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Business

  • Direct Participation Program
    Direct Participation Program
    Direct participation program is a financial security that enables investors to participate in a business venture's cash flow and taxation benefits...

    , plan investments in business ventures
  • DSM (company)
    DSM (company)
    DSM is a multinational life sciences and materials sciences-based company. DSM's global end markets include food and dietary supplements, personal care, feed, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, automotive, paints, electrical and electronics, life protection, alternative energy and bio-based materials...

    , a Dutch chemical and pharmaceutical company
  • Discounted payback period
    Discounted payback period
    The discounted payback period is the amount of time that it takes to cover the cost of a project, by adding positive discounted cash flow coming from the profits of the project....


Photography

  • Digital Photo Professional
    Digital Photo Professional
    Digital Photo Professional is the software that Canon ships with its digital SLR cameras for editing and asset management of its Canon RAW files. It can also work with the older .CRW format of select models, and also JPEGs and TIFFs from any source...

    , software provided with the Canon EOS camera
  • Digital Photonic
    Photonic integrated circuit
    A photonic integrated circuit or integrated optical circuit is a device that integrates multiple photonic functions and as such is analogous to an electronic integrated circuit...

     Processor, a term used in the opto-electronics and MEMs industries

Law enforcement

  • Director of Public Prosecutions
    Director of Public Prosecutions
    The Director of Public Prosecutions is the officer charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world...

    , a government body responsible for prosecuting criminals in many countries around the world.

Politics

  • Democratic Progressive Party
    Democratic Progressive Party
    The Democratic Progressive Party is a political party in Taiwan, and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition. Founded in 1986, DPP is the first meaningful opposition party in Taiwan. It has traditionally been associated with strong advocacy of human rights and a distinct Taiwanese identity,...

    , a political party
    Political party
    A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

     in the Republic of China
    Republic of China
    The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

     on Taiwan
    Taiwan
    Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

  • Danish People's Party
    Danish People's Party
    The Danish People's Party is a political party in Denmark which is frequently described as right-wing populist by political scientists and commentators. The party is led by Pia Kjærsgaard...

    , a political party in Denmark
  • Democratic Progressive Party (Malawi)
    Democratic Progressive Party (Malawi)
    The Democratic Progressive Party is the ruling political party in Malawi. The party was formed in February 2005 by Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika after a dispute with the United Democratic Front....

    , a political party in Malawi
  • Democratic Progressive Party (Singapore)
    Democratic Progressive Party (Singapore)
    The Democratic Progressive Party is a political party in Singapore.-Overview:The history of the party dates back to 16 March 1973 when it was first setup by a splinter group from the Workers' Party and named the United Front. It was renamed the Singapore United Front on 5 March 1982, and in 1988,...

    , a political party in Singapore

Medicine and Science

  • Decapentaplegic
    Decapentaplegic
    Decapentaplegic is a key morphogen involved in the development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. It is known to be necessary for the correct patterning of the fifteen imaginal discs, which are tissues that will become limbs and other organs and structures in the adult fly. It has also been...

    , a growth factor gene involved in development
  • Dipeptidyl peptidase
    Dipeptidyl peptidase
    Dipeptidyl peptidase is a type of enzyme classified under EC 3.4.14.Types include:* Cathepsin C, dipeptidyl peptidase-1* DPP3, dipeptidyl peptidase-3* Dipeptidyl peptidase-4* DPP6, dipeptidyl peptidase-6* DPP7, dipeptidyl peptidase-7...

    , a class of enzymes which cleave dipeptides from proteins and peptides
  • Dirty Petroleum Product, common abbreviation in the oil trades
  • Differential Pulse Polarography
    Differential pulse voltammetry
    Differential Pulse Voltammetry is often used to make electrochemical measurements. It can be considered as a derivative of linear sweep voltammetry or staircase voltammetry, with a series of regular voltage pulses superimposed on the potential linear sweep or stair steps...

    , a type of electrochemical scan

Other

  • Dark Passion Play
    Dark Passion Play
    Dark Passion Play is the sixth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 26 September, 2007 in Finland, 28 September in Europe and 2 October 2007 in the United States. It was the first Nightwish album with the band's current lead singer, Anette Olzon, and the first album...

    , an album by symphonic metal quintet Nightwish
  • Detailed Project Plan, see Project plan
    Project plan
    A project plan, according to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, isPRINCE2 defines:In some industries, particularly information technology, the term "project plan" can refer to a Gantt chart or other document that shows project activities along a timeline. While common, this use is inaccurate...

  • Dining philosophers problem
    Dining philosophers problem
    In computer science, the dining philosophers problem is an example problem often used in concurrent algorithm design to illustrate synchronization issues and techniques for resolving them....

  • Dinosaur Provincial Park
    Dinosaur Provincial Park
    Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located about two and a half hours drive southeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada or , about a half hour drive, northeast of Brooks....

    , a provincial park in Alberta
  • Director of Public Prosecutions
    Director of Public Prosecutions
    The Director of Public Prosecutions is the officer charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world...

    , an official in charge of criminal prosecutions in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries
  • Dogs Playing Poker
    Dogs Playing Poker
    Dogs Playing Poker refers collectively to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars...

    , a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge of anthropomorphized dogs
  • Data Page Pointer, for use in programming
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