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AFB may refer to: * Armed Forces Bank, a US-based financial institution for military members and families * Armed Forces Bikers, a UK-based motorcycle charity to assist former members of the armed forces * Acid-fast bacilli * Air Force Base * Air Force Brat (children of Air Force personnel) * American Farm Bureau * American flatbow, a style of bow used in archery * American foulbrood, a honeybee disease * American Foundation for the Blind * Spoken Gulf Arabic (SIL code) * AFB, the forward-backward asymmetry Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection). Symmetry is an important property of both physical and abstract systems and it may be displayed in pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Forces Bank
Armed Forces Bank (AFB) is a bank servicing members of the United States Armed Forces and their family members. History Armed Forces Bank was founded in 1907 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where it is currently headquartered. AFB and its sister bank, Academy Bank, are owned by Dickinson Financial Corporation (DFC), which is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Military connections Armed Forces Bank operates the most locations on military bases in the United States, including 23 locations on 17 bases. Much of the Bank's retail team is also composed of people with direct connections to the U.S. military, including veterans, reservists, and military dependents. Community In July 2022, the Bank launched a podcast titled "Militarily Speaking", which discusses finances and overall life for the military community. AFB and DFC also support some philanthropy organizations, including Fisher House Foundation and the Armed Services YMCA Armed (May, 1941–1964) was an A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Forces Bikers
The Armed Forces Bikers Veterans Charity (AFB) is a United Kingdom-based motorcycle charity which aims to assist former serving members of the armed forces in charitable need as a result of injury or other harmful experience suffered during their service, to resettle and rehabilitate into civilian life, also to relieve the needs of former members of the armed forces and their families. History The Armed Forces Bikers was founded on 25 May 2011 by former members of Army Bikers. The AFB are Side Patched Riders who gained charity status on 5 July 2012. UK Registered Charity Number 1147967 and Scottish Charity Number SC043586. The AFB is authorised to collect funds, operate and organise events in Northern Ireland under section 167 of the Charities Act (NI) 2008. All proceeds donated to the AFB are used for the benefit of veteran A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A mili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acid-fast Bacilli
Acid-fastness is a physical property of certain bacterial and eukaryotic cells, as well as some sub-cellular structures, specifically their resistance to decolorization by acids during laboratory staining procedures. Once stained as part of a sample, these organisms can resist the acid and/or ethanol-based decolorization procedures common in many staining protocols, hence the name ''acid-fast''. The mechanisms of acid-fastness vary by species, although the most well-known example is in the genus ''Mycobacterium'', which includes the species responsible for tuberculosis and leprosy. The acid-fastness of ''Mycobacteria'' is due to the high mycolic acid content of their cell walls, which is responsible for the staining pattern of poor absorption followed by high retention. Some bacteria may also be partially acid-fast, such as '' Nocardia''. Acid-fast organisms are difficult to characterize using standard microbiological techniques, though they can be stained using concentrated dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Force Base
An air base (sometimes referred to as a military air base, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base) is an aerodrome used as a military base by a military force for the operation of military aircraft. Air base facilities An air base typically has some facilities similar to a civilian airport—for example, air traffic control and firefighting. Some military aerodromes have passenger facilities; for example RAF Brize Norton in England has a terminal used by passengers for the Royal Air Force's flights. A number of military air bases also have a civil enclave for commercial passenger flights, e.g. Beijing Nanyuan Airport (China), Chandigarh Airport (India), Ibaraki Airport (Japan), Burlington International Airport (USA), Sheikh Ul-Alam International Airport Srinagar (India), Taipei Songshan Airport (Taiwan). Some air bases have revetments, hardened aircraft shelters, or even underground hangars, to protect aircraf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Force Brat
In the United States, a military brat (also known by various "brat" derivatives) is the child of a parent(s), adopted parent(s) or legal guardian(s) serving full-time in the United States Armed Forces, whether current or former. The term ''military brat'' can also refer to the subculture and lifestyle of such families.Musil, Donna (director, writer, producer); Goodwin, Beth (producer); Kristofferson, Kris (narrator). ''Brats: Our Journey Home''. (DVD video documentary). 90 min. Brats Without Borders, 2006. The military brat lifestyle typically involves moving to new states or countries many times while growing up, as the child's military family is customarily transferred to new non-combat assignments; consequently, many military brats never have a home town.Wertsch (1991), p. 247. War-related family stresses are also a commonly occurring part of military brat life. There are also other aspects of military brat life that are significantly different in comparison to the civilian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Farm Bureau
