Sida’s global research programmes

7Section 7: ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

2D Two-dimensional

AAS Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

AAU Addis Ababa University (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

ABU Al Baha University, Al Baha, Saudi Arabia

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AECD Atomic Energy Centre Dhaka (Bangladesh)

AESAC European Academies of Science Advisory Council

AFM Atomic force microscopy

AFR Africa

AFRA Africa Regional Cooperative Agreement for Research Development and Training related to Science and Technology

AFSIN African Spectral Imaging Network

AiBST African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology, Harare, Zimbabwe

AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrom

AIMS African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Alloc. Allocation (of funding)

ALNAP African Laboratory for Natural Products

AM The Americas (South, Central, and North)

ANCAP African Network for the Chemical Analysis of Pesticides

ANEC African Network of Electroanalytical Chemists

ANFEC Asian Network of Research on Food and Environment Contaminants

ANRAP Asian Network of Research on Antidiabetic Plants

APLAC Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation

APSA Association pour la Promotion Scientifique de l’Afrique

APSEA Association of Professional Societies in East Africa

AS Asia

Assoc. Associate

BAN Bangladesh

BBF Balance Brought Forward

BCRP Breast cancer resistance protein

BiBEAT See: http://bibeat.com/

Bil.Prg. Bilateral Program

Biotechnol. Biotechnology

BMC BioMed Central

BMC Uppsala Biomedical Centre

BCF Balance Carried Forward

BITRI Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation

BUET Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

BUF Burkina Faso

BUHS Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh

BURK Burkina Faso

CAB Cambodia

CAM Cambodia

CCS Cambodian Chemical Society

CEPHYR Centre for Phytotherapy and Research, Mauritius

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CIBIOMA Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente, Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia

CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique

COD Chemical Oxygen Demand

contrib. contribution

COROT Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits (name of French space telescope)

Countr. countries

CRSBAN Centre de Recherche en Sciences Biologiques, Alimentaires et Nutritionnelles (University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)

CS Computer Science

CCS Cambodian Chemical Society

Ctr. Centre/Center

CYP Cytochrome P450 enzymes

DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdients

DDFC Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer

DDT Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (banned insecticide)

Dept. Department

DESE Dese W/Sehen (Ethiopia)

DFID British Department for International Development

DICTS Directorate of ICT Support (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)

Div. Division

DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (carrier of genetic information)

DOI Digital Object Identifier

E-Salama Eastern and Southern Africa Laboratory Managers Association

EAARN East Africa Astronomy Research Network

EASAC European Academies of Science Advisory Council

EASD European Association for the Study of Diabetes

EAUMP Eastern African Universities Mathematics Programme

ECG Electrocardiogram/electrocadiograph

EGU European Geosciences Union

EM Expectation–maximization

Engineer. Engineering

ENSCI École Nationale Supérieure de Céramique Industrielle (Limoges, France)

ESARSWG Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Seismological Working Group

ETH Ethiopia

EU European Union

EUR Europe

EXCEED Excellence centre for development cooperation

F Female

FC (Swedish) Focus Country

FET Field-Effect Transistor

FGMR Fachgruppe Magnetische Resonazspektroscopie

FID Flame Ionization Detector

FONRID Fonds National pour la Recherche, l’Innovation et le Développement

(National Fund for Research, Innovation and Development), Burkina Faso

FPGA Field-Programmable Gate Arrays

FS Författningssamling (Swedish Government Statute-book)

FTIR Fourier Transformation Infrared Spectrometry

GATE Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering

GC Gas Chromatograph / Gas Chromatography

GEM Global Earthquake Model

GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH

Govt. Government

HARA Harar town (Ethiopia)

HEI Higher Education Institutions

HEJ Hussain Ebrahim Jamal (research institute, Karachi, Pakistan)

HEQEP Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HPLC High Performance Liquid Chromatography

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

IAP The Global Network of Science Academies

IC₅₀ The IC50 is the concentration of an inhibitor where the response (or binding) is reduced by half.

ICI Institutional Cooperation Instrument

ICRAF World Agroforestry Centre

ICTP The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

ID Identity

IF Impact Factor

IFM Institutionen för Fysik, Kemi och Biologi (Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology), Linköping University, Sweden

IFS International Foundation for Science

IMU International Mathematical Union

INEC (formerly) Sida’s Department for Infrastructure and Economic Cooperation

INST Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (Univ. Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya)

INT International

Intl. International

IPICS International Programme in the Chemical Sciences (ISP)

IPMS International Programme in the Mathematical Sciences (ISP)

IPPS International Programme in the Physical Sciences (ISP)

IR Infrared (spectrometry)

ISP International Science Programme (Uppsala University, Sweden)

ISRN International Scholarly Research Notices

IT Information Technology

J. Journal

JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency

KEN Kenya

KNEB Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board

kSEK Thousands of Swedish Crowns (currency unit)

KTH Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden

KVA Kungliga vetenskapsakademien (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

L.Am. Latin America

LAM African Laser, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences Network

LAM Latin America

LANBIO Latin American Network for Research in Bioactive Natural Compounds

LAO Laos

LED Light Emitting Diode

LIBS Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Lic. Licentiate’s exam

LiU Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

LSB Lanthanum-Scandium-Borate (LaSc₃(BO3)₄)

LTH Lunds Tekniska Högskola (Lund University Faculty of Engineering, Lund, Sweden)

