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Iao Theater
Iao may refer to: * ''IAO'' (album), an album by avant jazz musician John Zorn * Yao (Gnosticism), an archon corresponding to Jupiter * ʻĪao Theater, a theater in Wailuku, Hawaii * Iao Valley, a tourist attraction in Maui, Hawaii * ιαω, an early Greek form of the tetragrammaton, or name of the biblical god IAO may stand for: * Incorporated Association of Organists: see Organist#Organizations * Indian Astronomical Observatory, home of the highest telescope in the world * Information Awareness Office, a branch of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) * Interests, Activities, and Opinions - psychographics * Axact, formerly known as International Accreditation Organization (Houston, TX) * International Academy of Osteopathy, an international school offering academic training in osteopathy * International Astronomy Olympiad, an astronomy competition for high-school students by the Eurasian Astronomical Society * Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IAO (album)
''IAO'' (subtitled ''Music in Sacred Light'') is the tenth studio album by John Zorn released in 2002 on the Tzadik Records, Tzadik label. It was inspired by Aleister Crowley and his follower, filmmaker Kenneth Anger. Its title is drawn from the Kabbalah, Kabbalistic identity of IAO, the initials of Isis, Apep, Apophis and Osiris, used as a magical formula in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and in Aleister Crowley's Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass, Gnostic Mass. Reception Allmusic's François Couture observed "This album, a studio suite, is wrapped in mysticism... ''I.A.O.'' makes a calm, enjoyable listen and beyond its mystical claims, it includes some strong compositions".Couture, FAllmusic Reviewaccessed October 29, 2013 Writing for Pitchfork Media, Dominique Leone stated "The music of ''IAO'' is classic Zorn: dark ambient exoticism, ethnic percussion exercises, hypnotic suspense-film music, thrash, and avant-garde classical. Similar to his recent "Music for Children" series, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axact
Axact () is a Pakistan software company that runs numerous websites selling fraudulent academic degrees for fictional universities. The company used to own the media company BOL Network. History Axact was founded by Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, who serves as its chairman. It is based in Karachi, and has over 2,000 employees. According to Shaikh, the company was founded in 1997 with fewer than 10 employees working in a single room. In 2013 he said Axact was the world's leading IT company and that it had eight broad-business units and products, more than 5,200 employees, and associated globally and as many as 8.3 million customers worldwide. The company website said in 2015 that the company had 10 diverse business units that offer more than 23 products, more than two billion users, and a global presence across 6 continents, 120 countries and 1,300 cities with more than 25,000 employees and associates. Axact's employee figures on its website contradict each other. According to Securi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istituto Agronomico Per L'oltremare
The Istituto agronomico per l'oltremare (IAO) (Overseas Agronomic Institute) in Florence, Italy, is a technical and scientific body of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy), Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. History The Institute was established in 1904 in Florence by Italian agronomists and tropics, tropicalists as the Istituto Agricolo Coloniale Italiano (Italian Colonial Institute), in order to promote the study and Biological classification, systematization of the tropical environment and agriculture and to implement vocational education and training of technicians and migrants, in the agricultural field. The institute was very busy in the years between the two World Wars, under the leadership of Armando Maugini. It studied the agricultural and economic issues of Italian Colonial Empire, Italian colonies and trained the technicians in charge of the economic valorization of the colonies and other regions. In 1938 the institute changed its name, becoming the Istituto agrono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Institute For Art And Olfaction
The Institute for Art and Olfaction is a non-profit organization devoted to advancing public, artistic and experimental engagement with scent. It was founded in 2012 by Saskia Wilson-Brown. History Described as "the West Coast's first organization to explore perfume in a larger arts context", The Institute for Art and Olfaction (IAO) was founded in October 2012 by Saskia Wilson-Brown. The IAO opened its experimental studio to the public in downtown Los Angeles in March 2013, moving to Koreatown in March 2014 and to its home on Chung King Road in Chinatown, Los Angeles in March, 2015. The IAO was created to counterbalance what Wilson-Brown perceived as a lack of access and transparency in the fragrance industry. In January 2014, the IAO launched its first large-scale public arts project with 'A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes, Revisited' at the Hammer Museum. It has since collaborated with Miles Regis, Zoe Crosher, Andrew Berardini, Austin Young, Marcos Lutyens, Victor Wild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institut D'études Politiques De Lyon
The Institut d'Études politiques de Lyon (, ''Lyon Institute of Political Studies'') also known as Sciences Po Lyon (), is a grande école located in Lyon, France. It is one of eleven Institutes of Political Studies in France, and was established in 1948 by Charles de Gaulle's provisional government following the model of the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po). It is located at the Centre Berthelot within the buildings of a former military health college and operates as an autonomous institution within the University of Lyon. It is the first Institute of Political Studies to have joined the prestigious Conférence des Grandes écoles. Sciences Po Lyon has established partnerships with more than 160 universities abroad. History Sciences Po Lyon was established following an executive decree by General de Gaulle in 1948. In common with the other '' instituts d'études politiques'' (IEP, English: Institutes of Political Studies) in France, it was modelled on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Université Lumière-Lyon 2