The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), also known as Farm Bureau Insurance and Farm Bureau Inc. but more commonly just the Farm Bureau (FB), is a United States-based insurance company and lobbying group that represents the American agriculture industry. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Farm Bureau has affiliates in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Each affiliate is a (regional) Farm Bureau, and the parent organization is also often called simply the Farm Bureau. Founded in 1911, the Farm Bureau movement birthed a national lobbying organization in 1920. In general, it has tried to shape legislation to the benefit of larger farms more than smaller ones. It also lobbies for policies that benefit its for-profit activities, such as federal subsidies for the crop insurance it sells. For some two decades, it denied that climate change was real. History The Farm Bureau movement started in 1911 when John Barron, a farmer who graduated from Cornell University, worked a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Flatbow
A flatbow is a bow with non- recurved, flat, relatively wide limbs that are approximately rectangular in cross-section. Because the limbs are relatively wide, flatbows will usually narrow and become deeper at the handle, with a rounded, non-bending handle for easier grip. This design differs from that of a longbow, which has rounded limbs that are circular or D shaped in cross-section, and is usually widest at the handle. A flatbow can be just as long as a longbow, but can also be very short. Typical lengths would be for a flatbow, for an English longbow, and for a warbow-weight English longbow; but these styles may easily overlap each other. Traditional flatbows are usually wooden self bows (bows made of one solid piece of wood), though laminated and composite flatbows have been made in ancient and modern times. Modern flatbows commonly use fiberglass. Advantages of a rectangular cross-section The flatbow is a superior bow design for almost all materials because the stres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Foulbrood
American foulbrood (AFB, ''Histolysis infectiosa perniciosa larvae apium'', ''Pestis americana larvae apium''), caused by the spore-forming bacterium '' Paenibacillus larvae'' (reclassified as one species without subspecies differentiation in 2006 from ''Paenibacillus larvae'' ssp. ''larvae,'' formerly classified as ''Bacillus larvae'', and ''Paenibacillus larvae'' ssp. ''pulvifaciens''), is a highly infectious honey bee brood disease. It is the most widespread and destructive of the honey bee brood diseases. It is globally distributed and burning of infected colonies is often considered as the only effective measure to prevent spreading of the disease. Characteristics '' Paenibacillus larvae'' is a rod-shaped bacterium, which is visible only under a high power microscope. Larvae up to 3 days old become infected by ingesting spores that are present in their food. Young larvae less than 24 hours old are most susceptible to infection. Spores germinate in the gut of the larva a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Foundation For The Blind
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is an American non-profit organization for people with vision loss. AFB's objectives include conducting research to advance change, promoting knowledge and understanding, and shaping policies and practices. Kirk Adams, formerly the first blind president and CEO of The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. has been AFB's president and CEO since May 2016. The AFB's main headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia. History AFB, with the support and leadership of M.C. Migel, a philanthropist who was moved to help the large number of veterans blinded in World War I, was formed in 1921 to provide both a national clearing house for information about vision loss and a forum for discussion for blindness service professionals. Its founding, made official at the convention of the American Association of Workers for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa, was also intended to spur research and represent the needs of people with vision loss in the US government. AFB' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulf Arabic
Gulf Arabic ( ' local pronunciation: or ', local pronunciation: ) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia around the coasts of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, southern Iraq, eastern Saudi Arabia, northern Oman, and by some Iranian Arabs. '' Ethnologue'' Gulf Arabic can be defined as a set of closely related and more-or-less mutually intelligible varieties that form a , with the level of mutual intelligibility between any two varieties largely depending on the distance between them. Similar to other [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
