| Acronym | Meaning |
| SCI | Science Citation Index |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| EBI | Equivalent Background Illumination |
| AGP | Alpha-1-acid Glycoprotein |
| BTDC | Bulk Thermal Desorption Chamber |
| QHD | Quantum Hadrodynamics |
| KLN | Potassium Lithium Niobate |
| CNLS | Complex Nonlinear Least Squares (data Fitting Method) |
| PPMA | Parts Per Million Atomic |
| STM | Symptom Tree Model |