LTU Luleå Tekniska Universitet (Lulea University of Technology), Luleå, Sweden

M Male

MAL Mali

Manag. Management

MC Mone Carlo

MCNPX Monte Carlo N-Particle eXtended

MFS Minor Field Study

Md Muhammad/Muhammed

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MPhil Master of Philosophy

MRL Maximum Residue Level

MS Mass Spectrometer / Mass Spectrometry

MSc Master of Science

MSSEESA Materials Science and Solar Energy Network for Eastern and Southern Africa

MUST Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

N/A Not Applicable (or Not Available)

NABSA Network for Analytical and Bioassay Services in Africa

NACOSTI The National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (Kenya)

NADMICA Nature Induced Disaster Mitigation in Central America

NAPRECA Natural Products Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa

NASIC Network of Academies of Science in Islamic Countries

NAT National/Local

NDT Non-Destructive Testing

NEMA (Kenya) National Environmental Management Authority

NITUB Network of Instrument Technical Personnel and User Scientists of Bangladesh

NGO Non Government Organisation

NMC National Mathematical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria

NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

No number

NUOL National University of Laos (Vientiane, Laos)

NUST National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

NW Scientific Network

O Oral (conference contribution)

OAT Ornithine aminotransferase

P Poster (conference contribution)

PAC Pacific Accreditation Cooperation

PACM Pan African Centre for Mathemathics

PACN Pan Africa Chemistry Network

PAH Polyaromatic hydrocarbon

PAMO Pan African Math Olympiad

Part. participants

PCB Polochlorinated Biphenyls (banned industrial chemical)

PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction

PDE Partial Differential Equations

PECVD Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

PFOS Perfluorooctane sulfonate

PhD Doctor of Philosophy

Phys. Physical

PM_2.5 Particulate Matter up to 2.5 micrometers in size

POP Persistent Organic Pollutants

Pop. popular

Prof. Professor

PCSI Projets de coopération scientifique inter-universitaire

Publ. Publication(s)

PV Photovoltaic

R&D Research and Development

RABiotech West African Biotechnology Network

RAFPE Research network in Africa on Pollution of the Environment

REG Regional

Rep. report(s)

RBM Results Based Management

RG Research Group

ROG Regional Organization Group

RP reversed phase (HPLC)

RS Royal Society (UK)

RSA Republic of South Africa

RUPP Royal University of Phnom Penh (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

RWA Rwanda

SAMSA Southern African Mathematical Sciences Association

Sandw. Sandwich (training program)

SAREC (formerly) Sida's Department for Research Cooperation

Sci. Science

SE Sweden

SEANAC Southern and Eastern Africa Network for Analytical Chemists

SEK Swedish Crowns (currency)

SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy

Sem. seminar

SFS Svensk Författningssamling (Swedish Government Statute-book)

Sida Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

SIK Institutet för Livsmedel och Bioteknik AB (Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology), Gothenburg, Sweden

SLIPI Structured Laser Illumination Planar Imaging

SLU Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

SMI Smittskyddsinstitutet (Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control)

SSEESS Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences

STZ streptozotocin

SU Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

TB Tubercolosis

Techn. Technical

TICA Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency

TLC Thin Layer Chromatography

TR Thomson Reuters (see http://thomsonreuters.com/journal-citation-reports/)

TRF Thailand Research Fund

TRXF Total-Reflection X-ray Fluorescence

TWAS The World Academy of Sciences

UCL University College London

UDSM University of Dar es Salaam (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

UEM Universidad Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo, Mozambique)

UGA Uganda

UGC University Grants Commission

UHÄ (formerly) Universitets- och högskoleämbetet (Office of Universities and Higher Education, Sweden)

UK United Kingdom

UMSS Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organisation

UNISA University of South Africa

Univ. University

UNU United Nations University

UoNBI University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

US United States (of America)

USA United States of America

USD United States Dollars (currency)

USFX Universidad de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Sucre, Bolivia

USTT Université des Sciences, des Techniques, et des Technologies (Bamako, Mali)

UTAC Union Technique de l'Automobile du Motocycle et du Cycle

UU Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

UV ultraviolet

vis visible light

VOC Volatile Organic Compound

w with

w/o without

WHO World Health Organisation

ZAM Zambia

ZIM Zimbabwe

ZITF Zimbabwe International Trade Fair

1^ http://www.isp.uu.se/digitalAssets/188/188888_1isp-strategic-plan-2013-2017.pdf

2^ K. Newman (2014). What is the evidence on the impact of research in international development? A DFID literature review, July 2014.

3^ http://www.isp.uu.se/digitalAssets/188/188888_1isp-strategic-plan-2013-2017.pdf

4^ For more details of ISP’s support to scientific networks, see Kiselman, C. (2011);
http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:393463&rvn=1

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^ See http://www.isp.uu.se/bilateral-programs/Mozambique/mozambique-news-and-events/

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^ Withdrawn.

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^ See also http://www.isp.uu.se/visits/

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^ Six contributions are credited to two groups/networks, hence totally 240 contributions in Table 7 and Figure 12c.

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^ Directly or indirectly, e.g. by acknowledging the research group or scientific network that is supported by ISP.

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^2014 Journal Citation Reports® Thomson Reuters, 2014, http://thomsonreuters.com/journal-citation-reports/; see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

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^ Sandwich stays supported by University Agency of the Francophonie.