| Acronym | Meaning |
| TEDE | Total Effective Dose Equivalent |
| EPC | Evaporative Pattern Casting |
| LBO | Localized Born-Oppenheimer |
| TIW | Time-independent Wave Packet |
| NNI | National Nanotechnology Initiative |
| SCIA | Semiclassical Impulse Approxn. |
| FEFA | Fiber-optic Evanescent Field Absorption |
| ITEP | Institute For Theoretical And Experimental Physics |
| CLF | Current Literature File |
| RXR | Retinoid X Receptor |