CDR
Encyclopedia
Medicine and health care
- Clinical data repositoryClinical Data RepositoryA Clinical Data Repository is a real time database that consolidates data from a variety of clinical sources to present a unified view of a single patient. It is optimized to allow clinicians to retrieve data for a single patient rather than to identify a population of patients with common...
, a medical database system designed to provide a realtime summary of a patient's condition - Clinical Dementia RatingClinical Dementia RatingThe Clinical Dementia Rating or CDR is a numeric scale used to quantify the severity of symptoms of dementia .Using a structured-interview protocol developed by John C...
- Complementarity determining regionComplementarity determining regionComplementarity determining regions are regions within antibodies or T cell receptors where these proteins complement an antigen's shape. Thus, CDRs determine the protein's affinity and specificity for specific antigens...
, one of six hypervariable loops which determine the antigen specificity of a given antibody - CDR Computerized Assessment SystemCDR Computerized Assessment SystemThe CDR Computerized Assessment System is a computerized battery of cognitive tests designed in the late 1970s by Professor Keith Wesnes at the University of Reading in Berkshire, England, for repeated testing in clinical trails...
- Challenge-dechallenge-rechallengeChallenge-dechallenge-rechallengeChallenge-dechallenge-rechallenge is a medical testing protocol in which a medicine or drug is administered, withdrawn, then re-administered, while being monitored for adverse effects at each stage...
, a medical testing protocol - Crude Death Rate, a demographic measure of the mortality rateMortality rateMortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time...
- Cup-Disc-Ratio, relation from cup to disc of the optic disc (the beginning of the optic nerve)
- Complementarity determining regionComplementarity determining regionComplementarity determining regions are regions within antibodies or T cell receptors where these proteins complement an antigen's shape. Thus, CDRs determine the protein's affinity and specificity for specific antigens...
, the variable (V) domain of an antigen receptor.
Organizations and groups
- Center for the Development of RecyclingCenter for the Development of RecyclingThe Center for the Development of Recycling is a university-based, non-profit, environmental research and service organization. The CDR is located in the Department of Environmental Studies office at San Jose State University...
, a recycling service organization at San Jose State University - Center for Decision ResearchCenter for Decision ResearchThe Center for Decision Research, part of the Booth School of Business, is an interdisciplinary center devoted to research and teaching on how people make decisions and judgments. This field of study draws on cognitive and social psychology, economics, sociology, statistics, and other disciplines...
, a research group at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business - Coalition for the Defence of the RepublicCoalition for the Defence of the RepublicThe Coalition for the Defence of the Republic was a Rwandan genocidal Hutu political party founded by Juvénal Habyarimana in march 1992. The Coalition for the Defence of the Republic was allied with the ruling Mouvement républicain national pour la démocratie et le développement party...
, a Rwandan political party involved in the 1994 Genocide - Committees for the Defense of the RevolutionCommittees for the Defense of the RevolutionCommittees for the Defense of the Revolution , or CDR, is a network of neighborhood committees across Cuba. The organizations, described as the "eyes and ears of the Revolution", exist to promote social welfare and report on "counter-revolutionary" activity...
("Comités de Defensa de la Revolución") in Cuba - Committee of the RegionsCommittee of the RegionsThe Committee of the Regions is European Union's assembly of local and regional representatives that provides sub-national authorities with a direct voice within the EU's institutional framework....
(CoR in English), Comité des Régions (CdR in French), an EU organization. - Council on Disaster ReductionCouncil on Disaster ReductionThe Council on Disaster Reduction, or CDR, is one of the 12 technical councils and divisions of the American Society of Civil Engineers .- Purpose :...
of the American Society of Civil Engineers - Council for Democratic Reform, a military junta ruling Thailand, 2006-08
- Centre for Drug Research, a research centre at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Romanian Democratic ConventionRomanian Democratic ConventionThe Romanian Democratic Convention was an electoral alliance of several political parties of Romania, active from early 1992 until 2000....
, a former Romanian political alliance - County Donegal Railway, a railway that was under the auspices of the County Donegal Railways Joint CommitteeCounty Donegal Railways Joint CommitteeThe County Donegal Railways Joint Committee operated an extensive 3 foot gauge railway system serving county Donegal, Ireland,from 1906 until 1960...
