AMS or Ams may refer to:
Organizations
Companies
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Alenia Marconi Systems
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American Management Systems
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ams AG, semiconductor manufacturer
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AMS Pictures
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Auxiliary Medical Services
Auxiliary Medical Service (AMS) is a voluntary medical and health services provider in Hong Kong. Its mission is to supply effectively and efficiently regular services to maintain the health and well-being of people in Hong Kong.
History
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Educational institutions
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Arthur Morgan School, North Carolina, US
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Hanoi – Amsterdam High School, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Army Medical School
Founded by U.S. Army Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg, MD in 1893, the Army Medical School (AMS) was by some reckonings the world's first school of public health and preventive medicine. (The other institution vying for this distinctio ...
, US
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Academy of Military Science (People's Republic of China)
The Academy of Military Sciences () is the highest-level research institute of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). It is headquartered in Beijing. The academy was founded in March 1958 and as of 2002, its staff included approximately 500 researc ...
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Academy of Military Science (United States)
The Academy of Military Science (AMS) was an 8-week (formerly 6 as of March 2014) officer commissioning program of the United States Air Force. AMS was held at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, with the purpose of training and comm ...
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Association of Muslim Schools
The Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) is a global network of Muslim faith-based educational institutes.
The Association supports and develops full-time Muslim Schools. The Association facilitates:
*Educator development workshops
*Inter-school ...
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Antwerp Management School
The Antwerp Management School ( nl, Antwerp Management School) is the University of Antwerp's autonomous business school. It is located in the historical center of the city of Antwerp.
The school offers eight full-time master programs and more th ...
Government agencies
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Agricultural Marketing Service
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture; it maintains programs in five commodity areas: cotton and tobacco; dairy; fruit and vegetable; livestock and seed; and poultry. These program ...
, US
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Army Map Service
The Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartography, cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941 to 1968, subordinated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On September 1, 1968, the AMS was redesignated th ...
, US, later National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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Army Medical Services
The Army Medical Services (AMS) is the organisation responsible for administering the corps that deliver medical, veterinary, dental and nursing services in the British Army. It is headquartered at the former Staff College, Camberley, near the ...
, UK
Societies and associations
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Alma Mater Society of Queen's University
The Alma Mater Society of Queen's University, otherwise known as the AMS, is the central undergraduate student association at Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is the oldest organization of its kind in Canada. Its r ...
, student society, Canada
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Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia
The Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia Vancouver, otherwise referred to as the Alma Mater Society or the AMS, is the student society of UBC Vancouver and represents more than 58,000 undergraduate and graduate students at UB ...
, student society, Canada
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American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...
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American Meteor Society
The American Meteor Society, Ltd. (AMS) is a non-profit scientific organization established to encourage and support the research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are interested in the field of meteor astronomy. Its affi ...
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American Meteorological Society
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is the premier scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences. Its mission is to advance th ...
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American Montessori Society
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American Musicological Society
The American Musicological Society (AMS) is a musicological organization which researches, promotes and produces publications on music. Founded in 1934, the AMS was begun by leading American musicologists of the time, and was crucial in legitim ...
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Ancient Monuments Society, England and Wales
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Association of Muslim Scholars
The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (Arabic: هيئة علماء المسلمين في العراق ''Hayat al-Ulama al-Muslimin Fi al-Iraq'') is a group of religious leaders in Iraq. It was formed on the April 14, 2003, four days after th ...
Other
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Aboriginal Medical Service, an Indigenous Australian community-controlled health service in Sydney
Science and technology
Chemical substances
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Sodium 2-anthraquinonesulfonate
Sodium 2-anthraquinonesulfonate (AMS) is a water-soluble anthraquinone derivative. In the laboratory it could be prepared by sulfonation of anthraquinone.
Digester additive in papermaking
AMS is used as a catalyst in production of alkaline pulpi ...
known as AMS
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Ammonium sulfate
Ammonium sulfate (American English and international scientific usage; ammonium sulphate in British English); (NH4)2SO4, is an inorganic salt with a number of commercial uses. The most common use is as a soil fertilizer. It contains 21% nitrogen a ...
