is a metabolite of garlic, and "garlic breath" is...
- alpha-MethylstyreneAlpha-Methylstyreneα-Methylstyrene is a chemical intermediate used in the manufacture of plasticizers, resins and polymers. It is a co-product formed in a variation of the cumene process. The homopolymer obtained from this monomer, poly, is unstable, being characterized by a low ceiling temperature....
, a chemical intermediate
Societies and associations
- The Alma Mater Society of Queen's University
- The Alma Mater Society of the University of British ColumbiaAlma Mater Society of the University of British ColumbiaThe Alma Mater Society is the student society of UBC Vancouver and represents more than 48,000 students at UBC's Vancouver campus and the affiliated colleges. The AMS also operates student services, student owned businesses, faculty constituencies, resource groups and clubs...
- American Mathematical SocietyAmerican Mathematical SocietyThe American Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards and prizes to mathematicians.The society is one of the...
- American Meteor SocietyAmerican Meteor SocietyThe American Meteor Society, Ltd. is a non-profit scientific organization established to encourage and support the research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are interested in the field of Meteor Astronomy...
- American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
- American Montessori SocietyAmerican Montessori SocietyThe American Montessori Society is a non-profit, member supported, organization which promotes the use of the Montessori teaching approach in private and public schools.-History:...
- American Musicological SocietyAmerican Musicological SocietyThe American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...
- Alenia Marconi SystemsAlenia Marconi SystemsAlenia Marconi Systems was a major European integrated defence electronics company and an equal shares joint venture between BAE Systems and Finmeccanica until its dissolution on May 3, 2005....
- Association of Muslim ScholarsAssociation of Muslim ScholarsThe Association of Muslim Scholars is a group of religious leaders in Iraq. It was formed on the April 14, 2003, four days after the U.S.-led invasion demolished the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein, by a group of scholars who aimed to represent Sunnis in Iraq...
- Azerbaijan Marketing Society
Educational institutions
- Hanoi – Amsterdam High School, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Albany Middle School, California
- Alderwood Middle SchoolAlderwood Middle SchoolAlderwood Middle School is a middle school in Lynnwood, Washington that serves students in grades 7 & 8. It is the largest middle school in the Edmonds School District. The current principal is Erin Murphy. After middle school, students will move on to Lynnwood High School or Mountlake Terrace High...
, Lynnwood, Washington - Army Medical SchoolArmy Medical SchoolFounded by U.S. Army Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg, MD in 1893, the Army Medical School was by some reckonings the world's first school of public health and preventive medicine...
- Antwerp Management School, Antwerp, Belgium
- Academy of Military Science (disambiguation)
Government agencies
- Agricultural Marketing ServiceAgricultural Marketing ServiceThe Agricultural Marketing Service is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, and has programs in five commodity areas: cotton and tobacco; dairy; fruit and vegetable; livestock and seed; and poultry...
- (U.S.) Army Map Service (1942-71), National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyNational Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyThe National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...
since 1996
Software
- Access Method Services
- Asset management system
- Association Management SystemAssociation Management SystemAn association management system is a computerized system which provides a non-profit organization basic database features to run its operations, such as member services, dues, event management, communications, product databases and fundraising....
Others
- Additional Member SystemAdditional Member SystemThe Additional Member System is the term used in the United Kingdom for the mixed member proportional representation voting system used in Scotland, Wales and the London Assembly....
of voting - Aerospace Material Standards, a set of technical standards governed by SAE InternationalSAE InternationalSAE International is an organization for engineering professionals in the aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries. The Society is a standards development organization for the engineering of powered vehicles of all kinds, including cars, trucks, boats, aircraft, and others.SAE...
- AftermarketAfter-market (general)After-market refers to any market where the customers who purchase one product or service are likely to purchase a related, follow-on product....
service - Analog and mixed-signal, such as in Verilog-AMSVerilog-AMSVerilog-AMS is a derivative of the Verilog hardware description language. It includes analog and mixed-signal extensions in order to define the behavior of analog and mixed-signal systems. It extends the event-based simulator loops of Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL, by a continuous-time simulator,...
and VHDL-AMSVHDL-AMSVHDL-AMS is a derivative of the hardware description language VHDL . It includes analog and mixed-signal extensions in order to define the behavior of analog and mixed-signal systems .... - Aa! Megami-Sama! (another name for Oh My Goddess!Oh My Goddess!, also known as Ah! My Goddess!, is a Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima. It premiered in the November 1988 issue of Afternoon where it is still being serialized. Every few months, the most recent chapters are published in tankōbon volumes by Kodansha...
) - AMS, group of characters in The House of the Dead (series)The House of the Dead (series)The House of the Dead is a video game franchise published by Sega and created by in-house designer Atsushi Seimiya of AM1....
- Auto, Motor und SportAuto, Motor und Sportauto motor und sport , often abbreviated to AMS, is a leading German automobile magazine. It is published fortnightly by Motor Presse Netzwerk subsidiary Motor Presse Stuttgart, a specialist magazine publisher that is 59.9% owned by the publishing house Gruner + Jahr.The magazine, originally...
- Automated Manifest System, a system to automate the management of shipping manifests
- Automatic milking systemsAutomatic milkingAutomatic milking is the milking of dairy animals, especially of dairy cattle, without human labour. Automatic milking systems , also called voluntary milking systems , were developed in the late 20th century. They are commercially available since the early 1990s...
in dairy farming - AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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