GPI
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GPI may refer to:
- Alpha GPIAlpha GPIThe Alpha GPI is a submachine gun manufactured by Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Pública of Brazil. It is a straight blowback operated weapon, chambered in the 9x19mm Parabellum round and is fed from 32 round box magazines inserted in the grip....
, a Brazilian submachine gun. - Greenfield Park International, a primary school in Greenfield ParkGreenfield Park, QuebecGreenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...
, QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. - Gas Petroleum&Properties Investments, LLC. Limited Liability Company, Oil Trading and Investment Consulting, Premium Real Estate Brokers based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Gemini Planet ImagerGemini Planet ImagerThe Gemini Planet Imager is a high contrast imaging instrument being built for the Gemini South Telescope in Chile. The instrument will achieve high contrast at small angular separations, allowing for the direct imaging and integral field spectroscopy of extrasolar planets around nearby stars...
, an instrument being built to directly image extrasolar planetExtrasolar planetAn extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars...
s - Gender Parity IndexGender Parity IndexThe Gender Parity Index is a socioeconomic index usually designed to measure the relative access to education of males and females. In its simplest form, it is calculated as the quotient of the number of females by the number of males enrolled in a given stage of education...
, a measure that reflects females’ level of access to education compared to that of males’ access. - General paresis of the insaneGeneral paresis of the insaneGeneral paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane or paralytic dementia, is a neuropsychiatric disorder affecting the brain and central nervous system, caused by syphilis infection...
, a now-rare neuropsychiatric disorder affecting the brain and central nervous system - General Purpose Interface, Standard contact closure format used in broadcast level post production equipment, allowing computer based editing equipment to synchronously "start" at the same time.
- General Purpose InputGPIOGeneral Purpose Input/Output is a generic pin on a chip whose behavior can be controlled through software....
- Genuine Progress IndicatorGenuine Progress IndicatorThe genuine progress indicator is an alternative metric system which is an addition to the national system of accounts that has been suggested to replace, or supplement, gross domestic product as a metric of economic growth...
, a concept economics that has been suggested as a replacement metric for gross domestic product - Glacier Park International AirportGlacier Park International AirportGlacier Park International Airport is a public airport serving Flathead County, Montana, in the United States. It located six miles northeast of the central business district of Kalispell and also serves the towns of Evergreen, Columbia Falls, and Whitefish as well as Glacier National Park...
, a public airport serving Flathead County, Montana - Glass Packaging InstituteGlass Packaging InstituteThe Glass Packaging Institute is a trade association for the U.S. glass container industry. Headquartered in Washington, DC, GPI lobbies on behalf of its members, while providing them with technical, promotional and public relations support...
, a trade association for the U.S. glass container industry - Global Partnership InitiativeGlobal Partnership InitiativeGlobal Partnership Initiative may refer to:* Global Partnership Initiative on Urban Youth Development in Africa* U.S. Department of State Global Partnership Initiative...
, an initiative of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-HABITAT). - Global Peace IndexGlobal Peace IndexThe Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected...
, an index for the relative position of nations’ and regions’ peacefulness - Global Poverty Initiative, a student group at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
focused on alleviating worldwide poverty that hosted the Inaugural Millennium Campus NetworkMillennium Campus NetworkThe Millennium Campus Network is an organization of university student groups committed to supporting the UN Millennium Development Goals to eradicate extreme poverty. The MCN brings together student organizations at leading universities to make the anti-poverty movement a fully...
Conference in April 2008. - Global Protection & Intelligence, Inc. Private Public Figure, Executive, Diplomatic protective service based in Los Angeles, California USA.
- Internal globus pallidus, a part of the basal gangliaBasal gangliaThe basal ganglia are a group of nuclei of varied origin in the brains of vertebrates that act as a cohesive functional unit. They are situated at the base of the forebrain and are strongly connected with the cerebral cortex, thalamus and other brain areas...
. - Glucose Phosphate IsomeraseGlucose-6-phosphate isomerase-Other functions:There is evidence that phosphoglucose isomerase acts as a molecular messenger. It is produced and secreted by white blood cells, and acts to regulate the growth of several different cell types.-Pathology:...
, an enzymeEnzymeEnzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into different molecules, called products. Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates... - GlycophosphatidylinositolGlycophosphatidylinositolGlycosylphosphatidylinositol is a glycolipid that can be attached to the C-terminus of a protein during posttranslational modification...
, a glycolipid that can be attached to the C-terminus of a protein during posttranslational modification - Granite Peak InstallationGranite Peak InstallationGranite Peak Installation , also known as Granite Peak Range, was a U.S. biological weapons testing facility located on of Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. GPI was a sub-installation of Dugway but had its own facilities, including utilities...
, a World War II U.S. biological weapons testing facility - Greenman-Pedersen, Inc., an engineering firm headquartered in Babylon, New York.
- Grove Park InnGrove Park InnThe Grove Park Inn is a historic resort hotel on the western-facing slope of Sunset Mountain within the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Asheville, North Carolina. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel is an important example of the Arts and Crafts style...
, a resort hotel in Asheville, North CarolinaAsheville, North CarolinaAsheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina. The City is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center , which is the world's largest active... - Gurley Precision InstrumentsGurley Precision InstrumentsGurley Precision Instruments, or GPI, is an ISO-9001 certified U.S. manufacturing company based in Troy, New York.-History:Gurley Enterprise was established by William Gurley and Lewis E. Gurley in 1845, brothers who were both alumni of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
, an ISO-9001 certified U.S. manufacturing company based in Troy, New York