ABCD rating, also called the Jewett staging system or the Whitmore-Jewett staging system, is a staging system for prostate cancer that uses the letters A, B, C, and D.

* ABCD rating in NCI Dictionary from PDQ ( 2004 ).

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For the separate nationalities, the ABCD Hierarchy, a system which ranked the 120 languages of the Soviet Union according their communicable significance, charted out a specific plan for each nationality's achievement of literacy.

* ABC ( medicine ), also known as ABCD, a mnemonic for steps in resuscitation

* ABCD guideline, a heuristic for detecting melanomas

* ABCD Schema, a highly-structured data exchange and access model for taxon occurrence data ( specimens, observations, etc.

* Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. ( ABCD ), a Boston, Massachsuetts based non-profit social services agency

* ABCD line, a Japanese term for embargoes placed against Japan by the Americans, British, Chinese and Dutch, as well as other countries.

A simple pattern is just a text string ( e. g. " ABCD "), but a complex pattern may be a large structure describing, for example, the complete grammar of a computer language.

* Robert White ( deceased 1969 ) First Director, Action for Boston Community Development ( ABCD )

Another necessary and sufficient condition for a convex quadrilateral ABCD to be cyclic is that an angle between a side and a diagonal is equal to the angle between the opposite side and the other diagonal.

The melodic structure of the presumed model ( s ) can be described as " ABCD " -- a new melodic phrase for each of its four lines.

The purpose of the American Board of Cosmetic Dentistry ( ABCD ) is the testing, analyzing, and evaluation of the services of dentists and laboratory technicians for the purpose of awarding AACD Accreditation in cosmetic dentistry.

The ABCD method is a strategic tool applied for backcasting from the 4 sustainability principles.

Unfortunately for the average person, many seborrheic keratosis, some lentigo senilis, and even warts may have ABCD characteristics, and cannot be distinguished from a melanoma without a trained eye or dermatoscopy.

Entertainment Weekly was more positive, giving the film a " B -" rating, and Owen Gleiberman praised the Pearl Harbor attack sequence: " Bay's staging is spectacular but also honorable in its scary, hurtling exactitude ...

* ASA is a film speed rating system defined by the former American Standards Association

* 1903 – Arpad Elo, American chess player, created the Elo rating system ( d. 1992 )

* ASA physical status classification system, rating of patients undergoing anesthesia

* A film speed rating system defined by the former American Standards Association

That game was one of the most watched television events in history according to the Nielsen ratings system ; the game had a rating of 48. 3, ranking it seventh in all-time television history.

In 1994, the Internet Content Rating Association ( ICRA ) — now part of the Family Online Safety Institute — developed a content rating system for online content providers.

* Elo rating system, a system for measuring the relative strength of players in chess and other two-player games

* Arpad Elo ( 1903 – 1992 ), American creator of the Elo rating system

Under the rating system of the Royal Navy, by the middle of the 18th century, the term " frigate " was technically restricted to single-decked ships of the fifth rate, though small 28-gun frigates were classed as sixth rate.

In essence, the proposals built on the work done by Professor Elo in devising his Elo rating system.

It does so by maintaining low-cost hostels at many of the large starports, and, most importantly, by maintaining its ' rating system ,' which warns of the dangers inherent in visiting certain worlds.

The Imperial German Navy's rank and rating system combined that of Prussia's with the navies of other northern states, thus the resulting system became one of Europe's best.

However, as a result of conservative fiscal policies and a sound financial system, in 2010 the country credit rating improved slightly to BB + and was kept at that level in 2011.

* 1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.

Her replacement, John Major, replaced the Community Charge with the Council Tax, similar to the rating system that preceded the Poll Tax.

* 1921 – Jack Valenti, American film executive, created the MPAA film rating system ( d. 2007 )

In particular, ESPN the Magazine's 1999 NFL preview predicted the Rams would be the worst team in the NFL via numerical rating system ; worse even than the Browns who had returned as an expansion team that year.

The MPAA film rating system was not in place until November 1968, so even young children were not prohibited from purchasing tickets.

The system receives a special code in the broadcast signal which indicates the show's score according to a simple numerical rating system for violence, sex, and language.

In 1996, the United States Congress decreed that the television industry should create a voluntary rating system for its shows called the TV Parental Guidelines.

When the MPAA film rating system began on November 1, 1968 in the U. S., the X rating was given to a film by the MPAA if submitted to them or, due to its non-trademarked status, it could be self-applied to a film by a distributor who knew beforehand that their film contained content unsuitable for minors.

It is generally an inaccurate method of rating, for the horsepower is that of the compressor motor, and many other components beside it determine how much cooling you'll get.

An objective scale was developed for rating school neighborhoods from these data.

Conversely, if he gives a heavy rating to his own reading, and finds more accurate facts in it than in the others, a point is chalked up for the intrinsic, objective meaningfulness of this type of mediumistic material.

The albedo is an important concept in climatology and astronomy, as well as in calculating reflectivity of surfaces in LEED sustainable rating systems for buildings, computer graphics and computer vision.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

The MPAA gave it an NC-17 rating for a shot of a female Deadite being decapitated early on in the film.

He finished with an approval rating of 68 %, which matched those of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era.

In the early 2000s, Bulgaria had some 37, 300 kilometers of roads, all but 3, 000 of which were paved but nearly half of which ( 18, 000 kilometers ) fell into the lowest international rating for paved roads.

Several rating scales for the screening and evaluation of bipolar disorder exist, such as the Bipolar spectrum diagnostic scale.

Gibson toned down the film's battle scenes to avoid an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, with the final version being rated R for " brutal medieval warfare.

The reputation of many undergraduate degrees are also linked to the institution's graduate or research programs, which have some tangible factors for rating, such as research funding and volume, publications and citations.

* CPANTS, the CPAN Testing Service, evaluates distributions automatically for quality assurance metrics of varying usefulness and assigns them a " kwalitee " rating.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

When the film was re-submitted in the US for a rating in 1994, the MPAA classified it with an NC-17 rating.

" Exile II: Crystal Souls won the 1995 Eddy Award Honorable Mention for Best Shareware Game of the Year, and received a 5 out of 5 star rating from ZiffNet.

A July 2009 Gallup Poll found only 30 % Americans thought the Fed was doing a good or excellent job, a rating even lower than that for the Internal Revenue Service, which drew praise from 40 %.

Fire barrier walls are continuous from an exterior wall to an exterior wall, or from a floor below to a floor or roof above, or from one fire barrier wall to another fire barrier wall, fire wall, or high challenge fire wall having a fire resistance rating of at least equal rating as required for the fire barrier wall.

These numbers are highly speculative ; many sources give vague ideas of the unemployment rating being ( for example, in 2003 ) around 50 %, giving the impression that the actual rate could be several percentage points higher or lower.

* The boiler horsepower is used for rating steam boilers and is equivalent to 34. 5 pounds of water evaporated per hour at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 9, 809. 5 watts.

* One horsepower for rating electric motors is equal to 746 watts.