Sports
- Copa del ReyCopa del ReyThe Copa del Rey is an annual football cup competition for Spanish football teams. Its full name is Campeonato de España – Copa de Su Majestad el Rey de Fútbol ....
, a football competition held every year in Spain - Chris Douglas-RobertsChris Douglas-RobertsChris Douglas-Roberts, also known as CDR is an American basketball player who plays for Virtus Bologna. He played college basketball for the Memphis Tigers.-High school:...
, an AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player for the Milwaukee BucksMilwaukee BucksThe Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....
Technology
- CD-RCD-RA CD-R is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session....
, a recordable compact disc format - Carbon dioxide removal, a form of geoengineeringGeoengineeringThe concept of Geoengineering refers to the deliberate large-scale engineering and manipulation of the planetary environment to combat or counteract anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in 2007 that geoengineering options, such...
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- Call detail recordCall detail recordA call detail record , also known as call data record, is a data record produced by a telephone exchange or other telecommunications equipment documenting the details of a phone call that passed through the facility or device...
, a record of a (billing) event produced by a telecommunication network element - Charging Data RecordCharging Data RecordA charging data record is, in 3GPP parlance, a formatted collection of information about a chargeable event.CDRs are used for user billing: a telecom provider transfers them from time to time in order to send bills to their users...
, a record of a (billing) event produced by a data network element in 3GPP3GPPThe 3rd Generation Partnership Project is a collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations, known as the Organizational Partners...
networks - Climate Data RecordsClimate Data RecordsA Climate Data Record is a specific definition of a climate data series, developed by the Committee on Climate Data Records from NOAA Operational Satellites of the National Research Council at the request of NOAA in the context of satellite records...
, a time series of measurements of sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to determine climate variability and change - Committed Data Rate in telecommunications (see Committed Information RateCommitted Information RateCommitted information rate or CIR in a Frame relay network is the average bandwidth for a virtual circuit guaranteed by an ISP to work under normal conditions. At any given time, the bandwidth should not fall below this committed figure...
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Computer science
- CAR and CDRCar and cdrcar and cdr are primitive operations on cons cells introduced in the Lisp programming language. A cons cell is composed of two pointers; the car operation extracts the first pointer, and the cdr operation extracts the second.Thus, the expression evaluates to x, and evaluates to...
in the programming language Lisp - CDR (file format), native to CorelDRAWCorelDRAWCorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite...
- .cdr, the file extension used for ISO-9660 disk images created by Disk UtilityDisk UtilityDisk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include:*the creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or—for CD/DVD images—.cdr, which is identical to...
in Mac OS X - Clock and data recovery, a method of synchronizing with serialized data received without a clock signal
- Common Data RepresentationCommon Data RepresentationCommon Data Representation is used to represent structured or primitive data types passed as arguments or results during remote invocations on Common Object Request Broker Architecture distributed objects....
, a format used to represent data types during remote invocations on Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
Other
- Chadron Municipal AirportChadron Municipal AirportChadron Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located four nautical miles west of the central business district of the City of Chadron, in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States...
, an airport in Nebraska, United States - Coded Departure Route, an aviation term; of an airport.
- Comedy Death-RayComedy Death-RayComedy Death-Ray is a weekly "alternative" comedy show held every Tuesday in Los Angeles. CDR, as it is also known, was started by former Mr. Show writers/actors Scott Aukerman & B.J. Porter, who also perform as The Fun Bunch. The first show was on October 1, 2002 at L.A.'s M Bar...
- CommanderCommanderCommander is a naval rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. Commander is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the armed forces, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Commander as a naval...
, a naval rank - CommanderCommander (United States)In the United States, commander is a military rank that is also sometimes used as a military title, depending on the branch of service. It is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the military, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Naval rank:In the United States...
, a US naval military rank - Commander, a NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
AstronautAstronautAn astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
designation for the commander of a mission - Commercial Dispute Resolution, a legalese term for litigation or arbitration involving commercial organisations.
- Competency Demonstration Report, a report that represents skill details of somebody
- Critical design review