CAST may refer to:
Medicine
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Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial
The Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) was a double-blind, randomized, controlled study designed to test the hypothesis that suppression of premature ventricular contraction, premature ventricular complexes (PVC) with class I antiarrhythmi ...
, a heart study in the 1980s
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Childhood Autism Spectrum Test, formerly the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test
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Chronic addiction substitution treatment, a policy adopted in Vancouver Canada to reduce the harms of drug prohibition
Organizations
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CAST (company), a software intelligence company
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Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group, a former organization in the Canadian military
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Carolina Actors Studio Theatre
Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) was an independent non-profit theatre company located at 2424 North Davidson Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was founded in 1992 by Charlotte acting instructor Ed Gilweit as an actor's teaching schoo ...
, a theater company in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies
The Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST); ) is an independent, for-profit Russian think tank located in downtown Moscow.
CAST conducts research and analysis on Russian conventional arms trade, Russia's defense industry, mi ...
, a Russian non-governmental organization which conducts research on arms trade and defense trends
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Certification Authorities Software Team, avionic certification harmonization
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China Academy of Space Technology
The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) () is a Chinese space agency and subordinate of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The agency was founded on 20 February 1968, and is the main spacecraft development and pr ...
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China Association for Science and Technology
The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST; ) is a people's organization of Chinese scientists and engineers, which is composed of multiple national professional societies and hundreds of branches at various local and international ...
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Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, a Los Angeles-based anti-human trafficking organization
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College of Arts, Science and Technology
The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech, Ja.), formerly the College of Arts, Science and Technology, is a public university in Jamaica.
History
The university was founded as the Jamaica Institute of Technology in 1958. The following y ...
, former name of the University of Technology, Jamaica
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Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST)
The Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) is a US aviation safety partnership between regulators, manufacturers, operators and professional unions, research groups, international organizations to further enhance safety. It was founded in 1997 ...
, an organization with the US FAA which provides safety recommendations for commercial aircraft
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Curriculum Advice and Support Team
The Scottish Further Education Unit (SFEU) was a development agency which supported the development of teaching and learning in the country. It was founded in 1985 as the Curriculum Advice and Support Team (CAST), and renamed to SFEU in 1991 when ...
, former name of the Scottish Further Education Unit
Technology
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CAST tool
CAST tools are software applications used in the process of software testing. The acronym
An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside th ...
, a program for testing software
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CERN Axion Solar Telescope
The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is an experiment in astroparticle physics to search for axions originating from the Sun. The experiment, sited at CERN in Switzerland, was commissioned in 1999 and came online in 2002 with the first data-t ...
, an experiment in astroparticle physics to search for axions from the Sun
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Computer-aided simple triage
Computer-aided simple triage (CAST) are computerized methods or systems that assist physicians in initial interpretation and classification of medical images. CAST is a sub-class of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). CAST software systems perform a fu ...
, computerized methods or systems that assist physicians
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Computer-adaptive sequential testing Computer-adaptive sequential testing (CAST) is another term for multistage testing
Multistage testing is an algorithm-based approach to administering tests. It is very similar to computer-adaptive testing in that items are interactively selected fo ...
, a type of multi-stage testing
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CRISPR-associated transposons CRISPR-associated transposons or CASTs are mobile genetic elements ( MGEs) that have evolved to make use of minimal CRISPR systems for RNA-guided transposition of their DNA. Unlike traditional CRISPR systems that contain interference mechanisms to d ...
, mobile genetic elements that have evolved to make use of minimal CRISPR systems for RNA-guided transposition of their DNA
Other
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CAST (gene)
Calpastatin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''CAST'' gene
In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is transcribed t ...
, which encodes the protein calpastatin
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CAST (race)
is a series of console role-playing video games and other supplementary media created by Sega. The series debuted in 1987 on the Master System with ''Phantasy Star'', and continues into the present with ''Phantasy Star Online 2'' and other ext ...
, a fictional race of androids in the ''Phantasy Star'' series of video games
See also
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CAST-128, a block cipher in cryptography
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CAST-256
In cryptography, CAST-256 (or CAST6) is a symmetric-key block cipher published in June 1998. It was submitted as a candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES); however, it was not among the five AES finalists. It is an extension of an ...
, a block cipher in cryptography
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Cast (disambiguation)
Cast may refer to:
Music
* Cast (band), an English alternative rock band
* Cast (Mexican band), a progressive Mexican rock band
* The Cast, a Scottish musical duo: Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis
* ''Cast'', a 2012 album by Trespassers William ...
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