The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3. 2 ( later X3L2 ) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3. 2. 4 working group.

The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute.

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

* American Standards Association, former name of the American National Standards Institute

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

* American National Standards, defined by the American National Standards Institute

ANSI C refers to the family of successive standards published by the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) for the C programming language.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

American National Standards Institute / American Society of Safety Engineers standard ANSI Z359. 1-2007 Safety Requirement for Personal Fall Arrest Systems, Subsystems and Components, section 3. 2. 1. 4 ( for snap hooks and carabiners ) is a voluntary consensus standard.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

The American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ), Standard 1100, defines the requirements of meeting the ANSI standard for being a certifying organization.

* CWM ( Chartered Wealth Manager ), CAM ( Chartered Asset Manager ), CTEP ( Chartered Trust and Estate Planner ) and CPM ( Chartered Portfolio Manager ), issued, founded and conferred by the USA Board of Standards American Academy of Financial Management ( AAFM )

In an attempt to overcome the problem of incompatibility between different versions of COBOL, the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) developed a standard form of the language in 1968.

SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) in 1986, and of the International Organization for Standards ( ISO ) in 1987.

Fosdick, a brother of minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

The American Medical Association is once again grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

An exhibit, `` Macropathology -- An Ancient Art, A New Science '', was presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.

The Council on National Defense of the American Medical Association contributed a brief article to each issue entitled, `` This Is Your A.M.A. ''.

The group known as the American Association for Health,, Physical Education, and Recreation ( a division of the National Education Association ) initiated a conference which brought together representatives of the National Rifle Association, SAAMI and the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers.

The American Automobile Association, computing the cost for two people to vacation by automobile, comes up with an average daily expenditure figure of $29.

An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.

Preparation of a second edition is in progress under the sponsorship of the Crystal Data Committee of the American Crystallographic Association.

That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association ( AMA ), and the National Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Legally the definition varied from state to state, and was more flexible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before the American Civil War.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

This functional definition still holds true in North America, where two other sizeable groups, Unamended Christadelphians and the CGAF, are not received by most North American Amended ecclesias.

In one response to Gettier, the American philosopher Richard Kirkham has argued that the only definition of knowledge that could ever be immune to all counterexamples is the infallibilist one.

The American philosopher Robert Nozick has offered the following definition of knowledge:

Accordingly, the American definition of EVA start time was redefined to when the astronaut switches the EMU to battery power.

In the 1960s the American jewelry industry changed the definition of ' emerald ' to include the green vanadium-bearing beryl as emerald.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

A new definition of hypnosis, derived from academic psychology, was provided in 2005, when the Society for Psychological Hypnosis, Division 30 of the American Psychological Association ( APA ), published the following formal definition:

This definition excludes any works that are the result of community creativity, for example Native American songs and stories ; current legislation does not recognize the uniqueness of indigenous cultural ' property ' and its ever-changing nature.

* American Heritage Dictionary definition

There are different definitions of legal insanity, such as the M ' Naghten Rules, the Durham Rule, the American Legal Institute definition, and various miscellaneous provisions ( e. g., relating to lack of mens rea ).

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

A military academy or service academy ( in American English ) is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the army, the navy, air force or coast guard, which normally provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.

Austin explicates key definitions from both the Compendious ( 1806 ) and American ( 1828 ) dictionaries and brings into its discourse a range of concerns including the politics of American English, the question of national identity and culture in the early moments of American independence, and the poetics of citation and of definition.

Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People ( 1830, Louvre ), a painting created at a time where old and modern political philosophies came into violent conflict. During the Enlightenment period, new theories about what the human was and is and about the definition of reality and the way it was perceived, along with the discovery of other societies in the Americas, and the changing needs of political societies ( especially in the wake of the English Civil War, the American Revolution and the French Revolution ) led to new questions and insights by such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu and John Locke.

The definitional structure of perjury provides an important framework for legal proceedings, as the component parts of this definition have permeated jurisdictional lines, finding a home in American legal constructs.

Definitions and licensing requirements in the United States vary among jurisdictions, as each state has enacted its own physical therapy practice act defining the profession within its jurisdiction, but the American Physical Therapy Association ( APTA ) has also drafted a model definition in order to limit this variation, and the APTA is also responsible for accrediting physical therapy education curricula throughout the United States of America.

In 1999, a study by the Kinsey Institute, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined the definition of sex based on a 1991 random sample of 599 college students from 29 U. S. states ; it reported that 60 %

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

The US edition, once again by A & E Home Video, includes the first North American release of an alternative edit of " Arrival " ( in high definition ), as well as " The Alternate Version of ' The Chimes of Big Ben '" from the earlier DVD / VHS releases ( in standard definition due to the degraded source material ) and assorted documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage.