| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACD | Annealed Cold Drawn |
| UAPS | Utility Acid Precipitation Study |
| TPRS | Temperature Programmed Reaction Spectrometry |
| SPINDO | Spectroscopic Potentials Adjusted Intermediate Neglect Of Differential Overlap |
| HRSEM | High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| SON | Supraoptic Nucleus |
| ELKM | Extended Lumped Kinetic Model |
| MFS | Molecular Fluorescence Spectroscopy |
| MASP-HMO | Mutual Additive Substituent Parameter-Hueckel Molecular Orbital |
| PI3K | Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase |