ARF may refer to:

Organizations

Advertising Research Foundation The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) is a nonprofit industry association for creating, aggregating, and sharing knowledge in the fields of advertising and mass media. It was founded in 1936 by the Association of National Advertisers and the ...

Animal Rescue Foundation Joybound People & Pets, formerly known as Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF), is a nonprofit organization founded by Elaine and Tony La Russa, based in Walnut Creek, California. Joybound rescues dogs and cats from public animal shelte ...

Armenian Revolutionary Federation The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (, abbr. ARF (ՀՅԴ) or ARF-D), also known as Dashnaktsutyun (Armenians, Armenian: Դաշնակցություն, Literal translation, lit. "Federation"), is an Armenian nationalism, Armenian nationalist a ...

ASEAN Regional Forum The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, is a regional grouping of 10 states in Southeast Asia "that aims to promote economic and security cooperation among its ten members." Together, its member states re ...

People

Cahit Arf Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish people, Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic (algebra), characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in ...

(1910–1997), Turkish mathematician

Science, medicine, and mathematics

Acute renal failure Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously called acute renal failure (ARF), is a sudden decrease in kidney function that develops within seven days, as shown by an increase in serum creatinine or a decrease in urine output, or both. Causes of AKI a ...

Acute rheumatic fever Rheumatic fever (RF) is an inflammatory disease that can involve the heart, joints, skin, and brain. The disease typically develops two to four weeks after a streptococcal throat infection. Signs and symptoms include fever, multiple painful ...

ADP ribosylation factor ADP ribosylation factors (ARFs) are members of the ARF family of GTP-binding proteins of the Ras superfamily. ARF family proteins are ubiquitous in eukaryotic cells, and six highly conserved members of the family have been identified in mamm ...

, a small GTP-binding protein * The

Arf invariant In mathematics, the Arf invariant of a nonsingular quadratic form over a field of characteristic 2 was defined by Turkish mathematician when he started the systematic study of quadratic forms over arbitrary fields of characteristic ...

in mathematics *

Argon fluoride laser The argon fluoride laser (ArF laser) is a particular type of excimer laser, which is sometimes (more correctly) called an exciplex laser. With its 193-nanometer wavelength, it is a deep ultraviolet laser, which is commonly used in the production ...

or ArF laser * Atomic Resonance Filter or

atomic line filter An atomic line filter (ALF) is a more effective optical band-pass filter used in the physical sciences for filtering electromagnetic radiation with precision, accuracy, and minimal signal strength loss. Atomic line filters work via the absorption ...

Auxin Auxins (plural of auxin ) are a class of plant hormones (or plant-growth regulators) with some morphogen-like characteristics. Auxins play a cardinal role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in plant life cycles and are essent ...

Response Factors in plants *

p14arf p14ARF (also called ARF tumor suppressor, ARF, p14ARF) is an alternate reading frame protein product of the ''CDKN2A'' locus (i.e. ''INK4a''/''ARF'' locus). p14ARF is induced in response to elevated mitogenic stimulation, such as aberrant grow ...

or ARF tumor suppressor

Other uses

* Arf (''Nanoha''), character in ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' *

Abuse Reporting Format The Abuse Reporting Format (ARF) also known as the Messaging Abuse Reporting Format (MARF) is a standard format for reporting spam via email. History A draft describing a standard format for feedback loop (FBL) reports was posted by Yakov Shafra ...

* Almost-Ready-to-Fly

model aircraft A model aircraft is a physical model of an existing or imagined aircraft, and is built typically for display, research, or amusement. Model aircraft are divided into two basic groups: flying and non-flying. Non-flying models are also termed s ...

* The

Azkena Rock Festival The Azkena Rock Festival (a.k.a. ARF) is one of the most relevant Spanish rock festivals. It is celebrated in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava) organized by Last Tour International. ARF is notorious due to its diverse cartel of groups and for the submerse ' ...

, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain {{Disambiguation