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WSA
WSA may refer to: * van der Waals surface area * War Shipping Administration, part of the US government responsible for building cargo ships in World War II * Weapon storage area, a maximum security part of an ammunition depot where nuclear weapons are stored * West Allerton railway station, Liverpool, England (station code) * Western Sahara Authority * Western Soccer Alliance * Western Sydney Airport, an international airport currently under construction * Wilderness study area * Windows Socket API, Microsoft's implementation of Berkeley sockets * Windows Subsystem for Android, a compatibility layer for Android apps in Windows 11 * Women's Squash Association, the governing body for the women's professional squash circuit and the women's world rankings * Worker Student Alliance, a division of Students for a Democratic Society, sometimes referred to as SDS-WSA * Workers' Solidarity Alliance * World Service Authority * World Summit Award * WSA Process, Wet gas Sulphuric Acid is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Summit Award
The World Summit Awards (WSA) is an awards system that selects and promotes local digital innovation to improve society. WSA is an international platform focused on broadcasting cutting-edge examples of how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) can have a positive impact on society, at the local level. The World Summit Award was initiated in 2003, within the framework of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). After the UN General Assembly adopteResolution 56/183 WSA is managed by the International Center for New Media (ICNM), a non-profit organization based in Salzburg, Austria. ICNM was founded by Professor Peter A. Bruck, an honorary board member of WSA, in 2002. ICNM organizes national, regional, and global competitions to showcase the richness and the diversity of the digital media with societal impact. WSA has 19 years of international experience with digital content from 187 participating countries. WSA is an open award to compani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Squash Association
The Women's Squash Association (WSA) was the governing body for the women's professional squash circuit between 2011 and 2014. It was based in London, England. The body operated in a similar fashion to the WTA for tennis. The WSA World Tour involved over 100 tournaments annually all over the globe. Over 250 players were registered with the WSA and rankings were updated monthly based on players' performances. In November 2014, the WSA and the PSA announced a historic merger between the two associations. A decision was reached that will see the PSA operate as the governing body for both the women's and men's ranks from January 1, 2015. WSA World Tour There were hundreds of WSA tournaments throughout the course of a season of the WSA World Tour, and they were classified into the following categories, based on prize money: * Rising Star (Women’s Under 19 age World, Regional and National Opens which offer ranking points to Full, Regional and Rising Stars members). * Challenger (Ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Shipping Administration
The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the United States needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Commission and ship allocation under the WSA to Army, Navy or civilian needs were closely coordinated though Vice Admiral Emory S. Land who continued as head of the Maritime Commission while also heading the WSA. Establishment A shortage of vessels further complicated by requirements to take vessels out of service for conversion and armament was of concern at the highest levels, including the President. Particular concern that available shipping would not be used effectively led to his establishment immediately on the nation's active entry into the war of the Strategic Shipping Board composed of the Chairman of the Maritime Commission, Army Chief of Staff, Chief of Naval Operations and Mr. Harry Hopkins reporting directly to the President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Soccer Alliance
Western Soccer Alliance was a professional soccer league featuring teams from the West Coast of the United States and Western Canada. The league began in 1985 as the Western Alliance Challenge Series. In 1986, it became the Western Soccer Alliance. In 1989, it existed for a single year as the Western Soccer League before merging with the American Soccer League to form the American Professional Soccer League in 1990. History Origins After the demise of the North American Soccer League in 1984 and the United Soccer League in 1985, four independent teams—F.C. Portland, F.C. Seattle, San Jose Earthquakes and Victoria Riptides—created the Western Alliance Challenge Series in the summer of 1985. They did so in order to fill the outdoor soccer void created by the failure of the NASL and USL. The Western Alliance Challenge Series would have had two more teams from Los Angeles and Edmonton, but the Los Angeles team could not obtain change or add dates on a stadium lease, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSA Process
The wet sulfuric acid process (WSA process) is a gas desulfurization process. After Danish company Haldor Topsoe introduced this technology in 1987, it has been recognized as a process for recovering sulfur from various process gases in the form of commercial quality sulfuric acid (H2SO4) with the simultaneous production of high-pressure steam. The WSA process can be applied in all industries where the removal of sulfur is an issue. The wet catalysis process is used for processing sulfur-containing streams, such as: * H2S gas from e.g. amine gas treating unit * Off-gas from sour water stripper (SWS) gas *Off-gas from Rectisol *Spent acid from an alkylation unit *Claus process tail gas *Heavy residue or petcoke-fired utility boiler off-gas *Boiler flue gases from various processes SNOX flue gas desulfurization *Metallurgical process gas *Production of sulfuric acid The process ;The main reactions in the WSA process *Combustion: 2 H2S + 3 O2 2 H2O + 2 SO2 (-1036 kJ/mol) *Ox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Sydney Airport
Western Sydney International Nancy-Bird Walton Airport, also known as Western Sydney Airport or Badgerys Creek Airport, is a new international airport currently under construction within the suburb of Badgerys Creek, New South Wales, Australia. The airport is planned to have 24-hour and curfew-free operations and will supplement Kingsford Smith Airport, which has reached capacity due to a legislated curfew and flight caps. The first stage of construction on the new airport began on 24 September 2018, and the first stage is expected to be complete and open by December 2026. The site was officially designated by the Federal Government on 15 April 2014, after decades of debate on the location of another airport within Greater Sydney. History Operating since 1919, Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport is one of the world's oldest airports. Located only 8 km from the city centre, the airport site is now hemmed in on three sides by urban growth and on the fourth side by Botany Bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Service Authority
