| Acronym | Meaning |
| IDOE | International Decade Of Ocean Exploration |
| SI | Scale Index |
| MDBK | Madin-Darby Bovine Kidney |
| EAG | Exposure Assessment Group |
| BMD | Born-Mayer (plus) Dispersion (potential Function) |
| PO-DVR | Potential Optimized-discrete Variable Representation |
| SDSR-CI | Single And Double Excitations From Single Ref. State Function-CI Method |
| LOVA | Lowest-order Variational Approxn. (for Electron-phonon Interactions In Metals) |
| RBP | Retinol Binding Protein |
| TMV | Thermal Modulation Voltammetry |