Legend to acronyms and abbreviations

Last revised: 3-25-97
ABET	Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
AdCom	Administrative Committee
APP	All Periodicals Package
APS-DPB	Americal Physical Society - Division of Physics of Beams
BoD	Board of Directors
BoG	Board of Governors
CANPS	Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
CCIP	Committee on Communications and Information Policy
CEAA	Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities
COMAR	Committee on Man and Radiation
CRADA (CRDA)  Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CTAA	Committee on Technology Accreditation Activities
DME	Design and Manufacturing Engineering
EAB	Educational Activities Board
EAC	Engineering Accreditation Commission
EHS	Environment, Health and Safety Committee
ESONE	European Studies On Norms for Electronics
ExCom	Executive Committee
FC	Functional Committee
FCC	Functional Committee Chair
FESAC	Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee
FT	Fusion Technology
	- DIII-D	Doublet III - 4th Iteration
	- ITER	International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
	- JET	Joint European Torus
	- TFTR	Tritium Fusion Test Reactor
ICALEPCS  International Conference on Acclerators and Large
			Physics Control Systems
ICOPS	International Conference on Plasma Sciences
IEC	International Electro-Technical Committee
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEL	Electronic Library
ITS	Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee
JOLLY	Journal on-line launch year
Laboratories and Organizations
	- ANL	Argonne National Laboratory
	- BNL	Brookhaven National Laboratory
	- CERN	Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
			(European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
	- DOD	Department of Defense
	- DOE	Department of Energy
	- EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
	- FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
	- FNAL	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
	- IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
	- LANL	Los Alamos National Laboratory
	- LBNC	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	- LLNL	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	- NAS	National Academy of Science
	- NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
	- NSF	National Science Foundation
	- ORNL	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
	- PPPL	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
	- S&T	Science and Technology
	- SLAC	Stanford Linear Accerlerator Center
MIC	Medical Imaging Conference
N&A	Nominations and Appointments
NCRPM	National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
NEMA	National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NID	Nuclear Instruments and Detectors
NIDCOM	Nuclear Instruments and Detector Committee
NIM	Nuclear Instrumentation Methods (original source of acronym)
NMIS	Nuclear Medical Imaging Sciences
	- CT	Computed Tomography
	- MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
	- MRS	Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
	- NMISC	Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science Council
	- NMISTC  Nuclear Medical Imaging Sciences Technical Committee
	- PET	Positron Emission Tomography
	- SPECT	Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
NPEC	Nuclear Power Engineering
NPS	Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
NPSS	Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
NSREC	Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference
NSS	Nuclear Science Symposium
NTDC	New Technology Direction Liason
OI	Organizational Improvement
OpCom	Operating Committee
PAC	Particle Accelerator Conference
PACE	Professional Activities Council for Engineers
PAST	Particle Accelerator Science and Technology
POP	Pre-Order Plan (selected conference proceedings)
POP+	Pre-Order Plan (additional proceedings)
PP	Pulsed Power
PPC	Pulsed Power Conference
PPST (PPS&T) Pulsed Power Science and Technology
PPSTC	Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee
PSAC	Plasma Science and Applications Committee
PUB	Publications Board
R&D	Research and Development
RAB	Regional Activities Board
REC	Radiation Effects Committee
	- APS	Aerospace Policy Committee
	- CHERBS Conference on High-Energy Background Radiation in Space
	- EMP	Electromagnetic Pulse
	- RADECS European Symposium on Radiation and Its Effects
		on Components and Systems
	- RESG	Radiation Effects Steering Group
	- RISC	Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee	
	- SEV	Single Event Upset
	- SGEMP	System Generated EMP
RIC	Radiation Instrumentation and Control
RTCA	Real-Time Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle & Plasma 
S/C	Society/Council
SAMIEEE	Society Access to Membership Information in the IEEE
SFE	Symposium on Fusion Engineering
SPARC	Strategic Planning and Review Committee
SPC	Strategic Planning Committee
STAIF	Space Technology and Applications International Forum
TAB	Technical Activities Board
TAC	Technology Accreditation Commission
TC	Technical Committee
TCC	Technical Committee Chair
TMI	Transactions on Medical Imaging
	- EDICS	Editors Information Classification Scheme
	- EMBS	Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
	- SPS	Signal Processing Society
	- UFFC	Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
TNS	Transactions on Nuclear Science
TPC	Technology Policy Council
TPS	Transactions on Plasma Science
USAB	United States Activities Board