RDA may refer to:
Organisations
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Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (African Democratic Rally), a political party formed in 1946 in French West Africa.
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Rawalpindi Development Authority
Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) (Urdu: راولپنڈی ڈویلپمنٹ اتھارٹی) is a government sector corporation and authority responsible for providing Municipal and Town Services in Rawalpindi City, a city in the Punjab, Pakis ...
, Pakistan.
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Reader's Digest Association
Trusted Media Brands, Inc. (TMBI), formerly known as the Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (RDA), is an American multi-platform media and publishing company that is co-headquartered in New York City and White Plains, New York. The company was ...
, a magazine publisher.
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Regional development agency, a public sector organisation in England.
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Research Data Alliance
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a research community organization started in 2013 by the European Commission, the American National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Australian Department of Innova ...
, a research community organisation started in 2013.
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Revolving Doors Agency
Revolving Doors is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which works across England and Wales. Through research, policy and campaigning work, the organisation aims to improve services for people with multiple needs who are in repeat con ...
, a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom.
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Riding for the Disabled Association
The Riding for the Disabled Association, also known as the RDA is a United Kingdom based charity founded in 1969 focused on providing therapeutic horse-riding, equestrian vaulting and carriage driving lessons to people with developmental and physi ...
, a United Kingdom equestrianism charity.
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Road Development Authority
The Road Development Authority (commonly abbreviated as RDA); ( si, මාර්ග සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය; ta, வீதி அபிவிருத்தி அதிகார சபை) is the premier highway authority ...
, a highway authority in Sri Lanka.
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Rural Development Academy
The Rural Development Academy (RDA) ( bn, পল্লী উন্নয়ন একাডেমী) is a specialized rural development institution in Sherpur Upazila of Bogra District, Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the Peop ...
, an institution in Bangladesh.
Science
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Representational difference analysis
Representational difference analysis (RDA) is a technique used in biological research to find sequence differences in two genomic or cDNA samples. Genomes or cDNA sequences from two samples (i.e. cancer sample and a normal sample) are PCR amplifi ...
, a technique used to find sequence differences in two genomic or cDNA samples.
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retro-Diels–Alder reaction The retro-Diels–Alder reaction (rDA reaction) is the reverse of the Diels–Alder (DA) reaction, a +2cycloelimination. It involves the formation of a diene and dienophile from a cyclohexene. It can be accomplished spontaneously with heat, or wit ...
(rDA), a chemical reaction.
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Research and Development Array, a cosmic ray detector development project.
* Redundancy analysis, a method for
ordination
Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorization, authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominational ...
.
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Remote Database Access
Remote database access (RDA) is a protocol standard for database access produced in 1993 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Despite early efforts to develop proof of concept implementations of RDA for major commercial RDBM ...
, a protocol standard for database access.
* Remote Diagnostic Agent, a diagnostic tool for
Oracle database
Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle DBMS, Oracle Autonomous Database, or simply as Oracle) is a multi-model database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.
It is a database commonly used for running online t ...
environments.
* Research Data Australia, a web portal for access to national research data, within
Australian Research Data Commons
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is a limited company, formed on 1 July 2018 by combining the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), Nectar (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources) and Research Data Services (RDS). Its p ...
.
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Robotic Data Automation
Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrate ...
, a process of automating the data engineering tasks.
Health care
* Recommended Dietary Allowance, one of several recommendations referred to as a
Dietary Reference Intake
The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) is a system of nutrition recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the National Academies (United States). It was introduced in 1997 in order to broaden the existing guidelines known as Reco ...
.
* Registered
dental assistant
Dental assistants are members of the dental team. They support a dental operator (such as a dentist or other treating dental auxiliary) in providing more efficient dental treatment. ''Dental assistants'' are distinguished from other groups of d ...
.
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Relative dentin abrasivity
Abrasion is the non-carious, mechanical wear of tooth from interaction with objects other than tooth-tooth contact. It most commonly affects the premolars and canines, usually along the cervical margins. Based on clinical surveys, studies have sh ...
, a measure of toothpaste's effects on tooth dentin.
Other
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Rafael dos Anjos
Rafael Souza dos Anjos (; born October 26, 1984) is a Brazilian American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight and Lightweight divisions in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former UFC Light ...
, a Brazilian mixed martial artist.
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Redland railway station
Redland railway station is on the Severn Beach Line and serves the districts of Cotham, Bristol, Cotham and Redland, Bristol, Redland in Bristol, England. It is from . Its three letter station code is RDA. it is managed by Great Western Railw ...
, a railway station in England with the National Rail code "RDA".
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Resource Description and Access
Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a standard for descriptive cataloging initially released in June 2010, providing instructions and guidelines on formulating bibliographic data. Intended for use by libraries and other cultural organization ...
, a library cataloguing standard used to support the discovery, identification and employment of information resources.
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Resources Development Administration (RDA)), a fictional non-governmental organization and main antagonists of the ''Avatar'' franchise.
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Rules of Decision Act The Rules of Decision Act mandates that substantive state law be applied in state cases, unless the United States Constitution, treaties of the United States, or acts of Congress say otherwise. The federal courts' authority to exercise general feder ...
, a federal law in the United States.
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Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson (born January 23, 1950) is a retired American actor and producer. He began his television career in 1976, playing Jeff Webber in the American soap opera series ''General Hospital'', and then rose to prominence as the lead a ...
, American actor, of the ''MacGyver'' and ''Stargate'' television franchises.
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Racial Discrimination Act 1975
The ''Racial Discrimination Act 1975'' (Cth). is an Act of the Australian Parliament, which was enacted on 11 June 1975 and passed by the Whitlam government. The Act makes racial discrimination in certain contexts unlawful in Australia, and als ...
, an Australian law.
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