| Acronym | Meaning |
| NCI | U.S. National Cancer Institute |
| HBO | Home Box Office |
| ANM | Acoustic Noise Monitor |
| MDG | Madagascar (ISO 3166 Trigram) -UN Millennium Development Goal |
| ILO | International Labour Organization |
| COPE | U.K. Committee On Publication Ethics |
| TARDIS | Time And Relative Dimensions In Space (from Doctor Who) |
| PWP | Plot |
| JSD | Juris Scientiae Doctor (Latin |
| BDS | #NAME? |