PAS
Encyclopedia
Automotive
- Power-assisted steering, or power steeringPower steeringPower steering helps drivers steer vehicles by augmenting steering effort of the steering wheel.Hydraulic or electric actuators add controlled energy to the steering mechanism, so the driver needs to provide only modest effort regardless of conditions. Power steering helps considerably when a...
, in automobiles - Progressive Activity Sedan, a vehicle category/development idea by BMWBMWBayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
Companies
- PanAmSatPanAmSatThe former PanAmSat Corporation founded in 1984 by Reynold Anselmo, was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news agencies, internet service providers, government agencies, and...
, a defunct satellite service provider - Pan Am SouthernPan Am SouthernPan Am Southern, LLC is a freight railroad jointly owned by Norfolk Southern Railway and Pan Am Railways . PAS owns trackage known as the Patriot Corridor between Albany, New York and the greater Boston, Massachusetts area, utilizing rail lines formerly owned by the Boston and Maine Corporation...
, a railroad in the northeast United States - Pan Am SystemsPan Am SystemsPan Am Systems is a privately held company that controls the following divisions: rail transport; manufacturing and energy; transportation related brands; real estate; and a now-defunct airline division. The company is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.-History:Guilford Transportation...
, a transportation holding companyHolding companyA holding company is a company or firm that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow... - PepsiAmericasPepsiAmericasPepsiAmericas, Inc. was the world's second-largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola products, and also contracted to produce beverages for Dr Pepper Snapple Group and smaller regional brands. PepsiAmericas had 19 bottling plants in the United States and had a presence in 11 countries in Central/Eastern...
- Port Autonome de Sihanoukville, the French name for Sihanoukville Autonomous PortSihanoukville Autonomous PortSihanoukville Autonomous Port or Port Autonome de Sihanoukville is a government agency and state corporation of Cambodia and Sihanoukville that operates and governs the country's sole deep water port. Located in Sihanoukville, in Bay of Kompong Som on the Gulf of Thailand in the south of Cambodia...
Medicine
- Periodic acid-Schiff stain, a staining method used to detect glycogenGlycogenGlycogen is a molecule that serves as the secondary long-term energy storage in animal and fungal cells, with the primary energy stores being held in adipose tissue...
in tissues. - Para-aminosalicylic acid, an old treatment for tuberculosis
- Physician-assisted suicide
- Post-abortion syndrome
- PA-S: Physician AssistantPhysician assistantA physician assistant/associate ' is a healthcare professional trained and licensed to practice medicine with limited supervision by a physician.-General description:...
Student, abbreviation used by PA students in patient documentation - Patient Administration System
Organizations
- PAS GianninaPAS GianninaPAS Giannina , the Panepirotic Athletic Association Giannina, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Ioannina, the capital of Greece’s Epirus region.Following the 2010–11 season, PAS was promoted to Greece’s Super League division...
, a Greek football club from Ioannina - PAS Tehran F.C., a defunct Iranian football club from Tehran
- PAS Hamedan F.C.PAS Hamedan F.C.PAS Hamedan Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Hamedan, Iran.-Establishment:PAS Hamedan was formed as a result of the dissolution of PAS Tehran F.C...
, an Iranian football club from Hamedan - Pakistan Academy of SciencesPakistan Academy of SciencesThe Pakistan Academy of Sciences The Pakistan Academy of Sciences The Pakistan Academy of Sciences (Urdu: پاکستان اكيڈ مى ﺁف سائس; shortened to PAS, is a learned society for science and technology based in Pakistan. The academy consisted and served as the network of science across the Pakistan as...
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society
- Percussive Arts SocietyPercussive Arts SocietyThe Percussive Arts Society is an international music service organization promoting percussion education, research,performance and appreciation.Established in 1961 as a non-profit, music service organization,...
- Pioneer Academy of SciencePioneer Academy of ScienceThe Pioneer Academy of Science is a private school located in Clifton, New Jersey, at 1253 Main Avenue. The school was formed in 1999. A second campus located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey opened for the 2006-2007 school year...
- Portsmouth Abbey SchoolPortsmouth Abbey SchoolPortsmouth Abbey School is a private, coeducational boarding and day school for grades 9 through 12, located in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Founded by the Benedictine monks of Portsmouth Abbey in 1926 as Portsmouth Priory School, the school offered a classical education to boys...
- Polish Academy of SciencesPolish Academy of SciencesThe Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...
