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- initialism aviation, nautical (adjective) Acronym of
wing -in -surface effect. - initialism US Acronym of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. (It is a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope that performed an all-sky astronomical survey with images in 3-22 μm wavelength bands.)
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He is an associate with a program called "WISE" that was created in 1973 by teachers at Woodlands HS in Westchester.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: How to Educate, not Just Test Joel Shatzky 2011
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He is an associate with a program called "WISE" that was created in 1973 by teachers at Woodlands HS in Westchester.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: How to Educate, not Just Test Joel Shatzky 2011
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For example, a ten-year study published in 2006, called the WISE Study Womens Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation, concluded that diagnostic angiograms for some women indicating clear arteries may be incorrect for as many as three million women.
The 10 Best Questions™ for Recovering from a Heart Attack Ph.D. Dede Bonner 2009
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We look back at Al-Arian in 1995, when he started up a think tank at the University of South Florida, a thinktank called WISE, the World Islamic Studies Enterprise.
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The space agency said Thursday its sky-mapping spacecraft called WISE has discovered 911 of the 981 largest asteroids predicted by models.
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NASA used an orbiting observatory called WISE that sees the sky in infrared light.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The space agency said Thursday its sky-mapping spacecraft called WISE has discovered 911 of the 981 largest asteroids predicted by models.
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The space agency said Thursday its sky-mapping spacecraft called WISE has discovered 911 of the 981 largest asteroids predicted by models.
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The comet is appropriately known as WISE, and is more than 1.2 miles in diameter.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs J. Nicholas Hoover 2010
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The comet is appropriately known as WISE, and is more than 1.2 miles in diameter.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs J. Nicholas Hoover 2010
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