This list of universities and colleges in France includes universities and other higher education institutes that provide both education curricula and related degrees up to doctoral degree and also contribute to research activities. They are the backbone of the tertiary education institutions in France. They are listed as different categories, depending on their administrative status, size and extents of research activity compared to educational activities. Aside from the nationally funded public education system that provides recognised degrees to the vast majority of students in France and that keeps tuition fees low, there exist private institutes. Public universities in France French public universities (see List of public universities in France for a detailed list) are as of 2015 in the process of reorganization according to the Law on Higher Education and Research passed in July 2013. This includes some merging of institutions, and the previous high-level organization un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interparliamentary Assembly On Orthodoxy
The Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (, ), or I.A.O., is a transnational, inter-parliamentary institution that in 1994 was originally established as the European Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (EIAO). Based in Athens, Greece, the ''Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy'' constitutes a permanent communication structure between parliamentarians of member states aiming at unity in diversity of Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christians on the principles and values of Christianity and democracy. History Inspired by a conference held from 30 June to 4 July 1993 in Chalkidiki on the topic of "Orthodoxy in the New European Reality", the ''European Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy'' was formed by the initiative of the Hellenic Parliament. Following the 1993 Manifesto of the Participants, the official Founding Act was passed by the participants of the Founding Synod held in November 1994 in Athens. In 2001, groups of parliamentarians from Australia, Asia, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurasian Astronomical Society
Eurasian Astronomical Society (EAAS, ) is a scientific society, comprising professional astronomers from various countries. It was founded in 1990 as a USSR Astronomical Society. The governing bodies are located in Moscow at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. Founded by EAAS * The International Astronomy Olympiad (since 1996) See also * Members of the Eurasian Astronomical Society * List of astronomical societies A list of notable groups devoted to promoting astronomy research and education. International * Astronomers for Planet Earth (A4E) * Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) *International Astronomical Union (IAU) *International Meteor Organization * Ne ... References Sources * External links Eurasian Astronomical Society Astronomy organizations Organizations established in 1990 {{astronomy-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Academy Of Osteopathy
The International Academy of Osteopathy (IAO) was founded in 1987 by Grégoire Lason who still is the Principal. The IAO is an international college that offers its Training and Education in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands which leads to several degrees in osteopathy: * Diploma in Osteopathy (DO), * Master of Science in Osteopathy (MSc.Ost.) in co-operation with Buckinghamshire New University. This Master degree is a legally recognized diploma in over 45 European countries. * Post Graduate Certificates of the IAO, * Post Graduate Certificates of Buckinghamshire New University. The programs are accredited thanks to agreements with Buckinghamshire New University and are in accordance with the Bologna process. Austria (AT) Modular Program: * In German in Innsbruck, Linz and Wien. This is a part-time training and education for physiotherapists and medical doctors. After successfully completing this 4-year program, students obtain the unique British Master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychographics
Psychographics is defined as "market research or statistics classifying population groups according to psychological variables" The term psychographics is derived from the words "psychological" and "demographics" Two common approaches to psychographics include analysis of consumers' activities, interests, and opinions (AIO variables), and values and lifestyles (VALS). Psychographics have been applied to the study of personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles. Psychographic segmentation is a technique for grouping populations into sub-groups according to similar psychological variables. Psychographic studies of individuals or communities can be valuable in the fields of marketing, demographics, opinion research, prediction, and social research in general. Psychographic attributes can be contrasted with demographic variables (such as age and gender), behavioral variables (such as purchase data or usage rate), and organizational descriptors (sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yao (Gnosticism)
In Sethianism, Sethian Gnosticism, Yao or Iao () is an archon (Gnosticism), archon. In ''On the Origin of the World'', he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being Astaphaios and Eloai. In the ''Apocryphon of John'', he is the fourth of the seven archon (Gnosticism), archons. In Mandaeism, Yurba, the name of an uthra, is derived from Yao, with ''Rba'' ('Great') added at the end. See also * Tetragrammaton * wiktionary:Ἰαω, Ἰαω * Yurba References Gnostic deities {{Gnosticism-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Information Awareness Office
The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric warfare, asymmetric threats to U.S. national security by achieving "Total Information Awareness" (TIA). It was achieved by creating enormous computer databases to gather and store the personal information of everyone in the United States, including personal e-mails, social networks, credit card records, phone calls, medical records, and numerous other sources, without any requirement for a search warrant. The information was then analyzed for suspicious activities, connections between individuals, and "threats".Total Information Aware ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