, sometimes abbreviated as AMS
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Allyl methyl sulfide
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Alpha-methylstyrene, a chemical intermediate
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Ammonium sulfamate
Ammonium sulfamate (or ammonium sulphamate) is a white crystalline solid, readily soluble in water. It is commonly used as a broad spectrum herbicide, with additional uses as a compost accelerator, flame retardant and in industrial processes.
Man ...
, an herbicide
Chemistry and physics
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Accelerator mass spectrometry
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a form of mass spectrometry that accelerates ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis. The special strength of AMS among the mass spectrometric methods is its power to separate a r ...
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AMS radiocarbon dating
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a form of mass spectrometry that accelerates ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis. The special strength of AMS among the mass spectrometric methods is its power to separate a r ...
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Aerosol mass spectrometry
Aerosol mass spectrometry is the application of mass spectrometry to the analysis of the composition of aerosol particles. Aerosol particles are defined as solid and liquid particles suspended in a gas (air), with size range of 3 nm to 100 ...
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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a particle physics experiment module that is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS).Kristine Rainey (April 2, 2013)Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS): How It Works NASA. Retrieved June 2, 20 ...
, AMS-02
* Anisotropy of
magnetic susceptibility
Medicine
* Acute mountain sickness, a form of
altitude sickness
Altitude sickness, the mildest form being acute mountain sickness (AMS), is the harmful effect of high altitude, caused by rapid exposure to low amounts of oxygen at high elevation. People can respond to high altitude in different ways. Sympt ...
* Altered Mental Status, see
Altered level of consciousness
An altered level of consciousness is any measure of arousal other than normal. Level of consciousness (LOC) is a measurement of a person's arousability and responsiveness to stimuli from the environment.
A mildly depressed level of consciousn ...
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Antimicrobial stewardship Antimicrobial stewardship is the systematic effort to educate and persuade prescribers of antimicrobials to follow evidence-based prescribing, in order to stem antimicrobial overuse, and thus antimicrobial resistance. AMS has been an organized eff ...
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Ablepharon macrostomia syndrome
Ablepharon macrostomia syndrome (AMS) is an extremely rare, autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by abnormal Phenotype, phenotypic appearances that primarily affect the head and face as well as the skull, skin, fingers and genitals. A ...
, an autosomal dominant genetic disorder
Software
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Address Management System
Address Management System (AMS) is the United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States ...
of the US Postal Service
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Access Method Services
* Application Maintenance Support (see
Software Maintenance)
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Association Management System
Technology
* Analog and mixed-signal, as in
Verilog-AMS
Verilog-AMS is a derivative of the Verilog hardware description language that includes analog and mixed-signal extensions (AMS) in order to define the behavior of analog and mixed-signal systems. It extends the event-based simulator loops of Veri ...
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VHDL-AMS
VHDL-AMS is a derivative of the hardware description language VHDL (IEEE standard 1076-1993). It includes analog and mixed-signal extensions (AMS) in order to define the behavior of analog and mixed-signal systems (IEEE 1076.1-1999).
The VHDL-AMS ...
* Anti Missile Systems in
missile defense
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Automatic milking systems in dairy farming
Other uses
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Acquisition Management System The Acquisition Management System (AMS) provides policy and guidance on lifecycle acquisition management by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration
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Additional Member System of voting
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Alan Michael Sugar, British businessman, uses initials for enterprises such as Amstrad
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American Samoa
American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the Internationa ...
, UNDP code
* AMS, group of characters in
''The House of the Dead'' (series)
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Amsterdam (Amtrak station) in New York (Amtrak station code)
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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (IATA airport code)
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Atlanta Motor Speedway
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Auto, Motor und Sport
''Auto Motor und Sport'', often stylized as auto motor und sport and abbreviated AMS or AMuS, is a German automobile magazine.
It is published fortnightly by Motor Presse Netzwerk's subsidiary Motor Presse Stuttgart, a specialist magazine publis ...
'', a German automobile magazine
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