A better HMO: with health-care providers in disarray, especially for the elderly, Preferred Care Partners has jumped in with a cozy arrangement that lets doctors call the shots. Will the acronym PSO become as common as HMO? (Health Care). South Florida CEO (12/1/2002)
Like a lot of doctors, Dr. Eric Fernandez, M.D., was unhappy dealing with the red tape associated with HMOs. In most cases, he felt unable to manage his patients correctly or get them the services they needed quickly enough, especially when it involved Medicare payments for the elderly. "I was
A Web-mining approach to disambiguate biomedical acronym expansions.(Technical report) Informatica (6/1/2010)
...In some cases, acronyms become proper names...most of the time, acronyms are domain or period...might belong to the common language. As contracted...instance, NER, the acronym we use for Named Entities...In all cases, an acronym behaves like ...
Alphabet soup: there are a lot of acronyms out there. We'll help you sort them out. Mechanical Engineering-CIME (1/1/2003)
...said. "Engineers like acronyms. They are to the engineering...that there's even an acronym for three-letter acronyms: TLA, of course...translating CAD images into a common language so they can...these commonly used acronyms are: "standard ...
Raising Cade: data centers: better accountability through--you guessed it--another acronym?(Editor's Note) Engineered Systems (9/1/2008)
...just to determine what an acronym is referring to is not "user...s world with more and more acronyms being generated by everyone and the same acronyms having multiple meanings.(If I say the acronym DOE, does that mean Design...run into a term that isn't ...
Abbreviations and acronyms in healthcare: when shorter isn't sweeter.(Continuing Cursing Education Series) Pediatric Nursing (9/1/2007)
...punctuation. In a sense, the acronym is a combination of abbreviations...separate meaning. The word acronym is derived from the Greek...name. In this country the acronym's component letters usually...in a pronounceable word (Acronyms and Initialism, ...
GLOSSARY: 'ACRONYM' The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (11/9/1987)
...abbreviations, which they resemble, acronyms are pronounced as words rather...of New English point out, acronyms take on plural forms and are...adjectives and verbs. Many acronyms -- like WAC (a World War...an abbreviation, not an acronym), New York ...
ANALYSIS: Acronyms Keep All but Experts in Real Estate Guessing, MOL. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (3/20/2004)
...real estate business love acronyms, more or less. Realtors...specialized abbreviations and acronyms even for common terms: ARM (adjustable...but specialists -- for whom acronyms and abbreviations should be...of both the phrase and the ...
E-BUSINESS: Crisis looms as the planet uses up acronym reserves.(Business) The Birmingham Post (England) (4/12/2005)
...exhausted the world's supply of acronyms. The global shortage of capital...VDU, etc, all entered the common vocabulary. Advertising and...been irresponsibly burning up acronyms such as ROIFMCG, CRM and...television provider (DTP, the acronym formally known ...
America: an acronym. The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan) (4/16/2009)
...American administration and the common Americans are two distinct...In English language, an acronym is a word formed from the initial...examples: (1) NATO is an acronym for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. (2) IAEA is an acronym for International Atomic ...
What's your AQ?(Systems & Software Technology)(acronym quotient; computer terms)(Column) Industrial Distribution (4/1/1999)
Without a high acronym quotient, acronyms cause confusion for many Not...quantum leap in the number of acronyms used in the information technology...virtually all PCs. CORBA - (common object request broker architecture...you don't need to use any ...
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