ASB or asb may refer to: * Ashgabat Airport, IATA code ASB *

Antisocial behavior Antisocial may refer to: Sociology, psychiatry and psychology *Anti-social behaviour * Antisocial personality disorder *Psychopathy * Conduct disorder Law * Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 * Anti-Social Behaviour Order *Crime and Disorder Act 199 ...

Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 The Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 (c.38) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which almost entirely applies only to England and Wales. The Act, championed by then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, was passed in 2003. As well as str ...

, an act of parliament in the United Kingdom, called the ''ASB law'' * Asymbescaline, a psychedelic drug similar to Mescaline *

American Saddlebred The American Saddlebred is a horse breed from the United States. This breed is referred to as the "Horse America Made". Descended from riding-type horses bred at the time of the American Revolution, the American Saddlebred includes the Na ...

, horse breed *

Apostilb The apostilb is an obsolete unit of luminance. The SI unit of luminance is the candela per square metre (cd/m2). In 1942 Parry Moon proposed to rename the apostilb the blondel, after the French physicist André Blondel. The symbol for the apostilb ...

, a unit of luminance * Alt.sex.bondage, a Usenet newsgroup *

Alien space bats "Alien space bats" ("ASBs") is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to mean an implausible point of divergence. Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly-written alternate histories seen ...

, a term used while discussing implausible points of divergence in alternate history *

Asociación de Scouts de Bolivia The Asociación de Scouts de Bolivia (ASB) is the national Scouting association of Bolivia. Scouting was founded in Bolivia in 1911 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1950. ASB has 7,898 members (as of 2011). ...

Advanced stop box An advanced stop line (ASL), also called advanced stop box or bike box, is a type of road marking at signalised road junctions allowing certain types of vehicle a head start (positioning), head start when the traffic signal changes from red to gree ...

, an area at an intersection reserved for certain types of vehicles. *

Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Deutschland or ASB (English: Workers' Samaritan Foundation Germany) is a German charitable aid agency founded in 1888. History The industrial revolution of the 19th century led to a dramatic increase in accidents at work. Therefore, in 1877 the St. Jo ...

, a German charity

Education

Aarhus School of Business The Aarhus University School of Business and Social Sciences (in short Aarhus BSS) is one of four faculties of Aarhus University in Denmark. The school consists of seven departments: Economics and Business Economics, Management, Political Science, ...

, a Danish business school *Adventist School Bouchrieh, a Lebanese-American school * Alternative Spring Break, an elongated phrase for Alternative break * Ancell School of Business, the business school at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut * The Alabama School for the Blind, part of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind *

American School of Barcelona The American School of Barcelona (ASB) is an American international school in Esplugues de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain, in the Barcelona metropolitan area.

, a private tri-lingual school (pre-K to 12th Grade) in Barcelona, Spain *

Asia School of Business Asia School of Business (ASB) is a partnership between MIT Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia (the Central Bank of Malaysia). The partnership is a business school offering business administration related courses in the form of ...

, a business school cofounded by Bank Negara Malaysia and MIT Sloan School of Management, and located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia *

Associated Student Body A student council (also known as a student union, associated student body or student parliament) is an administrative organization of students in different educational institutes ranging from elementary schools to universities and research or ...

, a type of student organization * The Australian School of Business, a business school at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Business

Accounting Standards Board The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is an independent regulator in the UK and Ireland based in London Wall in the City of London, responsible for regulating auditors, accountants and actuaries, and setting the UK's Corporate Governance and ...

, responsible for issuing accounting standards in United Kingdom *

ASB Bank ASB Bank Limited, commonly stylised as ASB, is a bank owned by Commonwealth Bank of Australia, operating in New Zealand. It provides a range of financial services including retail, business and rural banking, funds management, as well as in ...

, one of the largest banks in New Zealand *

Auditing Standards Board In the United States, the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) is the senior technical committee designated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to issue auditing, attestation, and quality control statements, standards and g ...

, a technical committee related to accounting in the United States *

American Savings Bank American Savings Bank is Hawaii's third-largest financial institution, with assets of $6.7 billion. A subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries ( NYSE: HE), it is headed by Chairman The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, ...

, Hawaii's third-largest financial institution

Writing

A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy ( Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer. Her books have been widely translated, into more than t ...

(born 1936), English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer * ''

Archives of Sexual Behavior The ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal in sexology. It is the official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research. History The journal was established in 1971 by Richard Green, who served as its ...

'', a sexology journal *

Alternative Service Book The ''Alternative Service Book 1980'' (''ASB'') was the first complete prayer book produced by the Church of England since 1662. Its name derives from the fact that it was proposed not as a replacement for the 1662 ''Book of Common Prayer'' (B ...

, a prayer book of the Church of England {{disambig