Annual Report 2006-2007

Abbreviation

ACS Acute Coronary Syndrome
ADME Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion
AIIMS All Indian Institute for Medical Sciences
AINSTRAF All India Network of ST Radar Facilities
ALTM Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping
AMCHSS Achutha Menon Centre for Health Studies
AMS Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility
ARCI Advance Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials
ARI Agarkar Research Institute
ARIES Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences
ARMEX Arabian Sea Monsoon Experiment
ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations
ASTROSAT Astronomical Satellite
BHEL Bharat Heavy Elecgtricals Ltd.
BMBF German Ministry for Education and Research
BMT Biomedical Technology
BOYSCAST Better Opportunities for Young Scientists in Chosen Areas of Science and Technology
BRCA Breast Cancer
BRO Border Road Organisation
BSIP Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany
CAETS Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences
CCA Close Coupling Approximation
CCMB Centre for Cellular & Microbiology
CCT Clean Coal Technology
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
CGCRI Central Glass & Ceramics Research Institute
CHN
CII Confederation of Indian Industries
CIMAP Central Institute of Medicinal & aromatic Plants
COPER Centre for Psycho-Oncology for Education and Research
CSIO Central Scientific Instruments Organisation
CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
CTCZ Continental Tropical Convergence Zone
CYMK Cyan Yellow Magenta Black
D Declination
DAAD German Academic Exchange Service
DAE Department of Atomic Energy
DBT Department of Biotechnology
DEC DiEthyl Carbamazine
DECU Development & Educational Communciation Unit
DFG German Research Foundation
DGH Directorate General of Hydrocarbons
DIPSAR Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Research
DMARD Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug
DNA Deoxy RiboNuleic Acid
DPRP Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Research Programme
DRDO Defence Research & Development Organisation
DRF Dabur Research Foundation
DSERT Directorate of State Education Research and Training
DSM Defence Services Maps
DST Department of Science and Technology
DTDB Digital Topographical Data Base
DUPONT
EDM Electronic Distance Measurement
EDOT Ethylenedioxythoiphene
EGMB Eastern Ghat Mobile Belts
EGRL Equatorial Geophysical Research Laboratory
ELISA Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay
ENSO El Nino Southern Oscillation
ERETs Endemic, Rare, Endangered and Threatened
ERMP Extended Range Monsoon Prediction
EU European Union
EUV
EYGIPLAD Empowering Youth through Geo-Informatics &
Participation for Local Area Development
FAIR Facility for Anti proton and Ion Research
FIST Fund for improvement of S&T infrastructures
FRITA Facility for research in Technical Acoustics
GARUDA
GCP Ground Control Points
GDC Geo-spatial Data Centre
GDL Gas Diffusion Layer
GITA Global Technology Innovation Alliance
GLP Good Laboratory Practice
GMO Genetically Modified Organism
GNP Gross National Product
GPS Global Positioning System
GPTS Geomagnetic polarity time scale
GSI Geological Survey of India
HAGAR High Altitude Gamma Ray Telescope array
HCT Himalayan Chandra telescope
HF Horizontal Force
HPIPH Himachal Pradesh Irrigation and Public Health Department
HPPWD Himachal Pradesh Public Works Department
HPSEB Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board
IAF Indian Air Force
IAO Indian Astronomical Observatory
ICGEB International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research
ICRP Indian Climate Research Program
ICT Information & Communication Technology
ICTP The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
IDPI Indian Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Industry
IEEE Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IFCPAR Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research
IGNOU Indira Gandhi National Open University
IIA Indian Institute of Astrophysics
IIBAT International Institute of Biotechnology and Toxicology
IICB Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
IIG Indian Institute of Geomagnetism
IIPA Indian Institute of Public Administration
ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Corporation
ILTP Integrated Long Term Project
ILTP The Integrated Long Term Programme with Rusia
INAE Indian National Academy of Engineering
INSA Indian National Science Academy
IRHPA Intensification of Research in High Prority Areas
ISCA Indian Science Congress Association
ISRO Indian Space Research Organization
IS-STAC Inter-Sectoral Science &Technology Advisory Committee
ISVPT Indian Society of Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology
ITMMEC Industrial Tribological Machine Dynamics and Maintenance Engineering Centre
ITPAR India-Trento Program for Advanced Research
IUSSTF Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
JE Japanese Encephalitis
JNCASR Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
JSPS Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences
KSKGRL Dr. K.S. Krishnan Geomagnetic Research Laboratory
KVPY Kishore Vaigyanik Prothsahan Yojana
LE Levitation Effect
MACS Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science
MAO Micro Arc Oxidation
MASW Multi-channel Analyses of Shear Wave
MEMS and Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical
NEMS systems
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technologyu
MMOW Multimode Oerlay Waveguide
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MPF Max Planck Society
MPS Magnetic polarity stratigraphy
MRA Mutual Recognition Arrangement
MRD Minimal Residual Disease
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NABL National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories
NAM S&T Centre for Science and Technology of the Centre Non Aligned and Other Developing Countries
NASA National Aeronautics & Space Administration
NASSCOM National Association of Software and Service Companies
NATMO National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation
NCBI National Centre for biotechnology information
NGO Non Government Organisation
NIC National Informatics Centre
NIHH National Institute for Hearing Handicapped
NML National Metallurgical laboratory
NMP Natioal Map Policy
NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NNRMS National Natural Resources Management System
NPOL National Physical Oceanographic Laboratory
NSAID NonSteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug
NSSF National Facility for Semi Solid Forming
NSTI Nano Science & Technology Initiative
NSTMIS National Science & Technology Management Information System
NTDC National Tidal Data Centre
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development
ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
OSM Open Services Maps
PAC Programme Advisory Committees
PAID Plasma Assisted Implantation & Deposition
PEG polyethylene glycol
PFA Partial Financial Assistance
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PMC Project Monitoring Committee
PMMA polymethyl methacrylate
POC Program of Cooperation
PPM Proton Precession Magnetometer
PROBE Pilot Program on Participation of Youth in Real time/ field Observation to Benefit Education
RA Rheumatoid arthritis
RASM Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
RNAi RiboNucleicAcid Interference
RO Reverse Osmosis
RRI Raman Research Institute
SAIF Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facilities
SERC Science and Engineering Research Council
SERC Science and Engineering Research Council
SI Sudden impulse
SSC Storm sudden commencement
SSI Small Scale Industry
STAC Science & Technology Advisory Committee
STEP Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park
STIO Scientist and Technologist of Indian Origin
STORM Severe Thunderstorm Observation and Regional Modelling
SVO Straight Vegetable Oil
TAUVEX
TBM TuBerculous Meningitis
TD Transposon Display
TIFR Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
TIME Technology Intervention in Mountain Ecosystems
TLR Toll Like Receptor
TTIP titanium isopropoxide
TWAS The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
TWAS Third World Academy of Sciences
TWNSO Third World Network of Scientific Organisations
UKERI UK- India Education and Research Initiative
ULF Ultra-Low Frequency
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation
USERS Utilization of Scientific Expertise of Retired Scientists
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
UV
UVIT Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope
VBO Vainu Bappu Observatory
VBT Vainu Bappu telescope
VECC Variable Energy Cyclotron Center
VF Vertical Force
VHF Very High Frequency
VIP Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide
VIPNET Vigyan Prasar NETwork of Science
VIPRIS Vigyan Prasar Information System
VIS Village Information System
VLSI Very large Scale Integration
WGS World Geodetic System
WIHG Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
WRI Welding Research Institute