- Port Auxiliary Service, the successor to the British Admiralty Yard Craft ServiceAdmiralty Yard Craft ServiceThe Admiralty Yard Craft Service was the civilian service which operated auxiliary vessels for the British Admiralty, mainly in HM Dockyards or the vicinity. It was renamed the Port Auxiliary Service between 1960 and 1962, and later the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service after 1970.The service...
- Portable Antiquities SchemePortable Antiquities SchemeThe Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public...
- Pregnancy Advisory Service
Politics
- Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a political party in Malaysia
- Partido Alianza Social, a former Mexican political party
Science
- Periodic acid-SchiffPeriodic acid-SchiffPeriodic acid-Schiff is a staining method used to detect glycogen and other polysaccharides in tissues. The reaction of periodic acid oxidizes the diol functional groups in glucose and other sugars, creating aldehydes that react with the Schiff reagent to give a purple-magenta color...
reaction, a staining method for carbohydrates in light microscopy - Photoacoustic spectroscopyPhotoacoustic spectroscopyPhotoacoustic spectroscopy is the measurement of the effect of absorbed electromagnetic energy on matter by means of acoustic detection. The discovery of the photoacoustic effect dates to 1880 when Alexander Graham Bell showed that thin discs emitted sound when exposed to a beam of sunlight that...
- Positron annihilation spectroscopyPositron annihilation spectroscopyPositron annihilation spectroscopy or sometimes specifically referred to as Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy is a non-destructive spectroscopy technique to study voids and defects in solids....
, a spectroscopic technique
Technology
- Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrumMedia Vision Pro AudioSpectrumThe Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum family of personal computer sound cards included the original 8-bit Pro AudioSpectrum , the 8-bit Pro AudioSpectrum Plus, 16-bit Pro AudioSpectrum 16, Pro AudioSpectrum 16 Basic and 16-bit Pro Audio Studio...
, a family personal computer sound cards made by Media Vision in the 1990s - Pascal, a common file extension (.pas) for the Pascal programming language
- Pascal second (Pa⋅s), a unit of viscosityViscosityViscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear or tensile stress. In everyday terms , viscosity is "thickness" or "internal friction". Thus, water is "thin", having a lower viscosity, while honey is "thick", having a higher viscosity...
- Personal Access System, a wireless telephone standard
- Process Automation SystemProcess Automation SystemA process control or automation system is used to automatically control a process such as chemical, oil refineries, paper and pulp factories.The PAS often uses a network to interconnect sensors, controllers, operator terminals and actuators....
, A process control or automation system is used to control, for example, a chemical plant, oil refineries, paper and pulp mills. - Public address system
- PAS 78Pas 78PAS 78: Guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites is a Publicly Available Specification published on March 8, 2006 by the British Standards Institution in collaboration with the Disability Rights Commission . It provides guidance to organisations in how to go about commissioning...
, a British specification on commissioning an accessible website from a design agency
Other
- Parental alienation syndromeParental alienation syndromeParental alienation syndrome is term coined by Richard A. Gardner in the early 1980s to refer to what he describes as a disorder in which a child, on an ongoing basis, belittles and insults one parent without justification, due to a combination of factors, including indoctrination by the other...
- Patient administration systemPatient administration systemA patient administration system is one of the earliest components of a hospital computer system which records the patient's name, home address, date of birth and each contact with the outpatient department or admission and discharge....
- Preliminary alcohol screening test, a breath test administered by a police officer after stopping a suspected drunk driver
- Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, a philosophical journal
- Process automation systemProcess Automation SystemA process control or automation system is used to automatically control a process such as chemical, oil refineries, paper and pulp factories.The PAS often uses a network to interconnect sensors, controllers, operator terminals and actuators....
- Publicly Available SpecificationPublicly Available SpecificationThe PAS is a consultative document where the development process and written format is based on the British Standard model...
, a formal British standards document (sometimes inaccurately referred to as Publicly Available Standard) - Pump action shotgunPump action shotgunPump-action shotguns, also called 'slide action repeating shotguns' or 'slide action shotguns' are a class of shotguns that are distinguished in the way in which spent shells are extracted and fresh ones are chambered. The weapon has a single barrel above a tube magazine into which shells are...
- Pas de deuxPas de deuxIn ballet, a pas de deux is a duet in which ballet dancers perform the dance together. It usually consists of an entrée, adagio, two variations , and a coda.-Notable Pas de deux:...
, a ballet duet