The World Service Authority (WSA), founded in 1953 by Garry Davis, is a non-profit organization that claims to educate about and promote "world citizenship", "world law", and world government. It is best known for selling unofficial fantasy documents such as World Passports. Organization The WSA has an office in Washington, D.C., the United States. The office in Shanghai, China, was closed on 1 January 2010. , attorney David M. Gallup was the president of the WSA. History The WSA was founded by Garry Davis, a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot, who officially gave up his U.S. citizenship in 1948 to live as a "citizen of the world". It was set up to be the administrative agency of the "World Government of World Citizens" which he declared on 4 September 1953. The first office was opened in New York City in 1954. In the past, WSA also had offices in Basel, London and Tokyo. Activities Besides selling World Passports, the WSA registers customers as "world cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worker Student Alliance
The Worker Student Alliance (WSA) in the United States was the section of Students for a Democratic Society led by the Progressive Labor Party. The WSA argued that the best way to build a movement in the working class, like SDS wanted, was for students to become involved in workers' struggles both on and off the campuses. In practice, that usually meant students enrolled in school would get jobs as cafeteria hands and other manual labor jobs at those schools. Organizational history The WSA explicitly rejected the rest of the New Left's insistence that it would be various combinations of 'progressive' nationalism and popular rebellion that would jump-start the revolution; rather, the WSA said the catalyst would be organized workers in various industries and the service sector, and that students could best help spread and deepen workers' class consciousness by really being among the workers themselves, rather than just using their class designation in rhetoric to appear more M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows Socket API
In computing, the Windows Sockets API (WSA), later shortened to Winsock, is an application programming interface (API) that defines how Windows network application software should access network services, especially TCP/IP. It defines a standard interface between a Windows TCP/IP client application (such as an FTP client or a web browser) and the underlying TCP/IP protocol stack. The nomenclature is based on the Berkeley sockets API used in BSD for communications between programs. Background Early Microsoft operating systems, both MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, offered limited networking capability, chiefly based on NetBIOS. In particular, Microsoft did not offer support for the TCP/IP protocol stack at that time. A number of university groups and commercial vendors, including the PC/IP group at MIT, FTP Software, Sun Microsystems, Ungermann-Bass, and Excelan, introduced TCP/IP products for MS-DOS, often as part of a hardware/software bundle. When Windows 2.0 was released, these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weapon Storage Area
{{unreferenced, date=November 2014 Weapon storage areas (WSA), also known as special ammunition storage (SAS), were extremely well guarded and well defended locations where NATO nuclear weapons were stored during the Cold War era. In most situations, the WSA or SAS areas were located inside the perimeter of an army barracks or an air base in NATO territory, but in a few cases they were located deep inside wooded areas and miles away from a military base. Due to changes in the political landscape, the number of special weapons in Europe has been drastically decreased. Moreover, the introduction of the WS3 Weapon Storage and Security System has made WSAs obsolete. At present, few WSAs are still operational as modern day special weapons are stored in the floors of concrete aircraft shelters and placed under 24/7 electronic surveillance. Examples *Bossier Baseformer WSA*Killeen Base *Lake Mead Base/Nellis Area 2 *Manzano Base *Medina Annex prior to NSA/CSS Texas Cryptologic Center b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workers' Solidarity Alliance
Workers' Solidarity Alliance (WSA) is an American anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian group designed to help establish member-managed organizations in the workplace and community. It was founded in 1984, created from an existing network of groups including the ''Libertarian Workers' Group''. It is based in New York, and produced a print journal called ''Ideas & Action'' from 1984 to 1997. On May 1, 2010, the WSA relaunched the Ideas and Action publication in an electronic magazine format. The Workers' Solidarity Alliance website states that the WSA believes "that working people can build a new society and a better world based on the principles of solidarity and self-management", and "that such a society will be brought about only by working people building their own self-managed mass organizations from the ground up". WSA argues that the fight against gender inequality, structural racism A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material obje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Allerton Railway Station
West Allerton railway station serves the suburb of Allerton, Liverpool in the north west of England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains and it is situated southeast of Liverpool Lime Street on the main line to Runcorn and Crewe. History The station opened on 2 January 1939. Allerton station was to the south, but it closed in 2005 to make way for Liverpool South Parkway which opened the following year. Facilities There are four platforms, two of which, platforms 1 and 2, are located on the fast lines and are where most trains stop. Platforms 3 and 4 are on the slow lines and are used infrequently, mainly where faster services are booked to overtake stopping services on this stretch of line (This is most common in the Liverpool-bound direction). The platform layout consists of three structures: * Platform 1 - single faced, on the Up Fast line. * Platform 2-3 - double faced, between the Down Fast line & Up Slow lines. * Platform 4 - single fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
